Working Group 05 of International Sociological Association (ISA) on Famine and Society:

Working Group 05 of International Sociological Association (ISA) on Famine and Society: The Thematic Group of ISA on “Famine & Society” was founded in 1985 and Prof. T.K. Oommen was its founder-President. In 1998, “Famine & Society” became a Working Group (WG05). Besides organising a large number of Inter-Congress Conferences, Famine & Society has organised multiple sessions and its members have presented various papers at World Congress assemblies organised by the ISA in Delhi (1986), Madrid (1990), Bielefeld (1994), Montreal (1998), Brisbane (2002), Durban (2006) Gothenburg (2010), Yokohama (2014), Toronto (2018) and ISA Forums in Buenos Aires (2012) and Vienna (2016). The Working Group 05 of ISA will be organizing several sessions in forthcoming Forum ISA of Sociology to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2020). Please visit the website for more information: http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-networks/working-groups/wg05-famine-and-society/