JSS Travel Award 2025
Crises and Beyond: Diversity, Equality and Intersectionality
Application Deadline: June 20, 2025
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociological Society (JSS)
Hitotsubashi University
November 15–16, 2025
The International Liaison Committee of the Japan Sociological Society (JSS) is pleased to announce its 19th annual grant competition for early-career scholars as the JSS Travel Award. JSS will select 10 scholars to present papers in the special session and participate in the JSS annual meeting. The scholars will receive financial support towards their travel costs as follows:
(Scroll down for details on eligibility and application procedure.)
Call for Papers: “Crises and Beyond: Diversity, Equality, and Intersectionality”
The world today is confronted with multiple crises—climate change, war, the rise of authoritarianism and xenophobia, and global pandemics—that expose individuals and societies to heightened uncertainty, deepening inequalities and increasing fragmentation. While some of these crises demand immediate responses, others will leave lasting consequences over time.
Yet amid these challenges, diverse practices and ideas for coping with these crises and calling for justice are emerging from different intersectional positions across the globe. These responses, however, are increasingly met with strong “backlashes,” including the rise of anti-DEI movements or “political correctness fatigue.”
These ongoing crises and the ways in which they are contested and negotiated, urge us to critically examine the values and ideals of underpinning modernity—assumptions that sociology itself may have long taken for granted.
Against this backdrop, the upcoming annual meeting of the JSS – where our special guest, Bandana Purkayastha, a Vice President of the International Sociological Association and a leading scholar in Intersectionality, Migration and Human Rights, will deliver a lecture titled Migration and Migrants in a Turbulent World: A Transnational Intersectional Perspective – will convene a session titled, “Crises and Beyond: Diversity, Equality, and Intersectionality.” We invite submissions that not only explore concrete issues related to the theme from diverse sociological perspectives and methods, but also investigate the structuralization of both the crises and the responses they generate.
Eligibility requirements
For applicants outside Japan:
To be eligible to apply as an international applicant, the applicant must satisfy all the following criteria:
1) Currently living and working (or studying if the applicant is a graduate student) outside Japan. Scholars living in Japan are NOT eligible as international applicants.
2) Hold a master’s degree or higher obtained within the past 10 years as of April 1, 2025. (Time taken off for childcare and/or parental leave is not counted as part of these 10 years.) If there is no system to offer the master’s degree during the doctoral course, please send us a letter from your supervisor with their signature stating that your educational qualification is regarded to be equivalent to a master’s degree.
Although the competition is open to all early-career scholars who meet the eligibility requirements, preference will be given to first-time applicants. Scholars from any region, especially researchers who are at a relatively early stage of their careers, are encouraged to apply for the award.
International grant winners will be exempt from the annual conference fee and the JSS membership fee for the first year and will receive 120,000 yen to help cover the travel costs. You can also choose 100,000 yen and free accommodation for two nights. All awardees are required to make a 15-minute presentation in English at the JSS annual meeting as part of one of the two sessions organized by the ILC.
* Please note that to receive the award, selected international scholars must be able and are willing to submit the following two items:
For applicants in Japan:
To be eligible for support, the applicant must satisfy all the following criteria:
1) Be currently living and working (or studying, if the applicant is a graduate student) in Japan.
2) Hold a master’s degree or higher obtained within the past 10 years as of April 1, 2025. (Time taken off for childcare and/or parental leave is not counted as part of these 10 years)
Grant winners from within Japan will be exempt from the annual conference fee and will receive 20,000 yen to help cover the travel costs. You can also choose free accommodation for two nights instead of financial support. All awardees are required to make a 15-minute presentation in English at the JSS annual meeting as part of one of the sessions organized by the ILC.
* Please note that to receive the award, selected scholars must be able and are willing to submit the following two items:
An extended abstract (600 to 1,000 words) should be submitted via the following form no later than June 20, 2025. Acceptance notes will be sent out by the end of July 2025. The extended abstract should clearly describe the research questions, theoretical framework, data, analytical methods, and main findings.
To go to the submission site, please click here.
June 20, 2025, 23:59 (Tokyo, GMT+9:00)
Accepted applicants will be notified by the end of July 2025.
In case of questions, please contact us at: ilc(at)sociology.gr.jp
