19th NATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS

Tamed risks?
Contemporary challenges
September 16-19, 2025

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Living in “uncertainty” and the risks associated with this contemporary condition are enduring pillars of postmodernity, an inevitable consequence of the technological revolution generating profound shifts in modern culture, politics and the economy. The risk landscape is constantly changing, and we are continuously struggling to overcome the negative consequences of risk phenomena, as a result reinforcing social vulnerabilities. Risk factors (opportunities or threats) can be diverse, complex, highly mediated or fuzzy, capable of manifesting themselves with varying frequency or intensity.

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Prof. Anthony Elliott – ON THE COMPOSITION OF INSECURITY:
FEAR IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMIC MODERNITY

Distinguished Professor Anthony Elliott AM is Dean of External Engagement at the University of South Australia, where he is Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. He is also Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan, and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society; and; Senior Member of King’s College, Cambridge. He recently has served as a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts. Previously, Prof. Elliott served as a member of the Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) on AI at the request of the Chief Scientist of Australia and the Prime Minister’s Commonwealth Science Council. He has received many awards, including Member of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours 2023 for significant service to education, social science policy and research and the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Melbourne. He is the author and editor of more than fifty books translated into dozens of languages, including most recently Making Sense of AI (2022), Algorithmic Intimacy (2023) and Algorithms of Anxiety (2024) – all published by Polity.