Abstract
This article provides an overview of how East Asian Junior Sociologists Forum (EAJSF) was organized, and ran as a side event of the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, This article also aims to offer, based on the report, some tips which would help enhance young sociologists' involvement in planning and organizing future international academic events.
The EAJSF Organizing Committee was a small group, and its members were homogeneous and close to each other in terms of research interests. This homogeneity and closeness of the Committee turned out to be advantageous for conducting the conference. However, if organizing this kind of event requires homogeneity and closeness among the organizing committee, we should deal with the following two challenges when we plan future ones. First, it's necessary to explore what kind of homogeneity and closeness are compatible with organizing and running international academic events. Second, by closely examining and sorting out the tasks so that we can figure out which tasks requires the homogeneity and closeness and which tasks do not, we should make various forms of commitment available to researchers who are interested in organizing international conferences and adequately divide the work among them.
Through coping with these two challenges Japanese academic societies should accumulate know-hows regarding organizing international academic events and open up opportunities for early career researchers with international minds as one of the issues after the XVIII World Congress of Sociology in Japan.
