Workshops

The Academy of Sociology provides funding for workshops and small conferences organized by its members. Below is an overview of upcoming events and those that have already received funding.

For information on workshop funding and the application process, please visit here.

Current Workshops:

Past Workshops:

8th Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology (ACES)

26.-28.8.2026

Sciences Po, Paris
Organisation: Achim Edelmann, Martin Aranguren, Mélusine Boon-Falleur, Lou Safra

Documentation: https://aces2026.sciencesconf.org/
Programm (PDF)

Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis. Theory, Methods, and Applications

17.-19.8.2026

Hertie School Berlin (hybrid)
Organisation: Christian Dudel, Carla Rowold, Michaela Kreyenfeld

Documentation: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/events/event-detail/event/second-international-workshop-on-life-course-analysis-theory-methods-and-applications

Computational Social Science: Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS

21./22.5.2026

Complexity Science Hub (CSH), Wien
Organisation: Lisette Espín-Noboa, Mark Wittek

Documentation: https://computational-social-science.org/workshops/2026.html

7th Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology (ACES)

27.-29.8.2025

University of Leipzig
Organisation: Roger Berger, Heinz Leitgöb

Documentation: https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/aces-conference-2025

Meeting of the Structural Equation Modeling Working Group

20./21.3.2025

TU Chemnitz
Organisation: Jochen Mayerl, Henrik Andersen

Documentation: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/hsw/soziologie/Professuren/Empirische_Sozialforschung/SEM/programme-sem_working_group_2025-7.pdf

Theorieentwicklung (3. Workshop des Arbeitskreises „Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften“)

20./21.3.2025

University of Leipzig
Organisation: Roger Berger, Heinz Leitgöb, Knut Petzold, Hawal Shamon

Documentation: Programm (PDF)

Visualisierung in der Statistik- und Methodenlehre in den Sozialwissenschaften

20.9.2024

University of Cologne
Organisation: Emilia Kmiotek-Meier, Marita Jacob

Social Norms. Emergence, Stability, and Social Change

7.-10.7.2024

Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita/Ascona
Organisation: Andreas Diekmann, Jörg Rössel

Documentation: https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-soziologie/social-norms-workshop

Computational Social Science: Bridging Data and Methods with Theory and Applications

5./6.3.2024

Bielefeld University
Organisation: Stefan Knauff, Simon Kühne, Dorian Tsolak

Documentation: https://computational-social-science.org/workshops/2024.html

Measuring Culture: Advancing Computational Approaches in Sociological Research

20./21.11.2023

University of Bremen
Organisation: Katharina Burgdorf, Mark Wittek

Documentation: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/soda-lab/events/measuring-culture-workshop-2023

Theoriebildung und Theorieprüfung in der analytisch-empirischen Soziologie
(1. Workshop des Arbeitskreises „Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften“)

6./7.9.2023

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Organisation: Gunnar Otte, Natascha Nisic, Nico Sonntag, Hartmut Esser, Werner Raub

Documentation: Programm (PDF)

Wissenschaftstheoretische Grundlagen der analytisch-empirischen Soziologie

6./7.10.2022

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Organisation: Nico Sonntag, Natascha Nisic, Gunnar Otte, Hartmut Esser

Documentation: Programm (PDF)

Survey Climate and Trust in Scientific Surveys: Recent Developments and Controversial Issues

4./5.10.2022

University of Kassel
Organisation: Bettina Langfeldt, Niklas Jungermann, Thorsten Euler, Ulrike Schwabe, Henning Silber und Bella Struinskaya

Documentation: https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb05/fachgruppen-und-institute/soziologie/fachgebiete/methoden-empirischer-sozialforschung/forschung/abgeschlossene-projekte/workshop-survey-climate-and-trust-in-scientific-surveys-recent-developments-and-controversial-issues.html

4th Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology (ACES)

31.8.-2.9.2022

Utrecht University
Organisation: Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten

Documentation: https://aces2022.sites.uu.nl/

Die nicht-binäre Erhebung von Geschlecht: Möglichkeiten, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven

27./28.11.2021

Bielefeld University (online)
Organisation: Lisa de Vries, Simon Kühne, Mirjam Fischer, David Kasprowski, Zaza Zindel, Martin Kroh, David Richter

Documentation: Programm (PDF)

Life Course Analysis. Theoretical Perspectives, Methodological Innovations, and Empirical Applications

26./27.10.2021

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock (hybrid)
Organisation: Christian Dudel, Mine Kühn, Mikko Myrskylä

Documentation: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/mediacms/15033_main_Life_Course_Workshop_2021_Program.pdf

Causality in the Social Sciences III: Heterogeneous Causal Effects

14./15.10.2021

GESIS Mannheim (online)
Organisation: Sebastian E. Wenz, Nora Müller, Klaus Pforr

Documentation: Programm (PDF)

Environmental Social Sciences: Current Issues and Future Perspectives II

28.-30.7.2021

University of Oxford (online)
Organisation: Tobias Rüttenauer, Sebastian Mader

Women on the Move

6./7.5.2021

DIW Berlin
Organisation: Magdalena Krieger

Documentation: Programm (PDF)

Open Science and Replicability in the Behavioural and Social Sciences

30.4.2021

TU Chemnitz (online)
Organisation: Jochen Mayerl, Anja Strobel, Frank Asbrock, Britta Maskow

Documentation: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/hsw/mkz/OpenScienceCon.php#open_science

 
Causality in the Social Sciences II

7.-9.10.2020

DZHW Hannover (online)
Organisation: Sebastian Lang, Ulrike Schwabe, Monika Jungbauer-Gans

Documentation: https://causality2020.dzhw.eu/

Teaching Replication

24./25.9.2020

MZES Mannheim (hybrid)
Organisation: Johanna Gereke, Gerrit Bauer, Hannah Soiné

Documentation: https://osf.io/8a597/

Environmental Social Sciences: Current Issues and Future Perspectives

26.-28.8.2020

Universität Bern (hybrid)
Organisation: Sebastian Mader, Tobias Rüttenauer

Causality in the Social Sciences

25./26.7.2019

University of Leipzig
Organisation: Pia Blossfeld, Stephan Poppe

How to Analyze Large-Scale Network Structures? The Boundary Specification Problem Revisited

13./14.6.2019

Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
Organisation: Philipp Brandt, Sebastian Pink