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Les 2-3 avril 2015, à l’Université de Tours, en France, le colloque « Citoyenneté et démocratie à l’épreuve des inégalités spatiales et des identités » aura lieu (http://villeenturquie.wordpress.com/annonces/ et colloquecitdem@gmail.com). L’objectif de ce colloque, initié par le Comité de recherche CR 01 « Identité, espace et politique » de l’Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF), sera de nous interroger sur ces différentes perceptions et conceptions de la citoyenneté tout en la situant dans une approche spatiale. Il s’agira également de la situer à la croisée des questions identitaires (Marchal, 2012) et de débattre des effets sur la citoyenneté de la montée des identités subjectives (ethnique, culturelle, religieuse, sexuelle, sociale, etc.) et des défaillances de la démocratie représentative dans nos sociétés actuelles. Par ailleurs, quelles que soient les pratiques de résistance, nous constatons qu’une grande partie d’entre elles émergent et sont exprimées dans l’espace urbain : la ville devient la scène par excellence des pratiques de résistances exprimées à des degrés divers par des individus, groupes sociaux ou communautés qui la composent.
On 15-17 April 2015,in Glasgow, Scotland, the Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, “Societies in Transition - Progression or Regression?”, will take place (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/bsa-annual-conference.aspx?utm_source=isa+announcements+2014&utm_campaign=4b2fe4e5ba-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a55c5ed630-4b2fe4e5ba-92132525). Keynote speakers include Alice Goffman (University of Wisconsin), Colin Samson (University of Essex) and Guy Standing (SOAS, University of London). The aims of this conference are: to showcase the latest sociological research; to attract a concentration of international specialists in our major research fields; to provide a forum in which to discuss the teaching of sociology and the professional practice of being a sociologist; and to facilitate debate, networking and professional development opportunities.
On 29-31 April 2015,in Las Vegas, Nevada, the session, «Sociology and/or Economics of Memory - New and Classical Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private?”, will take place at the National Social Science Association's (NSSA) Technology and Social Science Conference (packardn@prodigy.net). There will be new and classical sociological theories regarding “collected memory” such as banked electronic dataveillance, video surveillance, seed, sperm, egg or DNA banking; and socio-political issues pertaining to such “commodity memory” or papers regarding traumatic and other aspects of memory,
On 10-15 May 2015, on Monte Verità, in Ascona, Switzerland, near Lake Major, at the international conference, “Social Norms and Institutions - Model Building, Empirical Corroborations, and Applications”, will take place at the Congressi Stefano Franscini (CSF) of the ETH Zurich (http://www.socio.ethz.ch/sni2015/CFP_SNI_2015.pdf). Speakers are from the department of Humanities at ETH and the Economics department at the University of Zurich. In addition, the following invited speakers will give presentations at the conference: Christina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania), Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona), Robert C. Ellickson (Yale Law School), Uri Gneezy (University of California San Diego), Christine Horne (Washington State University), Siegwart Lindenberg (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Werner Raub (University of Utrecht), Linda Steg (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), and Thomas Voss (University of Leipzig).
On 3-5 June 2015,in Lausanne, the Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, “Collective Dynamics, Social (De-)Regulation and Public Spheres”, will take place (http://www.unil.ch/sss-congres2015). The aim of the Congress is to examine how these issues are tackled in different contexts and in different research fields. This raises both theoretical and methodological issues. For instance, how central should material inequalities and structural configurations be to the study of collective dynamics across the life course? How can research on the semantic and normative properties of public processes also take the influence of structural configurations into account? Can we analyze social phenomena of this kind from an individualist perspective or should we favor analytical tools that immediately stress their collective dimension?
On 8-11 June 2015, at Finlandia Hall, in Helsinki, Finland, the International Conference on Computational Social Science will take place (http://www.iccss2015.eu/). The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large data sets, either extracted from real applications such as social media and communication systems, or created via controlled experiments.
On 12-13 June 2015,in Cambridge MA, the VIII Analytical Sociology Conference, “Causal Inference and Mechanism-Based Explanation - Friends or Foes?”, will take place (http://hwpi.harvard.edu/inas2015). We are delighted to announce that Peter Bearman of Columbia University will give the keynote address. There will be presentations using any qualitative or quantitative methods that allow for the study of social mechanisms and the complex social dynamics they give rise to. In addition, there will be purely theoretical papers dealing with central aspects of the explanatory approach of analytical sociology.
On 23-28 June 2015,in Brighton, England, the Sunbelt XXXV Social Network conference will take place, organized by Bruce Cronin and Martin Everett with the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). Organized sessions consist of at least one two-hour time slot accommodating four to six paper presentations (http://insna.org/sunbelt2015).
On 29 June-2 July 2015,in Versailles, the “Methods” Section (RT20) of the French Association of Sociology (AFS) is organizing several sections during the Sixth Congress of the AFS (v.le.hay@sciencespobordeaux.fr and margotdelon@gmail.com). The AFS “Methods” Section (RT20) has developed with the acknowledgment of the inseparable character of sociological research results and the procedures involved in that research, of the analyses produced and the modalities of that production, of the substantive conclusions and subjacent research protocols. The objective for the 2015 Versailles Congress, as during previous congresses, is to establish a milieu of exchange and discussion in full respect of the methodological and sociological pluralism that has been affirmed since the foundation of our section.
On 30 June-4 July 2015,in Piraeus, Greece, the 16th Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Conference (ASMDA) will take place. It is organized by the ASMDA International Society and the University of Piraeus Greece (http://www.asmda2015.com).
On 12-15 July 2015,in Glasgow, Scotland, the International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity (MCS) and the Euro Working Group on Methodology of Societal Complexity (EuroMSC) are organizing sessions on Methodology of Societal Complexity and Economy, Sustainable Development, Healthcare and Internet Privacy (http://www.euro2015.org/).
On 13-17 July 2015,in Reykjavik, Iceland, the 2015 conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) will take place (http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/). The organizing committee is Bart Meuleman, Annelies Blom, Eldad Davidov, Gudbjorg Andrea Jonsdottir, Nick Allum and Patrick Sturgis. This major methodology conference will cover numerous topics including sample design, fieldwork, nonresponse, questionnaires, interviewing, and online surveys.
On 19-22 September 2015,in Baltimore, Maryland, the International Total Survey Error (TSE15) Conference will take place (https://www.tse15.org/ehome/90248/TSE15home/). The conference will highlight use of the Total Survey Error framework to understand and address issues of data quality in official statistics and in survey, opinion and market research. The field of statistics is undergoing a revolution as data sets get bigger (and messier), and understanding the potential for errors and the various means to control and prevent them is more important than ever. This will be the topic of the session on “Data Quality in the Era of Big Data” organized by Edith de Leeuw.
On 19-20 November 2015,in Valencia, Spain, the First International Conference on Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis Conference: (ADDA 1, http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=1354). This conference aims to bring together researches interested in the analysis of digital discourse from different disciplines, approaches and traditions. Thus, it seeks to foster state-of-the-art debates and discussions on this burgeoning field of research and provide opportunities for multidisciplinary and critical reflection. Confirmed plenary speakers include: Jannis Androutsopoulos (Universität Hamburg); Susan C. Herring (Indiana University); and Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern).
In July 2016 (please clearly note 2016), in Chicago, the Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Survey Methods (http://www.csdiworkshop.org) meeting will take place as part of an ongoing effort to promote quality in multipopulation surveys and to raise the level of methodological expertise in various applied fields of comparative survey research. This conference will bring together researchers and survey practitioners concerned with survey methodology and practice in comparative contexts. It will provide a unique opportunity to discuss and present research that contributes to our understanding of survey needs and methods in multi-cultural, multi-national, and multi-lingual contexts. Conference contributions will help document current best practices and stimulate new ideas for further research and development.
