Full presentations of many of the entries below have already been distributed to BMS subscribers and RC33 members over the BMS-RC33 distribution list
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On 10-14 July 2016, in Vienna, Austria, the International Sociological Association (ISA) Third ISA Forum of Sociology, “The Futures We Want - Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World” (https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum-2016/), will take place. The ISA Research Committee “Logic and Methodology” (RC33) is organizing 11 sessions presented in the previous issue of the BMS with the RC33 Newsletter.
On 11-15 July 2016, in Gainesville, Florida, the Methods Mall (http://qualquant.org/methodsmall/) 2016 NSF-supported Courses on Research Methods for Cultural Anthropologists will take place.
On 17–28 July 2016, in Berlin, the Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences, “Linking Theory and Empirical Research” (http://www.berlinsummerschool.de/), will take place.
On 23-28 July 2016, in Istanbul, Turkey, the International Political Science Association (IPSA) will hold its World Congress on the theme “Politics in a World of Inequality” (https://www.ipsa.org/istanbul2016).
In 25-29 July 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 multi-population surveys and to raise the level of methodological expertise in various applied fields of comparative survey research.
On 18-21 August 2016, in Davis, California, the Social Network Analysis & Mining IEEE/ACM Workshop will take place (http://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/2016/).
On 22-26 August 2016, in Phuket, Thailand, the Principles and Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA) Conference will take place (http://prima2016.di.unito.it).
On 1-3 September 2016, in Cracow, Poland, the Qualitative Methods and Research Technologies Conference will take place (http://www.esa-cracow.pl/).
On 11-16 September 2016, in Leicester, England, at the University of Leicester, the Ninth International Conference on Social Science Methodology of RC33 will take place. There will be sessions on a broad range of methodological topics including: 1. Survey Methodology and other QUAN Approaches; 2. QUAL Methods; 3. Mixed Methods; 4. New Data Types; 5. Methods for Longitudinal and Comparative Research; 6. Paradata, Metadata, Meta-Analysis and Harmonization; and 7. Methods for Substantial Research Fields (see the RC33 Newsletter in a previous issue of the BMS). Please check the Conference Web site for a full list of sessions and session descriptions: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/research/rc33-conference/rc33-conference. There is further information on ISA RC33 (Research Committee on Logic & Methodology of the International Sociology Association) on http://www.rc33.org/.
On 12-14 September 2016, Winchester, England, the British Society for Population Studies Conference will take place (http://www.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/Researchcentresandgroups/BSPS/annualConference/Home.aspx).
On 14-17 September 2016, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, the Fourth International Symposium on Discourse Analysis, “Discourses and Social Inequalities”, will take place (http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=1736).
On 22-23 September 2016, in Paris, the Impacts & Challenges of Demographic Changes Conference will take place (http://mutademo.sciencesconf.org/).
On 22-24 September 2016, in Nice, France, the Fourth Networks & History Meeting will take place (http://reshist.hypotheses.org/).
On 29-30 September 2016, in Paris, the Visual and Cinematographic Sociology Conference will take place (http://cdmv.hypotheses.org/434).
On 13-15 October 2016, in Cyprus, the Data Quality in Quantitative Research (ESA RN 21) Conference will take place (http://ucy.ac.cy/images/template_img/logo_en.png).
On 9-13 November 2016, in Miami, Florida, the 2016 International Conference on Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation, and Testing (QDET2) will take place (http://www.amstat.org/meetings/qdet.cfm). Two conference keynote speakers are Mario Callegaro (Google) and Gordon Willis (National Institutes of Health).
