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On 6-8 April 2016, in Birmingham, England, the annual British Sociological Association conference, whose theme was “Global Societies - Fragmenting and Connecting”, took place (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/bsa-annual-conference.aspx).
Le 14 avril 2016, à Toulouse, en France, la journée ResTO intitulée « Les mondes de l’art au prisme de l’analyse de réseaux », s’est déroulée à la Maison de la Recherche, Université Jean Jaurès - Toulouse 2 (http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/agenda/les-mondes-de-l-art-au-prisme-de-l-analyse-de-reseaux-427963.kjsp).
On 25-27 April 2016, in Paris, the World Seastems team (Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) / European Research Council Starting Grant) organized the second edition of its international workshop “Maritime Flows and Networks” (http://www.world-seastems.cnrs.fr/index.php?page=page_ERC_WS_51) devoted to the analysis and mapping of maritime flows of all kinds in space and time, to enrich our knowledge about the world’s backbone of maritime transportation.
On 18 May-26 August 2016, in Utrecht, Netherlands, Utrecht University organized the Postgraduate Sociology Research Methods Summer Courses (http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/social-sciences).
On 2-24 June 2016, in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the Global School in Empirical Research Methods organized its 2016 integrated programme teaching methodology for PhD students and postdocs (http://www.gserm.ch/stgallen).
On 22-24 June 2016, in Ann Arbor MI, the University of Michigan organized the course Longitudinal Data Management and Life Course Design with the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP) at the SRC Summer Institute (http://si.isr.umich.edu/).
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/), took place. The ISA Research Committee “Logic and Methodology” (RC33) organized 11 sessions presented in previous issues of the BMS with the RC33 Newsletter.
On 11-15 July 2016, in Gainesville, Florida, the Methods Mall (http://qualquant.org/methodsmall/) 2016 of NSF-supported courses on research methods for social scientists and particularly cultural anthropologists took place.
On 17–28 July 2016, in Berlin, the Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences, “Linking Theory and Empirical Research” (http://www.berlinsummerschool.de/), took place.
On 23-28 July 2016, in Istanbul, Turkey, the International Political Science Association (IPSA) held 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 took 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 1-5 August 2016, in Maastricht, Netherlands, the Summer School “Media Representations and Research Methods - Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics and Textual/Visual News Framing” (http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=1731) took place.
On 18-21 August 2016, in Davis, California, the Social Network Analysis & Mining IEEE/ACM Workshop took 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 took place (http://prima2016.di.unito.it).
On 1-3 September 2016, in Cracow, Poland, the Qualitative Methods and Research Technologies Conference took place (http://www.esa-cracow.pl/).
On 11-16 September 2016, in Leicester, England, at the University of Leicester, RC33’s Ninth International Conference on Social Science Methodology took place. There were sessions on a broad range of methodological topics including: 1. Survey Methodology and other QUANTI Approaches; 2. QUALI 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 this issue of the BMS). You can 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 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 took 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”, took place (http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=1736).
On 22-23 September 2016, in Paris, the Impacts and Challenges of Demographic Changes Conference took place (http://mutademo.sciencesconf.org/).
On 22-24 September 2016, in Nice, France, the Fourth Networks and History Meeting took place (http://reshist.hypotheses.org/).
On 29-30 September 2016, in Paris, the Visual and Cinematographic Sociology Conference took place (http://cdmv.hypotheses.org/434).
