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 15-17 May 2017, in Naples, Italy, the Sixth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (ARS’17) will take place (http://www.ars17.unisa.it/). Invited speakers include Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana), Elisa Bellotti (University of Manchester), Ulrich Brandes (University of Konstanz), Patrick Doreian (University of Pittsburgh), Martin Everett (University of Manchester), Katherine Faust (University of California, Irvine), Anuska Ferligoj (University of Ljubljana), Rosa Figueiredo (Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse), Johan Koskinen (University of Manchester), Emmanuel Lazega (Sciences Po Paris), Tom Snijders (University of Groningen), Fabien Tarissan (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan), Vincent Traag (CWTS, Leiden University) and Aleš Žiberna (University of Ljubljana). A short course on “Multilevel Longitudinal Network Analysis” will be offered on 15 May. The course will be taught by Tom Snijders, Oxford University. Details are at http://www.ars17.unisa.it/shortcourse. For further information, visit http://www.ars17.unisa.it or contact ars17@unisa.it.
On 17-20 May 2017, in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, “Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere” (http://icqi.org/), will take place and there will be two workshops: “Doing SKAD Discourse Research: Methodology and Methods”, and “Doing Discourse Research”, both given by Reiner Keller (reiner.keller@phil.uni-augsburg.de). The key note presentations are: “The Future of Critical Arts-based Research - Creating Political Spaces for Resistance Politics”, by Susan Finley (Washington State University), and “‘I can see, but do I live?’ - ‘Transforming Research’ as an Issue of Social Justice and Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples”, by Graham Hingangaroa Smith (University of Waikato).
On 6-9 June 2017, in London, the 17th Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Conference (ASMDA2017) will take place (http://www.asmda.es). ASMDA2017 will celebrate Gilbert Saporta’s 70th birthday, honor him for his contributions to Applied Statistics and Data Analysis, and for his support and participation in ASMDA activities. There will be several Plenary Talks by: Gilbert Saporta (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris); Robert Elliott (University of Calgary); Sally McClean (Ulster University); Anatoliy Swishchuk (University of Calgary); and Rebecca Kippen (Monash University).
Les 3-6 juillet 2017, à Amiens, France, le septième congrès de l’Association Française de Sociologie (AFS, http://www.test-afs-socio.fr/drupal/) aura lieu avec des sessions organisées par le Réseau Thématique (RT20) « Méthodes ». Le « Réseau Méthodes » (v.le.hay@sciencespobordeaux.fr et margotdelon@gmail.com) s’est constitué en reconnaissant le caractère indissociable des résultats de la recherche sociologique et des démarches organisant cette recherche, des analyses produites et des modalités de leur production, des conclusions substantielles et des protocoles sous-jacents. Autrement dit, les méthodes ne constituent pas un secteur ou un domaine particulier de la discipline, mais une dimension transversale à toute production de recherche sociologique. Notre objectif au congrès d’Amiens est, comme précédemment, d’être un lieu d’échanges et de réflexions dans le respect du pluralisme méthodologique et sociologique qui caractérise notre réseau depuis sa fondation.
On 17-21 July 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal, the European Survey Research Association (http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/) will hold its next congress which will include a session on “Deviations and Fraud in Surveys - The Impact of Motivation and Incentives”, organized by Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Hinz, Natalja Menold and Peter Winker. Credibility of social science was repeatedly jeopardized by recent and spectacular cases of deviant behavior in conducting surveys or fraud in presenting survey based research results. Several times researchers published path-breaking results that turned out to be “too good to be true.” Because the incentive system in science commonly rewards originality higher than accurateness, most probably the detected cases of making up data or trimming results are only the tip of the iceberg.
On 11-14 September 2017, in Taipei, Taiwan, the Research Committee (RC33) “Logic and Methodology” (http://www.rc33.org/) of the International Association of Sociology (http://www.isa-sociology.org/) is organizing its First RC33 Regional Conference Asia (http://survey.sinica.edu.tw/rc33-taipei). Our BMS-RC33@services.cnrs.fr email list has already distributed extensive information on this conference, including the presentation of several sessions including the following.
“Failed Research Session & Spatial Analysis” - At conferences we usually hear about remarkable outcomes in scientific research. But anybody who has ever conducted research by him/herself knows that during the research process not necessarily everything runs smoothly. This session wants to provide space to discuss research attempts that finally disappeared in a drawer. The aim of the session is not to make someone look like a fool or to satisfy the other’s curiosity, but to reflect on causes of failed research and to learn from mistakes. Session Conveners are Martin Weichbold (martin.weichbold@sbg.ac.at), Wolfgang Aschauer (wolfgang.aschauer@sbg.ac.at), Dimitri Prandner (dimitri.prandner@jku.at) and Nina Baur (nina.baur@tu-berlin.de).
“Spatial Analysis” - This session aims at exploring new developments in spatial methods, seeing space either as a dependent or an independent variable. The session builds on the discussion started at the “8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology” (Sydney, 2012) and in the HSR Special Issue “Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities” (2014) which was continued at the “World Congress of Sociology” (Yokohama 2014), the “6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association” (Reykjavik 2015) and the “9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology” (Leicester 2016). Session Conveners are Nina Baur (nina.baur@tu-berlin.de), Linda Hering (linda.hering@tu-berlin.de) and Cornelia Thierbach (cornelia.thierbach@tu-berlin.de).
“Cultural Response Styles” - Cross-national and cross-cultural surveys are facing numerous challenges at different stages of the research process. Despite the broad research on potential methodological biases during fieldwork, there are still some fields which gain less attention although they contain a considerable risk of biasing survey data. Various measurement errors (such as social desirability or acquiescence) have been high on the research agenda in survey methodology for a long time, but there are only a few studies on differences of these effects between cultures or nations. Session Conveners are Martin Weichbold (martin.weichbold@sbg.ac.at), Wolfgang Aschauer (wolfgang.aschauer@sbg.ac.at) and Nina Baur (nina.baur@tu-berlin.de).
“Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis - Mixing Methods in Longitudinal Analysis and Historical Sociology” - Social theory is often interested in how social meso and macro phenomena or social contexts (such as organizations, markets, cities, regions, societies) and micro phenomena (everyday practices, interaction, communicative action, individual action) interact, causally influence and change each other. However, analyzing such questions empirically poses methodological problems which have to be solved simultaneously. Process-oriented micro-macro-analyses typically combine or mix different data sorts (ethnography and public administrative data) which address different time layers. Session Conveners are Nina Baur (nina.baur@tu-berlin.de), Lilli Alexa Braunisch (lilli.braunisch@innovation.tu-berlin.de), Jannis Hergesell (jannis.hergesell@innovation.tu-berlin.de), Maria Norkus (maria.norkus@tu-berlin.de) and Isabell Stamm (isabell.stamm@campus.tu-berlin.de).
On 26-29 September 2017, in Mainz, Germany, the Third European Social Network (EUSN) conference will take place at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University (JGU), organized by Marina Hennig (mhennig@uni-mainz.de) and Katharina Kunißen. This European conference received a regional conference endorsement by INSNA.
On 8-10 November 2017, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the Universities of Neuchâtel, Zurich and Bern will host the first international conference to focus specifically on “Visualizing (in) the New Media”, visual communication in/about new media. There will be four overlapping thematic areas: 1. Social Interaction (communicative uses of visual resources); 2. Meta-discourse (people’s talk or writing about visual practices); 3. Visual Ideologies (visual depiction of new media); 4. Industrial Design (visual-material design of technologies and apps). Contact contact.vinm2017@unine.ch or visit http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=1939.
