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Sessions der Methodensektion auf dem DGS-Kongress
by Leitgöb, Heinz 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich darf jene Listenmitglieder, die am DGS-Kongress in Bielefeld anwesend sind, nochmals auf die beiden Sessions der Methodensektion hinweisen: (i) Di 27.09.2022, 14.15-17.00 Uhr, T2-213: Aktuelle Themen der empirischen Sozialforschung (ii) Fr 30.09.2022, 09.00-11.45 Uhr, X-E0-202: Die Vermessung und Simulation polarisierter Welten - Umfrageexperimente, Agentenbasierte Modelle und ihr Nexus Wir freuen uns auf eine rege Teilnahme. Beste Grüße Heinz Leitgöb ********************************************** Mag. Dr. Heinz Leitgöb Akad. Rat a. Z. Fachbereich Soziologie Lehrstuhl für Soziologie und empirische Sozialforschung Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Kapuzinergasse 2 85072 Eichstätt Tel.: +49 (0)8421 93 21665 Email. heinz.leitgoeb(a)ku.de<mailto:heinz.leitgoeb@ku.de>

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Free Workshop Series: Statistics for the Public Good - Infrastructures for Decision Making, Research, and Discourse
by berd-academy＠stat.uni-muenchen.de 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Dear members of the list, Join the discussion on the challenges for the public good statistics within the fast-changing world of data in our free workshop series in Munich from October 10th to 13th, 2022. Explore the DNA of official statistics, what quality means and how to achieve it. In the workshops by former Eurostat general director Walter J. Radermacher (LMU Munich), you will work directly with national and international use cases, applying a reflective view on official statistics from the perspective of various statistical stakeholders. Julia Lane (NYU), former senior advisor at the White House, will show you how a secure data sharing platform can serve as a blueprint towards collaborative activities to accelerate evidence-building. The workshop features hands-on examples of how training classes were implemented in the US, leading to a discussion on possible applications in Germany. You can register for the workshops individually, but we recommend participating in the whole series, which includes access to introductory online videos. Please find more information and registration here: October 10, 2022 The Public Good Statistics: Let's talk about Data Culture! Walter J. Radermacher <https://www.xing-events.com/LGWUFKE.html> https://www.xing-events.com/LGWUFKE.html October 11, 2022 Should Government Data Concern or Serve Us? Julia Lane <https://www.xing-events.com/GAGBMRD.html> https://www.xing-events.com/GAGBMRD.html October 12, 2022 Values, Ethics and What They Mean for Quality Walter J. Radermacher <https://www.xing-events.com/IANURCQ.html> https://www.xing-events.com/IANURCQ.html October 13, 2022 Data 4 Policy: Is the Statistical Era Being Replaced by an Era of Data? Walter J. Radermacher <https://www.xing-events.com/KYLKKVG.html> https://www.xing-events.com/KYLKKVG.html Best regards, Markus Herklotz for BERD Academy https://www.berd-nfdi.de/berd-academy/

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2022 Swiss Stata Conference, 18 November 2022, in Bern
by ben.jann＠unibe.ch 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

The fourth Swiss Stata Conference takes place on 18 November 2022 at the Universität Bern. Several speakers have already been confirmed, among them are David Schenck from Stata Corp on Bayesian time series models, Achim Ahrens from ETH Zurich on machine learning, Jan Ditzen from Free University of Bozen-Bolzano on network regressions, and Blaise Melly from University of Bern on panel quantile regression. Call for Presentations ---------------------- If you are interested in presenting, submit an abstract of no more than 200 words (ASCII text, no math symbols) to the scientific committee (ben.jann(a)unibe.ch) including a short, informative title. Indicate whether you wish to be considered for a 10-minute or 20-minute presentation (both to be followed by 5 minutes for questions). Include your name, affiliation, and phone number. If your presentation has multiple authors, please identify the presenter. Presenters will be asked to provide the organizers with electronic materials (a copy of the presentation and any programs or datasets, where applicable). The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2022. Presentations topics may include o new community-contributed commands for model estimation, graphing, data management, results reporting, or other purposes, o new approaches for using Stata together with other software, o innovative use or evaluations of existing Stata commands, o new analytic methods of particular relevance to Stata users, o case studies of using Stata for applications in various disciplines, and o methods and resources for teaching statistics with Stata or for teaching the use of Stata. More information and registration --------------------------------- See https://www.stata.com/meeting/switzerland22.

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GESIS Training Workshops 2022
by Sebastian E. Wenz 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

****Apologies for cross-posting**** Dear colleagues, I’d like to draw your attention to the upcoming *GESIS Training Workshops*, taking place *online *or in *Mannheim*. The course program for the remainder of 2022 includes introductions to R and Stata, data visualization, social media data, reproducibility, Bayesian statistics, sequence analysis, and causal mediation analysis. For more information and registration see the full list below or visit us at https://training.gesis.org/. *GESIS Training Workshops in German* 18-20/10/22 Einführung in die Paneldatenanalyse <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x029FDC201DAA4C26…> (*Mannheim*) *Prof. Dr. Volker Ludwig * 07-08/11/22 Mixed Methods: Angewandte Integration qualitativer und quantitativer Methoden in den Sozialwissenschaften <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xD612AC943EF94D88…> (*Mannheim*) *Prof. Dr. Jörg Stolz* 30/11-02/12/22 Einführung in Strukturgleichungsmodellierung <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xBCA3073A6A0D4236…> (*Mannheim*) *Dr. Marie-Ann Sengewald* 06-09/12/22 Einführung in die Methoden der modernen Kausalanalyse <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x4F1E249C850F4D33…> (*Online*) *Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel* *GESIS Training Workshops in English* 19-21/10/22 Introduction to R <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x5ECFBB6781F7435B…> (*Mannheim*) *Prof. Dr. Friedolin Merhout, Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer* 24-26/10/22 Sequence Analysis in the Social Sciences <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xDF43E55836FE4546…> (*Online*) *Prof. Dr. Emanuela Struffolino, Prof. Dr. Marcel Raab* 26-28/10/22 Data Visualization with Stata <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x589702D73ED64087…> (*Mannheim*) *PD Asjad Naqvi, PhD* 08-10/11/22 Advanced Bayesian Statistical Modelling in R and Stan <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xEF09F187441841F0…> (*Online*) *Dr. Denis Cohen* 17-18/11/22 Tools and workflows for reproducible research in the quantitative social sciences <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xAEFDE76E0FB549DC…> (*Online*) *Dr. Bernd Weiß, Dr. Johannes Breuer, Dr. Arnim Bleier* 28/11-02/12/22 Causal Mediation Analysis <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xDF9A1AFC06DB431A…> (*Online*) *Prof. Dr. Felix Thoemmes* 05-06/12/22 Introduction to Using Social Media Data for Research: Potentials and Pitfalls <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x20D86302D1294F28…> (*Online*) *Indira Sen, Dr. Katrin Weller* 12-14/12/22 Introduction to Stata <https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xEA385269A96A4B21…> (*Online*) *Lukas Isermann, Leonie Rettig* If you have any questions concerning the course program, feel free to get in touch with us at workshops(a)gesis.org. Best wishes, Your GESIS Training -- Dr. Sebastian E. Wenz Scientific Coordinator of GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology & GESIS Spring Seminar GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences Phone: +49 221-47694-159 www.gesis.org | https://training.gesis.org/ @gesistraining <https://twitter.com/gesistraining> | facebook.com/GESISTraining/ <https://www.facebook.com/GESISTraining/>

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Workshop "Democratizing Data: AI tools for discovery" by Julia Lane - Mannheim, Sep 29, 2022
by BERD Academy 23 Sep '22

23 Sep '22

Dear Sektion Methoden, You want to find out how research data are being used, to answer what questions, and who are the experts? Julia Lane is coming to Mannheim to show how to use API, dashboard, Jupyter Notebooks and visualization tools to discover research data. Register here for the free workshop on Sep 29, 3-6 pm in the University Library Mannheim: https://www.xing-events.com/BXCQYED If you can’t attend in-person, register here to follow the first part of the workshop online: https://www.xing-events.com/XEIYXEX Best regards, Markus Herklotz for BERD Academy https://www.berd-nfdi.de/berd-academy/

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Wiss. Mitarbeiter:in (m/w/d) gesucht (100%, zunächst befristet auf 3 Jahre)
by Lois, Daniel 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Liebe Sektionsmitglieder, an der Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften, Professur für Sozialwissenschaftliche Methodenlehre ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Mitarbeiterstelle (Entgeltgruppe 13 TVöD, Vollzeit, zunächst befristet auf 3 Jahre) zu besetzen (siehe angehängte Anzeige). Bewerber:innen (w/m/d) sollten ein sozialwissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium absolviert haben und gute Kenntnisse in quantitativen Methoden besitzen. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 15.11.2022. Machen Sie gerne auf diese Stellenausschreibung aufmerksam. Vielen Dank und beste Grüße, Daniel Lois -- Prof. Dr. Daniel Lois Universität der Bundeswehr München Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften Professur für Sozialwissenschaftliche Methodenlehre Tel.: 089 6004 3969 Postanschrift: Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg

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RC33 CfP "Recent Developments and Current Approaches to the Analysis of Panel Data"
by Prof. Dr. Jochen Mayerl 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, nachfolgend möchte ich Sie auf unseren CfP zu Paneldatenanalyse im Rahmen des ISA Weltkongresses 2023 aufmerksam machen: *** Dear colleagues, the deadline for submitting abstracts to the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is 30th September, 2022. The conference is taking place from the 25th of June until the 1st of July, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia, but it will be possible to take part online (hybrid format). We are writing to encourage those interested in the application of panel data analysis to submit abstracts to a planned session entitled: Recent Developments and Current Approaches to the Analysis of Panel Data, being organized by Jochen Mayerl and Henrik Andersen. Please find the call for abstracts below. You can submit an abstract to this session via the conference website: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session18293 .html. We look forward to your abstracts! Best regards Jochen Mayerl & Henrik Andersen Session description: Recent Developments and Current Approaches to the Analysis of Panel Data Establishing causal relationships is arguably the most important task of the social sciences. The randomized experiment is the gold standard in causal analysis. However, many interesting questions cannot be examined with experiments. Feasibility and ethics limit the use of randomized experiments in some situations, and retrospective questions require a different approach, as well. Panel analyses offer a promising way to examine causal questions with non-experimental, i.e., observational data. Panel analyses refer to studies of the same observational unit over time, and are effective at addressing unobserved heterogeneity in the form of time-invariant confounders. However, panel data are not a silver bullet many difficult questions and issues plague the investigation of causal effects with panel data. Some of these issues include: heterogeneous effects, · the choice between discrete and continuous time models, · obtaining the optimal lags between treatment and outcome measurement, · the choice between looking at contemporaneous and lagged effects, and · the inclusion of lagged dependent variables, the assessment of bidirectional effects to name a few. We encourage paper presentations looking at these and other issues related to the use of panel data for causal analysis. Papers can be methodological in nature, or focus on novel applications. We welcome papers looking at traditional (e.g., survey) and intensive (diary studies) longitudinal studies, as well as those focusing on either case studies (e.g., synthetic control) or natural experiments (differences-in-differences). Papers comparing various approaches and modelling strategies are also encouraged. Session Organizers: Jochen Mayerl, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, jochen.mayerl(a)soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de <mailto:jochen.mayerl@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de> Henrik Andersen, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, henrik.andersen(a)soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de <mailto:henrik.andersen@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de> -- Prof. Dr. Jochen Mayerl Vice Dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences Coordinator of RN21 Quantitative Methods, European Sociological Association Chemnitz University of Technology Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences Institute for Sociology Chair of Sociology with a focus on Empirical Social Research Thüringer Weg 9 D-09126 Chemnitz Germany <mailto:Jochen.Mayerl@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de> Jochen.Mayerl(a)soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de Secretary's Office: + 49 (0)371 531-32483

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Wiss. Mitarbeiter:in (w/m/d) zur Promotion in Soziologie gesucht
by Uwe Engel 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

An der *Universität Bremen* ist - vorbehaltlich der Stellenfreigabe - eine Stelle (19,6 WStd./EGr 13 TV-L) zur Promotion in der *Soziologie *zu besetzen (Kennziffer A257/22). Die Stelle ist selbst am Fachbereich *Rechtswissenschaft *angesiedelt. Bewerber:innen (w/m/d) sollten ein sozialwissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium absolviert haben, gute Kenntnisse in quantitativen Methoden besitzen sowie Interesse daran haben, an einem gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt von Rechtswissenschaft und Soziologie mitzuarbeiten. Zur *Stellenausschreibung *führt dieser Link: https://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/offene-stell… Bewerbungsschluss: 31.10.2022 Machen Sie gerne auf diese Stellenausschreibung aufmerksam. Vielen Dank, Uwe Engel -- Bleiben Sie informiert: https://www.viewsandinsights.com/newsletter https://vimeo.com/viewsandinsights https://twitter.com/UweHEngel https://www.linkedin.com/in/uwe-engel-viewsandinsights/ Prof. Dr. Uwe Engel, University of Bremen, Department of Social Sciences, Germany https://www.viewsandinsights.com/ueber-uns Just published by Routledge: Handbook of Computational Social Science: Edited by Uwe Engel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu, Lars Lyberg Vol. 1 - Theory, Case Studies and Ethics Vol. 2 - Data Science, Statistical Modelling, and Machine Learning Methods. VOLUME 1 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003024583 VOLUME 2 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025245

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CfA: 3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia & 3rd SMUS Conference India & , 20.‒26.02.2023 (Deadline: 13.10.2022) *** Please Circulate ***
by Baur, Nina, Prof. Dr. 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Dear Colleagues, we hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India”, and take place on site at the Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) from Monday, February 20th, to Sunday, February 26th, 2023. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 13th, 2022. Please note that there are more than 75 fully funded travel scholarships for scholars from SMUS member institutions and other universities from the Global South. To check, if your university is a SMUS membership institution, please check: https://gcsmus.org/global-network/. If you are not sure that you will receive travel funding, please submit an abstract by the deadline – persons whose paper has been accepted will be informed about the procedure for application for travel funding after acceptance. About the Conference The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS or SMUS) together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European Sociology Association” (ESA) will organize a 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India”, and take place on site at the Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) from Monday, February 20th, to Sunday, February 26th, 2023. The six-day conference aims at continuing a global dialogue on methods and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social and spatial sciences (e. g. anthropology, area studies, architecture, communication studies, computational sciences, digital humanities, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). The conference programme will include keynotes, sessions and advanced methodological training courses. With this intention, we invite scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are interested in methodological discussions to suggest an abstract to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a methodological problem. Please find more information on the above institutions on the following websites: * Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS): https://gcsmus.org/ * ISA RC33: http://rc33.org/ * ESA RN21: www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods<http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods> * IIT Roorkee: https://www.iitr.ac.in/ If you are interested in getting further information on the conference and other GCSMUS activities, please subscribe to the SMUS newsletter by registering via the following website: https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews Conference Sessions: 1. Co-Production (of Knowledge) as Pathway to Decolonization of Knowledge in the Global South 2. Decolonizing Social Science Methodology 3. Fieldwork in the Global South – Shedding Light into the Black Box 4. Assessing the Quality of Survey Data 5. Comparing Social Survey Data Collected During a Global Crisis? The Uncertainty of Comparative Research 6. Culturally Sensitive Approaches – Potential New Directions of Empirical Research 7. Application of Quantitative Techniques in Spatial Analysis 8. Ethnography as Spatial-Temporal Method 9. Ethnographic Methods: Constructing Public Space 10. Visualizing Urban Nature: Ethnographic Approaches and Explorations 11. Multimodal Data Integration for Spatial Research 12. How Modality Matters? Learning from the Multiplicity of (Non-)Digital Discourse Analytical Approaches 13. Discourse Analysis, Historical Analysis and Biographical Research: Multi-Method Approaches in Interpretive Empirical Research 14. The Individual and the City: Urban Life Stories 15. Measuring Change in Urban Space(s) 16. The Longue Durée in the 21st-Century Social Sciences: Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Long-Term Social Processes 17. Design Methods for Accessibility and Social Inclusion 18. Applying Spatial Methods in Homelessness Studies: Methodological and Ethical Challenges 19. Analysing Hidden Forms of Violence and their Spatialities: The Methodological Challenges of the Research on Intimate Partner Violence and Sexualized Violence 20. Spatial Methods in Healthcare Research 21. Methods of Transnational Organisational and Economic Research 22. Methods for Studying the Spatial Dimension of Global Digital Infrastructures 23. Digitalization, Political Participation and Transformation in the Global South 24. Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Community-Oriented Approaches in Human Behavior 25. Spatial Methods in Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability 26. Methodological Overlaps, Misunderstandings and Conflicts between Spatial Planning and Social Sciences Submission of Abstracts If you are interested in presenting a paper in any SMUS India 2023 session, please submit an English-language abstract containing the following information to SMUS India 2023 via the official conference website (https://forms.gle/cBfN9MCN3VzBRq3w6) until 13.10.2022. * Mention the Session Number and Name * Paper Title * Speakers (= name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliation(s)) * 1,000-2,000 Word Abstract (= short description of the proposed talk. The abstract should explain which methodological problem is addressed, why this is relevant, how the paper refers to the session and what the general line of argument will be.) * Only one submission per individual will be entertained Please note that all sessions must adhere to the rules of session organization comprised in the RC33 statutes and GCSMUS Objectives (see below). Please note that you can give a maximum of two papers at the conference, including joint papers. The conference organizers will inform you if your proposed paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference. For further information, please see the conference website or contact the session organizers. Please also kindly forward this call to anybody to whom it might be of interest. Best wishes, Program Chair Gaurav Raheja Nina Baur Convener, SMUS 2023 & SMUS Director & RC33 Past President SMUS India Lead Partner Technische Universität Berlin IIT Roorkee IIT Roorkee India Germany Shubhajit Sadhukhan Manish Kumar Asthana Co-Convener, SMUS 2023 Co-Convener, SMUS 2023 Department of Architecture & Planning Department of Humanities & Social Sciences IIT Roorkee IIT Roorkee India India Rules for Session Organization 1. There will be no conference fees. 2. The session organizers and speakers will be expected to provide for their own funding for accommodation and travel expenses. However, members of SMUS partner institutions will be able to apply for a travel grant via their home institution. In addition, there will be travel grants for non-SMUS scholars from India who present a paper or organize a session. Travel grants will be high enough to fully cover travel costs and living expenses. Details on the application process will follow in autumn this year. 3. The conference language is English. All papers therefore need to be presented in English. 4. All sessions have to be international: Each session should have speakers from at least two countries (exceptions will need good reasons). 5. Each paper must contain a methodological problem (any area, qualitative or quantitative). 6. There will be several calls for abstracts via the SMUS, RC33 and RN21 Newsletters. To begin with, session organizers can prepare a call for abstracts on their own initiative, then at a different time, there will be a common call for abstracts, and session organizers can ask anybody to submit a paper. 7. SMUS, RC33 and RN21 members may distribute these calls via other channels. SMUS members and session organizers are expected to actively advertise their session in their respective scientific communities. 8. Speakers can only have one talk per session. This also applies for joint papers. It will not be possible for A and B to present at the same time one paper as B and A during the same session. This would just extend the time allocated to these speakers. 9. Session organizers may present a paper in their own session. 10. Sessions will have a length of 90 minutes with a maximum of 4 papers or a length of 120 minutes with a maximum of 6 papers. Session organizers can invite as many speakers as they like. The number of sessions depends on the number of papers submitted to each session: for example, if 12 good papers are submitted to a session, there will be two sessions with a length of 90 minutes each with 6 papers in each session. 11. Papers may only be rejected for the conference if they do not present a methodological problem (as stated above), are not in English or are somehow considered by session organizers as not being appropriate or relevant for the conference. Session organizers may ask authors to revise and resubmit their paper so that it fits these requirements. If session organizers do not wish to consider a paper submitted to their session, they should inform the author and forward the paper to the local organizing team who will find a session where the paper fits for presentation. 12. Papers directly addressed to the conference organising committee, suggesting a session. The conference organizers will check the formal rules and then offer the paper to the session organizer of the most appropriate session. The session organizers will have to decide on whether or not the paper can be included in their session(s). If the session organizers think that the paper does not fit into their session(s), the papers has to be sent back to the conference organizing committee as soon as possible so that the committee can offer the papers to another session organizer.

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3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia & 3rd SMUS Conference India & , 20.‒26.02.2023 (Deadline: 13.10.2022) *** Please Circulate ***
by Baur, Nina, Prof. Dr. 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

Dear Colleagues, we hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India”, and take place on site at the Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) from Monday, February 20th, to Sunday, February 26th, 2023. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 13th, 2022. Please note that there are more than 75 fully funded travel scholarships for scholars from SMUS member institutions and other universities from the Global South. To check, if your university is a SMUS membership institution, please check: https://gcsmus.org/global-network/. If you are not sure that you will receive travel funding, please submit an abstract by the deadline – persons whose paper has been accepted will be informed about the procedure for application for travel funding after acceptance. About the Conference The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS or SMUS) together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European Sociology Association” (ESA) will organize a 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India”, and take place on site at the Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) from Monday, February 20th, to Sunday, February 26th, 2023. The six-day conference aims at continuing a global dialogue on methods and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social and spatial sciences (e. g. anthropology, area studies, architecture, communication studies, computational sciences, digital humanities, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). The conference programme will include keynotes, sessions and advanced methodological training courses. With this intention, we invite scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are interested in methodological discussions to suggest an abstract to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a methodological problem. Please find more information on the above institutions on the following websites: * Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS): https://gcsmus.org/ * ISA RC33: http://rc33.org/ * ESA RN21: www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods<http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods> * IIT Roorkee: https://www.iitr.ac.in/ If you are interested in getting further information on the conference and other GCSMUS activities, please subscribe to the SMUS newsletter by registering via the following website: https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews Conference Sessions: 1. Co-Production (of Knowledge) as Pathway to Decolonization of Knowledge in the Global South 2. Decolonizing Social Science Methodology 3. Fieldwork in the Global South – Shedding Light into the Black Box 4. Assessing the Quality of Survey Data 5. Comparing Social Survey Data Collected During a Global Crisis? The Uncertainty of Comparative Research 6. Culturally Sensitive Approaches – Potential New Directions of Empirical Research 7. Application of Quantitative Techniques in Spatial Analysis 8. Ethnography as Spatial-Temporal Method 9. Ethnographic Methods: Constructing Public Space 10. Visualizing Urban Nature: Ethnographic Approaches and Explorations 11. Multimodal Data Integration for Spatial Research 12. How Modality Matters? Learning from the Multiplicity of (Non-)Digital Discourse Analytical Approaches 13. Discourse Analysis, Historical Analysis and Biographical Research: Multi-Method Approaches in Interpretive Empirical Research 14. The Individual and the City: Urban Life Stories 15. Measuring Change in Urban Space(s) 16. The Longue Durée in the 21st-Century Social Sciences: Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Long-Term Social Processes 17. Design Methods for Accessibility and Social Inclusion 18. Applying Spatial Methods in Homelessness Studies: Methodological and Ethical Challenges 19. Analysing Hidden Forms of Violence and their Spatialities: The Methodological Challenges of the Research on Intimate Partner Violence and Sexualized Violence 20. Spatial Methods in Healthcare Research 21. Methods of Transnational Organisational and Economic Research 22. Methods for Studying the Spatial Dimension of Global Digital Infrastructures 23. Digitalization, Political Participation and Transformation in the Global South 24. Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Community-Oriented Approaches in Human Behavior 25. Spatial Methods in Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability 26. Methodological Overlaps, Misunderstandings and Conflicts between Spatial Planning and Social Sciences Submission of Abstracts If you are interested in presenting a paper in any SMUS India 2023 session, please submit an English-language abstract containing the following information to SMUS India 2023 via the official conference website (https://forms.gle/cBfN9MCN3VzBRq3w6) until 13.10.2022. * Mention the Session Number and Name * Paper Title * Speakers (= name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliation(s)) * 1,000-2,000 Word Abstract (= short description of the proposed talk. The abstract should explain which methodological problem is addressed, why this is relevant, how the paper refers to the session and what the general line of argument will be.) * Only one submission per individual will be entertained Please note that all sessions must adhere to the rules of session organization comprised in the RC33 statutes and GCSMUS Objectives (see below). Please note that you can give a maximum of two papers at the conference, including joint papers. The conference organizers will inform you if your proposed paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference. For further information, please see the conference website or contact the session organizers. Please also kindly forward this call to anybody to whom it might be of interest. Best wishes, Program Chair Gaurav Raheja Nina Baur Convener, SMUS 2023 & SMUS Director & RC33 Past President SMUS India Lead Partner Technische Universität Berlin IIT Roorkee IIT Roorkee India Germany Shubhajit Sadhukhan Manish Kumar Asthana Co-Convener, SMUS 2023 Co-Convener, SMUS 2023 Department of Architecture & Planning Department of Humanities & Social Sciences IIT Roorkee IIT Roorkee India India Rules for Session Organization 1. There will be no conference fees. 2. The session organizers and speakers will be expected to provide for their own funding for accommodation and travel expenses. However, members of SMUS partner institutions will be able to apply for a travel grant via their home institution. In addition, there will be travel grants for non-SMUS scholars from India who present a paper or organize a session. Travel grants will be high enough to fully cover travel costs and living expenses. Details on the application process will follow in autumn this year. 3. The conference language is English. All papers therefore need to be presented in English. 4. All sessions have to be international: Each session should have speakers from at least two countries (exceptions will need good reasons). 5. Each paper must contain a methodological problem (any area, qualitative or quantitative). 6. There will be several calls for abstracts via the SMUS, RC33 and RN21 Newsletters. To begin with, session organizers can prepare a call for abstracts on their own initiative, then at a different time, there will be a common call for abstracts, and session organizers can ask anybody to submit a paper. 7. SMUS, RC33 and RN21 members may distribute these calls via other channels. SMUS members and session organizers are expected to actively advertise their session in their respective scientific communities. 8. Speakers can only have one talk per session. This also applies for joint papers. It will not be possible for A and B to present at the same time one paper as B and A during the same session. This would just extend the time allocated to these speakers. 9. Session organizers may present a paper in their own session. 10. Sessions will have a length of 90 minutes with a maximum of 4 papers or a length of 120 minutes with a maximum of 6 papers. Session organizers can invite as many speakers as they like. The number of sessions depends on the number of papers submitted to each session: for example, if 12 good papers are submitted to a session, there will be two sessions with a length of 90 minutes each with 6 papers in each session. 11. Papers may only be rejected for the conference if they do not present a methodological problem (as stated above), are not in English or are somehow considered by session organizers as not being appropriate or relevant for the conference. Session organizers may ask authors to revise and resubmit their paper so that it fits these requirements. If session organizers do not wish to consider a paper submitted to their session, they should inform the author and forward the paper to the local organizing team who will find a session where the paper fits for presentation. 12. Papers directly addressed to the conference organising committee, suggesting a session. The conference organizers will check the formal rules and then offer the paper to the session organizer of the most appropriate session. The session organizers will have to decide on whether or not the paper can be included in their session(s). If the session organizers think that the paper does not fit into their session(s), the papers has to be sent back to the conference organizing committee as soon as possible so that the committee can offer the papers to another session organizer.

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