Conferences

The 5th Conference of the Academy of Sociology will take place at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from October 8 to 10, 2025. The theme of the conference is “Societal Challenges – Sociological Answers?”. It points to the challenges which today’s societies are facing, whether due to climate change, health epidemics, armed conflicts, economic upheavals, demographic ageing, migratory movements, multifaceted social inequalities, political populism, or public disinformation through, among other things, generative artificial intelligence. The conference draws attention to the problem-solving capacities of sociology and the transfer of evidence-based findings to the public and to policy makers. Apart from this, a wide range of topics will be discussed. Researchers in sociology and related disciplines with an analytical-empirical orientation are invited to present their current research. Please click here for the thematic outline in more detail.

Organization: Prof. Dr. Gunnar Otte and Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic (both JGU Mainz)

Abstract Submission: The call for papers will start in early 2025.

In recent years, replicability, reproducibility, robustness, and validity of empirical findings became a focal and intensively debated and researched topic in the behavioral and social sciences. Aside from an intensive scientific discourse, these dynamics caused demands for change and innovation. In response to these developments, the META-REP program is oriented towards three main (meta-)scientific research goals: (1) to define, describe, and assess “replicability” (the what-question), (2) to provide explanations for replication rates, heterogeneity and deviation in replication results (the why-question), and (3) to assess effectiveness and efficiency of strategies and change aimed at improving robustness (the how-question). The conference will provide a platform for the exchange of manifold replication-related research findings and innovation from all scientific disciplines (as well as science …

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From August 28-30, 2023, our 4th Academy of Sociology conference ‘Knowledge Societies’ will be held at the University of Bern (Switzerland), including:

• 20 thematic sessions with 80 talks given by recognized senior and junior researchers
• keynotes by Claudia Buchmann (Ohio State University), Jan Skopek (Trinity College Dublin), and Daniel Oesch (University of Lausanne)
• Best Dissertation  & Poster Award
• Apero (1st day) and conference dinner (2nd day)

The detailed program, list of speakers and abstracts is available here.

For registration please click here.

See you soon in Bern!

Knowledge is both a collective and an individual resource. Societal dynamics are driven by the accessibility and composition of knowledge at a macro level. As claimed by the prophets of the knowledge society, the way knowledge production takes place must therefore be of key interest to all societies.

Scholars who address our key topic from an analytical-empirical perspective in sociology, in particular, or from perspectives of other social sciences such as political science, demographic research, communication and data science, or the economics of education are invited to present and discuss their research in a stimulating format. In addition, we also very welcome talks on other topics (open sessions). The conference language is English.

The 4th AS Conference will be held in August, 28-30, 2023 at the University of Bern (Switzerland). See the call for papers at our conference website.

Three days of inspiring presentations and discussions, 400 registered participants and more than 80 talks given in thematic and special  sessions – this was our 2021 online AS conference on social cohesion. The AS board’s thanks goes to all presenters, invited speakers, discussants, chairs, to our partners from Kontanz Cluster of Excellence ‘The Politics of Inequality’ and the Resarch Institute Social Cohesion, and to the local organisers and staff members from Leipzig University.

AS Conference website and registration open since July 1st.

Over three days we will discuss new research on social cohesion in connection with the pandemic, social inequality, the climate crisis and other areas of society. In addition, we hear keynote lectures by renowned scientists from sociology, political science and health sciences.

Thanks to our cooperation partners, we can dispense with charging fees. Participation is therefore free of charge. However, prior registration is required.

Contemporary societies face challenges that require a high degree of social cohesion in terms of effectively addressing them. Some argue that societies are characterized by declining social cohesion, while others dispute this diagnosis. Here, sociology, based on rigorous theoretical considerations and empirical analysis, can help to clarify the theoretical mechanisms at work and develop methods to enable a better understanding of the social dynamics that hinder or promote social cohesion or division.

Click here for Call for Papers – deadline May 31^st, 2021.

Conference website is coming soon.

Digitalization is one of the megatrends of our century. The social sciences as well as the public have just begun to study and understand the deep structural changes that come with digitalization. This complex mixture of opportunities and risks in many areas of social life has been subject of our second AS conference located in Konstanz, Sep 25-27, 2019. We are grateful to the University of Konstanz, its Clusters of Excellence „Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour“ and „The Politics of Inequality” as well as the ETH Zürich for generous support.

Rewatch selected talks given by invited speakers on You Tube.

You can find the programme of the conference here.

The first conference of the Academy for Sociology took place between April 4th and 6th, 2018 on the topic “Growing inequality – divided society? Current Contributions of Empirical-Analytical Sociology” in München-Nymphenburg. 120 participants discussed over 60 lectures and posters (conference language German). We thank the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation for the generous support.
You can find the programme of the conference here (in German).