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Summer/ winter schools, workshops and conferences in computational social science 🫂

List of Summer/ Winter Schools, Workshops and Conferences in Computational Social Science

Computational Social Science is a fast growing field 🚀 that brings multiple disciplines together. Summer and winter schools are a great place to find like-minded people, exchange ideas, learning new things from experts and have a great time together (and make new friends). This community-driven repository attempts to list all upcomming events so that everyone has the chance to attend.

But it needs the help of the CSS community: Please send me a message (📧 mail or 🐥 twitter) or open pull requests ⬆️ for any summer and winter schools you come across! Thank you very much for your support ❤️

2025 Conferences and Workshops

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline
COMPTEXT tbd tbd tbd tbd
PolMeth London LSE 7&8 April November 30th 2024
ECPR "Text-as-Data Analysis in Political Science: Unlocking Political Insights with New Research Tools" Charles University, Prague Steffen Eckhard & Michal Parízek End of May November 21st
EPSA 2025 Pol Methods Carlos III University, Madrid EPSA 26 - 28 June 2025 December 12th

2025 Summer/ Winter Schools

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline Fee
IPSA-USP SUMMER SCHOOL (e.g. Causal Inference) University of São Paulo Political Science Department (University of São Paulo) January 13th to 31st, 2025 November 8th, 2024 N/A
Oxford Spring School in Advanced Social Methods (w/ text analysis) Oxford DPIR tbd tbd tbd
Oxford LLMs Social Science Oxford tbd tbd tbd tbd

2024 Conferences and Workshops

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline
COMPTEXT Amsterdam Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden, Roan Buma, Alona O. Dolinsky, Johannes Gruber, Kasper Welbers, Miklós Sebők 2-4 May 2024 Wednesday 20 December 2023
Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop Online Monash University, the University of Warwick, and ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics tbd 2024 Aug 8
Speaker Series on text-as-data Online Nicolai Berk, Christopher Klamm, Verena Kunz, Clint Claessen Oct-Feb 2023/2024 N/A
6th workshop on NLP+CSS at NAACL 2024 Mexico Dallas Card, Anjalie Field, Dirk Hovy and Katie Keith June 21-22, 2024 March 24th, 2024
Speaker Series winter term on text-as-data Online Nicolai Berk, Christopher Klamm, Verena Kunz, Clint Claessen Oct-Dec 2024 N/A
Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2024) Vienna Gabriella Lapesa, Christopher Klamm, Indira Sen, Ines Rehbein and Simone Ponzetto September June

2024 Summer/ Winter Schools

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline Fee
Oxford Spring School PolSci (with Text Analysis, etc.) Oxford/Online University of Oxford Monday 8 to Friday 12 April 2024 Sunday, 10 March 2024 ca. 1000€
Radbound summer school (with Text Analysis, etc.) Radbound N/A N/A April 1st €699/€1049
Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy Barabasi et al. May 13-17, 2024 February 25th, 2024 600€
EADM Summer School N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
IPSA-NUS Methods School (with Quantitative Text Analysis etc.) University of Singapore Henry et al. July 1-12, 2024 March 31, 2024 S$800-S$1,800
28th Summer School in Social Science Methods Lugano MethodsNET 8-23 August 2024 14th of July 700 Swiss Francs (students, in-person)
Wealth Data Science Summer/Winter School 2024 Bremen Hilke Brockmann, Jan Lorenz, Murray Leibrandt, Vimal Ranchhod 1-12 July March 25 € 1080
Oxford LLMs Social Science Oxford Zubok et al. Sept 23-27 July 29 free

2023 Conferences and Workshops

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline
Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop Online Monash University, the University of Warwick, and ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics April 3 and 4, 2023 January 25, 2023 AoE
Speaker Series on text-as-data Online Nicolai Berk, Christopher Klamm, Verena Kunz, Clint Claessen March-June 2023 N/A
Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2023) Ingolstadt, Germany / Hybrid Gabriella Lapesa, Christopher Klamm, Theresa Gessler, Valentin Gold and Simone Ponzetto September 22, 2023 June 15, 2023
TADA 2023: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data University of Massachusetts Amherst O’Connor et al. November 9-10, 2023 August 4
Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop Online Monash University, the University of Warwick, and ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics September 18 - 19, 2023 AoE August 6
3-Day Workshop on Language Models for Social Sciences University of Oxford maksim.zubok@nuffield.ox.ac.uk 27-29 September 15 Aug 2023

2023 Summer/ Winter Schools

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline
Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science world N/A June- August 2023 March 2023
Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology UBasel Theresa Gessler, Sophia Hunger, Denise Traber and Jana Boukemia 16-22 July 2023 March 27
BIGSSS Summer Schools in Computational Social Science Bremen N/A July 3 – 12, 2023 Mai 2023

2022 Conferences and Workshops

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline
4th Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop online Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich) and Sascha O. Becker (Monash U & U Warwick) Sept 1st and 2nd 2022 N/A
4th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2022 Dublin James Cross May Fall
LREC 2022 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political sciences (PoliticalNLP) @ LREC 2022 Marseille Haithem Afli 24 June 2022 18th of April 2022
ParlaCLARIN III Workshop on Creating, Enriching and Using Parliamentary Corpora @ LREC 2022 Marseille Darja Fišer, Franciska de Jong, Maria Eskevich & Jakob Lenardič 20 June 2022 25 March 2022
8th International Conference on Computational Social Science Chicago, IL Harper Center of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago July 19-22 February 25
3rd MWZ Text-as-Data Workshop online ETH Zurich and Warwick CAGE February 17th-18th January 16th
2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis Potsdam, Germany Ines Rehbein, Christopher Klamm, Simone Ponzetto & Gabriella Lapesa 12.09.2022 31.06.2022
Politis and Computational Social Science hybrid/ Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) co-chaired by David Lazer and Sarah Shugars, with support from Stefan McCabe, Burak Ozturan, Alexi Quintana, Alyssa Smith, Ata Uslu, and Allison Wan June 16-18, 2022 April 29, 2022
21th Annual Conference on New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data hybrid Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island, New York City October 6-7, 2022 July 18, 2022

2022 Summer/ Winter Schools and Tutorials

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline
2nd Virtual GESIS Spring Seminar on "Simulation Techniques in the Social Sciences" Online GESIS March 7-25 N/A
BIGSSS-CSS Summer School on Social Cohesion Groningen University of Groningen July 4-15 March 27, 2022
Computational Methods Workshops 2022 Online/ Zurich Computational Methods Working Group tbd tbd

2022 Speakers Series and Reading Groups

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates
3rd Text-as-data Reading Group w/ invited speakers online Nicolai Berk, Christopher Klamm and Clint Claessen 12.04.-19.07.2022, Tuesday, 5-6pm
4th Text-as-data Reading Group w/ invited speakers online Nicolai Berk et al. tbd, Tuesday, 5-6pm
MZES Methods Bites hybrid MZES Uni Mannheim 06/2022-12/2022 winter term, Wednesday, 13:45-15:15

Past events

2021 Method Workshops

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline Fee
Workshop on Automated Image Analysis online University of Zurich & ETH 5 November 2021 NA Free

2021 Conferences

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Abstract/ Paper Deadline Fee
11th Annual Conference on New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data hybrid University of Michigan October 28-29 August 20 N/A
Fourth annual Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) online Northeastern University August 9 – 13 N/A 20$
7th International Conference on Computational Social Science online ETH 27-31 July N/A Student: 50€, Regular: 100€
2nd Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop online Monash University, The University of Warwick, & ETH 30-31 August N/A Free

2021 Summer and Winter Schools

Name and Link Location Organizer Dates Deadline Fee
ESSA-BEHAVE Online Summer School 2021 on “Agent-Based Modelling for Social Scientists” online University of Brescia & University of Milan 30 August-10 September 2021 30 June YES, e.g., Student: 400€-800
10th Summer School in Survey Methodology online GESIS 28.07 - 20.08.2021 August Course: Students: 160 €, Academics: 240 €
DATA SCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL online Hertie School Data Science Lab July 9-30 July Free
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis online Essex Summer School 11-23 July N/A £100
The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science online 🌍 June & July N/A Free
CIVICA DATA SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES online Hertie School, LSE, CEU, Bocconi University, SciencesPro, EUI February to October 2021 N/A Free

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