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 ❤️
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Name and Link | Location | Organizer | Dates | Deadline | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop on Automated Image Analysis | online | University of Zurich & ETH | 5 November 2021 | NA | Free |
| 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 |
| 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 |
- "Computational Sociolinguistics" (David Jurgens): https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Ouyqz-emtOI-ohwTOdOZpcjcEFtPPilhJDso8sjgByU/mobilebasic
- "APIs for social scientists: A collaborative review" (Paul C. Bauer, Jan Behnert, Lion Behrens, Chung-hong Chan, Lukas Isermann, Philipp Kadel, Melike N. Kaplan, Jana Klein, Barbara K. Kreis, Dean Lajic, Camille Landesvatter, Madleen Meier-Barthold, Ondrej Pekacek, Pirmin Stöckle, Malte Söhren): https://bookdown.org/paul/apis_for_social_scientists/
- Grimmer/ Roberts/ Stewart (2022): Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences. Princeton University Press.