This page is updated regularly with news about conference opportunities, outside of annual professional conferences.
Coming 2026 Events & Deadlines
Call for Proposal: Kinship Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities (01/21)
Family structures, broadly defined, have experienced radical changes around the globe. This conference will bring together scholars from various disciplines to consider how large-scale sociodemographic shifts reshape family systems within and beyond the household and how these changes contribute to, reproduce, or mitigate social and economic inequality. Whereas family research has long centered on partnerships and co-residential nuclear kin, studies of kinship emphasize the often-overlooked importance of extended and non-co-resident relatives such as grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other ‘chosen kin.’
🗓️ Event Dates: Jun 8-9 at MPIDR, Rostock, Germany
🗓️ Submission Deadline: January 21, 2026
Posted 1/14/2026
Call for Proposals: Summer Health Politics and Policy Conference at MIT (01/23)
🗓️ Submission Deadline: January 23, 2026
Posted 1/13/2026
Call for Proposals: BARI Conference 2026: Boston’s 10th Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit (01/28)
The Boston Area Research Initiative, a forum for community leaders, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to share how they leverage the tools of research, scholarship, and design with and for Greater Boston’s communities.
🗓️ Submission Deadline: The deadline for submitting a short (< 350-word) proposal is Wednesday, January 28, 2026, by 4:59 PM. Civic research that features innovation, collaboration, interdisciplinary approaches, and action is strongly encouraged for submission.
🗓️ Event Dates: The 2026 BARI Conference will take place on May 8, 2026, at Northeastern University.
Posted 1/13/2026
Heidelberg Health Economics Summer School (Sept 29 – Oct 2, 2026)
We are delighted to announce the Core Module of our highly acclaimed Heidelberg Health Economics Summer School –– which will take place in Wiesbaden / Germany, from Tuesday, September 29 to Friday, October 02, 2026.
The Summer School Core Module will offer a unique opportunity in 2026 for an in-depth exchange with international thought leaders in the theory, practice, and evolution of using health economic evaluations to inform health technology assessments (HTAs).
Under the scientific lead of Prof. Michael Schlander (Heidelberg, Germany) and Dr. Sean Tunis (Baltimore, Maryland), a faculty of experienced scholars, health economists, health care policy makers, ethicists, patient advocates, and HTA representatives from Europe and North America will gather to discuss in an intimate setting the logic of cost effectiveness, the use and misuse of cost effectiveness thresholds, and recent attempts to (better) integrate the experience of patients and the citizens´ perspective in health economics and HTA – against the backdrop of recent geopolitical developments and the challenges posed by OMPs, ATMPs and “precision medicine”.
Interested in participation?
Please visit the official Summer School 2026 Website. Check for previous Summer School programs from years 2024 / 2025. The number of participants will be limited, as we will strive for a unique 2:1 ratio between attendants and faculty. Against this background, we would like to offer you the opportunity to save your place already now – by way of a non-binding early-bird reservation via mail => academy@innoval-hc.com (alternatively by phone: +49 (0) 611 / 4080 789 10 or facsimile: +49 (0) 611 / 4080 789 99
🗓️ Submission Deadline: Opening Soon
Posted 12/9/2025
The Society’s 15th annual conference will take place on Wednesday 1st – Friday 3rd July 2026, hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Pre-conference workshops will take place on Tuesday 30th June 2026.
The overall topic of the conference is Structure and Change in Critical Times: Implications for the Life Course. The aim of the event is to generate and exchange information on comparable data resources with information of early predictors on later outcomes across different domains and across different life stages. We welcome conference submissions from all areas of longitudinal and life course studies: sociological, psychological, epidemiological, economic, social developmental and ageing processes and functioning within and across life course stages; methods and findings of cohort or panel studies and record linkage, household, and income dynamics; intergenerational transfers and returns to learning; gene environment interactions; ‘mixed’, and comparative methods; innovative methodology in design, measurement, data management, analysis and research practice (quantitative and qualitative).
🗓️ Event Dates: Jul 1-3 (pre-conference workshops on Jun 30) at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
🗓️ Submission Deadline: February 13, 2026
Posted 1/14/2026
Call for submissions: ASA Annual Meeting 2026 – sessions sponsored by the Population Section (02/25)
Abstract/paper submissions for the ASA Annual Meeting 2026 are now open. We would like to highlight sessions sponsored by the ASA Population Section:
· Advances in Social Science Genomics (co-sponsored by Biology and Society Section)
· Climate Change and Population Health
· Demography of Housing Inequality and Instability
· Families and Migration (co-sponsored by Sociology of the Family Section)
· Fertility: Open Call Paper Session
· Morbidity and Mortality: Open Call Paper Session
· Politics and Population Processes
· Sociology of Reproduction
· Sociology of Population Section Roundtables
🗓️ Event Dates: August 7-11 in New York City, NY
🗓️ Submission Deadline: February 25
Posted 1/14/2026
Call for Précis – Junior Theorists Symposium 2026 (03/20)
The 20th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS) is now open for submissions. The JTS is a conference featuring the work of emerging sociologists engaged in theoretical work, broadly defined. Sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA, the conference has provided a platform for the work of early-career sociologists since 2005. We especially welcome submissions that broaden the practice of theory beyond its traditional themes, topics, and disciplinary function. We invite submissions from all substantive areas of sociology, and encourage papers that are works-in-progress and would benefit from the discussions at JTS.
🗓️ Event Dates: The symposium will be held as an in-person event on Friday, August 7 prior to the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting in New York City.
We invite all ABD graduate students, recent PhDs, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2022 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should:
- Include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument
- Not be based on a paper under review or forthcoming at a journal
- Have all identifying information removed
Successful précis from last year’s symposium can be viewed here.
As in previous years, there is no pre-specified theme for the conference. Papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants’ areas of interest and expertise.
This year’s discussants are:
- Ashley Mears (University of Amsterdam)
- Josh Pacewicz (Brown University)
- Ali Meghji (University of Cambridge)
Yuchen Yang (University of Birmingham), winner of the 2025 Junior Theorist Award, will deliver a keynote address.
Finally, the symposium will conclude with an after-panel titled “Data as Theory, Theory as Data” featuring contributions from Allison Pugh (John Hopkins University), Tukufu Zuberi (University of Pennsylvania), Theresa Rocha Beardall (University of Washington), and Ian Kennedy (University of Illinois Chicago).
This year’s symposium is organized by Selen Güler (CUNY Graduate Center) and Tania Aparicio (Teachers College, Columbia University). You can contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com with any questions.
By early April, JTS organizers will extend 9 invitations to present at JTS 2026, with each presenter matched to one of our 3 discussants. Please plan to share a full paper by July 10, 2026.
🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 20, 2026, 11:59pm EST
Posted 1/12/2026
2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference (01/30)
Title: Novel Data Linkages and Innovative Life Course Research
Enriching population data through data linkage creates novel data sources that can shed light on life course processes. Linking across time allows for the examination of transitions and trajectories, and linking to contextual information situates the experiences of individuals and populations in their environments. We are eager to compile a conference program that will showcase the variety of ways that data linkages can extend and enhance the utility of large-scale population data sources.
🗓️ Event Dates: July 22-23, 2026 | Minneapolis, MN & Online
🗓️ Submission Deadline: Abstract submissions open through January 30, 2026
Posted 1/12/2026