This workshop explores the areas of social networks, historical sociology, and the modeling of time in sociology. It is intended as a venue for faculty and graduate students, both from Columbia and beyond, to present work in progress. It should provide a space for the discussion of innovative quantitative methods, as well as original theoretical insights on a range of topics including networks and network dynamics, the sociological analysis of events, narratives and careers, and more specific issues in historical sociology. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.

Spring 2012 Schedule

Paolo Parigi (Stanford University)
From Networks to Parties during the Era of Andrew Jackson (1820-1840)
Monday, April 30, 2012

Matthew J. Salganik (Princeton University)
Generalized Network Scale-Up Method for Estimating the Size of Hard-to-Count  Groups: Evidence from Brazil and Rwanda
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Olav Sorenson (Yale University)
Picking a (Poor) Partner: A Relational Perspective on Acquisitions
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Fabien Accominotti (Columbia University)
Tracking Strategic Interaction through Formal and Statistical Network Modeling: The Dynamics of Featurings in Rap Music
Monday, March 5, 2012

Fall 2011 Schedule

Emily Erikson (Yale University)
Formalism and Relationalism in Social Network Analysis
Monday, November 14, 2011

Frank Neffke (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Networks of Skill Similarities and Diversification Patterns of Firms and Regions
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Spring 2011 Schedule

Quentin Van Doosselaere (Bregal Investments)
Equity Networks Dynamics in Medieval Genoa , 1150-1350
Monday, May 2, 2011

Ron Breiger (University of Arizona)
Variable Fields: Dual Network Modeling of Cases and Variables
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Delia Baldassarri (Princeton University)
Centralized Sanctioning and Legitimate Authority in Public Goods Provision: Evidence from a 'Lab-in-the-Field' Experiment in Uganda (with Guy Grossman)
Monday, April 11, 2011

Kinga Makovi (Columbia University)
Being Loved or Being Acclaimed? – How Does Status Rivalry (Not) Bias Performance?
Monday, March 21, 2011

Fall 2010 Schedule

Annette Fasang (Yale University)
Parental Social Capital and Educational Attainment
Monday, November 22, 2010

Charles Kirschbaum (Insper Institute for Education and Research)
Jazz Styles Emergence within Networks of Musicians
Monday, October 25, 2010

Philipp Leifeld (Max Planck Institute and University of Konstanz)
Social Network Analysis and the Analysis of Policy Debates
Monday, October 11, 2010

Spring 2010 Schedule

Fabien Accominotti (Columbia University)
Models of Reciprocity in Gift-Giving and Rap Music
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Lucas Graves (Columbia University)
New Hubs: Annotation, Cross-Pollination, and the New Ecology of Journalism
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Katherine Giuffre (Colorado College)
The Social Networks of Isolated Geniuses over Time
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Eric Johnson (Princeton University)
Turning Points and Transitions: Organizational Trajectories, Leadership Succession, and the Labor Market for Pastors in Two Denominations
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Olav Velthuis (University of Amsterdam)
The Globalization of Markets for Contemporary Art: Why Local Ties Remain Dominant in Amsterdam and Berlin
Friday, March 5, 2010

Fall 2009 Schedule

Anna Mitschele (Columbia University)
Community, Identity and Solidarity: Relations of Accusation in Scottish Witch Hunts
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Olivier Godechot (EHESS and CNRS)
Networks in Academic Life: Dissertation Committees at EHESS, 1975-2000
Thursday, November 6, 2009

Joscha Legewie (Columbia University)
The Causal Effect of Events on the Salience of Symbolic Boundaries
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Claire Lemercier (ENS and CNRS)
The Structure and Dynamics of Migration Patterns in Nineteenth-Century France (with Paul-André Rosental)
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Organization

• Peter Bearman, Organizer
  
• Philipp Brandt, Coordinator
  
• Mathijs de Vaan, Coordinator
  
• Fabien Accominotti, Coordinator