Webinar Series of the Sequence Analysis Association

The SAA is very glad to invite you to its webinar series, which proposes an online platform for people interested in the development of sequence analysis and related methods in the social sciences. The webinar offers presentations on newly published articles and submissions to the SAA conference that had to be canceled last June because of the pandemic.

Each webinar lasts for 60–75 minutes and brings together two 20-minute presentations on a similar topic followed by 5–10 minute discussions each. At the end, 15 minutes are reserved for a general discussion on the theme.

The webinar is organized online on an approximately monthly basis on Thursdays at 4 PM CET (Central European Time).

Program (updated regularly)

20^th May 2021 at 4 PM CET: Causal Inference and Sequence Analysis

• Career trajectories and cumulative wages: The case of temporary employment. Sophia Fauser, Department of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100529
• Combining propensity score matching and sequence analysis to study changes in professional and educational trajectories pre- and post- first childbirth. Sara Kalucza, Department of Sociology, Umeå universitet, Sweden.

Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430

Previous Webinars

29^th April 2021 at 4 PM CET: Multichannel Sequence Analysis

• Comparison of Two Approaches in Multichannel Analysis. Kevin Emery and André Berchtold, Centre LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. http://dx.doi.org/10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2020.85

• Life-course-sensitive analysis of group inequalities in old age: Combining Multichannel Sequence Analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. Carla Rowold, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

25^th March 2021 at 4 PM CET: Comparing groups of sequences

• Comparing Groups of Life-Course Sequences Using the Bayesian Information Criterion and the Likelihood-Ratio Test. Tim F. Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Anette E. Fasang, Humboldt University of Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081175020959401

Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2021/04/15/webinars-recording-comparing-groups-of-life-course-sequences-using-the-bayesian-information-criterion-and-the-likelihood-ratio-test-25th-march-2021/

10^th December 2020: Clustering of state sequence: alternative approaches

• Robust Typologies in Sequence Analysis: In search of guidelines and a more systematic approach. Stefan B. Andrade, VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Copenhagen
• Divisive Property-Based and Fuzzy Clustering for Sequence Analysis, Matthias Studer, University of Geneva, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95420-2_13
• Clustering Longitudinal Life-Course Sequences using Mixtures of Exponential-Distance Models. Keefe Murphy, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2020/12/11/webinars-recording-of-the-10th-december-2020/

19^th November 2020: Complexity measures and longitudinal indicators computed from sequence data

• Childhood family structure and complexity in partnership life courses. Nicole Hiekel, Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102400
• Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis. David Pelletier, Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02464-y

Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2020/11/26/webinars-recording-of-the-19th-november-2020/