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 on work-in-progress. It is organized by Tim F. Liao.
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).
When speakers agree, webinars are recorded and the recordings remain available to SAA members during one month after the webinar. There is no archive of the recordings.
Work-in-progress webinars are not recorded.
2025 Spring Program
There will be about one session each month:
January, Thursday, 16, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Ricardo Xavier Cevallos Salgado, Social sciences as an investment. Pathways crossing a social scientific training in Swedish higher education.
Jonathan Ahuna, Opening the Black Box of Decision Processes in Mental Health Clinical Supervision.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Jonathan Ahuna, Opening the Black Box of Decision Processes in Mental Health Clinical Supervision.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
2024 Autumn Program
There will be about one session each month:
September, Thursday, 19, 4 pm CET
Title: Analyzing Categorical Sequences with the R package ctsfeatures
Speakers:
Ángel López Oriona and José A. Vilar Fernández,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2024.102233
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2024.102233
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
October, Thursday, 17, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Kun Lee, Convergence or continued stratification? Late working lives and retirement trajectories in Germany.
Max Reichert, The critical juncture of childbirth: disentangling the impact of leave policy and level of education in 20 European countries.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Max Reichert, The critical juncture of childbirth: disentangling the impact of leave policy and level of education in 20 European countries.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
November, Thursday, 14, 4 pm CET (to be confirmed)
Subject: Methods.
Description: Two recently published methodological papers.
Speakers:
Leonhard Unterlerchner, Back to the Features. Investigating the Relationship Between Educational Pathways and Income Using Sequence Analysis and Feature Extraction and Selection Approach. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0021
Raffaella Piccarreta, Identifying and Qualifying Deviant Cases in Clusters of Sequences: The Why and The How. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-023-09682-3
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Raffaella Piccarreta, Identifying and Qualifying Deviant Cases in Clusters of Sequences: The Why and The How. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-023-09682-3
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
December, Thursday, 12, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Claus Hansen, Using sequence analysis in the description and analysis of short-term sickness absence – a longitudinal study.
Han Liu, Power Dynamics in Interracial Dating Relationships.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Han Liu, Power Dynamics in Interracial Dating Relationships.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
December, Thursday, 19, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Chengming Han, Changed Institution, Changed Work: Economic Reform and Work Sequences Across Cohorts in China.
Yuqi Liang, Sorting or Exiting? Gendered Divergences in Career Paths of Computer Science Graduates in the U.S. and India.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Yuqi Liang, Sorting or Exiting? Gendered Divergences in Career Paths of Computer Science Graduates in the U.S. and India.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
January, Thursday, 16, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Ricardo Xavier Cevallos Salgado, Social sciences as an investment. Pathways crossing a social scientific training in Swedish higher education.
Jonathan Ahuna, Opening the Black Box of Decision Processes in Mental Health Clinical Supervision.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Jonathan Ahuna, Opening the Black Box of Decision Processes in Mental Health Clinical Supervision.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
2024 Spring Program
There will be about one session each month:
January, Thursday, 25, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Multidomain/Multichannel Sequence Analysis.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation, with a focus on multidomain/multichannel analysis.
Speakers:
Mustafa Firat, Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes.
Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
March, Thursday, 14, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Clustering and complexity measures.
Description: The workshop features two
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation, with a focus on clustering and complexity measures.
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation, with a focus on clustering and complexity measures.
Speakers:
Laura Altweck, The Influence of Life Courses in Young Adulthood on Subjective Well-being: A Cross-European Perspective.
Stefanie Halm, Linking Life Courses: Analyzing the Effects of Partnership, Reproduction, and Housing on Mental and Physical Subjective Health.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Stefanie Halm, Linking Life Courses: Analyzing the Effects of Partnership, Reproduction, and Housing on Mental and Physical Subjective Health.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
April, Thursday, 25, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on SA research design.
Description: The workshop features two
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation.
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Dimitris Pavlopoulos & Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, Mixture Hidden Markov Models (MHMM): a Modelling Alternative.
Kun Lee, Social Stratification of Retirement Trajectories in Germany after Welfare Reforms.
Martin Gädecke, From Planning to Parenthood: an Exploration of Fertility Intentions and Realisation in Life Course using Sequence Analysis.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
May, Thursday, 16, 4 pm CET
Subject: Missing data in sequences.
Description: The workshop focuses on imputation of missing data in sequences.
Speakers:
Kevin Emery, seqimpute: An R Library for Visualizing and Imputing Missing Data in Sequences.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430