Sequence Analysis Association

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 Emanuela Struffolino and Carla Rowold.

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.

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2026 Autumn Program

There will be about one session each month:
 
September 24 2026, 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:
Emanuela Struffolino and Hannah Zagel, Mapping pathways of reproduction polices across time and space: a sequence analysis application
Ottavio Khalifa, Clustering methods for categorical time series and sequences : a scoping review
 
October 22 2026, 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:
Martin Russell, Segregated careers in UK-Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs): An intersectional study of progression and turnover
Second presentation to be confirmed
 
November 19 2026, 4 pm CET
Subject: Methodological webinar.
Description: Special methods webinar on multichannel sequence analysis
Speakers:
Presentations by Tim F. Liao, Raffaella Piccarreta, Gilbert Ritschard: good practices, advances, and open issues.
 

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