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Conferences, Workshops, Talks on Computational Social Science

GESIS promotes the formation and networking of an interdisciplinary Computational Social Science community by organizing international conferences, symposia, and workshops. Among those are the 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2017) and the 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-16), the European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, the KickOff Workshop International Research in Computational Social Science and many more.

Upcoming event:


CHOC2023 – Conference on Harmful Online Communication
November 16–17 2023, in Cologne


Computational Social Science Network Google Group

GESIS has established a CSSNET Google Group open to all scientists who are interested in Computational Social Science as a digital forum for exchanging ideas, offering jobs, announcing events, and keeping in touch. Researchers from all disciplines are most welcome to join: https://groups.google.com/g/CSSNET

CSS Seminar

The GESIS Computational Social Science (CSS) Seminar is a monthly event for expert exchange on data science and social analytics (conducted in English). It is held at GESIS, Cologne (Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne) and open to all interested. Please find more information on past and upcoming talks here.