Colleagues: Could you please circulate this call for presenters among your
networks? We are interested in participation from all social science and
adjacent interdisciplinary fields. Many thanks.  -Leanne

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The summer Methods Café series invites self-nominations for participants
from any social science or allied field. This brown-bag workshop series
intends to provide a non-technical introduction to a relatively new
analytical tool each week, with a focus on teaching the method in a
particular context and providing information about the tool’s potential
usefulness outside of that initial domain. Both faculty and graduate
students are welcome to present. More guidelines will be provided for
presenters once the schedule is finalized.

Topics of interest to the community include, but are not limited to:
Bayesian Process Tracing
Conjoint Experiments
Difference-in-Differences
Digital Qualitative Fieldwork Techniques
Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Machine Learning
Network Analysis
Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, and other forms of scaling
or dimension reduction
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA/fuzzy set)
Regression Discontinuity
Sensitive Issues in Survey Measurement
Survey Experiments

Other topics in qualitative methods are particularly welcome. Potential
participants may also propose their own topics, which will be accommodated
as best as possible (i.e., after avoiding substantial overlaps with other
topics). A paper or a paper/chapter excerpt is appreciated in advance of
the talk, but not necessary. We expect that such papers will serve as
examples during the talk rather than be the focus of the talk.

The Methods Café is currently scheduled for Fridays at 12 noon US eastern
time (GMT-4) from May 20 to August 12. If all the Friday slots fill, we
will open a second set of sessions on Tuesdays at 3-4 PM (preliminary time)
US eastern time.

This series is sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago Committee
on Social Science Research and Leanne C. Powner Coaching and Editing as
part of Summerpalooza ’22. Please direct inquires to Leanne at
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To volunteer to present, please complete the brief Google form at
https://forms.gle/JdnBLRUNp9S4B8Xh9.  It asks for a brief summary of your
topic and paper; an abstract or a few sentences is sufficient, as is a link
to a complete paper.

Please consider circulating this announcement among your networks to
diversify participation. Information about registering to attend workshops
is on the Methods Cafe page at
http://www.leannecpowner.com/pages/methodscafe.html . More Summerpalooza
'22 events, including free accountability groups and R-Learning-Groups, are
available at http://www.leannecpowner.com/pages/summer2022.html .

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