7th Annual Conference on Experimental Sociology

General information

The 7th Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology (ACES) will take place for the first time in Germany, hosted by Leipzig University from August 27-29, 2025. The venue is located at the Bibliotheca Albertina.

ACES provides a platform for the presentation, exchange, and discussion of experimental research in sociology and the broader social sciences. At its core, experimental research seeks to identify causal social mechanisms by contrasting a treatment group with a comparable untreated control group. This approach spans various research designs, including laboratory experiments, survey experiments, field experiments, and natural experiments, where data collection happens ex post.

We invite sociologists and scholars of related fields to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words for a presentation on the ACES 2025 until April 6, 2025. Please send your abstract to soziologie-tagung@uni-leipzig.de.

Beside the regular presentation and a possible poster session this year's edition of ACES will include keynote speeches given by Sonja Vogt (University of Lausanne) and Andreas Diekmann (ETH Zurich and Leipzig University). Furthermore, a panel discussion on the connecting lines between experimental research and Computational Social Science will be held. Eva Vriens (National Research Council of Italy) will moderate the discussion. 

 

When:
27 August - 29 August 2025

 

Where:
Institute of Sociology / Bibliotheca Albertina (Leipzig University)
Beethovenstraße 15 / Beethovenstr. 6, 04107 Leipzig, Germany 

 

Local Organizers and Program Committee:
Roger Berger (Institute of Sociology, Leipzig University)
Heinz Leitgöb (Institute of Sociology, Leipzig University)

 

Program Committee:
Davide Barrera (University of Turin)
Johanna Gereke (University of Mannheim)
Eva Vriens (National Research Council of Italy)