Watch the opening lecture by Prof. Squazzoni at his Master class in Behavioural Sociology, 23 September 2020

By |2020-09-25T15:42:13+00:00September 25th, 2020|

This is the opening lecture given by Prof. Squazzoni at his Master class in Behavioural Sociology on 23 September 2020. It presents the course and illustrates the approach of behavioural sociology to social research. For any info, see here.

BEHAVE presented in an International Symposium on Social Simulation 2020, 6 August 2020, China

By |2020-08-06T09:51:39+00:00August 6th, 2020|

BEHAVE has been presented in an International Symposium on Social Simulation (ISSS 2020) organised by the Macro Agriculture Research Institute in Wuhan, China on 6 August 2020. Flaminio Squazzoni gave an keynote on the integration of behavioural experiments and agent-based modelling.

BEHAVE at the MeMa – Methodology Matters Seminar on “Mechanisms and Black Boxes”, University of Milan, 17 January 2020

By |2020-01-13T00:12:11+00:00January 13th, 2020|

Flaminio Squazzoni, BEHAVE's director, will discuss on mechanisms and explanation with Andrew Bennett (Georgetown University) and Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Deaborn) at the MeMa - Methodology Matters Seminar on 17 January 2020 at the University of Milan. Chaired by Prof. Maurizio Ferrera, the workshop will begin at 1.30PM in Room A, at the NASP Graduate [...]

Dimitry Rtischev (Gakushuin University, Tokyo and University of Trento, Italy) will talk on “Dissipation of productivity gains through socioeconomic competition: Comparing inflationary consequences of wage hikes and income grants” in an SPS-BEHAVE Seminar on 3 March 2020

By |2020-01-11T00:35:32+00:00December 21st, 2019|

Dimitry Rtischev (Gakushuin University, Tokyo and University of Trento, Italy) will talk on "Dissipation of productivity gains through socioeconomic competition: Comparing inflationary consequences of wage hikes and income grants" in an SPS-BEHAVE Seminar on 3 March 2020, 12.30-14.30 at the Seminar Room of the Deparment of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Discussant: Prof. [...]

Joshua M. Epstein will talk on “The philosophy and applications of agent-based computational modelling” at the BEHAVE Summer School on Sept 2, 9AM at the Collegio Lucchini, Brescia

By |2019-08-25T20:50:47+00:00August 25th, 2019|

Joshua M. Epstein (New York University) will give the inaugural lecture of the BEHAVE Summer School on ABM on Sept 2, 9AM 2019. He will talk on "The philosophy and applications of agent-based computational modelling". The talk will be recorded and published on the BEHAVE website after the school. Stay tuned! One of the pioneers [...]

Flaminio Squazzoni will give a seminar on peer review at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköpings University, Sweden) on 28 November 2019

By |2019-08-22T10:19:41+00:00August 23rd, 2019|

Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave head) will give a seminar on peer review at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköpings University, Sweden) on 28 November 2019. In the seminar, he will discuss the pros and cons of open peer review and transparency in periods of academic hypercompetition. The full programme of the IAS seminars is available here.

Flaminio Squazzoni will give an invited talk at a Symposium on ABM @ Theory Building at the INAS 2019 Conference

By |2019-03-05T11:52:36+00:00March 4th, 2019|

Flaminio Squazzoni (the Behave head) will give an invited talk at a Symposium on "Agent-Based Modelling for Theory Building in the Social Sciences, at the INAS 2019 Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 31 May-2 June 2019. The symposium is part of the 12th edition of the "International Network of Analytical Sociology" conference and aims [...]

Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave lead) talks on big data and social research at Collegio Lucchini in Brescia

By |2019-02-28T09:30:07+00:00February 27th, 2019|

Are big data challenging the way social research is performed? On 12 March at 6.30PM at Collegio Lucchini in Brescia, Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave Lead, University of Milan) will talk about challenges and prospects of big data for social research to a group of Master and PhD students. The talk is part of [...]