We are pleased to announce that the 4th Annual QCA Conference of the Americas (AQCA 2025) will be held at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on April 2-4, 2025. As always, AQCA provides a venue for the broad, cross-disciplinary community of QCA empirical researchers and methodologists, offering the opportunity to gather to present and receive feedback on current research projects, share theoretical and methodological developments, and discuss new directions in research practices.
We welcome proposals for both in-person paper presentations and in-person poster presentations. Please note that we are exclusively accepting in-person paper and poster presentations. However, you can continue to attend the conference virtually, as in previous years. The call for abstracts is now open and submissions are due on November 1st at https://conferencebit.com/qca-conference-of-the-americas-2025.
Please find complete details and updates on the conference website https://compasss.org/aqca.
A new feature of the AQCA conference is the possibility for participants to organize one-day workshops to be held on Wednesday, April 2, the same day that the QCA training events are held. These are self-organized workshops focused on a particular QCA-related topic (e.g., QCA in health research, studying time with QCA, etc.). If you are interested in offering one of these workshops, please contact the organizers. AQCA will provide minimal support in the form of a room to hold the workshop and similar logistic support, but funding and organizing are the responsibility of the workshop organizers. More information on the workshops is posted here: https://compasss.org/aqca/2024/05/02/introducing-aqca-workshops/
AQCA 2025 will continue to offer an engaging and informative forum, providing an opportunity to learn, network, and exchange knowledge. Regardless of your field or topic, if you use QCA and/or other configurational methods and set-analytic techniques or if you are considering using them, then AQCA is for you. Whether your work is empirical, methodological, or theoretical; whether you are a seasoned practitioner or have just discovered QCA, we hope that you will join us for three days of lively discussions, debates and community.
Sincerely,
The AQCA 2025 Organizing Committee
Thomas Greckhamer – Louisiana State University (local organizer)
Claude Rubinson – University of Houston-Downtown
Gary Goertz – University of Notre Dame
Peer Fiss – University of Southern California
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Peer Fiss
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA
(213) 821-1471
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