The CSDC organizes seminars for graduate students throughout the year. These seminars are meant to expose students to new techniques or resources and strengthen their existing skills.
Academic Year September 2018 – August 2019
| Subject | Presenter | Date & Time | Location |
| The Pathways to Prosperity Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities of a National Partnership on Immigration | Victoria Esses (University of Western Ontario) | 4pm – 6pm, October 18, 2018 | Room D-427, Marie-Victorin Building, Université de Montréal |
| Why Replications Do Not Fix the Reproducibility Crisis: A Model and Evidence from a Large-Scale Vignette Experiment | James Druckman (Northwestern University) | 11am – 12pm November 2, 2018 | Room C-4019, Lionel Groulx Building, Université de Montréal |
Academic Year September 2017 – August 2018
Academic Year September 2016 – August 2017
Academic Year September 2015 – August 2016
| Subject | Presenter | Date & Time | Location |
| CSDC Methods Seminar: Advanced issues in cross-national multilevel research: tests for harmful multicollinearity, and tests for influential cases | Prof. Dr. Tom van der Meer (University of Amsterdam) | 9am – 12pm, May 13, 2016 | Room 430, 3610 McTavish, McGill University |
| Investigating the psychological processes behind political attitudes | Prof. Dr. Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University) | 10am – 12pm, February 19, 2016 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| CSDC Methods School | Alexandre Blanchet (UdeM), Chris Chhim (McGill), Jean-Philippe Gauvin (UdeM), Alexandre Morin-Chassé (UdeM), Eric Guntermann (UdeM), and Charles Tessier (ULaval) | January 7-8, 2016 | Room 230, Ferrier Building, McGill University |
| The Challenge of Political Text-as-Data | Arthur Spirling (NYU) | 11:00am – 1:00 pm, November 13, 2015 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
Academic Year September 2014 – August 2015
| Subject | Presenter | Date & Time | Location |
| Field experiments and randomized controlled trials: practical issues of design | Prof. Peter John (University College London) | 9:30-11:30 April 23rd 2015 | Room 517 Leacock Building McGill University |
| Multilevel Bayesian Models | Eric Guntermann (Université de Montréal) | 10:00-12:00 February 20th 2015 | Room 927, Leacock Building McGill University |
| Practical Aspects of Content Analysis | Will Lowe (The University of Mannheim) | 8:30-11:30 February 10th 2015 | Room 233 Education Building McGill University |
| Physiological Response Equipment | Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan) | 9:00-12:00 January 30th 2015 | Room 927 Leacock Building McGill University |
| Causal Inference Using Propensity Score(2) | Kosuke Imai (Princeton University) | 11:45-1:00 October 29th 2014 | 3150 Jean Brillant, Room C-4145 Université de Montréal |
| Causal Inference Using Propensity Score(1) | Kosuke Imai (Princeton University) | 1:30-3:30 October 27th 2014 |
Pav. De-Koninck – 5325 Université Laval |
Academic Year September 2013 – August 2014
| Subject | Presenter | Date & Time | Location |
| Workshop on Web Scraping | Radhika Saksena (University of Princeton) | 9:00am – 5:00 pm, June 3-6 2014 | Room 437, Education Building, McGill University |
| Introduction to bayesian statistics | Jean-Philippe Gauvin (UdeM) and Charles Tessier (U Laval) | 2:00pm – 4:00 pm, April 24 2014 | Room 429, Leacock Building, McGill University |
| Analyzing Political Text | Will Lowe (Mannheim), Krzysztof Pelc (McGill), Eric Guntermann (UdeM), Sven-Oliver Proksch (McGill), Stuart Soroka and Mark Daku (McGill) | 12:30pm – 15:30 pm, March 31 2014 | Room 406, McGill University |
| Scaling Techniques in Political Science | Eric Guntermann (Université de Montréal) | 10:00am – 12:00 pm, March 14 2014 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| Introduction to Latex | Jean-Philippe Gauvin (Université de Montréal) | 1:00 – 3:00 pm, January 30 2014 | 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, local C-9019, Université de Montréal |
| Establishing causation using multiple methods | Dr. Marc Hetherington (Vanderbilt University) | 10:30 – 12:30 pm, January 24 2014 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| Field experiments in Political Science | Dr. Donald Green (Columbia University) | 11:00 – 12:30 pm, January 10 2014 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| R and R Graphics | Eric Guntermann (Université de Montréal) | 10:30 – 12:30 pm, December 13 2013 | Room 429, Leacock Building, McGill University |
| Issues in Field Experiments | Dr. James Lo (University of Mannheim) | 10:30 – 12:30 pm, November 28 2013 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| STATA Workshop | Jean-Philippe Gauvin (Université de Montréal) | Tuesday November 19 2013, 1:00 – 3:00 pm | C-3134 Pavillon Jean-Brillant, Université de Montréal |