ECSR holds annual conferences. For the upcoming years, the conferences will take place at the following locations and dates:
ECSR Annual Conference 2026
The 2026 annual conference will take place in Dublin, 15–17 June 2026.
The theme of the 2026 conference is “Inequality by Design? Social Divides in an Age of Uncertainty”
For full details and updates, please visit: https://www.ecsr2026.net/
Former ECSR Annual Conferences
- “Demography and Social Inequality”, 3– 5 September 2025, Cologne.
- “Addressing Inequalities in Incomplete Revolutions”, 12-14 September 2024, Barcelona.
Conferences of the past unregistered ECSR network
- 2023, September, 18-20, Prague
- 2022, July 6-8, Amsterdam
- 2021, October 7-8, Full online format
- 2020, 2 July, reduced online format
Social Inequalities and Cohesion
Given the importance of conference meetings for early career scholars, the organizing team was hosting a one-day ECSR online conference on which early career scholars had the opportunity to present their work. - 2019, 12-14 September, Lausanne, Switzerland
Inequality over the Life Course - 2018, 29–31 October, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Europe - 2017, 31 August – 2 September 2017, Milan, Italy, Bocconi University:
Institutions, Inequality and Social Dynamics - 2016, 22–24 September, Oxford, England, Oxford University:
Stratification and Population Processes in European Societies - 2015, 10–12 September, Tallinn, Estonia, Tallinn University:
Cumulative Inequalities in the Life Course - 2014, 23–26 September, Berlin, Germany, WZB and Humboldt University:
Social Inequalities in Europe – On the Rise Again? - 2013, 14–16 October, Tilburg, the Netherlands, University of Tilburg:
Developments in Social Inequality and Social Cohesion