General Annual Conferences

ECSR holds annual conferences. For the upcoming years, the conferences will take place at the following locations and dates:

ECSR Annual Conference 2026

The 2025 annual conference will take place in Dublin, June 10^th-13^th , 2026

The 2025 annual conference will take place in Cologne, September 3^rd – 5^th , 2025.

The theme of the 2025 conference is “Demography and Social Inequality”.

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