Presentations, Workshops, and Short Courses

2022

• Rubinson, Claude and Roel Rutten. December 14, 2022. "Calibration: Explaining QCA’s Cornerstone." 10th International QCA Expert Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

• Claude Rubinson. October 4, 2022. "NCA-guided QCA." Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

• Claude Rubinson. April 22, 2022. "Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis." 101st Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. San Antonio, TX.

• Claude Rubinson and Elizabeth Lewis. April 22, 2022. “Commensuration of Visual Art: The Case of the Prairie Home.” 101st Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. San Antonio, TX.

2021

• December 16, 2021. Claude Rubinson and Jan Dul. “NCA-guided QCA: Strengthening QCA with NCA.” 9th International QCA Expert Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

• December 16, 2021. Claude Rubinson and Roel Rutten. “Concepts before Numbers: Teaching Effective Calibration Practices for QCA.” 5th International QCA Paper Development Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

• December 12, 2021. Miriam Bender, Marjory Williams, Maricela F. Cruz, and Claude Rubinson. “Developing innovative methodologies with a participatory approach to examine how the complex relationality between healthcare interventions, their contexts, and implementation strategies produce positive outcomes.” 14th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation. National Institutes of Health and AcademyHealth.

• December 7, 2021. Rubinson, Claude. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Cross-Disciplinary Methodology for Analyzing System Complexity." Universitas Sebelas Maret, Faculty of Engineering. Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.

• February 26, 2021. Rubinson, Claude. “Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Methodology for Studying Similarities and Differences.” Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

• January 26, 2021. Dul, Jan and Claude Rubinson. NCA and QCA Specialized Webinar. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

2020

• November 23, 2020. Rutten, Roel and Claude Rubinson. “Ontology and Epistemology of Calibration and Measurement: What the @!?&# do 0.0, 0.5, and 1.0 Actually Mean?” 8th International QCA Expert Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

2019

• December 12, 2019. "QCA Software" International QCA Young Researchers Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• November 7, 2019. "Rediscovering Ousterhout's Dichotomy in the 21st Century while Developing and Deploying Software for Set-Theoretic Empirical Analysis: From R to Python/Qt to OCaml and Tcl/Tk." 26th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference. Houston, TX.
• October 29, 2019. "Introduction to the UNIX Environment: Computing as Praxis." ACM-UHD. University of Houston-Downtown: Houston, TX.
• October 3, 2019. "Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Methodology for Studying Similarities and Differences." Social Sciences Lecture Series. Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX.
• May 22, 2019. "Visualization Options for QCA." 2nd International QCA Summer Worshops. Antwerp Management School: Antwerp, Belgium

2018

• November 28, 2018. "Contextual Factors Affecting the Success of a Medication Safety Intervention to Decrease Acute Kidney Injury" 6th International QCA Experts Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• November 27, 2018. "Overview of QCA Software & Recent Developments with Kirq" International QCA Paper Development Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• April 26, 2018. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Practice: Why, When, and How?" University of Colorado School of Medicine: Aurora, CO.
• April 25, 2018. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis for Medical and Health Services Research: An Introduction." University of Colorado School of Medicine: Aurora, CO.
• January 4-6, 2018. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." Arizona Methods Workshops, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ.
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2017

• December 12, 2017. "Approaching QCA: Software as Wayfinding." International QCA Young Researchers Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• May 17, 2017. "From R to Python to OCaml: Set-Theoretic Analysis for the (Social) Sciences." Houston Functional Programmers. Houston, TX.
• April 14, 2017. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." 96th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. Austin, TX.
• April 13, 2017. "Diversification and Concentration of U.S. Film Genre Configurations, 1946–2013." 96th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. Austin, TX.

2016

• December 7, 2016. "Visualizing QCA." 4th International QCA Experts Workshop. University of Zürich: Zürich, Switzerland.

• January 7-9, 2016. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." Arizona Methods Workshops. University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ.

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2015

• January 8-10, 2015. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." Arizona Methods Workshops. University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ.
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2014

• November 24, 2014. "The Development of New Artistic Paradigms: The Case of Cubism." CHSS Junior Faculty Symposium. University of Houston-Downtown: Houston, TX.
• November 5, 2014. "The Effects of Sampling and Sample Sizes on Counterfactual Analysis in QCA." 2nd International QCA Experts Workshop. University of Zürich: Zürich, Switzerland.
• October 5, 2014. "Conducting and Visualizing Set-Theoretic Social Research with Python." PyTexas. Texas A&M University: College Station, TX.
• March, 18, 2014. "Developing and Distributing Cross-Platform Software with PyInstaller." PyHou. Houston, TX.
• January 9-11, 2015. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis," Arizona Methods Workshops. University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ.
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2013

• April 27, 2013. "'...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 76th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. Atlanta, GA.
• April 25, 2013. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." 76th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. Atlanta, GA.
• April 12, 2013. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." 55th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association. Denver, CO.
• April 11, 2013. "On the Emergence and Diffusion of Cultural Innovations: The Cubist Aesthetic in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 55th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association. Denver, CO.
• March 19, 2013. "Constructing Kirq, software for set-theoretic social research: A software development travelogue." PyHou. Houston, TX.

2012

• September 8, 2012. "'...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 7th Conference of the European Research Network Sociology of the Arts. Vienna, Austria.
• August, 19, 2012. "From Splendor to Simplicity: Explaining the Aesthetic and Ideological Diversity of the Arts & Crafts Movement, 1875–1914." 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Denver, CO.
• April 12, 2012. "'...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 54th Annual Conferences of the Western Social Science Association. Houston, TX.
• February 2, 2012. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis for Medical Research." University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston. Houston, TX.

2011

• September 27, 2011. "Introduction to Relational Databases, Part 2: How?" Houston Linux Users Group. HAL-PC: Houston, TX.
• September 21, 2011. "Introduction to Relational Databases, Part 1: Why?" Houston Linux Users Group. HAL-PC: Houston, TX.
• May 17-18, 2011. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." Emory University: Atlanta, GA.
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