Pre-conference and panels on extracting and analyzing political networks using LLMs and other AI-tools at EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen, June 23-25
Are you planning to attend the 2nd European Political Science Society conference? Are you interested in using AI-tools and LLMs and political networks (in particular in China and Russia and other Post-Soviet countries)?
As part of our project, we want to organize a workshop on using LLMs to extract political networks at the EPPS conference in Copenhagen, June 23. We also hope to organize one or two panels on Chinese or Russian/Post-Soviet political networks for that conference (June 24-26).
Would you like to learn more about this exciting new method, exchange ideas and/or present your research there? Please reach out to us at fbkeller.ikmb@unibe.ch and share this information with others who might be interested.
We also plan to organize similar panels at the American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (September 2-5, 2027). Stay tuned!
Using Large Language Models (LLMs) and Other AI Tools to Gather and Analyze Political Elite Networks
Our ECPR Joint Session Workshop took place in
Innsbruck, Austria, April 7-10, 2026
In Innsbruck, we brought together scholars to discuss optimal approaches, data sources, and validation strategies. The goal was to enable large-scale comparative projects, and expand analysis beyond narrowly defined elites, and from simple to multiplex or signed networks.
We gathered 25 scholars from around the globe and discussed for 4 days, how to study a larger set of elites, compare networks across countries and regime types, and examine networks with different types of connections.
You can find the whole program here and a photo gallery for some impressions here. If you are intrested in the abstracts of the papers presented or further information about the workshop, visit the website of the ecpr.
While While the workshop is over now, we posted relevant materials like the content discussed and highlights here on this website and on social media, so follow us on Bluesky and X and subscribe to our LLM-polnet mailing list. You would like to read a paper that was being presented in our workshop? Reach out to the authors!
A special thanks to the University of Bern's Digitalization Commission and the "EU Projekt Valuing Public Goods in a Populist World", whose generous funding have allowed us to offer travel stipends to early career scholars from Asia and the Americas.
