-International Conference on Network Analysis Technology
From 31st May
to 3rd June, the International Conference on Network Analysis
Technology-2017 Sunbelt Conference was held in Beijing International Conference
Center. The conference was hosted by the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua
University and sponsored by Center for Social Network Research of Tsinghua
University, Social Network and Social Capital Research Committee of Chinese
Sociological Association and Institute for Empirical Social Science Research of
Xi’an Jiaotong University.
Composed of a forum in
the Chinese language and another one in the English language, the conference
attracted more than 300 participants, including well-known guests from both at
home and abroad, with heated discussions on the theme of “social capital and
social governance”. On the forum in the Chinese language, Communist Party
Committee Secretary Liu Taoxiong of the School of Social Sciences and Vice
President Li Peilin of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences made a speech
respectively; and Lin Nan, Professor of Department of Sociology of Duke
University, Former Vice President of American Sociology Association and
Academician of Academia Sinica, gave a keynote speech on “society and economy”.  Communist Party Committee
Secretary Liu Taoxiong of the School of Social Sciences Addressed the
Forum
From preparation to
convention, the forum gathered totally 332 conference papers and 38 postal
papers in the English language and 98 conference papers in the Chinese language.

Conference
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The International Network
for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) is a non-governmental and non-profit
association founded in 1977. Its first annual conference was held in Tampa,
Florida, U.S. Every scholar interested in social network analysis is welcome.
Its annual conference, called Sunbelt Conference, is held once a year and has
been held for 36 years in Sun Belt of the U.S. (so called Sunbelt Conference)
and EU. This year, the conference is held in China for the first time, which
signals that Chinese scholars play an increasingly important role in network
analysis studies and also establishes a platform of international academic
exchange, promotes the cooperation between network analysis and multiple
disciplines and drives progress in new academic research directions.
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