The National Science Foundation recently agreed to fund smaller thematic meetings similar in character to the annual summer conference 25 years ago. The Society is accepting proposals for these meetings.
Past Thematic Meetings
| Year | Conference | Host | Program |
| 2019 | Causal Inference and APD Conference | University of Southern California | Download |
| 2018 | APSA mini-conference on Event Data | APSA, Boston | Download |
| 2015 | Conference on Ideal Point Models | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Download |
| 2013 | Causality in Political Networks conference | University of Chicago | Download |
| 2010 | Path Dependence Conferece | University of Minnesota | Download |