MeSSH (Methods for Social Sciences and Humanities) is a new annual conference whose aim is to create an academic forum focused on discussing methodological issues and bringing together all disciplines in social sciences and humanities (SSH).

Digital transformations are profoundly affecting research practices in SSH. Massive access to heterogeneous corpora, the rise of computational methods and computing resources, the widespread use of data infrastructures and the proliferation of collaborative tools are transforming the ways in which knowledge is captured, produced, analysed and shared. These transformations are simultaneously enabling the development of new research methodologies and contributing to the development of more traditional approaches. 

Organised by both research infrastructure (IR*) Huma-Num and Progedo and the Humathèque du Campus Condorcet, the ‘MeSSH 2026’ conference provides a space for discussion and reflection on all the methodological issues  relevant to SSH today. The event intends to bring together the entire scientific community—researchers, doctoral students, engineers, documentation and heritage professionals.

 This event aims at :

• promoting exchanges of experiences and practices between scientific domains, projects and institutions;
• fostering the structuration of SSH communities working on methods, tools and infrastructures.

Nine themes will be explored in the conference and structure the call :

• Web and social media data (coordinated by Christine Barats, Valérie Baudouin et Sophie Gebeil)
• Interviews and observations (coordinated by Monica Heintz et Guillaume Garcia)
• Mix methods (coordinated by Cyril Benoit et Valentin Brunel)
• Digitise, model, simulate (coordinated by Xavier Granier et Livio de Luca)
• Heritage and artistic creation (coordinated by Géraldine David, Xavier Jacques-Jourion, Sara Lammens, Kim Oosterlinck, Anne-Sophie Radermecker)
• Sound, images and geolocation data (coordinated by Julien Schuh et Marion Maisonobe)
• Surveys and experiments (coordinated by Pierre Mercklé et Solenne Roux)
• Statistics and causal inference (coordinated by Jean Lacroix et Sophie Panel)
• Texts and language (coordinated by Céline Poudat et Anne-Marie Turcan)

Pauline Bunosera (Huma-Num),   Jean Lacroix (Progedo),  Amélia Laurenceau (Campus Condorcet / Humathèque), Pierre Mercklé (Progedo), Jean-Luc Minel (Huma-Num), Clément Oury (Campus Condorcet / Humathèque), Cynthia Pedroja (Campus Condorcet / Humathèque), Stéphane Pouyllau (Huma-Num), Ami Saji (Progedo), Nicolas Sauger (Progedo), Elisabetta Simonetta (Campus Condorcet), Alexandre Wauthier (Campus Condorcet / Humathèque).