Dear all, *Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science* invites you to join our last methodological seminar this year: *Seminar 7: An Introduction to Complex Systems for Social Scientists* - *Date: *April 24, 2025 - *Time: *18:00-19:30 - *Speaker: *Dr. Alasdair Stanton - *Platform:* Seminars will be held on Zoom - *RSVP: *Please confirm your attendance via Google Form ( https://forms.gle/wDNAdKQYwq2dNJTu8) What is a complex system — and why should social scientists care? This seminar offers a practical introduction to complexity, suitable for researchers across the social sciences. Using examples from the speakers' recent PhD research with key theoretical concepts of complexity, the session provides a guide to recognising, analysing, and working with complex systems in the social sciences. We will explore core questions: – What defines a complex system? – How to recognise a complex system? – What techniques are available to study complexity? – Why do common interpretive and statistical methods often fail with complex datasets? *About the speaker:* Dr. Alasdair Stanton researches complex systems in political science, particularly Chinese domestic bureaucracy and the Party-State system. He graduated from University of Glasgow (MA, PhD) and University of Edinburgh (MSc), and worked in East Asia for a decade before returning to academia. He currently teaches at University of Wolverhampton. We look forward to your participation in this seminar! Best wishes, Anya Anya Kuteleva *Editor-in-Chief of IAPSS Politikon* *Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science* www.politikon.iapss.org <http://www.iapss.org/> | *https://x.com/iapss_politikon <https://x.com/iapss_politikon>* *International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS)* Global HQ: Department of Political Science, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3G 1M8 www.iapss.org | www.facebook.com/iapss | https://x.com/iapss *NEW: * Special Issue on the Rise of Anti-gender and Anti-feminist Discourses in International Politics (Jan 2025) <https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/issue/view/64> <https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/announcement/view/19> [image: https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/announcement/view/19] <https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/announcement/view/19>