In this session we will discuss the social logics of events. Events have been an object of interest for scholars from various disciplines, such as anthropology (Sahlins, 1985), history (Sewell, 2005), sociology (Berezin, 2009) and political science (Mahoney, 2000). Starting out from analyses of event related research topics (the cases of the events 9/11 and the Euro crisis as well as the critical years hypothesis) and their specific logics we address various more general questions concerning events that are being discussed in these literatures, such as: how should we conceptualize events? Which methodological strategies and toolkits can we use to study them? How do events relate to concepts such as path dependency, contingency and revolution? What is their place within general processes of social change?