For those who will be attending the American Political Science
Association meetings in Philadelphia at the end the month, and for the
curious, may I call to your attention an innovative, 'frame-breaking'
session -- decidedly NOT a usual paper session (for instance, there are
no discussants -- or, one might say, everyone here is a discussant,
along with whoever comes to the session).
I include a fuller program note at the end of the post.
Yours,
Peri Schwartz-Shea
Session 46-9 The Methods Cafe
(a.k.a. Consult a 'Specialist': Methodological Brainstorming)
Date: Thursday, Aug 31, 12:00 PM
Scholars specializing in various types of interpretive analysis will be
available to answer questions about their specialty.
*Note: Participants listed below are specialists in the designated
field, not authors (despite the language of the computer program entry).
'Host':
Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, [log in to unmask], University of
Connecticut
Topics/'Specialists':
Are interpretive methods rigorous? Evaluative standards
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, [log in to unmask], University of Utah
Conversational Interviewing
Joe Soss, [log in to unmask], University of Wisconsin, Madison
Discourse Analysis
Cecelia Lynch, [log in to unmask], University of California, Irvine
Ethnography/Field Research, especially overseas contexts
Samer S. Shehata, [log in to unmask], Georgetown University
Ethnography/Field Research, especially overseas contexts
Diane Singerman, [log in to unmask], American University
New Historical Institutionalism/ Science Studies
Pamela Brandwein, [log in to unmask], University of Texas, Dallas
Participant Observation/Field Research, especially U.S. contexts
Dorian T. Warren, [log in to unmask], University of Chicago
Reflexive Historical Analysis
Ido Oren, [log in to unmask], University of Florida
Space/Metaphor/Category Analysis
Dvora Yanow, [log in to unmask], Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Working with "Personal" Documents (Autobiographies, Diaries, Memoirs,
Life Histories, etc.)
Lloyd I. Rudolph, [log in to unmask], University of Chicago
Working with "Personal" Documents (Autobiographies, Diaries, Memoirs,
Life Histories, etc.)
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, [log in to unmask], University of Chicago
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Program note:
This new type of session brings together a number of scholars
specializing in various types of interpretive analysis, who will make
themselves available to anyone with a question about doing that kind of
a study or using that kind of method. This is not a standard panel with
presentations! Instead, the informal setting - a "café," with each
"specialist" sitting at a different table - provides the opportunity for
one-on-one and group discussions as well as networking and support.
Visit any table and stay as long as you like. You may ask questions
about that table's research method if you wish (please wait your turn if
another conversation is already going on) or you may just sit and listen
in. Don't worry about having questions that are "too elementary" - it's
ok to ask anything about that method, at any level!
Circulate among the tables as you like. You need not wait; it's ok just
to get up and move on (though we ask you to sign in so we can keep track
for evaluation purposes for subsequent cafes).
--
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Associate Professor
University of Utah
Political Science Department
260 South Central Campus Drive Rm 252
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9152
(801) 581-6300 phone mail
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