[Interpretationandmethods] The Methods Cafe at the Western Political Science Assocation

[Dvora Yanow]

Colleagues:
 
I would like to call to your attention to The Methods Café coming up at the 2007 Western Political Science Association meeting in Las Vegas -- an innovative, 'frame-breaking' session that is decidedly NOT a usual paper session (no discussants -- or, one might say, everyone who comes to the session is a discussant).
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 paper authors, despite the language of the computer program entry.)
Details follow.  Hope to see you there!
Dvora and Peri
 

The Methods Cafe   [Panel 22.05]
 

Date: 
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm 

Chair(s): 
Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine, psshea at poli-sci.utah.edu, University of Utah
Yanow, Dvora, d.yanow at fsw.vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Paper(s): 
Critical language analysis
Dow, Douglas, dougdow at utdallas.edu, University of Texas, Dallas
Intersectionality research
Hancock, Ange-Marie, Ange-Marie.Hancock at yale.edu, Yale University
Studying phenomena that bypass the state
Sadiq, Kamal, kamal at uci.edu, University of California-Irvine
Historical-interpretive analysis
Brandwein, Pamela, pbrand at utdallas.edu, University of Texas-Dallas
Legal archaeology (Public law)
Novkov, Julie, jnovkov at albany.edu, State University of New York at Albany
Political Ethnography
Pachirat, Tim, timothy.pachirat at yale.edu, Yale University
Warren, Dorian, dw2288 at columbia.edu, Columbia University
So you think interpretive research is not rigorous/objective/valid/reliable?
Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine, psshea at poli-sci.utah.edu, University of Utah
Yanow, Dvora, d.yanow at fsw.vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
 
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).
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