[Interpretationandmethods] graduate student workshop announcement

[Patrick Jackson]

Please circulate the announcement below among your graduate students!

PTJ
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Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
American University, SIS
patrickthaddeusjackson at gmail.com
http://profptj.blogspot.com | http://www.kittenboo.com
calendar: http://ical.mac.com/onyxdr/Patrick

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Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies
A One-Day Graduate Student Workshop

Sponsored by the International Studies Association-Northeast
17 November, 2007 -- Philadelphia, PA
Application Deadline: 15 June 2007.

The field of International Studies has always been interdisciplinary,
with scholars drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative
techniques of data collection and data analysis as they seek to
produce knowledge about global politics. Recent debates about
epistemology and ontology have advanced the methodological openness
of the field, albeit mainly at a meta-theoretical level. And while
interest in techniques falling outside of well-established
comparative and statistical modes of inference has been sparked,
opportunities for scholars to discuss and flesh out the operational
requirements of these alternative routes to knowledge have been
relatively infrequent.

This third annual workshop aims to address this lacuna by bringing
together faculty and graduate students in a pedagogical environment.
The workshop will focus on two broad research approaches that differ
in various ways from statistical and comparative methodologies:
interpretive methodologies, which highlight the grounding of analysis
in actors? lived experiences and thus produce knowledge
phenomenologically and hermeneutically; and relational methodologies,
which concentrate on how social networks and intersubjective
discursive processes concatenate to generate outcomes.

In the two morning sessions, five established scholars, whose work
utilizes such approaches as ethnography, discourse analysis,
historical criticism, and linguistic analysis, will talk about
precisely how they do their empirical work. These tutorial sessions
will be followed by two afternoon sessions in which graduate student
participants will have an opportunity to receive feedback from the
established scholars and from their fellow workshop participants.

This year's faculty participants include:

Anna M. Agathangelou, York University
Andreas Behnke, University of Reading
L.H.M. Ling, The New School
Janice Bially Mattern, Lehigh University
Ido Oren, University of Florida

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International
Studies Association-Northeast's annual conference, which will take
place from 15-17 November in Philadelphia, PA. Although all attendees  
of the
conference may come to the workshop sessions, the 6-8 graduate
students officially participating in the workshop will have the
opportunity to receive detailed feedback and specialized instruction
in the methodologies under discussion.

Graduate students interested in participating in the workshop should
send their c.v. and a letter describing their current research
project to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson by e-mail: ptjack at american.edu.
Applications must be received by 15 June 2007.
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