[Interpretationandmethods] ECPR 2009 Joint Session Call for Abstracts

[Adam Avrushin]

  Hi Dvora,

  Are you aware of any scholarships or grants being
  offered to Phd students for this conference?  It
  sounds like a terrific conference/session for me to
  attend.  I hope that you are well.

  Adam
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    Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:37:57 +0200
    From: "Dvora Yanow" <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>
    Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] ECPR 2009
    Joint Session Call for Abstracts
    To:
    <interpretationandmethods at listserv.cddc.vt.edu>

    Dear Colleague:

    We are delighted to announce that our proposed
    workshop, 'Studying the Political through Frame
    Analysis,' has been accepted for next year's
    European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
    Joint Sessions, to be held in Lisbon, 14 - 19
    April 2009.  A summary of the workshop, as well as
    a fuller description with references, is attached
    (and also available at
    http://www.ecpr.org.uk/lisbon/academic_programme.html
    , Workshop #19).

    In brief, frame analysis has a long history in the
    political sciences. It looks at the way framing
    processes enable meaning-making by highlighting
    particular views of political and other social
    realities, while simultaneously occluding or
    downplaying other views. As the literature
    suggests, framing holds great promise as an
    analytic concept and approach or method, and the
    Workshop potentially draws together political
    scientists from a wide range of fields and subject
    areas.  Papers for the Workshop can theorize a
    range of topics, from the understanding of frames
    and framing processes themselves, to
    “re-framing,” to the similarities and
    differences among frames, stories, narratives,
    metaphors, and the like. For example, frame
    analysis often involves a study of the uses of
    political language, specifically, and political
    symbolism, more widely, overlapping in important
    ways with work on metaphor analysis, narrative
    research, and discourse analysis.

    We would ask your help in bringing this Call for
    Abstracts to the attention of potentially
    interested persons, and we invite you to propose
    an abstract yourself along the lines of the
    attached description. We are hoping to bring
    together a group of scholars working on policy
    frames and framing grounded in empirical research
    from various perspectives (including, for example,
    public policy, IR, and social movement studies),
    thereby leading to engaged discussion and debate
    that will help advance the methodology of frame
    analysis.

    The ECPR Joint Sessions workshops are more like a
    set of co-located week-long seminars than like the
    usual conference, and so our selection process
    will also be different.  We will choose around 20
    abstracts from those we receive; full papers will
    be expected one month before the workshop, to be
    circulated to all participants for reading
    beforehand. Over the 5 days of the workshop, each
    participant will present her/his paper, followed
    by detailed discussion by all group members.  This
    structure provides an excellent opportunity for
    in-depth discussion on a focused topic.

    This means that we will be facing some difficult
    decisions about which proposals to accept.  We
    will base our judgment on the character of the
    content (theoretical concepts, empirical
    applications, methodological advancements) at the
    same time that we try to achieve a balance among
    topics, disciplinary backgrounds, approaches, and
    senior and junior researchers.  We want also to
    encourage doctoral students to consider submitting
    proposals.

    The deadline for submitting 500-word abstracts is
    1 December 2008. Please indicate there how your
    proposed paper engages the theme of the workshop
    as described in the attached.

    More details are available on the ECPR Joint
    Sessions website: 
    http://www.ecpr.org.uk/lisbon/index.html .

    Either of us would be more than happy to field any
    questions you might have.

    With best wishes,

    Dr. Merlijn van Hulst
    School of Politics and Administration
    University of Tilburg
    THE NETHERLANDS
    Tel: +31 (0)13 466 8198
    Fax: +31 (0)13 466 8149
    M.J.vanHulst at uvt.nl

    Prof. dr. Dvora Yanow
    Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method
    Faculty of Social Sciences
    Vrije Universiteit
    Amsterdam
    THE NETHERLANDS
    Tel: +31 (0)20 598 6740
    Fax: +31 (0)20 598 6765
    d.yanow at fsw.vu.nl

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Adam Avrushin, MSSA, JD
PhD Candidate
University of Chicago
School of Social Service Administration
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