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Rethinking Methods of Investigation 1 Table of Contents Program Overview 3 Map 4 Workshop Program 5 Public Conferences 8 Conference Contributors 9 Organising Committee 11 List of Participants 12 Sponsors 14 2 Program Overview MONDAY 18TH JUNE 2018 TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018 From 05.00pm Registration 06:00pm-08:00pm Conference Plenary 2 – Investigating Uni Mail M2150 IOs: Taming Time Uni Mail MS150 06:00pm-06:30pm Opening and Welcome Speech Uni Mail MS150 From 08:30pm Private Reception Rector of the University of Geneva Michael Møller, Director of the United Nations Office in Geneva WEDNESDAY 20TH JUNE 2018 06:30 pm-08:00pm Conference Plenary 1 – Investigating IOs: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries 09:00am-10:30am Panel W1A: Combining Methods Uni Mail MS150 (M2130) Panel W1B: Research through and with Database (M2140) TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018 10:30am-11.00am Coffee break (M2150) From 08.00am Registration 11:00am-12:30pm Panel W2A: Methods to Study Uni Mail M2150 Practices (M2130) Panel W2B: Studying IO and IO 09:00am-10:30am Panel T1A: Comparison Data Production (M2140) and Bureaucracies (M2130) Panel T1B: States and the Study 12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch Break (M2150) of IOs (M2140) 02:00pm-03:30pm Panel W3A: Addressing Time 10:30am-11.00am Coffee break (M2150) and Space in the Study of IOs (M2130) 11:00am-12:30pm Panel T2A: Researching UN Staff: Panel W3B: Network Analyses Methodological Insights (M2130) and Process Tracing (M2140) Panel T2B: IOs’ History and Archives (M2140) 03:30pm-04:00pm Coffee break (M2150) 12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch Break (M2150) 04:00pm-05:30pm Wrap-up and Conclusion: Gaps and Silences (M2130) 02:00pm-03:30pm Panel T3A: Studying IOs through Staff Biographies and Discourses (M2130) Panel T3B: Text Analysis and IO Publications (M2140) 03:30pm-04:00pm Coffee break (M2150) 04:00pm-05:30pm Panel T4A: IO Ethnography and Gender (M2130) Panel T4B: IOs through their Discourses and Knowledge Production (M2140) 3 Map Workshop and Conference Venue University of Geneva Bd Pont d’Arve 40 1205 Genève Access: From the train station, tram 15 towards “Palettes”, stop “Uni Mail” Private Reception Venue Cité du Temps Private Reception Pont de la Machine 1 Venue 1204 Genève Access: From the University, take tram 18 at “Pont d’Arve” towards “CERN” and drop off at “Bel-Air” then 2 minutes walk. Workshop and Conference Venue 4 Workshop Program TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018 09:00-10:30 “Capturing UN staff through the concept of ecosystem” Fanny Badache (UNIL), Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) T1A: Comparison and Bureaucracies (M2130) Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL) “Negotiating methods and navigating positions: between Discussant : Mélanie Albaret (Université de Clermont- expertise and research on UNESCO heritage policies” Ferrand / Centre Michel de L’Hospital) Chiara Bortolotto (EHESS), Kristin Kuutma (University of Tartu) “Researching International Organizations – A review of data sources and related methodological challenges.” T2B: IOs’ History and Archives (M2140) Jörn Ege (Speyer University/University of Exeter), Steffen Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI) Eckhard (LMU Munich), Vytautas Jankauskas Discussant : Sandrine Kott (UNIGE) (LMU Munich), Ronny Patz (LMU Munich) “Inside UNESCO World Heritage: “Squaring the Triangle: Methodological Problems of Stu- Ethnography and archives” dying the International Organisations of the Middle East” Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social James Worrall (University of Leeds) Anthropology), Aurélie Elisa Gfeller (Graduate Institute) “Defining minorities: Actors and Practices T1B: States and the Study of IOs (M2140) in the League of Nations” Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) Roser Cusso (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne) Discussant : Sandra Lavenex (UNIGE) “Researching international supervision of rights: Traf- “International Organizations and Law ficking between field and archive, present and past” Without the State” Jane K. Cowan (Sussex University), Lorenzo Gasbarri (UCL) Julie Billaud (Sussex University) “Virtues and limits of a “carnal sociology” of a United Nations committee” 02:00-03:30 Julie Patarin-Jossec (University of Bordeaux) T3A: Studying IOs through Staff Biographies “State Centrism and the Ethnography of the United Nations” and Discourses (M2130) Ronald Niezen (Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) and Public Policy, Faculty of Law and Department Discussant : Bob Reinalda (Radboud University) of Anthropology, McGill University) “Reintroducing international organizations in their social spaces. Propositions for using social trajecto- 11:00-12:30 ries of individuals as a methodological approach” Valentin Thomas (IRISSO – Université Paris-Dauphine) T2A: Researching UN Staff: Methodological Quentin Deforge (IRISSO – Université Paris-Dauphine) Insights (M2130) Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE) “Analysing Biographies As Social Spaces: Discussant : Thomas Weiss (CUNY) A New Approach in the Study of International Organizations and the Governance of Money” “Who governs the international? Aykiz Dogan (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), The merits of studying IO professionals” Frédéric Lebaron (ENS Paris-Saclay) Monique Beerli (UC Berkeley & CERI), Clara Egger (Graduate Institute) 5 “Questioning the relevance of semi-directive “Studying IOs ‘at a distance’: interviews in researching the UN” the case of the World Bank” Mélanie Albaret (Université Clermont Auvergne, Romain Felli (UNIL), Amal Tawfik (UNIL), Centre de recherche Michel de l'Hospital), Nicolas Baya Laffite (UNIL) Joan Deas (Sciences Po Grenoble) “Digital Participation Index for International Organizations” T3B: Text Analysis and IO Publications (M2140) Jérôme Duberry (UNIGE) Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE) Discussant : Romain Felli (UNIL) “Local actors and organizational capacity-building in the text” WEDNESDAY 20TH JUNE 2018 Michelle Reddy (Stanford University) 09:00-10:30 “The Best of Both Worlds? Combining Quantitative and Historical Methods in the Study of International W1A: Combining Methods (M2130) Organisations” Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) Ellen Ravndal (The Australian National University) Discussant : Christian Bueger (Cardiff University) “Combining corpus linguistics and archival research “Researching the UN qualitatively: methods to analyse International Labour Organisa- From exploration to explanation” tion (ILO) Annual Bulletins, 1919-2014” Janne Mende (University of Kassel) Evan Easton-Calabria (Oxford University), William Allen (Oxford University) “Seeing through International Organisations. A historical sociology of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” 04:00-05:30 Kari de Pryck (UNIGE, Sciences Po Paris) T4A: IO Ethnography and Gender (M2130) “Methodological lessons from a system-wide Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL) research of the United Nations: the United Nations Discussant : Irène Bellier (CNRS) Country Team in Mozambique and Vietnam” Luciana de Rezende Campos Oliveir “Researching gender equality policies in an international or- (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais/ PUC-Minas) ganisation: the (dis)advantages of participant observation” Jane Freedman (Université Paris 8) W1B: Research through and with Database “Researching from below: (M2140) Feminist field research and the “local turn” Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI) Carrie Reiling (Pomona College) Discussant : Simon Hug (UNIGE) “Transforming national status into a heuristic standpoint: “Rethinking legislative behaviour in the UNGA : underdoing localized participative observation in the sponsorship as a country-profiling tool” International Organization for Migration (IOM)” Pedro Seabra (Center for International Studies, Sabine Dini (ERASME/CERAL Université Paris 13, University Institute of Lisbon (CEI-IUL); Sorbonne-Paris-Cité) and German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)), Rafael Mesquita (UFPE/GIGA) T4B: IOs through their Discourses “Representation and accountability in international and Knowledge Production (M2140) organisations: Studying UN leadership using a data- Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI) set of personal characteristics and length of tenure” Discussant : Franck Petiteville (Sciences Po Grenoble) Magnus Lundgren (Stockholm University), Kseniya Oksamytna (King’s College London) “Dynamic elements of a common international lifewor- ld and salient social identities: Quantitative and qualita- “Corpus-driven Analysis of Debates in International tive discourse analysis of the UNGA General Debates” Organizations: Improving the Workflow” Catherine Hecht (Vienna School of International Studies), Paul Kohlenberg (SWP Berlin), Stephen Aris (ETH Zürich) Mor Mitrani (Bar-Ilan University) 6 11:00-12:30 W3B: Network Analyses and Process Tracing (M2140) W2A: Methods to Study Practices (M2130) Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL) Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE) Discussant : Tommaso Venturini (ENS Lyon) Discussant : Mathilde Bourrier (UNIGE) “Network governance and International Organiza- “Praxiography, action research tions: Lessons from World Bank Trust Funds.” and the many faces of multilateralism” Simone Dietrich (University of Geneva), Christian Bueger (Cardiff University) Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Cambridge), Martin Steinwand (University of Essex) “How do humanitarian IOs conceptualise the world? An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis “Social network analysis of sponsorship patterns at of concepts used in humanitarian action” the UN Human Rights Council” Clara Egger (Graduate Institute), Doris Schopper (UNIGE) Anne-Luise Chané