Draft Agenda IMM CG Business Meeting 2009

Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Conference-related Group @ APSA

Inaugural Program, Business Meeting, and Reception

Dvora Yanow & Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, 2009 Program Co-Chairs

Agenda Business Meeting 2009 Friday, 4 September, 6.15 p.m. Fairmont Confederation 6

1. Welcome

 Thanks to sponsors: U Chicago; Cornell UP

 Introduce organizing group: Program Chairs = DY, PSS; Patrick Jackson, Cecelia Lynch, Julie Novkov, Ido Oren, Timothy Pachirat, Ed Schatz, Dorian Warren

 Thanks to those who signed the petition that created this CG

 Thanks to QMMR Section leaders for ongoing support (Rudy Sil, as program chair, for cooperation in re. panels; Colin Elman, John Gerring, David Collier)

2. This year’s panels – Peri Schwartz-Shea, Program Co-chair

 Research Design [Thursday, 10-12]

* Debating Research Designs: Do Qualitative and Interpretive Logics of Inquiry Differ? Should They? [Thursday, Sep 3, 10:15 am; cosponsor: 46-24]

Chair: Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit, [email protected]

Colin Elman, Syracuse University, [email protected] John Gerring, Boston University, [email protected] Julie L. Novkov, SUNY, Albany, [email protected] Raymond D. Duvall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, [email protected] Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah, psshea@poli- sci.utah.edu * Understanding Experiences across the Subfields: Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Fieldwork, Framing/Narratives, and Textual Ethnography [Friday, Sep 4, 8:00 am; cosponsor: 46-26]

Chair: Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah, psshea@poli- sci.utah.edu

How to Research Institutions Experientially: Methods of Creative Syncretism Gerald Berk, University of Oregon, [email protected] Dennis C. Galvan, University of Oregon, [email protected]

Embedded IR-ist: Learning about the EU’s Practices in External Assistance Xymena Kurowska, Central European University, [email protected]

Methodological Issues in Comparative Political Theory: Perspectives from Indigenous Studies Johannes Morrow, SUNY, University at Albany, [email protected]

The Rhetorical Analysis of Politics Nick Turnbull, University of Manchester, [email protected]

Frames and Narratives: Two Modes of Political Understanding; Two Forms of Scholarly Interpretation Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, University of Connecticut, [email protected]

Discussants:

Kevin M. Bruyneel, Babson College, [email protected] Joseph E. Lowndes, University of Oregon, [email protected]

 Methods Café [Thurs noon-2]: 13 tables, 19 specialists; listed at end

3. ‘Constitutional convention’ – not!

 Bylaws committee: volunteers welcome

 2009-10 Program Chair/s: Julie Novkov (SUNY, Albany)

 CfP for 2010 – online @ apsanet.org/related groups

4. Prizes  Hayward Alker student paper award

 Charles Taylor book award

 ‘Grain of Sand’ award

o Presentation of this year’s award to Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph o Comments from each

 Contributions – working on setting up funding mechanisms

5. Other celebrations

 Ed Schatz, Political Ethnography, University of Chicago Press

 Lee Ann Fujii book, Killing Neighbors, Cornell UP

 Julie Novkov, Racial Union (University of Michigan Press), awarded the 2009 APSA Ralph Bunche book prize;

 Lisa Wedeen, Peripheral visions: Publics, power, and performance in Yemen (U of Chicago Press, 2008)

 successful completion of 2-day NSF Workshop

o Ed Schatz, local arrangements

o 35 participants: 9 jr fac/postdocs; 26 phd students

o 15 staff: Robert Adcock, Pam Brandwein, Lee Ann Fujii, Vicky Hattam, Patrick Jackson, Jan Kubik, Cecelia Lynch, Julie Novkov, Ido Oren, Timothy Pachirat, Kamal Sadiq, Fred Schaffer, Ed Schatz, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dorian Warren, Lisa Wedeen, Dvora Yanow

 announce Routledge Series in Interpretive Methods

6. Invite other announcements

7. Invitation to reception The Methods Café

Co-Host: Adam Avrushin, University of Chicago, [email protected] Co-Host: Monika Benova, University of Utah, [email protected]

Tables and ‘specialists’: Analytic Eclecticism: Between Competing Theories and Theoretical Synthesis Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]

Concept Formation: Reflexive Approaches Robert Kaufman Adcock, George Washington University, [email protected]

Contesting the Political Theory/Empirical Research Divide Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College, [email protected]

Contextualizing Quantitative Data Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine, [email protected]

Critical Constructivist and Discourse Analysis Raymond D. Duvall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, [email protected] Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago, [email protected]

Designing Research Designs: Adaptability, Validity, Generalizability? Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah, [email protected] Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, University of Connecticut, [email protected]

Feminist Methods Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University, [email protected]

Field Research I (Participant observation, political ethnography, etc.): U.S. Katherine Cramer Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison, [email protected] Dorian T. Warren, Columbia University, [email protected]

Field Research II (Participant observation, political ethnography, etc.): "Overseas" Jan Kubik, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, [email protected] Samer S. Shehata, Georgetown University, [email protected]

Interpretive Policy Analysis: Value-critical, Policy Discourse, Policy Spaces Ronald J. Schmidt, California State University, Long Beach, [email protected] Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit, [email protected]

Intersectionality Research: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class, Sexuality, Religion Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Providence College, [email protected] Interviewing: Ordinary Language Interviewing and Life History Narratives Frederic C. Schaffer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, [email protected] Lee Ann Fujii, George Washington University, [email protected]

Teaching Qualitative-Interpretive Methods Emily Hauptmann, Western Michigan University, [email protected]