Interpretive Methodologies and Methods APSA

2025 IPSA Methods Café in Seoul, Korea — Interpretive Methodologies and Methods The Methods Café is an innovation of Professors Dvora Yanow and Peri Schwartz-Shea, intending to bring together people with methods questions in an informal setting with light refreshments. In this 20...

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Going to @ipsa.org in Seoul? Join us at the 2025 Methods Café! Korea Time: Monday, 14 July at 12:45 p.m. Room 311 AB. Chair: Robin Harper, York College / CUNY. We'll be talking about participatory action research, fieldwork ethics, critical discourse analysis, interviewing, and much more.

Interpretive Political Science | The Political Studies Association (PSA) The group takes a broad view of interpretation as encompassing all those interested in exploring beliefs, languages, traditions, and practices as they appear in and construct the political. Relevant a...

The Interpretive Political Science Specialist Group at the PSA (www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...) is calling for new convenor based in Western Europe as Rod Rhodes is standing down after 25 years.

If you are interested, please contact r.a.w.rhodes@soton.ac.uk and/or april.stockings@psa.ac.uk.

Australian Journal of Political Science Doing interpretive political science — in Australia. Volume 59, Issue 4 of Australian Journal of Political Science

The Australian Journal of Political Science just released a fantastic special issue on doing interpretive political science in Australia. These articles are relevant to anyone interested in interpretive political science, not just those in Australia.

Vol 59, No 4 www.tandfonline.com/toc/cajp20/5...

For those podcast inclined, Nick Cheesman's Interpretive Political and Social Science podcast series on the New Books Network is an excellent resource, with interviews of exemplary authors and editors of interpretivist works: newbooksnetwork.com/category/spe...

CfP, Conference on Façade Politics Conference on Façade Politics From colonial Southeast Asia to authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, scholars have identified dissimulation as a key instrument in the politics o...

CfP: Conference on Façade Politics at Yale University, May 8-9, 2026. Explores façades as collaborative means for managing conflicts and achieving compromise in politics and diplomacy. Scholars interested in presenting should submit title and abstract by May 2, 2025. For details see: bit.ly/441hsf7.

The deadline to submit nominations for book and paper awards from IMM is March 30, 2025. Self-nominations welcomed!

Details on the awards, which recognize books, articles, and conference papers, are available on the IMM website: https://www.<wbr>interpretivemethods.com/<wbr>summary-of-awards

The Honorable Mention for the Hawyard Alker Best Paper Award goes to Ronay Bakan, of Johns Hopkins University, for the paper “Fieldwork as Carework: Solidarity in the Disaster of the Century/Century of Disasters”, presented at APSA’s 2024 Virtual Research Meeting. Congratulations!

The Hayward Alker Best Student Paper Award winner is Jasmin English, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the paper “Dilemmas of Accommodation: Diverse Associations and the Avoidance of Racial Difference”, presented at MPSA 2023 and WPSA 2023. Congratulations!

The Honorable Mention for the Charles Taylor Book Award goes to Asad L. Asad, Stanford, University, for his book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press, 2023). Congratulations!

The 2024 Charles Taylor Book Award goes to Osman Balkan, University of Pennsylvania, for his book Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Congratulations!

The 2024 IMM Grain of Sand Award, honoring a lifetime achievement in interpretive scholarship, goes to William H. Sewell from the University of Chicago.

IMM is pleased to announce its 2024 award winners! Sincere thanks to the award committees for their work. Awards will be presented at the IMM business meeting on September 6 at 6:30 p.m. in Philadelphia. All are welcome. Congratulations to our award recipients and see you at APSA!

Final reminder: Please submit your @apsa.bsky.social proposals to the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group by Wednesday, January 17, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. We look forward to your submissions!

Interpretive political scientists -- a reminder of the Jan 17 APSA @apsa.bsky.social deadline for paper and panel submissions. We're looking forward to your great ideas! And enormous thanks to @liselhintz.bsky.social for serving as the 2024 IMM panel coordinator!