Past Events
Find video and resources from past events below.
Find video and resources from past events below.
All members of the Group are invited to attend the annual Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Business Meeting at APSA’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC. Recipients of the Group’s awards will be announced.
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
19:30 to 21:00 PDT
Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section Reception, with recognition of Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwarz-Shea’s contributions to the discipline and to the Method’s Cafe
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
16:00 to 17:30 PDT
Methods Café (20th Anniversary Celebration)
Chaired by Be Stone (Rhodes College), Robin Turner (Butler University), and Biko Koenig (Franklin and Marshall College).
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
14:00 to 15:30 PDT
Author Meets Critics: "What Does the American Presidency Mean?"
Presenters: Richard Holzman (Bryant University), Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), Diane Rubenstein, Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin) and David Zarefsky (Northwestern University); chaired by Charles Zug (University of Missouri)
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
12:00 to 13:00 PDT
Panel: “Interpretive Lenses on Political Meaning-Making and Mobilization”
Presenters: Biko Koenig (Franklin and Marshall College), Santos Javier Rivera-Cardona (Rutgers University), Lauren Marie Baker (University of Nebraska), Be Stone (Rhodes College) and Juan Wang (McGill University); Chaired by Tania Islas Weinstein (McGill University), and Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford) as discussant.
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
08:00 to 09:30 PDT
Panel: “Caring for the Other: Rethinking Political Science in Uncertain Times”
Presenters: Ronay Bakan (Johns Hopkins University), Maria Méndez Gutiérrez (University of Toronto); Lahoma Thomas (Toronto Metropolitan University); Sara Parkinson (Johns Hopkins University) and Mneesha Gellman (Emerson College); Chaired by Helen Kinsella (University of Minnesota), with Nadia Brown (Georgetown University) discussing.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
13:30 to 17:30 PDT
Short Course: Interpretive Process Analytics (QMMR) Jeffrey T. Checkel, EUI
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 20th year of the Methods Café, and after long hiatus, we are reconvening the Methods Café at the International Political Science Association in Seoul.
Starting a project? Thinking about methods design? Questions about managing fieldwork? Ethics questions? Need guidance to respond to journals? Strategies to convince your committee? The Methods Café is for you!
Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series
Mike Rowe (University of Liverpool) will discuss the value the value of interpretive analysis for the study of street-level bureaucrats—from police officers, to social workers, and teachers, drawing from his recently published book, Researching Street-level Bureaucracy, recently published with the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. This talk is part of a series of events leading up to the 25th anniversary of the Methods Café.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register.
Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series
James M. Curry (University of Utah) will speak about the value and importance of interpretive research to understand the American legislative branch, drawing from his book, Understanding American Legislatures: The Need for Interpretive-Qualitative Research, which is forthcoming with the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. This talk is part of a series of events leading up to the 25th anniversary of the Methods Café.
This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. Click here to register.
Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series
Richard Holtzman (Bryant University) will speak about the need for an interpretive lens in the study of the American Presidency, drawing from his book What Does the American Presidency Mean?, which is forthcoming with the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. This talk is part of a series of events leading up to the 25th anniversary of the Methods Café.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register.
APSA’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) is a four-day, residential institute that provides political scientists with training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically engaged research. Up to 20 scholars will be selected as ICER Fellows and invited to attend the 2025 Summer Institute. ICER Fellows will network with other like-minded political scientists, and together, learn best practices for conducting academically robust, mutually beneficial scholarship in collaboration with communities, organizations, and agencies outside of academia.
To apply, please complete this form. The deadline is April 20, 2025.
In this seminar, Emily Faux (Newcastle University, UK) will discuss her Ph.D. work in progress, with a focus on her use of collage as a method for representing nuclear weapons and war.
RSVP here.
Please join us on Friday, March 21st at noon (Eastern Time) for the research presentations of our 2024-2024 Spotlight Scholars.
Ronay Bakan (John Hopkins), Lauren Baker (Northwestern), and Be Stone (Rhodes College) will provide short presentations of their ongoing research. We will then open it up for a Q&A with the audience. The work of all three of our Spotlight Scholars exemplifies the virtues of interpretive research. We hope you can join us.
The session is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please click here.
In this seminar, Dr Kathryn Brimbelcombe-Fox (Curtin University) will discuss her work with hosts and attendees. The event is associated with the exhibition DRONE: Ghosts and Shadows hosted by University of Southern Qld Art Gallery in Toowoomba, QLD.
Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series
Fred Schaffer (UMass Amherst) will speak about interpretive interviewing drawing both from his own research on ordinary language interviewing and from other interpretive scholars’ use of interviewing as a research tool.
This talk will take place from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (Eastern Time), via Zoom.
The talk is open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please click here.
Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series
Jessica Soedirgo (University of Amsterdam) and Aarie Glas (Northern Illinois University) will discuss reflexivity in interpretive research, drawing from ongoing research and their article, “Toward Active Reflexivity: Positionality and Practice in the Production of Knowledge,” published in PS: Political Science & Politics in 2020.
This talk will take place from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (Eastern Time), via Zoom. Please note the early start time.
The talk is open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please click here.
The International Relations Theory Section has extended the deadline for nominating papers to be considered for the APSA IR Theory Graduate Student Paper Award. While at APSA 2024, did you present a paper with a substantial IR theory component? Did you serve on or attend a panel at which a terrific paper was presented? Please consider submitting your own paper or nominating a paper that you encountered. Papers presented at APSA 2024 in Philadelphia are eligible for consideration. Nominations are due by January 15, 2025.
Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series
Diana S. Kim (Georgetown) will speak about archival research and interpretive methods drawing from her work on Southeast Asia's colonial histories and her book, Empires of Vice (Princeton University Press).
This talk will take place from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (Eastern Time), via Zoom.
The talk is open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please click here.
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Professor Emerita, University of Utah has endowed the “Schwartz-Shea and Yanow Dissertation Fellowship for Interpretive Research in the Department of Political Science.” The Fellowship honors her decades-long collaboration with Professor Dvora Yanow (Emerita, California State University, Hayward [East Bay]) and provides funds to support dissertation projects that employ interpretive methodologies and their associated methods in the conduct of empirical research. To learn more about the fellowship, visit https://poli-sci.utah.edu/giving/schwartz-shea-yanow-fellowship.php.
