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5th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis
Dates: 23-25 June 2010
Location: Grenoble (France)
Website: http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr/


Discourse and Policy Practices: Politics – Legitimacy - Power

* The conference starts with a keynote on June 23 at 10 a.m. ends with the keynote of Bruno Latour on Friday June 25 at 4.p.m. Read more about the program here.
*Conference site: Institute of Political Studies, "SciencePo Grenoble" , (1030 av. centrale - Domaine Universitaire - 38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères)
* As in the past years, we have organised a PhD dinner for you. We meet on Tuesday evening (June 22nd) in Le Tonneau de Diogène, from 7:30 p.m. This is a modest restaurant, well-known in Grenoble for its philosophy and literature meetings... This dinner is dedicated to young scholars but everybody else is welcome. Please contact sonia.lemettre(a)entpe.fr before June, 1st, with the object "PhD Dinner" to register.

Keynote speakers:

Roundtable : Beyond Import and Export - Is International Public Policy Analysis possible?

Kathrin Braun, University of Hannover (D); Frank Fischer, Rutgers University (USA)

Bruno Jobert, PACTE, l'Université de Grenoble (FR); Patrick Le Galès, Centre d'Etudes Européennes, Sciences PO Paris (FR);

Modertation by Nonna Mayer, Science PO Paris (FR), Presidente of the French Science Political Association

How ideas and discourse are key to the explanation of the dynamics of change in policies and institutions

Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University (USA)

The Phantom Public and the Invisibility of the Political :

Bruno Latour, Sciences PO Paris (FR) Response by Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna (A)

Interpretive research challenges mainstream positivism and scientism in the name of a methodological pluralism that is sensitive to meaning, historical and social context, and the importance of human subjectivity. Interpretive Policy Analysis entails diverse methodological paths aiming to explain current challenges of politics. Following successful conferences in Birmingham (2006), Amsterdam (2007), Essex (2008) and Kassel (2009), the 5th Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis in Grenoble will extend the complex investigation of meaning and politics by exploring, in particular, current challenges for discursive politics and policy practices.