IPA 2012, 5-7 July

Programme IPA 2012

Preliminary Program IPA 2012

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. John Forester
• Dr. Aletta Norval
• Prof.dr. Mieke Verloo

Roundtables

1. The Practice Turn in Social Theory and Policy Research
   (one roundtable and three seminars)
   • Hendrik Wagenaar, University of Sheffield
   • David Laws, Amsterdam University
   • Christian Bueger, Cardiff University
   • John Forester, Syracuse University
   • Lasse Peltonen, Helsinki University
   • Richard Freeman, University of Edinburg
   • Others t.b.a.
2. Critical realism and interpretivism
   • Stephen Connelly, University of Sheffield
   • David Howarth, University of Essex
   • Bob Jessop, Lancaster University
3. Facilitation in participatory governance: working for empowerment or disciplining citizens?
   • Christopher Gohl, German liberal party FDP
   • Chris Skelcher, University of Birmingham
   • Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia
   • Sonja van der Arend, Delft University of Technology
4. Building Bridges between Teaching and Research: How Can Interpretative Methods Help Us Re-Imagine Classroom Instruction?
   • Moderator: Richard Holtzman, Bryant University

Authors meet their critics

1. The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice
   • Authors: F. Fischer and H. Gottweiss (editors)
   • Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster
   • Douglas Torgerson, University of Trent
   • Jennifer Dodge, State University of New York
   • Thomas Saretzki, University of Lüneburg
   • Aletta Norval, University of Essex
   • Vivian Schmidt, Boston University
2. Authoritative Governance in the Age of Mediatization
   • Maarten Hajer, University of Amsterdam (author)
   • Jennifer Dodge, University at Albany
   • Gabriël van den Brink, Tilburg University
   • Stephen Jeffares, University of Birmingham
3. Analysing Policy: What’s the problem represented to be?
   • Carol Bacchi, University of Adelaide (author)
   • Dvora Yanow, Amsterdam University and Wageningen University
   • Aletta Norval, University of Essex
   • Cris Shore, University of Auckland
   • Hal Colebatch, University Of New South Wales
   • Susan Goodwin, The University Of Sydney
   • Susan Wright, Aarhus University
4. Introducing a practice based approach to forest and nature governance
   Editors:
   • Bas Arts
   • Jelle Behagel
   • Jessica De Koning
   • Severine van Bommel
   • All at Wageningen University
   Critics: t.b.a.
   
5. Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics
   • Justus Uitermark, Erasmus University Rotterdam (author)
   • Steven Griggs, De Montfort University
   • Navdeep Mathur, Indian Institute of Management
   • Tamara Metze, Tilburg University

Methodology workshop

A limited number of the sessions will be devoted to methodology workshops. These workshop sessions feature specialists in different aspects of interpretive policy analysis. Here you find more information.

Pre-conference course

For the second time, the conference will offer a day-long pre-conference course to introduce participants – from doctoral students to more seasoned researchers – to interpretive policy analysis. Here you find more information.

Panels

Click here to see the list of panels at the conference.