The Interpretive Methods Café brings together scholars with broad-ranging expertise for informal conversation with anyone who wishes to learn about, problem-solve, or discuss interpretive approaches in a friendly and supportive environment. Café visitors will find multiple tables to sit for one-on-one and group discussions, networking and support.
Visitors are invited to arrive at any point, visit any specialist, and stay as long as they like before moving on. If a conversation is already under way, others can join in or just sit and listen. One need not worry about having questions that are “too elementary”—it is fine to ask anything about that method, at any level!—and visitors may leave the table or room at any time. We ask only that they sign in at each table they visit so that we can gauge interest. Visitors at past cafés have ranged from doctoral students to full professors. Topics are dependent on the availability of specialist participation but may include interviewing techniques, positionality and reflexivity, field research in foreign countries, ethics boards and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), visual research, autoethnographic methods, participatory action research, narrative analysis, publishing interpretive research, etc.
Speakers
Dr. Robin A. Harper, York College City University of New York
