The French Politics Group: What's Next in Scholarship on France

Session Submission Type: Wednesday Half-Day Short Course

Session Description

In this half-day (four-hour) Pre-Conference Workshop, the French Politics Group of APSA brings together four, award-winning junior scholars along with prestigious scholars of France and Europe to workshop portions of their late-stage books and dissertations. While a portion of the workshop is devoted to in-depth commentary on these manuscripts, the event will also include open discussion as well, thereby providing a public platform for the next generation of cutting-edge political science research on France. Kevin Duong (Assistant Prof, Bard) examines violence and democracy in French political thought; Tommaso Pavone (PhC, Princeton) brings geospatial methods and ethnographic research to the study of judicialization in Europe; Isabel Perera (PhC, Penn) compares public health policies, especially pertaining to mental health, across France and the United States; and Michelle Weitzel (PhC, the New School) studies sound as a tool of political power, with a particular focus on French Algeria. A diversity of subfields and methods is represented in the group, and France is studied both for its past and its present. This half-day Pre-Conference Workshop is ideal for senior scholars interested in the next generation of scholarship on France, junior scholars interested in France as a comparative case, and all political scientists who find value in theoretically sophisticated and contextually grounded area studies.

Sub Unit

• APSA Panels and All Meetings and Receptions

Chair

• Jennifer Fredette Ohio University

Presenters

• Kevin Duong University of Virginia

• Tommaso Pavone University of Oslo

• Isabel Maria Perera University of Pennsylvania

• Michelle Day Weitzel The New School for Social Research

• Judith Grant Ohio University

• Michalis Moutselos Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity

• Margitta Maetzke Johannes-Kepler University Linz