Discourse and Policy Practices: Politics – Legitimacy - Power

IPA NEWS:

• Conference site: Institute of Political Studies, "SciencePo Grenoble" , (1030 av. centrale - Domaine Universitaire - 38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères) The conference venue is just in front of the tram stop "Bibliothèques Universitaires".

• Arrival: Your registration includes a 72 hour pass for Grenoble transports . A welcome desk is therefore at your disposal in front of the Grenoble's railway station and the bus station. Please follow the sings that will guide you to this desk. You will receive the pass and a plan of Grenoble. The welcome desk opening hours are :Tuesday June 22 :  13: 30 - 20 : 30 and Wednesday  June, 23  8:30 - 13: 00.

• Departure: - flights to and from Lyon: We have organised direct shuttles from the conference venue to the Satolas airport on Friday June 23 at 16:30 and 17: 00. Please buy a return ticket Satolas - Grenoble- Satolas at your arrival (Faure Vercors is the company's name). You can register for this shuttle service on Wednesday morning at the registration desk.

• Registration: Registration opens on Wednesday June 23  at 8:30. Luggage depository will be available the first and the last day.

• Arrivals on Thursday June 24:  Due to the recent developments concerning the French pension reform a national strike of public services has been anounced for Thursday June 24. 2010.
  This does not mean necessary that everybody is on strike:

  1- Flights will be assured, nevertheless there might be delays if the staff at the airport in France would be striking. 
   
  2 - "Faure Vercors" - shuttle service Satolas - Grenoble -Satolas runs normally
   
  3- International trains "Thalys" and "Eurostar" should run normally 
  4- All other trains - TGV ; TER - may have some delays or  cancellations. The SNCF ( French National Railway Company) will anounce the concrete condition of the train ciruclation and indicate which trains are cancelled on  their website on Tuesday June 22 at 9. p.m. Please if this conerns you go to http://www.sncf.fr/en_EN/flash/ on tuesday evening. A special "strike anouncement" will guide you to the infromation. You will be asked to indicate the number of your train to be able to know if the train is running or not.You can also visit http://www.infolignes.com/ (in French). 
   
  5-We have organized a supplementary welcome desk in Grenoble on Thursday from 8.30 - 10.00 and we  wish you a safe trip to the conference,

• Technical details: All rooms are equipped with computers and beamers. They have the ppt software (open office) and pdf. Those of you that use MAC are kindly asked to ensure that their presentations are compatible with PC software.

• Presentations: We recommend all participants to keep their presentations within 15  minutes. Panel chairs might have however special requirements that they announce to you via email before the conference. All papers received in the regular deadline are downloaded on a USB that every registered participant gets at the registration.

• What is IPA?  a film made by Kassel University. based on the IPA 2009. Students of Helen Schwenken are asking the fundamental question that touches the conference. The film will be diffused on Wednesday before the welcome speech in Amhpi A. See the flyer here

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.