11.05.2012

Open Lecture: Why Constructivists Must Engage with Non-Constructivists

Craig Parsons (Univ. of Oregon), Monday, 14th May 2012, 18.15 h, Room 124, IfP

Craig Parsons is <link http: polisci.uoregon.edu>Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He is currently staying at the Émile Durkheim Institute at the University of Bordeaux as a Fulbright Research Fellow and has been a visiting lecturer at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, IEP de Paris; University of California, Santa Cruz; University of California, Irvine; Chapman University as well as University of California, Berkeley. He also was the founding Director of the Maxwell European Union Center at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
His research interests include comparative European politics with a focus on institution building and constructivist theory development. He is also a well-known expert on France and its role in the European Union.
Among his many publications are A Certain Idea of Europe (Cornell University Press, 2003), winner of the International Studies Association’s Alger Prize for the best book on international organization in 2003, and How to Map Arguments in Political Science (Oxford University Press, 2007) for which he was awarded an Honorable Mention of the American Political Science Association’s Giovanni Sartori Prize in Qualitative Methods. The lecture will be closely linked to one of his present papers with the title Why Constructivists and Non-Constructivists Must Engage.