Cultural Politics Seminar (via Zoom)
Date and Time
Location
"The Framing of 9/11 in the American, French, and Dutch Public Spheres (2001-2021): Towards an Inductive Approach for Studying Events"
Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)
Speaker:
Thijs van Dooremalen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program; Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam.
Contact:
Ilana Freedman
ifreedman@g.harvard.edu
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Chairs:
Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Department of Anthropology, and the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University.
Remote Access Information:
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Abstract:
In this presentation, I will outline an inductive approach for studying events, which enables cross-national and long-term event investigations. The central premise of the approach is to follow the direct associations that actors make with an event as openly as possible. I will then apply the approach to the case of 9/11 in the American, French, and Dutch public spheres (2001-2021), by using both qualitative and quantitave text analysis methods. From this case study I formulate various empirical and theoretical lessons, that might work for event meaning-making processes more generally.