Thursday, May 19

8:00-8:30am Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 Opening Remarks  

Dr. Peg Barratt, Director, Division of Social and Cognitive Sciences

Dr. Richard Lempert, Director, Division of Social & Economic Science

Michèle Lamont, Harvard University , Workshop Convener

9:00-10:00 Standards in Cultural Anthropology

Gery Ryan, Rand Corporation, Co-convener & session moderator

Ted Bestor, Harvard University

John Comaroff, University of Chicago

Linda Garro, University of California, Los Angeles

Susan Weller, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston

10:00-10:30 Discussion

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Standards in Political Science

Andrew Bennett, Georgetown , Co-convener & session moderator

David Collier,  University of California , Berkeley

Colin Elman, Arizona State University

John Gerring, Boston University

Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University

Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago

12:00-12:30 Discussion

12 :30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-2:30 Standards in Law & Social Science

John Bowen, Washington University, Co-convener & session moderator

Don Brenneis, University of California , San Diego

Susan Coutin, University of California - Irvine

Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University

Susan Silbey, MIT

Jody Miller, University of Missouri , St. Louis

2:30-3:00 Discussion

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:15 Standards in Sociology

Michèle Lamont, Harvard University , Convener & session moderator

Kathleen Blee, Pittsburgh University

Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University

Joane Nagel, University of Kansas

Mario Small, Princeton University

Alford Young, University of Michigan

4 :15-5:00 Discussion

5:00 Adjourn

   

Friday, May 20

8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:30 Standards that Cross-Disciplinary Boundaries—Common Criteria

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Promising Topics for Qualitative Research

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Resources Available and Needed for Strengthening Qualitative Research

2:00-2:45 Critical Areas for Discoveries to Advance Qualitative Research

2:45-3:30 Developing a Research Agenda for Multi-Disciplinary Qualitative Research

3:30 Closing Remarks and Adjournment

Dr. Wanda Ward, Acting Assistant Director, Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Directorate