Discourse Analysis Workshop in Florence

On April 11, I delivered the opening keynote lecture for a two-day workshop on Discourse Analysis organized by PhD students at the European University Institute in Florence.  I was asked to discuss the epistemological and ontological underpinnings of discourse analysis and did so by elaborating on my analytic framework of “discursive institutionalism.” I focused on the substantive content of ideas and the interactive processes of discourse in institutional context, and in particular on the historical and philosophical background of interpretive approaches in political science as well as in the philosophy of science and social science.