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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Drop by the Methods Cafe at #APSA2026 on Friday 2-3:30 in Hynes 210. It's been a delight to co-organize this welcoming and inclusive Cafe for the last few years with @drbestone.bsky.social (& previously @professorbiko.bsky.social).

Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Café
Friday, September 4, 2:00 - 3:30, in Hynes 210
The Interpretive Methodologies & Methods group is delighted to host our 21st annual Methods Cafe, an opportunity for social scientists at all career levels to learn more about interpretive methods in an informal setting. Read more about the cafe, topics, and experts at https://www.interpretivemethods.com/methods-cafe-2026

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

The Bathers high.org/sites/Amy-Sh...

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

Amy Sherald exhibit at the High Museum high.org/sites/Amy-Sh...

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 10/09/2025

WOCs in CP @ #APSA@2025 starting with short courses today!

Women of Color in Comparative Politics
A transregional professional and support network of women of color, non-binary, and gender expansive scholars of Comparative Politics. Join us. (https://forms.gle/bS4MpMmnSrCUoqcL7)
APSA 2025 Events
Short Course: Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts and Times of Heightened Global Tension (QMMR D)
Wednesday, September 10, 9:00am to 1:00pm PDT
Co-sponsored by Comparative Politics Section and WOCs in Comparative Politics

Short Course: Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field (QMMR E)
Wednesday, September 10, 1:30 to 5:30pm PDT
Co-sponsored by Women, Gender & Politics Section Research and WOCs in Comparative Politics

Pop-Up Community Building Event:
Thursday, September 11, 6:00pm to 8:00pm PDT (email for location info)

Roundtable: Making Your Own Network
Fri, September 12, 4:00 to 5:30pm PDT
APSA Theme Panel co-sponsored by Women’s Caucus for Political Science and WOCs in Comparative Politics

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 06/09/2025

Women of Color in Comparative Politics @ #APSA2025 ! Wed Short Courses: Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts and Times (AM) & Planning for Real (PM) Thursday Pop-Up Event: 6-8 pm (DM me for location) Friday Theme Panel: Making Your Own Network Roundtable, 4-5:30pm PDT

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 06/09/2025

Join our #APSA2025 Wednesday afternoon short course on Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field!

PLANNING FOR REAL: BRINGING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO THE FIELD
An APSA Short Course
Discussions on Navigating:
• The body
• Academic Responsibilities
• Ethics
• Practical Concerns
• Gatekeepers
• Community
• Family
• And much more
Most fieldwork advice is very general in nature, proffered for supposedly neutral and unmarked researchers. This approach underestimates the variability of researchers’ bodies and positionalities across the span and dimensions of fieldwork including preparing, active field time, and reception. These varied bodies and positionalities are not ancillary to the planning and doing of fieldwork but influence every aspect of it.
We take up these concerns in this interactive workshop session, sharing our experiences, insights and expertise, and creating space for participants to integrate their whole selves into planning and adapting field work.
Wednesday, September 10th
1:30-5:30 p.m.
See program for location

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 06/09/2025

You're invited to learn more about interpretive methods at the 20th annual IMM Methods Cafe at #APSA2025! Sept. 11, 4-5:30 pm, Marriot Point Grey Room.

20th annual Methods Café Thursday, September 11th
4:00-5:30 pm PDT, Marriott Point Grey Room.
The Interpretive Methods and Methodologies group is delighted to host our 20th annual Methods Café, an opportunity for social scientists at all career levels to learn more about interpretive methods in an informal setting.
Read more about the Methods Café, topics, and experts here: https://www.interpretivemethods.com/methods-cafe-2025

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 28/08/2025

Ravecca addresses Latin American Political Science in authoritarian times here. Learned of this work from @tungohan.bsky.social

Book cover for the politics of political science: re-writing Latin American experiences

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025

Black Women Writing African Politics & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Thuto Thipe, "Making home in Alexandra Township. 28 February virtual event at 11:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 Dakar, 18:00 Jozi, 19:00 EAT. Register at ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CELEBRATED, CENTERED, AND CITED.
The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research and DSA Land present Dr. Thuto Thipe.
Making home in Alexandra Township: Black landownership in mid-twentieth century South Africa
DATE: 28 February 2025 TIME: 11:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 Dakar, 18:00 Jozi, 19:00 EAT
(Registration link in post)
This event is open to all.
All are invited to engage with Thuto Thipe’s work on black people’s landownership in mid-twentieth century Johannesburg, a time when the city was designed and legislated for white people’s exclusive permanent residence. Thipe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on the role of land and fixed property in the production and articulation race, gender, and class in 19th and 20th century South Africa.

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 08/01/2025

walking my dog mostly in the street this am. my block is a bit better👇🏽

photo of snow covered rutted road intersection and sidewalks with a truck and a few houses visible

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #201,155!

celebrating 10 million users. # 200,155. First 10% Robin Turner. @ RobinLTurnerPhD@bsky.social Joined July 2, 2023.

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 11/09/2024

i’m sick of requests fue money but the timing of this one was excellent

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 05/09/2024

Many thanks to @jlynch13.bsky.social for this thread. Had a great meal! 👇🏽

Tea smoked duck, green beans, & eggplant

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 30/08/2024

Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field, an interactive #APSA2024 QMMR short course, will address the varied positionality of researchers and their relation to the field. We focus on navigating the how of comparative fieldwork in the bodies we're in, with all that we may carry.

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 30/08/2024

#APSA2024 Don't miss the Methods Café at #APSA2024! Come to discuss your interpretive methods-related Qs, stay for the *excellent* company. Hope to see you on Fri Sept 6, 2-3pm!

024 Methods Café!
Friday, September 6th, 2:00-3:30pm EDT
Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), 201B
The Methods Café features a series of tables staffed by specialists with expertise in a range of interpretive methods and approaches. The Cafe is an informal setting allowing for one-on-one and group discussions, networking, and support.
Our Tables this year include:

Analyzing Political Discourse | Black Women's Interpretive and Intersectional Approaches | Comparative Interpretive Methods | Engagement & Action | Funding Interpretive Research | Interpretive Analysis of Violence | Indigenous Interpretive Methods | Interpreting US Social Movements | Interviewing | Political Ethnography | Positionality, Reflexivity, and Embodiment | Publishing Interpretive Research | Research Ethics & IRBs | Visual and Aural Analysis

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 08/04/2024

Virtual Event! Dr. K Melchior Hall on An Abolitionist Approach to Transnational Black Feminism, April 16 @ 12 EST/16 UTC/19 EAT register: uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CELEBRATED, CENTERED, AND CITED
The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective, Makerere Institute of Social Research and DSA Land, Labour and Politics of Development present
Dr. K. Melchor Quick Hall
An Abolitionist Approach to Transnational Black Feminism
DATE: April 16, 2024, TIME: 12 EST, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 GMT, 19:00 EAT
Register: https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kUNVDWAjQumwr8xzj8tY8Q
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL.
K. Melchor Quick Hall (she/her) is a popular education and community-based researcher, currently working as a postdoctoral fellow for Wellesley College’s Anti-Carceral Co-Laboratory and the Education Director at Global Village Farms. She advances abolitionist and food sovereignty futures that are longstanding commitments. She is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness and the co-editor, with Gwyn Kirk, of Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and Beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 07/11/2023

the cover. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Book Cover with white background with black and green text.
Edited by Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman
Doing Good Qualitative Research

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 03/11/2023

The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Kamari Clarke on Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT. This event is open to all.

Celebrated, Centered, and Cited
The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present
Dr. Kamari Clarke
Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project
November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT

Register using the link below
https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tsxegK2fR9qUIVnTrwT0yA#/registration

Part 3 in our 3-part series
This event is open to all.
Kamari Clarke is the Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. For over twenty years, she has studied legal institutions, human rights and international law, religious nationalism and the politics of race and globalization. She is the author of Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (2019, Duke), Fictions of Justice (Cambridge, 2010), and Mapping Yorùbá Networks (Duke, 2004).

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 02/11/2023

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 27/10/2023

So moved to listen to Joan Morgan describe the sister circle Black women organized to support Dee Barnes after she was assaulted in 1991 at NWSA.

Photo of Joan Morgan & other hip hop at 50 NWSA panelists

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 26/10/2023

Excited to have Butler U students present at NWSA! “Notes from Generation Z Radical Abolitionist: Ending Neoliberal Violence, Betrayal, and Injustice on Campus”

Title slide on left, 4 student presenters seated behind table at right

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 26/10/2023

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 04/07/2023

All are invited to join Black Women Writing African Politics & the Makerere Institute of Social Research to discuss Erica Townsend-Bell's "Affirmative Action For What?: Afro-Uruguayans and the Path to Diaspora on 14 Sept. Register butleru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN…

The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present
Dr. Erica Townsend-Bell, "Affirmative Action For What? Afro-Uruguayans and the Path to Diaspora"
DATE: 14 September 2023
TIME: 12:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 BST/WAT, 19:00 EAT
Register at https://butleru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MdQkRqr8QbeXYP9-2UqCgA
PART 2 IN OUR 3-PART SERIES
This event is open to all.
All are invited to engage with Erica Townsend-Bell’s work on blackness, afro descent, and processes of racialization in Uruguay. Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Townsend-Bell studies the politics of intersectionality, comparative racial politics, and the politics of inclusion. She focuses on the ways in which race, class and gender and other markers of difference intersect to impact representation, participation, and the enjoyment of rights.

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