Upcoming events
21
Mar
2024
High Court & Supreme Court oral argument: Interruptions, interventions, judicial strategy, & the effect of institutional rules
This presentation compares the apex courts of Australia and the United States. There are a number of highly significant institutional differences between the...
22
Mar
2024
Book Launch: 'The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, resistance fighters and firebrands'
Before the Second World War, the majority of Jews were working class and part of a wider struggle alongside their non-Jewish comrades on the left. The book...
28
Mar
2024
Precolonial states and postcolonial democratisation
Existing studies suggest that historical states have been an impediment to democratisation because they resisted the colonial transmission of nascent...
19
Apr
2024
Interpretive Political Science as a Tool for Understanding Policy Making in Practice - Sarah Ball
Policy-making is an ongoing process of negotiation and mediation of meaning but this side of policy often goes unnoticed, made up of ‘hundreds of practical...
03
May
2024
Making al-Qa’ida legible: Interpretive methods, secrets, and mess - Sarah Phillips
This seminar will explore two broad, but ultimately unreconcilable, understandings of what al-Qa’ida in Yemen ‘really is’: one legible, organisationally...
10
May
2024
How to Do Interpretive Research: Insights for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences - Colette Einfeld & Helen Sullivan
Interpretive research unfolds differently to conventional dissertations and research projects that many ‘how to books’ are aimed at. This presentation draws on...
24
May
2024
Interpreting Australia's International Relations: Settler Colonialism, Empire, and Foreign Policy - Federica Caso
The framework of settler colonialism is becoming increasingly established in the critical literature on Australia, but the scholarship on foreign policy and...