Upcoming events
07
Mar
2025
What’s to know about politics? Positivism and tradition in Australian undergraduate program and course descriptions
How do Australian universities today communicate to potential and new students what constitutes fundamental knowledge in the study of politics? In this talk I...
02
May
2025
How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research
Regardless of method, political scientists often seek to develop arguments that can be generalized to a population of cases. But is this the only way to think...
09
May
2025
Out of Harm’s Way: How Australian Music Venues and DIY Events Make Safe Spaces
Australian music venues, bars, and DIY (do-it-yourself) music events post ‘safe space’ policies to walls, Instagram pages, and bathroom doors. These policies...
23
May
2025
Historical ethnography and the study of elites
In principle, it is possible to observe British elites in action, but such access is rare. Therefore, Rhodes’s study of court politics is not ethnographic in...
13
Jun
2025
Conceptualising a case, casing a concept? Two faces of global citizenship
This talk addresses the insights to be gained through a comparison of the use of a politically constitutive concept that delineates unlike but connected ‘cases...
