Upcoming events
02
May
2025
How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research (Nicholas Rush Smith, CUNY)
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 (Emma Crocker, ANU)
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 (Rod Rhodes, Southampton)
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 (April Biccum, ANU)
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...
