The Interpretation, Method and Critique (IMC) Seminar Series promotes and celebrates work in interpretive and critical methodologies and methods in the social sciences. It is interdisciplinary and welcoming of all research that places intersubjective meaning-making at the centre of social scientific inquiry, or that identifies with one or more traditions in critical theory and praxis.
Seminars are on Fridays, 12 - 1pm, Australian Eastern Time (Standard/Daylight) unless otherwise indicated.
Some past IMC seminars videos are available online.
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- Nick Cheesman
Upcoming Events
How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research (Nicholas Rush Smith, CUNY)
Nicholas Rush Smith (City University of New York - City College)
Regardless of method, political scientists often seek to develop arguments that can be generalized to a population of cases. But is this the…
Out of Harm’s Way: How Australian Music Venues and DIY Events Make Safe Spaces (Emma Crocker, ANU)
Emma Crocker (Australian National University)
Australian music venues, bars, and DIY (do-it-yourself) music events post ‘safe space’ policies to walls, Instagram pages, and bathroom doors. These…
Historical ethnography and the study of elites (Rod Rhodes, Southampton)
Professor Rod Rhodes (Southampton University)
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…
Past Events
Decolonising minority citizenship: promises of an ethnographic sensibility (Sagnik Dutta, OP Jindal Global University)
Dr Sagnik Dutta (Jindal Global University)
Who is a minority? The answer to this seemingly innocuous question is not obvious. Colonial constructions of the minority were shaped by racialised…
How to Do Interpretive Research: Insights for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences (Colette Einfeld & Helen Sullivan, ANU)
Helen Sullivan (ANU), Colette Einfeld (ANU)
Interpretive research unfolds differently to conventional dissertations and research projects that many ‘how to books’ are aimed at. This…
Making al-Qa’ida legible: Interpretive methods, secrets, and mess (Sarah Phillips, Sydney)
Sarah Phillips (University of Sydney)
This seminar will explore two broad, but ultimately unreconcilable, understandings of what al-Qa’ida in Yemen ‘really is’: one legible,…