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
Past Events
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,…
Interpretive Political Science as a Tool for Understanding Policy Making in Practice (Sarah Ball, Melbourne)
Sarah Ball (University of Melbourne)
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…
Interpretive International Relations: Narrative and Explanation (Ian Hall, Griffith University)
Ian Hall, Griffith University
Interpretivists hold that the social world is a world of meaning. They maintain that social behaviour is best explained in terms of the meanings that…