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
CANCELLED - Is Queer an Interpretive Method? (Cai Wilkinson)
Cai Wilkinson
This seminar has been cancelled. Cai Wilkinson is an Associate Professor in International Relations, Deakin University. Cai's research focuses on…
A Decolonial Feminist Politics of Fieldwork: Centering Community, Reflexivity, and Loving Accountability (Laura J. Shepherd and Colleagues)
Alba Rosa Boer Cueva, Keshab Giri, Caitlin Hamilton, Laura J. Shepherd
International Studies scholarship has benefitted from insights from Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Geography, and other disciplines to…
Genealogy as Method: Historicising Political Subjectivities and the Political Unconscious (Adele Webb)
Adele Webb
Within the political science scholarship on democracy, there is a modest but growing concern about the need to make more complex our understandings…