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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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
How I Studied Anti-Americanism: Reflections on Interpretivism, Eclecticism, and Coherence (Edward Schatz)
Edward Schatz, University of Toronto
How can social science research do justice to polysemy, ambiguity, dynamism, recursivity, indeterminacy, and contingency while making substantive,…
Telling the truth about empire? A note on methodology (April Biccum)
April Biccum (ANU)
In the fourth talk for the 'Rethinking Interpretive Methods" series, hosted by the Interpretation, Method and Critique Network at ANU, April…
Rethinking comparison: Innovative methods for qualitative political inquiry (Erica Simmons, Nick Rush Smith)
Erica Simmons (Wisconsin-Madison), Nick Rush Smith (CUNY)
Qualitative comparative methods – and specifically controlled qualitative comparisons – are central to the study of politics. They are not the only…