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
Conceptualising a case, casing a concept? Two faces of global citizenship (April Biccum, ANU)
April Biccum (Australian National University)
This talk addresses the insights to be gained through a comparison of the use of a politically constitutive concept that delineates unlike but…
Past Events
Vision and method in global historical sociology (George Lawson)
George Lawson (ANU)
Historical sociology is a long-established interdisciplinary field concerned with incorporating temporality in the analysis of social processes.…
Access and Ethics in Prison Research (Farah Godrej)
Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside
How do the requirements of “scholarly” research—including and especially ethics reviews by institutional bodies—serve to shape and constrain…
Three Faces of Revolution: Egypt and Other Places (Mona El-Ghobashy)
Mona El-Ghobashy, New York University
The Arab uprisings of 2010-11 renewed scholarly interest in revolutions as a conceptual category. At the same time, ‘democratic transition’ was also…