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
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…