How to Do Interpretive Research: Insights for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences (Colette Einfeld & Helen Sullivan, ANU)
Seminar
Interpretive research unfolds differently to conventional dissertations and research projects that many ‘how to books’ are aimed at. This presentation draws on the contents of a forthcoming edited book about the experiences of those doing interpretive and critical research in different stages of…
Making al-Qa’ida legible: Interpretive methods, secrets, and mess (Sarah Phillips, Sydney)
Seminar
This seminar will explore two broad, but ultimately unreconcilable, understandings of what al-Qa’ida in Yemen ‘really is’: one legible, organisationally rational and thus governable; and one not entirely so. I’ll argue that the divergence between these two ontologies matters—and is even part of the…
The World of Mab Grimwade: Australian Women, Biography and Archives
Seminar
Searching for the imprint of a woman’s life is a challenge repeatedly expressed by the biographers of women, and Mab Grimwade is no exception. Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887–1973), or ‘Mab’ to those who knew her, would grow up…
Gender responsive budgeting and the financing of maternity care in the Australian federation: addressing gender equality including in emergencies and disasters
Webinar/Online
Registration and Zoom details are available here. This webinar is the next in the “Human Rights, Gender Budgeting and Progressing Breastfeeding in 2020 and Beyond, Series”, and will be held on Monday, 29 April 2024, 6:00 PM -8:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). The webinar is…
Public Lecture by Prof Mike Savage: The Racial Wealth Divide, Elites and Tax Justice
Lecture
Deep dive into exploding wealth inequality, its impact on society, and legal loopholes used by the ultra-rich at this eye-opening event! Over the past decade escalating wealth inequalities are increasingly evident across the globe, and pose fundamental analytical and political issues. Analytically…
Interpretive Political Science as a Tool for Understanding Policy Making in Practice (Sarah Ball, Melbourne)
Seminar
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 practical judgments, the everyday, taken-for-granted-routines and practices’ (Wagenaar). This research draws on key concepts from Bevir and Rhodes’s…
Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled
Seminar
Kate Fullagar will discuss the background, research, writing, and unusual methodology of her third monograph, Bennelong & Phillip (Simon & Schuster, 2023). This book offers a dual biography of Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), the inaugural governor of New South Wales, and of Bennelong (c1764-…