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International Association of Critical Realism 2024: Looking Back to Look Forward

IACR is an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference based in critical realism.

The theme for this conference is to ‘look back in order to look forward’. 2024 marks the first anniversary of the death of Maggie Archer, former Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her work on social morphogenesis and social ontology is well-established in the social sciences. It also marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Roy Bhaskar, who was instrumental in developing the philosophy of critical realism, establishing IACR and making it relevant to amongst other things dialectics, metaphysics, environmental issues and interdisciplinarity. We would like to honour both Roy Bhaskar and Maggie Archer as they would have wished, by taking seriously their thought and where it sits in critical realism going forward.

As the world stumbles from crisis to crisis, what role can critical realist approaches play, and how should the spiritual elements developed by both Archer and Bhaskar be aligned with Critical Realism’s more social scientific dimensions?

We are interested in papers and panels in a wide range of fields from a broad range of critical realist approaches including in its original, dialectical and metaReal forms together with approaches to social ontology. Critical realism has been influential in many branches of the social sciences, including sociology, philosophy, gender and environmental studies, political theory and economics. New or under-treated topics such as artificial intelligence, aesthetics and psychoanalysis are also of interest.

Plenary roundtables are planned on Bhaskar (contact: Alan Norrie) and Archer (contact: Ismael Al-Ahmoudi), on environment (contact: Leigh Price) and gender (TBC), on international political economy (contact: Karim Kniou) and on law (contact: Henrique Carvalho). Confirmed speakers include: Ismael Al-Ahmoudi, Michael Bhaskar, Henrique Carvalho, Karim Kniou, Doug Porpora, Leigh Price, Alan Norrie, Onur Ozmen, Craig Reeves, Amanda Wilson.

We invite papers and panels on the following thematic streams:

  • Business and economics
  • Critical realist philosophy and methodology
  • Education
  • Environment and climate studies
  • Gender studies
  • Law, justice and social justice
  • Politics and political theory

Additionally, we welcome proposals for panels outside of these streams.

Submit here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/events/iacr-2024