August 3rd, 10am-5pm at the University of Warwick
Margaret Archer’s work has had a profound impact on social theory, challenging and reshaping our understanding of agency, structure, culture and their interplay in producing social change. Her contributions to the discipline have been wide-ranging, from critical interventions in conceptual debates to discussions about the nature of our times. Archer’s engagements with other thinkers, both within and outside the critical realist tradition, have shaped contemporary sociological debates.
| 10:00 to 10:30 | Welcome and introduction – Mark Carrigan and Sebastian Raza |
| 10:30 to 12:00 | Friends and collaborators panel In person: Ismael Al-Amoudi, William Outhwaite, Douglas Porpora, Sally Tomlinson Chair: Mark Carrigan |
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Reflecting on the Morphogenetic Approach Chair: Ismael Al-Amoudi Karim Knio – The Immanent Causality Morphogenetic Approach (TBC) Juan David Parra – Archer’s Morphogenesis and the Political Economy of Education Systems Krzysztof Wielecki – The presence of Margaret Scotford Archer in Polish sociology |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 to 15:00 | Reflecting on Reflexivity Chair: Sebastian Raza Lakshman Wimalasena – Reflexivity in Practice: Advancing the Working Experience through a Reflexive [Co-Design] Intervention Richard Remelie – Measuring reflexivity Ka Lok Yip – Archerian Realism and Phenomenology: Friends or Foes? |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 to 16:10 | Putting Social Realism To Work Chair: Mark Carrigan Anzhela Popyk – Structure and Agency: Transnational and School Transitions of Ukrainian Forced Migrant Adolescents in Poland Catherine Hastings – Developing critical realist empirical research using Archer’s explanatory framework |
| 16:10 to 17:00 | Open Reflection Session Chair: Mark Carrigan |
| 17:00 to 18:00 | Post conference drink (varsity pub) |