Wednesday 24 June 2020, 04:00-5.30 pm London time (click here for your local time) Panellists: Leigh Price Radha d’Souza Tony Lawson Lena Gunnarsson Steph Grohmann Michiel Van Ingen This webinar aims to showcase the contributions and potential of critical realist… Read More »Critical Realism Matters Webinar Series: Critical Realism, Feminism and Gender
The criticalrealismnetwork.org site was originally created by the impressive Human Flourishing and Critical Realism project (and the subsequent Beyond Positivism project), based in the Sociology Department of Yale University and funded by the Templeton Foundation. The project developed a strong network of… Read More »Refreshing the critical realism network website
Review of Lawson, T. (2019). The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology. London and New York: Routledge. This review by Yannick Slade-Caffarel was originally published on the Developing Economics blog on June 2, 2020. Ontology is the study… Read More »The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology (Review)
One of the most exciting outputs from the Critical Realism Network project at Yale was a series of five short videos introducing critical realism, hosted by Katelin Albert. It has taken a while, but we have now been able to… Read More »Critical Realism Video Introductions Launched
The Bhaskar Memorial Fund A sustainable, diversified global society in which the free flourishing of each is a condition of the free flourishing of all. This, for Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014), is the core objective (moral alethia) of the human species.… Read More »Applications invited to the Bhaskar Memorial Fund
A series of podcasts recorded by the British Sociological Association’s Realism Study Group and the Centre for Social Ontology between 2010 and 2015:
The International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) invites nominations for the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded annually for a book or article that constitutes, motivates or exemplifies the best and/or most innovative new writing in or about the… Read More »Call for nominations: Cheryl Frank book prize (Note short deadline)
The University of Saskatchewan is pleased to announce that it will offer an upper graduate-level course, “Introduction to Realism: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice,” this spring in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. This course will be held May 06 – June 23, 2020… Read More »Graduate Course in Realist Research Methodology at University of Saskatchewan (May 06 – June 23, 2020)
The Cambridge Realist Workshop is a regular seminar series which takes place in the autumn and early spring each year at Newnham College, Cambridge in the UK. The schedule is here. Next up is Jana Bacevic, who will be presenting… Read More »Cambridge Realist Workshop schedule