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IACR Conferences

The annual conference of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) 2025 will be hosted at the Akademii Nauk Stosowanych (Academy of Applied Sciences ) Szczecin, Poland (hybrid).

Pre-Conference Monday, July 28- Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Conference Wednesday 30 July – Friday 1 August, 2025

You can find out more on the conference website, including a call for papers – the deadline for abstract submissions is July 6, 2025.


IACR has staged annual conferences since 1998. Previous conferences were hosted at :

  • Warwick, UK (hybrid, 2024)
  • Manila, Philippines (hybrid, 2023)
  • Den Haag, Netherlands (hybrid format, 2022),
  • South Africa (delivered online, 2021),
  • Warsaw, Poland (delivered online, 2020),
  • Southampton, UK (2019),
  • Lillehammer, Norway (2018),
  • Torino, Italy (2017),
  • Cardiff, UK (2016),
  • South Bend, Indiana USA (2015),
  • London, UK (2014),
  • Nottingham (2013),
  • Grahamstown, South Africa, (2012), 
  • Oslo University College (2011),
  • University of Padua, Italy (2010),
  • Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2009),
  • Kings College, London (2008),
  • Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (2007),
  • University of Tromsø, Norway (2006),
  • University of Western Sydney, Australia (2005),
  • University of Cambridge, UK (2004),
  • University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2003),
  • the University of Bradford, UK (2002),
  • Roskilde University, Denmark (2001),
  • University of Lancaster, UK (2000),
  • University of Örebro, Sweden (1999),
  • University of Essex, UK (1998).