The annual conference of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) 2024 will be hosted at the University of Warwick, England, beginning with a pre-conference workshop from 29-30 July, followed by the conference itself from 31 July – 2 August.
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 of Sociology and Head of Department 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 Roy Bhaskar’s death, a philosopher who was instrumental in establishing IACR and developing the original philosophy of critical realism and making it relevant to amongst other things 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. In considering intellectual challenges in a range of disciplines, we will reflect on their distinct contributions to critical realist thought.
You can find out more on the conference website, including a call for papers – the deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 19 April 2024 at 4pm.
IACR has staged annual conferences since 1998. Previous conferences were hosted at :
- Manila, Philippines (hybrid format, 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).