International Association for Critical Realism (IACR)

IACR Conference 2012, Grahamstown, South Africa

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Call for abstracts

15^th International Association for Critical Realism Conference

Conference theme: Global Change Challenges & Critical Realism Debates

Abstract submissions due: 16 March

http://www.iacr2012conference.co.za/

Conference 18 – 20 July 2012

Pre-conference workshops 16 & 17 July

Venue: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Keynote speakers: Roy Bhaskar, Margaret Archer, Alan Norrie & Leigh Price

Abstract submissions: Friday 16 March 2012

Notification of acceptances: Monday 16 April 2012

Early registration: Friday 18 May 2012

Late registration: Friday 15 June 2012

For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.iacr2012conference.co.za/

Or email Carolyn on C.Stevenson-Milln@ru.ac.za

Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize

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The Cheryl Frank Memorial 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 tradition of critical realism, including the philosophy of metaReality, in the previous year. Nominations should be made to the IACR General Secretary, Tone Skinningsrud tone.skinningsrud@uit.no The closing date for nominations is 1st February. The winner is declared on 1st March.

The winner is invited to give the annual Cheryl Frank Memorial Lecture at the IACR Annual Conference or some other suitable venue. If the author wishes, the lecture will be considered for publication in Journal of Critical Realism.

The Cheryl Frank Committee consists of one nominee each from IACR, the Centre for Critical Realism and JCR. The current members are Alan Norrie, Roy Bhaskar and Mervyn Hartwig. Where the work of one of its members is being considered the Committee invites a substitute nomination from the relevant organization.

Cheryl Lynn Frank (1946-2010) was an American scholar and activist. Born on August 1, 1946 in Illinois, she married and had two children; was active in the civil rights movement, participating in Martin Luther King’s march in Selma, Alabama and later established the first domestic violence shelter in the USA (in Champaign, Illinois); she worked as a policy analyst at the state level, as a journalist, editor and freelance writer. She took masters degrees in politics and journalism, did extensive research on the position of women and native Americans in the twentieth century and completed extensive doctoral work in cultural studies and mass communication. She became however increasingly dissatisfied with the dominant positivist and poststructuralist methodologies, and at the same time increasingly interested in spiritual issues.

In November 2002 she met Roy Bhaskar at a meeting of the Foundation of Light (of which she was President) in Ithaca, New York. They corresponded and she joined him in London in February 2003. From then on she was his lover, partner and inseparable companion, and became utterly devoted to his well-being and to the cause of critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality, throwing herself into this work. She died after a short illness on January 22, 2010, leaving, besides Roy, her two children and three grandchildren. Her only published work in critical realism is an essay in Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change (which she co-edited with Roy and others); but she made a huge contribution, assisting Roy in his work, and to the movement and to her many friends within it. The forthcoming collection of essays, Critical Realism and Spirituality, edited by Mervyn Hartwig and Jamie Morgan, is dedicated to her memory.

Past recipients
2010 (joint) Alan Norrie, Dialectic and Difference: Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice and Christian Smith, What is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

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Conference invitation

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There will be a critical realism stream at the Critical Management Studies conference at Naples July 11-13 2011. Lead convenor is Alistair Mutch and he welcomes submissions which engage with the three major themes: What barriers are there to using critical realism in practice? How does critical realism relate to other theoretical traditions? How critical is critical realism? Initial abstracts of 1,000 words should be submitted by 30 November 2010. Fuller details are available on the conference website at http://www.organizzazione.unina.it/streams/12.pdf

Critical realist publications

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For lists of publications in the various series, use the following links:

Classical Texts in Critical Realism
http://www.routledge.com/books/series/classical_texts_in_critical_realism_CTCR/

Critical Realism: Interventions
http://www.routledge.com/books/series/critical_realism_interventions_SE0596/

New Studies in Critical Realism and Education
http://www.routledge.com/books/series/new_studies_in_critical_realism_and_education_CRE/

New Studies in Critical Realism and Spirituality
http://www.routledge.com/books/series/new_studies_in_critical_realism_and_spirituality_CRS/

Ontological Explorations
http://www.routledge.com/books/series/ontological_explorations_OE/

Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
http://www.routledge.com/books/series/routledge_studies_in_critical_realism_SE0518/

Other recent publications by critical realists:

Tobin Nellhaus, Theatre, Communication, Critical realism, MacMillan, 2010
http://us.macmillan.com/theatrecommunicationcriticalrealism

Dave Elder-Vass, The Causal Power of Social Structures, Cambridge University Press, 2010
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521194457

Christian Smith, What is a Person, The University of Chicago Press, 2010 http://tinyurl.com/3a7xuw4A. Martin Byers, Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands: The Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies. Lanham: AltaMira Press 2010.

Nivien Saleh, Third World Citizens and the Information Technology Revolution (Basingstoke: PalgraveMacmillan, 2010) http://www.thirdworldcitizens.info/about-third-world-citizens.html

Andrew Sayer, Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life (Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press, 2011)

IACR | Web Sites

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Critical Realism Wiki
The Wiki for the Critical Realism community.

Critical Realism
An electronic forum and (virtual) community committed to discussion and debate concerning Critical Realism and the philosophy of Roy Bhaskar.

Critical Realism News blog
The latest news from the Critical Realism Community

Critical Realism Social Network
A Social Network for Critical Realists

Cambridge Realist Workshop
An informal seminar series that encompasses almost any sort of discussion in the field of methodology/philosophy of science.

Centre for Critical Realism
A charitable trust established in November 1996 with the general aim of supporting critical realist activities, both theoretical and practical.

IACR | Workshops

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Workshops and seminars 2010:

Göteborg, Sweden
Department of Sociology,
Sprängkullsgatan 25
Coordinator: Freddy Castro

15.09. Eduardo Medina:
Towards a Model for
Critical Discourse Analysis

20.10. Freddy Castro:
Elder-Vass on The Human Subject

01.12. Ulla-Britt Wennerström and Sofia Persson:
Women in professional interest groups

08.12. Gunnar Gillberg:
The conditions for individualisation among young adults

Cambridge Realist Workshop

Past Workshops:

Centre for Critical Realism (CCR) Seminars
The London Realist Seminar
Lancaster University Critical Realist Workshops

IACR | Membership

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Anyone can join IACR. Members receive the Journal of Critical Realism (quarterly) and significant reductions for the annual conference and other fee charging events. Individuals join by subscribing to the Journal at our publisher's website, or at the annual conference.
For information about institutional and personal subscriptions see the Journal of Critical Realism site.

Join IACR and subscribe to the Journal of Critical Realism

About IACR

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President
Alan Norrie
University of Warwick, UK
alan.w.norrie@warwick.ac.uk

General Secretary
Tone Skinningsrud
University of Tromsø
Norway
tone.skinningsrud@uit.no

Treasurer
Lodve Svare
University of Tromsø
Norway
lodve.svare@uit.no

General Editor Journal of Critical Realism (JCR)
Mervyn Hartwig
London, UK
mh@jaspere7.demon.co.uk

JCR reviews editor
Mervyn Hartwig

Council members
Gordon Brown, Australia
Cynthia Hamlin, Brazil
Tony Lawson, UK
Wendy Olsen, UK
Brian Pinkstone, Australia
Doug Porpora, USA
Andrew Sayer, UK
Hugh Lacey, USA
Petter Næss, Denmark/Norway
Andrea Maccarini, Italy
Mark Johnson, UK (IT-advisor)

Enquiries:

If you have specific enquiries about IACR you can also contact the IACR Administrator at the following address:

Tone Skinningsrud, Assoc. professor
Dept. of Education,
Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
University of Tromsoe
N-9037 Tromsoe
Norway

Telephone: +47 776 45254
Fax: +47 776 44554
Mobile: +47 97734158
Email: tone.skinningsrud@uit.no or IACR@uit.no