Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:06:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> To: spoon-administration-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Critical Realism Conference Program (fwd) maybe just the board for this? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:52:40 -0400 (EDT) From: A c/o Stanier <ccrcon-AT-essex.ac.uk> To: spoons-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu Subject: Critical Realism Conference Program Dear Colleagues, > > Please find enclosed a conference program for the 2nd Annual > Center for Critical Realism Conference: After Postmodernism: > Critical Realism? The Conference will be held at the University of > Essex September 1-3, 1998. As you will see the program contains an > impressive selection of speakers, across disciplines and national > boundaries. For further information regarding conference > (registration and further particulars) visit our web site: > <http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/ccrcon.html>. > > Also feel free to contact the conference organisers at > <ccrcon-AT-essex.ac.uk. The conference organisers would be grateful > if you could forward this message to anyone you think might find > it of interest. > > Sincerely Yours > > Jose Lopez & Dr. Garry Potter > Conference Organisers > Sociology Dept. > University of Essex > > > Conference Program > > Tuesday 1st of September > > (Registration from 1:00pm onwards) > > > 4:30-5:30 First Plenary > Ted Benton (Essex) > > 5:30-5:45 Coffee > > > 5:45-7:15 Seminars > > Critical Realism: So What? (1A):Methodology > Doug Porpora (Drexel) "Do Realists Run Regressions?" > > Critical Realism: So What? (1B):Science and Technology > Sue Clegg (Leeds Metropolitan)"When Discourse is Real: A Case > Study of Women in Computing?" > Christopher Norris(Cardiff) "Realism vs. Anti-Realism in Quantum > Mechanics" > > > Critical Realism: So What? (1C): Politics and Philosophy > Caroline New (Bath) "The Personal and the Political" > Norman Geras (Manchester) TBA > > 8:00 pm Dinner > > > Wednesday 2nd of September > > 7:30 -9:00 am Breakfast > > > > 9:30:11:00 am Seminars > > Social Structure > John Scott (Essex) "Where is Social Structure" > Jose Lopez (Essex) " On Structures and Metaphors of Social Complexity" > > Race > Bob Carter (Worcester) "Keeping of appearances, Realism and Critique of Race Concepts " > Robert Young (Alabama ) "Critical Cultural Studies: Materialism and Race" > > Critical Realism and Marxism > Fethi Acikel (Essex) "Economism vs. `Culturalism’: Beyond Two Forms of Reductionism" > John Robersts (Cardiff ) "Marxism and Critical Realism: The Same, Similar or just Plain Different" > > Feminism > Alison Assiter (Luton) "Feminist Epistemology and Value" > Dennis Erasga (Manila ) "Whose knowledge? Whose Theory? Feminism and the Power of discourse " > > Philosophy(1) > Claire Mayer (Essex) "Posing Ethical Questions of a Levinasian Kind to Critical Realism" > Kathryn Dean (SOAS) "The Decentred Subject: A Critical Realist Account" > > > 11:00-11:30 Coffee > > 11:30-1:00 Seminars > > Philosophy (2) > Tom Sorell (Essex) "Thomas Nagel and Realism" > Andrew Collier (Southhampton) "Real and Nominal Absences" > > TBA > Christopher Lloyd (UNE Australia) "Beyond Critical Realism and Postmodernism - Towards a Holocene-Darwinian Approach to World History" > Alex Callinicos TBA > > Ideology and Knowledge (1) > Garry Potter (Essex) TBA > John Varty (Sussex ) "Ideology Social Science and Explanatory Critique" > > Psychology (1) > Peter Dickens (Sussex) "Social Darwinism: Towards a Realist Reconstruction" > Philip Hodgkiss ( Manchester) "Creating a Space for the Construction of Consciousness in Critical Realism" > > 1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch > > 2:30 -4:30 2nd Plenary > Critical Realism; So What? (1) > Philosophy and Research > > Rachel Sharp(Australia), Rob Stones (Essex), > Margaret Archer (Warwick), & Tony Woodiwiss (Essex) > > > > 4:30:5:00 Coffee > 5:00 - 6:30 Seminars > > Research Everyday Life > David Ford (Essex) "Smoking; A Fatal Social Phenomenon: A Critique of the Last > Smoker Thesis" > J. Christi (Amsterdam ) "Work Stress and Well Being: A Realist Alternative " > > Archaeology/Ecology > Michal Tierney (Lampeter) " Critical Realism, Materiality and Archaelogy" > Tim Forsyth (Royal Institute of International Affairs ) "Critical Political Ecology: > Seeking External Reality in Environmental Change and Meaning" > > TBA > Hilary Wainright (Red Pepper) TBA > > Critique of Postmodernism > Colin Wight (Aberystwyth) " Warfare in the Academy: Academic > Gangs and the Glitter Question" > Johannes Angermuller (IFS Germany) "Deconstruction and Bourdieu)" > > 7:30 pm Dinner > > > Thursday the 3rd of September > > 7:30- 9:00 am Breakfast > > > 9:30-11:00 am Seminars > > A Discussion of Roy Bhaskar’s Dialectics > Alan Norrie (King’s College, London ) > Gary MacClellan (QUT, Australia) > > Math & Wittgenstein > Colin Philips & Ray Turner (Essex) "Wittengenstein and Mathematical Idealism" > > Ideology and Knowledge (2) > Jenneth Parker (Sussex) "Social Movements and Science: Postmodern Views and > Critical Realist Solutions" > James Hertfield (Living Marxism) "Towards a Truly Social Theory of Knowledge" > > Politics > Justin Cruickshank (Warwick ) "After Nihilism: Postmodern Pragmatic Politics" > Stuart McAnulla (Birmingham) "Critical realism and Politics" > > Aesthetics (1) > Lucille Beaudry(UQM Montreal) "Considerations on the Critical Content of Contemporary Art > Pierre Besse (Toulouse) "Bourdieu and Flaubert’s L’education Sentimentale" > > 11:00-11:30 Coffee > > 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Seminars > > Psychology (2) > David Jarry ( Staffordshire) "Giddens, Runciman, ‘Evolutionary Psychology- a Basis for Critical or Utopian Realism?" > Ian Craib (Essex) "Critical Reason, Critical Fantasy" > > Economics > Jamie Morgan (Aberystwyth) "Chinese Economics: A Critical Real;ist Appraisal " > Peter Kesting (Leipzig School of Management) "An Inquiry into the Validity of Economic Theory" > Steve Fleetwood (De Montfort) "The Ontology of Labour Markets: Segmented > Labour Markets and Critical Realism " > > Legal > Chris Butler (QUT)"Law, Rhetoric and Reason" > Bill Bowring (Essex) "Minority Rights, Dialectic, and the Struggle for Recognition" > Sheldon Leader (Essex) "Realism and Rights" > > > > Aesthetics (2) > Roger Cook (Reading) "Postmodernism, Utopianism, Critical reason > and the Work of Lari Pittman" > Philip Tew (Westminster) "Bhaskar, Blanchot and Merleau-Ponty: > Co-ordinates for Reconsidering Literary Interpretation" > > 1:30-2:30 Lunch > > > Critical Realism: So What? (3) > After Postmodernism > Social Constructionism V. Constructive Socialism > Roy Bhaskar & Rom Harre > > > > > > Jose Lopez & Dr. Garry Potter > Conference Organisers > ccrcon-AT-essex.ac.uk > http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/ccrcon.html > --part0_901306669_boundary-- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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