From: "Fleetwood, Steve" <s.fleetwood-AT-lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: BHA: RE: International Association for Critical Realism Conference
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:05:53 +0100


INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION  for CRITICAL REALISM
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 


CRITICAL REALISM: WHAT DIFFERENCE 
DOES IT MAKE?

Friday - Sunday  August 18-20th  2000 
Lancaster University


PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

*	Critical Realism and Applied Social Science
*	Critical Realism and Ethics
*	Critical Realism and Marxism 
*	Critical Realism and Organisation & Management Studies
*	Critical Realism and Political Perspectives 
*	Critical Realism and Statistics
*	Critical Realism and the Social, Biological & Psychological
*	Critical Realism and Medicine and Nursing
*	Critical Realism and Social Theory
*	Critical Realism and Political Economy
*	Margret Archer, Roy Bhaskar and Andrew Sayer discuss their latest
books: Being Human: The Problem of Agency; From East to West: Odyssey of a
Soul; and Realism and Social Science.


FOR BOOKING FORMS AND DETAILS OF COSTS: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/bino/


Format (provisional)

Friday 01.00 -7.30 Registration 
13.00 - 15.00 IACR committee members meeting
15.00 - 16.00 Opening plenary: Why Critical Realism Matters. Roy Bhaskar
(author) and
		  Mike Reed (Lancaster University Management School)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee
16.30 - 18.30 Session 1a, 1b, 1c & 1d 
19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

Saturday (08.30 - 11.00 Registration)
08.45 - 11.00 Session 2a, 2b, 2c & 2d Archer, Bhaskar, Sayer
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 13.30 Session 3a, 3b, 3c & 3d
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.30 Session 4a, 4b, 4c & 4d
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee
17.00 - 19.00 Session 5a, 5b, 5c & 5d
19.00 - 20.00 Dinner
20.00 - 22.00 IACR annual members meeting - all welcome

Sunday
09.00 - 11.00 Session 6a, 6b, 6c & 6d
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 -- 13.30 Closing session: Well, What Difference Does Critical Realism 
				   Make? 


DETAILED (provisional) PROGRAMME

		CRITICAL REALISM AND APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE

Branwen Gruffydd Jones (University of Sussex)
Why is Africa Poor? A realist critique of the orthodox approach to poverty

Brad Shipway (Southern Cross University, Australia)
Implications of a Critical Realist Perspective in Curriculum Theory and
Educational Evaluation

Tone Skinningsrud (Institute of Education, University of Tromso, Norway)
Towards a History of Emergence of the Norwegian State Educational System -
Consequences of the Lutheran Reformation and the De-differentiation of Church
and State 

Venkatraman (Centre for Development Research &Training, Madras, India)
How Critical Realism Informed Applied Development Work in Rural India

				CRITICAL REALISM AND ETHICS

Carol and Peter Kennedy (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Methodological Approaches to Researching Nursing Ethics

Derek Brereton (University of Michigan USA)
Innate Virtue, Ethical Naturalism and Natural Law

Mervyn Hartwig (London)
New Left, New Age, New Paradigm? Roy Bhaskar's 'From East To West'

Nick Hostettler and Alan Norrie (Kings College London)
Defending a Dialectical Critical Realist Ethics

		CRITICAL REALISM AND MARXISM

Andrew Brown (Middlesex University)
Developing Realist Philosophy: From Critical Realism to Materialist Dialectics

Andrew Collier (University of Southampton)
Dialectic in Marxism and Critical Realism
Par Engholm  (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Mode of Interaction, Fields of Struggle and Dialectics in Social Theory

Jonathon Joseph (Goldsmiths College)
Five Ways in Which Critical Realism Can Help Marxism

Bob Jessop  (University of Lancaster)
Critical Realism, Capitalism and Regulation

John Roberts (University of Cardiff)
Critical Realist Abstraction: A Sympathetic Marxist Critique

Manindra Thakur (University of Dehli. India)
Religion, Marxism and Critical Realism

Doug Porpora (Drexel University, USA)
Critical Realism  Marxism, and Religion: Gotta Problem with that?


		CRITICAL REALISM AND MANAGEMENT

Campbell Jones  (University of Warwick)
Tracing Critical Realism(s) Through Organisation Studies

Grainne Collins and James Wickham (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: When
companies marry

John Mingers (Warwick Business School)
Critical Realism as the Underpinning Philosophy for Operational Research /
Management Science

		CRITICAL REALISM AND MEDICINE AND NURSING

David Ford (University of Essex)
A Critical Realist Sociological Critique of the Contemporary Understanding of
Smoking

Ian Rees Jones  (St George's Hospital Medical School, London)
Critical Realism and Equity in Health and Health Care

Ruth Kolawczyk (Lancaster University)
Tracing the Effects of a Hospital Merger

Heather McKenzie (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Persons, Social Structure and the Fear of Cancer

Daniel Selden  (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Anorexia Nervosa as a Biopsychosocial Phenomenon

		CRITICAL REALISM AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

Charles Crothers (University of Durban, South Africa)
Housing Classes and Housing Systems: a Critical Realist Analytical Framework

Fuat Ercan (Marmara University, Turkey)
Saniye Dedeoglu (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
A Critical Examination of 'State-Nation' and Power Relations in the Era of
Globalizing Capitalism: A Case Study of Changing Aspects of Capital
Accumulation from the State to Space Orientation in Turkey

Klaus Nielsen & Peter Nielsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Critical Realism in Economics: Heterodoxy and Common Ground


		CRITICAL REALISM AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES

Justin Cruickshank Justin (Nottingham Trent University )
Beyond Essentialism and Individualism: Social Realism and the Underclass Debate

Ebru Ozan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
Towards a non-dualist understanding of the state-civil society relation:
Deriving insights from Critical Realist and Gramscian Perspectives

Phil Sharpe
Rorty Versus Trotsky

Neil Curry (University College Chichester, UK)
Marxism, Post-Marxism and Critical Realism: Further Reflections on the
Bhaskar/Laclau Debate


   CRITICAL REALISM, THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL & THE BIOLOGICAL

Graham Clarke (University of Essex)
Fairburn, Psychoanalysis and Critical Realism

Peter Dickens  (University of Cambridge)
Biology and the Social Sciences


		CRITICAL REALISM AND STATISTICS

Hans Ehrbar (University of Utah, USA)
Irrealist Lines of Defence in Econometrics

Wendy Olsen (University of Bradford)
Regression Versus Factor Analysis and the Existence of Stereotypical and
Traditional Views about the Gender Division of Labour in Indian Labour Markets

Brian Pinkstone (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Econometrics Versus Contrastives: Alternative Approaches to Explanation in
Economic History - A Case Study


		CRITICAL REALISM AND SOCIAL THEORY

Ismael Al-Moudi ( Paris)
Towards a Critical Realist Reading of Michel Foucault

Peter Jones (Sheffield Hallam University)
Critical Realism and Scientific Method in Chomsky's Linguistics

Cynthia Lins Hamlin (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Raymond Boudon's Paradigm of Social Action: A Realist Critique

Gary MacLennan (School of Media & Journalism, QUT)
Aesthetic Critical Practice: From Aletheia to Alethia

Anthony Hesketh (Lancaster University)
I Say Tomato, You say Tamato: Employability and Skills in the Labour Exchange
Process: A Realist Analysis.

Caroline New Bath (Spa University)
Critical Realism and Feminism: The Difference it Makes.

Phil Walden (University of Southampton)     
Subjective Idealism and Roy Bhaskar




For further details contact :

Steve Fleetwood
Dept of Behaviour in Organisations
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster LA1 4YX
Tel:  01524 594040
Fax: 01524 594060




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