Friday, February 1st
17h – 18h
Introduction: Promoting Critical Realism in the German Speaking Academia – Basic Interventions, Developments and the Idea of the Conference
Urs Lindner (Zurich), Dimitri Mader (Jena) and Hans Pühretmayer (Vienna)
18h – 19h30
Dialogue: Social Morphogenesis and Acceleration
Margaret Archer (Lausanne): Why Realism needs Reflexivity
Hartmut Rosa (Jena): The Speed of Social Change and the Forms of Human Reflexivity. A Three-Stage-Model
Saturday, February 2nd
09h30 – 11h
Dialogue: Philosophy of Science and Ecological Economics
Clive Spash (Vienna): New Foundations for Ecological Economics
Barbara Muraca (Jena): Whitehead's Philosophy as a Foundation for Ecological Economics?
11h – 11h30 Coffee Break
11h30 – 13h
Dialogue: Social Ontology, Gender and Intersectionality
Sue Clegg (Leeds): Contributions of the Morphogenetic Approach to Feminism and the Perspective of Intersectionality
Ina Kerner (Berlin): Differences and Power. A Foucauldian Perspective on Intersectionality
13h – 14h30 Lunch
14h30 – 17h
Individual Presentations
Hartwig Schuck (Berlin): Power and Domination. A Realist View
Heiner Koch (Tübingen): Intentionality and the Social Ontology of Domination
Georg Gangl (Leiden): Critical Realism and Historical Theory
Elmar Flatschart (Vienna): Dialectical Traditions and Critical Realism
David Strecker (Jena): Reflexive Habitus. Making Sense of an Oxymoron
17h – 17h30 Coffee Break
17h30 – 19h
Dialogue: Social Science, Ethics and Critique
Andrew Sayer (Lancaster): Normativity and the Importance of Naturalism
Robin Celikates (Amsterdam): Immanent Critique and the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Sunday, February 3rd
9h30 – 11h
Dialogue: Critical Realism, Political Economy and the Current Crisis of Capitalism
Steve Fleetwood (Lancaster): Ontology and the Current Crisis
Frieder Otto Wolf (Berlin): How can Marx's Critique of Political Economy and Critical Realism help us to understand the Present Crisis?
11h – 11h30 Coffee Break
11h30 – 13h
Dialogue: The Emergence of Social Structures and Agencies
Dave Elder-Vass (Loughborough): Critical Realism and the Causal Power of Social Structures
Uwe Schimank (Bremen): How can Social Structures cause Something?