Home > Seminar Series > Previous Seminars Home | About the Centre | Seminar Series | Book Series | Web Sites Date: 29 October 2004 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, London Citizenship and consumerism: thinking beyond the polarity This seminar will include two contributions: 1. Re-thinking the good life: the citizenship dimension of consumer dissatisfaction with consumerism Kate Soper Institute for the Study of European Transformations London Metropolitan University 2. Citizenship, Consumerism and the Uses of the Imagination A joint project of the politics dept. and CCR. If you intend to come or want any further information, please contact Nick Hostettler <nh8@soas.ac.uk>, or Kathryn Dean <kd1@soas.ac.uk>. Date: Saturday 21 June 2003 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm Location: Committee Room 116 Main Building School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, London A Special Celebration Forum for Andrew Collier Defending Objectivity Speakers: Roger Trigg and John O'Neill. Followed by a round table discussion with contributors the forthcoming Festschrift devoted to the theme of objectivity in Andrew Collier's work. Plus: Book Launch. At 6.00 pm, CCR and Routledge will be toasting the launch of Andrew's newly published On Objectivity. If you intend to come or want any further information, please contact Nick Hostettler <nh8@soas.ac.uk>, or Kathryn Dean <kd1@soas.ac.uk>. Date: Friday 21 March 2003 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm Location: Room G51, Main Building, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London Seminar on Critical Realism and Dialectics This seminar will include contributions from three speakers: Dialectics and hyper-dialectics: towards a critical methodology of political engagement Diana Coole Queen Mary College The Dialectics of emancipation in the current global condition Branwen Gruffydd Jones University of Aberdeen Dialectical critical realism: between ethics and history Alan Norrie King's College London Admission is free for all Date: Wednesday 11 December 2002 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm Location: The Assembly Room (Room G2), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H, 0XGD, University of London Union, Malet Street, London Seminar on the theme of: History and Materialism: Marxism and Critical Realism Speakers: Alex Callinicos and Roy Bhaskar Admission is free for all. Date: Friday 02 November 2001 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm Location: Room 3D, University of London Union, Malet Street, London Seminar on the theme of: The self in critical realism The seminar will include contributions from three speakers:  Margaret Archer "Being human in reality" Alan Norrie "Ethics and human being" Roy Bhaskar "Who am I?" Entrance for students and unwaged is free. For others there will be a nominal charge of £5. Date: Friday 04 May 2001 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm (2 events) Location: Palms Room, the University of London Union, Malet Street, London Event 1 (from 2 pm to 5 pm): Seminar on the theme of: Ecology and Realist Philosophy The seminar will include contributions from three speakers: Ted Benton "Humanism and naturalism in critical realist environmentalism" Andrew Collier "The value of diversity" Roy Bhaskar "Critical realism, post modernism and the global crisis" Event 2 (from 5 pm to 6 pm): Reception hosted by Routledge to officially launch the publication of four new books in the Critical Realism: Interventions series: Stephen Ackroyd and Steve Fleetwood (eds.) Realist Perspectives on Management and Organisations Margaret Archer and Jonathan Tritter (eds.) Rational Choice Theory: resisting colonization Bob Carter Realism and Racism: concepts of race in sociological research Sean Creaven Marxism and Materialism: a materialistic application of realism in the social sciences There will be a nominal charge of £5 for waged people and £1 for others. Copyright © Centre for Critical Realism All rights reserved