| Thursday 31 July 2025 |
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| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration
Plenary Session (Room 22/24) |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Opening of the second day |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Keynote speaker – Krzysztof Wielecki – Critical Realism – Twilight, Purgatory or Second Youth? (On a certain dilemma between ontology and epistemology) (Room 22/24) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Discussion |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break (Room 32/34) |
| 11:00 – 13:00 |
Panel: Education and Teaching (Room 3)
- Lee Sunghoe – A model of Teacher Agency reimagined: A critical realist relational approach to personal, interpersonal and relational reflexivity and agency (online)
- Yan Wang – Understanding Teacher Education Through a Critical Realist Lens: A Comparative Case Study of Culture, Structure, and Teacher-Educator Agency
- Richard Remelie – Human Reflexivity and Student Experiences: A Critical Realist Analysis
- Michelle O’Keeffe – “What’s worth knowing?” A Critical Realist case study on what constitutes “knowledge” amidst lower secondary educational reform in Ireland (online)
Discussion
Panel: War, Oppression and Resistance (Room 22/24)
- Ka Lok Yip – Freedom in War – Contrasting Perspectives from Critical Realism, Existential Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
- Andreas Vavvos – Critical Realism and the Theatre of the Oppressed: A dialogue
- Małgorzata Stochmal – Facing Threats Together: Deep Commitments Volunteer Firefighters for the Common Good
- Anzhela Popyk – Friendship in the Shadow of Forced Migration: Ethnic Homophily and Heterophily of Ukrainian Refugee Adolescents in Poland in Critical Realist Perspective
Discussion
Panel: Applying CR (Room 12)
- Catherine Hastings – Doing critical realist-informed social science research: some foundational concepts in use
- Michalis Christodoulou – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) meets Critical Realism (CR). Conducting QCA-plus-CR-driven qualitative research
- Julie Monroe – Theorising social relations in a customer services setting via social positioning
- Marcin Zarzecki – Critical realism as a paradigm and metatheory for explaining changes in the class system: a socioeconomic approach
Discussion
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break (Room 32/34) |
| 14:00 – 15:15 | Memory Panel (Porpora, Wielecki, Dancak) – Plenary Session (Room 22/24) |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee Break (Room 32/34) |
| 15:45 – 17:00 |
Panel: Narration and Writing (Room 22/24)
- Sarah Bates Evoy, Sarah Chessell and Deborah Parkes – The value of a Shut up and Write Group: A realist appraisal
- Lisa Ellem – Critical Realist Narrative Inquiry
- Leszek Korporowicz – Cultural dignity as a missing category in understanding modern human reality.
Discussion
Panel: Norm Circles (Room 3)
- Dave Elder-Vas – Norm circles and critical realism (online)
- Steve Ash – Norm Circles and the Case for Moral Realism (online)
- Mungazi Teresa – Symbolic Sustainability and Sustainable Consumers Interest in Hemp Based Products (online)
Discussion
Panel: Accountability and Invisibility (Room 12)
- Cath Thompson – Deny. Deflect. Defend: How untrustworthy institutions duck accountability
- Nathi Madondo – Theorising the Interplay of Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Public Accountability: An Urgent Need to Reconceptualise the ‘Organic Crisis’ in Universities in South Africa (online)
- Birendra Singh – Absence and Invisibility: Teenage children become murderers–how, and why? (online)
Discussion
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