Conference Parallel Sessions

August 9-11, 2023

Day 1, August 9 (Wednesday)

11:30-13:00

Time

Title of PresentationPresenter/s

Parallel Session 1

JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

Moderator:

11:30

1A Creating new quantitative measures of reflexivity to help explain differences in the experiences of university students

Richard Remelie (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

12:00

1B Thinking like a critical realist and making it through the portal

Karen Sheppard (The University of Queensland, Australia), Angela Davenport (ABI Rehabilitation New Zealand), and Catherine Hastings (Macquarie University, Australia)

12:30

1C From imagination to theory building: A critical realist bridge

Caroline Kuhn (Bath Spa University, UK)

Parallel Session 2

Learning Design Hive

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

Moderator:

11:30

2A A morphogenetic approach to Elinor Ostrom’s IAD framework: An ontological commitment and methodological strategy for researching water governance in the post-colonial South

Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri and Andreas Thiel (University of Kassel, Germany)

12:00

2B Interrogating climate justice in coastal cities: Intersections of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience

Emma Porio (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

12:30

2C Inclusive policies in discriminatory culture: A critical institutional analysis of gender dimensions of local government institutions for natural resource management in Madhya Pradesh, India

Mahima Upadhyay (National Institute of Advanced Studies, India) [ONLINE, India]

Parallel Session 3

Campos Interactive Teaching Lab

3f, Vicente Tiu Lim Synergy Hub, Arete

Moderator:

11:30

3A Living beyond the rainbow spectrum: The spirituality and gender fluidity of Filipino college students (A Basis for Affirmative Counseling Approach)

Matt Calvin Dadivas (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

12:00

3B Religion as technology

Margaret Blackie (Rhodes University, South Africa)

12:30

3C Islamic critical realism and the spiritual heart: Implications for research and practice

Iznan Tarip (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) [ONLINE, Brunei]


16:00-18:00

Time

Title of PresentationPresenter/s

Parallel Session 4

JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

Moderator:

16:00

4A Philosophical realism today and metaReality

MinGyu Seo (Konyang University, South Korea)

16:30

4B A conversation between Gregory Bateson and Roy Bhaskar: Double binds, the sacred, and common sense

Rob Faure Walker (University College London, UK)

17:00

4C The work carried out by the concept of alethia in and between dialectic and the philosophy of Metareality

Onur Özmen (independent researcher, University College London, UK) [ONLINE, Turkey]


17:30

4D Methodological potential in the philosophy of metaReality

Eirin Annamo (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) [ONLINE, Norway]

Parallel Session 5

Learning Design Hive

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

Moderator:

16:00

5A Surface and depth in collaboration on complex welfare problems

Lene Nyhus (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)

16:30

5B Validating the adult social work measure 'KEY': Effectiveness of social work

Minna Kivipelto and Mirka Elovainio (Finnish Institution for Health and Welfare, Finland) [ONLINE, Finland]

17:00

5C Critical Realist Approach to Conceptualize Health as a Model

Kensuke Chikamori, Hitoshi Yoshimura, Shigeo Yamanaka, Mayumi Sakamoto, Akiko Yoshida (Kochi Gakuen University and Kochi Gakuen College, Japan) [ONLINE, Japan]


17:30

5D Examining homeopathic methods: Critical realist perspectives

Natalya Dinat (Durban University of Technology, South Africa) [ONLINE, South Africa]


Parallel Session 6

Campos Interactive Teaching Lab

3f, Vicente Tiu Lim Synergy Hub, Arete

Moderator:

16:00

6A Theorizing and practicing science and risk communication within a critical realism paradigm

Inez Ponce de Leon (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

16:30

6B From hesitancy to legitimacy and beyond: A critical realist multi-case study of trust culture legitimation in the Dengvaxia vaccine scandal

Karl Patrick Mendoza (University of Canterbury, New Zealand / University of the Philippines Diliman)

17:00

6C "Don’t Panic, Don’t Panic"’: Do responses to pro-eating disorder websites within the United Kingdom (UK) constitute a moral panic?

David Benbow (University of Sheffield, UK) [ONLINE, UK]



17:30

6D A deeper picture: A realist semiotics of non-fiction film

Marc Bosward (University of Derby, UK) [ONLINE, UK]


Parallel Session 7

Bank of Singapore Co-Lab

3f, Vicente Tiu Lim Synergy Hub, Arete

Moderator:

16:00

7A Integrating critical realism in futures studies: Understanding agency in a polarized society

Nok Thasanawan Boonmavichit (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)

16:30

7B Philosophy, Flourishing and Freedom: Critical Realism as Liberatory Methodology

Angela Martinez Dy (Loughborough University London, UK) [ONLINE, UK]

17:00

7C Against adultism: Addressing the problem of gerontocratic rule in times of democratic sclerosis

Christopher-David Preclik (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) [ONLINE, Germany]

17:30

7D Risk as assemblages: The case of Basel Bank Limiting Policies as discourses

Joel Patomäki (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) [ONLINE, Finland]

Day 2, August 10 (Thursday)

16:00-18:00

Time

Title of PresentationPresenter/s

Parallel Session 8

JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

16:00

8A Critical realism in institutional logics research: Frameworks based on Veblen and Gramsci

Juan Alberto Mercado (University of the Philippines Los Baños)

16:30

8B Luhmann’s systems theory, critical realism, and the morphogenetic approach

Leland Joseph dela Cruz (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

17:00

8C Augmenting the Variegated Neoliberalization Thesis

Yazid Zahda and Karim Knio (International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands) [ONLINE, North Macedonia and The Netherlands]

17:30

8D Speculative realism: Implications for political analysis?

Stuart McAnulla (University of Leeds, UK) [ONLINE, UK]

Parallel Session 9

Learning Design Hive

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

16:00

9A On being disciplined by our disciplines in the epoch of coloniality: Impact on epistemic access in the field of science in higher education

Nkosinathi Madondo, Lethukuthula Khumalo, and Neliswa Radebe (Mangosuthu University of Technology, South Africa)

16:30

9B A worked example of Archer’s morphogenetic approach applied to curriculum change in Higher Education

Robyn Yucel (Deakin University, Australia)

17:00

9C Unpacking the concept of ‘critical thinking’ in education through Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu’s thought

Nopparat Ruankool (University College London, UK)

17:30

9D Irish further education and training practitioner identities: An Archerian analysis

Sarah Bates Evoy (South East Technological University, Ireland) [ONLINE, Ireland]

Parallel Session 10

Campos Interactive Teaching Lab

3f, Vicente Tiu Lim Synergy Hub, Arete

16:00

10A Critical realism and systematic literature review: A joint approach for theory building?

Li Li (Bath Spa University, UK)

16:30

10B Describing, explaining, evaluating: Applying critical realism to real-world problems. Realist evaluation can investigate what works and for whom: Utilizing live big data from New York State (USA) and Manchester City Council (UK)

Mansoor Kazi (Realist Evaluation Inc., USA)

17:00

10C Theorizing transfactual conditions through concept formation: How critical realist and Grounded Theory researchers can collaborate in research practice

Michalis Christodoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) [ONLINE, Greece]


17:30

10D Critical realist causality in case-study research

Jack Newman (University of Manchester, UK) [ONLINE, UK]


Parallel Session 11

Bank of Singapore Co-Lab

3f, Vicente Tiu Lim Synergy Hub, Arete

16:00

11A Ontologies of the virtual world - is there a cyberspace?

Raul Pertierra (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

16:30

11B Coming up a level? Deep and shallow ontologies in anthropology and the social sciences

Gene-George Earle (East Normal University, China)

17:00

11C Dimensionality in critical realism

Grant Banfield (University of South Australia) and Brendan Cartmel (independent student) [ONLINE, Australia]

17:30

11D Learnable enhanced Bhaskarian ontology – LEBO

Luca Magni (Luiss Business School, Italy) [ONLINE, Italy]


Day 3, August 11 (Friday)

9:00-11:00

Time

Title of PresentationPresenter/s

Parallel Session 12

JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

9:00

12A Institutional entrepreneurship for inclusive business practice: A critical realist perspective

Benito Teehankee (De La Salle University, Philippines)

9:30

12B Social missions amid the pandemic: A critical realist explanation of select Philippine social enterprises’ experiences

Shieradel Jimenez (De La Salle University, Philippines) [ONLINE, Philippines]


10:00

12C Rethinking stakeholders as whole persons: Implications for critical realist insighting in management and organizational research

Patrick Adriel Aure (De La Salle University, Philippines) [ONLINE, Philippines]

10:30

12D Streamlining Remote Work Operations through Critical Realist Action Research

Janice Alfonso and Frances Jeanne Sarmiento (De La Salle University, Philippines) [ONLINE, Philippines]

Parallel Session 13

Learning Design Hive

4f, Learning Innovation Wing, Arete

9:00

13A Explaining the drivers of community immersion outcomes among medical students: a realist-informed study

Celso Pagatpatan, Jr. (De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, Philippines)

9:30

13B Reforming Assessment Practices in Healthcare Using Critical Realist Methodology

Priya Khanna (University of Sydney, Australia)

10:00

13C Relationships, relational configurations and relational goods: how patients and clinicians manage stigma together

Ismael Al-amoudi (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France) and Anna Milena Galazka (Cardiff Business School, UK)

10:30

13D Residents’ coping responses in collaborative housing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applying Bhaskar’s four-planar social being to tackle the affordability-integration-health nexus

Ivette Arroyo (Lund University, Sweden) [ONLINE, Ecuador], Catherine Hastings (Macquarie University, Australia), Maryam Khatibi (Université de Lyon, France), and Norma Montesino (Lund University, Sweden)

Parallel Session 14

Campos Interactive Teaching Lab

3f, Vicente Tiu Lim Synergy Hub, Arete

9:00

14A Wendt Revisited: A Refreshed Challenge for International Relations Constructivism

Yi Jian Ho (Sunway University, Malaysia)

9:30

14B China’s ‘indisputable’ framing of the ‘Taiwan question’: Discourse with ‘Chinese characteristics’

Martin Evenden (National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan)

10:00

14C “No Abe, Yes Japan" Movement in 2019: Bolstering National Pride and Identity

Gil-Soo Han (Monash University, Australia)

10:30

14D Psychoanalysis and Democracy

Carl Auerbach (Yeshiva University, USA) [ONLINE, New York, USA]

Parallel Session 15

Bank of Singapore Co-Lab

3f, Vicente Tiu Lim Synergy Hub, Arete

9:00

15A Conflating the Metaphysical and Semantic

Vida Mia Valverde (Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines)

9:30

15B You Don't Have to Be Abstracted from the World to Know: Rethinking the Contemporary Knowing Subject

Agustin Martin Rodriguez (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

10:00

15C Language and Translation in Bhaskar’s notion of Scientific Development

Darren Anthony Cabildo (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

10:30

15D The Concept of Language: Bridging Critical Realism and Wittgenstein

Ian Gabriel Kintanar (Xavier University–Ateneo de Cagayan, Philippines) [ONLINE, Philippines]