The International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) are now accepting abstract submissions for their annual conference, which this year focuses on the topic of ‘post-truth’. The organisers explain that the conference will “explore, from a Critical Realist perspective, the challenges ‘post-truth’ politics pose for society, the need for value-based research, and the role, representation and dissemination of academic knowledge in the public sphere.”

Proposals for paper sessions on the following themes are especially invited:

• The role and representation of scientific knowledge, evidence and expertise in the public domain
• The value base and emancipatory potential of academic knowledge and its scope to inform policy and practice
• The application of Critical Realism to real-world problems and issues
• Climate change/ denial of climate change and environmental protection
• The complementarities and tensions between postmodernism and neoliberal political discourse and politics
• International politics in a ‘post-truth’ environment
• The relationship between Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies and Critical Realism
• Education, including higher education, in the context of post-truth politics
• Health and well-being in the context of neoliberal politics

The conference will take place at the University of Southampton, between the 31st of July and the 2nd of August, 2019. It will include a roundtable on the work of Andrew Collier. Further information about the conference can be accessed at https://iacrsoton.wordpress.com, and enquiries can be sent to Erin Forward: E.M.Forward@soton.ac.uk