'The social structure of money', BSA Annual Conference, Leeds, 12 April 2012.
'Towards a realist social constructionism', International Doctoral Lectures Cycle, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal, 11 May 2012.
[C27] 'Seven ways to be a realist about language', International Association of Critical Realism (IACR) Annual Conference, Oslo, Norway, September 2011.
[C26] 'How are (social) structural dynamics produced by constellations?' Workshop on 'Aggregation Dynamics in Multi-Level Actor Constellations' at Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany, 2-3 June 2011.
[C25] 'Beyond the Practice Turn', Theory stream plenary at the BSA Annual Conference, London School of Economics, 7 April 2011.
[C24] 'Realism, emergence, and culture', Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research seminar, University of Bath, 1 December 2010.
[C23] 'Norm Circles and the Myth of Cultural Integration', Symposium in honour of Margaret Archer, University of Warwick, 16 November 2010.
[C22] 'Realism, emergence, and normative social institutions', School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research seminar series, University of Kent, 4 November 2010; also Department of Social Sciences seminar series, Loughborough University, 24 November 2010; and Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany, 26 April 2011.
[C21] 'An emergentist theory of action', Emergence in Sociology, Santiago, Chile, September 2010.
[C20] 'The social construction of cultural boundaries', IACR Annual Conference, Padua, Italy, July 2010.
[C19] 'Can constructed subjects be reflexive?', ISA World Congress of Sociology (RC16). Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010.
[C18] 'Rules and the construction of social reality', BSA Annual Conference. Glasgow, April 2010.
[C17] 'Towards a social ontology of knowledge', BSA Theory Study Group Conference. Warwick, September 2009.
[C16] 'The causal power of discourse?', BSA Annual Conference. Cardiff, April 2009; also School of Applied Social Sciences Workshop on 'Theoretical Dialogue', Durham University, 8 September 2011.
[C15] 'Emergence, normativity and the social ontology of organizations', Cambridge Realist Workshop, November 2008. Also presented to Critical Realism in Action Group, Nottingham, June 2009.
[C14] 'Realist critique without ethical naturalism and moral realism', IACR Annual Conference, London, July 2008.
[C13] 'From speech community to intersecting linguistic circles', SocioLinguist Essex, Colchester, June 2008.
[C12] 'From 'society' to intersecting normative circles', BSA Annual Conference, Warwick, March 2008.
[C11] 'Searching for structure in actor network theory', ESA Conference, Glasgow, September 2007.
[C10] Emergence panel, IACR Annual Conference, Philadelphia, August 2007.
[C9] 'Process, emergence and social structure', BSA Annual Conference. London, April 2007.
[C8] 'Searching for realism, structure and agency in actor network theory', BSA Realism Study Group. London, January 2007.
[C7] 'A Method for Social Ontology', IACR Annual Conference. Tromso, August 2006. Also presented to Cambridge Realist Workshop, November 2006 and Centre for Critical Realism Seminar, London, March 2007 .
[C6] 'Emergence and functionalism: friends or foes?' ISA World Congress of Sociology (RC51). Durban, July 2006.
[C5] 'Reconciling Archer and Bourdieu in an emergentist theory of action', ISA World Congress of Sociology (RC16). Durban, July 2006.
[C4]'Integrating institutional, relational, and embodied structure: an emergentist perspective', BSA Annual Conference. Harrogate, April 2006.
[C3] 'Towards an inter-disciplinary theory of emergence', Complexity Science and Society. Liverpool, September 2005.
[C2] 'The emergence of social structure and the question of naturalism', BSA Annual Conference. York, March 2005.
[C1] 'Re-examining Bhaskar's three ontological domains: the lessons from emergence', IACR Annual Conference. Cambridge, August 2004.