The Committee on Social Theory is excited to announce the 2014 Fall Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Margaret Archer.

On Friday, December 12th at 4p.m., Dr. Archer will present her talk, “The Relational Subject versus the Plural Subject: We Believe, Plan and Want, but Who or What are We?” in the President's Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts.

A catered reception will be held from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Gaines Center Commonwealth House.

Margaret Archer was Professor of Sociology for thirty years at the University of Warwick, UK, where she developed her ‘Morphogenetic Approach’ and wrote her trilogy of books on Reflexivity. She then became Professor of Social Theory at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and launched the Centre d’Ontologie Sociale/Centre for Social Ontology that produces a book a year from an international group of theorists on the possible transition from late modernity to a global Morphogenic Society. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association at the 12th World Congress of Sociology, is a founding member of the (British) Academy of Social Sciences and a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism. In April this year, Pope Francis appointed her as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.