SCOS Update September
Hello again Scossers!
An early missive this month, with three lovely items to shoo away the encroaching termtime blues. Please feel free to send any items for the next mailing to me by email, post or carrier pigeon.
1. Seminar & a writing event on the potential of gender theory for critical management @ Bradford University's CROW 17th September
2. Reminder of Heather Höpfl Memorial Seminar at Essex 23rd September
3. Scrawl from Scossy
Enjoy! 🔆
Laura
An early missive this month, with three lovely items to shoo away the encroaching termtime blues. Please feel free to send any items for the next mailing to me by email, post or carrier pigeon.
1. Seminar & a writing event on the potential of gender theory for critical management @ Bradford University's CROW 17th September
2. Reminder of Heather Höpfl Memorial Seminar at Essex 23rd September
3. Scrawl from Scossy
Enjoy! 🔆
Laura
Item 1:
The radical potential of gender theory for critical management engagement: A seminar and an invitation to write
Bradford University School of Management, 17th September 2015
This academic meeting aims to bring feminists, queer theorists, critically-focused management scholars and activist academics together to explore what we can learn from gender theorists to develop more critically-engaged business school activism. Can we take radical academic theory out of the business school? The focus will be on discussion and debate. It marks the launch of Gender/CROW: the gender sub-centre of Bradford’s Centre for Research in Organizations and Work.
Workshop Timetable
Wednesday 16th September: seminar dinner
Thursday 17th September
9.00 – 9.30: Registration and coffee.
9.30 – 11.00 Welcome and introduction to the day and to the first session: Nancy Harding
Radical potential of feminism and queer theories: Melissa Fisher, New York University, author of ‘Wall Street Women’; Maria Daskalaki (Kingston) on Feminist Activism in Greece; Rutvica Andrijasevic (Bristol) on Feminism, Activism and Political Subjectivities. Session Chair: Mary Phillips.
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.30 Group discussions: What are the implications from for academic activism? How might we take these ideas forward?
12.30 – 1.15 Lunch
1.15 – 2.15 Feminism and queer theory within CMS (and without): A provocation to debate. Marianna Fotaki (Warwick): Passionate about Feminism; Deborah Jones (Wellington) ‘Multiple refusals: Against intersectionality’; Nick Rumens (Middlesex) Queer theory’s contribution. Session Chair: Sarah Gilmore.
2.15 – 4.00 Debate and discussion – what ideas are emerging? What can we do with/about them? How can we develop them? (Tea provided.)
4.00 – 4.30 Summary and end of workshop.
Invitation to write about the radical potential of gender theory for critical management activism
Prior to the workshop, there will be a half-day seminar on 16th September for colleagues wishing to write about new directions in, and the radical potential of, gender theory, for publication in Critical Dialogues in CMS[i].
Wednesday 16th September
2.00 – 5.00: Thinking about contributing to Critical Dialogues in CMS on the topic of what gender theories/theorists can offer to revivifying CMS? This workshop will explore potential contributions, discuss emergent ideas, provide supportive peer review of ideas, abstracts, drafts or full papers.
7.00: Seminar dinner at Heaton Mount.
Costs
Participation on 17th September, to include lunch and refreshments: £50;
Dinner on 16th September: £35.
Accommodation: some accommodation is available at the venue, Heaton Mount. Details at heatonmount@bradford.ac.uk. Tel: 01274 23 4485.
We have a very limited number of free places for doctoral students/early career researchers if they can find travel costs.
For more details: contact Nancy Harding (n.h.harding@bradford.ac.uk) or seehttp://www.bradford.ac.uk/management/crow/seminars-and-conferences/
To book a place, please email Aleks: A.Theodorakopoulos-Drogitis2@bradford.ac.uk
[i] Series Editor: Dr. Sarah Gilmore. Issue editors: Nancy Harding, Mary Phillips, Alison Pullen.
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Item 2:
Further to Jo’s call for submissions to a special issue of Culture and Organization, you are warmly invited to attend the first annual memorial seminar to celebrate the life and work of Heather Höpfl, Professor of Management at Essex Business School. If you are considering submitting to the special issue, this would be an ideal forum in which to explore and discuss ideas.
Speakers will consider the ongoing influence of Heather’s writing on spirituality; gender and feminist theory; women’s writing in management and organization studies, and organizational identity, symbolism and culture.
The seminar is free to attend. However, places are limited so please register as soon as possible if you would like to join us. Lunch and refreshments, sponsored by Taylor and Francis, will be provided throughout the day.
To register and the view the full programme, please use the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering-heather-a-seminar-to-celebrate-the-life-and-work-of-heather-hopfl-tickets-17565135794
Please direct any informal enquiries to me personally and not to the list.
Best wishes,
Melissa
Email: mtyler@essex.ac.uk
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Item 3:
Scrawl from Scossy
Dear Scossers, I've been feeling a little lonely in Uppsala recently, with so many of my SCOS family away traveling the world gaining knowledge and enjoying some well-earned time off. It seems to me to be a physical feeling this; my tail droops and no amount of sunshine seems to perk it up. Do you have thoughts about our animal selves and our familial tribes? Perhaps we could talk about them next time we meet! Before then, I might beat the blues by having a little holiday myself...
Scossy
The radical potential of gender theory for critical management engagement: A seminar and an invitation to write
Bradford University School of Management, 17th September 2015
This academic meeting aims to bring feminists, queer theorists, critically-focused management scholars and activist academics together to explore what we can learn from gender theorists to develop more critically-engaged business school activism. Can we take radical academic theory out of the business school? The focus will be on discussion and debate. It marks the launch of Gender/CROW: the gender sub-centre of Bradford’s Centre for Research in Organizations and Work.
Workshop Timetable
Wednesday 16th September: seminar dinner
Thursday 17th September
9.00 – 9.30: Registration and coffee.
9.30 – 11.00 Welcome and introduction to the day and to the first session: Nancy Harding
Radical potential of feminism and queer theories: Melissa Fisher, New York University, author of ‘Wall Street Women’; Maria Daskalaki (Kingston) on Feminist Activism in Greece; Rutvica Andrijasevic (Bristol) on Feminism, Activism and Political Subjectivities. Session Chair: Mary Phillips.
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.30 Group discussions: What are the implications from for academic activism? How might we take these ideas forward?
12.30 – 1.15 Lunch
1.15 – 2.15 Feminism and queer theory within CMS (and without): A provocation to debate. Marianna Fotaki (Warwick): Passionate about Feminism; Deborah Jones (Wellington) ‘Multiple refusals: Against intersectionality’; Nick Rumens (Middlesex) Queer theory’s contribution. Session Chair: Sarah Gilmore.
2.15 – 4.00 Debate and discussion – what ideas are emerging? What can we do with/about them? How can we develop them? (Tea provided.)
4.00 – 4.30 Summary and end of workshop.
Invitation to write about the radical potential of gender theory for critical management activism
Prior to the workshop, there will be a half-day seminar on 16th September for colleagues wishing to write about new directions in, and the radical potential of, gender theory, for publication in Critical Dialogues in CMS[i].
Wednesday 16th September
2.00 – 5.00: Thinking about contributing to Critical Dialogues in CMS on the topic of what gender theories/theorists can offer to revivifying CMS? This workshop will explore potential contributions, discuss emergent ideas, provide supportive peer review of ideas, abstracts, drafts or full papers.
7.00: Seminar dinner at Heaton Mount.
Costs
Participation on 17th September, to include lunch and refreshments: £50;
Dinner on 16th September: £35.
Accommodation: some accommodation is available at the venue, Heaton Mount. Details at heatonmount@bradford.ac.uk. Tel: 01274 23 4485.
We have a very limited number of free places for doctoral students/early career researchers if they can find travel costs.
For more details: contact Nancy Harding (n.h.harding@bradford.ac.uk) or seehttp://www.bradford.ac.uk/management/crow/seminars-and-conferences/
To book a place, please email Aleks: A.Theodorakopoulos-Drogitis2@bradford.ac.uk
[i] Series Editor: Dr. Sarah Gilmore. Issue editors: Nancy Harding, Mary Phillips, Alison Pullen.
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Item 2:
Further to Jo’s call for submissions to a special issue of Culture and Organization, you are warmly invited to attend the first annual memorial seminar to celebrate the life and work of Heather Höpfl, Professor of Management at Essex Business School. If you are considering submitting to the special issue, this would be an ideal forum in which to explore and discuss ideas.
Speakers will consider the ongoing influence of Heather’s writing on spirituality; gender and feminist theory; women’s writing in management and organization studies, and organizational identity, symbolism and culture.
The seminar is free to attend. However, places are limited so please register as soon as possible if you would like to join us. Lunch and refreshments, sponsored by Taylor and Francis, will be provided throughout the day.
To register and the view the full programme, please use the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering-heather-a-seminar-to-celebrate-the-life-and-work-of-heather-hopfl-tickets-17565135794
Please direct any informal enquiries to me personally and not to the list.
Best wishes,
Melissa
Email: mtyler@essex.ac.uk
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Item 3:
Scrawl from Scossy
Dear Scossers, I've been feeling a little lonely in Uppsala recently, with so many of my SCOS family away traveling the world gaining knowledge and enjoying some well-earned time off. It seems to me to be a physical feeling this; my tail droops and no amount of sunshine seems to perk it up. Do you have thoughts about our animal selves and our familial tribes? Perhaps we could talk about them next time we meet! Before then, I might beat the blues by having a little holiday myself...
Scossy