Dear SCOSsers,

So many lovely items this month! I have split the digest into calls for papers and events, followed by advertised job positions.

In calls for papers and events we have:
Item 1: C&O CfP The Animal, (deadline 20 March 2017)
Item 2: Reminder of SCOS 2017 ‘Carne’ CfP, (deadline 2 December 2016 February 28, 2017)
Item 3: GWO CfP Gender, work, organisations and nonhuman animals, (deadline 28th February 2017)
Item 4: Critical MANagement studies? VIDA CMS fringe event on 2nd July 2017 (free!)
Item 5: Ephemera CfP ‘Repair matters’ (deadline 30th April 2017)
Item 6: Art of Management 2018 CfS, (deadline: 27th May 2017)
Item 7: GWO Sydney 2018 CfS, (deadline: 1st June 2017)

In Jobs and vacancies we have: Item 8: Multiple Vacancies in Bristol Item 9: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer post at the Open University

Whew! What a message. My cut-and-paste muscles are definitely feeling the strain now. Special thanks to everyone who sends in news and items! If you have something you want to share with the SCOS crowd, and no-one-else can help you…I’m much easier to find than the A-team! Drop me an email on l.mitchell@keele.ac.uk

Best, LauraRead more…

Spring celebrations may be just around the corner, but I see snow outside of my window. A beautiful oscillation between new growth and hibernation seems to be underway; so perhaps we too should be thinking about whether it's time to start emerging from the animal egg... and looking forward to these fabulous events and opportunities! Don't forget you can find details on all C&O forthcoming calls here and the deadline for contributions to the special issue on last summer's 'home' theme is 21st March.

Item 1: Globalization P3: People, Prosperity & Posterity [deadline March 31st 2016]
Item 2: Writing differently retreat 27th - 29th June 2016 [deadline for outline plans 18th March but places very limited!]
Item 3: Responsible Innovation: avenues for academics and practitioners [deadline to book 24th March]
Item 4: PhD opportunity in alternative organizing
Item 5: Scrawls from Scossy, watching the inbox!Read more…

Hello Scossers!

Look at that lovely dreich weather outside the door. The water streams down the window in rivulets reflecting the lamps of the offices in sheets of sparkling light. Where we are all working very hard and not being distracted by the weather at all! Four significant items for you in today's member's digest.

1) Culture & Organization CfP: Professor Heather Höpfl, 1948-2014: Eine Gedenkschrift

2) Creating ethical and inclusive spaces in CMS

3) GWO Stream Women & High-growth entrepreneurship (deadline extended to 10th November)

4) AHRC PhD Funding Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership 2016

Best Wishes ☔

LauraRead more…

Here in Great Britain it is the Glorious Twelfth – the Opening Day the Grouse Shooting season opens. I do not condone such things, but it is a chance for anyone eligible to celebrate their Scottish heritage.

Moving on:

Two items today. The first is a call for papers for a special edition of Ephemera with the title “Whither emergence?” and the link is: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/content/whither-emergence.

The second is a reminder of a call for papers for a Special Edition of Culture and Organization as follows:

Professor Heather Höpfl, 1948-2014: Eine Gedenkschrift
Call for papers for a special issue of Culture and Organization
Volume 23, issue 2, March 2017Read more…

We have three great items this month:

1) A Call for Contributions for the next volume of DIALOGUES IN CMS
2) A seminar on new directions in Gender Theory in Bradford in September
3) A call for papers for the Keele University CASIC Working Paper SeriesRead more…

We have a fabulous, jam-packed bumper issue this month, with eight exciting items that include:

1. 9th International Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Leicester Doctoral Workshop, 7th July 2015: Articulating the Alternatives: Writing Development Through Critical Friendship
2. The 10th Annual Liverpool Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences in association with the Journal of Organizational Ethnography. CFP - Key theme: Reflection in Action: Taking Stock of 10 Years of Ethnography Symposia
3. Fully-funded Phd studentship at Queen’s University Belfast, starting Sept 2015
4. Call for Contributions: Dignity and organizations
5. Writing Organization: Disruption and Difference Through Experimental, Embodied and Non-Written Texts: SYMPOSIUM II - A symposium organised by Nancy Harding, Mary Phillips and Alison Pullen
6. De Montfort University PhD Scholarship - Project Title: Desistance, Emotion and Employment
7. CFP – The 6th Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (ACSCOS) - Theme: Anxiety and Organization
8. CFP – The Liminality of Organizational Spaces (APROS/EGOS 2015 stream 19)

…as always, details below. Enjoy!Read more…

For those of you celebrating – may we wish you a happy and healthy 2015!

In January’s edition of the SCOS email update, please find three thrilling items:
1) A reminder that there is still time to send in your abstracts for the SCOS conference in Nottingham, UK, this coming July – the deadline is February 1st
2) Cranfield is seeking a strong PhD candidate to engage in a comparative study of leadership practices…
3) And a fabulous (I’m biased!) call for papers for APROS/ EGOS 2015 in Sydney, Australia – Stream 19 — The Liminality of Organizational Spaces

…as always, details below, enjoy!Read more…

A great edition of the SCOS update today: 7 sensational items, including:

1) SCOS 2014 conference details!
2) Two lovely jobs at the University of Bristol
3) Student grant available for the Rethinking Management conference
4) Special Issue Call for Papers: The Politics of Projects in Technology-Intensive Work
5) Dilemmas for Human Services 2014: Leadership in Public Services – Bridging the Management Gap? 17th International Research Conference, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 10th-12th September 2014
6) An experiment in critical friendship. Call for workshop papers – Rethinking Sisterhood: The Affective Politics of Women’s Relationships. Feminist and Women Studies’ Association interim conference, University of Bristol, Saturday 13th September 2014. Organizers: VIDA, the Critical Management Studies Women’s Association
7) Share your own stories of volunteering as part of an interactive documentary drama!Read more…

This month’s edition of the SCOS update contains four fabulous items, including:

1) Calls for contributions to Notework – a great way to share your ideas, comments and experiences with the SCOS community!
2) A fab workshop at the University of Bristol on Deleuze, Guattari and feminism: The relation between difference and identity
3) A brilliant symposium ‘Writing Organization: Disruption and Difference Through Experimental, Embodied and Non-Written Texts’ at the University of Bradford School of Management
4) A great CFP Call for Papers: ReThinking Management 2014: The Impact of Cultural Turns, International Conference – October 2014 – Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Two items for March:
1) Call for papers for a special issue of Scripta Nova: Nomadism and Organising - deadline extended!
2) Call for papers for the Critical Finance Studies V Stockholm University School of Business 14-16 August 2013Read more…

We have six items for you this week:
1) Information on the next SCOS conference in wonderful Warsaw!
2) Four fab full-time fully-funded p/g research opportunities at the University of Leicester, School of Management
3) Call for papers for the Special issue of Culture and Organization Volume 20, issue 3, 2014: Organizing Through Displacement, Travel and Movement
4) Workshop on Diversity and Difference in the Contemporary Workplace, January 31- February 1, 2013 at Copenhagen Business School
5) Call for papers for the Special issue of Scripta Nova Volume 17, issue 420, 2014: Nomadism and Organising
6) Call for papers for the Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, at The 8th International Conference in Critical Management StudiesRead more…

This week, we have two items for you:
1) Final reminder for the call for papers for the ‘Recovery and Organization’ special issue of Culture and Organisation
2) BSA Postgraduate Conference – 'Who and what is management for?' at The University of Leicester School of Management – a one day BSA postgraduate conference on 10th January 2013
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Six items for you this week:
1) A message from our SCOS-BOSS
2) Two new keynotes have been confirmed for the CMS conference in Manchester next year
3) A call for papers for an EGOS 2013 track on Corruption and Anti-Corruption
4) A call for papers for a special issue of Organization on Sexuality and Organizational Analysis: 30 years on
5) A call for papers for a special issue of Culture and Organization on Recovery and Organization
6) A call for papers/proposals for a great ESRC inVisio Symposium being held in Essex in November this yearRead more…

First on the agenda today:
We would like to thank so many of you for coming to SCOS 2012 in Barcelona. We all had a great time and hope you did too! Thanks also to Hugo and his team for making it another SCOS to remember! We have some super videos of the conference and you can access these online, through the SCOS 2012 website.

Secondly, we are already looking forward to next year, SCOS 2013, in Warsaw. We’ll be bringing you more details and information over the coming months and once again, we hope to see so many of you there!

On to the three items for this week
1) A call for contributions to Notework, the online SCOS magazine. The editors would like contributions based on YOUR memories of ALL PREVIOUS SCOS conferences
2) Details regarding ACSCOS in December
3) A call for papers for the special issue of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management – Doing Dirty Research Using Qualitative Methodologies: Lessons from Stigmatized Occupations.Read more…

Three items this week:
1) The inaugural issue of Organizational Aesthetics has been published
2) A call for papers on understanding the complexities of nomadic identities
3) A call for papers on embodying leadership with ethics in mindRead more…

We have three thrilling items for you
1) A great workshop at Keele University, UK on Organizational Death, Memory and Loss in October
2) A call for papers for a Special Issue of Marketing Theory
3) An AHRC workshop at Keele University, UK in September
4) Studentships at Leicester School of Management, UK
5) A colloquium at Swansea University Business School on the 12th July on The Art of CaringRead more…

Three more items for April:
1) 20 PhD scholarships across a range of subjects offered at The University of the West of England.
2) From Greed to Sustainability? The Corporation in an Era of Responsibility
3) Call for Papers – Special issue of Organization, Sexuality and Organizational Analysis: 30 years on
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Four items to kick off November:
1) ephemera conference: ‘The Politics of Consumption,’ May 9th – 11th, 2012, Dublin, Ireland
2) Call for papers: ‘Strategies for Firm Globalization and Regionalization’ in British Journal of Management
3) Call for papers: ‘Theorising Contemporary Public Management: International and Comparative Perspectives,’ in British Academy of Management/ British Journal of Management
4) PhD studentship at the University of Leicester School of ManagementRead more…

For this second half of October, there are another four items:
1) Call for papers: Special issue of Culture and Organization 2013, Volume 19, issue 5 – Recovery and organization.
2) Call for Abstracts: 7th international interdisciplinary conference 27th - 29th June, 2012, at Keele University, UK – Eco-feminism, sustainability and organization
3) From Lucy to Language to a Culture of Enterprise and Innovation: Exhibition and seminars celebrating the Festival of Social Science, in The Chapel, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, October 31st – November 3rd.
4) Call for papers: Special issue of International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion – Sensually Exploring Culture And Affect At WorkRead more…

There are four items for October:
1) Call for contributions: International Journal of Professional Management
2) Call for papers: Special Issue 2013 (no. X) – Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Guest editors: Mikael Jonasson, Halmstad University; Anette Hallin, The Royal Institute of Technology; Phil Smith, University of Plymouth
3) Call for Papers: Special Issue of Leadership – The Materiality of Leadership. Guest editors: Alison Pullen and Sheena Vachhani Swansea University, UK
4) GWO: 7th international interdisciplinary conference 27th – 29th June, 2012. Call for abstracts – Intersectionality, work and organisationsRead more…

Three items for September:
1) 7th international interdisciplinary conference, 27th- 29th June, 2012, Keele University, UK: Queering gender, work and organization
2) GWO Biennial Conference, 27th -29th June 2012, Keele University, UK: Gendered Ageing at Work: Beyond the ‘Double Jeopardy
3) 7th international interdisciplinary conference 27th -29th June 2012, Keele University, UK: Eco-feminism, sustainability and organizationRead more…

HYBRID ORGANIZATION WORKSHOP
Date: November 2-3, 2011
Location: Turku, Finland
Speakers and commentators:
Professor Celia Lury (Goldsmiths, University of London), Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (Uppsala University) & Dr. Adam Arvidsson (University of Milano)
Convenors:
Professor Saara Taalas (Linnaeus University & University of Turku), Professor Alf Rehn (Åbo Akademi University), Dr. Lotta Häkkinen (University of Turku) & Dr. Nina Kivinen (Åbo Akademi University)
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CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL ISSUE OF ORGANIZATION

SEXUALITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: 30 YEARS ON

‘Sexuality is nothing if not complicated – but that is no excuse for ignoring it’ (Burrell, 1984: 113).Read more…

1) A call for papers for an ephemera Special Issue on "Re-thinking the Politics of Consumption". See http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/politicsofconsumption.pdf for further details.
2) A day conference at the British Library in London on 6 September 2011 on "Body Work in Health and Social Care".  For details please click on the following link http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ageing

Also, see below for:

(3) Details of the "2nd Annual Writing Retreat" (venue: Hawkwood, Painswick Valley)
(4) A call for papers for a special issue of Equality, Diversity And Inclusion – An International Journal, on ‘Diversity, Difference and Inclusion in Monstrous Organizations’.
(5) A call for papers for a symposium on "Practical Wisdom: Leadership, Organization and Integral Business Practice" at the Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.Read more…

DILEMMAS IN HUMAN SERVICES 2011 – 15TH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Thursday 1st - Friday 2nd September 2011

Location: Friends House, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ, UK.
Organized by the University of East London, Staffordshire University and Luleå University of Technology.
Conference website: http://www.uel.ac.uk/dilemmas/
Theme: Hard Times for Public ServicesRead more…