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INVITATION FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
CRITICAL MANAGMENT STUDIES PHD FORUM:
'RADICAL PRACTICE IN THE ACADEMY: CONFESSIONS OF DANGEROUS (BUSINESS) MINDS'
LEICESTER, UK. SEPTEMBER 17 - 18, 2005.
'I say that political action belongs to a category of participation completely different from these writings or bookish acts of participation. It is a problem of groups, of personal and physical commitment. One is not radical because one pronounces a few words; no, the essence of being radical is physical; the essence of being radical is the radicalness of existence itself.' Michel Foucault (1978)
CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES ANYONE?
Spectres of Foucault and other thinkers have haunted British management schools over the last 20 years. Under the banner 'Critical Management Studies' (CMS), new and diverse approaches to management, business and organisation have developed, with the latest CMS conference in 2005 set to attract several hundred scholars.
We think it is time for an open forum for PhD students in management and related disciplines, with an interest in what might be subsumed under the banner 'CMS', to meet and discuss their ideas in a friendly environment. To this end, PhD students from the University of Leicester Management Centre (ULMC) and Warwick Business School (WBS) would like to invite likeminded students to participate in the CMS Postgraduate Forum, to be held at Leicester on the 17th & 18th September '05.
CRITICAL, RADICAL, OR ON THE ROCKS?
Rather than asking the obvious question that is commonly levelled at CMS scholars - 'what does critical mean?' - we would like the forum to focus on radical practice in the academy. The forum can be seen as an attempt at 'personal and physical commitment', of infusing 'radicalness' into our existence (a consciously humble aim!).
As PhD students, we are probably already involved in the (re)production and dissemination of discourses and knowledges of/on management. We would like to give participants in the forum the opportunity to reflect critically, in a student-led environment, on their practice as research students, teachers, and future members of the academy.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Possible topics for contributions might include: the ethics/politics of teaching/writing management; the role of business schools in management discourse: language, ideology, power; your research as critique; the autopoetic business school; entropy and the business school; in defence of business schools. This list is suggestive rather than authoritative.
We invite contributions from any postgraduate students. Contributions can take various forms - paper presentations, group presentations, guided discussion groups, movie viewings etc. - please feel free to contact any of the organisers to discuss your ideas.
The deadline for submissions is the 15th of May 2005. Please email [log in to unmask] for enquiries & submissions.
There will be a charge for attendance to cover costs (around £65 incl. one night accommodation & catering) - details to follow.
Please consult http://www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/research/events.html for up-to-date information.
Contacts:
WBS: Epaminondas Koronis ([log in to unmask])
ULMC: Armin Beverungen ([log in to unmask])
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André Spicer
Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Andre.Spicer@wbs.ac..uk
+44 (0)24 7652 4513
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