Organizing Christmas - A Festive Symposium
A Warwick Organisation Theory Network - KTH - UTS Collaboration
15th - 16th December 2008
Warwick Business School,
University of Warwick,
Coventry
UK
Organized By
Dr Philip Hancock WBS, UK
Prof Alf Rehn KTH, Sweden
Prof Carl Rhodes UTS, Australia
Taking place just as the festive period itself gets into full swing, you
are invited to consider the true [organisational] meaning of Christmas over
the course of this two-day symposium. Over-indulge in savoury academic
debate, drink heartily of the cup of collegiality and smile appreciatively
as you are presented with a range of unwanted off-prints and socks.
Papers/presentations are invited in relation to any aspect of the symposium
theme, but suggested topics might include:
The Christmas Labour Process - making and working at Christmas
Organisational Aesthetics - animatronics to carols in August
Identities at Christmas - ethic and religious identity in the Christmas
workplace
Domestic Organisation - managing Christmas at home
Gender and Sexuality - gender and the sexualization of festive labour,
the sexual politics of corporate Christmas parties
Corporate Christmas as Colonization - Christmas as global hegemony
Christmas Culture and Representation of Organisation - Santas workshop
to Scrooge
The Christmas Economy - gift-giving and the politics of friendship
The Economics of Christmas - deadweight losses and the general economy
Christmas and Excess - binge-consumption, Yuletide drinking and getting
in debt
The event will be limited to around nine papers in order to facilitate
maximum discussion.
Abstracts not exceeding 750 words and should be submitted, via the
website, by April 25th 2008.
The all-inclusive cost for those chosen to present a paper will be £150.00.
Further details, plus abstract submission can be found at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/research/wotn/research/organizing_chri
stmas/
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