With apologies for cross-posting - ABSTRACT DEADLINE 30th NOVEMBER - poster 
attached so please feel free to circulate to anyone who might be interested 
in this multidisciplinary/multipractice conference.

We're getting excited about receiving your ideas and inspirations - and 
we're hoping to be able to confirm some great keynotes and events very 
shortly.

Steve and Jenna 


Call for Contributions 
Papers and Events (exhibitions, workshops, projects. special performances)

The Sixth Art of Management and Organization Conference 
Creativity and Critique
September 4-7th 2012, 
 University of York UK

Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Working Lives and The York Management 
School Conference Convenors: Stephen Linstead and Jenna Ward Conference 
Administrator: Helen Geddes

Creativity has always been synonymous with the arts, but not with 
management. Indeed, managing creativity has been constructed as a perennial 
problem for organizations, creatives not being seen as comfortable with 
bureaucracy, nor willing to sacrifice autonomy. But recently, the 
entrepreneurial spirit of creatives has been mythologised and the creative 
industries have been elevated to the status of role model for the knowledge 
economy. Everyone is supposed to be creative now. The world of work is 
equally one of play and invention, we are told - if, in the current context 
we are lucky enough to have work, if not... create it. Is it really such a 
problem if we're not creative? Do we all have to be 
leaders/managers/entrepreneurs too?

Management and organization, in theory and practice, has in the past tended 
to neglect the affective dimensions of work, and has often produced, as a 
by product of organizing, effective ways of killing creativity - whether 
that characteristic of people working in creative roles, or that more 
generally distributed in ways that organizations only reluctantly 
recognised, and delimited, through such efforts as quality initiatives. But 
creativity also kills - the moral and ethical dimensions, and even the dark 
side, of creativity, from the human genome project to genocide, remain 
relatively under-explored. And art as kitsch produces a generalised 
deadening effect that leaves the world culturally safe for capitalism, or 
totalitarianism. We look on, as Barbara Ehrenreich puts it, "bright-sided", 
sentimentally reaffirmed as social beings with our humanity safely in 
wraps.

We particularly invite contributions of all types that explore the diverse 
and paradoxical relationships between the arts and humanities, creations, 
creative practices, creative systems (workshops, organizations, industries, 
economies), creative individuals, creative conflicts, creating change, 
creative continuities, the politics of creativity and the consequences of 
these relationships - both public and private. We're interested in new 
sources and approaches to theorising these relationships as well as new 
ways of organising and living them. We're interested in the release and 
realisation of human potential, but not at the expense of foreclosing a 
critical gaze. We're interested in the light and the dark sides. We might 
even accept contributions that are not creative, just to be even handed.

Location

September 2002 saw the birth of The Art of Management and Organization 
Conference on London's legendary South Bank. Its aim was, and continues to 
be, the exploration and promotion of the arts (in the most inclusive sense) 
as a means of understanding management and organizational life and its 
contexts. Since then the conference has continued its collaborative and 
open ethos in Paris (2004), Krakow (2006), Banff (2008) and Istanbul (2010) 
and has given rise to a vibrant global community of praxis - including both 
scholars and practitioners. Although it is primarily a refereed academic 
conference, it is also a place for integration - and here, we encourage new 
links, relationships and explorations. Previous keynotes and featured 
events have included rock stars, comedians, actors, poets, musicians, 
artists, storytellers, dancers, photographers, calligraphers and 
philosophers.

This year, for the tenth anniversary of the series, we return to the UK and 
we will be hosted by The York Management School in one of Britain's most 
historic cities. York is a mecca for archaeologists, historians and 
divinity scholars renowned for its exquisite architecture, tangle of quaint 
cobbled streets and the iconic York Minster. A city of contrasts and 
exciting discoveries, York is a stylish city where the old encompasses the 
new and the commonplace meets with the unexpected - a fast developing 
cutting edge scene with world class museums, some of the country's most 
talented street entertainers, annual Festival of Ideas and one of the UK's 
oldest working picture houses (The City Screen), a traditional riverside 
picture house showing both mainstream and 'art-house' films.

The York Management School is based on the new RIBA Award-winning 
Heslington East campus which has a state of the art Theatre, Film and 
Television facility with flexible spaces, complemented by the facilities of 
a World Top 100 university. The University is a national centre for 
training in theatre, television, film, music, performance and arts 
management. It offers a combination of formal and informal spaces that 
characterise the versatility necessary for such a diverse conference, and 
offers the potential for a very exciting Sixth (and Tenth Anniversary) Art 
of Management and Organization Conference. We invite you to join us in this 
ongoing art and aesthetic adventure.

Open Submissions

The conference is a forum for presentation, dialogue and exploration to 
reflect what is currently happening in the field, so submissions need not 
be limited to the conference theme. We welcome your contributions of work 
that you wish to share, discuss and develop, whatever its focus within the 
broad art of management remit.

We seek proposals that will facilitate formal scholarly presentations 
(artful inquiry into organisational life), exhibitions and performances 
(artful presentations of organisational life) and undiscovered, 
developmental and even challenging forms of inquiry and representation. As 
part of the inclusive and creative space the Art of Management and 
Organization Conference we would also like to take this opportunity to 
encourage and welcome participation from artists, practitioners, students 
and colleagues from disciplines beyond management and organisation. We hope 
to secure sponsorship for artist/doctoral student bursaries - watch the 
website for information.

The Conference will feature an exhibition by Dr. Ann Rippin, who is known 
for her pioneering work in integrating haptic and visual experience through 
quilting into three dimensional critiques of corporate history and 
strategy. There will be an ongoing exercise in social architecture, a 
performance of at least one a play, a musical event, a film showing, 
several workshops, three keynotes, and "focus streams" including poetry, 
image and the visual, and the "tactual" (see website for full list), We 
anticipate a diversity of streams, papers, events, exhibitions, 
performances and a variety of presentation techniques and content, to 
celebrate our tenth anniversary.

Submission Details 

Abstracts  for scholarly papers (up to 500 words) should be emailed to: 

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by November 30th 2011. All abstracts will be refereed.

Full papers (up to 7000 words) may also be submitted for double-blind 
review by the same date. This will be indicated in the programme. All 
decisions will be communicated by mid-January 2012. For further 
information, registration etc see the conference website

http://www.york.ac.uk/management/research/research-areas/organisation-theory/art_of_management/
 
or call Dr. Helen Geddes 01904 325025 or Professor Stephen Linstead 01904 
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