And of course:

The PDW (60): "Arts-Based Methods in Management Education² 9-11 AM Friday
(today) at the Bill Reid Gallery (639 Hornby).



On 8/7/15, 7:34 AM, "Ariane Berthoin Antal" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Dear friends,
>in addition to this important caucus meeting on Monday afternoon, there
>are other exciting sessions about arts and organizations, such as
>
>the PDW workshop (144) on Friday on Arts-Based Methods for Organizational
>Change (Pan Pacific, Coal Harbor Suite) 1:30-3:30
>
>AND
>
>the symposium (926) "Artistic interventions that tilt organizations" on
>Monday 8:00-9:30 (PanPacific Crystal Pavillion, Ballroom C).
>We will be presenting cases from our research around the world.
>Contributors: Nancy J. Adler, Ariane Berthoin Antal, Victoria Brattström,
>Jill Woodilla, Katarina Zambrell.
>
>Please do join us!
>Ariane
>
>
>
>> Hello friends-
>>
>> It's been quite some time since I reached out to you all - thank you for
>> maintaining this community!
>>
>> I'm writing because this week at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual
>> Meeting a 'caucus' (info below) will take place to discuss the prospect
>>of
>> establishing a more formalized context within the AOM for
>> arts/aesthetics-oriented research.  Specifically, should we create an
>> 'interest group' as a step toward establishing a 'division'?
>>
>> Many of you will surely recall the lively debate that this question
>> sparked
>> years ago within the AACORN community.  Many voices were raised, some
>> calling as it were for pure difference, the rejection of established
>> structures and institutions, and the denial of any instrumentalization
>>of
>> aesthetics as means to the ends of career advancement, phooey;, and by
>> contrast, others called for pure repetition, transformation of the
>>machine
>> from within by its own logic, the acceptance and embrace of increased
>> legitimacy, the deliberate and intentional aggregation of power in the
>> service precisely of the arts, amen.  Or at least that's how I recall
>> things going...
>>
>> But since then, lots has happened. The AOM Fringe Cafe came and went;
>>the
>> Art of Management conferences continue; the ADO Standing Working Group
>> exists at EGOS; other tracks and panels at EGOS, EURAM, SCOS, and other
>> conferences have taken place; Organizational Aesthetics has come into
>> being
>> as a journal; many articles, chapters, handbooks, books, etc. have been
>> published by members of this AACORN community; and in parallel, in
>> response
>> to a prominent calls for the integration of the liberal arts and
>> humanities
>> into business education, scholars and educators have organized and
>> gathered
>> and discussed and and and...
>>
>> So now, in view of these dynamics, Bill Gartner, Steve Taylor and I feel
>> like the time is right to re-start this conversation about organizing
>>with
>> AOM.   We've organized the caucus and made initial inquiries to the AOM
>> Board of Governors.  It would be great if you are going to be in
>>Vancouver
>> if you could join us at the caucus - my personal motivation for taking
>> this
>> vaguely political step is that it makes it marginally more likely that
>> I'll
>> be able to hang out with good friends and cherished colleagues at AOM
>> meetings...
>>
>> Best,
>> -Matt
>>
>> 1428The Arts and Humanities as Modes of Inquiry in Management
>>Scholarship
>> Caucus-CAU-Monday, Aug 10 2015
>> 4:45PM - 6:15PMVancouver Convention Centre, Room 217
>>
>
>
>-- 
>Prof. Dr. Ariane Berthoin Antal
>Research Group "Science Policy Studies"
>WZB Berlin Social Science Center
>Reichpietschufer 50
>10785 Berlin, Germany
>
>http://www.wzb.eu/en/persons/ariane-berthoin-antal
>Blog: www.culturalsourcesofnewness.net
>Research program:
>http://www.wzb.eu/de/forschung/gesellschaft-und-wirtschaftliche-dynamik/wi
>ssenschaftspolitik/projekte/kuenstlerische-interventionen