A Call for Papers
"Science Fiction and Organization"
A Two Day Conference
14-15 September 1999
Belmont House Hotel
Leicester
Although popular accounts of the actions of organizations frequently
call upon tropes developed within science fiction, the marginal (and
seemingly non-academic) nature of science fiction has meant that it
has been largely ignored in the serious business of writing
organizational theory. Nevertheless science fiction can be seen as a
diagnosis of the present and a vision of possible futures. As such it provides a
contemporary resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing
processes and organizations as institutions. This conference aims to explore
how science fiction can enrich studies of organizations. Authors may wish to
consider such themes as:
* examining how organizational theory and developments in science
fiction interrelate;
* narrating how immersion in science fiction can alter the reader's
perspective and how this, in turn, feeds an understanding of
organization;
* discussion of how the exploration of popular themes in science
fiction (such as identity, the nature of reality, the all-powerful
corporation, the creation and maintenance of meta-narratives)
correspond to approaches taken to similar work within
organizational theory.
An edited collection of selected papers will be published by
Routledge.
The cost of the conference is £165. This includes one night
accommodation, the dinner and lunches.
Abstracts (max 500 words) should be submitted to the address below by
31-03-1999.
For further details please contact: Matthew Higgins @
Management Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester,
England. LE17RH
E-mail: [log in to unmask] Fax: 0116 2523949 Tel: 0116 2525644
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