Dear Colleagues, Thank you for the interest you have shown in the "Subaltern Storytelling Seminar" which will take place in University College Cork, Ireland on 28-29 June 2002. Detaild have now been finalized. Details and registration can be found on http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/mgt/sceal/ Here is the final list of speakers: Linda Ballard (Ulster Museum) on "Plotting the Tale, Meaning and Communication in Traditional Narrative" Yehuda Baruch (School of Management, University of East Anglia) on "Once upon a Time there was an Organization... Organizational Stories as an Anti-thesis to Fairy Tales" Gibson Burrell (Warwick Business School) on "Subalterns and the Stage: 'Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead' versus 'Hamlet'" Peter Case (Oxford-Brooks University) on " Blindness and Sight, Ignorance and Understanding: An Ancient Buddhist Fable Speaks to Contemporary Issues in Organisational Studies" Barbara Czarniawska (Goteborg University) on "Humiliation: A Standard Organizational Product" Yiannis Gabriel (School of Management, Imperial College) on " Telling Tales - Truths and Untruths in Storytelling". Sebastian Green (Dept. of Management & Marketing, University College Cork) on "Organizational Constellations: A Separate Reality" Heather Hopfl (University of Northumbria at Newcastle) on "Corrupting Practices: Stories of the Organisation and the Mouth of Hell." Steve Linstead (Dept. of Accounting, Finance and Management, University of Essex) on "Masks of Subversion: Telling Stories of Storytelling" Gearoid O Crualaoich (Dept. of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork) on "Vernacular Narrative Tradition as Resource for Conflict/Trauma Resolution: The Case of the Irish 'Wise Woman' Legend" Majella O'Leary, Donncha Kavanagh and Diarmuid O Giollain (University College Cork) review paper on "Stories of the Subaltern in Organizations and in Folklore." Bo Nilsson (the Nordic Museum, Stockholm) on "Between Agency and Discourse in Subaltern Life History Narratives. The Swedish Case." David Sims (School of Business and Management, Brunel University) on "Between the millstones: who cares about the subaltern's storying?" I look forward to meeting you in Cork. Regards, Majella O'Leary, Department of Management and Marketing, University College Cork, Ireland.