Please see below... -----Original Message----- From: Imagining Business [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 01 February 2008 11:39 To: [log in to unmask] Cc: Imagining Business Subject: 1ST WORKSHOP ON IMAGINING BUSINESS "REFLECTING ON THE VISUAL POWER OF MANAGEMENT,ORGANISING AND GOVERNING PRACTICES" that will take place in Oxford, U.K. - June 26-27, Dear Colleague, We are pleased to inform/remind you of the 1ST WORKSHOP ON IMAGINING BUSINESS "REFLECTING ON THE VISUAL POWER OF MANAGEMENT,ORGANISING AND GOVERNING PRACTICES" that will take place in Oxford, U.K. - June 26-27, 2008 <http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=555> The submission deadline is February 28, 2008 We welcome papers and extended abstracts (500-1500 words) from a range of disciplines and approaches (organizational theory, accounting, geography, art, sociology, communication studies, architecture, philosophy, social studies of technology...) that seek to explore the theoretical and empirical issues related to a diversity of themes. The following issues provide an indication of some of the topics you may wish to examine, but we do not wish to limit the range of possible topics for discussion: * Iconography and images in business * The scenography of images and the channelling of attention * Making business and organizing visible and thinkable * Power of signs and issues of engagement * Processes and practices of visualization and interpretation * Exploring surfaces and media in relation to images (e.g. paper, screens, walls, digital, etc) as well as the tools used for designing images * Understanding agency and the role of imagining artefacts (pencils, computers, cameras...) * Imagining the future through visualization * Images in relation to dialogue and texts * Understanding the senses for perceiving images * Images, Myths, Icons and Metaphors, and other related subject areas... We look forward to reading your abstract and hopefully meeting you in June. The organizing committee, 1st EIASM Workshop on Imagining Business: Reflecting on the visual power of managing, organising and governing practices University of Oxford, Said Business School, June 2008 For the workshop's website and paper submission, please click here For further details please email the organising committee at: [log in to unmask] Organising Committee Lucy Kimbell Said Business School, Oxford Chris Mclean Manchester Business School Francois-Regis Puyou CSO & EM Lyon Paolo Quattrone Said Business School, Oxford