Dear CMS list

Deadline for 750 word abstracts/proposals extended to : Friday 5th October 2012

Please find below the second call for papers/proposals for an ESRC inVisio symposium to be held at:
Wivenhoe House Hotel, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
http://www.wivenhoehouse.co.uk/
Weds 28th – Thurs 29th November 2012
Keynote speaker Prof. Dvora Yanow:
“Learning what it means to be 'scientific'? Bodies seeing and walking the museum line”
Fee: £50 (free for PhD students and third sector)
Includes dinner, and overnight stay on Wednesday; breakfast and lunch on Thursday, plus all the usual conference paraphernalia.
Click here for a PDF of the call for papers<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/31317125/inVisio%20symposium%20CFP.pdf>
The symposium will begin late afternoon on Wednesday, with Prof. Yanow’s plenary address and welcome reception, followed by dinner and an overnight stay at the stunning, newly renovated Wivenhoe House Hotel (or local historic B&B accommodation). Thursday will include a full programme of delegates’ research papers and a round-table discussion on ‘inspire’ the ESRC inVisio Researcher Development Initiative website: www.in-visio.org<http://www.in-visio.org/>. The symposium will close around 5pm on Thurs 29th.

Call For Papers and Proposals
“Visual organization studies” as a nascent discipline is gaining momentum. In 2007 the ESRC funded the inVisio seminar series at the same time as the EIASM conferences on ‘Imagining Business’ began (2008, 2011), followed by the 2010 Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism themed ‘Vision’. Management journals have begun to publish special issues on the visual, including the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (2009), Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management (2012) and Culture and Organization (2012), and two edited collections haverecently been commissioned by international publisher Routledge: Puyou et al.’s (2011) Imagining Organizations, and Bell et al.’s (2013) handbook, The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization. Recognising this groundswell of interest, the ESRC further funded inVisio through a researcher development initiative (2010 – 2012) tasked with building capacity in visual methodologies among business and management researchers. At the time of writing, inVisio has 390 members, many of whom are supervising doctoral students using visual methods suggesting that the popularity of visual methodologies is likely to grow in the future.
The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers addressing visual and/ or image-based dimensions of organizational life in productive dialogue to contribute to this ‘capacity building’ agenda through sharing work-in-progress, conceptual and methodological developments, and reflections on how best to develop this field of inquiry.
We therefore invite paper presentations, short films, exhibitions or contributions in any appropriate format that further any or all of these aims. We envisage papers that might address, but are not limited to:
·       The historical roots of visual media in organization studies
·       Critical implications of a visual organizational perspective for method, theory or practice
·       The rise of visual social media and implications for organizations
·       Studying visible/invisible dimensions of identity and culture in the workplace
·       Producer perspectives on corporate images and design
·       Studies of strategic organizational images, such as websites, brochures, advertising, reports
·       Subversion of organizational images and viral resistance
·       Depictions of leadership and organization in popular visual media
·       Investigations of visual tools/aids in organizing processes
·       Photographic exhibitions/displays about work and working
·       Developments in understanding visual literacy/competence
·       The interplay between the visual and other modes of communication
·       Ethnographic, documentary or other films about organizational life
·       Interdisciplinary perspectives of the visual in organizational studies
·       Spaces of performance in the visual and visualities
·       Embodied visualities in theory and method
·       Methodological innovations
Due to generous support from our sponsors, we are able to offer this event at a greatly subsidized cost. In return we will beasking delegates to provide qualitative feedback on the online ‘inspire’ researcher development resources, available at www.in-visio.org<http://www.in-visio.org/>.

Abstracts should be 750 words, in Word format and proposals for exhibitions etc. should clearly outline the event, time and equipment required. We expect demand to be very high for this symposium, soplease email Charlotte Smith on [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to submit your abstract/ proposal as soon as possible, at the latest by extended deadline of Fri 5th October 2012 You will be notified of abstract acceptance within 2 weeks of submission and may submit a full paper if you wish, although this is optional.
Priority will be given to paper presenters, but the conference will also be open to non-presenting delegates on a first come, first served basis. Please email Charlotte at the above email address to register your interest.
From the symposium organising committee,
Samantha Warren
Emma Bell
Jane Davison
Bill Lee
Christine McLean
Caroline Scarles
Jonathan Schroeder
Harriet Shortt
Charlotte Smith