Professor Jamie Morgan recently published an article in The Conversation entitled ‘The fourth industrial revolution could lead to a dark future.’ The full text can be found here.
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Critical Realism Essentials: Ontological Realism – Ismael Al-Amoudi
In November of 2019, Director of the Centre for Social Ontology, Professor Ismael Al-Amoudi gave the below talk to the Critical Realism Network regarding the essentials of ontological realism.
Global Climate Emergency: Preventing fatal “future facts” from becoming reality – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan and co-author Professor Barry Gills have recently published an article on the Common Alternatives website: ‘Global Climate Emergency: Preventing fatal “future facts” from becoming reality.’ This article is based on their paper in the journal Globalizations, entitled “Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity“.
Organizational psychology, practice and critique – Gazi Islam, University of St. Gallen
Professor Gazi Islam gave the opening keynote at the Practice-based Perspectives in Organizational Psychology conference at the University of St. Gallen on the 19th of September, 2019. Details can be found here.
Doing Fieldwork, Not Time For Philosophy? – Ismael Al-Amoudi, AIDEA Capri Summer School
Prof. Ismael Al-Amoudi presented a lecture entitled “Doing fieldwork, not time for philosophy?” at the AIDEA Capri Summer School (University of Milano) on the 13th of September, 2019. Original lecture notes available upon request.
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Who Will Win the AI Battle? – Ismael Al-Amoudi
Director of the Centre for Social Ontology, Professor Ismael Al-Amoudi, recently appeared on Xerfi Canal to discuss the ethical challenges presented by artificial intelligence. The video can be viewed here (in French):
Boris Johnson: Brave or Reckless? – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan recently published an article in Politics Means Politics magazine: ‘Boris Johnson — Brave or reckless?‘ The article was also reproduced on the website of Leeds Beckett University.
Festvals: A Source of or Brake on Critique and Contestation? – Gazi Islam
Professor Gazi Islam was recently interviewed by the Grenoble Business Review for an article entitled ‘Les festivals: un ressort ou un frein à la critique et la contestation?’ (Festivals: A source of or brake on critique and contestation?). The full text can be found here.
Sarcasm and Irony: New Forms of Resistance at Work – Gazi Islam
Professor Gazi Islam recently published an article in the Grenoble Business Review entitled ‘Sarcasme et ironie : les nouvelles formes de résistance au travail‘ (Sarcasm and irony: New forms of resistance at work). The full text can be found here.
Organizing Material: A Research Agenda for the “Material Turn” in Organizational Scholarship – Gazi Islam, Bilkent University
Professor Gazi Islam gave an invited presentation to the Faculty of Business Administration at Bilkent University on the 15th of May, 2019. The talk began with a research presentation entitled “Organizing Material: A Research Agenda for the ‘Material Turn’ in Organizational Scholarship“, followed by a discussion of publishing strategies.
The abstract from the event page is reproduced here:
RESEARCH SEMINAR
Organizing Material: A Research Agenda for the “Material Turn” in Organizational ScholarshipOrganizational scholarship has been increasingly concerned with the material and aesthetic properties of work. As evidenced by a rapid growth in visual, spatial and object-centered approaches, as well as discussions of embodied cognition and affect, organizational scholarship has been characterized as going through a “material turn”. By acknowledging the materiality of organizing, such scholarship has addressed some of the limitations of purely discursive or cognitive approaches, while offering avenues for studying the impacts of novel technological and material artefacts in organizations. This presentation will discuss the possibilities for current thinking around the material turn in organizing, presenting an ongoing research agenda around different aspects of materiality. I will discuss the theoretical and methodological challenges around defining sites of study, analysing and interpreting data, and theorizing materiality Based on a brief description of my own research agenda around materiality at work, I reflect on the challenges and possibilities of this agenda in organizational scholarship.
PUBLICATION SEMINAR
Publishing in Management and Organization Studies- Contexts, Paradigms, CommunitiesThe purpose of this talk is to discuss publishing experiences and strategies in organizational scholarship. Drawing on personal experiences in publishing, as well as experience as Section Editor at Journal of Business ethics and editorial board member of Organization Research Methods, Journal of Management, Organization, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Management Decision, and Organization Theory, I will share some of my own observations around academic research and publishing, including: International mobility and publishing, Academic communities and audiences, the relation between methodological choices and publishing, and the evolving nature of academic visibility. The format is meant to be interactive, with ample time for discussion, questions and debate.
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