Dear Collegues!
We would like to draw to your attention this stream included in the 2019 CMS conference (https://internationalcms.org/2018/04/27/streams/), hoping you will consider contributing to it:
'Academic failure': Challenging how academic career success is understood, and imagining alternatives
In the search for excellence and success, there is a reluctance in academe to confront and, dare we say it, even celebrate failure. It is not surprising that in recent years, alternative views which challenge those norms have emerged. This has taken numerous forms, such as: documenting the heterogeneity of practices and career projects in the contemporary University, analysing practices of resistance and attempts to lay one own's path, challenging the culture of speed characterising contemporary academia where there is little time to care for students and colleagues, counter-spacing, rejecting the ethos of 'excellence' in research, or intervening to counter the long-terms effects of physical and mental strains – the 'hidden injuries' as embodied and affective detrimental states. In our stream we are intending to attract different kinds of contributions: conceptual or empirically-based, but also polemical, essay-based, and aiming to critically intervene and change practices. (Details can be found in the attachment.)
Please submit a 500 word abstract (excluding references, one page, Word document NOT PDF, single spaced, no header, footers or track changes) together with your contact information to Olivier Ratle (olivier.ratle@uwe.ac.uk). The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 31st 2019, and we will notify you of our decision by the end of February.
Best
Angelika Schmidt
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a.o.Univ.Prof. Dr. Angelika Schmidt
Institut für Change Management und Management Development
Institute for Change Management and Management Development
WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Welthandelsplatz 1, Building D2, Entrance B
1020 Wien, Austria, Europe
Tel: +43-1-313 36-5192
Fax: +43-1-313 36-90 5192
E-Mail:
Angelika.Schmidt@wu.ac.athttp://www.wu.ac.at/cmmd------------------------------