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Kia ora GDO members -

Please join us for our PDW on 'The F word: Feminism and Business Schools',  co-sponsored by GDO and CMS.

The F word: Feminism and Business Schools

Organizer: Deborah Helen Jones; Victoria U. of Wellington;

Presenter: Alessia Contu; U. of Warwick;

Presenter: Tracy Patricia Wilcox; U. of New South Wales;

Presenter: Alison Pullen; Swansea U.;

Presenter: Sadhvi Dar; Queen Mary U. of London.

Program Session #: 203 | Submission: 17049 | Sponsor(s): (CMS, GDO)

Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 2 2014 8:00AM - 10:00AM at Pennsylvania Convention Center in Room 109 B

Calling feminism 'the F word' underlines both the power of feminist discourse to provoke and disrupt, and also the power of anti-feminist backlash to stigmatise and marginalise feminism and its practitioners. The first goal of this panel is to create conversation about feminism in business schools. We speak about emerging and re-intensifying feminist issues and forms of activism and their relevance to our research, teaching and working lives. In this project we emphasise the politics of feminism, within and beyond the business school, and we draw on our own stories of how being/ speaking 'feminism' is done and received there. We cut across the dualism of 'feminism' as a theoretical and academic project in management studies on one hand, and on the other our 'personal or 'private' experiences as feminists. Our second goal for this session is to develop the community of VIDA, the CMS Women's Association. 'Vida' means 'beloved friend' or 'life', and VIDA is a networked organisation dedicated to challenging patriarchal practices in academic institutions and in the re-production of knowledge. VIDA was launched in a PDW at AOM in 2010, and at CMS 2013 VIDA organised an 'experiment in critical friendship' in which scholars were invited to present their own and comment on others' work so as to 'create collective spaces for reflection, connection, mutual support and knowledge formation and exchange'. In this way VIDA aims not only to address feminist issues in research and teaching, but to actively create alternative practices in working together.

Best wishes

Deborah

Dear GDO members,

Please join us for this exciting PDW focused on:

 "Developing Women Leaders: Sharing Teaching and Learning Practice"

Academy of Management

Friday 1^st August 2014, 1.00-3.00pm

The aim of the PDW is to share good practice and increase the repertoire of teaching materials and methods available to those involved in gender diversity and in particular, women's leadership programmes.  

The workshop will include interactive group discussions and exchange of ideas.  We aim to bring together faculty engaging with audiences at different levels of education: undergraduate, MBA and executives/managers.  Participants are encouraged to share examples of their own teaching sessions, case studies or experiential exercises where the potential for learning is high. The workshop will provide an opportunity to receive feedback on how to develop and extend teaching practices related to gender diversity and women leaders. Group discussions will be facilitated by organisers.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Organizers:

Deirdre Anderson, Cranfield University, UK

Diana Bilimoria, Case Western Reserve University

Stacey Blake-Beard, Simmons School of Management

Gelaye Debebe, The George Washington University

Elena Doldor, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Linley Lord, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Lynda Moore, Simmons School of Management

Susan Vinnicombe, Cranfield University, UK

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Dr Elena Doldor
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Organizational Behaviour

Queen Mary, University of London

School of Business and Management
Francis Bancroft Building
Mile End Road, London E1 4NA, UK
Email: e.r.doldor@qmul.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)20 7882 8985

www.busman.qmul.ac.uk