<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Tom Keenoy <<a href="mailto:holotom@GOOGLEMAIL.COM">holotom@GOOGLEMAIL.COM</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 13, 2009 6:48:43 AM EDT<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:EPHEMERA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">EPHEMERA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a>" <<a href="mailto:EPHEMERA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">EPHEMERA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Organizational Discourse CALL for PAPERS</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Tom Keenoy <<a href="mailto:holotom@GOOGLEMAIL.COM">holotom@GOOGLEMAIL.COM</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><h3><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Apologies for cross-posting – please forward to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">CALL for PAPERS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">9<sup>th</sup>
International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Crises, Corruption,
Character and Change </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Amsterdam, Wednesday 14<sup>th</sup>
July-Friday 16<sup>th</sup> July, 2010</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Conference Theme</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">Contemporary organizing is
confronted by seemingly endless ‘crises’ which are routinely projected through
apocalyptic metaphor. Over coffee, we can skip-read through today’s ‘ecological
catastrophe’, the ‘global financial meltdown’ and ‘the collapse of capitalism’
before ‘getting down to work’. All of which suggests that the distance between
our discursive projections of the future and our inability to confront those
possibilities has, perhaps, never been greater. In the post-whatever world we
now inhabit, all appears to be simultaneously terminal and – bizarrely –
transient. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">Hence, the theme for the </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">9<sup>th</sup> Conference</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;"> has a narrative focus on the discursive construction and
re-construction of <i>crises,</i> </span></span><span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">character, corruption and
change</span></i></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">. At the meta-level,
the conference theme is intended to elicit papers which address the discursive
construction and re-construction of ‘crises’. In our view, linguistic framing
is a fundamental aspect of how ‘crises’ are being manufactured, constituted,
projected, perceived and addressed (or finessed) at all levels of organization.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">Perhaps most problematic is
how we have depicted the </span></span><span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">character</span></i></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;"> of these various crises for their technical
and global complexity invariably engenders over-simplified description. In
parallel, we appear to be experiencing a persistent growth in </span></span><span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">corruption</span></i></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;"> as manifest in the prevalence of
institutional practices which directly undermined the presumed core processes
of organizations and in our accounts of such seemingly corrupt behaviour which
privilege rhetorical dissimulation. </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: normal;">These issues raise further questions regarding the problems of
continuity and the scope for <i>change</i>.
What is the role for, and status of, discourse(s) in relation to change (or
non-change). How does discourse shape ‘character-formation’ and possible
responses to crises and corruption?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">The submission date is <b>15<sup>th</sup> January 2010</b>.
Notification of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">acceptance of papers will be given by <b>5<sup>th</sup> March
2010. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Abstracts (1000 words max) should be sent as an email </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">attachment (saved as a Word document or a text file) to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Tom Keenoy and Cliff Oswick </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">at: <a href="mailto:Discourse09@cardiff.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Discourse09@cardiff.ac.uk</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">For full
details see conference web page:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><a href="http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/conferences/icod10/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/conferences/icod10/index.html</span></a></span></p>
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