Fwd: Organizational Discourse CALL for PAPERS

[Ken Ehrensal]

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> From: Tom Keenoy <holotom at GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
> Date: October 13, 2009 6:48:43 AM EDT
> To: "EPHEMERA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK" <EPHEMERA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Subject: Organizational Discourse CALL for PAPERS
> Reply-To: Tom Keenoy <holotom at GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
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> Apologies for cross-posting – please forward to interested colleagu 
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> CALL for PAPERS
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> 9th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Crises,  
> Corruption, Character and Change
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> Amsterdam, Wednesday 14th July-Friday 16th July, 2010
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> Conference Theme
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> 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 proje 
> ctions of the future and our inability to confront those possibiliti 
> es has, perhaps, never been greater. In the post-whatever world we n 
> ow inhabit, all appears to be simultaneously terminal and – bizarrel 
> y – transient.
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> Hence, the theme for the 9th Conference has a narrative focus on the  
> discursive construction and re-construction of crises, character,  
> corruption and change. 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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> Perhaps most problematic is how we have depicted the character 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 corruption 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. These issues raise further questions  
> regarding the problems of continuity and the scope for change. 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?
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> The submission date is 15th January 2010. Notification of
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> acceptance of papers will be given by 5th March 2010.
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> Abstracts (1000 words max) should be sent as an email
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> attachment (saved as a Word document or a text file) to
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> Tom Keenoy and Cliff Oswick at: Discourse09 at cardiff.ac.uk
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> For full details see conference web page:
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> http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/conferences/icod10/index.html
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> Tom Keenoy,
> Cardiff Business School and the University of Leicester
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> Home Page: http://www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/academics/tkeenoy.html
> Discourse Web Page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/carbs/conferences/icod10/index.html#top
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> Phone: ++ (0)29 20460425
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