A gentle nudge for those of you keen to join an exploration of the body in organizational life: PROS 2025 will focus on "Embodying Process". As usual, the setting will be a Greek island (Euboea) and, in the spirit of a symposium, conducive to conversation, stimulation and collegiality. It will also feature four remarkable keynote speakers:
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English at Emory University, USA, and focuses on disability studies and feminist theory. Her book Extraordinary Bodies remains a founding text in the disability studies canon.
Sabrina Strings is Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is the award-winning author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, and various articles that look at the intersection of race, gender, religion, health and fat phobia.
Alexandra Michel is Director and Professor at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Germany, and Associate Professor for Work and Organizational Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany. She is the author of ground-breaking articles based on longitudinal field engagement in ASQ (2011, 2023) that identify the changing relationship of people with their bodies over the course of their careers and in relation to new organizational forms.
Mark Johnson is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. Among his books are Metaphors We Live By, Philosophy in the Flesh, The Body in the Mind and The Meaning of the Body.
More details can be found in the CfP:
https://c4b64337-d7ad-45d5-8ff6-efb5e4a15da4.filesusr.com/ugd/788575_bc0f81e34ec24e39b1ea1c4f870a5b2b.pdf
Hope to see you there!
Emily Heaphy, Mark de Rond, Ann Langley, Hari Tsoukas and Paula Jarzabkowski (with Sophia Tzagkaraki)
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Emily Heaphy
Professor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst MA
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