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ACSCOS 'Heat' Colloquium: November 29-December 1, Melbourne, Australia: Registration due October 15

  • 1.  ACSCOS 'Heat' Colloquium: November 29-December 1, Melbourne, Australia: Registration due October 15

    Posted 09-14-2010 05:36

    ACSCOS 'Heat' Colloquium:  November 29-December 1, Melbourne, Australia:  Registration due October 15

     

    This message is to let you know that registration for ACSCOS 2010 is now open online at http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/management-marketing/acscos/register.php

    Please register by October 15 to ensure your place!  Thanks to generous sponsorship, fees for the colloquium are A$325 or A$215 for students. There is a one day only rate for local students of A$22. All prices include GST:

    ·         Full registration includes opening reception, lunches, teas and a fully catered conference dinner at the Melbourne Museum: http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/management-marketing/acscos/conference-dinner.php

    ·         Partner registration is A$165, which includes welcome drinks and the conference dinner.

    Please join us as we consider the subject of heat as it relates to management and organisation as well as more general notions concerning the subjects, objects and organisation of heat:

    • Fighting fires: Crisis management and control
    • What's hot? Popular culture and celebrity
    • The heat: policing cultures
    • Heating up: process perspectives
    • Aftermaths and aftertastes
    • Heat and ice: organising (for) extremities
    • Sex and sexualisation
    • Hot flushes: menopause and management
    • Looking hot: Dress, culture and organisation
    • Clothing and the organisation of heat
    • Sweat, rashes and the aesthetics of heat
    • Odour and perfume in organisational life

    ·         Seeing and feeling red: Affect(ing) anger, embarrassment and shame

    ·         Heat and evil

    ·         Heat and mythology: Phoenix and other fantasies

    ·         Heat and hearth: comfort in organisational life

    ·         Organising summer

    ·         Seasonality and seasonal work

    ·         Burn and burning out: Stress, tension and cooling processes

    ·         Too hot to handle? Ethical edges

    ·         Tropicality: Location, latitudes and license in organisation

    ·         Hot spots: Regionality, interest and disinterest

    ·         Heat, health and disease

    ·         Sustainability, global warming and other hot (and cold) topics in teaching and research

    ·         Entrepreneurship and the lighting of new (inter)disciplinary and discursive fires

    ·         Heat and history

    ·         Heatwaves from the past: Recycling, vintage and intertextual references

    ·         Open stream

    For full details:

    ACSCOS 2010 'Heat' November 29-December 1, 2010

    http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/management-marketing/acscos/index.php

    We aim for this to be a 'green' conference and encourage you to bring your own conference bag or swap/take a bag from our collection. 

     

    We look forward to seeing you there and apologise for cross-postings.

     

    Please contact either of us for further information,

     

    Julie Wolfram Cox and Jan Schapper

    julie.wolfram-cox@deakin.edu.au     

    j.schapper@latrobe.edu.au

     

     

     

    Julie Wolfram Cox

    Chair in Management

    School of Management and Marketing

    Faculty of Business and Law

    Deakin University

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    Forthcoming Conference:

    ACSCOS 2010 'Heat' November 29-December 1, 2010

    http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/management-marketing/acscos/index.php