Forwarding this by request of a colleague who wishes to bring this to the attention of folks on this list:
Please distribute this information to all women scholars you think would be interested in the association. We look forward to welcoming you at our inaugeral event.
AOM 2010 MONTREAL
VIDA: Women scholars and critical management practices
PDW Sponsored by CMS and GDO
Organised by Alessia Contu (WBS) and Sadhvi Dar (QMUL) in association with VIDA.
FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST
3PM-5.30PM
The Queen Elizabeth: Richelieu
Presenters:
Jessica Heineman-Pieper, George Mason U.;
Deborah Jones, Victoria U. of Wellington;
Jean Helms Mills, St. Mary's U.;
Pauline Fatien, U. of Lyon Management School;
Sarah Stookey, Central Connecticut State U.
Programme:
A collective panel discussion on women's experiences in academia.
Presentation of intervention strategy to challenge patriarchal practices in academia.
About the Association:
VIDA
The Critical Management Studies Women's Association
VIDA is a networked organisation dedicated to challenging patriarchal practices in academic institutions and in the re-production of knowledge tout court. Our intent is to facilitate debate on the key aspects of women's experiences in academia and how we might collectively take responsibility for changing the ways in which women scholars are silenced and marginalised.
Women make up a large proportion of junior faculty and PhD researchers; however, their progression to Professorships is difficult and visibly a rare achievement. Women within the Business School often fall prey to the prejudices associated with their gender, are more easily targets of bullying and sexual harassment, are oftentimes swamped with large administrative and teaching loads, and are rarely naturally included in formal and informal decision-making fora. More than this, the masculinist tenor of academic writing and debate in critical management studies especially can be regarded as a particular challenge for female scholars.
To VIDA, the time seems ripe for a collective and concerted discussion of gender relations in the critical management academy. Our organization therefore asks women from within the academy to challenge such orthodoxies and discriminatory behaviour. We seek to instigate change through a number of interventions (in the form of seminars, workshops and lectures at prominent conferences), a mentoring programme for young women academics and by publishing reports, journal articles and books.
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Sadhvi Dar PhD
Lecturer in CSR and Business Ethics
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Francis Bancroft Building, Room 4.03
School of Business and Management
Queen Mary University London
Mile End Campus
London E1 4NS
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2701
Mob: +44 (0)7973 236 104
Sadhvi Dar & Bill Cooke, Eds., 2008. The New Development Management: Critiquing
the Dual Modernization. London: Zed Books.
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Maxim Voronov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Department of Marketing, International Business and Strategy
Faculty of Business
Brock University
500 Glenridge Ave.
St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 Canada
Tel: (905) 688-5550, Ext. 5189
Fax: (905) 378-5716
E-Mail: mvoronov@brocku.ca