Dear colleagues:
Continuing last year's successful OMT Café, we will be coming together again this year to meet and talk institutions and logics in a casual, relaxed setting - and we invite anyone who would be interested in this broad topic to join us for an hour or two!
This year, we wish to focus on the intersection of logics and emotions. Institutional logics are, roughly speaking, the rules of the game that organize particular domains of social life. Recently it has been observed that these rules are inevitably bound up with emotions; often in complex and exciting ways. Logics seem to be sustained, even energized, by emotions - as successes are often rewarded by positive emotional experiences, and 'missteps' often accompanied by shaming. At the same time, logics can constrain and elicit emotions. In particular, logics are associated with emotional registers - norms about appropriate emotional expressions and responses, which prescribe how people should feel and behave if they want to appear 'rational' and 'competent'.
As the logic perspective evolves, the intersection of institutions and emotions is becoming increasingly central, and we want to take this opportunity to push the conversation forward informally, and to build connections between those primarily interested in logics and those primarily interested in emotions. We encourage anyone interested in this intersection to join us as we explore such topics as: the constitutive power of logics over emotions, and vice versa; the emotional dynamics of institutional complexity; and the ways in which emotions can be identified during field work.
When? Friday, August 4th, 2:30-4:00 pm
Where? Coffee at 200 Peachtree, 200 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303 (https://goo.gl/maps/ZrxFsVjCohz)
If you have any questions, please contact the organizers:
- Christopher Steele, U of Alberta (csteele1@ualberta.ca)
- Madeline Toubiana, U. of Alberta (toubiana@ualberta.ca)
- Taehyun Lee, Boston College (taehyun.lee.3@bc.edu)
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Madeline Toubiana PhD
Assistant Professor
Strategic Management and Organization
Alberta School of Business
University of Alberta