Activities 2015


December 2015
14.12.	Research Platform "Organizations & Society", Universität Innsbruck December Meeting with Keynote speech by Chris Steyaert, "Preparing to Play: A Prelude"
08.12.	Research Workshop with Katharina Molterer (Health) care, clowns and humor, clinic clowns at their work in different health care settings
02.12.	"Understanding and fostering creative collaboration" Selected dissertation by Björn Müller
November 2015
17.11.	Research Workshop with Christoph Michels Atmospheres of Urban Mobility: Composing an e-Bike sphere
October 2015
13.10.	Research Workshop with Bernhard Resch Self-organized and participatory work. Expert interviews, collective reading and discussion
September 2015
30.09.	Chris Steyaert is invited as external reviewer of the PhD thesis by Anup Nair, entitled "Organising while innovating: Towards a process theory in innovation management", at the Department of Strategy and Organisation of the University of Strathclyde.
29.09.	Research Workshop with Björn Müller A discussion around qualitative research paper publications, based on Björn's current article-in-Progress, "Kill your darlings” – undoing a masculine-gendered notion of creativity through an ethnographic study of contemporary dance theater production
23.09.	Katharina Molterer defenses her prestudy: "Humor zwischen Ordnung und Clowning als eine innovative Fürsorgepraktik im Krankenhaus"
Published:	Article by Wiebke Tennhoff, Julia Nentwich and Franziska Vogt Doing gender and professionalism : Exploring the intersectionalities of gender and professionalization in early childhood education
03./04.	Research Workshop Translating Organizational Change: Methodological Discussions and Empirical Examples Organized by Julia Nentwich, Ursula Offenberger and Carolina Borra Krages
August 2015
Published:	Article by Franziska Vogt, Julia Nentwich and Wiebke Tennhoff Doing und Undoing Gender in Kinderkrippen: Eine Videostudie...
07.-11.08.	75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, CA Presentation by Markus Walz, Patrizia Hoyer and Matt Statler, "Lessons in Ecstatic Truth" - Learning about Visual Organizational Ethnography from Werner Herzog" Chris Steyaert, presenter at the PDW on “Entrepreneurship and/in context: Moving forward” Chris Steyaert and Maddy Jannsens, “Understanding plural ethico-political positionings of MNCs through cosmopolitanism”. Paper presented at the Symposium on “Multinational Corporations and Global Governance”
July 2015
02.-05.07.	31th EGOS Colloquium, Athens Presentation by Claudine Gaibrois, "Beyond individual influence: The multiple facets of boundary spanning in multilingual organizations". (Co-Author Chris Steyaert) Paper-Presentation by Chris Steyaert, "Play-time and multi-temporality" (Co-Authors Laurent Marti and Christoph Michels)
01.07.	SGBF (Schweizer Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung) Kongress 2015 - Qualitäts- und Bildungsdiskurs Presentation by Julia Nentwich, "Bilden und betreuen? Eine empirische Studie zur organisationalen Alltagspraxis in Kindertagesstätten" (Co-Author Wiebke Tennhoff)
June 2015
16.06.	Brown Bag with Patrizia Hoyer "Global careers, local belonging: Investigating practices of ‘rooted’ cosmopolitanism along transcultural work trajectories".
12.06.	Chris Steyaert is opponent at the Linneaus University, Sweden, for Anna Alexandersson's dissertation "Incubating Businesses".
12.06.	9th International GEM&L Workshop, Aalto University, Helsinki Presentation by Claudine Gaibrois: "Beyond essentialism and competition: Investigating productive aspects of power in multilingual organizations" (co-authored by Chris Steyaert)
09.06.	Brown Bag with Florian Schulz "A Discursive Approach to Understanding HRM Interventions: Analyzing Problem Constructions in Management Coaching Conversations"
May 2015
26.05.	Brown Bag with Claudine Gaibrois "Power at work: The discursive construction of power relations in multilingual organizations"
21. - 23.05.	10th Organization Studies Workshop, Chania, Crete Greece Chris Steyaert, invited Keynote Speaker gave an address on "Playing: A Prelude, Pre-Text and Preparation".
published:	Article by Julia Nentwich & Anja Ostendorp: Diskursanalyse "Sprachspiele zum Zusammenleben", in Terra Cognita, 26 (2015), pp. 30-33. Bookchapter by Julia Nentwich and Gudrun Sander, "Integrating gender and diversity in management education" Brosziewski A., Maeder Ch. & Nentwich J. (Hrsg.), Vom Sinn der Soziologie, Festschrift für Thomas S. Eberle, Springer. with Bookchapter by Achim Brosziewski, Christoph Maeder & Julia Nentwich, "Einleitung: Vom Sinn der Soziologie" and Bookchapter by Timon Beyes and Chris Steyaert, "Der Sinn der Lehre, Ethnographie, Affekt, sensemaking"
05.05.	Guestlecture by Martina Brunnthaler, Olten "Social Marketing and Stakeholer Involvement"
April 2015
30.04.	University of Lausanne Presentation by Claudine Gaibrois: “From language wars to bridgebuilding: Power relations in multilingual companies”
21.-23.04.	StudierBar - Ein Pop-Up-Atelier für zeitgemässes Studieren Ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Psychologischer Beratungsstelle, Studentenschaft und Leiter Service Center Beratung.
23.04.	Gender Change und unternehmerische Universität (TU Berlin) Julia Nentwich, Ursula Offenberger, Heike Kahlert, Niels Spilker, Sarah Zapusek: "Exzellenz und Chancengleichheit: Nationale Programmatiken am Beispiel Deutschland und Schweiz".
22.04.	Guestlecture by Thomas Schneider, Securitas St. Gallen "Eskalation und De-Eskalation von Konflikten"
14.04.	Brown Bag with Ursula Offenberger "Qualitative Research as a Matter of Arts and Crafts (Kunst-Hand-Werk)"
11.04.	i-mean Conference, Warwick (UK) Vortrag von Claudine Gaibrois: How employees counterbalance English related asymmetries
March 2015
20.03.	Dominik Mösching defenses his prestudy: "Connections across Difference. - Translating Coffee in Local Practices and Global Networks"
18.03.	Guestlecture by Sebastian Gibas, St. Gallen "Organizational Improvisation and Dance"
13.03.	OPSY-Offsite: Strategy-Workshop Developed issues: Teaching, Counselling, Research, Writing
11.03.	Guestlecture by Ruedi Alexander Müller, Zürich "Organizational Change: The ZDF Case"
06.03.	Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Konstruktion und Normativität: Diversität in der Pädagogik der frühen Kindheit, Jahrestagung der Kommission Pädagogik der frühen Kindheit (PdfK), Universität Köln Präsentation von Franziska Vogt, “Geschlechterkonstruktion in Interaktionen in Kitas: Ergebnisse einer Videostudie“ (Mitautorinnen Julia Nentwich und Wiebke Tennhoff).
February 2015
09.02.	Brown Bag with Gloria-Sophia Warmuth MSc, Wien Her Dissertation: "Translating Diversity - Die Übersetzung formaler inklusiver Organisationsregeln in gelebte organisationale Praxis"
January 2015
published:	Chris Steyaert, "Three Women. A Kiss. A. Life. On the Queer Writing of Time in Organization"