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Dear SIMians,

Fancy watching an intellectually stimulating movie when in Vancouver?!!!

If the answer is YES, see the details below (feel free to see the details even if the answer is NO J):

Professor Joel Bakan: 'The Corporation – Ten Years On'

Critical Management Studies Division Activist Speaker and Film Screening

Sponsored by Birmingham Business School, UK.

Sunday, August 9, 4pm-7pm

Vancity Theatre (Vancouver International Film Centre)

Over ten years ago, the documentary film 'The Corporation', written by University of British Columbia law professor, Joel Bakan, became an international hit.  Featuring interviews with corporate insiders and critics including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore, the movie put the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch and explored its pathological pursuit of profit. 

The Critical Management Studies Division presents a screening of a new cut of the movie in association with a campaign to make the movie freely available for school and community use http://www.thecorporation.com/campaign/get-couch   The film will be introduced by Joel Bakan and followed by a Q&A session with the film writer.

Preregistration is required. To register online, please visit https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg. The deadline to register is July 31 2015.

Vancity Theatre is a 20 minute walk from the Vancouver Convention Centre http://www.viff.org/theatre/location.

For more details, contact:

Dr. Scott Taylor

Reader in Leadership & Organization Studies, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham

s.taylor@bham.ac.uk (+44) 0121 414 6703