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Dear all,
we would like to draw your attention to the pre-colloquium workshop
Academia and Civil Society: Rethinking Expectations, Practices and Tensions, which will take place on Wednesday 2 June 2014, prior to this year's EGOS Annual Colloquium in Rotterdam, Netherlands. This workshop is organized on behalf of EGOS' Standing Working Group 10: The changing role of business in global society.
In this workshop, we will critically reflect on the relationship that academia has with civil society. As academics, we tend to spend too much time researching civil society, instead of engaging with it.
Therefore, in this pre-Colloquium workshop, we invite scholars interested in rethinking the relationship between civil society and academia and discuss questions such as "Is it enough if we continue treating civil society simply as a fascinating object of research? Or do we need to reimage our role as scholars with relation to civil society, and rethink the implications of our research?"
For this workshop, we will gather a crowd of scholars from junior and senior levels and confront them with invited representatives of selected civil society organizations. Together, we will seek to find out what it is that civil society expects from us as academics and what we can potentially deliver.
Invited guests include
- Frank de Bakker, VU University Amsterdam
- Jonathan Doh, Villanova University
- Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics
- Christine Koblun, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Ans Kolk, University of Amsterdam
- Ilze Smit, Greenpeace International
- Mariette van Huijstee, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
Please don´t hesitate to contact one of the organizers:
We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you at the workshop!
Best regards,
Salla Laasonen
Arno Kourula
Christopher Wickert
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Dr. Christopher Wickert
Assistant Professor
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University)
Department of Management & Organization | Faculty of Economics & Business Administration
de Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | The Netherlands
Phone + 31 (20) 598 2129 (NED) | + 49 176 640 38 209 (GER)
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