Programme and speakers

Programme

You can (pre) register on Tuesday 17th from 17.00-18.30 hrs at the conferencedesk in the main building or on Wednesday 18th July from 8.30-9.45 hrs also at the conferencedesk in the mainbuilding. The conferencedesk will be open during the period of the conference. You can also stall your luggage at the baggage room behind this desk.

The programme will start on Wednesday July the 18th and will run until Friday July 20th at 14.00 hrs. On Thursday the programme will run until 17.00 hrs; from 18.30 hrs we will meet outside the American Hotel (Leidsekade 97) for a boat trip to the restaurant.

The final programme will be available from the End of June 2012.

All attendants will receive a wireless guest account to log in on the VU campus.

Computers and beamers are present in the Auditorium (key notes) as well as in the smaller rooms (Bellevue building on campus). The building (Bellevue) will be closed after 17.00 hrs but not the separate rooms, so don't leave anything behind for the next day!

Speakers

	Eero Vaara is Professor of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, and permanent Visiting Professor at Ecole de Management de Lyon, France. He is the Chair of EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies). His research revolves around organizational change (especially mergers and acquisitions), strategy and strategizing, multinational corporations and globalization, and the role of the media in organizing and management.
	John Van Maanen studies groups of people the old-fashioned way: by living with them. Among the groups he has studied ethnographically are Gloucester fishermen, Disneyland ride operators, US patrol officers, and London detectives and their supervisors. Cultural descriptions figure prominently in his writings about occupational conflicts, organizational careers, and work routines. His recent studies examine the social history of ethnographic understanding of work organizations and the various ways particular occupation identities take shape and change work settings.
	Samantha Warren is Professor in Management at Essex Business School, UK and has been using participant-led photography to research employees' work experiences for over ten years. In 2007, she co-founded the International Network for Visual Studies in Organizations (inVisio) and is currently leading an ESRC researcher development initiative to produce a free online, training resource in Visual Methods for business, management and organizational researchers. She has used visual methods to explore aesthetic experiences of 'fun' workplaces, the importance of office desk clutter, the social construction of the countryside, professional identity among accountants and symbolic imagery around women, drugs and marketing. In her plenary speech at the conference Samantha will consider the various ways in which images constitute and perform discourse.

Conference movie 2010

This is a movie from Birkbeck University of London.