We are hosting a VIDA workshop at GWO in Sydney. Please could you post details for us? I have pasted text below and attached as a pdf. Many thx - Katie
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VIDA Workshop
Radical care for the self and other
Gender, Work and Organization
Macquarie University, City Campus
Room: City 2332
Date: Wednesday, 13th June
Time: 15:00-17:00
The VIDA network offers encouragement, advice and above all friendship to academics who identify as other than cismen, at any career stage. The network is for those who are interested in Critical Management Studies (CMS), from any discipline or theoretical inclination and from all geographical locations.
Following on from successful VIDA events over the last five years, VIDA will be returning to the Gender, Work and Organization Conference at its exciting first appearance in Sydney 2018. This event is open for academics, including those who fall outside the VIDA membership but who uphold the spirit of the network. Participants may be at any career stage – including PhD students - in whatever discipline, who seek constructive, friendly and supportive feedback on their academic practices.
In this pre-conference workshop, we focus on the concept and practices of radical care for oneself and others. Inspired by the works of Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed and others, this workshop will serve as a space to discuss and share the ways in which we can practice care, and to ground ourselves before the full conference begins. The workshop will also offer an opportunity for doctoral students, early career scholars and later-stage academics to connect and engage in informal mentoring via the community. Our goal is to promote discussion on how radical care can be nurtured through openness and generosity among scholars, particularly from marginalised groups within academia, both at the conference and beyond.
Encouraging participants to engage in critical self-reflection, the session will seek to promote discussion in the following areas:
1. How might radical care be important in academia?
a. Where and how can it be accessed/created/or produced?
b. What are the tools that are required?
c. How can it have travel throughout the academic community?
2. Emotional labour
a. How do we ask for consent when requiring it of others?
b. How might we reject a request to perform it when not able/willing to do so?[1]
c. How is it performed through our work as academics; in teaching, service, teaching and mentoring?
3. Radical care as feminist work[2]
a. How may we cultivate solidarities with marginalised academics, students, and professional staff?
b. What are the limits of care work?
You can find information about the conference here:
http://www.cvent.com/events/gender-work-organisation-conference/event-summary-3ae9b306d2b94c37bceb95b7f16f44a3.aspx
The conference registration deadline is Friday 18th May 2018
Alison Pullen will very kindly
To register for a place at this VIDA workshop or if you have any questions, please email the corresponding organiser Katie Bevan at
Katie2.Beavan@live.uwe.ac.uk by Friday 18th May 2018
With best wishes,
Deborah Brewis, Chloé Vitry, Carolyn Hunter, Katie Beavan, Helena Liu, and Steff Worst
On behalf of VIDA
Further information about VIDA: We are a feminist, anti-racist, anti-ageist, anti-classist, anti-ableist, anti-colonial and anti-heteronormative organization. We stand for equity, support, democracy, solidarity, collectivism, challenge, resistance and intervention. We focus on reflexivity and on developing structures that stress the need for action, accountability and change.
You can join our closed group on Facebook by sending a join request to Jo Brewis
[1] See :
http://gutsmagazine.ca/emotional-labour/
[2] See :
https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/08/25/selfcare-as-warfare/
Katie
Katie Beavan
katiebeavan1@gmail.com
+1 203 400 3167