The Open University in collaboration with the BAM Research Methods Special Interest Group is pleased to invite you to attend the “Methods that Matter: Encountering Materiality and Affect in Organisations” event.

World renowned speakers in the field will be joining us on Wednesday, 26 February 2020, including Nick Fox, Silvia Gherardi, Kate Kenny and Noortje van Amsterdam.

The turn to materiality and affect enabled by new materialist and posthuman scholarship raises important questions about how we do research. New materialism focuses attention on intra-actions between beings and other matter, including human bodies and non-human others, and the affective powers that such assemblages produce (Barad, 2007; Bennett, 2010; Braidotti, 2019). Within this, knowledge is seen as inherently situated and perspectival and there is an emphasis on embedded and embodied relationality rather than essences.

References:
Barad, K. (2007) Meeting the universe halfway. Durham (NC): Duke University Press.
Bennett, J. (2010) Vibrant matter. Durham: Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R. (2019) Posthuman knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press.

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When

This event will take place on 26 February 2020, registration starts at 9:30am, with the first speaker at 10:00am. 

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Who Should Attend

This workshop will be of interest to doctoral and experienced researchers in organisation studies and management, and other social sciences, who are interested in new materialism and affect. The invited speakers will discuss how they have responded to the opportunities and challenges of studying materiality and affect in their own research.

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Benefits of Attendance

Attendees will:

• Develop increased understanding of the importance of new materialism and affect in organisation studies and management research
• Learn from the methodological approaches taken by the speakers in their research
• Gain feedback on their work

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Location

The event takes place in MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Blvd, Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA