Inaugural lecture by Adjunct Professor Hugh Willmott

During his lecture, Adjunct Professor Hugh Willmott will be exploring the meaning and significance of craft for the self-understanding and development of organizational research. The construct of craft is situated in the context of its displacement by modernisation, as a practice characterized by skills that elude standardization and routinization. Consideration of research-as-craft, we suggest, speaks to, and supports, a distinctive – imaginative, embodied and being-centred – aspect and mode of management and organizational research. In unsettling and subverting knower/known and mind/body dualisms, ‘craftiness’ is of ethical and political, as well as methodological, significance.

Hugh Willmott is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Cass Business School, London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Judge Business School Cambridge.

Programme:
15:00 – Welcome by Head of Department Dorte Salskov-Iversen
Introduction by Dean of Education Gregor Halff

15:15 – Inaugural Lecture by Adjunct Professor Hugh Willmott

16:00 – Reception at MSC in Dalgas Have 15

Time and place:
Friday 2 November 2018, 15:00-17:00
Lecture Hall DSC.033
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg

Registration deadline: Thursday 25 October 2018 at 23:00

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