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Call for Papers<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Theme<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Drawing from but extending beyond local crossings, the 2025 Standing Conference of Organizational Symbolism seeks to engage with what \u2018crossing\u2019 and \u2018crossings\u2019 mean, especially in a world that seems increasingly polarized and divided. Submissions are encouraged to explore acts of \u2018crossing\u2019, \u2018transversing\u2019, and \u2018reaching across\u2019, but also how we define the notion of \u2018boundaries\u2019 both symbolically and in practice. Crossing and boundaries may be physical, mental, emotional, social, cultural (Duarte & Hodge, 2007), geographical (Rottenburg, 2007; Muhr 2012), organizational, disciplinary, visual, identity-based or other. Boundaries may be solid or fluid (Kreiner & Schultz, 1995), visible or invisible, obvious or hidden, externally or internally imposed, socially or emotionally constructed (Prasad, 2014), sometimes hostile and sometimes needed or even wanted. As a result, crossings and boundaries may be fundamental to organisation and organizing.<\/p>\n

What does it mean then to reach across these boundaries? Can studies of organisations and related scholarly work, seen as an embodied and sometimes political activity, help us make sense of this act? Can we theorize the permeability and porosity of boundaries and the effect of crossings on them? Is scholarly work also, in itself, an act of crossing?<\/p>\n

Most importantly, how can we form connections both in spite of but also emerging from these crossings? In the Cyprus SCOS conference, we want to ask\u2014is it possible to revitalize academia, bringing hope (Kostera, 2024) and \u2018goodness\u2019 (Connell, 2022) back to the university and especially to the epicentre of the business school classroom (Rhodes and Pullen, 2023)? Drawing on the powerful metaphor of the sea that surrounds the island, we seek papers that work with concepts of fluidity to explore how sometimes what seems to separate is also what connects. Can the past and the roots of management\/organization studies help us accomplish future crossings?\u00a0 Can we seek new routes in how we \u2018do academia\u2019 but also business and management?<\/p>\n

The call for contributions will seek to gather a multiplicity of approaches and disciplinary foci, but also pay attention to diversity in authorship to include authors from different geographical locations, career stages and demographics.<\/p>\n

Cyprus and crossings<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Fitting to the unique location, history and sociopolitical situation of the host country, Cyprus, the theme of SCOS 2025 is \u2018Crossings<\/em>.\u2019 With a history that dates back to the paleolithic era, Cyprus stands at the cultural, linguistic and historic crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, densely layered with the influences of settlers, conquerors and pilgrims, from the heroes and heroines of the Trojan war, to the early Phoenecians, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, Crusaders, Ottomans and British. And, as the island\u2019s population still finds itself on the \u2018crossroads\u2019 of the Mediterranean, it is accustomed to crossing the millennia, backwards to its neolithic settlements and forward to a potential space program, both for identity and inspiration. Even the theme of Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Othello<\/em>, which takes place in Cyprus, can be seen as a \u2018crossing\u2019 of sorts, an attempt to cross divisions, internal and external, and form connections.<\/p>\n

Nicosia, the host city, remains a divided capital since 1974, while a third of the island\u2019s population have never actually crossed the physical \u2018line\u2019 dividing the two parts of the city and the island, known as the \u2018green line\u2019. Displaced Greek and Turkish Cypriots long to \u2018return home\u2019, amidst a paradoxical and conflictual emotional and physical state of being both \u2018at\u2019 and \u2018away\u2019 from home.<\/p>\n

Apart from its own political strife resulting from the Turkish occupation of a third of the island, Cyprus has also been at the crossroads of the refugee crisis of the last decade, as thousands of asylum seekers and migrants from Africa and the Middle East seek refuge, crossing boundaries, seas and continents, sometimes even stuck in the so-called \u2018buffer zone\u2019.<\/p>\n

To borrow and paraphrase from\u00a0<\/span>Othello<\/em>, \u2018\u2019Tis certain, then, for Cyprus\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/em>that the island encapsulates what crossings\u2014and connections\u2014could be.<\/p>\n

Potential lines of enquiry:<\/em><\/p>\n

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  • What does crossings and boundaries entail?<\/li>\n
  • What do geo-political boundaries, borders and crossings\u2014or the infeasibility or danger of such crossings\u2014 involve? How do they form and\/or disrupt communities? And, how do we relate to these boundaries and crossings?<\/li>\n
  • How are boundaries defined? When do boundaries become borders? How are boundaries demarcated, constructed, maintained, reconfigured, dissolved? With what consequences, for whom?<\/li>\n
  • In an age of unprecedented human mobility, what role does \u2018power\u2019 as an analytical concept have in helping us make sense of boundaries and crossings?<\/li>\n
  • Can fluidity allow us to explore how sometimes what seems to separate is also what connects? How do we form and forge connections amidst\/due to\/ in spite of crossings?<\/li>\n
  • How do we make sense of symbolic boundaries and crossings? How do literal and symbolic boundaries and crossings inform each other?<\/li>\n
  • What does the \u2018in between\u2019 of crossings look like?<\/li>\n
  • How do we make sense of boundaries and crossings in nature? And what are the ecological implications of these?<\/li>\n
  • How do crossings entrench\/challenge\/redefine identities?<\/li>\n
  • What are the boundaries of our bodies? What affects, emotions and responses do crossings and boundaries produce?<\/li>\n
  • (How) can we reimagine spatial and temporal boundaries wherever, whenever and in whatever form they exist (in states, organizations, pasts\/presents\/futures)? When do crossings become liminal spaces of\/for transformation? What role do we as scholars have in this?<\/li>\n
  • How do we bring care and vulnerability into our discussions of crossings and the potential of crossings for inclusivity?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    SCOS 2025 will also have an open stream, allowing for the presentation of papers of more general interest to the SCOS community.<\/p>\n

    Structure<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

    The conference will take place over three days and include a seaside gala dinner and walking tour of Nicosia. The conference will begin with a welcome reception at an archaeological site. It will also include yoga-in-the-park sessions for some serious fun!<\/p>\n

    There will be a special workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers focused on writing and publishing, especially for but not limited to\u00a0<\/span>Culture and Organization<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    For those interested, there will also be a special session on how local NGOs and different forms of organizations are \u2018crossing boundaries and making connections.\u2019 In seeking to actively engage these communities in the organization of the conference, every attempt will be made to secure services from local craftspeople and small family-owned businesses for the meals, transport, etc of the conference.<\/p>\n

    Additional tours and excursions may also be organized upon request, for an additional cost.<\/p>\n

    Abstracts of up to 500 words can be submitted by January 13th 2025. We also welcome ideas for workshops and other contributions including exhibits and live performances.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    References<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Connell, Raewyn (2022).\u00a0<\/span>The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why it\u2019s Time for Radical Change<\/em>. London: Bloomsbury Academic.<\/li>\n
    • Duarte, Fernanda and Hodge, Bob (2007). Crossing Paradigms: A Meta\u2010Autoethnography of a Fieldwork Trip to Brazil,\u00a0<\/span>Culture and Organization<\/em>, 13(3): 191-203.<\/li>\n
    • Muhr, Sara Louise (2012). Strangers in Familiar Places \u2013 Using Generic Spaces in Cross-Cultural Identity Work,\u00a0<\/span>Culture and Organization<\/em>, 18(1): 51-68.<\/li>\n
    • Kostera, Monika (2024).\u00a0<\/span>The University of Hope<\/em>. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n
    • Kreiner, Kristian and Schultz, Majken (1995). Soft cultures: The Symbolism of Cross-Border Organizing,\u00a0<\/span>Culture and Organization<\/em>, 1(1): 63-81.<\/li>\n
    • Prasad, Ajnesh (2014). You Can\u2019t Go Home Again: And Other Psychoanalytic Lessons from Crossing a Neo-Colonial Border,\u00a0<\/span>Human Relations<\/em>, 67(2): 233-257.<\/li>\n
    • Rhodes, Carl and Pullen, Alison (2023). The Good Business School.\u00a0<\/span>Organization<\/em>, 30(6): 1273-1280.<\/li>\n
    • Rottenburg, Richard (2007). Sitting in a bar\u00a01.\u00a0<\/span>Culture and Organization<\/em>, 6(1): 87-100.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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