Dear AOM MSR Colleagues,
MSR is holding a series of webinars throughout the academic year inviting a broad range of scholars to help advance the development of a research paradigm to investigate the impact of spirituality and religion on management. We are concerned that research solely based on positivism fundamentally rejects metaphysics and theism, and hence is not an ideal mode of inquiry for the role of spirituality and religion in management. A spiritual research paradigm is especially needed for examining inner experience, ultimate meaning or purpose, transcendence, and interconnectedness with community, nature and divinity.
Please join us on Thursday March 30, 2023, for 90 minutes at 7:00 am (Los Angeles); 9:00 am (Chicago); 10:00 am (New York); 8:30 pm (India); to participate in an exciting and enlightening conversation led by Dr. Carolyn Ellis, an internationally renowned scholar, on Evocative Authoethnography.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://miu-edu-online.zoom.us/s/6658694783
Evocative Autoethnography
Click the link below (or the URL or QR code on the poster as attached) to register (Optional).
https://forms.gle/DgXSDsbA7xEsGQxf9
For registered participants, we will circulate an autoethnographic piece of work that Dr. Ellis wrote and invite webinar participants to respond to the piece and have a discussion during the webinar. Dr. Ellis would like to introduce autoethnography and talk about writing this piece, and then do a Q&A. The article is about her experience chairing an academic department and how at the end she had to "call her spirit back." It demonstrates the use of autoethnography to understand management issues (i.e., workplace mobbing and rebellion) in relation to emotionality and spirituality.
Dr. Carolyn Ellis (PhD, Sociology, Stony Brook University) is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of South Florida. She has established an international reputation for her contributions to autoethnography and the narrative study of human life. Her awards include the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award, both from the National Communication Association (NCA); The Legacy Lifetime Award and best book and article awards from NCA's Ethnography Division; a Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry, and two best book awards from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois; a Lifetime Achievement Award from The International Conference of Autoethnography in the UK; Charles Horton Cooley best book award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction; Robert E. Park Award for outstanding research monograph from the American Sociological Association Section on Communities and Urban Sociology; and the Goodall and Trujillo Award for Narrative Ethnography. Dr. Ellis has produced two films on Holocaust survivors and published eight monographs, seven edited books, and more than 150 articles, chapters, and essays. A recent publication is the Handbook of Autoethnography (2nd ed., with T. Adams and S. Holman Jones). She has presented keynote addresses and workshops in sixteen countries at numerous institutions. One of the founders and a co-editor of the Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives book series (Routledge), she takes an active role in the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative (IAANI). Happily retired, she lives in Safety Harbor, Florida and Franklin, North Carolina with her partner Art Bochner and their rat terrier companion Malee. She continues to advocate for bringing personal experience, emotions, bodies, and spirituality into social science research.
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Dr. Anil K. Maheshwari
Professor, Maharishi International University
Representative at Large for Research, MSR
Fairfield, IA
512-422-6644
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