Encounters with a world that speaks but we don’t listen

Speakers

Dr Amal Abdellatif is an Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Amal’s research centres around inequalities at different intersections of difference, otherness and marginalisation, and alternative forms of feminist organising. In exploring these themes, Amal draws upon diverse theoretical constructs, adopts unconventional qualitative methodologies and use visual and art-based approaches. She serves on boars of different non-for-profit organisations and is the Social Media Editor at Management Learning Journal, as well as Media and Social Media Section Co-Editor-in-Chief at Culture and Organization Journal.

Dr Astrid Huopalainenis an Assistant Professor in Leadership for Creativity at Aalto University, Finland. Despite the silly title, her position creates an intriguing liminal space, shared between the Department of Management Studies and the Department of Art and Media. Astrid is a qualitative researcher with a passionate interest in the emerging research area of Animal Organisation Studies, posthumanist perspectives, ‘more-than-human’ organising, as well as gender- and diversity-related inequalities in organizations. She enjoys writing differently, dreams of a kinder academia, and serves on the board of the Swedish National Theatre in Finland.