This seminar will focus on writing academic work differently through engagement with diverse writing patterns and methods as well as with embodied exercises involving movement and inter-corporeal connections between participants and lecturers. By means of exposure to thought- and sense- provoking activities, participants will have the opportunity to move, dance, reflect, think and write together and in so doing to explore novel creative avenues for engaging with their academic research and writing. The potentialities and challenges of embodied, affective academic writing genres will be discussed as well as different writing approaches for publishing in different types of journals. The speakers will share their diverse collective and individual experiences into dance-writing and publishing creative, art-based work in internationally recognized outlets in the field of management and organizations.

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Emmanouela Mandalaki bio (from NEOMA Business School) 

Emmanouela is an Associate Professor of Organizations at NEOMA Business School. In her research, Emmanouela explores dynamics and asymmetries between cognitive and corporeal factors shaping ethical and affective inter-personal interactions in social and organizational contexts, including methods of academic research and writing, to provide alternative perspectives to her subjects of inquiry. She analyses these dynamics to explore questions of gender, inclusion and inequalities in organizations. Emmanouela’s research has appeared in book volumes and international outlets such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Studies, Organization, M@n@gement, and Gender, Work and Organization. She serves as co-Editor for the Feminist Frontiers section of the journal Gender, Work and Organization and is member of the Editorial Review Board of the journal Organization Studies. Emmanouela also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals including Organization Studies, Organization, the Journal of Business Ethics, and Gender, Work and Organization, among others. During her pre-academic and academic career, Emmanouela worked in both for-profit and non-for-profit international organizations in Egypt, Switzerland, Greece, Albania, Andorra, Spain, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia, obtaining diverse social experiences that feed into her research practice.