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EVENTS ORGANIZED

Conference, ‘2nd Global Conference on Caste in Business Studies’, University of Bath, June 2024, with a keynote from Prof Surinder Jodhka.

 

Professional Development Workshop, ‘Decolonising Field Research in a Neoliberal Economy’, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 2024.  

 

Stakeholder Consultation, ‘Employment, Welfare and the Garment Industry in Leicester’, Leicester, July 2024. 

 

Webinar on ‘It is not you, it is us:: a bottom up view of dignity’ by Vibhor Mathur, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, July 2023.

Link to the recording coming soon.

 

Webinar on ‘The Pursuit and Practice of Freedom amongst sex workers in Brazil and Brazilian Sex Workers abroad’ by Julio D’Angelo Davies, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, September 2023.

Link to the recording coming soon.

 

Webinar on ‘Misogyny and Organization Studies’ by Lauren McCarthy, Bayes Business School, City University London, November 2023. 

Link to the recording coming soon.

 

Webinar on ”Mapping IT Supply Chain in the Software Industry in India’, May 2022.

 

Conference themes and others

Co-convenor, Vivek Soundararajan, Co-convenor, Vivek Soundararajan, Sub plenary: At the Crossroads for More Radical Forms of Transnational Governance for Humanizing Global Supply Chains, EGOS 2024.

Sub-theme 36, Invisible inequalities in and around organizations, European Group for Organization Studies, Vienna, Austria. 2022.

Co-convenor, Vivek Soundararajan, Professional Development Workshop, Addressing socio economic inequalities through management education and learning, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, 2022.

Co-convenor, Vivek Soundararajan (Symposium), Caste work in management studies: How are historical stigma and inequality reproduced? Academy of Management Annual Meeting, USA, 2021.

Co-convenor, Vivek Soundararajan, Professional Development Workshop, Entrepreneurship as a solution to social issues: Fostering new insights and a research agenda, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, USA, 2021.

EVENTS INVITED TO

  • Discussant, Vivek Soundararajan, Re:Structure Lab Convening, Stanford University, on the future of lab and addressing working conditions in global value chains, October 2024.

  • Discussant, Vivek Soundararajan, The German Due Diligence Act and the future pathway, Harnack Haus of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, organized by the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium, September 2024.

  • Talk, Pankhuri Agarwal, Political Rhetoric of Modern Slavery: 2020 Boohoo Scandal in Context, Leicester Migration Network, University of Leicester, July 2024.

  • Panel, Vivek Soundararajan & Pankhuri Agarwal, ‘Grand Challenges – Live Case, Modern Slavery at Fine Cut Stems’, School of Management, University of Bath, May 2024.

  • Panel, Pankhuri Agarwal, Ethnography, School Mini Qualitative Research Conference, University of Bath, April 2024. 

  • Keynote, Vivek Soundararajan, Inequality and global value chains, International Labour Process Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2023.

  • Talk, Vivek Soundararajan, Inequality, development and global value chains, Henley Business School International Business Master Class, 2023.

  • Panel, Pankhuri Agarwal, ‘Interdisciplinary Research in Business,’ Centre for Business, Organization and Society, University of Bath, April 2023. 

  • Talk, Vivek Soundararajan, Sourcing practices and working conditions in lower-tier supply chains, London College of Fashion, 2023.
  • Panel, Vivek Soundararajan, Internationalization vs internalization, Alan Rugman debate, Academy of International Business, Reading, 2022.
  • Panel, Vivek Soundararajan, Worker Activism, University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute Workshop, 2022.

  • Panel, Pankhuri Agarwal, Internal migration workshop, Lau China Institute, King’s College, London, June 2022.

  • Panel, Pankhuri Agarwal, Symposium on researching sensitive topics, University of Bristol, May 2022.

 

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

  • Paper, Internal migration and precarity at work, International Association of Business and Society Conference, University of Bath, July 2024.
  • Paper, There is no “modern slavery” in business: Political rhetoric and exploitation in global supply chains, 18th Organization Studies Workshop, Greece, May 2024. 
  • Paper, Lock(ed)down Forever: Prolonged Work-from-Home as a Source of (un) Freedom, Global production networks in Polycrisis, University of Sussex Business School, June 2024. 
  • Paper, Whose side are you on? Beyond the insider-outsider continuum in ethnography, 9th annual ethnographic and qualitative research conference, University of Trento, June 2023. 
  • Paper, Familiar othering at work: Internal Migration in Garment GVCs, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, August 2023. 
  • Paper, Familiar othering at work: Internal Migration in Garment GVCs, Fairness at Work Conference, Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester, January 2023.
  • Paper, The role of social intermediaries for addressing modern slavery in supply chains: A boundary-spanning perspective, Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, August,Paper, 2022.