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Dear colleagues,
We warmly invite you to join us for the next CMS InTouch webinar:
CMS InTouch 5th Anniversary Event
Organizing the CMS Community Differently: Challenges and Ways Forward
Tuesday, 20th January 2026
9:00 - 10:30 EST
14:00 -15:30 GMT
15:00 - 16:30 CET
19:30 - 21:00 IST
via Zoom
Speakers:
Devi Vijay, Indian institute of Management, Calcutta (PCI Organization Studies)
Alex Bristow, The Open University (CMS InTouch Founder)
Ozan N. Alakavuklar, Utrecht University (CMS InTouch Founder)
Nick Butler, Stockholm University (ephemera collective)
Elise Lobbedez, NEOMA Business School (ephemera collective)
Please see the attached poster for further details
Free registration via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/organising-the-cms-community-differently-challenges-and-ways-forward-tickets-1976008717266?aff=oddtdtcreator. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener">here
About the event:
In a world marred by violence and inequality, with fascism and anti-intellectualism on the rise, CMS is needed more than ever. Yet CMS communities are themselves under threat from the forces of the neoliberal capitalist machine that seeks to either de-legitimize, divide and destroy CMS, or subsume, depoliticize and exploit it.
In this context, there is an urgent need to learn new ways to organize CMS communities differently, to open up paths beyond the binary choice of destruction or capitalist institutionalization.
In this anniversary webinar that marks five years of CMS InTouch, five CMS scholars will share their experiences of global democratic academic organizing and reflect on its challenges and possibilities, to provide a springboard for discussion and community development.
Free & all welcome!
About CMS InTouch
CMS InTouch is sponsored by the journal Organization and the Academy of Management CMS Division to help Critical Management Studies virtually connect across the world via free and open webinars and online workshops. If you are interested in running your own event with CMS or would otherwise like to get involved, please email us at cmswebinars@gmail.com
Recordings of past webinars can be viewed on the CMS InTouch YouTube channel https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdWgDDjIPQ8cleSBDAgLwMA. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener">https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdWgDDjIPQ8cleSBDAgLwMA
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With best wishes,
CMS InTouch team
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Marco Distinto
Lecturer
The Open University
MILTON KEYNES
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