Dear CMS community,
Apologies for cross-posting. We warmly invite you to contribute to ephemera: theory & politics in organization's annual conference: 'Beyond the mind: Organising for eco-embodied scholarship' (8-11 June 2026), which will take place at Hazel Hill Wood, a conservation woodland retreat centre near Salisbury, UK. The conference is organized in collaboration with the Ecological Crises & Organization (ECO) Network.
Academic life is often lived from the neck up – even when engaging ecological crises. This conference responds to that condition by asking what kinds of scholarship become possible when we step outside conventional academic spaces and engage knowledge as embodied, relational, and ecological. Rather than treating ecological crisis as a technical problem to be managed, the conference foregrounds lived, affective, multispecies, and political dimensions of organising in times of planetary breakdown.
This is not a conventional academic conference. We will gather in a community-run woodland retreat and organise the event collectively. Instead of keynotes and standard paper sessions, the programme will weave together workshops, performances, conversations, creative practices, shared meals, and time with the land. Participants will contribute both intellectually and practically, including shared cooking and care for communal spaces.
You can find the full call for papers here.
The deadline for submitting abstracts or proposals is 31 March 2026.
- We welcome proposals of up to 500 words describing your contribution. Please include a short biographical note (max. 150 words)
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The conference fee of £200 covers accommodation and food for three nights (the event is fully on-site and nature-based, and we will prepare all meals together)
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Selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of ephemera: theory & politics in organization.
Warm regards,
George Ferns
Friederike Döbbe
Steffen Böhm
on behalf of ephemera and the ECO network