Activities/Lectures

2022

Guest lecture by Marie Wehinger, SYSTEMIQ
Marie Wehinger held a lecture in the Bachelor seminar ‘’Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability in Business’’ on November 9th, 2022. She works as a consultant at SYSTEMIQ and deals with an ecologically sustainable transformation of the economy on a theoretical and practical level.

Guest lecture by Dr. Anna Prokhorova
Dr. Anna Prokhorova, a senior lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohlya Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine), held a lecture on the topic: Sensitive Research and the Oral History Method as part of the Master’s course ‘’Qualitative Research Methods’’ on 18th October. Included, she discussed her research on the Maidan and the on-going war in Ukraine.

PhD Workshop with Melissa Fisher
On 30th September Prof. Melissa Fisher conducted a doctoral workshop on the topic of ethnography. Melissa Fisher is an anthropologist working at New York University.

Doctoral Writing Workshop with Oana Albu and Karin Doolan
Prof. Albu and Prof. Doolan conducted a PhD Workshop on 16th September.
Prof. Oana Albu is a communication scholar at the Copenhagen Business School, and Prof. Karin Doolan is a sociologist at the University of Zadar.

Guest lecture by Dr. Anna Prokhorova
Dr. Anna Prokhorova, a senior lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohlya Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine), held on volunteering during the Maidan as part of the Master seminar ‘’Work, Organization & Change’’ on 18th May. In the closing discussion, questions on the topics of self-organization and professionalism as well as the context of the Maidan were discussed.

Mads Pankow as a guest lecturer of the seminar ‘’Automatic Society: How do Algorithms change Work and Organizations?’’
The expert on the topics of digital society and artificial intelligence Mads Pankow co-designed and accompanied the seminar ‘’Automatic Society: How do Algorithms change Work and Organizations?’’ in the summer semester 2022. The seminar dealt with current techno-sociological and philosophical questions of digitalization.

Past Activities

2021

Guest lecture by Prof. Dagmara Lewicka
As part of the Bachelor seminar ‘’Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability in Business’’, Prof. Dagmara Lewicka held a session on ‘’Diversity and Diversity Management’’ on 9th November.
She is a professor at the Kraków Science and Technology University.

Guest lecture by Marie Wehinger, SYSTEMIQ
As part of the Bachelor seminar ‘’Ethics, Responsibility & Sustainability in Business’’, Marie Wehinger, an associate at SYSTEMIQ, held a lecture on 12th November. Using a case study, Ms. Wehinger reported on business practice and presented initiatives for an ecologically more sustainable economy.

EGOS Sub-Theme Violence and Organization
As part of the EGOS Colloquium 2021 in Amsterdam, Jana Costas, Philipp Arnold, and Stefano Pascucci organized the sub-topic 'Violence and Organization'. The annual EGOS colloquium is one of the most important conferences in the field of organization studies in Europe.

Guest lecture by Mads Pankow about creativity, coincidence, and free time
As part of the Bachelor seminar "New Forms of Work and Organization", the "philosopher of technology" (DER SPIEGEL) Mads Pankow held a lecture on artificial intelligence, work, and organization on 5th February. This was based on his latest ideas, which he also discussed weekly in his podcast ‘’MENSCH, MASCHINE!’’. The political consultant and author provided numerous food for thought, which were subsequently discussed in the seminar.

Guest lecture by Prof. Gideon Kunda
Prof. Gideon Kunda, Tel Aviv University, held a lecture on Culture and Control at the Master’s course "Culture, Leadership & Diversity" on 5th February. He is the author of the widely cited and award-winning book Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation, Philadelphia, Penn: Temple University Press.

Guest lecture by Dr. Mona Florian
The former employee of the chair, Dr. Mona Florian, held a lecture on "Agility in the public sector - a management fashion?" as part of the Bachelor seminar "New forms of work and organization" on 22nd January. This was based, among other things, on her experience as a consultant at Nordlicht Management Consultants.

2020

Guest lecture by Prof. Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich
Prof. Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, a Junior Professor of Business Administration, in particular Business Ethics at Leuphana University Lüneburg held a lecture on the topic of Gamification and CSR as part of the Master seminar "Business, Ethics & Responsibility" on 13th November.

Best-Critical-Paper-Award 2020, Philipp Arnold and Jana Costas
Philipp Arnold and Jana Costas received the Best Critical Paper Award from the Academy of Management for their paper "Doing Violence: Suffering bodies in a refugee arrival centre". The award is sponsored by the journal of Organization. The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management is one of the most important international conferences in the field of management and organizational research. In their paper, Philipp Arnold and Jana Costas examine the use of private security forces and violence in facilities for asylum seekers and refugees. A shorter version of the article was published in the Academy of Management Proceeding.

2019

Guest lecture and discussion with Prof. Christopher Grey over BREXIT
On 24th April Prof. Christopher Grey held a lecture on the current developments surrounding the so-called BREXIT. Chris Grey is Professor of Organizational Studies at Royal Holloway University in London. Furthermore, he is one of the leading commentators on BREXIT.

2018

Guest lecture and discussion with Mads Pankow on consulting practice
As part of the "Organizational Theories" reading seminar, Mads Pankow shows how relevant abstract concepts of organizational theory are for everyday use. In his guest lecture on "Luhmann's organizational theory in consulting practice" Pankow gave insights on his work and experience as a political consultant, including for the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs or as a policy advisor at the 'Innovationsbüro'. Pankow vividly illustrates how the role of the consultant in Luhmann's sense is primarily to irritate existing structures and 'systems': sometimes it takes a view from the outside, in Luhmann's case the environment of the system, to sharpen an awareness of organizational problems and to develop new ways of thinking. This is achieved when consultants firstly do something counterintuitive: Consultants observe which differences are bridged by organizational structures and contrast them with the interpretations and problem perceptions that already exist in the organization. In a sense, they create 'new' problems. Consultants observe which differences are bridged by organizational structures and contrast them with the interpretations and problem perceptions that already exist in the organization. However, it is precisely in this function that they are part of the system: as part of the autopoietic structure of the system, which reproduces itself and must always remain connectable.