The EGOS Feminist Network Meeting 2025 will be taking place only onsite at the main campus of The American College of Greece, ACG Events Hall, on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 14:00–16:00 EEST.

Despite increasing recognition of feminist scholarship in organization studies, many academic institutions continue to operate within neoliberal frameworks that obstruct radical change and genuine inclusivity. In addition, current geopolitics threaten the lives and livelihoods also of those employing feminist emancipatory practices and scholarship, especially where they advance queer and decolonial aims. Despite global protests, we currently witness these issues worldwide. For example, in the USA, where the administration has withdrawn migrants’, women’s’, queer and trans rights and cancels research on diversity, equity and inclusion; in Ukraine, where Russian imperialist aggression meets continued resistance by scholars and students; and in Palestine, where extreme violence leads to scholasticide and epistemicide.

At this year’s EGOS Feminist Network Meeting, we stand once more in solidarity with feminist scholars around the world demanding radical transformation of social structures and power relations, both central to organizations and organizing. Following the Colloquium theme of creativity, we aim to grow, strengthen, and inspire the EGOS community through encouraging a range of feminist creative prompts and practices that can support reimagining our futures differently. The intended outcome of the meeting is to generate a seedbed for feminist creative practice amongst organization scholars and the broader EGOS community, across domains of expertise and methods.

We seek to kindle feminist activity within and against neoliberal systems in academia through artistic and embodied creative methods and practice. By turning to creativity, we aim to explore the radical potential of collective artistic feminist interventions. As we strive for change, we are also faced with increasing exhaustion and the need to renew the feminist energy that can sustain resistance and support proactive efforts at transformation. We therefore aim to create a brave(r) space for hope, care, and creativity.

This two-hour Network Meeting features creative practices and methodologies, including:

Establishing a principled space to foster an anti-discriminatory environment (BARC, 2025).¹ Our proposed principles will be based upon the EGOS Diversity and Anti-Harassment Policy and the EGOS Manifesto for Feminist Repair, and will be circulated to registered participants ahead of the meeting.
Revisiting the EGOS Feminist Manifesto for Feminist Repair, written in 2022, to creatively explore and reflect on how we can continue to challenge repression and reshape feminist futures in organization studies.
A decolonial intervention in the form of a non-denominational² altar practice³. Facilitators will decorate and prepare the altar space, and participants are invited to bring meaningful objects and/or written intentions to display during the workshop to symbolise their contributions and commitments. This multisensory and creative experience will encourage private reflection, conversation, and connection.
A panel discussion featuring feminist scholars, visual artists, poets, and community organizers working at the intersection of creativity and organization studies. Confirmed panel speakers include: Ana-Paula Lafaire (stickers), Shweta Kushal (hijra performance art), Ebru Calin (poetry), Angela Martinez Dy & Sadhvi Dar (Recuerdos LAEMOS soundscape), Emmanouela Mandalaki (dance), Camilla Ferri (craft jewellery and sex toys).
A poetry workshop, offering participants an opportunity to engage in feminist storytelling and collective writing as a form of academic resistance and future-making.

We invite all EGOS attendees who resonate with our Call, irrespective of their social identities or research domains, to join us in this exploration of creativity, rebellion, and repair.

To register, please upload – via the EGOS website/your MyEGOS – by June 23, 2025 at the latest a document (pdf or word file) that includes your name and affiliation, a few words about what you may bring to the altar (experiences and emotions included), and any comments/questions you might have for the convenors.

We look forward to seeing you!

The EGOS Feminist Network Meeting convenors,
Angela Dy, Anna Górska, Elo Reiss, Florence Villesèche, Sadhvi Dar, Sara Dahlman

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1 The principled space is an evolution of the ideas of the safe space and the brave space, as it acknowledges that we cannot guarantee safety during meetings where we engage with feminist ideas (because our differences may lead to tensions, conflict, or harm). In a principled space, we ask participants to commit to pre-defined principles for mutual engagement that support open and honest dialogue, safety, and centre the most marginalized.
2 Non-denominational means this practice is not linked to any specific religion or belief system.
3 Namely, a decolonial intervention that challenges the Western-defined, historical supremacy of rationality by nourishing the emotional and spiritual dimensions of being, which are essential to processes of teaching and learning (BARC, 2025, p. 6).

Reference

BARC – Building the Anti-Racist Classroom (2025): Principled Space Guidelines. Available at:
https://barcworkshop.wordpress.com/resources/principled-space/

Angela Martinez Dy is Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London, United Kingdom. She has research expertise in digital entrepreneurship, intersectional feminisms, decolonial theory and anti-racist frameworks, and has experience as a teaching artist to deliver the proposed arts-based workshops. Angela serves on the editorial review boards of ‘Human Relations’, ‘Organization’, ‘Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice’, ‘International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship’, and ‘Journal of Critical Realism’.

Anna M. Górska is an Assistant Professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland, and a Director of Women and Diversity in Organizations Research Center. She is a member of the Young Academy of Polish Academy of Sciences and Associate Member of Center for Work, Organization and Society in University of Essex. Anna studies gender in organizations and higher education institutions. Her recent book – “Gender and Academic Career Development in Central and Eastern Europe” – was published by Routledge. Currently, she serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of ‘Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry’.

Elo L.K. Reiss is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Their work revolves around questions of how social inequalities unfold in organizational settings and focuses on collective change efforts towards more social justice. In their most recent projects, they investigate phenomena related to feminist organizing, queer activism, collective forms of resistance, and intersectional solidarity through embodied ethnographic approaches. Elo has published, among others, in ‘Organization’, ‘Culture and Organization’, ‘Human Resource Management Review’, and ‘Gender, Work & Organization’.

Florence Villesèche is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in the workplace, business ethics, feminist theory, and existential phenomenology.

Sadhvi Dar is a Reader in Interdisciplinary Management and Organisation Studies at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom. She is co-Director of Borderlines, an interdisciplinary research collective committed to social justice, radical, experimental and innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary pedagogies and conceptual paradigms. Sadhvi’s research on management and organizations draws on Chicana feminisms, decolonial frameworks, Black Studies, postcolonial studies and psychodynamic approaches to researching race.

Sara Dahlman is a researcher at the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interest centers around alternative organizing and the making of better futures. In previous research, Sara has explored responsible investing, femtech, norm critical parental groups, and feminist pornography to understand how (formal and informal) organizing can push for social change.

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EGOS Feminist Network Meeting 2025: Exploring Creativity for a Feminist Academia

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