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Cultural Politics, Aesthetics and Ethics of Female Leadership
With IAS Residential Fellow, Dr Fatima Festic, University of Zagreb.
Abstract: 'I will present the proposal for the joined project on cultural politics and ethics of female leadership that I intend to conduct with Prof. Marianna Fotaki, WBS.
I explore the ways women can make a difference as leaders as related to the specificity of the knowledge and assessing and handling the knowledge from culture, arts and humanities. As leadership is determined by gender, and gender by cultural knowledge, I am looking in how that can offer a theoretical platform for application to diverse contexts of organizational settings, in transnational perspective, and what are the outcomes of such use of arts and humanities for leadership in terms of contributions to knowledge, practice and policy. As the most cultivated constituents of the symbolic and a multiple medial, communicative and semiotic (sign-processing) force with concrete ground-breaking results in transforming the subjects of culture, literature and arts help identify critical aspects and illuminate points of possible transformation of leadership activity, as well as elaborate a corresponding theory and politics. I will emphasize aesthetic, ethical and rhetorical meaning of heterogeneity, mediality, and materiality as primary lessons to be learned for leadership from creative socially engaged artistic practices, and performativity, performance, theatricality, and narrativity as models for rethinking identity, acting and relationality in organisations'.
To register for this event please email: oboffice@wbs.ac.uk.