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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.

Siddarth Varadarajan and Dawn Foster in conversation.

In this evening of conversation, we seek to examine the state of play among money, the media, and the global flow - or, perhaps, interruption - of information.

Thanks to the Departments of Economics, History, Law, Sociology, Politics and International Studies and the Faculty of Social Sciences who have provided funds to support the Another India programme of events 2015-16.

This event is open to anyone with interest in this issue; but spaces are limited to facilitate open, questioning interaction, so please register on a first come first in basis. Please click to regsiter for this event.