CMS6

On this site you will find all the information regarding CMS6 which we are hosting for the first time at Warwick. Please visit the site and contact us at cms09@wbs.ac.uk for any information or comment you may have.

Reflecting the truly international character of this conference, delegates from the following 30 countries are to be represented at CMS '09:

Australia	Austria	Bahamas		Belgium	Brazil	Canada	Chile	China	Colombia
Denmark	Dubai	Estonia		Finland	France	Germany	India	Ireland	Italy
Japan	Netherlands		New Zealand	Norway	Portugal	Spain	Sweden	Switzerland	Trinidad & Tobago
Turkey	UK	USA							Trinidad & Tobago

PROGRAMME

Below is a draft schedule of what’s to come in the conference. These times are subject to change:

DATES/ TIMES	Monday 13 July 2009	CMS6 Conference	Tuesday 14 July 2009	Wednesday 15 July 2009
09.00 – 1.00	Conference Registration (Rootes Building Ground Floor Foyer)	09.00 – 11.00	Session 3	Session 6
		11.00 – 11.30	Coffee Break in Ramphal Building	Coffee Break in Ramphal Building
		11.30 – 1.00	Plenary 2 – Professor Marta Calas & Professor Linda Smirchich	CMS Conference Futures
12.15 – 1.15	Lunch in Rootes Restaurant	1.00 – 2.00	Lunch in Rootes Restaurant	Lunch in Rootes Restaurant
1.15 – 2.45	Plenary 1 – Professor Simon Critchley	2.00 – 4.00	Session 4
3.00 – 4.00	Session 1	2.00 – 4.00	Session 4
4.00 – 4.30	Coffee Break in Ramphal Building	4.00 – 4.30	Coffee Break in Ramphal Building
4.30 – 6.00	Session 2	4.30 – 6.30	Session 5
6.30 – 7.45	Drinks Reception(Warwick Arts Centre Upper Bar)	6.30 – 7.45	Drinks Reception (VC’s/ Chancellors Suite)
7.30 – 9.00pm (approx)	Buffet Dinner (Rootes Restaurant)	8.00 – 10.00pm (approx)	Conference Dinner(Panorama Suite)
9.00 – 11.00pm	Feel free to stay and socialise with your colleagues in the bar until 11.00pm	10.00 – 1.00am	Feel free to stay and socialise with your colleges in the bar until 1.00am

Plenary Speakers

Professor Marta Calas

Marta B. Calás is Professor of Organization Studies and International Management at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and adjunct professor of Women’s Studies, at this university’s Women’s Studies Program. She received her MBA from the University of California-Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Organization Studies with supporting field in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Professor Linda Smircich

Linda Smircich is Professor of Organization Studies at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She received her BA in Anthropology-Sociology from the State University of New York-Oswego, and her MBA and Ph.D. in Organization and Management from Syracuse University, from whom she received the Distinguished Ph.D. Alumni award in 2008.

Professor Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley studied philosophy at the University of Essex in England (BA 1985, PhD 1988) and at the University of Nice in France (M.Phil 1987). Critchley's M.Phil. thesis dealt with the problem of the overcoming of metaphysics in Heidegger and Carnap and his Ph.D. dissertation was on the ethics of deconstruction in Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida From 2009, he will be part-time Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg.

Please see our Plenary Speakers page for more information.