Critical failure studies have made a major breakthrough when it comes to the theoretical framing and methodological imaginary of failure. This entails first and foremost switching from an individual to a more social and institutional perspective. Talking about failure regimes, contexts, and cultures is now meant to underline that failures are not individual blunders and lost opportunities that are self-evident. Join us!
Organizers: Failure Lab and Criminology Scientific Club (University of Warsaw), & Section of Economic Sociology (Polish Sociological Association)
Venue: IPSiR UW [Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation], ul. Podchorążych 20, 02-721, Warsaw
Registration to participate in the event, free of charge [by May 1, 2024]: a.mica[at]uw.edu.pl
| May 6, Monday, 2024 | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Coffee, fruits, and cake |
| 10:00-10:10 | Introduction |
| 10:10-11:30 | Using Ethnography to Understand Failure –> Catherine Alexander (Durham University): Ethnographies of Failure in Various Organisational Settings |
| 11:30-11:40 | Coffee, fruits, and cake |
| 11:40-13:10 | Failure Regimes: What’s New? –> Andrea Di Lorenzo (University of Florence): A Culture of Failure or a Culturalization of Failure? –> Krzysztof Rowiński (Trinity College Dublin): Moving Beyond Redemption: What We Need from Failure Studies |
| 13:10-14:00 | Finger buffet |
| 14:00-15:20 | What Do Humanities Think about Failure? –> Costica Bradatan (Texas Tech University): Why We Fail and How? |
| 15:20-15:30 | Coffee, fruits, and cake |
| 15:30-17:30 | Catching Up with Failure Literacy in Organizations and Institutions –> Adriana Mica (University of Warsaw), Mikołaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw), and Paweł Kubicki (Warsaw School of Economics): Post-Failure –> Oskar Lubiński (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń): Global Consulting Agencies’ Scandals as a Display of a Failure of Contemporary Narratives about Capitalism –> Bashir Bello (Federal University Gusau): Leadership Failure: An Explanation of Organizational Ineffectiveness and Inefficiencies |
| 18:00 | Evening in the city |
| May 7, Tuesday, 2024 | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Coffee, fruits, and cake |
| 10:00-13:00 | New Blood from Criminology [student seminar with Catherine Alexander and Costica Bradatan] –> Szymon Nawrocki (University of Warsaw): [failure studies and criminology] –> Agnieszka Włodarska (University of Warsaw): [phenomenon of involuntary celibacy from a failure studies perspective] –> Open mic |