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)
Media patronage: Polish Scientific Publisher PWN [Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN]
Venue: IPSiR UW [Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation], ul. Podchorążych 20, room 55, 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 | Registration & morning coffee |
| 10:00:00 | Introduction |
| 10:00-11:30 | Using Ethnography to Understand Failure –> Catherine Alexander (Durham University, England): Ethnographies of Failure in Various Organisational Settings |
| 11:30-11:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:45-13:45 | Failure Regimes: What’s New? –> Andrea Di Lorenzo (University of Florence, Italy): A Culture of Failure or a Culturalization of Failure? –> Krzysztof Rowiński (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Moving Beyond Redemption: What We Need from Failure Studies –> Matthew McKenna (University of Birmingham, Ireland): Learning in Times of Failure and Blame: How English Local Government Responds at Times of Central Government Intervention |
| 13:45-14:30 | Finger buffet |
| 14:30-16:00 | What Do Humanities Think about Failure? –> Costică Brădățan (Texas Tech University, US): Why We Fail and How? |
| 16:00-16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15-18:15 | Catching Up with Failure Literacy in Organizations and Institutions –> Adriana Mica (University of Warsaw, Poland), Mikołaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw, Poland), and Paweł Kubicki (SGH Warsaw School of Economics): Post-Failure: Evolution of Beef and Abeyance in Policymaking –> Oskar Lubiński (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland): Global Consulting Agencies’ Scandals as a Display of a Failure of Contemporary Narratives about Capitalism –> Bashir Bello (Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State Nigeria): Leadership Failure: An Explanation of Organizational Ineffectiveness and Inefficiencies |
| after 18:30 | Evening in the city |
| May 7, Tuesday, 2024 | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Morning coffee |
| 10:00-13:00 | New Blood from Criminology, student seminar with Catherine Alexander and Costica Bradatan –> Szymon Nawrocki (University of Warsaw, Poland), on failure studies and criminology –> Minsun Song (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea), on the impact of cultural and political climates on the policymaking process –> Agnieszka Włodarska (University of Warsaw, Poland), on the phenomenon of involuntary celibacy from a failure studies perspective –> Open mic |