Public talk: Gendering the ‘good university/business school’ by Professor Alison Pullen

Date: 06 December 2023

Time: 09:30 – 10:30 am GMT

Select this MS Teams link to join the talk (co-organised with Judith Butler reading group) open to all attendees.

In this talk, Professor Alison Pullen brings into dialogue recent discussions on feminist activism (Fotaki and Pullen, 2023; Bell et al., 2019; Calás and Smircich, 2023) and notions of the ‘good university’ (Connell, 2014) or ‘good business school’ (Rhodes and Pullen, 2023). Inspired by Butler’s questions: (2006: 49) ‘What allows us to encounter one another? What are the conditions of possibility for an international feminist coalition?’ Prof. Pullen offers some thoughts on how public and democratic business schools gain political agency through ‘gender’ working against the anti-gender movement recently articulated by Judith Butler (2023). Much relies on feminist alliances which involve struggles for recognition and the reconstitution of vulnerability, in Butler’s terms, as well as modes of reciprocity and interdependency.

Figure acknowledgements: Camilla Falsini mural on Instagram dedicated to feminist writer Christine De Pizan.