You are warmly invited to attend a symposium celebrating 70 years of applied social sciences work at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and its distinctive contribution to the development of organisational research, business management studies and consultancy. The symposium takes place at the Conway Hall in central London on Thursday 19th October 2017. It is free to attend but booking is required and can be made as either a full day or a morning or afternoon session here.
The symposium forms part of a four day festival celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Tavistock Institute, which is taking place in central London from Tuesday 17th October to Friday 20th October. Full information can be found here on the festival website. These events also mark the launch of the Tavistock Institute’s Archive detailed here at: Wellcome Library. For information on accessing the Tavistock Archive, please take a library tour on Tuesday 17th October (book here) or Wednesday 18th October (book here). To see highlights from the Archive please visit the exhibition, ‘Past, Present & Future: From the Tavistock Institute Archive’, on display at the Swiss Church from 17th to 20th October (detailed here).
The Symposium:
The symposium will be opened by Cliff Oswick (Professor in Organisation Theory at Cass Business School; chair of the Tavistock Institute’s Council).
Two morning sessions follow: the first paper, ‘Sites of Selection’ will be presented by Daniel Monninger (Max Planck Institute, Cologne) and Dr Alice White (Wellcome Library); the second, ‘Community Development and Organisational Change: Large scale industrial action research in the 1970s’, will be presented by Elliot Stern (Fellow of UK Academy of Social Sciences; Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University; and Visiting Fellow, Bristol University; formerly Tavistock Institute) and Frances Abraham(Tavistock Institute).
The afternoon session will open with a keynote presented by the CEO of the Tavistock Institute, Dr Eliat Aram, ‘On Being an Orphan: An untold story’. It will close with a performance by Dreadlockalien (performance poet at University of Warwick 2015; Birmingham’s Poet Laureate 2005-6; host to BBC Radio 4’s Slam Poetry; and Director of ‘Colour Free Visions’, ‘New October Poets’, and ‘Write Down Speak Up’).