This conference is planned as the first of two events centering on the theme of Aesthetics and Organisation - the first to deal with the theme of Listening, and the second (planned for 2007) to focus on Looking. Aesthetics and Organisation: Listening, Silence & Noise will be held from April 20-22, 2005 in Burg auf der Creuzburg in Creuzburg, Germany. Co-organised by UvH The University for Humanistics at Utrecht, University of Essex and Copenhagen Business School, the conference is currently calling for papers (abstract deadline: 1 January 2005). Conference Outline: The conference evokes the organising of space(s) wherein sound is repressed, permitting music to exist. To what purpose is the acoustic rendering of order? What sort of time and motion are created via sound-images? What are the narrative forms of the auditory? Is the listened to (re-)presented? In listening are matter and mind, actual and virtual, on a single plane of immanence? Can the topology of listening be described? Keynote speakers include Christoph Wolff (others to be announced). Papers are invited on: * Silent Leadership Good leadership does not need speech; it is omnipresent in the person of the just and generous leader. What is the relationship between listening and silent leadership? Contact - Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Center for Art & Leadership Copenhagen Business School, Blaagaardsgade 23B DK-2200 Copenhagen-N, Denmark Email: ofk.lpf@cbs.dk Fax: + 45 3815 3635 * Intervals, Interludes & Interstices The organisation of noise and chaos produces 'spaces between the symbols', often submerged or suppressed. Participants are invited to explore issues around listening and experience, judgment and perception, organisation and sound, aesthetics and pragmatics, harmony and noise in these spaces. Contact - Jane Malabar c/o Ian King Art of Management and Organisation Conference Essex Management Centre Dept. of Accounting Finance and Management University of Essex Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK Email: artofman@essex.ac.uk Fax : + 44 1206-873429 * Das Wohltemperierte Klavier What is the relation between music and organisation? Is it possible to see organisations from a musical perspective? What music is appropriate, for thinking about organisations? How do organisations deal with music? Contact - Dr Robert v Boeschoten UvH, KOS Postbus 797, 3500 AT Utrecht, Netherlands Email: rvb@uvh.nl Abstract deadline: 1 January 2005 (authors will be notified by mid-February). Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to the email addresses above.