Colloquium of interest to COR Community…

“Art and Audience: Complex Identities in U.S. Art Museums”

Professor Pamela Tolbert
Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations

Friday, June 8, 2018
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
SB1 5200 (Porter Colloquia Room & Executive Terrace)

Abstract

Organizational studies have yielded conflicting answers to the question of whether having a focused organizational identity or a complex, category-spanning one leads to more favorable reactions by external audiences.  This study seeks to reconcile apparently divergent findings in work addressing this question by focusing on the social roles and relative importance of different audience segments.  We examine a number of hypotheses about the consequences of having a complex identity using longitudinal data from U.S. art museums.  Our analysis is predicated on a conceptual distinction among three key audience segments for museums:  elite professional critics, art connoisseurs, and casual consumers.  We argue that these segments vary in their preferences for museums with complex identities (e.g., art and science) or focused ones (art only), and in their influence on museums with different types of identity.  Our findings are consistent with these arguments.   In concluding, we discuss the implications of the arguments and findings for future work on the organizational consequences of different types of identity.

Dear COR community,

You are cordially invited to COR End-of-Year Event on June 1.

We will hear from COR small grants recipients and celebrate the recent renewal of COR as Campus Center for the next five years. Lunch will be provided.

Friday, June 1
SBSG 1200
12:00-1:30pm

RSVP to cor@uci.edu, by May 28.

We greatly look forward to seeing you on June 1!

Best wishes,

Nina Bandelj
Melissa Mazmanian
COR Co-Directors

Dear COR community,

Please join us for a discussion on collaboration, governance and uncertainty.

COR Faculty Paper Development Workshop with Prof. Nicola Ulibarri (Social Ecology)

“Managing Scientific, Administrative, and Physical Uncertainties with Collaborative Governance” (abstract below)

Discussants: Martha Feldman (Social Ecology) and TBC Maritza Salazar (Merage)

Friday, April 13
SBSG 1321
12:00-1:30pm

RSVP by April 8 to cor@uci.edu
Lunch will be provided

Once you RSVP you will receive Prof. Ulibarri’s paper to read ahead of the workshop.

We look forward to seeing you for our first Spring Quarter event!

Best wishes,

Nina Bandelj
Melissa Mazmanian
COR Co-Directors

“Managing Scientific, Administrative, and Physical Uncertainties with Collaborative Governance”

Abstract

While uncertainty is a fundamental feature and challenge of environmental governance, the literature on how policy makers and resource managers can act effectively under that uncertainty is scarce. The focus is on managing scientific uncertainty—a lack of knowledge about the causes or consequences of an environmental decision—when many other types of uncertainty can have drastic effects on decision-makers’ ability to make timely, rational, or even satisficing decisions. Moreover, while suggestions on how to manage these uncertainties often revolve around collaborative governance—engaging scientists, decision-makers, communities, and other stakeholders in joint decision-making—collaboration is often framed as one-size-fits-all approach. This paper aims to broaden the conversation about collaboration as a tool for managing uncertainty, using a four-year ethnographic study of a collaborative process to develop the operating license for a hydropower dam in California. By exploring the many types of uncertainty that arose during negotiations, whether and how collaboration served to address these varieties of uncertainty, and how uncertainty affected the collaborative process, I aim to add nuance to our understanding of when and where collaboration is a helpful tool for environmental decision- makers.

Biography

Nicola Ulibarri is an interdisciplinary scholar who uses political, social, and technical perspectives to evaluate the sustainability of environmental planning and decision-making practices. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, she investigates the interaction between people, infrastructure, and the environment, with a focus on redesigning planning, permitting, and operations to meet more diverse social and environmental needs. Prof. Ulibarri earned her PhD through the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources at Stanford University, and spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. Her professional life has spanned the public and non-profit sectors, including work with the US Department of the Interior (Region IX), the World Bank, and Amigos Bravos, a grassroots river-protection nonprofit in New Mexico.

“Social Studies of Finance: Present and Future”

Panelists:

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Sociology, UC San Diego
Simone Polillo, Sociology, University of Virginia
Erin Lockwood, Political Science, UC Irvine
Taylor C. Nelms, Anthropology, UC Irvine

Discussant: Hannah Appel, Anthropology, UCLA
Conveners: Nina Bandelj, Sociology, UC Irvine & Bill Maurer, Anthropology, UC Irvine

Friday, March 23, 2018
2-4pm panel
4pm reception

SBSG 1321

You are invited to a thought-provoking discussion on sociological, anthropological, and political science perspectives on finance and the
future of the social studies of finance.

_Co-sponsored by the Center for Organizational Research and the Journal of Cultural Economy_