ETHOS Seminars and events

Ethos runs a range of events that bring together a wide range of voices.

Workshop on Decolonizing the Business School Curriculum held on January 28, 2021.

In this virtual workshop, we explored what it means to decolonize the business school curriculum. Facilitated breakout groups explored what this might look like in practice in terms of curriculum design, teaching, administration and research. Groups discussed possibilities of decolonizing specific subjects in the business school curriculum such as International Business, Strategy, Organisational Behaviour, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility among others. We encourage participants to reflect on their own education practices and identify areas for change.

The workshop will be useful for people teaching and working in business schools. It will give participants an opportunity to work in small groups to identify practical steps they might take to push for a transformational change to decolonize the business school curriculum.

Decolonizing the Business School: Panel Discussion and Workshop.

An ETHOS Event

1st July, 2-5pm BST. Via zoom.

In July 2020, ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at City, University of London hosted a workshop on decolonizing the business school.

Following global protests, issues of race and the legacy of colonialism are more pressing than ever. Universities around the world have been asked how they can decolonize their curriculum. This process is more advanced in the humanities and some social sciences. Business Schools need to join the process.

In this virtual workshop, we explored what it means to decolonize the business school. We also looked at what this might look like in practice in terms of curriculum design, teaching, administration and research. During the workshop, we brought together a group of experts on the topic who work in business schools as well as other disciplines. We also encouraged people to reflect on their own education practices and identify areas for change. Finally, we strived to identify specific actions that we can take to decolonize business schools.

The workshop will be useful for people teaching and working in business schools. It provides an overview of what decolonizing means for the business school. It also gave participants an opportunity to work in small groups to identify practical steps they might take to push for a transformational change to decolonize the business school.

Panelists included Gurminder Bhambra (University of Sussex), Sadhvi Dar (Queen Mary University of London and Cofounder of Decolonizing Alliance), Stella Nkomo (University of Pretoria), Banu Ozkazanc-Pan (Brown University) and Jenny Rodriguez (University of Manchester and Cofounder of Decolonizing Alliance).

Event flyer

Pre-workshop reading material

1. Decolonising the university in 2020

2. Is decolonising the new black?

3. A postcolonial and anti-colonial reading of ‘African’ leadership and management in organization studies: Tensions, contradictions and possibilities

4. CSR as Gendered Neocoloniality in the Global South

5. Accounting for British History