Dear Colleagues,
We are very excited to announce this new virtual reading group! We are inviting you to our inaugural event:
A conversation with Professor, Florian Wettstein, December 11, please sign up to attend!
Necessary Conversations About Business and Human Rights (BHR):
A Virtual Reading Group for BHR Scholars
This series of online sessions provides an interactive platform to converse about research on business and human rights (BHR). Please join us as we engage with leading BHR scholars, to discuss significant and landmark publications in the field and identify pressing topics and themes for future BHR scholarship.
To launch this new series, we are pleased to welcome the renowned business and human rights scholar, Professor Florian Wettstein, who will be interviewed by Professor Harry Van Buren (also a distinguished human rights scholar) on December 11. The interview will delve into Florian's extensive work on the complicity of large multinationals in human rights issues, looking at their human rights roles and responsibilities. Florian will also share insights about the challenges of publishing business and human rights research in management journals, particularly when editors and reviewers are unfamiliar with this emerging field.
If you'd like to join this session, please sign up with your email address
here. We will email you with the Zoom link in advance.
SCHEDULE
December 11, 2024, 4pm (UK)
Florian Wettstein, Professor of Business Ethics at University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
In conversation with Professor Harry van Buren, Lupton Patten Endowed Chair of Business Ethics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA.
READINGS:
Wettstein, F. (2012). CSR and the debate on business and human rights: Bridging the great divide. Business Ethics Quarterly, 22(4), 739-770.
Wettstein, F., Giuliani, E., Santangelo, G. D., & Stahl, G. K. (2019). International business and human rights: A research agenda. Journal of World Business, 54(1), 54-65.
January 15, 2025, 4pm (UK)
Still in the process of confirming the BHR scholar.
February 13, 4pm (UK)
Vivek Soundararajan (confirmed), Professor of Work and Equality at the University of Bath, UK.
March 19, 4pm (UK)
Tricia Olsen (confirmed), Professor and the Stassen Chair of World Peace at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science
Questions can be directed to any of the organizers:
Tricia Olsen, Kathleen Rehbein, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Annie Snelson-Powell, Harry Van Buren, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo