This year’s EGOS Colloquium invites us to think beyond the human when studying organizations and organizing, a call which connects directly to the core concerns and work of feminist scholars. The idea of the cyborg, a human-machine hybrid, famous in the work of Donna Haraway (1985) and extended by Jasbir Puar (2011), is now more topical than ever with the rise of generative AI and debates on transhumanism. Eco-feminists and indigenous scholars have long theorized and practiced different relations to non-human life and our environments in a context of climate injustice and anthropocentric practices. New materialism and techno-feminism also engage with such questions, and open avenues to understand the posthuman and more-than-human era.

At the same time, we note a key tension underlying the move to the more-than-human: the ‘human’ may still here be treated as a stable and privileged category, left unproblematized even if de-centered. Black, decolonial and indigenous feminists have argued that ‘human’ has been defined in terms of a subject’s closeness to whiteness, maleness and bourgeois identity. This overrepresentation (Wynter, 2003) of human as Man requires Black and Indigenous dehumanization as its foundation (see also Weheliye, 2014). Indigenous feminisms have helped to define the human relationally in conjunction with land and other life forms, challenging the colonial division between nature and culture that has been weaponised for the purposes of extraction and dispossession. As such, these moves in scholarship have recovered ontologies that colonialism, racial capitalism, and white male supremacy have suppressed or erased.

Regarding the politics that are mobilized when defining the human, a feminist perspective remains necessary to shape our interventions and continued work as a scholarly community. This includes attention to questions of power, embodiment, care, emotions, and using these to challenge the persistent inequalities regarding whose lives, bodies and environments are protected, and whose are expendable. At this year’s online EGOS Feminist Network Meeting, we stand once more in solidarity with feminists around the world demanding an end to the dehumanization and imperialist violence, radical transformation of social structures and power relations, both central to organizations and organizing. We are especially interested in how these challenges become visible in organizational life, whether through infrastructures, care relations, everyday practices, technologies or imaginaries.

Aligned with the Colloquium theme, we aim to grow, strengthen, and inspire the EGOS community through encouraging research and practices that support generative feminist social imaginaries for the non-human, the posthuman, and the more-than-human. We aim to create resonance between research and lived experiences of a world where the more-than-human is more relevant than ever. As brown and black bodies are treated as less than-human by imperialist aggressors, climate catastrophe reshapes historic patterns of interspecies habitation, AI technologies terrorise fragile democracies, algorithmically-piloted bombs kill racially minoritised and dehumanized people and entire ecologies in the name of freedom, and the non-human is treated primarily as a resource to be plundered, how can we continue to build feminist hope and intersectional solidarities in the EGOS community?

Given the online format, and to accommodate a wide range of time zones, the meeting will take place mid-afternoon CET, and will move us from listening to reflecting to sharing in a way that seeks to minimize straining from the screen. While we are refining the final schedule, the program will consist of:

Brief inspirational talks followed by a panel discussion related to our call on Feminist Perspectives on Organizing in the More-than-Human Society (30 minutes, speakers tba). Questions can be shared in the chat.
A guided mandala activity for participants to reflect on the talks and discussion, and how this year’s EGOS theme may resonate with our own research and feminist values. Participants will be invited to post a picture of their mandala on a shared Padlet (15 minutes).
In breakout groups, participants discuss their mandalas, and formulate shared feminist hopes and demands for the EGOS scholarly community. (20 minutes).
In Plenum wrap up—sharing back from the groups; the panel answers questions from the chat (25 mins).

We invite all EGOS Colloquium attendees with whom our call resonates, of any social identity or research domains, to join us in this exploration. We warmly welcome participants at different career stages, and are particularly eager to include doctoral researchers and scholars new to engaging with feminist ideas.

To register, please upload a single document including your name and affiliation, a few lines on how you relate feminism to discussions of the non-human, posthuman and more-than-human (via your research or lived experiences) or questions you have on this link, via your MyEGOS account by June 15, 2026. Please also add any comments/questions you might have for the organizers on how the EGOS Feminist Network can better represent you and your concerns. Sign-ups will remain open until July 6 since there is no capacity limit for the online meeting.

We are also calling for 2 new organizers to join our team by the end of May. We have agreed with the EGOS Board to renew the organizing team on a ‘rolling basis’ instead of all at once, to ensure both change and continuity. The main task is to organize the annual network meeting during EGOS, and follow up with participants to share outcomes. We meet online a few times a year for preparation in liaison with the EGOS Board, and maintain an email list for updates (a few emails per year, so nothing massive), and ensure the continued relevance of documents and info shared on the EGOS website. Organizers commit to the role for a period of 3 years. Please reach out to Anna Górska to express interest or have a chat. We expect to introduce the new team members during the online network meeting.

Lastly, we also remind everyone of the EGOS Diversity and Anti-Harassment Policy and the EGOS Manifesto for Feminist Repair.

We look forward to seeing you!

The EGOS Feminist Network organizing team
Angela Dy, Anna Górska, Elo Reiss, Florence Villesèche, Sadhvi Dar, Sara Dahlman

References

Haraway, D. (1985). A manifesto for cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s. Socialist Review, 80, 65–108.
Puar, J. K. (2011). "I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess": Becoming-intersectional in assemblage theory. philoSOPHIA, 2(1), 49–66.
Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation—An argument. CR: The New Centennial Review, 3(3), 257–337.
Weheliye, A. G. (2014). Habeas viscus: Racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and Black feminist theories of the human. Duke University Press.

Angela Martinez Dy is Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London, United Kingdom. She has research expertise in digital entrepreneurship, intersectional feminisms, decolonial theory and anti-racist frameworks, and has experience as a teaching artist to deliver the proposed arts-based workshops. Angela serves on the editorial review boards of ‘Human Relations’, ‘Organization’, ‘Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice’, ‘International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship’, and ‘Journal of Critical Realism’.

Anna M. Górska is an Assistant Professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland, and a Director of Women and Diversity in Organizations Research Center. She is a member of the Young Academy of Polish Academy of Sciences and Associate Member of Center for Work, Organization and Society in University of Essex. Anna studies gender in organizations and higher education institutions. Her recent book – “Gender and Academic Career Development in Central and Eastern Europe” – was published by Routledge. Currently, she serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of ‘Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry’.

Elo L.K. Reiss is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Their work revolves around questions of how social inequalities unfold in organizational settings and focuses on collective change efforts towards more social justice. In their most recent projects, they investigate phenomena related to feminist organizing, queer activism, collective forms of resistance, and intersectional solidarity through embodied ethnographic approaches. Elo has published, among others, in ‘Organization’, ‘Culture and Organization’, ‘Human Resource Management Review’, and ‘Gender, Work & Organization’.

Florence Villesèche is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in the workplace, business ethics, feminist theory, and existential phenomenology.

Sadhvi Dar is an Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Global Management at University College of London, United Kingdom. She is co-Director of Borderlines, an interdisciplinary research collective committed to social justice, radical, experimental and innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary pedagogies and conceptual paradigms. Sadhvi’s research on management and organizations draws on Chicana feminisms, decolonial frameworks, Black Studies, postcolonial studies and psychodynamic approaches to researching race.

Sara Dahlman is a researcher at the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interest centers around alternative organizing and the making of better futures. In previous research, Sara has explored responsible investing, femtech, norm critical parental groups, and feminist pornography to understand how (formal and informal) organizing can push for social change.

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Reframing Organizations in the More-than-Human Society

EGOS Feminist Network Meeting 2026: Feminist Perspectives on Organizing in a More-than-Human Society

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