Dr. Kim Helmersen will present two research papers at the EASST Conference, held 8–11 September 2026 at the AGH University of Kraków, Poland. "Responding to Futurelessness: Mobilizing Past Futures in Pop Culture and Architecture" will be presented in Panel: Lost Futures in Design Professions. "Managing Paradoxes in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: Future-Making in Digital Construction" will be presented in Panel: Can We Change the World Through Interdisciplinary Research?
At the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Philadelphia, Dr. Ruri Takizawa co-organized the symposium “Potential, Future, and Actual Parenthood at Work” together with Janine Bosak and Sam Paustian-Underdahl.
As part of the symposium, she also presented joint research with Andrea Vial and Janine Bosak on how masculine workplace norms contribute to hiring discrimination against parents through prejudice accommodation.
Sihui Wu and Dr. Kim Norgaard Helmersen will contribute to the 42nd European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium from July 9 to 11, 2026 in Bergamo by presenting their work “When Digital Meets Craft: Reorganizing Temporalities In 3d-Printed Construction”, at the sub-theme “Time and Organization Studies: Tracing and Crafting the Materiality of Time”.
At the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) in Strasbourg from 30 June to 4 July, 2026, Dr. Ruri Takizawa will co-organize the symposium “From Status Threat to Inclusion: Pathways of Masculinity and Their Interpersonal and Societal Outcomes” together with Vlad Krivoshchekov.
She will also present joint research with Andrea Vial and Janine Bosak as part of the symposium “Far-Reaching Effects of Hegemonic Masculinity for Individuals, Organizations, and Societies.”
Dr. Ruri Takizawa will present a blitz talk at the pre-conference “The Psychology of Reaction,” held in connection with the EASP General Meeting in Strasbourg on 30.06.2026. The presentation, co-authored with Zea Szebeni and Shira Hebel-Sela, examines men’s victimhood mentality and online hostility toward female leaders.