Making Project Critical 10
January 21, 2026, 8:00 AM - January 23, 2026, 4:00 PM
UQAM, Montréal
January 21-23, 2026
About Making Project Critical
‘Making Projects Critical’ is the title of a series of workshops which evolved from a collaborative academic and practitioner movement initiated by Svetlana Cicmil and Damian Hodgson in the early 2000s and developed and led jointly with Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff since 2003.
It is intended to provide a forum for research from a wide range of critical perspectives relating to all aspects of projects, including project management, project based organising and the ’projectification’ of society. Such critical work would include work drawing upon any of a number of critical theorists, including Marx, Bourdieu, Foucault, Latour, Habermas, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze, Butler, Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Gramsci, and Braverman, Bauman, Beck, Bataille, and Zizek, and work inspired by Labour Process Theory, Critical Theory, Actor Network Theory, Environmentalism, Feminism, Post-Modernism and other traditions broadly related to Critical Management Studies.
Through the workshops, we hope to both highlight and break down the theoretical and methodological limitations of traditional conceptions of projects and project management. In particular, the intention is to draw upon wider intellectual resources than the instrumental rationality, quantitative and positivist methodologies and technicist solutions which have been traditionally brought to bear in attempts to understand and control the project form of organising.
Important dates:
| Deadline for extended abstracts (about 1000 words): | September 15th, 2025 |
| Notification of acceptance: | October 15th, 2025 |
| Deadline for registration: | November 15th, 2025 |
Welcome!
The organising committee:
Julie Delisle, Alejandro Romero-Torres, Viviane Sergi (ESG UQAM) and
Anette Hallin and Chris Ivory (MDU)