Meetings 2026-2027
Overview of Cygna network meetings in the academic year 2025-2026
If you are interested in being on the mailing list and/or attending our events, please contact Christa Sathish. A quick overview of past presentations can be found here. A newsletter for the 2024-2025 year can be downloaded here and one for the 2025-2026 year here.
CYGNA Networking meeting #1: 15 Sept 2026 11.00-12.00
Host: Anne-Wil Harzing (Middlesex University, UK)
Promoting kind, inclusive, and non-instrumental ways of networking, CYGNA networking meetings are one-hour informal meetings, hosted by members of the Lead Team. With more time for interaction, these meetings allow members to get to know each other (better), create opportunities for collaboration, and facilitate exchange of useful information.
Effective networking requires high levels of trust. Hence, in addition to specific networking outcomes, the goal of these meetings is to promote active engagement, co-creation, and deeper connections among members.
In this first CYGNA networking meeting Anne-Wil explained the new meeting type and suggested three questions to kick off the discussion as alternatives to a traditional "academic resume" type introduction.
- Why have you joined CYGNA and why have you stayed in the network?
- What are you looking forward to in this new academic year?
- Is there anything you would really like to talk about in CYGNA meetings?
We were bowled over by how many people joined (22), how open and honest everyone was, how genuine and varied their reasons were for being in CYGNA were, and how many new ideas for CYGNA activities came up. We are looking forward to seeing this new meeting format flourish.
Meeting 72: 13 Oct 2026, 11.00-13.00: Building Mutual Understanding across Career Stages, and between Academics and Managers
Panelists career stage: Maitane Amorrortu Blanco (University of Deusto, Spain), Kim Coogan (University of Sunderland, London, UK), Ruwaiha Razik (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka), Mary Vigier (Clermont School of Business, France)
Panelists managers & academics: Margaret Fletcher (University of Glasgow, UK), Olga Ryazanova (University of Maynooth, Ireland), Natalie Wilmot (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), and Karin Moser (University of Queensland, Australia, and University of Bern, Switzerland).
See blogpost for write-up and resources: CYGNA: Building understanding across career stages & academics vs managers
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.
