Generative Scholarship Through Prospective Theorizing: Appreciating the Roots and Legacy of Organization Development and Change to Build a Bright Future

How can Organization Development and Change (ODC) research and practice help create healthy, vibrant, and humane organizations and communities? This has been a guiding question for the field of ODC throughout a year-long series of activities (e.g., design meetings, webinars, and informal dialogues) linked to the 50th anniversary celebration of the ODC Division of the Academy of Management. In this paper, we provide our own reflections on this unfolding dialogue by proposing that ODC's future can be bolstered by leveraging its legacy and historical strengths as the basis to engage in a systematic approach for doing prospective theory-building ( Cooperrider, 2021 ), particularly on grand challenges like the transition to the Anthropocene. That is, we advocate for building theory that focuses on intentionally co-creating a better future rather than take it for granted or merely describing (and projecting) the past. In doing so, we believe ODC scholars and practitioners will be better equipped to create what we refer to as generative scholarship and write the next chapter for ODC as a revitalizing force in the world.

CSSR: Historical Reflections

As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (CCSR), this article provides a reflection on the past, present, and future of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR). CSSR members were given the space to outline their thoughts and experiences of over 50 years of Religious Studies in Canada. This collaborative article tracks the development of the discipline through the 1970s from theology to comparative religion, to the transformation of the 1980 -90s with an interdisciplinary and critical engagement, to the new millennium infusion of socio-political research, critical self-reflexivity, and lived religion work. We also focus on the role of the CSSR in shaping and promoting Religious Studies in Canada through its various academic activities as well as observing the fragmentation and decline of Religious Studies programs in Canadian universities. And finally, we look to the future questioning how the CSSR and Religious Studies can remain relevant against a backdrop of institutional changes due to funding austerity and the COVID global pandemic to supporting Religious Studies inside and outside of academia. This article is not intended as a detailed history of the CSSR, but an opportunity to see a representation of our experiences and hopes for Religious Studies in Canada.

Chronicle

April 30 this year the 70th anniversary of the birth of prof. physiology of Kazan University. Nikolai Alexandrovich Mislavsky. The faculty elected a committee for the organization of the anniversary celebration consisting of: the rector of the University, prof. V.V. Chirkovsky, deputy. Dean Venerable I. S. Alufa, prof. M. N. Cheboxarov and A. V. Vishnevsky, a representative from students N. V. Inyushkin and one of the doctors working in the laboratory prof. N. A. Mislavsky. The committee was instructed to expand its membership by inviting representatives of other faculties of the Kazan University and local organizations, as well as nonresident and foreign scientists.

Craft Cloud (E-Doorway for Artistic Works) Web Development

Craft Cloud is an online platform where people with different skills can showcase and sell their talent and Artworks. Like, a musician can add their skills and can get paid for a performance in a birthday, anniversary celebration, or whatsoever. It will also have a separate place on the platform for selling and purchasing handicraft etc. from all over India with a price predicting algorithm that will help clients from not getting underpaid and users from not getting overcharged for their service. In today’s fast changing business environment, it’s extremely important to be able to answer client needs within the simplest and timely manner. This project allows viewing various products available, enables registered users to urge desired products instantly using PayPal payment processor (Instant Pay) and may also place orders by using the Cash on Delivery (Pay Later) option. This project provides quick access to Administrators and Managers to look at orders placed using Pay Later and Instant Pay options. The project technologies are server and client-­side scripting techniques, multi-­tiered architecture, relational databases, implementation technologies, and programming language. This is often a project with the target to develop a basic website where a consumer is given a handcart application and also to know about the technologies wont to develop such an application. This document briefs each of the underlying technologies to implement and form an ecommerce website.

Special Section: Mobile Robots and Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Inspired by the fifth-year anniversary celebration of the homonymous symposium at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), this Special Section with 10 papers shares the latest research efforts in design, theory, development, and applications for Mobile Robots (MRs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs).

Zootaxa 20th Anniversary Celebration: section Acanthocephala

Of 32 papers including Acanthocephala that were published in Zootaxa from 2001 to 2020, 5, by 11 authors from 5 countries, described 5 new species and redescribed 1 known species and 27 checklists from 11 countries and/geographical regions by 72 authors. A bibliographic analysis of these papers, the number of species reported in the checklists, and a list of new species are presented in this paper.

Zootaxa 20th Anniversary Celebration: Odonata section

During the two decades (2001–2020) of the journal’s existence, 346 papers on Odonata were published in Zootaxa. These papers contributed 317 new extant taxa, 26 new fossil taxa, and 106 new larval descriptions. By the end of the period, papers in Zootaxa were contributing slightly more than half of all descriptions of new extant taxa. Research was published from all over the world but predominantly from the American and Asian tropics, and authors from 42 countries contributed papers.

Alexey Remizov and Boris Zaitsev: 1926 Anniversary Preparation

The article is dedicated to a story from the literary life of Russian emigration related to the anniversary of Boris Zaitsev of 1926. The article introduces hitherto unknown archival material that demonstrates how Alexey Remizov worked to cover this literary event in the pages of the European press. Archival documents (fragments of a hitherto unpublished emigrant period correspondence of Remizov and Zaitsev) and unknown print sources have allowed me to describe the nature of the relationship between two writers sharing similar literary biographies in the context of the literary situation of 1926. The anniversary celebration as a factor of public recognition for Remizov became an occasion for integrating significant phenomena of Russian literature into European literature and culture. The article contains obscure biographical information about Remizov’s correspondents.