Presentations: Conferences and seminars, 2005-2007 Over the past couple of years Jim Taylor has been invited to give several public talks as well as being a conference participant. Titles and dates are listed below, with presentation summaries available on request. (May 24-28, 2007), Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Francisco. Social topology and communication: Toward a redefinition of technological innovation in organizations Raymond, D. & Taylor, J. R. , Organizational Communication Division of ICA. Invited participant in panel discussion on the recently published multi-volume reference series Organizational Communication. A humanitarian organization in action: Organizational discourse as an immutable mobile Cooren, F., Matte, F., Taylor, J. R. & Vasquez, C. The authority puzzle (23 May, 2007) Invited presentation, Naval Postgraduate School (Business and Public Policy), Monterey, California. Communication et organisation: Un couple inséparable, Table ronde d´ouverture, Croiser les perspectives: approches géographiques (10 May, 2007) Invited presentation, Colloque ACO (ACFAS), Trois-Rivières, Québec. Authority!!! Why? (5 December, 2006) Invited presentation, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada E se em vez de se colocar a tecnología na organizaςão a organizaςão fosse colocada na tecnología? (What if instead of putting technology into the organization, the organization were to be put into the technology?) (4 April, 2006) Conferencia Tecnología e Configuraςões do Humano, Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal The relationship between communication and organization: Seeing organization emerging in communication rather than communication in organization (3 April, 2006) Invited presentation to seminar, Centro de Estudos Communicaςão e Sociedade, Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Minho, Braga, Portugal A escola de Montreal da communicaςão organizacional: perspectivas teoricas e exemplos de investigaςões (The Montreal school of organizational communication: theoretical perspectives and examples of research) (31 March, 2006) Invited speaker, Departamento das Artes e Ciências, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbõa, Portugal And if, rather than put the ERP into the organization, we put the organization into the ERP? (27-28 March, 2006) Presentation to the Workshop on Implementation of ERP(Enterprise Research Planning) systems in various organisational and cultural contexts, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, France Some notes on organization and technology from an organizational communication perspective (24 March, 2006) invited presentation, Centre de recherche CRDEG, Université de Nice: Sofia Antipolis, France What is 'organizational communication'? (6 March, 2006) Invited presentation to Doctoral Seminar, Professor M. Allor, tri-university doctoral programme, Concordia University, Loyola Campus Not communication in the organization, but organization in the communication (31 January, 2006) Invited presentation to Professor Ellen Balka's graduate class on computer-supported cooperative work, Department of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Communication and organization: The worldview factor (8-10 September, 2005) Invited address to the Discourse, Communication, Enterprise (DICOEN) Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ,Language and the constitution of organization (11-15 July, 2005) Invited paper presented at the IPrA (International Pragmatics Association) Conference, Riva da Garda, Italy. The ambiguity of organization: Simultaneously differentiated and integrated (4-6 July, 2005) Invited paper presented at the Artefacts and Collectives (ARCO) Symposium, Lyon, France. Making sense, and paying homage, retrospectively, to Algirdas Greimas (24-29 May, 2005) Paper, co-authored with Francois Cooren and presented in the Language and Social Interaction Division (LSI) of the International Communication Association (ICA), New York, NY. Ambiguity and organizational integration (24-29 May, 2005) Paper, co-authored with Joel M. Katambwe and presented in the Organizationa Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) New York, NY. Communication and the distribution of knowledge (20 May, 2005) Distinguished Lecturer, Spring Institute Symposium, Master of Arts in Communication and Technology Program, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.