2006-05-03: Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Dates: May 3-6, 2006
Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Organizing Body: International Institute of Qualitative Research
Conference URL: http://www.qi2006.org/

From the conference call for papers:
“The theme of the Second International Congress, ‘Ethics, Politics and Human Subject Research’ builds on and extends the theme of the First International Congress which focused on ‘Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global Uncertainty.’ The 2006 Congress will explore experiences with and criticisms of Institutional Review Boards. It will question the over-reliance of audit cultures on evidence-based, neo-experimental models of inquiry. The 2006 Congress will investigate new ways of decolonizing traditional methodologies. It will take up performative, feminist, indigenous, democratic and participatory forms of critical inquiry. The 2006 Congress will examine how these new forms of inquiry can advance the goals of social justice and progressive politics in this new century.”

Paper and session proposals are invited and will be accepted online at the conference website from October 1 until December 1, 2006.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

*Academic Freedom, Ethics and IRBs

*Ethics, Indigenous Peoples and IRBs

*Regulating Ethics: The Global Context

*Disciplines and their Ethical Codes

*Autoethnography & Performance Studies

*Critical Ethnography as Performance

*Critical Pedagogy

*Critical Race Theory & Moral Activism

*Cultural Policy

*Cultural Studies, Education & Pedagogy

*Democratic Methodologies

*Developments in Participatory Action Research

*Ethnicity & Race

*Feminist Qualitative Research in the new Century

*Grounded Theory & Social Justice Research

*New Media & Information Technology

*Participatory Action Inquiry

*Video, Dance & Performance Technologies

*Working with Multi-cultural Populations