The First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

The website www.qi2005.org now accepts submissions for the First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry which will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 5-7, 2005. You are all welcome to visit our site and submit your abstracts for both papers and sessions.

Half-day (morning and afternoon) pre-conference workshops (May 5), will precede the two-day Congress (May 6-7) which will consist of plenary, spotlight, regular, and poster sessions. There will also be an opening reception with hors d'oeuvres and cash bar, and a closing reception with cash bar and a barbecue-cookout.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP FACILITATORS INCLUDE:
Arthur Bochner • Liora Bresler • Nick Burbules • Kathy Charmaz • Clifford Christians • CL Cole • Norman Denzin • Carolyn Ellis • Alice Filmer • Stephen Hartnett •Rodney Hodson • Stafford Hood • Ernest House • Valerie Janesick • Patti Lather • Yvonna Lincoln • Ernest Lockridge • Cameron McCarthy • Kathryn Bell McKenzie • Luis Miron • Jan Morse • Susaan Nofke • Virginia Olesen • Cele Otnes • Larry Parker • Ron Pelias • Wanda Pillow • Laure Richardson • Fazal Rizvi • Katherine Ryan •James Scheurich • Linda Tuhiwai Smith • Robert Stake • Bettie St. Pierre • Noreen Sugrue • Angharad Valdivia • Mary Weems

THEME
The theme of the First International Congress of Qualitative Research focuses on "Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global Uncertainty." We call on the international community of interpretive scholars to gather together in common purpose to address the implications of the recent attempts by federal governments and their agencies to define what is 'good science',
and what constitutes 'good scholarship'. Around the globe governments are attempting to regulate interpretive inquiry by enforcing bio-medical, evidence-based models of research.

These regulatory activities raise basic philosophical, epistemological, political and pedagogical issues for scholarship and freedom of speech in the academy. Their effects are interdisciplinary. They cut across the fields of educational and policy research, the humanities, communications, health and social science, social welfare, business and law.

In the United States, the evidence-based experimental science movement, with accompanying federal legislation (Leave No Child Behind), threatens to deny advances in critical qualitative inquiry, including rigorous criticisms of positivist research. This legislation marginalizes indigenous, border, feminist, race, queer,
and ethnic studies. The international community of qualitative researchers must come together to debate and discuss the implications of these new developments.

The mission of the First International Congress is to provide a forum for these critical conversations, to build and expand the already robust tradition of
Qualitative Inquiry. This congress gathers together vibrant strands of qualitative research to produce innovative futures. We seek to generate lively, critical debate, foster contacts and the exchange ideas, and draw inspiration from each other. We encourage international participation from different countries, disciplines and cultural backgrounds, as well as from a wide range of research areas, including the humanities, medical and health care scholars.

We invite your submission of paper and session proposals. To learn more about the First International Congress and how to participate, please visit our website <www.QI2005.org>.

Session and paper submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1, 2004. (There is a limit of two paper submissions per delegate)

It is assumed that the topics listed below will in one way or another be taken up in the sessions and in pre-conference workshops, but please feel free to nominate your own topic. (Please note that we are not soliciting workshop submissions)
Conference and workshop registration will begin Dec. 1, 2004.

Norman K. Denzin , Chair of the Organizing Committee

SUGGESTED CONFERENCESESSION TOPICS
• Autoethnography & Performance Studies
• Critical Ethnography as Performance
• Critical Pedagogy
• Critical Race Theory & Moral Activism
• Cultural Policy
• Cultural Studies, Education & Pedagogy
• Decolonizing Neo-colonial Methodologies
• Decolonizing the Academy
• Democratic Methodologies
• Developments in Participatory Action Research
• Discourse Analysis
• Ethics, IRBs & Academic Freedom
• Ethnicity & Race
• Evaluating Inquiry
• Feminist Qualitative Research in the new Century
• Foucault's Methodologies
• Funded Qualitative Research
• Global Ethnography
• Globalization & Transnationalism
• Governmental Regimes of Truth
• Grounded Theory & Social Justice Research
• Human Rights
• Human Subject Research
• Indigenous Approaches to Creating Knowledge
• Indigenous Policy Studies
• Investigative Poetry
• Mixed-methods designs & inquiry in Global Studies
• Nationhood & Nationalism
• New developments with focus groups
• New Media & Information Technology
• Participatory Action Inquiry
• Postcolonial Methodologies
• Qualitative Evaluation & Social Policy
• Social Policy Formation
• The Active Interview
• The Audit Culture & Neoliberalism
• The Global Consumer Culture
• The Science Wars
• Video, Dance & Performance Technologies
• Working with Multi-cultural Populations

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (May 5, 2005)
1. Focus Groups: New Developments (TBA)
2. Case Study: Access and Intrusion (Robert Stake and Brinda Jegatheesan)
3. Performance Ethnography (Norman K Denzin)
4. Feminist Qualitative Research in the new Century (Virginia Olesen)
5. Foucault's Methodologies (James Scheurich (TBA) and Kathryn Bell McKenzie)
6. Grounded Theory Methodologies for Social Justice Projects (Kathy Charmaz)
7. Ethics, Human Subject Review Board & Qualitative Inquiry (Clifford Christians)
8. Interpreting. Writing Up & Evaluating Qualitative Materials (Robin Jarrett)
9. Investigative and Ethno-Poetics (Stephen Hartnett)
10. Autoethnography (Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner)
11. Democratic Evaluation (Ernest House and Katherine Ryan)

For more information contact info@QI2005.org
Visit our web site at http://www.QI2005.org

Deadline Extended: The First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Due to the growing interest in new conference panels and increasing volume of requests for submission deadline extension, the deadline for submissions of open-panel session proposals and all papers to the First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is now extended to January 15, 2005, while the previous deadline of December 1, 2004 still holds effect for closed-panel session proposals. Notification of the acceptance of closed-panel proposals will be given by December 15, 2004. Please continue to visit our conference website www.qi2005.org for more information, and take advantage of this extension to work on your proposal and papers.

The First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 5-7, 2005. The theme of the First International Congress of Qualitative Research focuses on "Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global Uncertainty." The mission of the conference is to provide a forum for conversations on the interdisciplinary implications
of positivist legislation and academia for critical qualitative scholarship especially in indigenous, border, feminist, race, queer, and ethnic studies, and to build and expand the already robust tradition of Qualitative Inquiry.

Following topics are supposed to be taken up in the conference
• Autoethnography & Performance Studies
• Critical Ethnography as Performance
• Critical Pedagogy
• Cultural Policy
• Cultural Studies, Education & Pedagogy
• Decolonizing Neo-colonial Methodologies
• Developments in Participatory Action Research
• Ethics, IRBs & Academic Freedom
• Ethnicity & Race
• Feminist Qualitative Research in the new Century
• Foucault's Methodologies
• Global Ethnography
• Grounded Theory & Social Justice Research
• Human Subject Research
• Indigenous Approaches to Creating Knowledge
• Indigenous Policy Studies
• Mixed-methods designs & inquiry in Global Studies
• Nationhood & Nationalism
• New Media & Information Technology
• Postcolonial Methodologies
• The Audit Culture & Neoliberalism
• The Global Consumer Culture

The organization committee of the conference is chaired by Professor Norman K.Denzin.