"Ethics, Politics and Human Subject Research in the New Millennium"

The Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 3-6, 2006.

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.

Session Themes will include, but not be confined to these topics: alternative IRB models, interpretive inquiry and IRBs, disciplines and their ethical codes, active interviews, auto- and performance ethnography, arts-based inquiry, coloring and engendering epistemology, colonial and post-colonial epistemologies, critical performance narratives, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, cultural studies and critical pedagogy, democratic methodologies, discourse, ethnodrama, story, poetry, epistemology, oral history, queer, feminist and gender studies, focus groups, funding qualitative research, globablization, health care, grounded theory and social justice, human rights, indigenous studies, models of evidence, mixed-methodologies, participatory action research, policy studies, portraiture, post-human subjects, qualitative evaluation inquiry, qualitative health research, technology, mobility, memory, representation, working with multicultural populations.

Half-day (morning and afternoon) pre-conference workshops (May 4), will precede the three day Congress (May 4-6) which will consist of keynote, plenary, spotlight, featured, and regular sessions. There will also be opening and closing receptions and banquets, and a town hall meeting for the newly formed International Association of Qualitative Inquiry.

We invite your submission of paper and session proposals. Session and paper submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1, 2005. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2005.To learn more about the Second International Congress and how to participate, please visit our website <www.QI2006.org>.

Norman K. Denzin, Congress Chair

Program Summary

Wednesday May 3, 2006

5:30-8:00 pm: Preconference Registration and Reception for Workshop Participants

6:00-7:30 pm: Preconference Reception/Meeting for Constitutional and
Steering Committees

Thursday, May 4, 2006

8:00-11:00 pm: Morning Workshops

12:30-3:30 pm: Afternoon Workshops

4:30-6:00 pm: Opening Ceremonies, Keynote Speakers

6:30-9:30 pm: Midwest Barbeque

Friday 5 May, 2006

8:00 -3:30 pm: Concurrent sessions

3:30-4:30, pm: Roundtable Discussions

Saturday 6 May 2006

8:00 -6:00 pm: Concurrent sessions

4:45-6:30 pm: Town Hall Meeting for IAQI

6:30 -9:30 pm: Old-Fashioned Cook-Out

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Sponsor Links:

Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Center for Advanced Study
Asian American Studies Program
Bureau of Educational Research
The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Department of Kinesiology
Gender & Women's Studies Program
Department of Advertising
College of Communications
Center for Qualitative Inquiry
IRB Office
The Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI),
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Department of Speech Communication, Souther Illinois University
Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development
Texas A&M University
VERBI Software-Consult-Sozialforschung GmbH, Germany
Sage Publications
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Partner Links:

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology 6-10, University Extension Centre University of Alberta 8303 112 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G2T4 Email: qualitative.institute@ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/

The Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI),
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk