[Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network: Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2008, Urbana-Champaign

[Navdeep Mathur]

http://www.icqi.org/

*The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2008)*

  *Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice*



*Theme*

The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from May 14-17, 2008. The
theme of the Congress, building on previous Congresses, is "Ethics, Evidence
and Social Justice." The Fourth Congress will offer the international
community of qualitative research scholars the opportunity to engage in
debate on ethical, epistemological, methodological and social justice
issues. In these changing times, there are attempts to impose uniform
bio-medical ethical standards on qualitative research. There are also
increasing efforts to judge qualitative research in terms of experimental,
or so-called scientifically based criteria. The politics of evidence and
ethics carries important implications for how qualitative research is used
in the pursuit of social justice issues. Participants will explore the
relationship between these three terms and what these relationships mean for
qualitative inquiry in this new century. If we as qualitative researchers do
not take control of these terms for ourselves, someone else will.

The 2008 Congress has several new and returning co-sponsors, including Women
and Gender in Global Perspectives (UIUC), the Program in Global Studies
(UIUC), Sage Publications, LeftCoast Press, The Society for the Study of
Symbolic Interaction, and the Manchester Discourse Power Group (DPR).

*Keynote speakers *

*Gloria Ladson-Billings<http://www.education.wisc.edu/eps/faculty/ladson-billings.asp>,
University of Wisconsin, Madison:*
"The Moral Activist Role of Critical Race Theory Scholarship"

*Gloria Ladson-Billings* is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Senior Fellow in
Urban Education of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown
University. She is the former president of the American Educational Research
Association, and has been elected to membership in the National Academy of
Education, which advances high quality education research and its use in
policy formulation and practice. Her primary research interests are in the
relationships between culture and school and critical race theory. She is
the author of *The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American
Children* and is editor of the Teaching, Learning, and Human Development
section of the* American Education Research Journal*.

*Ian Stronach<http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/resstaff/profile.php?surname=Stronach&%20name=Ian>,
Manchester Metropolitan University*
*"Ethics, evidence and the demand for 'docile bodies'"*

This paper will address the conference theme 'Ethics, Evidence and Social
Justice' by looking at the theory and practice of social 'docility', as it
has developed since the writings of Foucault almost 40 years ago. It will
examine the case for claiming that a creeping authoritarianism has invested
policy in professional domains, sometimes in the guise of micro-management,
sometimes under the rubrics of the audit culture, and sometimes through the
systemisation of improvement and progress discourses. Has there been a move
from civility to docility, and, if so, what does that tell us about the
nature of citizenship and identity in contemporary societies?

The role of moral panics and policy hysteria in these processes will also be
considered, particularly in relation to the maintenance of regimes and
economies of concern and control. Such themes are a matter of theoretical
interest, and the paper will draw on some of the later works of Jean-Luc
Nancy, amongst others. At the same time, some of the targets of these
repressions will be examined in relation to, for example, the 'pregnant
teenager', the policing of client 'touch' in professional arenas, and the
government inspection of progressive schools – in particular, the ongoing
saga of inspection of A.S Neill's Summerhill 'free school' from 1999 to the
present. (Yes, it stil exists!). These cases have all been empirically
explored by the author, through funded research. Each has something to tell
us about how scapegoats are engendered and punished, as well as about the
more mundane policing of professional behaviour through procedures and
practices of regulation, and – increasingly – self-regulation. If one of our
final questions is: would Foucault recognise the contemporary world in the
light of the genealogies he developed in the 1960s and 1970s, then a
possible answer would seem to be that not only would he recognise this world
of ours, he would probably wonder whether some people hadn't mistaken his
critique of 'carceral society' for a blueprint.

*Ian Stronach* is Research Professor in Education at the Institute of
Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has been an Editor to
the *British Educational Research Journal *since 1996, and is on the Boards
of *Cultural Studies< - >Critical Methodologies*, *British Journal of
Education and Work*, *Managing Global Transitions*, an International
Journal. Publications include *Educational Research Undone *(with Maggie
MacLure 1996), and *Difference and Diversity* (co-edited with Heather Piper
2004). He is currently working with Heather Piper on a book about 'touch' in
professional contexts. He is currently working on a sole-authored
book, *Globalising
the Educational Project*, and on a jointly authored book on *Early
Professional Learning*. He has published extensively in journals in the UK,
as well as in *Qualitative Inquiry* (2006) and the *International Journal of
Qualitative Studies in Education* (2006). Stronach's research interests are
in postmodernist theorizing, evaluation, and qualitative methodologies in
general. His main current research is into professionalism, looking at
'touch' in such contexts, as well as a longitudinal study of the early
professional learning of teachers in Scotland, England, and Slovenia. He
directs the doctoral programme for the National Leadership School of
Slovenia (1996- present), is a research consultant there to the University
of Primorska, as well as being a member of the Discourse, Power, Resistance
initiative, which runs a sister-conference to ICQI in the UK every March.

*Partial List of Session and Paper Topics*

The topics for the 4th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
include, but are not confined to: Autoethnography & Performance Studies,
Decolonizing Truth, Democratic Methodologies, Evidence and Social Policy,
Human Rights, Indigenous Law, Justice as Healing, Standards for Qualitative
Inquiry, Forms and Varieties of Justice, Participatory Action Research,
Politics of Evidence, Research as Resistance, Restorative Justice, Social
Justice, Community Ethics, visual sociology, hypertext explorations, visual
ethnography.

Half-day (morning and afternoon) pre-conference, professional workshops will
be held on May 15. The Congress will also consist of keynote, plenary,
spotlight, featured, regular and poster sessions. There will be an opening
reception and barbeque, and a closing old-fashioned Midwest cook-out.

We invite your submission of paper, poster and session proposals.
Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1
2007. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2007. To
learn more about the Fourth International Congress and how to participate,
please email info at icqi.org.

*Pre-Conference Events: Language, Technology, and Nursing!*

On May 14 there will be at least three pre-conference language events: for
Spanish, Japanese, Turkish-speaking scholars, a pre-conference event for
Technology in Qualitative Research, and a pre-conference event for Nursing
in Qualitative Research. Delegates need to check our
website<http://www.icqi.org/program.html>for developments with these
special events.

*Couch-Stone Meeting *

The 2008 Couch-Stone Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction will be held in conjunction with the 4th International Congress.
The SSSI will be co-sponsors of the Congress, and will share their program
and keynote speaker with Congress participants. This joint conference is a
wonderful opportunity for IAQI members to learn more about symbolic
interactionism. It also presents an opportunity for symbolic interactionists
to learn more about the IAQI community. To help make this joint meeting a
success, delegates are invited to consult the call for papers in the Fall
2007 issue of SSSI Notes.

*DPR Session *

Our Manchester colleagues believe it is useful to conceptualize research as
subversive activity, as work that unsettles, challenges and contests
existing social and educational formations. Subversive research resists work
that is at ease with the methodological preconceptions of federal and
private funding bodies. Subversive scholars seek discourses of resistance
that contest current notions of truth, justice, healing, health, schooling,
identity, learning and teaching.

IAQI has a reciprocal relationship with the DPR group. They will have
several high profile sessions on the themes of the Congress. In turn, IAQI
will have a publicity stand and a videoconference presence at the March,
2008 DPR Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University.


*Pre-conference (May 15, 2008) Workshop Organizers (Partial List)*
Anne Kuckartz<http://www.maxqda.com/index.php/workshop-urbana-information-nov-2007>(Workshop
title:Introduction into MAXQDA: Setting up Your Data for a
Computer Assisted Analysis)
Arthur Bochner <http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/bochner/> & Carolyn
Ellis <http://socsci.colorado.edu/SOC/SI/si-ellis.htm> (Workshop title:
Writing Autoethnography and Narrative in Qualitative Research)
Authur W. Frank<http://www.soci.ucalgary.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=2>,
University of Calgary (Workshop title: Letting Stories Breathe: A Workshop
on Narrative Analysis)
César A. Cisneros Puebla
<http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/impressum/cisneros-e.htm>& Ray
Maietta <http://www.researchtalk.com/sidebio.html>(Workshop title: State of
the Art: The Latest in Qualitative Software Advances)
Donna M. Mertens(Workshop title: Qualitative Research and Social
Transformation in the Disability Community)
Greg Dimitriadis
<http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/faculty/viewfaculty.asp?id=13>& George
Kambereli <http://www.albany.edu/reading/kamberelis.htm>(Workshop title:The
Critical Use of Focus Groups)
H. L. Goodall, Jr. <https://sec.was.asu.edu/directory/person/741177>(Workshop
title: Widening the Gyre:  Writing Qualitative Inquiry for Readers Outside
the Academy)
Ian Stronach<http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/resstaff/profile.php?surname=Stronach&%20name=Ian>&
Heather
Piper<http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/resstaff/profile.php?surname=Piper&%20name=Heather>(Workshop
title: Ungrounded theory: how to do it, undo it, do it to others,
and say sorry)
Jane F. Gilgun <http://ssw.che.umn.edu/Faculty_Profiles/Gilgun_Jane.html>
& Karen
Staller <http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-kstaller.html>(Workshop
title: Evidence Based Social Work: Where are we Going? How do we Get There?)
Jan Morse <http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=229554>(Workshop
title: Advances in Mixed Methods Design)
John Creswell <http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=502288>(Workshop
Title: Designing a Mixed Methods Study)
Johnny Saldaña <http://theatre.asu.edu/people/selectOne.php?ID=293>(Workshop
title:An Introduction to Ethnodrama: Autoethnography as Monologue)
Kathy Charmaz <http://www.sonoma.edu/sociology/faculty.htm>(Workshop title:
An Introduction to Constructing Grounded Theory)
Laurel Richardson <http://www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/lwr/cvitae.php>(Workshop
title: Writing Lives and Writing Deaths)
Lisa Mazzei<http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/resstaff/profile.php?surname=Mazzei&%20name=Lisa%20A.>&
Alecia Jackson<http://www.ctl.uga.edu/teach_asst/ta_mentors/philosophy/2001phil/jackson/tchphil.html>(Workshop
title:Working the Limits of Voice)
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor<http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/resstaff/profile.php?surname=Mazzei&%20name=Lisa%20A.>&
Richard Siegesmund<http://www.ctl.uga.edu/teach_asst/ta_mentors/philosophy/2001phil/jackson/tchphil.html>(Workshop
title:Arts-Based
Research: Approaches and Practices)
Norman Denzin<http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/icr/faculty/profiles/Norman_Denzin.html>(Workshop
title: Performance Ethnography)
Robin Jarrett <http://www.hcd.uiuc.edu/about/faculty_staff/r_jarret.html>
& Angela
Odoms-Young <http://www.nd.edu/%7Ealfac/kim/pride/young.html>(Workshop
title:Interpreting, Writing Up and Evaluating Qualitative Materials)
Ronald Pelias<http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/spcm/faculty/Ron%20Pelias.pdf>(Workshop
title: Performative Writing)
Sharlene Hesse-Biber <http://www2.bc.edu/%7Ehesse/>(Workshop title: Computer
Assisted Software for Qualitative Data Analysis: How to Integrate Software
into Your Analysis of Qualitative Data)
Yvonna Lincoln <http://www.coe.tamu.edu/%7Esaahe/faculty/lincoln.html>(Workshop
title: New Experimental Writing Forms)
See more... <http://www.icqi.org/workshop.html>


*Illinois Qualitative Dissertation Award*
The International Center for Qualitative Inquiry is pleased to announce the
annual Illinois Qualitative Dissertation Award, for excellence in
qualitative research in a doctoral dissertation. Eligible dissertations will
use and advance qualitative methods to investigate any topic. Applications
for the award will be judged by the following criteria: clarity of writing;
willingness to experiment with new and traditional writing forms; advocacy,
promotion, development, and use of qualitative research methodologies and
practices in new fields of study, and in policy arenas involving issues of
social justice.

There are two award categories, traditional (Category A), and experimental
(Category B). Submissions in both categories address social justice issues.
Submissions in Category A use traditional qualitative research and writing
forms, while Category B submissions experiment with traditional writing and
representational forms. An award of $250 will be given to each winner. All
doctoral candidates are eligible, provided they have successfully defended
their proposals prior to January 1, 2008, and will defend their final
dissertation by April 1, 2008. Receiving or being considered for other
awards does not preclude a student from applying for this award .
Applications are due Febuary 1, 2008. The 2008 award, co-sponsored with Sage
Publications, will be made at the closing townhall meeting of the Congress.
For more information, please visit the website:
http://www.c4qi.org/award.html

For Full Details: http://www.icqi.org/
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