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THE 2010 ILLINOIS QUALITATIVE DISSERTATION AWARD

About the Institute:

The International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry is a multidisciplinary institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The center's primary goals are several-fold:

1. To facilitate the development of qualitative research methods across a wide variety of academic disciplines;
2. To demonstrate the promise of qualitative inquiry as a form of democratic practice, to show how qualitative inquiry can be used to directly engage pressing social issues at the level of local, state, national and global communities;
3. To provide leadership to address the main issues in qualitative inquiry;
4. To promote excellence in qualitative research through education, research and publication in the scholarly journals Qualitative Inquiry (the official Congress journal), Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, and International Review of Qualitative Inquiry;
5.To provide a forum for collaboration among international experts in the field of qualitative inquiry;
6.To facilitate interdisciplinary graduate education and training in the field of qualitative inquiry;
7.To facilitate interaction in the international community of qualitative inquiry by building relationships with collaborative Sites..

To these ends, the Institute will:

1. Host at least one international conference per year. A workshop series will also be held in conjunction with each annual congress;
2. Facilitate an on-going visiting international scholar lecture series to be held once per semester that is free and open to the campus community;
3. Organize small-group workshops to be led by affiliate campus faculty once per semester that are free and open to the campus community;
4. Implement the Annual Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award;
5. Establish a pre-doctoral research training program in qualitative inquiry;
6. Establish a postdoctoral visiting scholar program in qualitative inquiry;
7. Work with the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry.
8. Publish a quarterly newsletter;
9. Establish collaborative relationships with international sites, programs, associations and institutions.

Featured events:

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Every year since 2005. Usually in the second half of May. Abstracts due by December 01. Click on site for current information: http://www.icqi.org/
Inter-Disciplinary.Net conferences, organized annually on several topics, mostly with humanitarian and qualitative nature. See calendar of events for more information: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/calendar-of-events/
Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-line (H-Net). http://www.h-net.org/announce/group.cgi?type=Conferences

Conferences by month:

January
QUIG Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Conference. Usually in early January. http://www.coe.uga.edu/quig/ No information for conferences after January 2007. Will check the situation and call again.
The Qualitative Report Second Annual Conference. January 7 - 8, 2011, Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida U.S.A.
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/TQR2011/index.html

February
The Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference of Qualitative Research. Fifth conference is expected in mid-February, 2011. Paper submissions due in early November. For updated information,
go to URL: http://cmsprod.bgu.ac.il/Eng/Centers/icqm/Conference/

March
Society for Applied Anthropology 70th Annual Meeting, March 24-27, 2010. Mérida, México Hyatt Regency. Annual meetings are usually in the second half of March. http://www.sfaa.net/
Discourse, Power, Resistance. Annual Conference. 30 March – 1 April 2010
University of Greenwich, London.
http://www.gre.ac.uk/schools/education/news/dpr Note that the conference has changed hosts from Manchester Metropolitan University to University of Greenwich, London.

April
Association of American Geographers Qualitative Research in Geography Conference. 10th annual conference, April 14-18, 2010.
http://www.uvm.edu/~mcope/QRSG/index.html
Sixth Colloquium in Qualitative Health Research. May 6 - 7, 2010, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Great Britain. Proposals are due in mid-April April.
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=174227&keyword=qualitative
The 2010 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA). There is a large section on qualitative methods. The 2010 meeting is April 30 – May 4, Denver, Colorado. Meetings are typically scheduled in April. 2011 Annual Meeting is April 8 – 12, 2011. New Orleans, Louisiana.
http://www.aera.net/AnnualMeeting.htm

May
The 27th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference: Social Pragmatism as a Conceptual Foundation. Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Carnegie Building, 73 George Street Brantford, Ontario, Canada. May 13 to 15, 2010. Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, March 1, 2010. URL: http://www.qualitatives.ca/
THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES: 3rd Biennial International, Multidisciplinary Conference: "EROS 2010" May 21-22, 2010. Nipissing University Muskoka Campus, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada. Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2010. URL: www.humanconditionseries.com
Colloquium in Qualitative Health Research. The conference is held usually in early May, at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Great Britain. Proposals due in mid-April. For more information: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=174227&keyword=qualitative
Inspiration in Action 2010 – The Worldwide Conference on Qualitative Research. Prague, May 19 - 21, 2010. Search for next meeting at http://www.qrca.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=447
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (International Conference). May 25 - 28, 2010, Crete, Greece. For the next meeting search at http://www.isast.org/qqml2010.html
The Third International Qualitative Research Conference. May 26 to 28, 2010, University of Guanajuato, Mexico. http://www.qualitativegto.org/
Narrative and Innovation: An International Conference. September 15 - 17, 2010, Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe. Deadline for proposals -- May 31, 2010.
http://www.narrative-innovation.org/

June
22nd Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Conference (EQRC). June 4-5, 2010. The proposal deadline is March 22, 2010 and details are found at the conference website: www.cedarville.edu/eqrc. This conference is reoccurring at approximately the same time each year, on the first week of June.
The Second Innovations in Qualitative Research Conference. June 8 - 9, 2010, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. https://ocs.usask.ca/ocs/index.php/iqrc/iqrc2010/index
16th annual Midwest Qualitative Research Conference “Linking Methods and Theory: Exploring the Connections.” Host: University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 17-18, 2010. Proposals due by early February. http://www.stthomas.edu/education/events/mqrc.html
10th Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Series. Host: IIQM, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Venue: University of Alberta Campus, Edmonton, Canada, June 21-25, 2010. http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/TQ2010.cfm
9th European Conference on Research Methodology, Madrid, Spain, June 24-25, 2010. http://www.academic-conference.org/ecrm/ecrm2010/ecrm10-minitrack.htm

July
3rd Global Conference Diasporas - Exploring Critical Issues, Wednesday 7th July - Friday 9th July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford, England. Abstracts due 15th January 2010. URL: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/call-for-papers/
The 6th Mixed Methods International Conference. July 7 - 11, 2010, Baltimore, Maryland U.S.A. http://www.healthcareconferences.leeds.ac.uk/conferences/details.php?id=5

August
29th International Human Science Research Conference. Hosted by the Department of Psychology and the College of Arts & Sciences, Seattle University, August 4-8, 2010. http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/psychology/default.aspx?id=6314
The British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section (QMiP) Annual Conference 2010. August 23 - 24, 2010. University of Nottingham, Great Britain. http://www.bps.org.uk/conferences-and-events/event-listing/events$/2010/august/qmip2010/qmip2010_home.cfm?subsite=
QRMH3: The Third Qualitative Research on Mental Health Conference. August 25 - 27, 2010. University of Nottingham, Great Britain. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Sociology/QRMH3/Index.aspx
Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC). August 29 - September 1, 2010, Tokyo, Japan. URL: http://www.epiconference.com/

September
8th International Qualitative Research Conference, 6 – 8 September 2010
Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University. Abstracts submission deadline: end of April. Call for Abstracts:
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/hsc/international-qualitative-research-conference-2010.html. See also conference site at
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/qrc/index.html
Includes Performative Social Science at the Bournemouth Qualitative Conference
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/hsc/international-qualitative-research-science.html
Narrative and Innovation: An International Conference. from September 15 - 17, 2010. Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. Deadline for submitting a proposal is May 31, 2010. http://www.narrative-innovation.org/

October
The sixth Performing the World conference, PERFORMING THE WORLD 2010: Can Performance Change the World? will be held from Thursday, September 30 through Sunday, October 3, 2010, in New York City. The theme of this year's conference is: "Can Performance Change the World?" www.performingtheworld.org Deadline for proposals is March 15, 2010.
16th Annual Qualitative Health Research Conference. Venue: Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Conference Dates: October 3-5, 2010; Workshop Date: October 6, 2010. http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/qhr2010.cfm
11th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference. Venue: Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites, Vancouver, British Columbia. Conference Dates: October 7-8, 2010; Workshop Date: October 6, 2010. http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/aqm2010.cfm
Computer-Aided Qualitative Research Europe 2010. October 7 - 8, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal from. http://www.merlien.org/upcoming-events/caqre2010.html

November
American Anthropological Association meeting. Usually mid-November to late November. Usual call for proposals deadline is April 01. http://aaanet.org/meetings/futureaaameetings.cfm . 2010 meeting, November 17-21, New Orleans, LA.

December