FOURTEENTH Congress of Qualitative Inquiry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.icqi.org To find your name, just perform a Ctrl + F (or Command + F for Mac) search. NOTE: Send correction requests by 1 March to: [email protected] We have not yet received the finalized Be sure to include the Panel Number in schedules for some of the SIGS. If your the subject line of the email. paper was submitted to one of these SIGS, it will appear as accepted, but unscheduled. Don't forget to register at the address below: http://icqi.org/registration/ 2 General information General information 3 possibility, a politics that dares to dream of social justice, to dream of equity, peace and a Welcome from the Director world without violence. We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive This it the calling of the 2018 Congress, can we collectively live our way through these where we started/ And know the place for the first time (T. S. Elliot, No 4 of Four troubled times, and push through into newly imagined utopian spaces. Can we train a Quartets, 1942). new generation of engaged scholars and community leaders who will lead us into these May we begin with a moment of silence. We wish to acknowledge the land upon which we uncharted terrorities. gather today. These lands were the traditional territory of a number of First Nations bands The 2018 Congress offers scholars the opportunity to foreground, interrogate, imagine prior to European contact. The Miami, the Potawatomi, the Peoria and the Kickapoo were and engage new ways of doing critical qualitative inquiry in these troubling time. Sessions some of the last bands to be forcibly removed. These lands carry the memories and stories will take up such topics as: redefinitions of the public university, neoliberal accountability of resistance of these people, including their struggles for survival and identity in the face metrics, attacks on freedom of speech, threats to shared governance, the politics of of overwhelming colonizing power. advocacy, value-free inquiry, partisanship, the politics of evidence, public policy discourse, *** indigenous research ethics, decolonizing inquiry. The University of Illinois, the College of Media, the International Center for Qualitative Scholars come to the Congress to resist, to celebrate community, to experiment with Inquiry, the Institute of Communications Research and the Department of Media and traditional and new methodologies, with new technologies of representation. Together we Cinema Studies welcome you to the Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative seek to develop guidelines and exemplars concerning advocacy, inquiry and social justice Inquiry. There are over 1650 presentations involving 2160 people this year, including concerns. We share a commitment to change the world, to engage in ethical work what 300 panels in the general congress. More than 450 presentations were given in sessions makes a positive difference. As critical scholars our task is to bring the past and the future organized by twelve special interest groups—SIGS in: Autoethnography, Arts-Based into the present, allowing us to engage realistic utopian pedagogies of hope. Research, Critical Poststructural Psychology, Critical Qualitative Research, Digital Tools in Scholars from around the world have accepted the challenge to gather together in common Qualitative Research, Forum of Critical Chinese Qualitative Research, Global Qualitative purpose to collectively imagine creative and critical responses to a global community in Health Research, Indigenous Inquiries Circle, Social Work, Spanish and Portuguese, crisis. The Fourteenth International Congress offers us an opportunity to experiment, take Turkish, Social Work, and the Initiative for the Cooperation Across the Social Sciences and risks, explore new presentational forms, share experiences, problems and hopes concerning the Humanities. Over 1550 persons, from more than 76 nations have registered. Over 550 the conduct of critical qualitative inquiry in this time of global uncertainty. delegates took part in the 27 pre-conference workshops. We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive The theme of the 2018 Congress is “Qualitative Inquiry In Troubled Times.” These are where we started/ And know the place for the first time (T. S. Elliot, No 4 of Four troubled times. The global right is on the rise, north, south, east, west. It is setting the Quartets, 1942). agenda for public discourse on the social good. In so doing it is narrowing the spaces for critical civic discourse. Traditional political ideologies are now questioned. There is no utopian vision on the horizon, only fear, and doubt, Repression is in the air: Brexit, the Yours sincerely, Trump presidency, global protest. Dissent is silenced. The world is at war with itself. The moral and ethical foundations of democracy are under assault. The politics may be local, but the power is global, the fear is visceral. We are global citizens trapped in a world we did not create, nor want any part of. Norman K. Denzin Congress Director Participatory social science is in jeopardy. Academics and pacifists critical of the public order are branded as traitors. Critical qualitative, interpretive research is stifled by federal administrators who define what constitutes acceptable science for the public good. Right- wing politicians silence criticism while implementing a “resurgent racism... [involving] punitive attacks on the intellectuals, the poor, urban youth, and people of color (Giroux, Henry. 2016. “Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age.” Truthout. 8 August). There has never been a greater need for a critical qualitative inquiry that matters, a discourse that pushes back. A discourse committed to a politics of resistance, a politics of 4 General information General information 5 Conference Welcome political regimes, regimes such as those of Trump in the US, Capriles in Venezuela, Peña-Nieto in Mexico, Erdogan in Turkey, May in the UK, or Netanyahu in Israel. Further, we will seek to address Thursday, 5:30–7:00 p.m., 200 Ballroom Illini Union what survival and resistance might mean in places experiencing routine violence, places such as Syria and Yemen. Dissent is silenced. The world is at war with itself. The moral and ethical foundations of 1) Norman K. Denzin, Congress director’s Welcoming remarks democracy are under attack. The politics may be local, but the power is global, the fear visceral. We 2) Elder Joseph Naytowhow, Welcome from Indigenous Inquiries Circle are global citizens trapped in a world we did not create, nor want any part of. Please join us for what we hope will be part of an ongoing conversation about our place as academics in these troubled times. 3) Keynote addresses 5:30-6:30: Illini Room C: Seduction and desire: the power of spectacle Bronwyn Davies, Professorial Fellow University of Melbourne, Emeritus Plenary Performance: when the stakes are too d*mn high Professor Western Sydney University Hill L. Waters Stitching Tattered Cloth: Reflections on Social Justice and Qualitative Inquiry in Turbulent Contexts Saturday May 19 Karen M. Staller, University of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI USA 12:00-1:00: Illini Room A 4) Opening Midwest BBQ, Alice Campbell Alumni Center: cash bar, 7–9 p.m. Town Hall meeting: Collaborating sites Network Music by Tom Turino and the Cornstalkers. 5:30-6:30: AWARD CEREMONIES Annual Meeting of the IAQI & Award Ceremony, Illini Union 200 Ballroom Other Congress Activities 7:00-9:00: COOKOUT Wednesday May 16 Old-fashioned Midwest Cookout, 7–9 p.m., Alice Campbell Alumni Center: SIG in Spanish and Portuguese, SIG in Turkish (opening), S SIG in Social Work, Music by Tom Turino and the Cornstalkers. SIG in Critical and Poststructural Psychology, SIG in Indigenous Qualitative Inquiry, SIG in Critical Qualitative Inquiry, SIG in Autoethnography, Forum of Critical Chinese Qualitative Research, Global Qualitative Health Research Thursday May 17 3:30-5:00: Illini Room B: Combined Poster Sessions Congress Reception: Collaborating Sites Network Friday May 18 12:00-1:00: Illini Room C: Town Hall Meeting on Academic Freedom Facilitator: Jane Gilgun, University of Minnesota This Town Hall Meeting seeks to address how the academy might survive assaults and resist rightist 6 General information General information 7 CONGRESS ORGANIZERS Publisher’s Exhibit The Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is organized by the College of Media, Institute of Communications Research, Department of Media and Cinema Pine Lounge Studies, The Interdisciplinary Program in Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with the Center for Wednesday 12-5:00 Qualitative Inquiry. Thursday 9:00-5:00 CONGRESS PROGRAM Friday: 9:00-5:00 This Congress program was compiled by the Congress organizing committee. The Saturday: 9:00-12:00 program was printed by Martin One Source. LOCAL PROGRAM SPONSORS American Indian Studies Program /Native American House * Anthropology * Center for Collaborating Sites Network Advanced Study * Center for Global Studies * Center for Latin American and Caribbean Reception Studies * Center for Qualitative Inquiry * College of Media* European Union Center * Gender & Women’s Studies Program * Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities * Poster Sessions Institute of Communications Research * Kinesiology and Community Health