Your chance to present at a conference with Drs. Toni Samek and Hope Olson! Or you can just attend the conference, too… no pressure. Please note that abstracts are due Oct. 15, 2007.
Courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan, director of the Center for Information Policy Research, via James Pekoll.
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May 15-17, 2008
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Sponsored by the Center for Information Policy Research, the School of Information Studies, and the UW-Milwaukee Libraries, UW-Milwaukee
This conference will explore critical theories as grounded in and by alternative methodological perspectives and issues in intercultural information studies. Information studies as a field has become more disciplinarily, culturally, and methodologically diverse. This conference is intended to help advance the extension of traditional inquiry in this field into the important exploration of, and linkages to, such theoretical perspectives and approaches as feminism, disability studies, post-structuralism, queer studies, post-colonialism, post-modernism, semiotics, critical race theory, hermeneutics, and others is evident, as we face technological, legal, cultural, and global transformations. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines, who engage in the discussion of “information” and “information studies” from alternative and critical perspectives, with a goal to promote social awareness, provide insight into inequities, and lead to progressive change in our information research and practices.
We will present work from leading scholars in information ethics and critical information studies followed by break out sessions based on open space methodology. In open space methodology, participants generate topics of interest based on keynote addresses and their own expertise. A part of the conference program is devoted to in-depth group discussions of those topics logically organized to contribute to the overall theme. Outcomes of those group discussions will be presented to the plenary and eventually form part of the conference recommendations on how to promote critical theory engagement and further research in LIS.
We are seeking abstracts of 500 words for review. Papers will be presented in 45-minute time slots, with 15 minutes of general q/a, and longer open space discussions to follow. We are particularly interested in works from women and people of color.
Abstracts due October 15, 2007
Notification by December 15, 2007
Full Papers, of 10-15 pages, due by March 1, 2008 (Authors will retain copyright, but all papers will be distributed in the conference proceedings, and archived electronically in the Center for Information Policy Research’s Occasional Papers; all subsequent publication by the author should reference the CIPR and the Thinking Critically Conference)
Submit papers to cipr@sois.uwm.edu, attention Elizabeth Buchanan, Director, CIPR
Fee: $125/$75 (students); (conference speakers will receive a 50% discount of the conference fee)
Conference Hotel: The Astor Hotel (Refer to CIPR when making reservations for appropriate rates; reservations must be made by March 1, 2008 to ensure conference rates)
Registration details forthcoming.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Rafael Capurro, “Hermeneutics in the Information Age,” Founder and Director, International Center of Information Ethics, Senior Information Ethics Fellow 2007-08, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee
Dr. Hope A. Olson, “Transgressive Deconstructions: Feminist and Postcolonial Trespasses on Post-Structural Methodology,” Associate Dean and Professor, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee
Dr. Fernando Elichirigoity, “Living in the Age of Globally Distributed Algorithms,” Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Dr. Toni Samek, “Action Research and Activism: Sustainable Library Interactions at the Grassroot,” Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator School of Library & Information Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee