Upcoming Conferences
Thinking Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies
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.
Abstracts due October 15, 2007
Notification by December 15, 2007
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Rafael Capurro, Dr. Hope A. Olson, Dr. Fernando Elichirigoity, Dr. Toni Samek