Announcement of Conference on the Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations (University of Minnesota, 4-5 June 2010)

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The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations

President's Interdisciplinary Conference

June 4-5, 2010

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009

Conference Chairs

Bic Ngo, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction,

University of Minnesota Martha Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department

of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota Stacey Lee,

Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of

Wisconsin, Madison

Overview

The University of Minnesota's President's Interdisciplinary Conference

Initiative supports inquiry that fosters collaboration between scholars

in divergent fields and across institutions. This interdisciplinary

conference addresses the question: What are the epistemological and

ethical considerations in research with immigrant populations? The

purpose of this conference is to engage university and community

colleagues and students from a variety of disciplines and interests in

consideration of this and other questions about ethics and epistemology

in their research practices.

Participants in this conference will include individuals from diverse

methodological and disciplinary areas, such as education, social work,

anthropology, urban studies, the humanities, and the health professions.

The conference will emphasize the implications of practices in research

design, data collection, analysis and writing of research that involves

immigrant populations. These conversations will include concerns related

to Institutional Review Boards, as well as those that move beyond IRB,

including presentation and dissemination of findings, sharing of

research design, and advocacy issues.

We invite proposals that address researchers' dilemmas as they move

into, through, and beyond their work with immigrant communities. To

sustain and extend the work and conversations of this conference, we

will select a small number of conference presentations for revision and

publication in a peerreviewed edited book.

Submissions

We encourage the following types of submissions:

Individual Presentations, such as research reports or academic papers,

artistic expressions or performances, and structured dialogs between

researchers and community partners about negotiating research dilemmas

and processes.

Symposia of three or four related research reports or academic papers.

Deadline for proposal submission is December 21, 2009. For more

information about themes addressed by the conference and to submit a

proposal, please visit www.cehd.umn.edu/Immigrant-Research.

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Johanna Leinonen

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of History

University of Minnesota

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