18th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies

Pre-Conference Institutes

For a more intensive study of this year's theme, pre-conference institutes will be held Friday, January 7, 2005 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm. Come explore these exciting topics in a more informal environment with some of the leading voices in the field. Space is limited and reservations will be made on a first-come basis. No registrations will be accepted after December 1, 2004.
Fee: $35 Student and $45 Faculty
Where: Aderhold Hall, College of Education, three blocks from the conference site, The Georgia Center. (note: Institute #6 will be held in Masters Hall, The Georgia Center.)
*To better facilitate discussion and learning, class size is limited to at least 5 participants and a maximum of 35 (unless otherwise noted). In the event the session needs to be cancelled, you will be notified by email and your fees will be refunded.

Lift Every Voice: Crafting Qualitative Texts...JoBeth Allen
If people disparage 'academic writing' as dry and jargon filled, what are the alternatives? What can we learn from popular ethnographic non-fiction authors? How can I develop a fresh academic voice and get published? Is my style as a writer best suited for solitary writing or should I consider a writing group or a writing retreat? In this workshop we will explore these and other issues related to writing qualitative texts. Participants should bring one piece of in-progress qualitative research writing.
Teaching Qualitative Research...Jude Preissle & Kathleen deMarrais
This workshop will explore issues of teaching and learning qualitative research. Participants will engage in discussions about course structures and teaching strategies. Course outlines, text selections, and pedagogical materials for a variety of courses will be shared. Participants should bring ideas to share.
"Micro" Approaches to Transcript Analysis...Jerry Gale, Kathy Roulston, & Betsy Rymes
In this master class, we use principles drawn from multiple approaches to the analysis of discourse to demonstrate how one might use "micro" approaches to analyze transcripts of talk-in-interaction. In this data session we will conduct analyses of transcripts from three settings: focus group interaction; clinical practice; and a research interview. Our purpose is to show how multiple analytic approaches - ethnomethodologically informed conversation analysis, conversation analysis informed by critical discourse analysis and discourse and narrative analytic approaches - inform our understanding of research data. The workshop will follow a hands-on experiential format, and is appropriate for both novices and experienced analysts. Participants of the workshop will gain an understanding of how group data analysis of transcripts might be accomplished and how different theoretical perspectives inform the readings of data generated in different settings. The emphasis of the workshop will be both on how to do discourse analysis and the thinking behind different approaches of analysis. Resources for further reading from different perspectives will be available.
Introduction to QSR NVivo (limit 15)...Linda Gilbert
This workshop will provide an overview of QSR NVivo, a software package which assists researchers in organizing and analyzing complex qualitative data. Participants will import and code textual data; review and recode the coded data; and search for combinations of words in the text or patterns in the coding. Other program capabilities will be demonstrated. The session includes a workbook for NVivo. No prior experience with qualitative software is necessary, however, participants should have a basic familiarity with PC computers (for example, using Word or a similar program)as well as a general understanding of qualitative research processes.
From Page To Stage: Autoethnography as Monologue...Johnny Saldaña
No prior theatre or performance experience is needed to participate in this workshop. Arts-based research, ethnodrama in particular, has been advocated by such key figures in qualitative inquiry as Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln as a powerful way for ethnography to recover yet interrogate the meanings of lived experiences. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of dramatizing data and explore how qualitative research transfers "from page to stage." The session will provide a literature review of available ethnodramas with participants reading aloud from scripts and watching videos of ethnotheatrical performance. We will then explore how the participants' personal lived experiences can become "autoethnographic monologues." Participants will select a personal story as the basis for developing an informal performance of that work to peers. The facilitator will guide each researcher-as-storyteller through the process of selecting necessary sensory details, choosing evocative language, and employing gesture and voice as instruments for dramatizing the data.
Seeing the Narrative: An Esthetic of Knowing - A Boal Theater Workshop...Betty Smith Franklin, Jane Attanucci, & Edna Bacon
Boal Theater work provides a context for knowing through esthetic moments allowing researchers to explore and expand their visual, auditory, and kinesthetic reading of the world. Boal practitioners who have worked in this recent development of the Theater of the Oppressed invite participants to experience, explore, and expand ways of knowing and telling what we know in this workshop. This workshop will be held in the Masters Hall at the Georgia Center.

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