The keynote speakers will be Prof. Carolyn Ellis (for more information www.cas.usf.edu/communication/ellis ) and Prof. Arthur Bochner (for more information www.cas.usf.edu/communication/bochner ) from University of South Florida. Ellis and Bochner are leading scholars in the area of auto-ethnography. Ellis latest book: Revision: Authoethnographic Reflection on Life and Work, has won The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction award.

The conference will include plenary session, round tables with invited guests, presentations sessions and posters display, as well as workshop with key qualitative researchers in Israel. The annual meeting of the Association of Qualitative Researchers in Israel will take place during the conference, and will include awards for distinguish qualitative paper and poster. Sage, Leftcoast publications, and academic publishing houses from Israel will have qualitative texts available for purchase at the conference.

We invite your submission of paper (250 words), poster (250 words) and full session proposals (title and 3-4 abstracts). Submissions will be accepted until November 8 2009.

Papers can cover such topics as traditions in qualitative research, methods in qualitative research, the history of qualitative research, qualitative research and social change, the politics of academic acceptance of qualitative research, qualitative writing, self reflection, teaching qualitative research, mixed methods, autoethnography, art based research, ethics, qualitative research in education, the status of truth in qualitative research, the connection between epistemology and methodology, qualitative research and social justice, cross-cultural diversity in qualitative research and more.

It is also possible to submit papers to the following proposed sessions: From Presentations to Performances: Performances of Knowledge in Qualitative Research (Chair: Dr. Haim Noy); Qualitative Research in Global Context (Chair: Dr. Nurit Zaidman, managment); Feminist Qualitative Research (Chair: Dr. Dafna Hacker, gender); Constructing Space in Words (Chair: Dr. Arnon Ben-Israel, geography); Action Research in the Service of the Research, the Organization, and In Between (Chair: Dr. Haya Bendeck, Dr Itai Beeri); Phenomenological Research of Space (Chair: Prof. Aravot Iris and arch' Orit Shmueli); Qualitative on the Net (Chair: Dr. Tirtza Hechter); Methodological Questions that Arise from the Similarly between Interviewer and Interviewee (Hagit Rodrigues Garcia, Social work)

Submission guidelines:

§  Font David size 12 3 cm margins on both sides.

§  Include proposal type (presentation, poster or full session), title of proposal, List authors/contributors with full names, academic affiliation for each author, email address and phone number.

§  Proposal should be sent to icqm2010@bgu.ac.il

Chair of the conference: Dr. Michal Krumer-Nevo

Chair of the Scientific Committee: Prof. Amia Libliech

Chair of the organizing committee: Dr. Maya Lavie-Ajayi

The conference will be held with the support of the Association of Qualitative Researchers in Israel, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, and the MOFET Institute.