Research Clusters: Language and Culture; Social and Policy Sciences
Dates: Thursday, 27 October 2005 through Sunday, 30 October 2005
See also: http://conferences.lis.illinois.edu/LHS.XI/home.html

"Paper sessions featuring scholars from seven countries will focus on the histories of library collections and services in the context of particular conflicts, populations, eras, and geographic locations. Keynote speakers from North and South America, Europe, and Asia will examine and discuss historical and contemporary libraries in times of social crisis and violent dislocation....[A] selection of conference papers will be published in future issues of "Libraries & Culture."

Series: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Research Clusters: Information, Communications, and the Media; Social and Policy Sciences
Dates: Thursday, 5 May 2005 through Saturday, 7 May 2005
See also: http://www.iiqi.org/C4QI/httpdocs/qi2005/DenzinICQI.pdf

This 1st conference discussed the issues of governments across the globe attempting to regulate interpretive inquiry, effecting freedom of speech in academia.

Research Clusters: Language and Culture; Social and Policy Sciences
Dates: Sunday, 19 March 2006 through Friday, 24 March 2006

Sponsored by the Center For Global Studies through a UIUC Chancellor's Initiative Grant, 18 regional security and international relations experts from 9 nations will gather in Chicago to assess challenges to US global and regional hegemony and their implications for the emerging post-Cold War international system.

Series: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Research Clusters: Social and Policy Sciences
Dates: Thursday, 4 May 2006 through Saturday, 6 May 2006
See also: http://www.iiqi.org/C4QI/httpdocs/qi2006web/index.html

This 2nd conference looked at new forms of inquiry that can advance the goals of social justice and progressive politics at an international level. The Conference Paper Archive includes citations and electronic copies of papers presented.

Series: Joint Area Centers Symposium
Research Clusters: Social and Policy Sciences
Dates: Thursday, 23 February 2006 through Saturday, 25 February 2006
See also: /conference-criminal-trafficking-and-slavery

JACS 2006 offers streaming videos, PowerPoint presentations and electronic versions of papers presented at the conference.

Series: Joint Area Centers Symposium
Research Clusters: Social and Policy Sciences; Sustainable Development
Dates: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 through Friday, 6 March 2009
See also: http://www.ciber.uiuc.edu/events/programs/jacs/2009/index.html#

Organized by the National Resource Centers for Area Studies in partnership with the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES), the focus of the upcoming annual campus symposium is global food and agricultural issues, including trends in food and energy demands, scientific advances in agricultural technology, plant and animal genomics and their impact on society.

Series: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Research Clusters: Social and Policy Sciences
Dates: Wednesday, 26 May 2010 through Saturday, 29 May 2010
See also: http://www.icqi.org/

The theme of the Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2010) is, "Qualitative Inquiry for a Global Community in Crisis." It is clear that in these troubling political times, qualitative researchers are called upon to become human rights advocates, to honor the sanctity of life, and the core values of privacy, human dignity, peace, justice, and freedom from fear and violence.