[Students-l] Fwd: [ciresearchers] Prato Conference 2015: Open to MS/MA students; and a few other slots still available; title list

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[ciresearchers] Prato Conference 2015: Open to MS/MA students; 
and a few other slots still available; title list
Date: 	Tue, 12 May 2015 15:24:33 +0200
From: 	larry stillman <larryjhs at fastmail.fm>
Reply-To: 	ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, larry stillman 
<larryjhs at fastmail.fm>
To: 	ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, 
communityinformatics at vancouvercommunity.net



Dear Colleague, this is a further call for the 12th CIRN Prato 
Conference 2015, "Privilege, Information, Knowledge & Power: An endless 
dilemma" . We still have some spaces for papers.
Please note:  we now welcome submissions from MA/MSc studies into a 
Graduate Student Colloquium-- as with PhDs, this is a wonderful 
opportunity to get exposure and international conference experience.
Further Information, including a link for uploading abstracts and key 
dates, is via http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2015. Please 
distribute this invitation to colleagues and students.
We seek refereed and non-refereed papers, practitioner reports and 
works-in-progress, posters, workshops and panels, and PhD /MA/MSc 
symposium presentations.
KEYNOTES
We are pleased to confirm that the Keynotes will be --
*Kiera Ladner,* University of Manitoba /Canada Research Chair. Dr. Kiera 
Ladner is an expert in the field of indigenous politics and the 
competing visions of indigenous self-government in Canada. Her community 
based research into constitutional reconciliation and decolonization is 
creating a deeper understanding of these rival ideas and the tensions 
they have created, both within communities and between First Nations and 
Canada.
&
*S**hawna Ferris*, University of Manitoba. She researches in the areas 
of violence against women, critical race and feminist cultural studies, 
and sex work studies. Her current research examines anti-violence, 
anti-racism, and decolonization-oriented activism stemming from the 
growing number of missing and murdered people—many of whom are 
Indigenous women—in urban centres across Canada. As part of this 
research, she is working with Dr. Kiera Ladner on the Digital Archives 
and Marginalized Communities Project.
*Safiya Noble,* UCLA. She conducts research in socio-cultural 
informatics; including feminist, historical and political-economic 
perspectives on computing platforms and software in the public interest. 
Her research is at the intersection of transnational culture and 
technology in the design and use of applications on the Internet.
CONFERENCE THEME
Information and knowledge are socially constructed artifacts located and 
often literally inscribed-- within particular relations of information 
and knowledge production. Such relations of information and knowledge 
production can reflect unequal distributions of power and privilege, 
whether manifested in gendered activity; the primacy given to formalized 
expertise or particular language codes; restricted access to 
information, knowledge and production for those not in positions of 
institutional control; or the production of particular artifacts (such 
as ICT systems) that privilege one group over another.
Critical Community Informatics (CI), Development Informatics (DI), and 
Community Archiving (CA) education, research, and practice seeks to 
recognize these relations and openly challenge privileged statuses and 
practices. They recognize that a pluralistic approach to the problem of 
information and knowledge production and its preservation as different 
forms of activity and memory is a critical step to moving beyond 
approaches that result in privilege to those with skills and power in 
information and knowledge production across time and space in different 
environments.
Such a critical perspective also works to move beyond an apolitical 
approach and utilitarian approach to information and knowledge 
production or the romanticize and colonization of communities (whether 
urban, indigenous, or traditional and so on) as unitary, and 
easy-to-label collectivities. Instead, it sees information and knowledge 
as inherently contested and political at all societal levels and to see 
communities as heterogeneous and likewise, political.
Critical scholarship also raises ethical dilemmas as we consider the 
privilege given to lineal written language in academic work, as the 
warrant for particular informational or knowledge truth and procedures. 
We thus question the role of the academy in defining terminology and 
appropriate technologies of memory, and we recognize the ways such 
privileging of the academy serves as a form of epistemological 
colonization that flows on into different forms of institutional and 
organizational practice. How to move beyond this privilege is a grand 
challenge, and in fact, can we move beyond it?
Our aim for the conference is for it to be an active community practice 
in, and not just discussions about, pluralism. We therefore encourage 
participation from a wide range of cultures, races, ethnicities, 
religions, socio-economic statuses, gender identities, disabilities, and 
ages. We also encourage proposals for different ways of knowing and 
sharing. We especially seek to foster dialog across difference rather 
than presentation and preservation of homogeneity, when new ICTs in 
particular allow the existence and fruitful production of multiverses of 
information and knowledge.
Key questions arising from the conference theme can be found at this 
link, and abstract submissions made to the conference database via 
http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2015+Themes
A list of proposed papers and workshops (subject to change) is listed 
here, with a few more in the pipline.
A New Kind of Digital Literacy Program: Discovering Viewpoints on 
Technology and Impact of the Digital Literacy
Abstract: Pre-digital Jerusalem: diversity and the preservation of 
unique identities
Affect, Community, and the Queer Archives
An “Ethics of Care” Approach to Infomediary Practice
An exploration of Historical Distance and Social Justice on the 
formation of a Community Archive based on the microhistories of the
Archival Imaginaries in the Wake of Ferguson: A Requiem in Two Acts
Assessing the effectiveness of Mobile Phone Aided Health Services for 
improving Maternal Healthcare
Bridging the divide: Working together for More
Challenges for community organisations in building and promoting digital 
image collections via social media
Designing for Africa
Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Detainees
Exploring Continuum Theory
Enhancing doctoral students' research skills: Digital literacy and 
library support
Foucault’s contribution to debates about power and knowledge
Offshore Detention of Refugees
Rights in Records By Design
The Internet technology @ rural: TV White Spaces
The Sri Lankan Knowledge Network
The Tag is the Record: Creating and deploying tagging folksonomies in DAMC
Toward a CIRN Statement on Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion
Towards developing Capability Approach based framework for CI 
initiatives evaluation
Transforming Archival Studies: Preparing Practitioners to Demilitarize 
Knowledge
Will the Prosumer Survive in Digital Society, or it is/was just an utopia
Workshop: CIRN Statement on Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion / Part III.
OTHER PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS:
We will also consider papers related to any aspect of Community 
Informatics, Development Informatics or Community Archiving. We are 
particularly interested in papers from researchers and practitioners 
that can address the challenges of locating community-based research 
within wider theoretical and practice frameworks.
KEY DATES:
Call for papers and proposals. FINAL CALL NOW OPEN.
Acceptance/modification/ rejection notices As soon as possible thereafter
Full papers and abstracts for all streams due 31 July 2015
Referee reports to participants by 30 September 2015
Final version of papers, based on peer review and committee decisions 
due 1 November 2015
Conference proceedings Online/downloadable post- conference with ISBN
Registrations available from 1 July
Abstracts can ONLY be uploaded through the conference database system 
available via the website.
http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2015+Themes
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Larry Stillman, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Monash University
Visiting Fellow, University of South Africa


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