FQS Newsletter, February 2008

[Katja Mruck <katja.mruck@fu-berlin.de>]

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

A.	Articles, Published in FQS in February 2008
B.	Conferences and Workshops
C.	Links
D.	Open Access News

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN FEBRUARY 2008

Sabine Bollig (Germany): Peter Cloos & Werner Thole (Eds.) (2006). 
Ethnografische Zugaenge. Professions- und adressatInnenbezogene 
Forschung im Kontext von Paedagogik [Ethnographic Approaches. Research 
on Professions and Adressees the Context of Educational Science]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-9-e.htm

Zdenek Konopasek (Czech Republic): Making Thinking Visible with 
Atlas.ti: Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis as Textual Practices
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-12-e.htm

Leonor Mora Salas (Venezuela): El sentido de la familia: una 
construccion con las tramas de vida de tres generaciones [The Sense of 
Family: A Narrative of Three Generations]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-3-e.htm
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-3-s.htm (Full 
text Spanish)

Julia Simonson (Germany): Susanne Spindler (2006). Corpus delicti. 
Maennlichkeit, Rassismus und Kriminalisierung im Alltag jugendlicher 
Migranten [Corpus Delicti. Masculinity, Racism and Criminalization in 
the Everyday Life of Juvenile Migrants]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-10-e.htm


B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

12 April, University of Huddersfield, UK
8th Annual Conference of the Narrative & Memory Research Group 
"Narrative, Memory and Identities: An Interdisciplinary Approach"
http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/nme/conf/2008/index.php

10-11 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1st International Seminar on Computer-Aided Qualitative Research
http://www.merlien.org/events/program.php?cf=13

1-5 September, Naples, Italy	
Seventh International Conference on Social Science Methodology, 
organised by ISA RC 33 (Research Committee on Logic and Methodology), 
CfP for the Sessions
-- Process Generated Data: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP-ProcessGeneratedData.pdf 
(PDF, 7 kb)

-- Data for Historical Sociology and for Analyzing Long-Term Social 
Processes: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP-MethodsHistoricalSociology.pdf 
(PDF, 8 kb)

-- Interpretative Video-Analysis: 
http://www2.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ifs/soziologie/AllgSoz/conferences/RC%2033%20Napoles%20cfp%20Videoanalysis.pdf 


-- Re-discovering Grounded Theory. Forty Years of the Research Practice: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Konecki_Naples.pdf 
(PDF, 12 kb)

-- New Developments in Case Study Methodology: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP_ISA_%20Case-study-methodology.pdf 
(PDF, 23 kb)

8-10 September, Bournemouth University, UK
7th Qualitative Research Conference
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/hsc/qrc08.html

8-11 September, Maia, Portugal
International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated 
Technologies
http://www.icdvrat.reading.ac.uk/

3-6 October, Banff, Canada
14th Qualitative Health Research Conference, International Institute for 
Qualitative Methodology
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/qhr2008.cfm

8-11 October, Banff, Canada
9th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference 2008, International 
Institute for Qualitative Methodology
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/aqm2008.cfm

9-11 October, Goettingen, Germany
5th Annual Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy "The 
Business of Interpretation"
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/CA_Conference/draft%20poster3.html; 
see also the CfP at 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP_CA_Conference.pdf 
(PDF, 15 kb)

10-12 October, University of Crete, Greece	
International Interdisciplinary Conference "Lived Experience, Metaphor 
and Multimodality: Implications in Communication, Education, Learning 
and Knowledge"
http://www.edc.uoc.gr/~multimodality2008/organiseen.htm

4-8 November, Venice, Italy	
Joint Conference "Arts, Culture and Public Sphere. Expressive and 
Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives"
http://www.artculturevenice2008.org/joomla/; see also the CfP at 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP_RN_Arts_&_RN_Culture_08.pdf 
(PDF, 64 kb)

14-15 November, University of Leipzig, Germany	
2nd International Conference on "Individual Constructs in Management and 
Organizational Research"
http://www.ic-more.org/

See 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm 
(English) and 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm 
(German) and 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-s.htm 
(Spanish) for additional conference announcements.


C) LINKS

Centre for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University, UK: 
Masterclasses 2008
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/cqr/rescqrmc08.html

The Qualitative Research Unit, Swansea University, UK: Masterclass 
Programme 2008
http://www.medicine.swan.ac.uk/masterclasses2008menu.html

Information from the European Science Foundation (ESF) on calls, news, 
activities, events, publications and jobs relevant to the social 
sciences community
http://www.esf.org/research-areas/social-sciences/news

Mailing list Phenomenography
http://mailinglist.acer.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/phenomenography


D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

February SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-08.htm

Harvard faculty voted on an Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Proposal
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521835
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Positive evaluation from European Commission for the proposal "Open 
Access Publishing in European Networks" (OAPEN): OAPEN intends to 
develop and implement an Open Access publication model for peer reviewed 
academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. http://www.oapen.com/

SURFfoundation inquiry among 47 traditional (non Open Access) 
publishers: Traditional academic publishers are on the move
http://www.surffoundation.nl/download/LtP-final-report-dec07.pdf

Ranking of Repositories, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
http://www.webometrics.info/top200_rep.asp

Conferences

28-30 May, Accra, Ghana
First Africa Forum on Open Educational Resources (OER)
http://elearning-africa.com/div_man.php

Presentations/proceedings online

First DRIVER Summit: Towards a Confederation of Digital Repositories, 
16-17 January 2008, Goettingen, Germany
http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/DRIVERSummit.php; see also 
http://www.driver-support.eu/en/studies.html for three studies on 
digital repositories

16th BOBCATSSS Symposium "Providing Access to Information for Everyone", 
28-30 January 2008, Zadar, Croatia
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/bobcatsss2008

Texts

DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology 28(1) 2008 is 
entirely devoted to Open Access with special reference to India
http://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/issue/view/27

Journals/newsletter

ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 7(4)
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/

International Journal of Design: Call for Papers, Special Issue on 
Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design
http://www.ijdesign.org/

International Journal of Internet Research Ethics: Call for Papers, 
Research Ethics, Policies, Law: International Perspectives
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire/submit.html

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 9(1)
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl

Journal of Modern Turkish Studies, 5(1)
http://mtad.humanity.ankara.edu.tr/index_e.php

Science Studies, 20(2)
http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2

Surveillance & Society, 5(1)
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/journalv5i1.html

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