The 14th International Inuit Studies Conference
Bringing Knowledge Home: Communicating Research to the Inuit
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
11-14 August 2004
For further information please contact:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/aina/inuit/inuit_studies.html
First deadline for abstracts: Friday, 28 November 2003
Hosted by the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary,
Alberta Canada
Inuit have enjoyed much attention from researchers around the world, and
have in fact participated as partners in some research projects. While
such partnerships create new practices in the research communities, the
process of communicating the research findings to the Inuit for their
own use lacks attention. Much of the findings are published in non-Inuit
languages, and remain inaccessible to the Inuit. Direct translation of
scientific findings into Inuit languages falls short of good intentions
and modification of English language to less complex one are ways that
are being explored.
What forms of communication are best suited to deliver knowledge about
Inuit to the Inuit? What are the barriers for both scientific community
and the Inuit communities? Oral traditions remain to be strongly
withheld by the Inuit and the kind of communication that cosmopolitan
scientists strongly adhere to is the written one. How can the findings
of research be delivered making the information accessible to the Inuit
without jeopardising scientific community for their need of peer
evaluation? What are the best scientifically acceptable practices in
communicating the findings to the Inuit? What role do newspapers, radio,
video, electronics, internet, and visual media play in disseminating
research to Inuit?
Clearly, the 14th Inuit Studies Conference, hosted by the Arctic
Institute of North America (AINA) at the University of Calgary is the
place to start negotiating the follow-up of research procedures to
deliver the research findings into meaningful communication from the
researchers to the researched.
Deadline for first submission of Abstracts: November 28, 2003
Contact: Karla Jessen Williamson
Email: wkjessen [at] ucalgary.ca
Phone: 403-220-7515
Fax: 403-282-4609
For further information on the guidelines for the abstracts, please
see the AINA website at http://www.ucalgary.ca/aina