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We are holding informal seminars on ethnographic research in dangerous field settings. Scholars are increasingly engaged in research in hostile and dangerous sites as conflicts, violence, instabilities and disasters have increased around the world. Nonetheless, the challenges faced and the strategies used during the dangerous fieldwork processes have been rarely discussed. Given that, we are organizing these informal meetings to share our own ethnographic fieldwork experiences and methodological concerns. We are particularly interested in
 Security and safety of researcher and research subjects;Challenges of collecting meaningful data while struggling with the dangers of the field;Confidentiality and building trust;Authority and authorship;Reciprocity and Ethics;Emotions, spirituality and fieldwork; andDoing ethnography as a doing activist scholarship in the field.
 
New Seminar Announcement!

REDRESSING HISTORIC VIOLATIONS OF INDIGENOUS COLLECTIVE RIGHTS: CANADA’S TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

Jane Morley, QC,and Bob Watts
Friday, February 17, 2012 -- 2:00pm – 3:00 pm
Liu Institute for Global Issues, 3rd Floor Boardroom
RSVP required for advance copy of paper: echoi@exchange.ubc.ca

Jane Morley, QC, is a lawyer and a mediator by profession. She has held many public positions including Child and Youth Officer for British Columbia (an independent child advocate role) and Commissioner for Canada’s Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2008 to 2009. She is currently an adjudicator of Indian Residential School claims. Her interest is in conflict resolution and organizational and social change, especially in areas of Aboriginal relations, human and civil rights, and children’s rights and welfare.

Robert (Bob) Watts recently joined the Nuclear Waste Management Organization as the Director of Aboriginal Community Relations. Bob is also an Adjunct Professor and Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University. He is a former CEO of the Assembly of First Nations and before that the Interim Executive Director of the Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which will examine and make recommendations regarding the Indian Residential School era and its legacy.