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The Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (http://www.QI2006.org) "Ethics, Politics and Human Subject Research In the New Millennium² The Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 3-6, 2006. The theme of the Second International Congress, "Ethics, Politics and Human Subject Research" builds on and extends the theme of the First International Congress which focused on ³Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global Uncertainty.² The 2006 Congress will explore experiences with and criticisms of Institutional Review Boards. It will question the over-reliance of audit cultures on evidence-based, neo-experimental models of inquiry. The 2006 Congress will investigate new ways of decolonizing traditional methodologies. It will take up performative, feminist, indigenous, democratic and participatory forms of critical inquiry. The 2006 Congress will examine how these new forms of inquiry can advance the goals of social justice and progressive politics in this new century. Session Themes will include, but not be confined to these topics: alternative IRB models, interpretive inquiry and IRBs, disciplines and their ethical codes, active interviews, auto- and performance ethnography, arts-based inquiry, coloring and engendering epistemology, colonial and post-colonial epistemologies, critical performance narratives, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, cultural studies and critical pedagogy, democratic methodologies, discourse, ethnodrama, story, poetry, epistemology, oral history, queer, feminist and gender studies, focus groups, funding qualitative research, globablization, health care, grounded theory and social justice, human rights, indigenous studies, models of evidence, mixed-methodologies, participatory action research, policy studies, portraiture, post-human subjects, qualitative evaluation inquiry, qualitative health research, technology, mobility, memory, representation, working with multicultural populations. Half-day (morning and afternoon) pre-conference workshops (May 4) will precede the three-day Congress (May 4-6), which will consist of keynote, plenary, spotlight, featured, and regular sessions. There will also be opening and closing receptions and banquets, and a town hall meeting for the newly formed International Association of Qualitative Inquiry. We invite your submission of paper and session proposals. Session and paper submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1, 2005. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2005.To learn more about the Second International Congress and submit your paper or panel, please visit our website <www.QI2006.org>. Norman K. Denzin, Congress Chair