Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your research to our workshop. Please find below a call for contributions and send it to interested colleagues. Apologies for cross posting. Thank you and kind regards, Juliane Stiller, Nadia Caidi, Violeta Trkulja and Syed Ishtique Ahmed *Charting the Future of Forced Migration Research in Information Science* This is a call for contributions for a full-day workshop at the 2019 iConference to be held in Washington, DC United States, on Sunday, March 31st, 2019. Information as a research object in the area of forced migration[1] and vice versa, forced migration in the information science domain, is only slowly gaining attention and has not yet been addressed in an interdisciplinary research environment. Information science provides a perfect lens through which to examine a range of forced migration-related issues, practices, and methodologies. In the workshop, we would like to bring together researchers from the information fields broadly construed, along with researchers in related disciplines to showcase the range of areas, practices and methodologies available to research forced migration. The aim is to introduce our IS colleagues to other research in related disciplines, as well as acculturate our colleagues from other disciplines into the rich research context and frameworks in information science. Throughout the workshop, attendees will be able to examine these research questions, focusing on one of the two following themes: +Information spaces of refugees -navigating the information environments in new and/or transitional countries -operational knowledge about information practices in different contexts -making space for refugees -evolving services provided by (public) libraries and other information professionals in the context of forced migration +Digitally-mediated environments of refugees -information-related skills and strategies that facilitate access to information -the role of social media and online spaces as sources of information and in creating and regaining a sense of place -role and/or importance of access to ICT for refugees -credibility and assessment issues; multilingual interactions; user-generated content The workshop will feature a panel, lightning talks and engagement sessions. +Abstract Submission The workshop welcomes submissions for presenting a lightning talk of 15 minutes in one of the main themes of the workshop: Information spaces of refugees and digitally-mediated environments for refugees. Each lightning talk session will be followed by an interactive engagement with part of the audience led by the speaker. When submitting an abstract for a talk, please state your plan for an interactive session that encourages audience commentary and engagement. Please plan for no more than 30 minutes. Your submission should include the following things: -abstract of your lightning talk with up to 300 words -short description of your audience engagement idea with no more than 200 words. Please send your submission to iconf2019-forcedmigrationws@lists.hu-berlin.de *Important Dates* -Abstract submission deadline: Jan 15th, 2019 -Notification of acceptance: Feb 15th, 2019 Knowledge Dissemination – Special Issue of IJIDI In addition to the Workshop, we will also produce a Special Issue in the International Journal for Information, Diversity and Inclusion (IJIDI) on the theme of the future of forced migration in information science. We welcome full research papers that make a novel contribution to this area of research (e.g., empirical, theory-based, methodological, comparative), and we seek a broad spectrum of submissions from workshop attendees as well as those who are not able to attend the workshop. The Special Issue will also have a special section for student work, works in progress, opinion pieces, and professional reports. Deadlines for the Special Issue of IJIDI: Extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words for full research papers and up to 500 words for contributions to the special section are due by April 30, 2019. Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 30, 2019. The final papers will be due by October 15, 2019. Publication scheduled for the April 2020 issue. Organizers Dr. Juliane Stiller, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (juliane.stiller@ibi.hu-berlin.de) Dr. Nadia Caidi, Faculty of Information, University Toronto, Canada (nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca) Dr. Violeta Trkulja, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (violeta.trkulja@ibi.hu-berlin.de) Dr. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada (ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu) [1] Lloyd, A., Pilerot, O., & Hultgren, F. (2017). The remaking of fractured landscapes: Supporting refugees in transition (SpiRiT). Information Research, 22(3), paper 764. Retrieved from http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-3/paper764.html -- Dr. Juliane Stiller und Dr. Violeta Trkulja Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin School of Library and Information Science Sitz: Dorotheenstrasse 26, 10117 Berlin Post: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Mail: juliane.stiller@ibi.hu-berlin.de | violeta.trkulja@ibi.hu-berlin.de Web: www.ibi.hu-berlin.de