Message from ICRN Chair

You are invited to join our vibrant and exciting multi-disciplinary, International Cultural Research Network (ICRN) in which you, your colleagues, students and others may wish to be involved.

ICRN was established at the University of Alberta in July 1998 in an atmosphere of exceptionally warm collegiality at the conclusion of  the International Multicultural and International Child/Youth Conferences. ICRN  has several hundred members who share and exchange ideas, discuss various issues such as childhood and youth, technology, human rights, multiculturalism, education, health, welfare, history and politics, among others, in an atmosphere of academic friendship. You do not need to be affiliated with an organization to join ICRN. We use a collaborative approach to research projects. We publish members’ research in our books.  ICRN also provides cultural awareness consultation/workshops. Anyone interested in researching will find ICRN to be beneficial. 

ICRN  holds annual conferences. Our second conference was held in Xi'an, China in 2000 and our third was in Brasilia, Brazil in 2002 where Luitgard  Freire spoke about his father Paulo Freire. The following conferences were held in Florence, Italy, Thessalonika,  Greece, Glasgow. United Kingdom,  Antalya,  Turkey and Calgary, Canada. The next conference will be held in Halifax, Canada and will focus on Childhood and Youth, Education, Terrorism/Counter Terrorism/Genocide, Human Rights and Health. We plan a wide range of topics so that the conference can be as interdisciplinary as possible.

You do not need to be a member  to attend an ICRN Conference but membership is a requirement if you wish to present and publish papers and books through ICRN. Some members have guest edited our books. I encourage you to become a member of this interesting and spirited Network. The myriad encounters with other disciplines enable us to work together so that we can accomplish far more than working independently.  The fee is USD  $50.00 a year, payable for a two-year term.