The Oxford Ethnography Conference (OEC) is held annually in September at St Hilda's College, Oxford, England over 2 days and has existed since 1977. It is a small conference where about 40-50 papers are distributed prior to the conference and 40 minutes is given to each paper presentation in three parallell sessions with the author/s only given 10 minutes introduction. The rest of the time is given to discussion of some of the issues arising from the paper. There are a regular wide range of experienced and inexperienced delegates from the United States and North and South America, Europe and the Near and Far East including Australia. We also encourage PhD students, in particular, who find the format very useful. Many of the articles are then submitted to our journal Ethnography and Education.

The 2009 conference is on 22+23 September and a call for papers will be issued in the New Year.  

If you are interested in submitting a paper either go to Ethnography and Education Email List and search for Ethnography-and-Education and join the list to receive details of all our activities or contact Lisa Russell or Grace Clifton who will be organising the 2009 conference.