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Program The Evaluation 2005 Conference program includes over 580 sessions. Your conference registration includes admittance to any session taking place between 3:15 pm on Wednesday, October 26 and 5:00 pm on Saturday, October 29, with the exceptions of the Steam Whistle Brewery social on Thursday and the Joint CES/AEA Luncheon on Friday which require separate tickets. Professional development workshops precede and follow the conference on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before 3:00 pm and Sunday morning. These workshops require a separate fee to attend. You need not attend the conference to register for a professional workshop. A searchable draft version of the program, with abstracts, will be available on the Web in mid July. The hardcopy program will be distributed on site as part of your registration and includes session titles and presenter names, but no abstracts. Thematic Strand In the interest of the further development of the evaluation profession and international collaboration, the theme for the 2005 Joint CES/AEA Evaluation Conference in Toronto is: Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries. Competing models, professional jargon, and alternative frameworks sometimes divide us – as do perspectives, contexts, cultures, politics, values, and experiences. These differences also provide opportunities for cross-fertilization and possibilities for thinking about evaluation in new ways as we share diverse experiences and perspectives. The conference theme will be highlighted in a strand of specific thematic sessions as well as incorporated into the content of many sessions spread throughout the conference. Canadian Strand Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries provides an excellent backdrop for discussion, dialogue and deliberation about issues and questions of particular interest to evaluation in the Canadian context. To that end, one Canadian Strand session will be scheduled in each of the conference concurrent session time slots. These high-profile sessions are reserved for theme-based exchanges of relevance to evaluation in the Canadian context. Topical Interest Group Strands Thirty-five Topical Interest Groups (TIGs), and a French-language review team, participated in proposal reviews and developed topical or language-based strands for the conference. TIGs are sub-groups of AEA comprised of people with a common interest in an area of evaluation theory, practice, or the profession. CES representatives participated in the TIG review process. French-Language Strand Evaluation 2005 is a dual-language conference. The French-language sessions selected for the program have been combined to form a French-language strand woven throughout the conference or incorporated into the Canadian Strand. Most French-language sessions will have simultaneous translation into English available.
To register for the Conference, access the Registration page. This site is maintained by the CES. The AEA maintains its own Conference site. |