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Call for proposals: 2018 Race & Pedagogy National Conference

Radically Re-Imagining the Project of Justice: Narratives of Rupture, Resilience, and Liberation

www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy

Conference dates: September 27 – 29, 2018
Location: University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Deadline for Call for Proposals Submissions: Friday, March 9, 2018

OVERVIEW:

Every four years, the University of Puget Sound and the Race & Pedagogy Institute welcome more than 2,000 local, regional, national, and international participants to engage issues of race and to discuss the impact of race on education. Each conference builds on the success of the last and contributes new perspectives to the conversation. Join us, September 27 - 29, 2018, to explore the theme Radically Re-Imagining the Project of Justice: Narratives of Rupture, Resilience, and Liberation. Major sub-themes are: Rupturing the Logics of Domination: Urgencies in the Project of Justice; Undoing Miseducation: Reclaiming and Rewriting Narratives of Liberation; and Radical Transformations: New Publics, New Social Contracts.

The Conference will include Keynote, Spotlight, and Concurrent sessions. Conversation Spaces will be built into the program to multiply opportunities for more informal interactions among attendees around selected topics drawn from the formal sessions. As part of the Institute’s commitment to understanding the arts as public pedagogy, the fine and performing arts will speak, in campus and community spaces, to the trauma and costly yields of entering the archives of painful histories of dehumanization and internment; to the similarly and differently turbulent and violent crossings through which migrations, genocide and enslavement have been wrought; to Tacoma’s own struggles for justice over the course of many years. The Conference will also feature a Youth Summit for middle and high school students built on the Institute’s engagement with Washington State public schools. In addition, a conference strand designed by PreK-12 educators will focus on Unlearning Racism an!
d wrestling with issues of representation, curriculum, and pedagogy in public schools and teacher preparation.

Call for Proposals

We invite proposals for papers, panels, and other presentation formats, including, but not limited to, roundtables, posters, performances, visual arts, and interactive sessions, from a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, and diverse range of participants involved in a variety of educational, civic, artistic, and community-based organizations for the 2018 Race & Pedagogy National Conference. We support innovative and creative presentation formats that address conference themes.

Submit your proposal online by Friday, March 9, 2018. Please carefully read the Call for Proposals and proposal submission guidelines before beginning the online submission form. Race & Pedagogy Institute will notify you of your proposal status by May 18, 2018. Race & Pedagogy Institute staff is eager to assist you with questions about the Conference and submission process. Send your questions via e-mail to raceandpedagogy@pugetsound.edu or telephone 253.879.2435. www.pugetsound.edu/raceandpedagogy