Sixth annual SEISA conference on April
11-12, 2025, held at The College of Charleston and The Citadel in Charleston, SC.
SEISA 2025 Conference Theme:
Reclaiming the Narrative in Challenging Times
This
year's theme is a call to refocus and reground our work as a way to contest distorted public narratives related to forced or voluntary immigration and its relationship with democracy.
Asserting the lives of migrants belonging to the past, present and future of our region and our country, we consider a broad range of questions:
-What are the multiple barriers migrants face, and what strategies are deployed to overcome them individually and collectively?
-How can opportunities for migrants be leveraged locally, regionally, and nationally?
-What can we learn from past experiences of struggle and resistance?
--What are the stories of migration related to asylum?
-What does it mean to face disruption and displacement due
to war, conflict or climate change?
-What are examples of literary, artistic, and cultural representations of migration?
-How might we compare/contrast the U.S. Southeast as an
emerging region for activism and coalition-building?
This conference seeks to bring together the research,
experiences, and perspectives of community-based advocates, scholars, students,
activists, artists, practitioners, business and nonprofit leaders to discuss
pressing contemporary and historical issues related to migration. While we are
located in and focus on issues in the Southeast, we invite comparative analysis
across regions in the U.S., as well as proposals from scholars and
practitioners. This conference will build and strengthen relationships between
various stakeholders revealing the opportunities and challenges of the current
moment. Given this broad scope, we invite proposals related to topics,
including:
-Access to healthcare and mental health
-Activism and multilingualism
-Activism and organizing
-Arts in activism
-Asylum policies
-Anti-immigrant policies and analysis
-Belonging
-Change in presidential administration and past and future
elections
-Community-based organizations and immigrant networks
-Collective resistance
-DACA
-Deportation Policies
-Education
-Economics
-Faith-based organizations and immigrant networks
-Geography
-Immigrant detention and deportation
-Immigration and education
-Immigration and entrepreneurship
-Immigration reform
-Immigrants and identity
-Immigrant victims of violence
-Language learners / emergent bilinguals, language equity
-Methods / methodology
- Memory and Movement
-Police reform
-Public art, public humanities, and immigration
-Public health
-Public scholarship and immigrant communities
-Racial / ethnic dynamics among / between immigrants
-Racial uprising and protest
-Refugee Resettlement
-Sanctuary cities / campus
-Youth and student activism
Proposals are due Sunday, February 16th 2025 and can be submitted using this form.
