2022 Theme: Public Spaces, Private Places: Constructing Race and Liberation
The Interdisciplinary Conference on Race program committee eagerly invites proposals from students, scholars, researchers, community organizers, artists, and teachers around the world on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference’s themes. Some examples of topics one could pursue under the conference theme include, but are not limited to:
Public Spaces, Private Places:
Collective, public, and personal spaces
Mobilization/Displacement
Monuments, memorials, markers, museums
Social remembrance
Body/Embodiment
Intersectionality: racism, sexism, cissexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, etc.
Surveillance and Policing
Gentrification, mapping, urban/rural planning
Preservation/Conservation
Schooling and segregation
Emotional labor
Heritage sites and sacred places
Digital/Virtual space and Futurism
Climate justice
Generational Trauma
Constructing Race and Liberation:
Reparations
Engagement/Empowerment
Identity: constructed and lived experiences
Belonging/Inclusion/Exclusion
Ritual, rites of passage, celebrations
Social justice, activism, resistance and protest
Ethnic, cultural, or national identity
Liberation pedagogy
Authenticity, acculturation, appropriation
Multiple and Layered Identities: gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, disability, religion, etc
Creative practices: art, artifacts, comics, sequential art, visual culture, murals, street art, healing
Transnationalism, Migration and Diaspora
Indigenous ways of knowing and sovereignty
Neo/Post Colonialism
Movement building