Call for Proposals

 

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS

This call for papers and explorative presentations invites scholars, practitioners, artists, and educators—from the community and the academy—to share their work at  the 12th Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium. Social justice is a broad objective that inspires an interdisciplinary approach, so this symposium asks: how can artists, educators, scholars, and community activists come together to promote, protect, and inspire justice in our society? The goal of this event is to include and amplify voices that are often on the margins of academia and to share the theories, methodologies, and results of art and education practices that strive to have a direct public impact. This symposium provides an opportunity to gain insight into a range of practices aligned with social justice while embracing a perspective informed broadly by the notion of cultural pedagogies. Inspired by the work of critical theorists, many art and education initiatives develop strategies for social reconstruction. Current practices suggest that art can support the development of oppositional knowledge by inciting imaginative re-envisionings of the past, present and future. The creative work of doing and making in communities can turn art practice into public praxis, suggesting transformative ways of being together in the world. 

 

With these aims, the symposium seeks proposals that: 1) advance concepts of ADEI (anti-racism/accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion); and 2) explore interventions in publics, curriculum, policy, institutions, media, and more, to reimagine art and education.  

 

Questions for exploration could include: 

• How might foregrounding historically silenced perspectives in institutions offer opportunities to re-envision the past, present, and future? 

• How do socio-environmental justices incorporate human and nonhuman actors? 

• How might art and education curriculum mediate spatial politics?

• How can artists and educators create transdisciplinary coalitions to abolish racism, sexism, and other isms so that everyone may thrive?  

• How can creative and scholarly work improve relations between individuals, communities, and the world around us? 

 

We encourage creative approaches to presentations and welcome different formats and styles that introduce guiding questions and concepts, current practices, and outcomes and provide opportunities for dialogue and discussion. 

All submissions should be anonymized and will be double peer-reviewed.

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Proposals should include the following: 

• Presenter(s) and Affiliation(s)

• Presenter(s) Bio - 100 words

• Title

• Abstract - 100 words (to be made public in the program) 

• Anonymized proposal - 500 words (excluding references):

  • Identify the overarching question or questions guiding your work

  • Description of the proposed research or project session:

1. Research Papers sessions (15-20 minutes): research objectives, theoretical framework, methodology/mode of inquiry, and discussion / preliminary findings OR

2. Explorative Projects (15-20 minutes): a description of the project, context (setting, participants, activities), goals, and outcomes for the project OR

3. Short Sessions, New Beginnings, and Works in Progress (5-10 minutes): opportunities to share inquiries in a shorter session, including completed work or emerging and/or in-progress work. 

• Description of the goal(s) you have related to attending the symposium

• References