Conference Goals

Conference Goals

The conference aims to:

• Enable graduate students from various disciplines to present and exchange their research and eroding traditional academic boundaries that place creativity in restrictive silos;
• Build a multidisciplinary community of students, scholars, and activists concerned with gender, BIPoC, queer, disability, class and/or other intersectional social justice issues in a meaningful way that engages with praxis;
• Catalyze activism among students to imagine and transform the academy into an active space of resistance to structures of oppression including within that academy itself; and to
• Create a space where the voices and stories of local and global community members, who have been made most vulnerable and marginalized, are centered.

Along with the traditional academic gathering, the conference will provide a space for praxis-oriented discussions, including workshops, a panel discussion with non-profit organizations, artistic performances, and/or research-creation presentations. It will also facilitate reciprocal mentorship engagement between participants of both the graduate and undergraduate conference. The organizers are particularly interested in papers and creative projects exploring the topics outlined in the objectives, but submissions are not limited to them. Papers citing BIPoC scholars will be prioritized.