The 4th Annual Social Justice Conference
Dates: Friday, April 21, 2023
Call for Papers, Presentations, and Panels
Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections.
WSU SJCON is an interdisciplinary social justice conference launched in 2019 by WSU graduate students in coalition with BIPOC-led community groups. We are pleased to accept proposals for presentations, panels, films, creative works, and workshops that focus on pragmatic and action-based approaches to building and sustaining coalitions.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Landback and decolonizing land-grab institutions
• Intersections of divestment, reinvestment, and landback
• New/old multi-media Indigenous stories and/or art that challenge and make visible the extractive violence of settler colonialism, particularly against women, girls, and Two Spirit/Queer people (e.g. Reservation Dogs, Daily Alaska, Three Pines, etc.)
• Decolonizing academia/curriculum to build sustainable futures with access to First Foods/Food Sovereignty
• Organizing universities, local governments, pension funds, etc. to divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in Indigenous communities
• Removing institutional barriers and creating new pathways to Indigenous participation in shaping local, regional, and national political policies and processes
• The legacies of Indigenous autonomous zones/zones of resistance (e.g. Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, Fort Lawton/Daybreak Star, Chiapas, Standing Rock, etc. )
• Intersections of extraction, climate collapse, landback, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP)
• Understanding, and building coalitions to address, the Intersections of student debt, extractivism, and land-grab universities
• Storytelling, re-storying, and the importance of narrative in addressing and repairing the harms of colonialism and climate collapse
• Accessible and inclusive activism, organizing, and social movements, including
practical strategies for coalition-building
• Native-led campaigns to exonerate treaty fisher people & Leonard Peltier
Please send a 250-300-word abstract, 3-minute video, single-page graphic, or other short explanation of your work, and a short biography (no more than 100 words) to the WSU Social Justice Conference planning committee at wsusjcon@gmail.com by February 28th, 2022. Works in progress are very welcome! Please note in the body of your email if you prefer to present virtually or in-person from the WSU Vancouver campus.
The 4rd annual WSU Social Justice Conference will be offered virtually via Zoom with in-person networking and workshop opportunities available at the WSU Vancouver campus.