8:06 p.m.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: AAACS 2017
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Priority Deadline: Sunday, December 11, 2016
Cut-Off for Submissions: Sunday, January 8, 2017
Curriculum Matters: Race, Place, and Belonging “South” of the Border
Curriculum matters. Race matters. Place matters. Epistemologies matter. And matter also
matters of indigeneity, immigration and epistemicide—of the South, at the borders, and
beyond. Through this year’s conference theme—inspired, too, by the place of our convening
and work of our colleagues (t)here; we invite participants to inquire, critique, ponder,
dream, converse and create together through and from attention to these matters. Herein,
we aim to not only continue from last year conversations regarding our ethical, and
historical, engagements (AAACS 2016), but also to further those of our affiliate and
sister organizations respecting the current tasks of the curriculum theorist (IAACS 2015),
where curriculum theory and its labor, in fact, stand in the present moment (Bergamo
2016)—as well as in those to come; and demands to “colour” curriculum, interrogating
places therein of power, privilege and supremacy (C&P 2016). We, too, seek
responsiveness to/in a contemporary scene wherein much is contested, conflicted,
complexified, and produced as nonexistent among us, particularly perhaps in the
U.S./“America”, as pertains to race, place, indigeneity, immigration and
epistemology—especially concerning difference, equity, solidarity and social and cognitive
justice; and possibly no more so than in the “othered” South.
For example, while restorations of particular nations of the Global North have been
acknowledged and taken up—and this, via the curriculum—in Canada, which necessarily
involves listening to and learning from indigenous knowledges (the fruit of which was so
beautifully shared at IAACS 2015), as well as in Australia (the place of our upcoming
IAACS 2018 convening); such efforts are virtually nonexistent in the US, where one could
argue indigeneity is largely still rendered invisible and thus inarticulable. And we
suffer still in this context without any redress—with even much repressive
regress—respecting generations of racial violence, suffering and oppression. Such
questions too might be brought to bear at the borders, as it were, liminal spaces and
fluid if not fractured places wherein epistemologies of the South, and of language and of
citizenship, are deeply implicated, and such also with respect to education, curriculum
and pedagogy.
We welcome, of course, as always, proposals on any current curriculum studies scholarship,
and encourage provocative, stimulating and surprising conference formats; critical and
creative conversations among us that may initiate healing and transformation, and illumine
new paths and possibilities for us from within our midst.
Conference and Program Committee:
Conference Committee Chair:
Liz Janson, UMass Dartmouth
ejanson@umassd.edu<mailto:ejanson@umassd.edu>
Conference Committee Members:
Carmelia Silva, UMass Dartmouth
Paul Eaton, Sam Houston State University
Laura Jewitt, UT-Brownsville
Jim Jupp, Georgia Southern University (and Program Consultant)
2017 Conference Site: University of Texas at San Antonio
Site Co-Directors: Theodorea Regina Berry
Bekisizwe S. Ndimande
Proposals are being accepted through
AAACS 2017 Proposal Guide
To submit your proposal, please follow the link: https://goo.gl/forms/EPUE2pKTZstyHObh1
For questions/inquiry regarding the conference and/or call for proposals, please email
conference and program committee email at:
AAACScallforproposals@gmail.com<mailto:AAACScallforproposals@gmail.com>
Your proposal automatically registers you as a member of AAACS—there are presently no
dues. With membership in AAACS (www.aaacs.org<http://www.aaacs.org/>;) comes
membership in IAACS (The International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum
Studies).
Theodorea Regina Berry, Ed.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and
Director, Recruitment and Engagement
Graduate School
Associate Professor of Curriculum
Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
College of Education and Human Development
The University of Texas at San Antonio
1 UTSA Circle
San Antonio TX 78249
210-458-7841
Senior Co-Editor and Founding Editor
International Journal of Curriculum and Social Justice<http://www.ijcsj.org/>
Associate Editor
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing