Call for papers/projects: Pedagogy Conference 2023
The Pedagogy Lab at the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) invites paper and project proposals for our free annual virtual pedagogy fellowship and conference, March 2-4, 2023. This year’s theme is Unruly Bodies. To submit a proposal, please fill out this form by February 10, 2023. Anyone who engages with pedagogy and teaching — not just those in traditional higher education pathways — are invited to present and/or attend the conference.
In the footsteps of feminist, race, embodiment scholars, and disability scholars like Sami Schalk, Moya Bailey, and Amanda Levitt, we aim to playfully explore what it is like to move through the world in marginalized bodies. Our bodies and minds have been through much during the past several years of public health crises, racial trauma, and attacks on the rights of queer and trans youth. Bodies deemed expendable by white supremacist patriarchy are conditioned to burn out or explode in academic spaces.
This conference seeks to address the following emerging questions in our pedagogical landscape: How can Black, brown, disabled, fat, and queer bodies, consistently under threat, find pleasure and joy? How do we go about showing up in digital spaces, in classrooms, and in intellectual communities with our vulnerable and powerful bodies?
Topics that respond to this theme may include but are not limited to:
Disability studies and accessibility
Trans and queer experience, rights, and policy
Public health
Fatness studies
Somatic pedagogies and techniques
Mindfulness in the classroom
Online learning and embodiment
Student experiences of stress, trauma, and precarity
Conference attendees can expect a range of experiences from academics, artists, and practitioners in addition to information on the Lab’s focus on increasing the quality, variety, and diversity of open educational resources and scholarship. Current plans for sessions include guided meditation, tarot card readings, live podcast sessions, embodiment workshops, and film screenings.
In the spirit of unruliness, participants may propose, imagine, and create both non-traditional and traditional academic sessions and experiences for this virtual conference, particularly sessions with components related to embodiment and movement. Submissions must include a title for a performance, workshop, session, paper, roundtable, or panel (or other format) and a 350-word maximum abstract. Please include the names and any affiliations of each presenter. Please direct any questions to Caitlin Gunn, caitlin_gunn@bbqplus.org