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>> Study in Action -Community Group Workshop and Presentation Call for Submissions!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 07:07 PM Community Group Submission Guidelines:
1. Workshop proposals should account for a two hour time slot. These proposals could be a game, activity or presentation that generates thoughts and discussions on any issue falling within the conference themes.
2. Panel discussions will last two hours and include up to four presenters. The panels will be put together by conference members (unless we receive special requests otherwise) and will include both students and representatives from community organizations. Panel discussion proposals should account for a twenty minute time slot and be prepared to engage in the question and answer period. Presenters are welcome to present their group and the work they do in this twenty minutes, or give a more thorough account of a specific issue or case they are focusing on. 3. Submissions and presentations are welcome in both French and English ----------------------------------------------------- Study in Action: Linking Undergraduate Students and Activism, April 18th - 20th, 2008 CALL FOR Community Group Workshop and Presentation SUBMISSIONS! ----------------------------------------------------- This is an invitation for community groups and community organizers to submit workshop and presentation proposals for the second annual Study in Action conference, an undergraduate initiative hosted by QPIRG Concordia and designed to link students and community activism. The conference will create a space for undergraduate students to present research, develop greater knowledge of social and environmental issues and build ties with community organizations. Panel presentations showcasing undergraduate research will provide students with the opportunity to present and develop their university work. Workshops and presentations by community organizations, will allow students to make tangible links between university education and social justice organizing. This year’s overarching theme is Social and Environmental Justice, with suggested sub-topics including: colonialism, capitalism, and migration; sexuality; health and industrialization; gender; cultural imperialism; food justice; race, class, and the environment; labour and work; art activism; bodies and culture; and cities and social justice. With a hope of energizing both communities in question, the conference also seeks to create concrete links between grassroots organization and undergraduate work by providing research and volunteer bases for community organizations to call upon. Attendance at the conference will be open to all and free. ----------------------------------------------------- Community Group Submission Guidelines:
1. Workshop proposals should account for a two hour time slot. These proposals could be a game, activity or presentation that generates thoughts and discussions on any issue falling within the conference themes.
2. Panel discussions will last two hours and include up to four presenters. The panels will be put together by conference members (unless we receive special requests otherwise) and will include both students and representatives from community organizations. Panel discussion proposals should account for a twenty minute time slot and be prepared to engage in the question and answer period. Presenters are welcome to present their group and the work they do in this twenty minutes, or give a more thorough account of a specific issue or case they are focusing on.
3. Submissions and presentations are welcome in both French and English.
Honorarium
Study in Actionis offering $100-$200 honorariums to conference presenters from community organizations. This is in an effort to recognize and value to work of community organizers. The amount of the honorarium is to be determined and will depend on outside funding and the number of presenters.
Submission Deadlines and Information All submissions must be received on or before March 24th 2008. Submissions can be sent to StudyinAction@gmail.com
----------------------------------------------------- A word about the conference theme: why social and environmental justice? Movements for social justice include all peoples' struggles for self-determination and against any form of social and economic domination, whether appearing as global power imbalance or local injustice. Environmental justice-based approaches recognize that the effects of environmental degradation are not equally distributed across the world's peoples; instead, the brunt of environment-based harm is borne by racialized communities, working class and impoverished people, indigenous peoples, and other populations marginalized by global systems of domination and inequality. Therefore, environmental justice requires that analysis and organizing around environmental issues follow principles of anti-oppression (or, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, anti-classist, and anti-neoliberal principles), and seeks pro-environment solutions that help redress inequality along all axes of domination. The organizers of Study in Action hope to bring these two approaches together, first, to counter the belief that struggles against environmental destruction and social domination must be held apart, second, to highlight the concrete ways in which these struggles already play out together, and third, to point to potentials for increasing understanding, solidarity, and cooperation between social movements and pro-environment movements. _______________________________________________________ Tabling There will be opportunities to set up information tables at the conference and we will be getting in touch again, once our schedule is finalized, to invite community groups to participate in a tabling fair.
For more information about Study in Action, email us at StudyinAction@gmail.com or check out our website at qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction |
