Call For Presentations: 2025 Annual Conference
The Center on Forced Displacement is inviting calls for presentations for our 2025 annual conference, to be held April 7th and 8th, 2025 on our campus in Boston, MA.
The conference will bring together interdisciplinary researchers, scholars, artists, practitioners, students, and engaged community members from around the world to discuss, debate and learn about the myriad challenges faced by forcibly displaced communities and ethical, practical, evidence-based and rigorous approaches to understand and address these challenges.
The conference seeks presentation submissions including, but not limited to, the themes related to force displacement that focus on Health and Technology; Art, Literature, and Translation; Faith and Displacement; Education and Pedagogy, Disabilities; Deportations; and Asylum.
We welcome submissions in the following formats:
Presentation or Panel
We welcome proposals for 5-15 mins conference presentations. The organizers especially welcome proposals for “no paper” and or “no powerpoint/low powerpoint (no more than 3 slides)” presentations in which presenters determine the most effective way of sharing their work without reading from a pre-written text or toggling through a powerpoint. We welcome both individual presentation proposals and full panel submissions (3 presentations of 12 minutes each and a moderator).
Workshops
We invite proposals for 60 min workshops with the constraint that the majority of the session must involve the direct engagement of the participants in activities. Workshops are more than welcome to interrogate the very question of what counts as ‘engagement,’ the nature of the relation between participation and observation, the active and the passive, and so forth. Workshops can be organized individually or collaboratively.
Story Lectures
We invite proposals for 20-minute story lectures that foreground processes of knowledge creation, share research or practice insights, reflect on the act of learning, consider potential pedagogical impact made possible by nontraditional methods of teaching/presenting, and many more. Story lectures can be organized individually or collaboratively.
Artistic Contributions
We invite proposals for artworks, performances, and installations to exhibit. Artists are welcome to submit individual or collaborative works.
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This conference will be held in-person with the opportunity to apply for a limited number of travel fellowships for early career scholars, available to colleagues in all disciplines and in all parts of the world. If applying for early career travel fellowship, please send a CV and a 1-2 page statement on how the conference fits your academic and/or research goals.
The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2025. Presentation submissions must include a title, abstract (max 350 words) and a short biography (max 250 words).
To apply, please email CFD Events and Communications Specialist Baiden Wright at baidenw@bu.edu