Call For Proposals: Social Workers Confronting Racial Injustice Conference
The UW-Madison School of Social Work invites workshop
proposals for the 2019 Social Workers Confronting Racial Injustice Conference: The Power of Disruption, which will take place on Friday, January 25, 2019. Each year, more than 500 social workers, students, and faculty come together for this one-day event held on the campus of UW-Madison. The conference challenges social workers to engage in racial and social justice action.
We encourage workshop proposals from practicing social workers, researchers, students, community organizers, and more and we seek a diverse line-up of presenters based on race, age, gender, and other forms of personal and social identity.
The keynote presenter for the 2019 conference will be Janaya Khan, a black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist, Afrofuturist, and social justice educator.
Given the popularity of the conference, the selection process is expected to be competitive. We have space for approximately 15 workshops.
This year’s theme is “The Power of Disruption.” Proposals may focus on different types of disruption, different forms of power that emerge as a result of disruption, social transformation, and considerations of what disruption is in a social work context. Proposals that focus on the following will be given preference:
- Types of disruption in addressing racial and social injustice: advocacy, challenging the system, radical approaches
- How disruption applies to social workers professionally and personally
- How one can undercut systems of power through disruption
- Disrupting the cycle of trauma
- Disruption across systems (micro, mezzo, macro)
- Indirect and direct disruption
- Proposals that interpret the theme in innovative ways are also encouraged