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As part of the annual conference of CASWE within the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the QSEC SIG invites submissions from scholars, students, activists, educators, artists, and others who research or otherwise engage sexual and gender minority or queer issues in the study of education and culture. The SIG encourages submissions from the wide-ranging topics presently constituting queer research and practice in education and culture from cross-cultural, historical, political, policy, comparative, and other perspectives. The intention is to cover a diversity of topics, inviting stances and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. QSEC also encourages a variety of types of submissions, including academic papers from across disciplines, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts, and other alternative formats.
Dans le cadre de la conférence annuelle de l’association canadienne pour l’étude sur les femmes et l’éducation (ACÉFÉ) au sein de la société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation (SCÉÉ) L'étude de l’allosexualité dans l’éducation et culture (ÉAÉC) invite des chercheurs, des étudiants, des activistes, des éducateurs, des artistes et autres à effectuer des recherches ou à engager de quelque manière que ce soit une minorité sexuelle ou de genre, et les questions relatives à l’éducation et à la culture. ÉAÉC encourage les soumissions sur les sujets variés constituant actuellement la recherche et la pratique « queer » en éducation et en culture des points de vue multiculturel, historique, politique, comparatif et autres. L'intention est de couvrir une diversité de sujets, en invitant des positions et des réflexions à partir d'une variété de perspectives temporelles, géographiques et interdisciplinaires. ÉAÉC encourage également une variété de types de soumissions, y compris des articles académiques de toutes disciplines, des soumissions créatives, des performances, des récits, des arts visuels et d'autres formats alternatifs.
UPCOMING EVENTS
OCT
Oct 9th, 2024
APPLICATIONS DUE for 2025 Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE/ SCÉÉ) Conference
The Queer Studies in Education and Culture (QSEC) Special Interest Group (SIG) invites paper submissions for the 2025 CSSE Annual Meeting!
Our call for papers this year, “Foregrounding Queer & Trans Youth Futures in Canadian Schools & Beyond” responds to current iterations of state and educational violence directed at 2SLGBTQIA+ youth across Canada.
In Canada, we have entered into a period of increased backlash against even the mention of gender and sexuality in schools. Several provinces have instituted bans that prevent access to gender-affirming healthcare and instituted restrictions on curriculum and teacher practice. This policing of queer and trans issues in schools is happening alongside renewed efforts to curb sex education and undercut anti-racist teaching and learning.
In New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, school policies have been a growing site of queer and trans violence. These legislative moves are bolstered by a burgeoning parental rights movement that aims to ‘protect’ youth from learning about ‘gender ideology’ in schools. Though framed as a movement to protect and care for youth, the parental rights movement is based on adults’ desires for children to grow up in accordance with normative expectations and, specifically, to not grow up to be trans.
As queer and trans people, education scholars, and parents, we are having feelings about this backlash as well as how trans children and youth are being positioned in mainstream and legislative conversations. Our call for papers seeks to centre how we address this political climate in our work and lives. We particularly invite submissions that:
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uplift Two Spirit, Black, and Indigenous youth perspectives and voices;
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amplify voices and agency of queer and trans youth;
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speakbacks/rage/ambivalence/desires/euphorias as political praxis;
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foreground queer and trans youth futures, joy, and/or utopias amid dystopian conditions, in schools and beyond;
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reconceptualize educational policy, practice, and structures to support 2SLGBTQIA+ justice;
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and consider how queer studies in education and culture can continue to challenge hierarchies and resist homonormativity.
Proposals are due: Wednesday, October 9, 2024!
Please see for instructions on how to submit: https://csse-scee.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Call-for-Proposals-E-2025-1.pdf.**
We seek proposals from a wide range of topics drawing on cross-curricular, historical, political, policy, comparative, temporal, geographical, and transdisciplinary perspectives. Along with traditional academic paper presentations, we encourage proposals for workshops, performances, storytelling, visual arts, audio arts, sound studies, and other alternative formats.
If you have questions about a particular format, please contact the conference planning committee: Kaschka Watson, kwatson@brocku.ca, Lucy Fowler, lucy.fowler@umanitoba.ca, Cameron Crawley tcarley@uwo.ca
*** QSEC is committed to building a community of queer scholars in education. As such, anyone who submits a proposal is expected to review at least one submission for this year’s conference.
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