I am writing to remind everyone that the deadline to submit to the Decolonial Conference is October 3. The conference’s theme is LIBERATION AND (COUNTER)INSURGENCY: ENTANGLED HISTORIES OF GENOCIDE, SCHOLASTICIDE, AND FASCISM.
We encourage paper, symposium, and workshop proposals to be linked and accountable to ongoing struggles, proposals that break away from academic conventions. We are particularly interested in amplifying those directly involved in organizing and movement building, as well as interrogating and resisting counterinsurgency. Topics may include (but not limited to):
Analyses of counterinsurgency within the context of the ongoing genocide and scholasticide in Gaza.
Southern California as a historical site of resistance, from the Watts Uprising to the anti-ICE LA Uprising in 2025.
Insurgent Thought and Praxis
Critical analyses of pro-Palestine, anti-zionist, and anti-genocide solidarity movements.
Dialogical and political education workshops (coalition building and direct action).
Interconnected struggles and the counterinsurgency deployed to fragment radical movements.
Academia’s complicity and active participation in genocide.
Limits of institutional reform.
Pedagogy of Liberation and Critical Ethnic Studies
Combatting reactionary movements.
Indigenous resistance and abolitionist movements.
Feminist thought and praxis.
The racial regime and its carceral logics and praxis of domination within the contexts of insurgencies.
Intellectual genealogies of counterinsurgency and insurgency that inform the present.
Carcerality and the fascist present.
Interrogation of the relationship between racial capitalism, fascism, imperialism, and colonialism.
Here is the complete call for proposals:
https://www.decolonialconference.org/call-for-proposals