Call for Abstracts
Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars' 17th Biennial Conference
Theme: "Global Feminist Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Scholarship, Advocacy, Activism, Creativity, and Pedagogy"
Cayman Islands June 12-14, 2025
The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS) will meet in the Cayman Islands from June 12-14, 2025 for our Biennial conference that will be hosted by the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) under the theme "Global Feminist Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Scholarship, Advocacy, Activism, Creativity, and Pedagogy."
The concerns about the quality of leadership in the Americas and across the globe, have increased substantially in the last decade and have only intensified in recent years. Some major areas under attack include: threats to democracy, freedoms, basic human rights, the safety of marginalized groups, teaching, activism, and scholarship. Given the specific challenges to education, the press, and other sites of knowledge dissemination, the onus on educators and scholars to engage these questions and provide leadership is even more urgent. For its 2025 conference, The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites proposals that address the role and place of feminist leadership in scholarship, advocacy, teaching, and a range of related areas.
We welcome proposals that engage how leadership may be understood or how it manifests in democratic principles, education, literature, and the creative and performing arts. We also invite proposals that address environmental and political justice, sustainability and health for marginalized groups and communities. Participants are encouraged to address and interrogate the strategies employed by feminist scholars globally to alter conventional practices, subvert barriers, and insist upon changes that benefit all peoples with the goal of creating more just societies.
Suggested Subfields
Gendering politics/gender and politics
Empowering female leaders
Transformational Feminist Leadership in the Global South
Womanist Spirituality: Modes of Resistance
Allyship & Activism Across Identity Politics
Poetry, Fiction, and Other Creative Modes of Resistance
The Paradoxes of Power and Authority
Leadership in Higher education: Challenges and Opportunities
Global Perspectives on Feminist Leadership
Women in film and media
Literary representations of feminist leadership and practices
Black women's rights
Gender and Environmental justice
Women's Movements, Activism and Advocacy
Women, Labour, and Advancement
Issues in K-12 education
Youth Activism as a site for leadership
Gender Identities and Sexual Freedoms
We encourage the submission of full panels (fully constituted panels of 3 or 4 presenters, including titles of presentation of each panelist), individual papers, and creative pieces. In your proposal, please indicate which of the above topic(s) you will address. All submissions should include an abstract and a brief bio for each presenter. Please email your abstract to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDf3HR5O4WXDZEHYhuNhuZ22iJTTFrEYTIxU82MStB1t-skg/viewform?usp=preview, along with your name, title, email address, and institution.
To submit a proposal and to present at the conference, your ACWWS membership must be current. If you have any questions, please contact: acwwsconference@gmail.com.
The deadline to submit abstracts of 300 words or less is January 31, 2025. We welcome proposals for panels in English, Spanish and French.
Important Dates:
- Deadline for submission: January 31, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2025
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