CESJ Early Career Scholars Forum
Friday, April 5, 2019 from 9am-3pm
The Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of The American Educational Research Association (AERA) invites applications for the Pre-Conference CESJ Early Career Scholars Forum to be held Friday, April 5, 2019 from 9am-3pm. The forum is designed to support early-career tenure track faculty, non-tenure track faculty, and postdoctoral scholars. During the forum, participants will gather with scholar-mentors from CESJ to discuss various topics related to research and scholarship, teaching, community-engaged scholarship, and service. Our goals are to provide early career scholars with 1) a sense of community with scholars committed to critical scholarship and social justice; 2) mentorship from a range of scholars (junior and senior level colleagues and community scholars); 3) practical tools and strategies for navigating academic and public contexts; and 4) a chance to network and build community with other CESJ early career scholars.
This is the SIG’s fourth year offering this event and has been modeled after our highly successful Graduate Student Forum. The CESJ Early Career Scholar Forum will be a powerful gathering of scholars across the United States and Canada committed to producing and supporting critical scholarship and practice within education. The forum will include time with panelists, informal large group activities and interactive small group discussions. Refreshments will be provided. Our goal is to create a space that is both communal and intimate by providing many opportunities for interaction between participants and between participants and panelists.
Potential themes and topics of exploration during the forum may include:
Navigating different university contexts as a social justice scholar
Confronting, challenging, and dismantling white supremacy, neoliberalism, ableism, cis-heteropatriarchy and other systemic inequities
Publishing and advocating for justice-oriented scholarship
Centering wellness amidst the demands of activism, teaching, and scholarship
Finding mentors, community, and solidarity
Understanding the importance, risks, and strategies of public scholarship
Creating a successful tenure dossier as a social justice/critically engaged scholar
Defining one’s self as a social justice and/or critically engaged scholar
Accepted participants will be notified by Monday, March 4, 2019.
Please contact Nini Hayes (nini.hayes@wwu.edu) or Oscar Navarro (osnavarr@calpoly.edu) for additional information and/or if you require assistance with the application process.
https://goo.gl/forms/9yNCVbZS4bVVoBYq2
CESJ Early Career Scholars Forum Planning Committee
Nini Hayes, Western Washington University (Co-chair)
Oscar Navarro, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (Co-chair)
Katy Crawford-Garrett, University of New Mexico
Sherry Deckman, Lehman College of CUNY
Christian Brancho, University of La Verne
Friday, April 5, 2019 from 9am-3pm
The Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of The American Educational Research Association (AERA) invites applications for the Pre-Conference CESJ Early Career Scholars Forum to be held Friday, April 5, 2019 from 9am-3pm. The forum is designed to support early-career tenure track faculty, non-tenure track faculty, and postdoctoral scholars. During the forum, participants will gather with scholar-mentors from CESJ to discuss various topics related to research and scholarship, teaching, community-engaged scholarship, and service. Our goals are to provide early career scholars with 1) a sense of community with scholars committed to critical scholarship and social justice; 2) mentorship from a range of scholars (junior and senior level colleagues and community scholars); 3) practical tools and strategies for navigating academic and public contexts; and 4) a chance to network and build community with other CESJ early career scholars.
This is the SIG’s fourth year offering this event and has been modeled after our highly successful Graduate Student Forum. The CESJ Early Career Scholar Forum will be a powerful gathering of scholars across the United States and Canada committed to producing and supporting critical scholarship and practice within education. The forum will include time with panelists, informal large group activities and interactive small group discussions. Refreshments will be provided. Our goal is to create a space that is both communal and intimate by providing many opportunities for interaction between participants and between participants and panelists.
Potential themes and topics of exploration during the forum may include:
Navigating different university contexts as a social justice scholar
Confronting, challenging, and dismantling white supremacy, neoliberalism, ableism, cis-heteropatriarchy and other systemic inequities
Publishing and advocating for justice-oriented scholarship
Centering wellness amidst the demands of activism, teaching, and scholarship
Finding mentors, community, and solidarity
Understanding the importance, risks, and strategies of public scholarship
Creating a successful tenure dossier as a social justice/critically engaged scholar
Defining one’s self as a social justice and/or critically engaged scholar
Accepted participants will be notified by Monday, March 4, 2019.
Please contact Nini Hayes (nini.hayes@wwu.edu) or Oscar Navarro (osnavarr@calpoly.edu) for additional information and/or if you require assistance with the application process.
https://goo.gl/forms/9yNCVbZS4bVVoBYq2
CESJ Early Career Scholars Forum Planning Committee
Nini Hayes, Western Washington University (Co-chair)
Oscar Navarro, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (Co-chair)
Katy Crawford-Garrett, University of New Mexico
Sherry Deckman, Lehman College of CUNY
Christian Brancho, University of La Verne
Calling all Graduate Students: Critical Educators for Social Justice Graduate Student Forum 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019 | 9am - 3pm | Community location TBD | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) Special Interest Group (SIG) invites you to apply to the 11th Annual Graduate Student Forum (GSF) during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in Toronto, Canada. This forum is a designated session free of charge for approximately 25-30 doctoral students. The session includes a light breakfast, lunch, a panel of distinguished professors, as well as opportunities to interact with both panelists and participants.
The purpose of the Graduate Student Forum is to create space for doctoral students committed to and engaged in social justice and critical education research to:
Within our current political climate, learning how to be a critical scholar in turbulent times is more imperative than ever before. The continued efforts to dehumanize minoritized and marginalized communities necessitate charting radical paths to dismantle artificial borders between scholarship and activism by sustaining relationships with people, places, and critical counter-spaces. Educators committed to social justice praxis honor place and hold space to navigate and negotiate realms of liminality, criticality and fugitivity in the academy and beyond. In this intergenerational gathering, critical scholars and scholar-activists, or “scholactivists”, will (re)connect, (re)energize, and strive towards wellness, while building community and strategizing on how to tear down the walls that dehumanize, colonize and otherize our people, our places and planet.
This year’s theme is: Humanizing borderlands with radical love and critical clapback: Building bridges to hold space and honor place. To that end, some of the questions guiding our 11th Annual CESJ Graduate Student Forum include:
3. In our scholactivist strivings, how do we prevent falling into the trappings of the academy?
a. in advocating, representing, and serving minoritized students?
b. and, in producing, humanizing and decolonizing (P.H.D.) knowledge?
Application Process:
To be considered please fill out the online application by clicking the link or enter http://bit.ly/2SoE04Z in your browser and complete by: Friday, February 22, 2019 5pm PST.
Space is limited and interested participants should complete the application as soon as possible. Applicants are asked to provide the following information:
The CESJ Graduate Student Forum aims to gather a diverse group of graduate students whose work and backgrounds align with CESJ’s mission and values. We hope to have representation from different universities, stages in the graduate process, research interests, ethnic/racial groups (especially underrepresented Students of Color), gender identities, sexualities, and other identities.
Please direct any questions about the forum (GSF) to CESJgradforum@gmail.com.
In solidarity,
2019 CESJ GSF Planning Team
Malayka Neith Cornejo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Nikki Cristobal, University of Pittsburgh
Jawanza Kalonji Rand, University of Pittsburgh
Oscar Patrón, University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Covington, University of Iowa
Gabriela Vargas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nerizta Diaz-Cruz, University of New Mexico
Eric Washington, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 5, 2019 | 9am - 3pm | Community location TBD | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) Special Interest Group (SIG) invites you to apply to the 11th Annual Graduate Student Forum (GSF) during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in Toronto, Canada. This forum is a designated session free of charge for approximately 25-30 doctoral students. The session includes a light breakfast, lunch, a panel of distinguished professors, as well as opportunities to interact with both panelists and participants.
The purpose of the Graduate Student Forum is to create space for doctoral students committed to and engaged in social justice and critical education research to:
- Help prepare critical scholars for future scholarship and related work.
- Identify strategies and tools to share and take back to our colleagues, students, communities, and home institutions.
- Learn from scholars and peers about the possibilities and tensions that arise in social justice and critical education research.
Within our current political climate, learning how to be a critical scholar in turbulent times is more imperative than ever before. The continued efforts to dehumanize minoritized and marginalized communities necessitate charting radical paths to dismantle artificial borders between scholarship and activism by sustaining relationships with people, places, and critical counter-spaces. Educators committed to social justice praxis honor place and hold space to navigate and negotiate realms of liminality, criticality and fugitivity in the academy and beyond. In this intergenerational gathering, critical scholars and scholar-activists, or “scholactivists”, will (re)connect, (re)energize, and strive towards wellness, while building community and strategizing on how to tear down the walls that dehumanize, colonize and otherize our people, our places and planet.
This year’s theme is: Humanizing borderlands with radical love and critical clapback: Building bridges to hold space and honor place. To that end, some of the questions guiding our 11th Annual CESJ Graduate Student Forum include:
- How can we leverage/engage/activate radical love and critical clapback to sustain relationships across borderlands in the academy and beyond?
- In humanizing borderlands, what strategies might doctoral students engage to tear down walls, build bridges, hold space and honor place in hostile climates?
3. In our scholactivist strivings, how do we prevent falling into the trappings of the academy?
a. in advocating, representing, and serving minoritized students?
b. and, in producing, humanizing and decolonizing (P.H.D.) knowledge?
Application Process:
To be considered please fill out the online application by clicking the link or enter http://bit.ly/2SoE04Z in your browser and complete by: Friday, February 22, 2019 5pm PST.
Space is limited and interested participants should complete the application as soon as possible. Applicants are asked to provide the following information:
- General background
- Current academic status and institutional background
- Research interests
- What you hope to gain from your participation in the forum
The CESJ Graduate Student Forum aims to gather a diverse group of graduate students whose work and backgrounds align with CESJ’s mission and values. We hope to have representation from different universities, stages in the graduate process, research interests, ethnic/racial groups (especially underrepresented Students of Color), gender identities, sexualities, and other identities.
Please direct any questions about the forum (GSF) to CESJgradforum@gmail.com.
In solidarity,
2019 CESJ GSF Planning Team
Malayka Neith Cornejo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Nikki Cristobal, University of Pittsburgh
Jawanza Kalonji Rand, University of Pittsburgh
Oscar Patrón, University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Covington, University of Iowa
Gabriela Vargas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nerizta Diaz-Cruz, University of New Mexico
Eric Washington, University of Pittsburgh
Apply Now! The 2018 Early Career Scholar Forum Radical Dreaming for Radical Change will be held on April 13 from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm.
This year's forum will focus on several critical issues facing critical scholars including teaching and working around white resistance, navigating social media as a public intellectual, publishing, and self-care just to name a few. Participants will have a chance to receive advice and perspectives from advanced critical scholars such as Dr. Tracy Buenavista, Dr. Brian Jones, Dr. Veronica Valez, Dr. Teddy Chao, and many more.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
CESJ is excited to invite all interested faculty and postdoctoral fellows to apply for this opportunity to network and learn with other critical educators in the profession. Please access this link to apply:
https://goo.gl/forms/G0ZgbTgZ4FopeXbB3
The application deadline has been extended to midnight PST Monday, March 5th.
This amazing professional opportunity is free of charge, so space is limited.
Please share this event with any interested parties in your network. The committee is excited to present an event that will be personally and professionally beneficial! If you have any questions, please contact cesjearlycareerscholarsforum@gmail.com.
This year's forum will focus on several critical issues facing critical scholars including teaching and working around white resistance, navigating social media as a public intellectual, publishing, and self-care just to name a few. Participants will have a chance to receive advice and perspectives from advanced critical scholars such as Dr. Tracy Buenavista, Dr. Brian Jones, Dr. Veronica Valez, Dr. Teddy Chao, and many more.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
CESJ is excited to invite all interested faculty and postdoctoral fellows to apply for this opportunity to network and learn with other critical educators in the profession. Please access this link to apply:
https://goo.gl/forms/G0ZgbTgZ4FopeXbB3
The application deadline has been extended to midnight PST Monday, March 5th.
This amazing professional opportunity is free of charge, so space is limited.
Please share this event with any interested parties in your network. The committee is excited to present an event that will be personally and professionally beneficial! If you have any questions, please contact cesjearlycareerscholarsforum@gmail.com.
AERA 2017 SIG Joint Reception (or MEGA META RECEPTION)
Please see the flyer below about this year's FIRST EVER SIG Joint Reception (or MEGA META RECEPTION).
We hope to see you all there!
When: Saturday, April 29th at 8:30pm to 11pm
Where: Rita's on the River, Rio Room
245 E. Commerce, Suite 100
San Antonio, TX 78205
What: SIG Joint Reception (or MEGA META RECEPTION)
Who (Sponsoring SIGS): Critical Educators for Social Justice, Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Education, Queer Studies
Please spread the word!
We hope to see you all there!
When: Saturday, April 29th at 8:30pm to 11pm
Where: Rita's on the River, Rio Room
245 E. Commerce, Suite 100
San Antonio, TX 78205
What: SIG Joint Reception (or MEGA META RECEPTION)
Who (Sponsoring SIGS): Critical Educators for Social Justice, Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Education, Queer Studies
Please spread the word!
The 2017 CESJ Graduate Student Forum "Hope and Resistance: Strategies for Social Justice Scholarship and Praxis"
The Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) Special Interest Group (SIG) will offer the ninth annual pre-conference Graduate Student Forum (GSF) at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in San Antonio, TX. This forum is a designated session free of charge for ~ 20 doctoral students. The purpose of the Graduate Student Forum is to create space for doctoral students committed to and engaged in social justice and critical education research to:
1. Help prepare critical scholars for future scholarship and related work.
2. Identify strategies and tools to share and take back to our colleagues, students, communities, and home institutions.
3. Learn from scholars and peers about the possibilities and tensions that arise in social justice and critical education research.
The session includes a light breakfast, full lunch, and a panel of distinguished professors with opportunities to interact informally with panelists and other participants. The GSF will take place Thursday April 27, 2017 8a-1p. For more information about registration and deadlines, please see our news posting here.
1. Help prepare critical scholars for future scholarship and related work.
2. Identify strategies and tools to share and take back to our colleagues, students, communities, and home institutions.
3. Learn from scholars and peers about the possibilities and tensions that arise in social justice and critical education research.
The session includes a light breakfast, full lunch, and a panel of distinguished professors with opportunities to interact informally with panelists and other participants. The GSF will take place Thursday April 27, 2017 8a-1p. For more information about registration and deadlines, please see our news posting here.
The 2017 CESJ Early Career Scholar Forum: Navigating and Surviving the Academy as a Social Justice Scholar
The Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG will offer a pre-conference Early Career Scholar Forum: Navigating and Surviving the Academy as a Social Justice Scholar on Thursday, April 27, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Location: TBA at the upcoming 2017 AERA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.
This pre-conference forum is for early career scholars (non-tenured). The forum is open to early-career tenure track faculty, non-tenure track faculty, and postdoctoral scholars. During the forum, participants will gather with scholar-mentors from CESJ to discuss various topics related to research and scholarship, teaching, community-engaged scholarship, and service. The purpose of the forum is to provide early career scholars with 1) a sense of community with scholars committed to critical scholarship and social justice; 2) mentorship from a range of scholars (junior and senior level colleagues); 3) practical tools and strategies for navigating academic contexts; 4) a chance to network and build community with other CESJ early career scholars. This is the SIG’s second year offering this event. For more information about registration and deadlines, please see our news posting here.
This pre-conference forum is for early career scholars (non-tenured). The forum is open to early-career tenure track faculty, non-tenure track faculty, and postdoctoral scholars. During the forum, participants will gather with scholar-mentors from CESJ to discuss various topics related to research and scholarship, teaching, community-engaged scholarship, and service. The purpose of the forum is to provide early career scholars with 1) a sense of community with scholars committed to critical scholarship and social justice; 2) mentorship from a range of scholars (junior and senior level colleagues); 3) practical tools and strategies for navigating academic contexts; 4) a chance to network and build community with other CESJ early career scholars. This is the SIG’s second year offering this event. For more information about registration and deadlines, please see our news posting here.
CESJ SIG BIZ MEETING & SOCIAL LOCATION AND DATE CHANGE
Calling all social justice artists, musicians, and poets! This year, we are trying something a bit different for our CESJ social by hosting an Open Mic Night on Sunday, April 10, 9-11. We invite you to consider lending your musical, poetic, and other artistic gifts to our theme: "Same Song, Different Verse: Art & Activism in Social Justice Education". Activist art can help us make sense of the past, present, and future of the enduring struggles, recurring questions, and ubiquitous themes in social justice education—and taps into an important part of us that doesn't get much air time at AERA.
What makes you despair? What gives you hope? How can the arts help sustain our education justice work? Please sign up to perform here: http://goo.gl/forms/InJB3ToAQn Do it now. We know you want to.
Everyone is welcome to the event. There's plenty of space, so no need to RSVP to attend. There will be FREE FOOD, of course, including options for vegans and gluten-free folks. We’re hosting it at the African American Civil War Museum, just one mile north of the convention center. It's also easily accessible from the metro. Just take the green/yellow line north to the U Street stop (two stops north of the Convention Center) and exit on the 11th street side. You'll take the escalator or elevator to a small plaza and the museum is just to your left (the east) across the street. Doors open at 8:30 after our Business Meeting.
Speaking of which... don't forget to join us for our Business Meeting beforehand. We’ll give a brief presentation about the state of the SIG, then turn it over to an amazing panel who will discuss what they see as themes and challenges connecting the past, present, and future of social justice and education. We’re thrilled to have Marta Baltodano, Ed Curammeng, Chris Emdin, Alma Itzé Flores, Rita Kohli, and Zeus Leonardo join us. Hope to see you there! (Did we mention free CESJ water bottles will go to the first twenty-five members who show up?)
CESJ BUSINESS MEETING
Sunday, April 10, 6:30-8:30
@ Convention Center Level Two Room 201*
CESJ SOCIAL - OPEN MIC NIGHT
Sunday, April 10, 8:30-11
@ African American Civil War Museum*
***Note this is a LOCATION AND DATE CHANGE from the original program!***
What makes you despair? What gives you hope? How can the arts help sustain our education justice work? Please sign up to perform here: http://goo.gl/forms/InJB3ToAQn Do it now. We know you want to.
Everyone is welcome to the event. There's plenty of space, so no need to RSVP to attend. There will be FREE FOOD, of course, including options for vegans and gluten-free folks. We’re hosting it at the African American Civil War Museum, just one mile north of the convention center. It's also easily accessible from the metro. Just take the green/yellow line north to the U Street stop (two stops north of the Convention Center) and exit on the 11th street side. You'll take the escalator or elevator to a small plaza and the museum is just to your left (the east) across the street. Doors open at 8:30 after our Business Meeting.
Speaking of which... don't forget to join us for our Business Meeting beforehand. We’ll give a brief presentation about the state of the SIG, then turn it over to an amazing panel who will discuss what they see as themes and challenges connecting the past, present, and future of social justice and education. We’re thrilled to have Marta Baltodano, Ed Curammeng, Chris Emdin, Alma Itzé Flores, Rita Kohli, and Zeus Leonardo join us. Hope to see you there! (Did we mention free CESJ water bottles will go to the first twenty-five members who show up?)
CESJ BUSINESS MEETING
Sunday, April 10, 6:30-8:30
@ Convention Center Level Two Room 201*
CESJ SOCIAL - OPEN MIC NIGHT
Sunday, April 10, 8:30-11
@ African American Civil War Museum*
***Note this is a LOCATION AND DATE CHANGE from the original program!***
EVENTS
Click on the links below for information about our AERA events:
the Business Meeting & Social, the Graduate Student Forum, and our new Early Career Scholar Forum.
the Business Meeting & Social, the Graduate Student Forum, and our new Early Career Scholar Forum.
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Business Meeting & Social Committee
We are seeking members to organize and facilitate the Business Meeting & Social. The purpose of this event is to have senior and junior faculty network and engage in dialogue about topics including tenure and promotion, and social activism in academia... and then to build community with a purely social event. |
Graduate Student Forum Committee
The purpose of this event is to connect social justice oriented professors to graduate students for professional development about scholarship, grants, jobs, tenure, activism, and other relevant topics. |
Community Event Committee
We are seeking members to help organize the Community Event. The purpose of the community event to learn, share and/or engage in community activism in the local area surrounding AERA. |