Every year, the Social Justice Program at the University Community Service Center presents the Student Activist Conference. The conference is a one-day opportunity to bring students together to develop skills relating to activism. The conference exists to challenge participants to think critically on what it means to be someone who works on social justice issues, or what it means to be an activist.
This year, the Social Justice Program has decided to try something new; you are invited to propose a workshop for this year’s Student Activist Conference. Please take the time to fill out this form, and use your imagination. What does your ideal workshop look like? What questions do you want to see posed? How do you want to see participants challenged? Please be as specific as possible. Your workshop can be a training, a conversation, a creative project, or anything else you can imagine.
This year’s conference will be around the theme “Working Across Difference.” This theme is intended to give shape to the entire event. Your proposal must fit into this theme; however, you can engage with the theme as you see fit. What does it mean to work across difference? How is it that a community or organizer’s difference makes its struggle unique or important? How can people work across the boundaries of race, class, ethnicity, country of origin, gender, sexual orientation, etc.? Are these boundaries necessary or do they hinder a community’s ability to organize and effect change? Can people only organize and work on social justice issues in community of which they are a part, or can someone from outside a community still effect change?
The proposal form is due Wednesday, January 6, 2010. The sooner you turn in your proposal the better! Proposals turned in before December 20, 2009 will be given priority, and a chance to be revised.
Questions, concerns, and for more information, contact David Klein: djk@uchicago.edu
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