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MA Partnership for Diversity in Education Annual Conference (Regis College)

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Get ready to connect, learn, and grow at the MPDE Building Bridges Annual Conference! We’re excited to invite you to this premier event, which will be held on Friday, November 1, 2024, at Regis College. This conference will unite thought leaders and professionals across the Commonwealth for insightful sessions, networking, and growth opportunities through our expanded conference, which will introduce workshop breakout sessions.

We are excited to hear from our Keynote speaker, Dr. Ruby Ababio Fernandez, Co-Author of Shifting Self and System and Executive Vice President of Programming and Development at Courageous Conversation.

Member districts will receive TWO complimentary tickets, and additional tickets are $100 per member district. Tickets for non-member districts are $200. Please register here on Eventbrite. Just so you know, registration is non-refundable.

We are excited to see you on November 1. If you have any questions, please contact us at masspartnershipfordiversity@gmail.com.

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Massachusetts Partnership for Diversity in Education Annual Building Bridges Conference (Weston, MA)

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MPDE is hosting their annual Building Bridges Conference on Friday, November 3, 2023. This fall, the theme is Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Building a Culture of Why. The conference will be held at Regis College Weston, MA 9:00 am -3:00 pm. Please note that the Member Rate is $75, with three seats included at NO Cost as part of membership.  The Non-Member Rate is $100.  *For Registration questions, please email masspartnershipfordiversity@gmail.com. You may register for the conference here.

Liberating Temporality and Spatiality — GCWS Graduate Student Conference 2023

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March 4-5, 2023

Location

32 VASSAR ST. Cambridge, MA
Join in-person or online: www.gcws.mit.edu

Conference Theme

Time and space, while often seen as linear and confined concepts, can be stretched, altered, and reconfigured. We move through time and space in fits & bursts; some ways of moving and being are deemed normative or “good” and brought to the forefront, while others might be marginalized and cast aside. Here, we instead cast aside normative ideas of time and and space to focus on how liberating the concepts of temporality and spatiality can help us imagine and create new futures, communities, and ways of being. This conference seeks to look at liberatory conceptions of spatiality and temporality, particularly in the contexts of racial justice, abolition, disability rights, queer/trans ecologies, human development, death studies and practices, embodiment, community building, and more.

How might liberation encourage, if not require, new orientations to the concepts of time and space? What is the messiness that exists in these spaces of creation?

Some questions the conference seeks to explore:

  • How can the temporality and spatiality of subcultures be used to assess political and cultural change?
  • How do space and spatiality construct belonging, community and identity? Reciprocally, how do the concepts of belonging, community, and identity impact and construct space and spatiality?
  • What does access and openness look like in truly liberatory spaces?
  • How do subcultures or ideological communities produce alternative temporalities and encourage imagination of how our futures can be different from chrononormativity?
  • How do crises change our understanding of longevity, liberation, and community?
  • What is the interplay between alternative and hegemonic norms of time and space?

We look forward to welcoming our many graduate student panelists, film makers, artists, and presenters!

For more information: https://www.gcws.mit.edu/gcws-events-list/liberating-temporality-spatiality