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American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference
San Antonio, Texas
Nov. 11-15, 2015
Conference Theme:
Where is the Love? Pondering Poetics, Passion, and Promise in
Education and Social Justice
These are tough times in educational spaces across the world as they
continue to be haunted by policies and practices entangled in
neoliberalism, neocolonialism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, ablism,
and a host of other inequitable relations that evoke feelings of
alienation, disconnection, fear, and distrust. As a community of
educators, researchers, activists, and learners who want to imagine
and engage education beyond these dynamics and in ways that advocate
for equity, sustainability, diversity and wellbeing for all people, we
talk surprisingly little about the role of love in the work that we do
or the better world that we are collectively reimagining and remaking.
And yet many who have worked tirelessly and even died trying to make
the world a better place have engaged love as a radical
theory/practice of social justice. Martin Luther King Jr. sought the
beloved community; bell hooks insists that choosing love is
counterhegemonic and revolutionary; Che Guevara talked of the love of
living humanity; and Sonia Sanchez points out that while fear compels
us to do what’s necessary to save ourselves, it is love that compels
us to think, act and engage with great regard and compassion with/for
others and for a better world.
We are interested in submissions that contemplate love as a radical
theory/practice of social justice in education. What is love? What
role does it play in teaching, learning, researching, building
solidarity within and across communities, border crossing, and
challenging injustices in educational spaces? What are the limitations
of love within the context of education and social justice work? What
are the relations between love and fear? Love and justice? Love and
passion, compassion and an ethic of care?
General Call:
The AESA Program Committee for 2015 invites proposals on all topics
related to the broad field of educational studies. Paper, panel and
performance proposals may be submitted for consideration by April 1,
2015. The committee welcomes proposals from a full range of
theoretical, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary perspectives that
include the following educational emphases: social foundations of
education, cultural studies of education, curriculum theory and
curriculum studies, comparative and international education studies,
and educational policy and leadership studies. This year we are also
particularly interested in submissions that foster dialogue across
generations of AESA members and between varied disciplinary
perspectives. While all proposals of AESA quality are welcome,
especially encouraged are those that specifically address this year’s
theme, which will be highlighted in the program.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
All proposals must be submitted electronically to the Online
Conference System (OCS) via the AESA website. It will open March 1,
2015 (5:00pm EST) and close on April 1, 2015 (11:59pm CST).
Participants are encouraged to plan ahead. Notifications of proposals'
acceptance or rejections will sent on or before July 15, 2015.
ABOUT AESA
The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) was established in
1968 as an international learned society for students, teachers,
research scholars, and administrators who are interested in the
foundations of education. AESA is a society primarily comprised of
college and university professors and students who teach and research
in the field of education utilizing one or more of the liberal arts
disciplines of philosophy, history, politics, sociology, anthropology,
or economics as well as comparative/international and cultural
studies. The purpose of social foundations study is to bring
intellectual resources derived from these areas to bear in developing
interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives in education, both
inside of and outside of schools.
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