Inclusion Day
EVERY_BODY: Rethinking the Bodies that Belong
Januar y 23, 2014
York University, Keele Campus
York University’s Centre for Human Rights is hosting its 5th annual Inclusion Day Conference. This one-day conference will include sessions where participants will have the opportunity to explore the concepts of inclusion and belonging through a human rights lens.
Keynote speakers, session presenters and workshop facilitators will have the opportunity to engage attendees in critically analyzing notions of space and the bodies that are/are not included. We are inviting submissions that focus on human rights related areas, including but not limited to:
- Indigenous knowledge
- Intersectional identities
- Race and racialization
- Gender expression/expectations/performance
- (dis)Abilities
- Religion/Spirituality
- Knowledge production and pedagogy
- Athletics as a culture
- Politics of Space
- Sexual orientation
Presenters may submit proposals for a 60 minute session in one of the following formats:
- Roundtable discussion
- Do-it-Yourself (DIY) workshop
- Individual or panel presentation
- Interactive workshop
- Dialogue process
- Artistic/Creative presentation & discussion
Proposals must be submitted no later than Thursday, November 29, 2013 either by:
online submission: http://www.yorku.ca/rights/forms/view.php?id=24 or email submission to: jtcheng@yorku.ca or jglean@yorku.ca as a .doc or .pdf
For more information or to request the proposal in an alternate format contact:
Josephine Tcheng (jtcheng@yorku.ca)
Proposal form at: http://rights.info.yorku.ca/files/2012/08/Call-for-Proposals-2014.pdf
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