If you want to participate as audience or present a provocation – please RSVP here:

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Call for papers

Date and time: Sunday July 7, 2019, 9:00am-4:30pm

Location: Madrid, Spain

Proposal deadline: May 20, 2019

Call for Proposals:

Faculty and graduate students at all levels are encouraged to apply. Though this preconference is sponsored by the Emerging Scholars Network and emphasizes the collaboration and contributions of emerging scholars, we value the insights and perspectives of experienced academics who also wish to reimagine the university as it exists today.

For the first session, we request interested participants to submit an author bio and a 300-word abstract outlining their brief ten-minute provocations that offer insights, challenges, calls to action, or other reflections in response to the central question of this preconference: how must we rethink and reimagine the university today?

For the second session, we request interested workshop organizers to submit a CV and one-page proposal outlining their idea for a workshop related to the theme of this preconference.

Potential topics for provocations or workshops could include:

• Decolonizing the university
• Rethinking the publishing model
• Public scholarship and the university
• The future of finances within the Academy
• The tenure-track process
• University infrastructures
• The university’s responsibility to the environment

As this pre-conference will function as a workshop, involving the active participation of all conference attendees, all in attendance may request a letter to their home institution, in which we advocate for their merit to receive travel funding, regardless of whether they are one of the speakers presenting a provocation.

Please send all proposals and queries to Rachel Lara van der Merwe (University of Colorado Boulder) at rachel.vandermerwe [at] colorado.edu no later than May 10, 2019.