CEP Pre-Con Forum

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Friday, October 29, 2021 (Pre-Conference)
9:00am-6:00pm Atlantic Standard/San Juan Time

&
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 (Roundtable Sessions)
1:00pm-4:45pm Atlantic Standard/San Juan Time

This event will be held virtually. See https://www.ashe.ws/2021updates for more information.

Theme: Disciplinary Cartographies of Higher Education Praxis

In the liminal space between the land and the sea, the shoal emerges. Spatially, the shoal is a place of contact and encounter, “friction, and interaction among land and water” (Levan, 2012, pp. 211-212); a place where the movement of the ocean shifts from deeper to shallow depth. In her writings on the shoal, King (2019) reads the shoal as an interstitial, analytic, and methodological space, constituting moments of gather and assembly for frames conventionally sutured. The shoal, for King (2019), creates rupture. We understand CEP as a metaphorical shoal for geographic reordering and Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) placemaking in higher education.

 The primary purpose of CEP, as stated in its by-laws, is to facilitate the participation of scholars from ethnically and racially minoritized groups in the affairs of the Association. The CEP Pre-Conference Forum consists of two components: (1) the presentation of research/scholarly papers, roundtables, poster, and symposia and (2) the CEP Mentor-Protégé Program, which provides mentoring/professional development sessions (Note: Applications for mentors and proteges will be available through the ASHE website in late summer 2021).
 
The ASHE General Conference program will include sessions focused on race and ethnicity, as well as other aspects of diversity and equity. The CEP Pre-Conference Forum is distinct from the General Conference. It offers opportunities for attendees to focus intensively, extensively, and specifically on issues of race, ethnicity, and racism, and the intersections of racism with other interlocking systems of oppression. It recognizes the urgency of not only decentering whiteness, but imagining other ways of being and knowing that deliberately attend to the needs, dreams, and desires of BIPOC.

2021 Schedule

Wednesday, October 27
Roundtable Session #1 1:00pm-1:45pm
Roundtable Session #2 2:00pm-2:45pm
Roundtable Session #3 3:00pm-3:45pm
Roundtable Session #4 4:00pm-4:45pm
 
Friday, October 29
Welcome 10:00am-11:00am
Breakout Sessions 11:15am-12:30pm
Breakout Sessions 12:45pm-2:00pm
Breakout Sessions 2:30pm-3:45pm
Breakout Sessions 4:00pm-5:15pm
Business Meeting 5:30pm-7:00pm

Find the full schedule for the 2020 CEP Pre-Conference by clicking the button below:



If you missed the 2020 CEP Pre-Conference, you can purchase access at https://www.playbackashe.com/ through May 1, 2021.

2021 REGISTRATION

For questions about registration, contact the ASHE Office at office@ashe.ws or (702) 895-2737.
  • Current ASHE members are able to register for the Pre-Conference at discounted fees (see below).
  • Expired Members can register for the Pre-Conference at non-member rates.
    • Expired Members can reactivate your membership in the registration process to take advantage of discounted pricing.
  • Individuals with Guest accounts can register for the Pre-Conference at non-member rates.
    • Guests can become a member during the registration process to take advantage of discounted pricing.
Updated: April 16, 2021
   Early Registration: Through 8/31/21   Regular Registration: 9/1/21 - 10/1/21   Late Registration: 10/1/21-10/22/21 
ASHE Members  $              30  $              45  $              60
Non-Members  $              30  $              45  $              60


Registration for the Pre-Conference includes registration for the CEP Mentor-Protege Program. We encourage you to consider becoming a mentor or protege once registration for the MPP opens in July.

Contacts

2021 CEP Pre-Conference Program Co-Chairs:
Lucy Arellano, lucy.arellano@ttu.edu
Wilson Okello, okellow@uncw.edu
 

If you have technical or logistical questions about submitting a proposal or the pre-conference:

  • Email ASHE Conference Staff at conference@ashe.ws
  • Call the ASHE Office at (702) 895-2737

2021 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DEADLINE: APRIL 20, 2021, 4:00PM PACIFIC

In the liminal space between the land and the sea, the shoal emerges. Spatially, the shoal is a place of contact and encounter, “friction, and interaction among land and water” (Levan, 2012, pp. 211-212); a place where the movement of the ocean shifts from deeper to shallow depth. In her writings on the shoal, King (2019) reads the shoal as an interstitial, analytic, and methodological space, constituting moments of gather and assembly for frames conventionally sutured. The shoal, for King (2019), creates rupture. We understand CEP as a metaphorical shoal for geographic reordering and Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) placemaking in higher education.
 
The primary purpose of CEP, as stated in its by-laws, is to facilitate the participation of scholars from ethnically and racially minoritized groups in the affairs of the Association. The CEP Pre-Conference Forum consists of two components: (1) the presentation of research/scholarly papers, roundtables, poster, and symposia and (2) the CEP Mentor-Protégé Program, which provides mentoring/professional development sessions (Note: Applications for mentors and proteges will be available through the ASHE website in late summer 2021).
 
The ASHE General Conference program will include sessions focused on race and ethnicity, as well as other aspects of diversity and equity. The CEP Pre-Conference Forum is distinct from the General Conference. It offers opportunities for attendees to focus intensively, extensively, and specifically on issues of race, ethnicity, and racism, and the intersections of racism with other interlocking systems of oppression. It recognizes the urgency of not only decentering whiteness, but imagining other ways of being and knowing that deliberately attend to the needs, dreams, and desires of BIPOC.
 
Following the 2021 theme, CEP is a space of convergence, bridging critical theories and thoughtful praxis; it is an alternative space to think through settler colonial capture and the conceptual constraints that reproduce these practices in higher education; it is a site of creativity that invites new questions, embodied rhythms, and tools that might chart liberatory futures even as they contend with anti-Blackness and interlocking systems of oppression. Thus, we invite scholars to consider,
 

  1. In study with and support of BIPOC in higher education, what new modes of insight, intervention, and critique are made possible at the convergence of BIPOC histories, epistemologies, and methodologies?
  2. What shifts, departures, and unsettlings does BIPOC thought and aesthetics require of institutional practice, research procedures, and policy in the higher education context?

 
The CEP Pre-Conference Forum peer review process reflects high expectations of rigor and quality. Sessions selected are those that expand, challenge, and shift the field’s thinking,  practice, and praxis. We welcome proposals that engage in analyses of white supremacy, settler colonialism, and ethnocentrism through systemic lenses. Proposals which confront racism with other interlocking structures of marginalization and privilege (e.g., social class, ability, sex assigned at birth, gender identity and expression, sexuality, religion/spirituality/faith, and global/transnational) are especially encouraged.
 
Proposal formats accepted

Research Paper Yes
Scholarly Paper Yes
Interactive Symposium Yes
Self- Designed Paper Session Yes
Performance, Visual, and Digital Scholarship Yes
Roundtable Yes
Poster Yes


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