This year’s event is titled, “Schooling as Violence: The (im)Possibilities of ‘Equity’ and ‘Justice’ in Education.”

This year’s keynote, which begins at 1 p.m. in the Education Building’s Wisconsin Idea Room, is being delivered by kihana miraya ross, an assistant professor from Northwestern University. Ross’ keynote is titled, “Wake Work in Education: Fugitive Resistance in the Afterlife of School Segregation.”

All events are being held in the Education Building’s Wisconsin Idea Room (room 159) unless otherwise noted.

Schedule

• 8:45 a.m. — Welcome and Opening Remarks from Nancy Kendall, chair, Department of Educational Policy Studies, and the conference planning committee
• 8:50 a.m. — Opening Panel: Unpacking Violence: Making Sense of School Violence within Local, National, and Global Contexts. Panelists: Austin Gladden, Elementary Education Pre-Service Program/Curriculum & Instruction; Keisha Lindsay, Associate Professor, Political Science; Gender & Women’s Studies; Ananda Mirilli, Department of Public Instruction; Eneale Pickett, Elementary Education Pre-Service Program/Curriculum & Instruction; Diana Rodríguez-Gómez, Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies. Moderator: Erika Bullock, Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
• 10 a.m. (Education Building, room 198) — Student Research Panel A: Perspectives on Violence Within and Beyond the School: Insights and Interventions. Presenters: Gwendolyn Baxley, How School Leaders Make and Enact Meaning: A Qualitative Study of Racial Discourse, Opportunity and “Humanity” in Community Schools; Marlo Reeves, Philanthropy and Youth Organizing in the Progressive Midwest; and Maria Velázquez, Covert forms of Violence in the Institutional Mechanisms of Schools. Moderator/Discussant: Linn Posey-Maddox, Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies.
• 11:10 a.m. — Student Research Panel B: Schools as “Inherent Sites of Antiblack Violence”: A Call and Response. Presenters: Michael Davis, Educational Apocalypses: School Abolition as Black (Educational) Justice; Wallace Grace, Black Students’ Perspectives on Race and Racism in Schools; Demond Hill, Moving Towards Freedom: An Afrofuturistic Approach to Liberation for Community-Based Spaces & Youth Workers; and Ashley Smith, “This Place is a Hell Hole”: The Day-to-Day Experiences of Antiblack Violence for Black Girls in Two Predominantly White, Suburban Middle-Schools. Moderators/Discussants: Bianca Baldridge and Erica Turner, Assistant Professors, Educational Policy Studies.
• 1 p.m. — Keynote from kihana miraya ross, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University: “Wake Work in Education: Fugitive Resistance in the Afterlife of School Segregation.”
• 2:45 p.m. — Freedom Inc. Community Teach-In: Community and Youth Centered Approaches to Disrupting School Violence.
• 4 p.m. — Reflections and Closing Remarks.