March 22-23, 2025
MIT STATA Center
Join in-person or online
Join the GCWS for the 2025 GCWS Graduate Student Conference, ‘Liberatory Practices for Worlds in Crisis!’ Whether you are a presenter or attendee, the weekend will offer rich sites for discussions and collaborations, innovative scholarship, and meaningful networking.
This conference will be held both in-person and online. When posted, the online schedule will detail whether sessions will be exclusively in-person or have a ‘join online’ option. Due to space and labor limitations, we are not able to stream every session of the conference. Zoom links will be posted the day of the event.
We are surrounded by crisis in nearly every sector of our world(s): environmental, political, social, cultural, and interpersonal. Crisis is not a new nor a unique phenomenon: Indigenous societies have faced decimation, war has torn through family and political associations, and environmental devastation cycles again and again. And yet, we have found new ways of living, resisting, and surviving.
This conference invites graduate student scholars, activists, and practitioners to examine what it means and has meant to survive in a world in crisis. What do we mean by crisis? How do historical experiences of crisis inform our understanding of present crises? What is the meaning and purpose of “liberatory practices” in the historical and contemporary world? How do Indigenous, feminist, queer, trans, disability or other lenses offer alternative understandings of crisis? What world is possible after a crisis? By exploring these and more questions, we hope to consider how new methods of study and care practices in our scholarship might allow us to imagine different worlds, develop resilience in a crisis-laden world, become “undisciplined” academically, and/or form more caring and collaborative communities.
There is no fee to present, attend, or register for the conference. The GCWS Grad Student Conference is open and free to all members at MIT and the general public. You MUST register to attend. Click here to register.
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