he Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality will be hosted by University of Minnesota, Roy Wilkins Center in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 3-5, 2024 at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville Campus. This conference will be held in person with virtual options for participation. Co-hosted with the University of Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa, this sixth edition of the World Conference will reflect the many significant events that have affected our perspectives on inequality and discrimination since we last met in 2018. To learn more, visit our conference website: https://z.umn.edu/6thWorldConference
 

Bringing together leading scholars, affected communities, and global changemakers to discuss and implement remedies to racial and social inequality, this conference will take place at a critical juncture when globally interdependent peoples face acute instability, uncertainty, and social injustice.

The matrix of issues and problems we hope to address include spatially interdependent and intersectional forms of economic development that manifest unevenly within and between countries in health disparities, educational disparities, structural poverty, gender inequality, food and water insecurity, energy and climate crisis, political disenfranchisement and violence, mass incarceration, traditional and digital technologies disparities, youth disenfranchisement, community violence, the structural exclusion from wealth, and more.

The focus of this conference will be to map these pressing problems and find and set into motion solutions, remedies, and action steps to address the roots of inequality.

This Call for Papers is open to scholars and activists from around the world, not only South Africa and other African countries, and with particular encouragement for emerging scholars and community-engaged researchers. Committed to a non-racial vision for our world, and with situated knowledges, we also welcome presenters offering cross-national, cross-continental, and internal comparative regional perspectives within nations and across continents so that the bases of solidarity, similarity, interdependence and difference might be explored

Notable papers/panels will be included in the published conference proceedings and may be included in edited volumes published by a major global publishing house. Selected papers and inputs may also be developed into other accessible formats for wider dissemination. The conference includes opportunities for conversations with activists and cultural workers in various sites around the University of the Western Cape and the city of Cape Town.

Please submit your abstract via the following Qualtrics submission survey: https://umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0k6v2X2DUeHUk18. Submissions are due January 3, 2024.