2025 WOCIA Call for Workshop Proposals

Submission Deadline:Friday, February 19, 2025 at 11:59pm

The Women of Color in the Academy Conference invites proposals for  in-person, hybrid, and virtual workshop sessions for the upcoming 9th annual conference, scheduled to take place onFriday, May 2, 2025.The theme for the 2025 conference will be“Diversity & Truth in the Academy: Preserving Courage, Persistence, & Resilience.” Inspired by recent events such as the 2024 election, and right-wing efforts to rollback civil rights, as well as the elimination and challenging of diversity, inclusion, and belonging efforts in higher education, we are interested in receiving proposals for workshops that will engage in some way, shape, or form with this year’s theme. In addition, we are also interested in receiving proposals for workshops on:

• Models of and strategies for accessibility and support for marginalized groups in the Academy 

• Workshops of interest for Teaching/Non-Tenure-track Faculty 

• Collaboration in the Humanities

• Workshops focused on STEM/STEAM topics

• Personal Branding and Promotion (e.g., social media tools, etc.) 

• Mentoring

• Building Community 

• Setting Boundaries 

• Caregiving for loved ones (children, parents, etc.) and/or childcare issues

• Voice and truth-telling in the Academy

Workshops can be led by individuals or teams of up to three (3) people, and each workshop leader will each receive an honorarium of $500. The duration of the workshops will likely be about 75 minutes. 

Please submit materials from the list below and answer the requested questions via this Google form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S6jLzF3sKQro6XQFP77JmC5Ty_uf1i-zaAHugNH...) by February 19, 2025.

• Brief CV—no more than 2 pages—for each presenter

• Proposed workshop title

• A 100-word maximum description of the proposed workshop session 

• List of any required workshop materials

Applicants can expect a response by February 28, 2024. Because there are a limited number of spots for workshops, we regret that we are unable to accept all submissions.