Abstract Submission

Abstracts Submission (Closed)

Abstracts with a maximum word limit of 250 words are invited from social work practitioners, students, and academics of social work and related disciplines, community, and policy makers. 

Abstracts that address the conference theme of ‘Intentional Erasures’ and its Sub-themes are particularly welcome:

Sub-Themes:

• Indigeneity, nationhood, and sovereignty  
• Colonial and postcolonial harms 
• Rigidity, white fragility, and institutional dominance 
• Reinforcers of erasures and remediation strategies (policies, programs, and practices)  
• Dangers of discursive myths, ideological priorities, and dark chapters of national histories 
• Community and collectivism as resistance  
• Accountability in the age of alt-right populism 
• Anti-racist, anti-colonial discourse and/or frameworks, resistance, or insubordination

For questions or information about the conference, please send an email to converse@dal.ca

The International ‘Conversations’ Conference is the first hosted by the Diversity and Equity Committee of the School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.