NCOBPS 2022 Annual Meeting Information
VISIONS OF BLACK FUTURES AT A CROSSROADS
March 9th – 12th, 2022
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Davin Phoenix, University of California, Irvine – dphoenix@uci.edu
Cory Gooding, University of San Diego- cgooding@sandiego.edu
Conference Will be 100% Virtual – more details available here
Register For The Conference Here
CALL FOR PAPERS: NCOBPS 2022
VISIONS OF BLACK FUTURES AT A CROSSROADS
SUBMISSIONS DUE: DECEMBER 8, 2021 – Papers Submissions
Our present times offer varying visions of the possible futures for Black people engaged in the struggle for liberation in the U.S. and beyond. These visions and the strategies deployed to affect their outcome are inspired and informed by generations of freedom fighters who came before, even as they are reconceptualized by Black women organizers in Georgia offering a model of how to leverage an energized Black electorate; massive global protests for racial justice that demand reckoning from political and non-political actors alike; and, multifaceted representation of Black narratives, Black history and Black future across multiple media. As Black people utilize new platforms to mobilize en masse in physical and virtual spaces to call out injustice and enact black visions, people seeking to uphold White supremacy and continue the subjugation of Black people attempt to overturn elections and overthrow governments, demonstrating that the realization of these possible futures will not come without continued conflict and confrontation.
The 2022 conference examines the collective visions of Black future being cultivated by Black individuals and groups engaged in what we broadly define as political work. We welcome panels, posters and roundtables that advance understanding of how black future visions (past and current) are articulated and contested, and how these future visions engender new meanings of state and global citizenship, establish new modalities of political engagement, and articulate new policy agendas, norms and practices. We seek to highlight research from a broad range of theoretical and methodological traditions, to spark conversations that transcend disciplinary and epistemological bounds. We especially encourage graduate and undergraduate students to submit proposals.
This is a virtual conference – no hotel bookings will be necessary.
Section Chairs
African & Diaspora Politics
Robin Turner, rlturne1@butler.edu
Anita Plummer, Anita.Plummer@Howard.edu
Politics, Inequality, & Social Justice
Albert Samuels, Albert_samuels@subr.edu
Brandon Davis, davis_brandon@ku.edu
Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Transnational Relations
Mai Hasan, mhass@umich.edu
Adryan Wallace, Adryan.Wallace@stonybrook.edu
Identity Politics: Gender, Class, Ethnicity, LGBTQ+, Sexuality, Religion & Queer Politics
Mzilikazi Koné, mkone@ucla.edu
Chaz Briscoe, cbriscoe@uci.edu
Teaching & Professional Development
KC Morrison, minion@udel.edu
Zahra Ahmed, zga1@stmarys-ca.edu
Undergraduate Research
Eric McDaniel, emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu
Alexandra Moffett-Bateau, amoffet-bateau@jjay.cuny.edu
Political Theory & Political Philosophy
Justin Rose, rose@hws.edu
Charisse Burden-Stelly, cburden@uchicago.edu
Public Policy & Political Institutions
K. Juree Capers, kcapers@gsu.edu
Natasha Christie, n.christie@unf.edu
Public Opinion & Political Participation
Brianna Mack, bnmack@owu.edu
Jamil Scott, Jamil.Scott@georgetown.edu
Afro-Latino Politics
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, ft@umbc.edu
Yalidy Matos, yalidy.matos@rutgers.edu