Black & Indigenous Theories of Change in Research

Attending to the longstanding relationship between Indigenous, Black, and Black-Indigenous peoples in Tkaronto, as well as our resistances and collaborations, we invite papers that center Black & Indigenous Theories of Change in Research. This pre-conference will be an opportunity for Black, Indigenous, and Black-Indigenous graduate students to think explicitly, and alongside one another, about the theories of change informing their research. The theme of this pre-conference is a student-led response to the themes of Unangax̂ scholar, Eve Tuck's (2022) short essay that asks, What is your Theory of Change These Days? This pre-conference will be a time to carefully attend to this question and nurture one another's theories of change. By acknowledging our theories of change and sharing them with each other, we can actively refuse what Tuck identifies as the default, colonial, and antiblack theories of change often undergirding academic research.

We invite Indigenous, Black, and Black-Indigenous graduate students to submit a proposal.

The call for proposals closed on Tuesday, February 28, 2023.

Any questions can be sent to Tkarontocirclelab@gmail.com. All those accepted to the graduate student pre-conference program will be notified by the end of the first week of March 2023.

This gathering is organized by Indigenous and Black graduate students and facilitated by the Tkaronto Collaborative Indigenous Research for Communities, Land and Education (CIRCLE) Lab. As graduate student hosts, we are looking forward to learning about your theories of changes and collaborations.