After a pause during COVID, the UW Seattle English Department's Praxis Conference is back! This year's conference will be on May 30, 2025, at the HUB on the Seattle campus. This year’s theme, Multiplicity, focuses on the diverse ways people communicate, learn, and express themselves in and beyond the classroom, asking us to consider what it means to embrace multiplicity for students, teachers, and communities. Key questions include:
- How can we foreground the knowledge-making practices of multiply marginalized members of our communities in our teaching?
- How can we respond to the complexities of emergent technologies in our teaching?
- How can our teaching practices not only foster individual expression but also encourage collective action and social justice across communities?
- How can evaluation and assessment design encourage multiplicity of expression?
- What does thinking with multiplicity afford us as educators, students, and citizens?
Faculty, staff, students, and administrators from UW’s three campuses, local colleges, K-12 schools, as well as community partners and other UW affiliates, are encouraged to apply. Consider presenting your research, community initiatives, teaching strategies, and context-specific projects that contribute to expanding our understanding and practices across disciplines. Interdisciplinary approaches as well as proposals that address issues of equity are highly encouraged.
Proposals are now open and the deadline for submissions is March 21, 2025 by 11:59pm PST