The ongoing legacies of colonialism continue to shape our world and our experiences within it—manifesting in racial hierarchies, health disparities, economic inequities, cultural erasures, and Land struggles and reclamations, all of which fuel ongoing geopolitical tensions. This conference offers a space for meaningful dialogue, critical reflection, and collective action, bringing together emerging and established scholars, artists, activists, community members and leaders, and other radical thinkers from around the world who are engaged in anti-colonial, anti-racist, and inclusive education work. Let us collectively address and confront ongoing global challenges and imagine possibilities for profound, sustainable change and regeneration.
Join us in-person at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto in Canada.
About the Conference
Anchored in de/anti-colonial thinking, the conference encourages dialectical and conjunctural analyses that connect the histories, ideas, and practices shaping human experience and growth. It seeks to advance critical anti-colonial knowledge, critique the present, and reimagine new futures of living well together—futures that resist continuing global capital extractivism and supremacist thinking, and instead, build alternative ways of knowing, being, and relating to one another.
The conference thus calls for ethical and transformative scholarship that bridges divides, nurtures community, and aligns theory with activism to move beyond mere awakening of critical consciousness. This involves the rejection of performative intellectualism and politics, advocating instead for the cultivation of communities grounded in academic mentorship and collective care. It is urgent for us to reject colonial binaries that promote “thinking in hierarchies,” eradicate toxicity and dehumanization and see education and social justice work as foundational to human liberation. Together, we aim to resist hate, violence, oppression, and all forms of genocide within the corollary of colonialism by bridging the gaps between scholarship, activism and social politics.
Guiding Questions
- How can we build anti-colonial solidarities rooted in radical hope and futurity?
- How might teachings of Land—sharing, reciprocity, connection, mutual interdependence, and community building, as well as shared responsibilities—subvert colonial hierarchies in education?
- How do we resist subjectivities and continue ancestral struggles for liberation?
- What epistemic and political practices can release us from colonizing relations?
- How can we reclaim control over our stories and identities to upend intellectual enslavement?
Important Dates
Notification of Presenter Acceptance: January 16, 2026
Registration Deadline: February 20, 2026
Participants
More information about presenters, keynotes, and plenary speakers coming soon.
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