The Centre for Media, Culture and Education (CMCE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto is pleased to announce a call for proposals for participation in a conference dedicated to violence prevention in higher education. The intertwined issues of sexual, racial and (trans)gender-based forms of violence are urgent issues locally and globally, calling for knowledge exchanges, research, and actions exploring the relational, intersectional, interdisciplinary, and globalized aspects of these phenomena.
This call for proposals invites explorations of the limitations and possibilities of violence prevention. By possibilities, we mean both practiced and yet to be imagined prevention approaches that stop sexed, (trans)gendered, and raced violence on college and university campuses world-wide. What can we learn from these successful practices? Are they transferable, expandable, and sustainable? By limitations, we mean those local, global, social, cultural, political, educational and institutional factors that inhibit, curb, or counter violence prevention initiatives rendering their aims unattainable. What are such inhibiting forces or structures? How can we overcome them?