16 – 17 September 2024
San Francisco State University has a proud tradition of sponsoring Constitution and Citizenship Day conferences, which provides opportunities to reflect critically on the past, present and future of constitutional rights, freedoms, citizenship, democracy, equality and justice.
CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PANELS
This is an open call for papers, presentations, panels, roundtables, teach-ins, and workshops for “Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution and Citizenship Day Conference” at San Francisco State University. The 2024 event will take place on Monday and Tuesday, 16 – 17 September. The conference provides opportunities to gather, teach, and learn with colleagues, collaborators, and comrades, along with activists, advocates, students, and community members from San Francisco State, the Bay Area and elsewhere.
We welcome proposals on multiple topics related to rights, wrongs, constitutional law, legal citizenship, and social change. This year we are especially interested in presentations related to the rights of students and faculty, campus free speech and campus policing, educational censorship, academic freedom, academic labor rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, electoral politics, presidential transitions, presidential immunity, the 2024 presidential election and the Supreme Court, but we are broadly interested in all topics that might help us deepen our understanding of today’s debates and discussions about constitutional rights and wrongs.
Proposals (maximum 250 words) should be submitted by 13 June 2024 to marcs@sfsu.edu. We welcome individual and group submissions. For the latter, we encourage proposals that include presenters from multiple institutions and organizations. Most sessions will be scheduled for 75 minute time blocks to align with SF State class schedules; this means that two 20-minute presentations, three 15-minute presentations, or four 10-minute presentations often work best; we can supply chairs/moderators on request. We ask that all presenters plan to attend more than just their own session. Please submit short vitas/resumes for all participants.
Sponsors: College of Liberal and Creative Arts, History Department, History Students Association, and Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History
Stay tuned for more information regarding Constitution Day 2024!
Further details about the conference program will be announced in the coming weeks. The conference coordinator is Marc Stein, Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History (marcs@sfsu.edu).
Accessibility
The Rights and Wrongs conference welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. SF State students, faculty and staff with disabilities who need reasonable accommodations are encouraged to contact the Disability Programs and Resource Center (DPRC), which is available to facilitate the reasonable accommodations process. The DPRC is located in the Student Service Building and can be reached by telephone (voice/(415) 338-2472, video phone/(415) 335-7210) or by email (dprc@sfsu.edu). Others who need reasonable accommodations for this event can contact Marc Stein at marcs@sfsu.edu as soon as possible so the request can be reviewed.
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