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Abstracts Submission (CLOSED)

Abstracts with a maximum word limit of 250 words are invited from social work practitioners, students, and academics of social work and related disciplines, community, and policy makers. The conference welcomes abstract submissions for: Oral Presentations, Panel Discussions and Interactive Workshops. Abstracts that address the conference theme of ‘Intentional Erasures’ and its Sub-themes are particularly welcome:

Sub-Themes:

• Indigeneity, nationhood, and sovereignty
• Colonial and postcolonial harms
• Rigidity, white fragility, and institutional dominance
• Reinforcers of erasures and remediation strategies (policies, programs, and practices)
• Dangers of discursive myths, ideological priorities, and dark chapters of national histories
• Community and collectivism as resistance
• Accountability in the age of alt-right populism
• Anti-racist, anti-colonial discourse and/or frameworks, resistance, or insubordination
• Activism as healing, resistance and liberation
• Erasures/Omissions in service conceptualisation, design, promotion, accessibility, delivery and utilization (education, health, housing, economic, culture, environment, immigration, employment, and legal/justice)