CFP: Decolonization and Global Justice

Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Call For Participation

Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.

We invite critical interventions against ongoing injustices, such as extractivism and exploitation in the Global South, genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples around the world, the disproportional impacts of ecological degradation, and the transnational afterlives of slavery and colonization.

The complexity of these intertwined situations requires diverse perspectives, including those situated outside of traditional academic formats. We take a transdisciplinary approach that brings together academic and non-academic contributions, including traditional scholarly presentations, artistic interventions, experimental workshops, and other forms of community-based knowledge production.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Genocide, settler colonialism, and resistance.
• Indigenous struggles for land and sovereignty.
• Colonial extraction & environmental destruction.
• Feminist perspectives from the Global South.
• Neocolonialism in Africa, Asia, & the Americas.
• Geopolitics of knowledge production.
• Borders and migration.
• Militarism, carcerality & prison abolition.
• Transformative & restorative justice.

Keynote speakers

Dr. Nada Elia is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Western Washington specializing in transnational, decolonial, and gender struggles, with a focus on Arab America and Palestine. As a scholar-activist, Dr. Elia is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine, Palestine: Un feminism de liberation, as well as Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Narratives, and is currently completing a third single-authored book, Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms.

Dr. Nnimmo Bassey is director of the ecological think-tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International. He is the former chair of Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012) and Executive Director of Nigeria’s Environmental Rights Action (1993-2013). His books include We Thought it Was Oil, But It was Blood, I will Not Dance to Your Beat, To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa, and Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological War.

Kalonji Jama Changa is an organizer and founder of the FTP Movement, an author of Revolution in These Times and co-author of Beyond Cop Cities. He is also the founder of Black Power Media, serves as co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute and is a consultant with For the People, LLC.

Jenipher Jones is a civil movement and human rights attorney and Managing Attorney of For the People, LLC. Jones currently joint chairs the Mass Incarceration Committee of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), serves on the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Federal Advocates (FFA), is a board member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL). Jones represents and works with several political prisoners in the United States, including Leonard Peltier and Eric King, who have both been freed from prison during her representation.

Please send submissions to:

[email protected]

• Individual Presentation (20 min. long)
  • PDF with your title and abstract (350–500 words).

• Panel (60 min. long, 3–4 members)
• PDF with the panel title and abstract (350–500 words).

• Workshop / Art Workshop (30–60 min. long)
  • PDF with workshop description (350–500 words) which includes the title, topic, and explanation of the planned activities.

For more information visit: https://decolonialphilosophies.blogspot.com/