ICE 2015 - International Conference on Critical Education

The International Conference on Critical Education (ICCE), previously held in Athens (2011, 2012), Ankara (2013) and Thessaloniki (2014), is a forum for scholars, educators and activists committed to social and economic justice. The 5th ICCE: Analyze, educate, organize. Critical education for social and economic justice will take place in the Polish city of Wroclaw from June 15 - 18, 2015.
At a time of economic crisis, when education is under siege by neoliberal capitalism, (neo)conservatism and aggressive nationalism, when teachers and academics are being proletarianized, youth criminalized, schools and universities turned into commodities, and when different forms of fundamentalism are growing, critical education, as a theory and as a movement, is gaining in relevance. International communities of critical educators build resistance to these processes and are engaged in fostering social change leading to a more just, equal and fair society.
We invite emergent/new scholars, teachers, activists as well as those more experienced to submit abstracts that explicitly engage with these issues. The languages of the conference are English and Polish. Simultaneous translation will be provided during plenary sessions and selected parallel sessions. Please send proposals written in the English language of maximum 150 words, including your name, a title, affiliation, contact information to iisce-AT-dsw.edu.pl by March 20, 2015 (please indicate the language in which you will present - ENG/PL). For more information, please visit www.icce.uls.edu.pl. If you are presenting in another language, such as Turkish, for example, you will need to provide your own translator.
Keynote Speakers
Peter McLaren (Chapman University, California, USA)
Antonia Darder (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
Joyce Canaan (Birmingham City University, UK)
Hana Cervinkova (University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland)
Adam Chmielewski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
Anna Dzierzgowska (Jacek Kuroń High School, Warsaw, Poland)
Panagiota Gounari (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
George Grollios (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Gail Edwards (Newcastle University, UK)
Dave Hill (Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK)
Aygülen Kayahan Karakul (İzmir Katip Çelebi University, İzmir, Turkey)
Ravi Kumar (South Asian University, Delhi, India) (tbc)
Robert Kwaśnica (University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland)
Piotr Laskowski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Heidi Mirza (Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK)
Lilia Monzo (Chapman University, California, USA)
Ünal Özmen (Journalist/Author, Turkey)
Lotar Rasiński (University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland)
Guy Senese (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA)
Bogusław Śliwerski (The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education, Warsaw, Poland)
Kostas Skordoulis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Tomasz Szkudlarek (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Paolo Vittoria (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Ahmet Yildiz (Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey)
Marta Zahorska ? Bugaj (University of Warsaw, Poland)