OHIO to host collaborative conference with Kent State and Miami University

Kent State University, Miami University and Ohio University have joined forces to form a collaborative conference: Reimagining the Academy: Building Communities for Access and Transformational Change. Previously, each university held an annual conference on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The conference is an extension of OHIO’s Diversity Leadership Institute, which has taken place yearly since 2020.

This new alliance will allow the universities to come together for one conference that will share expertise and leverage their strengths. 

The Reimagining the Academy conference will take place Oct. 18-19, 2023, in the Kent State Student Center. Opportunities for virtual engagement will also be available. Registration will be free to faculty, staff, and students at each of the collaborating institutions.

The call for proposals is currently open. The priority deadline for proposals is April 21, 2023. The conference will be accepting both in-person and virtual submissions. Participants are invited to reflect on and discuss the conference themes as they relate to ongoing processes for institutional change, emerging research, and individual and institutional accountability.

There are many opportunities for participation including informal and formal conversations, roundtables, workshops, and panel discussions.

Keynote speaker Dr. Carol Anderson will speak on Oct. 19. Dr. Anderson is a professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of several bestselling books including The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (2020), One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (2018) and the critically acclaimed #1 bestseller White Rage (2016).

More information on travel and lodging options will be provided to registrants at a further date.

Additional questions can be sent to arconference@kent.edu.