Call for Abstracts
African American and African Diaspora Studies and Public Health Education call for academic and other non-traditional presentation abstracts on any aspect of race and health.
All areas of inquiry related to health outcomes, healthcare practices, access to healthcare, health disparities, healthcare as a profession, healthcare policy, community approaches to healthcare, health and the environment (including the built environment), health and leadership, health and social systems, and more to discuss established and emergent experiences pertaining to race and health in policy, experience, history, institutional history, belief, understanding, and leadership in African American, African, and African Diasporic communities and comparative, aligned experiences.
Possible topics may include:
- Race and health in North Carolina
- Unconventional archives
- Scholarship and lived experience
- Markers and monuments
- Walking tours
- Reconciliation and repair
- Black futures in health
- History of Black educational institutions
- History of Black health educators
- Education and reform
- School to prison pipeline
- Community building through storytelling
- Unconventional learning/outside institutions
- Educational discourses
- Accessibility
- Knowledge production and destruction
- Art history/art practice as art therapy
- Alternative narratives and education
- Historiography of health
- Architecture an Black health education
- Afrocentricity
- Architecture of care
- Medicine as public health education
- Learning in PWIs
- Drama/theatre
- Storytelling and education
- Black and indigenous comparative studies
- Public education
- Institutional histories
- Black women and health education
- Libraries, technology, and education
- Higher education
- The global diaspora in health
- Connections across difference
Abstracts Due December 1, 2026
Submission instructions:
Submit a 250-word abstract including your full name, email address, institutional affiliation, full presentation title, and mode of presentation (poster, performance, paper, panel, the names of fellow panelists).
Student presenters must submit a short bio with their abstract and be willing to participate in a presentation training workshop in January.
Submit to:
sdsimons@uncg.edu
with the subject line
“CACE 2027 Abstract”
All Disciplines are Welcome!
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