• Empirical and theoretical approaches to address the pandemic and its impact on education, including the intensification of pre-existing trends.
• Initiatives and critiques from international, national, and local attitudes/actions to support students in the midst of COVID-19.
• Unintended consequences of COVID-19 on other traumatic/emergency situations and the impact on education.
• Voices of front-line teachers, parents, students and others involved in education during COVID-19.

• Educational accounts from spaces on global front-line challenges including climate change, religious fundamentalism, militarization, dictatorships, misogyny, nationalism, white supremacy, and threats to elections, well-being, and individual and community rights.
• Curricular innovations from contested spaces.
• Comparative explorations of history, policy, practice, and implementation of educational innovations.
• Theoretical and empirical approaches to research that examines the idea of space and place.

Anasuya Sengupta (the idea/lism at the heart of knowledge justice )  – Anasuya Sengupta is Co-Director and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to centre the knowledges of marginalised communities (the minoritised majority of the world) online. She has led initiatives in India and the USA, across the global South, and internationally for over 20 years, to amplify marginalised voices in virtual and physical worlds, and to uncover the dynamics of structural privilege and dis/privilege (including her own). She is the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and the former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women. Anasuya is a 2017 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and received a 2018 Internet and Society award from the Oxford Internet Institute. She is on the Scholars’ Council for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and the advisory committee for MIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS).

Jennifer Garvey Berger (The Seduction of Cynicism in a Complex World)  – Jennifer has been researching, writing and working with leaders in complex settings for 20 years. Her first real job was as a middle school English teacher, but her core interest became supporting adults rather than adolescents, first at a university (as associate professor at George Mason University) and then as a consultant, researcher, and writer (like at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research). Starting with a doctorate in ways adults make sense of complexity (Harvard University, 2002) and building through three books (and soon a fourth), Jennifer has developed a series of tools and approaches that help leaders around the globe use complexity to their advantage.

Amrita Basu – Amrita Basu is the Domenic J. Paino Professor of Political Science and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. Her scholarship explores women’s activism, feminist movements, and religious nationalism in South Asia. Her most recent book, Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India (2015), shines a spotlight on when and why Hindu nationalists engage in violence against religious minorities. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women’s Activism in India (1992) and the editor or co editor of Women’s Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms (2010, 2016); Beyond Exceptionalism: Violence, Religion, and Democracy in India (2006); Localizing Knowledge In a Globalizing World (2002); Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia (1998); Community Conflicts and the State in India (1997);

Thank you to everyone who made CIES 2022 a resounding success! From the presenters, to the chairs, discussants, plenary speakers, singers, artists, sponsors, volunteers and everyone else who worked so hard to make CIES 2022 a success – thank you!

We had nearly 1200 people joining us onsite and 1800 online. More details on the number of panels and papers are to come, but please know that we are so grateful for the enthusiasm, creativity, and engagement in every aspect of this conference.

The Hub will remain open until May 15th, where book launch videos and poster presentations are still available to view. The Film Festivalette will remain open until May 1, 2022.