Conference Updates

Saturday December 2, 2023

Research Into Practice Sessions today between 9:00 am-3:30  pm in the Music City Center, Room 206A

• Towards a Learning Trajectory in History Education with Digital Primary Sources from the Library of Congress Collection

• Lies, Legends, and Half-Truths: Implications of National Mythmaking in Global Education

• Thematic Teaching to Contextualize Civic Thought and Action

• Never Again: Combating Anti-Semitism through Holocaust Education

Friday, December 1, 2023

Today is our joint session with NCSS: “Imperatives of Queer Resistance: Speaking Back and Troubling Landscapes of Dehumanization and Injustice” at 9:30 am in Music City Center, Karl F. Dean Grand Ballroom B. We then continue the conversation from 10:40-11:40 with Beyond the Tea: Moving from Discourse to Potential Act(ion)s of Humanizing Resistance and Healing in  Music City Center, 202A

We also have the following Research Into Practice sessions today between 9:30 am-5:15 pm at the Music City Center - Room 206A

• Integrating Media Education into Democratic Education: Challenges and Potential

• Action Civics: A Nonpartisan Curricular Approach to Foster Hope and Healing Among Youth

• Do We Know What to Trust? Research on Teaching Students to Evaluate Online Information

• The Heart of the Classroom: Articulating and Supporting Critical Early Childhood Social Studies

• Youth Participatory Action Research in Your Social Studies Classroom: Teaching and Learning for Active Citizenship

• Embracing Disparate Content to Prepare for Social Justice Action: Interdisciplinary Studies as an Avenue for Social Studies Teacher Preparation

At 1 pm, you are invited to Drag Story Hour hosted by NCSS and the Zinn Education Project in Exhibit Booth 100

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Updates:

• Grad Forum Business meeting is moved to room 105A Music City Center

• Grad Forum Conversations with Colleagues will be in rooms 105A and 104A Music City Center

• Gathering, processing, and reflecting on current events through discussion and art-making will be in room 104B at 9:30 am.  

CUFA 2023 Day 2 Highlights and Reminders 

• Grad Forum Roundtables 8-9:30 in 104A Music City Center

• Grad Forum Business Meeting 9:30-11 in 104A Music City Center

• Session 5: Scholars of Color Teach In 11:15-12:30 in Room 105A/B

• Grad Forum Sponsored Lunch 12:30-2 Assembly Food Hall

• Scholars of Color Luncheon and Business Meeting 12:30-2 Beer Garden Assembly Food Hall 

• Lunch on your own 12:30-2:30

• Session 6 2:30-3:45 Music City Center

• CUFA Business Meeting 4-4:45 in 105 A/B Music City Center

• CUFA Awards Ceremony 4:45-5:30 in 105 A/B Music City Center

• Dinner on your own 5:30-6:30

• Closing Keynote and Reception 6:30-9 National Museum of African American Music 

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

CUFA 2023 Day 1 Highlights and Reminders

• MotherScholar Business Meeting and Breakfast 8-9 in 105A/B 

• Session 1 9-10:15 am Music City Center

• Opening Keynote 10:30-11:45 in 105A/B Music City Center

• Lunch on your own 11:45-1:45

• Session 2 1:45-3  Music City Center

• SCUFF Roundtables 1:45-3 in 104A Music City Center

• Session 3:15-4:30  Music City Center

• Session 4 4:45-6  Music City Center

• PIPs Reception 6-7:30 Music City Center

• SCUFF Business Meeting 7:30 in 104B Music City Center

• Grad Forum Welcome Event 8:00 Tribe Bar Nashville 

Tuesday, November 28,  2023

We can’t wait to see you in Nashville tomorrow for the official kick off of CUFA 2023! 🛬

📅 Please check the Schedule on the CUFA website for up-to-date information! 

💡 Also, check out this How to CUFA Guide with expectations for chairs, presenters, and discussants! 

Monday, November 27, 2023

CUFA 2023 Begins on Wednesday! 😃

☑️Please check out the CUFA website! The schedule on the website is updated. We are not sure if the schedule in Whova will be updated so please check the website.

🗐 Also, check out the following pages on the website for more information:

• The Lands for our Land Acknowledgement

• The Schedule for the updated CUFA schedule

• The Key for information on Nashville, including resources for supporting local businesses

• The Bridge for connecting our work beyond social studies

• The Flourish where we offer thanks to many people who helped us make CUFA 2023 happen!

• The Playlist where we are sharing your favorite songs!

🗃️We are still accepting your submissions for the Bridge, The Key, and The Playlist

https://forms.gle/YfDyaur3P3xnRNZd8 

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Check out what the forums are up to at CUFA 2023! 

🎓Graduate Forum will be meeting at Tribe Bar, 1515 Church St., at 8 pm on Wednesday, November 29th, to welcome new and old members to CUFA. Lunch will be provided by the Grad Forum on November 30th at 12:30 pm at Assembly Food Hall.

🏫The Scholars of Color Business Meeting/Lunch will be held on Thursday, 11/30, at Beer Garden (Homegrown) in the Assembly Food Hall

Time: 12:30 pm-2:00pm

Address is: 5055 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203

Lunch is paid for by individual members.

✏️The Scholars of Color Teach-In Session, Thursday 11/30, 11:15-12:30 pm. 

Come hear from local organizations that are advocating for racial/ethnic justice in the Nashville area and learn how you can help support their respective missions! The Teach-In begins in room  105 A/B, then migrates to 104A for individual presentations.

🏡 SCUFF business meeting will be at 7:30 pm in the Music City Center Room 104B.  

📋SCUFF Roundtables are Wednesday, November 29, session 2 - 1:45 - 3:00

🤱🏽MotherScholars will host their Business Meeting and Breakfast on Wednesday, 11/29, at 8:00 am in the Music City Center Room 105A/B. 

🥪Motherscholar Community Lunch: Immediately following the Opening Keynote, join the Motherscholar Forum and panelists for a catered lunch at Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint.

💸Fundraiser for Humanitarian Aid in the Middle East: Please consider contributing to UNICEF, an aid organization providing humanitarian support to victims of the ongoing conflict in Gaza and Israel. Motherscholar Forum has selected UNICEF as it specifically provides support, aid, and relief to children and families.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

CUFA 2023 Begins in 1 Week! 🤩

🌍We added the Land Acknowledgement to the CUFA Schedule and website. Please engage with it carefully as you plan your presentations and participation.

📅Don't miss the CUFA 2023 Opening Keynote, PIPs Reception, and Closing Keynote (see flyers above for details)! 

Friday, November 10, 2023

CUFA 2023 Begins in 18 Days! 🤯

📅Please register for NCSS and CUFA here: https://www.socialstudies.org/conference/registration and don’t forget to check that CUFA box. 

🌈🎊✊🏽Don’t forget  that CUFA is collaborating on a joint session with NCSS on Friday, Dec. 1: “Imperatives of Queer Resistance: Speaking Back and Troubling Landscapes of Dehumanization and Injustice” at 9:30am! CUFA’s very own JB Mayo will be moderating 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

💻Please check the CUFA website  regularly for updates: https://sites.google.com/view/cufa2023/home 

Thursday, November 2, 2023

It is officially CUFA 2023 month! 🤯

📢REMINDERS/UPDATES📢

💻Register for NCSS and CUFA here: https://www.socialstudies.org/conference/registration and don’t forget to check that CUFA box. 

🗓️Papers were due to discussants on Tuesday, 10/31. Here is the link to the program to check your session date, time, and discussant: https://sites.google.com/view/cufa2023/the-schedule. 

Also, the guide for Discussants/Chairs is here! Please see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WlEgmLyhDk-2NDiVDeM0FdK0Jt199h69n5zPxn74D2A/edit?usp=sharing

📱More information about the online platform, Whova, as well as instructions for chairs and discussants will come out  soon! We will post on social media, the mailing list, through OpenConf, and on the unofficial CUFA 2023 website. Please check the website  regularly for updates: https://sites.google.com/view/cufa2023/home 

🌈🎊✊🏽Lastly, we are excited to share that CUFA is collaborating on a joint session with NCSS on Friday, Dec. 1: “Imperatives of Queer Resistance: Speaking Back and Troubling Landscapes of Dehumanization and Injustice” at 9:30am! CUFA’s very own JB Mayo will be moderating 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Image: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DGAf3TPpB23fLHKtnchHKFjvDQXiVRzW/view?usp=sharing 

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Check out The Schedule page for the Chair, Presenter, and Discussant Guide for CUFA 2023! 

Monday, October 16, 2023

Hi CUFA fam! 

Hope y’all are having a good spooky season so far 👻🎃 Just a friendly reminder to register for CUFA 2023: https://www.socialstudies.org/conference/registration and don’t forget to check that CUFA box.

• Check out this Registration Guide if you have any questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uiKm2RNs9LNTFloVpc9CpWl8-eiFU2H2IGtOrQWoxBw/edit?usp=sharing  

We are also actively seeking submissions to the #CUFA23 website - ESPECIALLY TO THE 🎶PLAYLIST🎶 - here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_WSo1gqxzCOJOLoDfPsumBLeh9O-3U6QOpKyIBwN119Z7bg/viewform  

If you are presenting a paper, make sure to email your discussants by 10/31. Here is the link to the schedule to check your session date, time, and discussant: https://sites.google.com/view/cufa2023/the-schedule

Lastly, for folks who are planning ahead for their time in Nashville, check-out “The Key” page for local context: https://sites.google.com/view/cufa2023/the-key 

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Happening now!! Leaning into Kinship: Engaging in Critical Scholarship & Praxis

• How do we think about navigating your institutions (teaching, department, service) with current issues and in the political climate of your institutions? 

• How do you make your research decisions (e.g., questions, methods, citational practices) that align with your commitments to justice? 

• What does care (self-care, community care, collegial care), look, sound, and feel like?

• If you could speak to CUFA as an org or its membership, what advice do you have for us to be more engaged and organized to support one another? 

A CUFA Social Justice Committee Conversation with Colleagues

Friday, September 22, 2023

We've updated The Key  with more submissions from our community! Please also check out The Schedule page for a Registration Guide. Please register by November 24th for early bird rates! 

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Please check out The Schedule page on this website for a layout of the Music City Center and what amenities will be available at the conference venue! 

Monday, September 11, 2023

Countdown to CUFA! We re-shared our schedule via an email on OpenConf last week and again this week. 

Just a reminder that final papers should be limited to 8,000 words, including references, and are due to discussants by October 31, 2023.

Monday, August 21, 2023

Greetings CUFA community members! 

We are pleased to share the official schedule for the 2023 Annual CUFA Conference set to take place in Nashville, Tennessee this fall.

Centering cacophony and world-building compelled us to think differently about the overall schedule. As you encounter the different sessions, we encourage you to consider how each assemblage reflects the overarching theme of cacophony and our subthemes related to world-building. 

As Program Chairs, we intentionally worked to resist traditionally thematic paper/roundtable groupings in an attempt to create a conference experience that cultivates (re)new(ed) connections and unexpected relationships. Of note, each paper and roundtable session features a (linked) title name inspired by a locally owned/operated business. We encourage you to learn more by clicking the links and perhaps patronizing these wonderful coffee shops, markets, bookstores, bakeries, restaurants, etc. if/when possible.  

We remain hopeful that the flow of the conference will also allow more folks to attend both the Graduate Forum and the Scholars of Color Forum sessions on Thursday. We are also (beyond) thrilled to share that we have also been working with NCSS organizers and CUFA’s own Dr. J.B. Mayo to form two exciting and connected “crossover” sessions on Friday (9:30 AM and 10:40 AM). Additionally, our Research to Practice Sessions are set to unfold on Friday and Saturday; we hope you can stay in Nashville to attend these sessions as well—helping the CUFA community build (re)new(ed) connections and worlds. 

We appreciate everyone’s patience and look forward to being in community with everyone in (late) November! 

—The Ensemble

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

PIP Status notifications went out on Saturday, July 29! Please check your spam folders if you have not received an email from us. Please add "cufa2023conference@gmail.com" to your "safe" list so that our emails get through to you. We apologize for any inconvenience with our emails not reaching you! 

Moreover, we are hard at work putting together the program. We plan to get the program to you sometime in the next couple of weeks. Be on the look out! 

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

PIP Proposals are due! We have received all submissions and aim to get decisions to applicants by the end of the week of July 24th. Please do not hesitate to reach out to cufa2023conference@gmail.com with any questions. 

Saturday, July 1, 2023

We recently sent another notification to all authors. For those who have not yet received their decisions, we are still working on a solution - please be sure to check your spam folder to see if an email may have landed there and/or add "cufa2023conference@gmail.com" to your safe email list! Thank you for your patience! 

You may also sign onto cufa2023.socialstudies.org to view the status of your proposal(s). 

Thursday, June 29, 2023

#CUFA23 Decisions were released today! We have learned that the OpenConf Platform has not sent notifications to all authors yet and we are checking on this. We are also still working on sharing reviewer comments in the most generative way - these will be shared in the next several weeks, as well. Please do not hesitate to reach out to cufa2023conference@gmail.com with any questions. Program details will be coming out in late July/early August. 

You are still able to submit proposals for Projects in Progress (PIP) session! The deadline has been extended to July 12.  If you are accepted to the Projects in Progress (PIP) Session, you WILL be on the program and it is an opportunity to brainstorm and talk through an aspect of your work that you would like to unpack and develop further. Please fill out the application here.

For graduate students, the CUFA Grad Forum submissions deadline  has been extended to  July 12 - please consider submitting a proposal here. 

Monday, June 5, 2023

Reviews due last Friday, June 2. Now that reviews have been submitted, we have an 📢announcement📢! We are introducing a new session called ✨Projects in Progress (PIP)✨ for #CUFA23. Fill out this Google Form BY SAT, JULY 1  to submit a proposal. 

Friday, May 26, 2023

Reviews are due in ONE WEEK (June 2, 2023 by 11:59 HST)! Please check out the Reviewer Guide here or visit The Call  page. Sign into http://cufa2023.socialstudies.org/ to access the reviews assigned to you. 

Friday, May 5, 2023

Reviewers have been assigned! Please check out the Reviewer Guide here or visit The Call  page. 

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Proposals in the process of being assigned to reviewers. You will receive assignments in the next couple of weeks via your email. We will include Reviewer Guides and Instructions! Be on the look out! 

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The CUFA board has released a letter to CUFA membership here  about some things we have been thinking about, wrestling with, and working on as a CUFA Board over the last two months (including, NCSS & Current Events Responses; and CUFA annual meeting in Nashville, TN)

Monday, March 27, 2023

Proposals submitted! 

Music City Center