Call for Proposals: Imagining America’s National Gathering – Jun 30

Posted by Imagining America on May 27, 2025

The Call for Proposals is now open for Imagining America’s National Gathering, October 3-5 in Las Cruces, with New Mexico State. This is a great opportunity to learn about and to engage public scholarship, performance, and art, campus change, and cultural organizing—and much more.

You do not need to be from a member institution to propose a session or to attend, but you do get discounted registration if your institution is a member (which of course is a good incentive to get your institution to join).

The 2025 IA National Gathering invites participants to join us in celebrating Imagining America’s 25th anniversary and to reflect on the ways we provide passage for one another, create havens for safety, and practice connective ways of being together that fortify us during this unprecedented moment in history and for the journey ahead. We especially welcome attention to how art making, creative culture, performance, storytelling, and testimonios provide passage for mutual understanding and collective liberation, and make it possible to move towards the seemingly impossible.

The 2025 IA National Gathering will explore questions related to the theme of providing passage, uplift work in the borderlands of Las Cruces and the Paso del Norte, and celebrate Imagining America’s 25th anniversary. An IA-curated track will showcase timely work from the IA network, and offer a participatory deliberative space for conference participants to engage in creative dialogue, reflection, strategy, and cultural production surrounding shared concerns and hopes for surviving, thriving, resisting, and building in these times.

I hope you will join us October 3-5 to celebrate, learn, and deepen our connections to each other. Read the full Call for Participation here and learn more about proposal formats and submission instructions. Submissions are due June 30, 2025.

We are offering a chance to learn more about the submission process in a virtual webinar on May 28, 1 PM – register here and bring your questions!