Upcoming Virtual Conference
November 13-14, 2026 - Reimagining the Collective: DDFC in Practice
|
Amid a series of new developments and directions, including becoming a non-for-profit collective, the upcoming biennial DDFC virtual conference will serve as an opportunity to strengthen these changes through concrete, forward‑looking initiatives. Inspired by the reflections and discussions initiated at the last conference, this edition will prioritize practice‑based workshops designed to actively engage participants and model the kinds of work the DDFC hopes to support in the years ahead. Workshop sessions will be grouped within three axes:
Ultimately, we aim for this conference to be a catalyst for leadership development within the DDFC. We hope to identify future project leads based on members’ expertise and interests, foster the creation of dedicated working groups, and encourage active member participation in shaping the organization’s activities and overall vision beyond the conference. |
Proposals (single: 250-300 words; group/other formats: 450-500 words) should clearly identify one of the above axes and be practice-based.
All proposals should be sent to [email protected] by August 31, 2026. Please also include a short biography along with your proposal.
This event is free and open to all.
Please review our updated DDFC Mission and Guiding Principles, as well as our Conference Guidelines and Affirmations.
All proposals should be sent to [email protected] by August 31, 2026. Please also include a short biography along with your proposal.
This event is free and open to all.
Please review our updated DDFC Mission and Guiding Principles, as well as our Conference Guidelines and Affirmations.
Past Virtual Conferences
November 8-9, 2024 - Pooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice & Access
Image ALT text: Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum Collective.
2024 Conference. Pooling open access resources: Designing for justice & Access. Free and Virtual. 8 November 12pm-5pm EST & 9 November 10am-6:30pm EST. ddfccollective.weebly.com/conferences.html
Image ALT text: Conference guidelines and affirmations. Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum Collective. 2024 Conference. Pooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice and Access.
|
We are pleased to share with you the program for the 2024 DDFC Conference. Please note:
You may contact us with any questions at [email protected] |
Note: Please become a member (free) to receive updates about the conference and other DDFC events and programs via email. Thank you.
Call for Papers
Pooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice and Access
Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC)
A Two-day Virtual Conference (Zoom)
November 8-9, 2024
Increasingly inclusive, representative, and accessible teaching resources are essential to a socially and pedagogically just learning environment. From traditional tools (textbooks, learning management systems) to new media, AI, and creative assessment design, the resources we use with our students shape not only their French learning experience, but also their sense of self and place in the classroom, and their imaginations of what is possible in the world. However, we may find ourselves in teaching situations where inclusive tools are not readily available, or even where harmful and exclusionary ones are imposed. Locating, assessing, and creating teaching resources can be a daunting and time-consuming process. These pressures are heightened in under-resourced institutions and for precarious and early career colleagues.
As we work toward a more just and collaborative version of our field, the DDFC invites participants in this year’s conference to reflect on the resources we use and make in our teaching, how these contribute to just and accessible learning environments, and how we can best mobilize our shared knowledge and connections to promote, create, and circulate resources. Focused on making these reflections into concrete materials, our goal is to build an open-access digital space in which to share resources made for or inspired by the conference. This share fair will establish guidelines that ensure contributors’ work is credited and official recognition from the DDFC will be provided where relevant, for job applications and tenure/promotion cases. Though this space will be generated after the conference, we encourage participants to prepare their proposals and contributions with a view to eventually producing these tools.
We encourage proposals for single papers (20 minutes), themed panels of three papers (60 minutes), round table discussions (60 minutes), reading groups or more practical or collaborative workshops (60 minutes). Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Abstracts of 250 words (single papers) to 450 words (other formats) should be sent to [email protected] by August 1, 2024. Selected contributors will be notified in September. In addition to your proposal, we ask that you submit the name of 3 to 5 references (including open-access resources) of your choice that resonate with our theme, ‘Pooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice and Access’. These may but do not have to directly relate to your proposal. We will build a database to share with all participants during the conference.
This event is free and open to all. In lieu of conference fees, we encourage you to donate directly to your local organizations and mutual aid networks that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. We will provide a list of organizations/networks once conference registration opens.
Call for Papers
Pooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice and Access
Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC)
A Two-day Virtual Conference (Zoom)
November 8-9, 2024
Increasingly inclusive, representative, and accessible teaching resources are essential to a socially and pedagogically just learning environment. From traditional tools (textbooks, learning management systems) to new media, AI, and creative assessment design, the resources we use with our students shape not only their French learning experience, but also their sense of self and place in the classroom, and their imaginations of what is possible in the world. However, we may find ourselves in teaching situations where inclusive tools are not readily available, or even where harmful and exclusionary ones are imposed. Locating, assessing, and creating teaching resources can be a daunting and time-consuming process. These pressures are heightened in under-resourced institutions and for precarious and early career colleagues.
As we work toward a more just and collaborative version of our field, the DDFC invites participants in this year’s conference to reflect on the resources we use and make in our teaching, how these contribute to just and accessible learning environments, and how we can best mobilize our shared knowledge and connections to promote, create, and circulate resources. Focused on making these reflections into concrete materials, our goal is to build an open-access digital space in which to share resources made for or inspired by the conference. This share fair will establish guidelines that ensure contributors’ work is credited and official recognition from the DDFC will be provided where relevant, for job applications and tenure/promotion cases. Though this space will be generated after the conference, we encourage participants to prepare their proposals and contributions with a view to eventually producing these tools.
We encourage proposals for single papers (20 minutes), themed panels of three papers (60 minutes), round table discussions (60 minutes), reading groups or more practical or collaborative workshops (60 minutes). Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Mobilizing networks for sharing and co-creating resources
- Resisting non-inclusive materials imposed by our institutions
- Ungrading
- Incorporating diverse values and perspectives in our teaching tools
- Gender justice in French language teaching
- Economising our time and labor; when to make our own resources?
- Designing for disabled and neurodivergent students
- Assessing peer reviewed vs. open sourced resources
- Codesigning with our students
- Using non-traditional resources and media as teaching tools
- Designing accessible assessment
- Space as resource; rethinking our teaching environments
- Accessibility and online teaching
- Teaching resources in the age of AI
- Paywalls, textbooks, and economic barriers to resources
- Supporting graduate and early career teachers and under-resourced colleagues
Abstracts of 250 words (single papers) to 450 words (other formats) should be sent to [email protected] by August 1, 2024. Selected contributors will be notified in September. In addition to your proposal, we ask that you submit the name of 3 to 5 references (including open-access resources) of your choice that resonate with our theme, ‘Pooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice and Access’. These may but do not have to directly relate to your proposal. We will build a database to share with all participants during the conference.
This event is free and open to all. In lieu of conference fees, we encourage you to donate directly to your local organizations and mutual aid networks that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. We will provide a list of organizations/networks once conference registration opens.
November 4-5, 2022 - Resistance
|
We are pleased to share with you the program from the 2022 DDFC Conference. Please note:
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions: [email protected]. |
CFP: DDFC - RESISTANCE
A Two-day Virtual Conference (Zoom)
Date: November 4-5, 2022
Organizers:
The Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum Steering Committee (DDFC)
Since our inaugural conference in 2020, “Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum”, DDFC has become an organized collective with a steering committee, action groups, and regular events to work towards our mission of fostering conversations in French & Francophone studies that center social justice and empower scholars and practitioners. Following our first conference, a number of participants joined Dr. Siham Bouamer and Dr. Loic Bourdeau (DDFC founding members) to put together Diversity and Decolonization in French: New Approaches to Teaching (April 2022). This volume reconceptualizes the French classroom through a more inclusive lens and is grounded in “complaint as a feminist pedagogy” (Ahmed 2021, 7). The chapters “provide testimonies of instructors’ experiences in the classroom and point out the shortcomings and inequity they have encountered, contested, and untangled” and ultimately call for different forms of resistance, whether against the canon, assessment, textbooks, socio-historical frameworks, etc.
Our goal as a collective is also to bring together scholars, teachers, and practitioners on a biannual basis to share new resources and ideas around a specific theme. In a time of rising authoritarianism across many global contexts, which includes but is not limited to legislative attempts in the United States to control curricula and thwart social justice (e.g., attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and trans people), RESISTANCE, the 2022 DDFC conference theme, is as urgent as ever. We invite proposals for 15-min presentations, complete panels (of 3 or 4), or other formats such as roundtable discussions, book club, etc. We ask that all proposals offer concrete examples and practical tools to benefit all attendees. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
● Complaint as resistance
● Forms of resistance in the profession: collectives, organizations, unions, mentoring programs, etc.
● Graduate education and power dynamics: how to resist?
● Learning from past traditions of resistance
● Resistance and positionality: who resists? Who can resist?
● Resistance and tokenism
● Resisting “la francophonie”
● Resisting and defending one’s (language) program
● Resisting authorities: legislatures, parents, school leaders, etc.
● Resisting outside the classroom
● Resisting textbooks and traditional curricula/resisting traditional pedagogies and assessments
● Resisting the (literary) canon
● Surmounting internalized resistance to change
Abstracts of 250 words (single papers) - 600 words (other formats) should be sent to [email protected] by August 1, 2022. Selected contributors will be notified in September. In addition to your proposal, we ask that you submit the name of 3 to 5 references of your choice that resonate with our theme, Resistance. These may but do not have to relate directly to your proposals. We will build a database to share with all participants during the conference.
This event is free and open to all. In lieu of conference fees, we encourage you to donate directly to local organizations and mutual aid networks that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. We will provide a list of organizations/networks once conference registration opens.
A Two-day Virtual Conference (Zoom)
Date: November 4-5, 2022
Organizers:
The Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum Steering Committee (DDFC)
Since our inaugural conference in 2020, “Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum”, DDFC has become an organized collective with a steering committee, action groups, and regular events to work towards our mission of fostering conversations in French & Francophone studies that center social justice and empower scholars and practitioners. Following our first conference, a number of participants joined Dr. Siham Bouamer and Dr. Loic Bourdeau (DDFC founding members) to put together Diversity and Decolonization in French: New Approaches to Teaching (April 2022). This volume reconceptualizes the French classroom through a more inclusive lens and is grounded in “complaint as a feminist pedagogy” (Ahmed 2021, 7). The chapters “provide testimonies of instructors’ experiences in the classroom and point out the shortcomings and inequity they have encountered, contested, and untangled” and ultimately call for different forms of resistance, whether against the canon, assessment, textbooks, socio-historical frameworks, etc.
Our goal as a collective is also to bring together scholars, teachers, and practitioners on a biannual basis to share new resources and ideas around a specific theme. In a time of rising authoritarianism across many global contexts, which includes but is not limited to legislative attempts in the United States to control curricula and thwart social justice (e.g., attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and trans people), RESISTANCE, the 2022 DDFC conference theme, is as urgent as ever. We invite proposals for 15-min presentations, complete panels (of 3 or 4), or other formats such as roundtable discussions, book club, etc. We ask that all proposals offer concrete examples and practical tools to benefit all attendees. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
● Complaint as resistance
● Forms of resistance in the profession: collectives, organizations, unions, mentoring programs, etc.
● Graduate education and power dynamics: how to resist?
● Learning from past traditions of resistance
● Resistance and positionality: who resists? Who can resist?
● Resistance and tokenism
● Resisting “la francophonie”
● Resisting and defending one’s (language) program
● Resisting authorities: legislatures, parents, school leaders, etc.
● Resisting outside the classroom
● Resisting textbooks and traditional curricula/resisting traditional pedagogies and assessments
● Resisting the (literary) canon
● Surmounting internalized resistance to change
Abstracts of 250 words (single papers) - 600 words (other formats) should be sent to [email protected] by August 1, 2022. Selected contributors will be notified in September. In addition to your proposal, we ask that you submit the name of 3 to 5 references of your choice that resonate with our theme, Resistance. These may but do not have to relate directly to your proposals. We will build a database to share with all participants during the conference.
This event is free and open to all. In lieu of conference fees, we encourage you to donate directly to local organizations and mutual aid networks that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. We will provide a list of organizations/networks once conference registration opens.
November 13-14, 2020 - Inaugural Conference
