Submit a Proposal for 2026

• Tuesday, October 14, 2025 – Priority Proposal Deadline
• Monday, November 17, 2025 – Final Proposal Deadline
• Monday, December 15, 2025 (tentative) – Final Sessions Chosen / Speakers/ Volunteers Informed
• Tuesday, March 31, 2026 – Session Materials Submission Deadline for April Summit 
• Wednesday, April 22, 2026 (EASTERN TIME) – Pre-Summit (LIVE)
• Friday, April 24, 2026 – (EASTERN TIME) Main Summit (LIVE)
• (Tentative) Friday, December 11, 2026 (EASTERN TIME) Mini Summit (LIVE)
• * *More information about timelines will be shared with mini summit participants after May 2026

We invite international educators, intercultural professionals, community leaders, creatives, service providers, and justice advocates for global educational access to submit a proposal. Whether you’re based in North, Central or South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, or Oceania, your voice and perspective are valued. We welcome contributions from students, scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, emerging practitioners, experienced leaders, grassroots educators, or anyone related to global learning. We want to hear from you. Our goal is to elevate voices and perspectives that have been under-amplified in global and multicultural education, especially those that challenge norms and reimagine what inclusive global engagement can look like.

1. Complete the ‘Call for Proposals’ Google Form by the specified deadline.
2. Ensure all mandatory questions are answered.
3. Provide both an email and phone number for potential follow-up regarding your proposal.

The planning committee has identified several topics that are either underrepresented or not frequently discussed. You’re encouraged to draw inspiration from these or propose a unique topic:

Study Abroad & Economic Impacts

• Financial impacts on institutions

• Barriers for students from the global majority

• Impacts of major legislation on global learning access, student mobility, and public funding priorities

Technology, AI & Global Education

• Role of AI, bots, and automation

• Ethical concerns and intercultural learning in virtual spaces

• AI impacts on community and society
  

Global Education & Structural Inequities

• Accreditation and international credentialing disparities

• Reliance on full-pay international students

• Experiences of stateless, refugee, and DACA students

• Agency and complicity in systemic structures

• Supporting organizations from within institutions
  

Colonialism in Educational Systems

• Colonial legacies in curriculum and admissions

• Colonialism in higher education globally

• Centering voices from beyond the U.S.

• Learning from communities that have resisted authoritarianism
  

Media Literacy & Global Narratives

• U.S. media’s influence on global education

• Narrative control and censorship
  

Climate Justice & Indigenous Knowledge

• Climate justice in education systems

• Community-centered approaches to climate learning

• Indigenous knowledge and land-based sustainability practices

• Nature-based learning and healing

• Climate displacement and educational disruption

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• Preparing educators to teach in climate-impacted regions

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Liberation Movements, Resistance & Activism

• Role of educators in supporting liberation work

• How to engage in activism while managing risk

• Queer joy, gender performance, and resistance

• Supporting students facing persecution for speaking out
  

Navigating Opposition & Avoiding Performativity

• Understanding and responding to resistance to inclusion and justice efforts

• Addressing inclusion backlash in global education

• Avoiding symbolic or surface-level efforts
  

Global Politics, Power & Education

• Education’s role in reinforcing or disrupting political systems

• Impacts of state violence, censorship, and political agendas
  

Challenging Dominant Narratives in Education

• Reimagining global programs and curricula through inclusive, historically grounded perspectives

• Uplifting Black, Indigenous, and local voices in international learning spaces

Human Rights & Global Education

• Critical look at how human rights are framed and applied

• Tensions between global ideals and local realities
  

Intersectionality in Global Learning

• Barriers for trans, non-binary, neurodiverse, and disabled students

• Linguistic imperialism and reproductive justice

• Queer existence as a form of disruption

• Cross-identity solidarity

• Gen-Z as innovators, not just audiences
  

Community, Care & Well-being

• Strategies for disrupting  burnout 

• Multicultural healing and community-building

• Culturally grounded student and staff support

• Cultural humility in global education
  

Futurism & Radical Possibility

• Afrofuturist and decolonial visions for education

• Imagination beyond capitalism and workforce models

• Visionary practices from outside the U.S.

At the Global Respectful Disruption Summit, your voice isn’t just welcomed, it’s honored.

This is not your typical conference. We don’t ask you to water down your message, follow a script, or fit into someone else’s box. We believe in radical authenticity, creative freedom, and courageous storytelling in global education and beyond. If you have a perspective, practice, or possibility that challenges the status quo, we want to hear it.

✨ Here’s why submitting a proposal matters:

• Be Authentically You
  We invite presenters to show up fully. That means your tone, your truth, your style, your way. We do not censor, dilute, or revise your content to make it more palatable. This space was built for boldness.

• Create Your Own Format
  Want to facilitate a conversation? Perform? Host a circle? Challenge us in a new way? Great. While we offer suggested formats, you’re free to shape your session however best reflects your message and your audience in a virtual setting.

• Amplify the Underheard
  We center narratives, knowledge systems, and voices that are often pushed to the margins in global education. Your lived experience, your cultural lens, your truth-telling—it belongs here.

• Engage a Global Community
  Present to educators, artists, students, leaders, healers, and disruptors across continents who are just as committed as you are to reimagining justice and global learning.

• Join a Movement, Not Just a Moment
  This isn’t a one-time event—it’s a growing, global community of co-conspirators building liberatory, inclusive futures through education, art, and action.