Proposal Submission

📣 Call for Proposals: CDOR 2026

28th Annual Campus & Community Dialogue on Race

 📅 October 19–23, 2026
 🕛 Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, September 9 at noon
 🔗 Submit Your 2026 Proposal Here

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Send us an email: cdor@humboldt.edu

A Community & University Collaboration

The Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR) is a unique space that brings together students, staff, faculty, and community members for a week of learning, connection, and action. This is more than a university event–it’s a shared dialogue between the campus and the wider community, grounded in racial justice, healing, and collective liberation.

We invite you to be part of it–not just by attending, but by contributing your voice, your story, and your ideas.

Who Can Submit?

Everyone is welcome.
Whether you’re a student sharing lived experience, a local organizer, a faculty researcher, a youth activist, or a community elder–your insight belongs here. We especially encourage first-time presenters and underrepresented voices.

Possible Topics (not limited to):

• Race, racism & cultural wealth
• Intersectionality, queer and trans liberation
• Immigrant justice, DACA, and refugee stories
• Health equity, mental health, and wellness
• Community organizing, coalition building, and abolition
• Restorative and transformative justice
• Anti-fascism and radical democracy
• Disability justice and neurodiversity
• Food sovereignty, housing insecurity, and reparations
• Media justice and challenging disinformation
• Creative resistance: art, poetry, music, storytelling
• Self-care, joy, and sustainable activist

Possible Formats:

• Workshops – Skill-building, healing, or exploratory
• Panels & Roundtables – Cross-sector and intergenerational dialogues
• Speakers & Lectures – Academic or community expertise
• Performances – Spoken word, theater, music, movement
• Art Installations or Film – Creative storytelling as resistance
• Story Circles / Counter-Storytelling – Lived experience shared with intention
• Movement or Healing Spaces – Somatics, dance, mindfulness, rest

Let your proposal reflect your unique approach, experience, or vision.

Support is Available

Need help developing your idea? We’re here to support you.

For questions or accessibility needs, contact:
 📧 CDOR – cdor@humboldt.edu

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                                                      Bring your community. Bring your curiosity. Bring your vision.

Theme: We Are Here! Fighting Fascism & Erasure

The vision of Campus & Community Dialogue on Race is to achieve racial, social, and environmental justice. The purpose of the program is to promote and facilitate social and environmental change by engaging a diverse range of individuals, communities, and viewpoints to explore the impact of racism and its intersections with all forms of oppression. In addition, students can earn a unit of credit in ES 317, Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (email Professor Atienza at pmla@humboldt.edu to enroll in the class). 

Fascism is deeply intertwined with racism and ultra-nationalism, using the concept of a superior “nation” or “race” to justify supremacy, social hierarchy, and the elimination of those deemed “others.”

In The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants, Dr. Roberto J. González writes, “Silicon Valley has thrown much of its support behind [the current administration] for reasons of opportunism, appeasement, or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions.” 

In How Fascism Works, U.S. philosopher Jason Stanley identifies ten pillars of fascism that serve an “us and them” framework to seize power and dismantle democracy. These tactics include invoking a mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, victimhood, "law and order," sexual anxiety, favoring "the heartland," and the dismantling of public goods. Fascism constructs a rigid, dehumanizing hierarchy that prioritizes a dominant group while blaming minority groups for national decline.

For an overview of Stanley’s pillars of fascism, we recommend this short video: The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think

What fighting fascism & erasure means to us (CDOR Committee), with attention toward those groups that are most negatively affected by this structure:

• Active Resistance: Opposing the normalization of fascist policies, refusing to obey authoritarian measures, and disrupting the "business as usual" approach. Compliance empowers fascists, so refusing to go back to “business as usual” and normalizing their policies resists the fundamental basis of what fascism relies on to flourish. Fascism counts on and exploits our indoctrination of being ‘polite’ and ‘civil’.”
• Build Community Solidarity: Confront fascist rhetoric by holding each other accountable; protect each other against fascist assault; and connect with one another in the face of fear and isolation so that we see each other as allies instead of competitors.
• Education and Critical Thinking: Combatting disinformation, promoting education, encouraging critical thinking, and sharing our community stories to counter propaganda.
• Broad Alliances: Forming broad fronts across our social differences like race, class, gender, dis/ability that isolate and counter the spread of authoritarianism.
• Proactive Action: Creating communities centered on love and inclusion rather than fear and exclusion. We must fight fascism by standing up for democratic institutions and working to uphold our rights and civil liberties for all.

The Campus and Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR) invites proposals for discussions, workshops, and presentations related to this year's theme We Are Here! Fighting Fascism and Erasure. Your proposal should aim to enhance the vision of CDOR with a particular focus on race and racialization. We welcome submissions from staff/faculty, students, and community members focused on how to actively identify and combat the spread of authoritarianism at both large and small scales. 

CDOR is focused on cultivating an environment of growth, healing, and affirmation. We want to explore possibilities for building community and broad alliances across our communities of difference to uplift and empower each other now and enrich the work toward better futures.