Reimagining the Academy

Reimagining the Academy: Conceptual, Theoretical, Philosophical, and Methodological Sparks.- Theme I. Holding Space for Story, Struggle and Possibility.- Black Warrior Women Scholars Speak.- My Journey of a Thousand Miles.- How Does a Woman Find Her Voice and Not Lose Her Soul in Academia?.- Theme II. Building Caring Communities and Enacting an Ethics of Care.-  Mentoring Beyond the Finite Games: Creating Time and Space for Connection, Collaboration and Friendship.- A Collective Feminist Ethics of Care with Talanoa: Embodied Time in the ShiFting Spaces of Women’s Academic Work.- Emotional Labour Pains: Rebirth of the Good Girl.- More than Tolerance: A Call to ShiFt the Ableist Academy Towards Equity.- Arts-Based Reflection for Care of Self and Others in the Academy: A Collaged Rhizomatic Journey.- Slow Pedagogies and Care-Full, Deep Learning in Preservice Teacher Education.- Women Navigating the ‘Academic Olympics’: AchievingActivism Through Collaborative Autoethnography.- Envisioning Caring Communities in Initial Teacher Education.- Writing, Playing, Transforming: A Collaborative Inquiry into Neoliberalism’s Effects on Academia, and the Scope for Changing the Game.- Theme III. ShiFting, Renewing and Reimagining the Academy.- The In/Finite Game of Life: Playing in the Academy in the Face of Life and Death.- Beyond Survival: The ShiFt to Aesthetic Writing.- The Gift of Wit(h)nessing Transitional Moments Through a Contemplative Arts Co-inquiry.- Remaking Academic Garments.- Canon, Legacy or Imprint: A Feminist Reframing of Intellectual Contribution.- Beyond Shame and Pride: The University as a Game of Love.