White Privilege Conference

Early registration deadline is Friday, March 5, 2010.  Registration is not complete until a registration form and payment is received. You will receive confirmation and receipt of payment via email. In addition, a summary of registered conference participants will be posted on the WPC home page. 

Registration Questions?  Contact Daryl Miller at 719-255- 4764 or dmiller4@uccs.edu 

Please take a few moments to browse over the following information as it will provide valuable information for both newcomers and past attendees alike.

You have the option to register for a Wednesday, April 7th  preconference and/or Saturday, April 10th institute (which overlaps with the last day of the conference). There is an additional fee (which includes lunch) to attend a Wed. or Sat. institute.  New this year: Attend both an Institute and the WPC and receive a $20 discount!

Cancellation/Refund policy
Only registrations for which a written cancellation is received by Friday, March 19, 2010, are eligible for a refund minus a $30 processing fee. For those exceptional circumstances, 75 percent refunds may be available until Friday, March 26, 20010. Absolutely no refunds can be processed after Friday, March 26, 2010. Refunds will be mailed within 30 days following WPC 11. 

• Youth Leadership Conference :  Concurrent with the WPC, we are offering a Youth Leadership Conference for High School students. The first two days include workshops, performances, caucuses, andaffinity groups speciallydesigned for youth.  Workshops will feature interactive activities, film,spoken word, Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, andsmall and large group discussions to address issues of heritage, identity, language, labels, power & privilege, teamwork, and strategies for community action.  On Saturday, April 10th, youth will join the larger WPC conference and can choose to attend anyof the full conference workshops and activities.  A flat registration fee of $185 must be submitted as well as the specific registration form for the WPC Youth Leadership conference. 
• High School Youth Institute : This one-day, pre-conference institute is designed for high school students interested in exploring issues of social justice and liberation. The program will introduce participants to a range of social justice concepts and notions about liberation. Participants will increase their skills in identifying social justice issues, naming and analyzing manifestations of oppression, and discussing elements of liberation. Using theatre, spoken word, music, simulation and other forms, students will create and present strategies for interrupting oppression and enacting liberation. (This one-day Institute is separate and different from the three day WPC Youth Leadership Conference)

The White Privilege Conference (WPC) focuses on white privilege and supremacy within an intersectional framework that examines other systems of inequality including gender, sexuality, class, religion, and others. The WPC collaboration with UW-La Crosse’s Widening the Circle conference will contribute to the WPC goal of continuing to "widen the circle" and become more comprehensive and inclusive.  These ongoing efforts at inclusion within WPC provide a strong foundation for Widening the Circle, a conference that focuses on the complex interactions of identity within a context of White supremacy and institutional racism. While WPC focuses on White privilege and White racism, Widening the Circle expands and complicates understandings of race by challenging the Black/White binary as a framework for understanding race. Through its focus on Indigenous and Hmong history, culture, self-determination and contemporary issues, Widening the Circle invites participants to recognize the ways in which culture, gender, language, spirituality, political status, oral tradition, and the significance of place all impact the ways in which race is lived within U.S. society. Further, Widening the Circle provides substantive support for educator professional development around curricular evaluation and integration, instructional strategies, home/school relationship-building and educational policy related to Indigenous and Hmong communities. By collaborating, WPC and Widening the Circle provide a more complete and holistic approach to critical theorizing of White supremacy, race and racism, to addressing issues of race and education, and to the inclusion of local racial and cultural groups within the multifaceted context of U.S. society.  What partnership would look like:

Conference attendees who wish to take advantage of the opportunity to attend both the White Privilege Conference (WPC) and the Widening the Circle conference will receive a discount of $20/conference in registration fees for the two conferences. Continuing Education (CE) credits also will be available at each conference for educators who would like to access them.  For WPC attendees, WPC offers options for undergraduate and graduate credit from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (UCCS) College of Education (http://www.uccs.edu/~wpc/documents/Credit%20and%20CEU%20Flyer.pdf).  For Widening the Circle attendees, Continuing Education (CE) credits will be made available through the UW-La Crosse Continuing Education office (http://www.uwlax.edu/Conted/), and on-site personnel at the conference will also assist K-12 educators in attendance who would like to include Widening the Circle within their PDP activities.