Social Science Education Consortium

In conjunction with Montana State University Billings’ College of Education and The Lodge Approach, we invite proposals from social science education researchers, pedagogues, educators, social scientists, community practitioners, and others to participate in the 2027 SSEC Conference in Billings, Montana, and the tribal lands of the Northern Cheyenne. Proposals may focus on the conference theme: Bridging Ways of Knowing: Revealing, Connecting to, and Learning from Our Shared and Diverse Worlds and/or feature new directions for social science education in research, policy, and/or practice.

As the theme suggests, power lies in the ongoing relationships with both the ideas, concepts, and ways of being that support what we already know and those that might challenge, disrupt, and change how we experience the world. Questions like: What constitutes a world? What constitutes a knower? Who/what participates in knowledge creation/sharing? And what relationships make knowledge possible?, we suggest, must be explored through those often contentious relationships. Yet, our current economic, political, social, and cultural state is defined by separation and exacerbated by those who seek to further foster fissures between us and all things. As we travel to the site of the 2027 SSEC Annual Conference, Billings, Montana and the tribal Homelands of the Northern Cheyenne, the SSEC seeks to disrupt this state of divisive affairs by exploring this theme:

Bridging Ways of Knowing:
Revealing, Connecting to, and Learning from Our Shared and Diverse Worlds

For further details, view the full call online here or embedded below. The final deadline for submissions is January 10, 2027. Rolling submissions will be accepted starting on October 15, 2026. Note: To facilitate the timely announcement of the conference program, there will be no deadline extension.

Proposals should be submitted online at https://bit.ly/4hIqLqX. Our program committee, board of directors, and volunteer reviewers will review submissions.  We hope to notify you of the outcome of your proposal no later than February 1, 2027.

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN SPRING 2027.