Missing and Murdered: A Transdisciplinary Conference on Black Women and Girls in Missouri and Beyond
Some possible sites for engagement include:
Black Girlhood (rural areas vs. urban areas)
Data Gaps (erasure, collection/collectors, access, data categories/classifications/definitions, reporting mechanisms)
Media and Representations
Policy, Accountability Frameworks, Reform (part of Creating Coalitions with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women [MMIW])
Structural, Historical, Social Foundations of the crisis (Domestic violence and sex abuse in Black churches, for example)
Intersectionality
Policing, Law, State
Health, Housing, and Social Systems
Archives, Memory, and Memorialization
Comparative Studies
Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy
Methods and Ethics of researching Missing and Murdered Black women and girls
Any other topics on missing and murdered Black women, broadly defined
Proposal should be submitted by March 31, 2026.