2025 FREEDOM AND JUSTICE SUMMER CONFERENCE: Sólo el Pueblo Salva al Pueblo / Only the People Can Save the People

CALL FOR PAPERS

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all lands and races, and the struggle must be continuous, for freedom is never a final act, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political, and religious relationships. - A. Philip Randolph

The Association for Economic Research of Indigenous Peoples (AERIP), the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE), and the National Economic Association (NEA) invite paper submissions for the 9th annual Freedom and Justice summer conference July 31-August 2, 2025 in Puerto Rico.  This year’s conference theme is Freedom and Justice: Sólo el Pueblo Salva al Pueblo  / Only the People Can Save the People.  The conference is being hosted by the University of Puerto Rico with generous support from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the Roosevelt Institute, and the Institute for Women's Policy Research. 

The Freedom and Justice Conference is an interdisciplinary social justice conference that attracts a small group of scholars dedicated to discussing pressing economic problems and their solutions for communities of color. We are especially interested in paper submissions that address the following topics, including those that have an intersectional analysis:

• 60 years since the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Access to credit
• Colonialism and resource extraction
• Cooperative Economics
• Disparities by gender and/or feminist economics in communities of color
• Economics of climate change, environmental justice, sustainability
• Economics of policing in communities of color
• Health disparities
• Indigeneity, indigenization, cultural knowledge and practices
• Migration and immigration, including policy around citizenship, asylum, refugee status, etc.
• Precarious employment
• Puerto Rico and Boricuas
• Race and access to public and publicly provided goods
• Racial wealth inequality
• (Re)Building communities
• Reparations
• Social movements for economic justice, independence, and equal rights
• Sovereignty and self-determination
• Subnational fiscal policy, infrastructure
• The status of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx economists
   

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE IS APRIL 1, 2025. Decisions will be made by May 1, 2025. Presenters are expected to contribute to conference discussions for the full 2 days of sessions. 

All presenters and attendees must register for the conference. Registration fee is $150 or $25 for graduate students and participants from the host institution. Need-based registration fee adjustment may be requested. Need-based travel assistance may be provided depending on funding availability. The conference registration and hotel information will be on-line and available once submissions have been accepted.

Please upload and submit abstracts of no more than 250 words as a Word document. The abstract should include the presenter(s) name, title, affiliation along with a title of the presentation and brief description. 

The Freedom and Justice Conference Planning Committee

CALL FOR PAPERS: The National Economic Association (NEA) invites proposals for sessions and individual papers to be presented at the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) annual meetings. 

DATE: January 3-5, 2026 

PLACE: Philadelphia, PA 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 30, 2025 

PROGRAM CHAIR: Bradley L. Hardy, Georgetown University

NEA SUBMISSION PORTAL: https://nea.submittable.com/submit

Proposals for complete sessions (with 4-6 presenters and potential discussants) are preferred, along with the name of the organizer who will take primary responsibility for communicating with session participants. Individual paper submissions will also be considered. NEA membership is required to present in an NEA session. Sessions and papers on any topic will be considered, although we are especially interested in topics on the causes of, consequences of, and solutions to structural inequities, including but not limited to work focused on: 

• Implications of the U.S. domestic economic policy environment for social and economic outcomes
• Stratification economics
• Intergenerational social and economic mobility (transmission of economic status across generations), including the role of race and place
• Exposure to economic insecurity and the role of government support programs
• The role of historical factors in shaping contemporary social and economic outcomes
• Income and wealth inequality
• Macroeconomic conditions and implications for diverse communities
• Education policy and educational inequality

Session proposals should include: 

1. The session title and abstract (250-word limit). Panels and roundtable sessions need only submit one abstract for the entire session. Paper sessions must submit abstracts for each paper.
2. Primary and two secondary JEL classification codes that best describe the session.
3. The names of the session organizer and the session chair.
4. The titles and abstracts of the proposed papers (250-word limit each).
5. At least three (3) potential discussants. If discussants have already committed, please indicate this.
6. Contact information for the organizer, the chair, each author, and each discussant. Include their full name, title, affiliation, and email address. Please identify the presenter for co-authored papers. This information is essential.

Individual paper submissions should include: 

1. The title and abstract (250 word limit).
2. Primary and two secondary JEL classification codes that best describe the paper.
3. A potential discussant. If the discussant has already committed, please indicate this.
4. Contact information for the author(s) and the discussant. Include their full name, title, affiliation, and email address. Please identify the presenter if the paper is co-authored. This information is essential.

Note that: 

• All submissions should be uploaded as a Microsoft Word attachment to https://nea.submittable.com/submit
• NEA membership is required to present.
• Proposals (i.e., sessions or individual papers) submitted for consideration by the NEA should not be submitted to any other associations.