Conference Proposals

We invite workshop proposals through January 14, 2026.  Proposed workshops should be 50 minutes in length and should encourage active learning among participants. 

Submit a workshop proposal

The William & Mary Active Citizens Conference is a space for educating, uniting, and inspiring active citizens. Our 2026 theme is sustainability mindset and we encourage your workshop to engage with one or more of these questions:

• How can we understand and embrace interdependence in our active citizenship?
• How do our efforts affect the wellbeing of others and our environment?
• How can we use “both-and” thinking: personal and structural change, short and long-term impacts, parts and whole? 

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• Workshops should provide participants opportunities to engage with each other in learning about the session topic and applying it to their unique situations. This might include facilitated discussions, panels, dialogues, reflection techniques, integration of media, arts or other creative formats, learning exchanges and other activities that engage participants in collective problem solving or other tasks.
• Workshops will be 50 minutes long. Consider what you can comfortably fit in that 50 minute session and make clear in your session proposal how you plan to divide your time. 
• Team presentations are encouraged by students, staff, faculty, community partners. Active citizenship calls us to work together for community change. 
• Undergraduate students who are leading workshop sessions are encouraged to identify a faculty/staff member who will review and provide feedback on a run-through of their session before the conference.  
• We are seeking sessions which are open to a variety of experience levels.  If you have an intended audience for your session (e.g. alternative break participants, first year students, etc.)  share that with us in your conference proposal. Most conference attendees will be undergraduate students.