Do you have an innovative or inspiring story, experience, or model to share with us and others on how you or others have been seeking to incorporate and draw on ancient and Indigenous histories and wisdom traditions in more balanced and inclusive ways in K-12 or post-secondary education or other educational settings? Whether you would like to present or simply attend the Global Forum 2026, we would love to hear from you!
At the World Education Research Association’s International Research Network (WERA IRN) on Ancient and Indigenous Histories and Wisdom Traditions, we are honored and very pleased to be partnering on the 2026 Virtual Global Forum with SESHAT (Global History Databank) and the Global Centre for Pluralism.
We are very excited to be launching the first edition of the virtual Global Forum: “Reclaiming What Was Lost: Teaching & Learning Ancient and Indigenous Histories and Knowledges.”
The theme of the first Forum 2026 is “Educators’ Innovative Approaches and Experiences,”and will be held online (March 14th-16th, 2026).
Please find all details and guidelines in the Call for Presentations attached (and available here), as well as the link to the form to submit an abstract and/or to register to attend the Forum. Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2025.
Submissions are welcome from educators, Elders, community activists/organizers, artists, researchers, and others!
Please consider submitting an abstract! And please do help us circulate within your networks!
If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our wonderful lead organizer (Dahlia Vionnet-Dimnik: dahlia.vionnet@mail.utoronto.ca) and/or our wonderful Forum Chair and WERA IRN member (Jeremy Jimenez: jeremy.jimenez@cortland.edu).
Best wishes,
On behalf of the Global Forum organizers and our WERA IRN
Ehaab & Ted
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Ehaab D. Abdou & Theodore G. Zervas
Co-conveners of the WERA IRN “Global Curricular Representations and Teachers’ Enactment of Ancient and Indigenous Cultures and Wisdom Traditions”