Conferences/ Presentations

As a growing academic scholar, Shapel has a passion for learning new things and sharing them with others. She believes that knowledge is power and that attending presentations and sharing what we learn with others is one of the best ways to grow as individuals and as a society. By staying curious, we open ourselves to a world of possibilities. Join Shapel on this adventure and let's explore!

Selected Conference and Invited Presentations

2026

African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) Eleventh Annual Conference — Pittsburgh, PA LaBorde, Shapel M. (2026, March). “The Sound of Absence: Black Grief and the Preservation of Legacy.” Session 16, “Epistemologies and Ontologies.”

Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Meeting — Pittsburgh, PA

LaBorde, Shapel M. (2026, March). “My House Is a School: Place, Memory, and Community as Public Philosophy.” Public-facing session facilitation.
LaBorde, Shapel M. (2026, March). “In the Wake of Homegoing: Rootedness, Loss, and Learning.” CGSSW-sponsored session.
Southeast Philosophy of Education Society (SEPES) 78th Annual Meeting — Birmingham, AL LaBorde, Shapel M. (2026, February). “Mourning as Method: Black Feminist Griefwork, Ancestral Autoethnography, and the Beloved Community.”

2025

North Eastern Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) Annual Conference — Haverford College, Haverford, PA

LaBorde, Shapel M. (2025, October). “Resurrecting the Beloved: Black Feminist Grief, Ancestral Knowledge, and the Practice of Educational Becoming.” Emerging Scholar paper.
LaBorde, Shapel M. (2025, October). Panelist, “Beloved Community in Urban Education: A Philosophical Conversation.”
5th Biennial Conference on Anthropology & Education — Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY LaBorde, Shapel M. (2025, October). “Twice as Good, …: A Black Feminist Critique of the Racialized Economy of Excellence.”
Reimagining Education Summer Institute — Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NYC LaBorde, Shapel M. (2025, July). “Pearls from Grandma Babe: Embodied Black Feminist Praxis as Pedagogy for Joy and Liberation.” Workshop presentation.
Pan-Africanism & Education: Interdisciplinary & Critical Approaches in the 21st Century — Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY LaBorde, Shapel M. (2025, April). “The Archive Is in My Skin: Nails, Scars, Stretch Marks, and Ancestry.”
Philosophy of Education Society (PES) 81st Annual Meeting — Baltimore, MD LaBorde, Shapel M. (2025, March). “Beyond the Future: Education as a Radical Act of Presence Using Black Feminist Epistemologies.” Panel presentation.

2024

North Eastern Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) Annual Conference — Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA LaBorde, Shapel M. (2024, October). Session chair and discussant, “Examining Democracy across the United States of America.”

Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Meeting — Salt Lake City, UT

LaBorde, Shapel M. (2024, March). “Narratives of Gender Knowledge Across Generations: Battling Misinformation by Documenting the Historical Status of Women in Philosophy of Education.” Committee on the Status of Women (COSW) Intergenerational Oral History Panel.
LaBorde, Shapel M. (2024, March). “On Self-Determination: The Black Aesthetics of Political Prisoners.” Works in Progress session, “Identity, Injustice, and Education.”
Southeast Philosophy of Education Society (SEPES) 76th Annual Meeting — Greenville, SC LaBorde, Shapel M. (2024, February). “Radicalizing Black Excellence: An Educative Conversation between Anna Julia Cooper and Alain Locke around Belief as a Practice.”

2023

North Eastern Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) Annual Conference — Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY LaBorde, Shapel M. (2023, October). “Raising Shapel with RoseBud’s Mornin’ Musings: A Personal, Philosophical, and Pedagogical Assurance.” Emerging Scholar session.
GSCOPE Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Education — The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH LaBorde, Shapel M. (2023, February). “My Great-Grandmother, RoseBud’s Morning Musings.”
7th Annual MLK Oratorical & Spoken Word Event — Milbank Chapel, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY LaBorde, Shapel M. (2023, February). “Harmonizing Voices from Past to Present for Fullness of Self” (Finalist). Live oratorical and spoken word presentation.

2022

GSCOPE Conference — Teachers College, Columbia University, Virtual