The 13th annual Mathematics Education and Society (MES13) is hosted by CiSTEMer and Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Taking place in Summer 2025, MES13 will serve as a center point for discussions from highly revered researchers in the mathematics education field. There, conference attendees will have a platform to learn and share their thoughts on theoretical frameworks in math classes, the politics of mathematics education, alternative research methods, and much more!
The following is a tentative schedule for the 13th International Conference of Mathematics and Society, which is subject to change. The full program together with proceedings for MES 13 will be available shortly before the start of the conference. The proceedings of prior MES conferences are available here. You can also view previous MES conferences and proceedings. More information about the conference theme and keynote speakers will be forthcoming.
Thursday June 12, 2025
Registration
Welcome and Inaugrual Lecture
Welcome Dinner
Friday June 13, 2025
Opening Plenary
Coffee Break
Working Groups
Working Group Report Outs
Agora
Lunch
Parallel Sessions 1
Coffee Break
Parellel Sessions 2
Saturday June 14, 2024
Opening Plenary
Coffee Break
Working Groups
Working Group Report Outs
Distributed Proximities
Lunch
Parallel Sessions 1
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions 2
Sunday June 15, 2025
Opening Plenary
Coffee Break
Working Groups
Working Group Report Outs
Here & Now
Lunch
Monday June 16, 2025
Opening Plenary
Coffee Break
Working Groups
Working Group Report Outs
Distributed Proximities
Lunch
Parallel Sessions 1
Coffee Br eak
Parallel Sessions 2
Dinner
Tuesday June 17, 2025
Words of Wisdom Opening
Coffee Break
Agora
Lunch
In preparing for the next convening of Mathematics Education and Society 13 (MES13) in 2025, we have been focused on the need to be responsive and current, and to highlight the ongoing relevance and importance of research on social, material, and cultural aspects of mathematics education. Our hope is that MES13 will offer opportunities to: (a) interrogate the racialized and gendered economy of mathematics education, showing how this shapes different international practices in teaching and learning, with special emphasis on the American postcolonial context; (b) examine the links between mathematics education and images of reason, intelligence, embodiment, and dis/ability, revealing alternative and pluralist ways of knowing and doing mathematics, both in and out of formal education settings; (c) investigate the ways that mathematics and mathematics education are implicated in imperialism and the military-industrial complex, and caught up in the rapid proliferation of AI technologies, algorithmic governance, and digital technocracy; and (d) explore modes of mathematical activity that cultivate a socio-ecological responsibility for more-than-human life worlds, in search of new mathematical imaginaries and compassionate openings for reconnection across different communities and modes of being mathematical.
We have selected an image from the work of African American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) for the webpage because it speaks directly to the historical context of Atlanta, Georgia, where the conference will convene, as well as representing a particular social justice application of mathematics. Du Bois collected sociological data about Black communities in Atlanta and the environs, and created a set of powerful graphical representations that were shown at the 1900 Paris Exposition. These inventive graphs were an important political intervention, revealing Georgia’s ongoing racist inequitable conditions. This work stands as a testimony, both to Du Bois’ inventive and ground-breaking use of mathematics, and also to the ‘afterlife of slavery’, a term coined by Saidiya Hartman (2008) to describe the way in which “a racial calculus and a political arithmetic” continue to shape communities in North America and elsewhere.
References
Du Bois, W.E.B. (2018). W.E.B. Du Bois Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. (Eds. W. Battle-Baptiste & B. Rusert). Princeton Architectural Press.
Hartman, S. (2008). Lose your mother: A journey along the Atlantic slave route. MacMillan Publishers.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/du-bois-data-portraits/