Cultural Identity in a Mass Culture World

4:00pm

Conference Registration

6:30pm

Opening Lecture by Donald B. Kraybill: "Shaping and Preserving Community Identity: Lessons from the Old Order Amish, Mennonites and Hutterites" (see bio)

8:30pm

Reception with music by Phalanx and Melica

9:00-10:30am

Concurrent Sessions I

• Religion, Identity and Peace
• Peace Education: Teaching Pro-Social Behavior
• Peacebuilding 1: Theory and Practice
• Working for Social Justice: Identity, Attitude and Personal Change
• The Role of International Education in the Development of Global Civil Society
• Warfare Ethics, and Political Thought in the Middle East

11:00-12:30pm

Keynote: Daniel Ellsberg on "A conversation about citizenship" (see bio)

12:30pm

Lunch

What should we do to defend academic freedom? Berenice Carroll, Mark Lance, and Margaret Groarke are organizing an informal discussion. BYO lunch.

2:00-3:30pm

Concurrent Sessions II

• Globalization and Identity
• Peace Education in New Venues
• Democracy & War
• Religion, Spirituality & Social Change
• Discussion of Citizenship Under Fire: Democratic Education in Times of Crisis
• Teaching History With A Peace Perspective: Peace and Solidarity in the Classroom

3:30pm

Coffee Hour
Graduate Programs Featured, Brossman Commons/Event Space

4:30-6:00pm

Concurrent Sessions III

• Economic Policies and Conflict
• American Identities
• The Arts and Social Change
• Voices of Dissent on College Campuses
• Peacebuilding 2: Theory and Practice
• Film and Social Change

6:00pm

Dinner

7:30pm

Lecture: Stuart Kaufman (see bio)

Late Evening

Film and Discussion

9:00-10:30am

Concurrent Sessions IV

• Economics, Gender and Conflict
• Using narrative to understand and assess identity conflict
• Organizing for Social Change: Movement Assessment
• Peace-Learning through the Arts
• Identity, The Self and The Other
• Creating a Culture of Peace
• War and the Dilemmas of Soldiers

11:00-12:30pm

Plenary: Negotiating Borders, Negotiating Identities with Siobhan McEvoy-Levy and Paula Wagoner (see bios)

12:30pm

Lunch

1:30-5:30pm

Ephrata Cloister Tour

1:30-5:00pm

Workshops

• Introductory Textbook for Justice and Peace Studies
• Rethinking 9/11: Why Truth and Reconciliation are Better Strategies than Global War
• The Critical Classroom: Education for Liberation and Movement Building
• Forum Theatre for Transforming Group Process

2:00-3:30pm

Concurrent Sessions V

• Globalization, Identity and Culture Change
• Environmental Conflict and Cultural Identity
• Peace Education and the Academy
• Identity and Conflict Transformation
• Islam and Non Violence
• The State of the Field

4:00-5:00pm

Round Table Discussions

• External Evaluation of College Peace Studies Program
• The Growth and Development of PJSA
• Peace professionals as public scholars
• Tanenbaum's Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution

5:00-6:30pm

PJSA Membership Meeting

7:00pm

Banquet and Annual Awards Ceremony