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2009 Conference: Schedule of Events

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THURSDAY, October 8th
 
   9:00a-4:00p PJSA Board Meeting
 
   6:15p Opening Ceremony
 
   7:00-8:30p Plenary Session 1:
Helen Prejean
 
   
FRIDAY, October 9th
 
   8:45-10:15a Plenary Session 2: Restorative Justice
Hon. Janine Geske, Distinguished Professor of Law, Marquette University
Robert Enright, "Forgiveness: The Missing Piece to the Peace Puzzle?”
Cheryl Maples
 
   10:30a-12:30p Field Trip to Peace Action Wisconsin
   OR  
   10:30a-12:00p Concurrent Sessions A
FILM: Deadly Mistakes
Peace, Economics, and New Technologies
Recrafting the American cultural genome: For a possible future
Globalization of Compassion
Building Peace through Education & Local Organizing
American Nonviolence Movements
Nonviolent responses to displacement
Nonviolence and the Workplace: An Interactive Workshop
Building from the bottom up
The public face of peacemaking
Empowering Teaching and Learning
FILM: The Dhamma Brothers
 
   12:00-1:15p Lunch (on your own)
   OR  
   12:15-1:15p Q&A with Helen Prejean
 
   1:15-2:45p Plenary Session 3: Dialogue on the Future of Peacemaking
Jonathan Schell, author of several books, most recently “The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger”
George Cheney, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, and of the Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy University of Utah
 
   3:15-4:15p Concurrent Sessions B
Making curricular resources available online
Transformative Nonviolence and the History of Peacemaking
Mindful US policy and Guatemala
Beyond the Evidence: Resolving Teen and Adult Conflict and Violence
Gandhian Transformations: Nonviolence through Pedagogy
Food for Peace
Tradition and transformation: Processing conflict in peace studies
PJSA Student Award Winners Present their Research
Montessori education and peace: How working differently with children can change the world
Analytical Consideration of oppositional cases
 
   4:30-5:30p Concurrent Sessions C
Postconflict reconciliation
The French republican model of education: Peacemaker or instigator?
Compassionate change in US justice policy
Finding the movement's voice: Online social networks and social change
Critical pedagogies and effective peace education
Relationships between violence and nonviolence
Reflections on nonviolence's tolerance?
Nonviolent Communication
Models of Resistance
Author meets critics: Toward a credible pacifism
Food Scarcity and Human Rights
 
   5:30-6:30p Reception Sponsored by Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
 
   6:30-8:00p Film Screening: Soldiers of Conscience
 
   8:00p Concert: Emma's Revolution
 
SATURDAY, October 10th
 
   8:30-9:45a Plenary Session 5: Gandhian Traditions
Veena Rani Howard, University of Oregon and Lane Community College
Cedric Prakash, Director of Prashant, the Jesuit Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace, Ahmedabad, India
Michael Nagler, founder-President of The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education
 
   10:00-11:15a Concurrent Sessions D
Restorative Justice Philosophy and Technology
Reconciliation and forgiveness within and among nations
Food, justice, and nonviolence
Creative & Transformative Peace Education
Nonviolent challenges and solutions in the African Context
Author Meets Activist: Research, Action and the Peace Movement
Iraqi-American Reconciliation Project
Religion and pathways to justice
Emma's Revolution: Songwriting for Peace & Justice
What is nonviolence? Toward a theory of 'The Greatest Force'
 
   11:30-12:30p Concurrent Sessions E
Moral Leadership
Models of Peace Education
Community-Based Institutes on Peace Education
Stories of Peacemakers
Nonviolence Applied: Contemporary Issues and Gandhian Legacy
Incorporating peace education into the education of youth
Nonviolent Philosophy and Personal Practice
Alternative media as a force for social activism
Understanding Compassion
"Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi and St. Ignatius of Loyola on nonviolence and sustainability."
Women as Peacemakers
 
   12:30-1:30p Lunch (on your own)
   OR
   12:30-1:30p "Stand for Peace" -- a Wisconsin Peace Action demonstration, on Wisconsin avenue in the middle of the Marquette campus
 
   1:30-2:45p Plenary Session 6: Food Sovereignty and Justice
Will Allen, Growing Power, Inc.
Whitney Sanford, University of Florida
Christian Petrauskis, researcher, food security
 
   3:00-5:00p Field Trip to Growing Power
   OR
   3:15-4:45p Concurrent Sessions F
Israel and US academic censorship
Transformational Teaching
Conflict resolution and management in Africa
Promoting peace with young people: The 2009 - 2010 National Peace Essay Contest
Resisting ROTC in Schools
Peacebuilding across partitions and ethnic divides
Manifesting your peace and justice program at community college
Considering Practical Applications
Listening and Hearing
Bridging the Gap Between Peace Activism and the Military
FILM: Sin By Silence
 
   5:00-6:30p PJSA Membership Business Meeting
 
   7:00-9:00p Banquet and Awards Ceremony