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2011 SCHEDULE OVERVIEW (subject to change)

Index of Presenters


Thursday, October 20

9:00a – 5:00p PJSA Board Meeting

6:00p Conference Registration Opens (Otherlands)

7:00 - 9:00p David Rovics in Concert! at Otherlands Coffee Bar, 641 South Cooper Street. $5 cover.


Friday, October 21

Coffee Available

7:00a Registration open (Canale Arena) (Christian Brothers University)

8:30a – 9:30a Welcoming Ceremony (University Theatre) (CBU)

9:45a – 11:00a Concurrent Session A
Library Resources
War Between Suburbs
Drug Laws & Jim Crow
Sustainable Activism
Memphis Common Word
Spiritual-Scientific Nonviolence

Replication & Revolution
Ending Racism

Theories & Strategies
Exploring Humanitarian Law
Signs of Hope
Global Movement Issues

11:15a – 12:15p Plenary Session P.1
A Conversation with Nipun Mehta & Pancho Ramos-Stierle
12:30p – 1:30p LUNCH

1:30p – 2:45p Concurrent Session B

On-line Dialogue
Picturing Peace

Nonviolence: Featured Panel
Gandhi After Gandhi
63 Years of Failure
Film: Fambul Tok
Alternate Pedagogies
Dances of Universal Peace

Moral & Political Theories
Markets & Economies
Conscience and Faith
International Issues
3:00p – 4:15p Concurrent Session C

USIP Contributions
PJSA External Evaluation
The Plowshares
Rating Obama
Think, Care, Act
PeaceJam SCHOLARS
Work That Reconnects
I'd Like to Buy an Enemy
Rural Appalachia
Humanistic Efforts
Faith and Religion

Images for Peacebuilding
Race & Restorations
4:30p - 5:30p Reception

5:00p - 6:00p Caucus Meetings

6:00p – 7:00p Plenary Session P.2
A Conversation with Claybourne Carson
7:30p – 9:00p Film: Little Town of Bethlehem


Saturday, October 22

Coffee Available

8:00a Registration open

9:15a – 10:30p Concurrent Session D
New Voices
Compassionate Listening
Community Yoga

Reclaiming Maternity
Student Paper Award Winners
Interfaith & Intercultural
Community Leaders
Film: RECLAIMING Their VOICE

Gratitude & Spirituality
Resiliency & Liberation
Environmental Issues
Actions & Interventions
Educational Issues
10:45a – 12:00p Plenary Session P.3
A Conversation with David Bacon
12:00p - 1:00p LUNCH

1:15p – 2:30p Concurrent Session E
Muslims in King's America
Peacemaking with Children
Int'l Inst. on Peace Education
Red Beard Game
Resisting Fear & Violence
Waging Nonviolence
Bayard's Birthdays & Ours
Film: State of Peace
Human Rights Education
Inner & Outer Peace
Central Africa
21st Century Challenges
Nonviolent Struggles
Writing & Literature



2:45p – 4:00p Concurrent Session F
Teaching LARA
MLK & Globalization

Classroom Nonviolence
Constructing Peace Studies

Food Justice
Immigration System
Emotional Healing
Film: Coexist
Organizing & Leadership
Identities & Peace
Education & Change
New Messaging for Peace
Contemporary Issues
4:15p – 5:30p Plenary Session P.4
A Conversation with Dolores Huerta
5:30p - 6:45p PJSA Member Meeting

7:00p – 9:00p PJSA Banquet and Awards Ceremony


Sunday, October 23

9:00a Civil Rights Museum and/or Ceremony


Index of Presenters