2024 PJSA Conference Program

(revised 10/24/24) 

Session Descriptions and Abstracts

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At a glance schedule

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*Three breakfasts, three lunches, coffee service, and two dinners included with Conference registration fee

**Shuttle service provided free of charge between conference hotels and Niagara University

*** All activities are at Niagara University unless otherwise noted

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Friday, October 25

8:00-9:00 Registration Check In [Glynn 1st Floor], and Breakfast [Dining Commons]

• Coffee, tea, and refreshments offered in Glynn 210 throughout the conference
• Relaxation area and office space in Bailo Hall throughout the conference

9:00-10:15 Thanksgiving Address by Aaron Printup, Buddhist Monk Chant, Opening Welcome [Facing the Niagara Gorge weather permitting]

10:30-11:45 Concurrent session #1

• [PANEL 1A] Intersecting Identities and Access to Peace & Justice: Perspectives on Reproductive Rights, Economic Security, and Systemic Violence (Chair: Cathy Knowles) [Glynn 201]
  • “Reproductive Justice: Missing Piece in the Conversation,” (Destiny Smith, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
  • “Care Economy to Caring Society: Women and Girls’ Invisible Contribution,” (Taron Lilly, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
  • “Missing & Murdered Indigenous, Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada,” (Cathy Knowles, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
• [PANEL 1B] Bridging Academia and Civil Society via Intersectional Feminist Advocacy (Chair: Emily Davis) [Glynn 215]
  • Emily Davis, University of Delaware
  • Eman Sari Al-Drous, University of Delaware
  • Shilpa Pandey, WILPF UN Practicum in Advocacy Program
•  [PANEL 1C] Defining and Addressing Disability Justice (Chair: David Whalen) [Glynn 301]
  • Frank Cammarata, Erie County Office for People with Disabilities
  • Erica Rodman, Niagara University
  • Todd G Vaarwerk, Western New York Independent Living
• [ROUNDTABLE 1D] Truth in Numbers: Use and Misuse of Statistics in Social Justice [Glynn 211]
  • Kylee A. Healy, Niagara University
  • Joseph D. Martino, Niagara University
  • Susan E. Mason, Niagara University
• [WORKSHOP 1E] Echoes for Earth: Reading Aloud for Climate Consciousness and Action [Glynn 306]
  • Asma Ahmed, Niagara University
  • Carol Doyle-Jones, Niagara University
  • Courtney Hay, Niagara University
  • Philip Donoghue-Stanford, Niagara University
  • Dean Kurtis-Pomeroy, Niagara University

12:00-1:30 Lunch Plenary #1: Indigenous Reflections – We are all connected [Dining Commons]

• Rowen White
• Jason Corwin
• Rene Rickard
• Michelle Collins-Sibley (Moderator)

1:45-3:00 Concurrent session #2

• [PANEL 2A] Research and Writing in the Community: Undergraduate Student Research as Solidarity (Chair: Geoffrey Bateman) [Glynn 201]
  • Sophia Siong, Regis University
  • Maria Sanchez, Regis University
  • Ellis Langham, Regis University
  • Brianna Flores Chavez, Regis University
• [PANEL 2B] Centering Intersectionality in PJS Research (Chair: Garrett FitzGerald) [Glynn 215]
  • Promoting Intersectionality as a Research Method in PJS (Garrett FitzGerald and Emily Welty, Pace University)
  • The Only Way Forward: Disability Justice as a Framework for Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding (Marlene Thomas, Pace University)
  • Welcome To The Dollhouse: The Final Girl, Intersectionality, and Misogyny in Horror Cinema (Ashley Rosado, Pace University)
  • Doula Activism: Navigating Social Justice in Harmful Systems (Mikayla Meachem, Pace University)
  • An Intersectional Approach to Community-Based Learning in Peace and Justice Studies (Erin Mysogland, Pace University)
• [PANEL 2C] Just Practice: Reciprocal care from an intersectional lens (Chair: Brooke Moreland) [Glynn 301]
  • Sophia Lee, Saybrook University
  • Sarafina Arthur-Williams, Saybrook University
  • Samantha Wilson, Saybrook University 
• [PANEL 2D] From Violence, to Nonviolence, and Towards Restoration (Chair: Jeremy Rinker) [Glynn 315]
  • Blurred Boundaries: Understanding the Line Between Violent and Nonviolent Movements in the Chilean Uprising of 2019 (Benjamin Rodriguez Mancini, Berea College)
  • Is Incremental Pacifism still Pacifism? (Edmund Pries, Wilfrid Laurier University)
  • Engaging Amalek: Rediscovering the Tradition of Jewish Pacifism in Dark Times (Elliot Ratzman, Earlham College)
  • Pacifism and Nonviolence in societies at risk from atrocities (Alexandra Bohm, The Open University)
  • Restorative Practices and Human Rights Advocacy as Complementary Approaches (Madison Turunen, University of San Diego)
  • Mobilizing Galtung’s Great Chains of Nonviolence in a Divided World (Kelly Rae Kraemer, St. John’s University)
• [ROUNDTABLE 2E] The role of allyship, solidarity and mutual activism in revolutionary struggles [Glynn 206]
  • Stellan Vinthagen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Sacajawea Hall, Cooperation Jackson
  • Matt Meyer, International Peace Research Association
  • Dean Johnson, West Chester University

3:15-4:30 Concurrent session #3

• [PANEL 3A] Narratives of Peace and Global (in)Security: Deconstructing Binaries of Inclusions, Exclusions (Chair: Stephen Bryant) [Glynn 201]
  • Automation Bias and Acceptable Losses: Targeting Hamas and Increasing Civilian Casualties as Part of the “Mass Assassination Factory” (Stephen Bryant, The University of Cincinnati)
  • Performing Transitional Justice: Queering Frameworks of Binaries of Peace (Prateek Srivastava, The University of Cincinnati)
  • Digitalization, Resistance and Young Feminist Futures: Reclaiming Youth Peace and Security (YPS) narratives of young Congolese involved in the National Action Plan (NAP) elaboration in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Marie-Rose Tshite, The University of Cincinnati)
• [PANEL 3B] Queering Peace and Social Justice: Activism, Memory, and Intersectional Narratives (Chair: Geoffrey Bateman) [Glynn 315]
  • Belfast’s Queer and Feminist Arts Activism: Gender/Sexuality and Legacy of Peace and Conflict (Alexis G. Jenson, University of California Irvine)
  • Queering Carcerality: Building an Queer Anti Prison Industrial Complex (Abantee Dutta, George Mason University)
  • Development of Affirmation: Narratives of Queer Affirmation in the United Methodist Church (JT Politzer, Kent State University)
  • Queer young adult perspectives on vaping and energy drinks on Queertok (Cam Marsengill, The University of Iowa)
  • ACT UP and the Embodied Erotics of Queer Nonviolence (Geoffrey Bateman, Regis University)
• [ROUNDTABLE 3C] Critical Feminist Peace and Conflict Studies: Bridging Critique, Vision and Praxis [Glynn 206]
  • Sheherazade Jafari, Georgetown University 
  • Lisa McLean, King’s University College 
  • Julie Marie Hyde, Dalhousie University
  • Jodi Dueck-Read, Canadian Mennonite University
  • Jerica Arents, DePaul University
  • Garrett FitzGerald, Pace University
  • Emily Welty, Pace University
• [ROUNDTABLE 3D] Women and Peace: Different Spaces in Everyday Peace [Glynn 211]
  • William Jackson-Monroe, Saint Paul University 
  • Peace Mukazi, Saint Paul University
  • Victoria Gachuche, Saint Paul University 
• [WORKSHOP 3E] Values and Competencies of Peace Professionalism: Solidarity, Capacity, and Ethical Practice in Turbulent Time [Glynn 306]
  • Nathan Funk, University of Waterloo
  • Philip Onguny, Saint Paul University
  • Gordon Breedyk, Civilian Peace Service Canada
  • Evelyn Voigt, The Peace Professionalism Project

4:45-5:15 Poster Presentations [Glynn 405/406] & Networking Session [Glynn 4th Floor Atrium]

• The networking session will be hosted by PJSA Board Members Jeremy Rinker (Fundraising Chair), Susan Cushman (Women, Gender, & Diversity Chair), Margarita Tadevosyan (Co-chair), and Fatma Jabbari (incoming Co-chair)

1. Integrating Conversation Analysis into Academic Research to Convey the Nuances and Emotions of Lexical and Non-Lexical Cues (Wasal Faqiryar, University of Notre Dame)
2. Dry Lands Empty Waters, The effects of Climate Change on the Boko Haram Conflict in Northern Nigeria (Kingsley Doe, Kennesaw State University)
3. Applying the Social Determinants of Learning Framework (Theresa Puckett, Niagara University)
4. Addressing Mental Health Challenges in War and Displacement Contexts (Sabaa Abdulrazzaq, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
5. Co-ops for Peace: Ex-Combatant Solidarity Cooperatives as Social Struggle in Colombia (Susan Brewer-Osorio, University of Arizona)
6. Women’s Resistance, Activism, and Peacebuilding through Art: Lessons from Northern Ireland (Alexis G. Jenson, University of California Irvine)
7. Unlocking the Power of Play (Jacob Goodwin, Cooperative Middle School)
8. ‘No One Cares About Women’: (Re)-centering the contributions of southern African women to sustainable peace (Kgomotso Komane, Centre for Mediation in Africa and University of Pretoria)
9. Self-empowerment of Asian American Professionals as Intersectional Model Minority (Ray Gehani, Kent State University)
10. Disability and Access to Education: Social justice fundamentals (Dennis Garland and Charles Dieteman, Niagara University)
11. Can Nigeria Rethink its Unity Through Nationally Owned Political Dialogue? (Adeolu Ojedokun, Kennesaw State University)
12. How Education Sets Us Free: Exploring Methods of Liberation Pedagogy (Mary Clare Hyland, Pace University)
13. Reparations and Restorative Justice in the Context of Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands (Erika Fenty, Pace University)
14. Exploring nonviolence through the Plowshares (Nora Bajor, Pace University)

6:00-9:00 Dinner Reception,  Collective Keynote Plenary and Awards with Sacajawea Hall and Matt Meyer, “FIGHT: Practical Experiences for a Radical Transformation of Society – from Jackson Mississippi to the World” [Doubletree Niagara, 401 Buffalo Ave., Niagara Falls, NY]

• Poetry reading and introduction by Desiree McCray

Saturday, October 26

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8:00-9:00 Registration Check In [Glynn 1st Floor], and Breakfast [Dining Commons]

• Coffee, tea, and refreshments offered in Glynn 210 throughout the conference
• Relaxation area and office space in Bailo Hall throughout the conference

9:00-10:15 Concurrent session #4

• [PANEL 4A] Social Movements and Our Stories (Chair: Robin Cooper) [Glynn 201]
  • Transnational Feminist Solidarity- Revolutionary Internationalism as a Response to the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Empire (Sarai Richter, Arizona State University)
  • Interconnecting with Empowerment: Reemerging Youth Peacebuilding Protests in U.S. Universities (Ray Gehani, Kent State University) 
  • Peace activism and accountability in the war on terror (Loramy ‘Mimi’ Gerstbauer, Gustavus Adolphus College)
  • How to Become a Soldier in the Black Liberation Army: 16 Tomes (Tony Gaskew, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford)
• [PANEL 4B] Human Rights and Women (Chair: Susan Cushman) [Glynn 215]
  • Research and Activism Intertwined: Contextual Gendered Racialization (Hafza Girdap, Stony Brook University)
  • Feminist Responses to and Engagements with Nonviolence: From Rape to Ecocide (Selina Gallo-Cruz, Syracuse University)
  • Integrating the Ethics of Care in Peacebuilding Practices Drawing from Women’s Experiences in Conflict Affected Zones (Peace Mukazi, Saint Paul University)
  • Homeland in Transition: Afghan Refugee Women Negotiating Belonging (Kinza Fatima, The University of Cincinnati)
  • Reproductive Justice and the ERA: A Solidarity Call to Action (Susan Cushman, Nassau Community College)
• [PANEL 4C] Solidarity at the Intersections for Peace in Colombia (Chair: Susan Brewer-Osorio, Discussant: Sara Koopman) [Glynn 301]
  • The power of unarmed civilian accompaniment in Colombia (Sarah Nahar, Syracuse University)
  • Building peace with parks and people (Beth-Sua Carvajal, SUNY Syracuse & World Wildlife Fund)
  • Appropriating Peace Education: Insights from Colombia’s Cátedra de Paz (Provicional) (Leonardo Arevalo, Columbia University)
  • How Ex-Combatants are Building a Feminist Peace in Colombia (Susan Brewer-Osorio, University of Arizona)
• [PANEL 4D] Exploring How Intersectionality and Identity Inform the Work of Peace, Justice, and Equity in Community (Chair: Michelle Harris) [Glynn 315]
  • Michelle Harris, University of Portland
  • Brandon Brown, George Mason University
• [PANEL 4E] Ending Violence Within and Through Education (Chair: Margarita Tadevosyan) [Glynn 206]
  • The Power of Story: Empowering Multicultural Voices in Early Childhood Education (Meg Starr, Touro College School of Education)
  • Why we are launching the Canadian Peace Museum (Chris Houston, Canadian Peace Museum)
  • Combatting Despair in the Peace Studies Classroom: Reclaiming a Sense of Power through a Buddhist Humanist Framework (Jerica Arents, DePaul University)
  • Creative Expression as Pedagogical Peacebuilding Tool (Monica Anna Day, Arcadia University)
• [ROUNDTABLE 4F] Community Healing through the Art and Storytelling [Glynn 311]
  • Sonja Topalovic Marinkovic, University of North Carolina Greensboro
  • Ali Askerov, University of North Carolina Greensboro
  • Jeremy Rinker, University of North Carolina Greensboro
  • Fatima Asker, Author Aya Maya Short Story

10:30-11:45 Concurrent session #5

• [PANEL 5A] Intersectionality and Social Justice in Education, Part 1 (Chair: James Coughlin) [Glynn 201]
  • Community Engaged Learning for Peace and Justice (Emily A. Holmes, University of Dayton)
  • Exploring Intersectional Perspectives on Peace Education (Runeela Taskeen, Colorado State University)
  • Conquest and the Perils of Fragmentation: Integrating Peace Education into Diverse Classrooms (Irfan Khawaja, CorroHealth, LLC)
  • Peace in Education: A Complex Systems Approach (Joseph Rayle, State University of New York)
  • Teaching Language with an Intersectional Lens to Promote Peaceful Communication (Nichole McVeigh, Richmond Peace Education Center)
• [PANEL 5B] Decolonial Feminist Praxis: Fostering critical connections in the conflict classroom (Chair: Uddipana Goswami) [Glynn 206]
  • Engaging with Whiteness through Embodied, Decolonial Inquiry (Helen Hobson, Kennesaw State University)
  • Belonging in Between: An Immigrant’s Journey Through Duality and Single Stories (Iye Ogbe, Kennesaw State University)
  • The Colonized Researcher’s Epiphany (Cathia Moon, Kennesaw State University)
  • Embodied Inquiry, Feminist Peace, Decolonized Knowledge: Reflections from a Conflict Management Classroom (Uddipana Goswami, Kennesaw State University)
• [PANEL 5C] Exploring Conflict Analysis and Intervention Strategies in Kashmir, Yemen, and Ukraine (Chair: Kjerstin Pugh) [Glynn 215]
  • Manisha Munshi, Columbia University
  • Gonzalo Miranda Madrigal, Columbia University
  • Emiliia Komarova, Columbia University
• [PANEL 5D] Shapes of (post-)conflict in Colombia: an Intersectional Approach (Chair: Laura Cortés-Rico) [Glynn 301]
  • Laura Cortés-Rico, Cornell University
  • Natalia Correa Sánchez, Cornell University
  • Ruth Martinez-Yepes, Cornell University
• [PANEL 5E] Technologies of Future Peace Education (Chair: Christopher P. Davey and Sam Budoi) [Glynn 315]
  • “Podcasts, Twitter-Spaces and Youtube Livestreams: The Gambian Truth Commission in the Age of Social Media” (Aminata Ndow, Harvard University)
  • “Build- Up: Transforming Peacebuilding in the Digital Age” (Julie Hawke, University of Notre Dame)
  • “Peace Education and Peace Tech:  Notes on a Venn Diagram” (Michael Minch, Education for Global Peace)
  • “Game-Based Learning of Gender for Security Sector Personnel” (Sellah Nasimiyu King’oro, Binghamton University)
• [ROUNDTABLE 5F] Special Olympics Coaching and Games Management: Interdisciplinary Student Perspectives on Inclusion of Individuals with intellectual and Developmental Disabilities on a College Campus (Chair: Dennis Garland) [Glynn 311]
  • Arianna Bork, Niagara University 
  • Alexis Hare, Niagara University
  • Alanna Cosner, Niagara University
  • Meghan Cole, Niagara University
  • Charles Dieteman, Niagara University
  • Kara Kilinski, Niagara University
• [FILM] A Piece of Home: The aftermath of the Beirut Port Explosion on Queer Lebanese Expats (Jamal Rajeh, Berea College) [Glynn 407]
  • The Beirut Port explosion of August 4, 2020, left an enduring impact on Lebanon, resulting in profound loss and widespread displacement. With over 200 fatalities and countless families uprooted from their homes, the tragedy reverberated far beyond the city’s borders. “A Piece of Home” endeavors to shed light on the experiences of the Lebanese diaspora, specifically those belonging to the queer community, illustrating their intersectional struggles and resilience in the aftermath of this cataclysmic event. Following the screening, there will be a brief presentation about the background of the film, the current political and socio-economic situation in Lebanon, and finally ending with a Q&A.

12:00-1:30 Lunch Plenary #2: Women and Global Peace – An informal tribute to Betty Reardon [Dining Commons]

• Charlene Howard
• Chloe Breyer
• Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
• Moderator (Dave Reilly and Susan Cushman)

1:45-3:00 Concurrent session #6

• [PANEL 6A] Intersectionality and Social Justice in Education, Part 2 (Chair: Dean Johnson) [Glynn 201]
  • What Peacebuilding Can Learn from Art (Paula Ditzel Facci, Eastern Mennonite University and Norbert Koppensteiner, University of Notre Dame)
  • Incorporating Intersectionality, Isms, and Identity in the Classroom (Sally Anne Perz, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  • Using Accessible Language in Writing (Mariana Castro Azpíroz, Iowa State University)
• [PANEL 6B] Teaching in a Justice Studies Major (Chair: Tara Parsons) [Glynn 206]
  • Designing an Introduction to Justice Studies Course (Tara Parsons and Daisy L. Breneman, James Madison University)
  • Teaching the Social Psychology of Justice (Heather L. Scheuerman, James Madison University)
  • Teaching Solidarity to Undergraduates (Melissa Marini Švigelj, James Madison University)
  • Teaching Justice through Research (Gianluca De Fazio, James Madison University)
• [PANEL 6C] On Literature, Language and the Written Word (Chair: Michelle Collins-Sibley) [Glynn 215]
  • SolidarSolidarity in the Shadow of War: Albert Camus’s The Plague (Francis Shor, Wayne State University)
  • An Analysis of Letters from Death Row Prisoners (Richard Clark, John Carroll University)
  • Peace on the Couch: Exploring the Potential of Carl Rogers’ Writings in Promoting an International World Peace PraxisPaper Title (David Hornung, CUNY)
  • To Be a Stranger in My Own Skin: Double Consciousness, Intersectionality & Language in Percival Everett’s JamesPaper Title (Michelle Collins-Sibley, University of Mount Union) 
• [PANEL 6D] Internationalism, International Affairs and Global Conflict (Chair: Mustafa Gökçek) [Glynn 301]
  • “International” relations as a form of “intergroup” relations: The 1950s transnational debate that divided the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews (Anna Fett, University of Missouri)
  • Short Term Mission Trips: Invitation to Solidarity or to Social Obliviousness? (Christopher Ney, War Resisters League)
  • The Ambazonian Coffin Revolution, Citizen Communication and Change in Postcolonial Cameroons (Fonkem Achankeng, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
  • The Kurdish Struggle: Multiple Ways of Resisting Historical Oppression (Helin Unal, Clark University)
  • Historical Trauma Transmission in Honduras and Community Building (Matthew Bereza, St. John Fisher University)
• [PANEL 6E] Case Studies in Peace and Justice (Chair: Chris Lee) [Glynn 211]
  • Does security justify the next wave of authoritarianism in Latin America? (Sebastian Restrepo, Cornell University)
  • Portrayals of Roma Emancipation and Resistance (Maria Subert, Cal Poly)
  • Transformative Justice as Environmental Justice: Focus on the Ironbound (and its churches) (Fernando Linhares)
  • Learning to live with my Enemy: A Case Study of Peacebuilding through Storytelling and Critical Human Rights Pedagogy (Allyson Larkin, Western University)
• [ROUNDTABLE 6F] How “Connecting” Drives Recovery and Healing for Peacebuilding (Discussant: Roy Tamashiro) [Glynn 306]
  • Identity Transformations on Mentoring Students Toward Environmental Justice Consciousness (C. Holly Denning, SUNY-ESF)
  • Addressing and Healing Legacies of Ancestral and Collective Trauma (Corrine Meier, practitioner)

3:15-4:30 Concurrent session #7

• [PANEL 7A] Health and Social Justice (Chair: Swasti Bhattacharyya) [Glynn 201]
  • Examining Mental Health through the Lens of Intersectionality (Theresa Puckett, Niagara University)
  • The Compounded Indignity of Deafness and Incarceration (Rachel Violanti, Niagara University)
  • Mindful Interconnection: Solidarity in Isolation (Swasti Bhattacharyya, Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies and Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College) 
• [PANEL 7B] International Armed Conflict, War, and Post-Conflict Rebuilding (Chair: Lee A. Smithey) [Glynn 215]
  • Intersectionality at the Crossroads: Grassroot Peacebuilding in Pakistan Amidst Ethnic and Religious Conflicts (Noman Sajjad, University of Waterloo)
  • Peacemakers at the Intersections of Power: Critically Examining Restorative Justice Facilitators and Practices to Navigate Differing Levels of Power and Social Identity in Dialogue (Laura Irwin, University of Washington)
  • Societal Liberation If We Cared: Creating Solidarity Through a Care Ethics Framework (Magdalen Weiss-Vopat, Kent State University)
  • The Kids are Alright? Youth Murals in Post-Violence Northern Ireland (Lee A. Smithey, Harrison Kim, and Grant Himes Swarthmore College)
• [PANEL 7C] Migrants and Migrant Communities (Chair: Jeremy Rinker) [Glynn 301]
  • Weaving Inclusive Threads: Understanding Socioeconomic Integration of Migrant Communities through Intersectional Approaches for Peace, Justice, and Liberation (Anthoanette Kommeh and Nadia Nartey, Kennesaw State University)
  • Necropolitics and Democracy: Immigrant Detention in the United States as Zones of Exemption (Meghan Geist, Kent State University)
  • On Environmental and Health Justice: Minority Groups’ Perspectives (Mayra Bonet, SUNY Maritime College)
  • The Nation of the Immigrants (Yasmina Benachour, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
  • Building Anti-caste Solidarity and Social Movement Understanding of Intersectionality among South Asian Immigrants in the U.S. (Jeremy Rinker, University of North Carolina Greensbo)
• [PANEL 7D] The Dynamics of Promoting Peace and Combating Injustice (Chair: Vicki Ross) [Glynn 306]
  • Prefiguring Positive Peace: Governing a ‘Leaderless’ Social Change Organization (Ashley E. Nickels, Kent State University)
  • The Politics of Love: Dismantling Regimes of Exclusion (Shawn Graves, University of Findlay and Marlena Graves, Northeastern Seminary)
  • We all Need Somebody to Lean On: Engaging Intersectionality’s Black Male Problem (Adebayo Oluwayomi, West Chester University)
• [ROUNDTABLE 7E] Sharing Ideas on How to Teach Peace and Social Justice in University Courses [Glynn 206]
  • Tanya Loughead, Canisius University
  • Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland
  • Janet Gerson, International Institute on Peace Education
  • Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy
• [FILM] Behind the Door: Social Change Through One-of-a-Kind Art and Storytelling (Brandon Brown, Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition) [Glynn 407]
  • Real stories from real people impacted by systems of inequity and structural violence. Exploring topics from mass incarceration and prison reform to substance use and mental health, the podcast shines the light on marginalized people to engage in the transformation of social narratives that keep people ostracized, stigmatized, and separated as “other”. The podcast is built around the repurposing of Hiltz’s prison door, the one he was incarcerated behind, into a piece of art and discussion that Brown and Hiltz travel around the country with, to spur conversations that can lead to inspiring people to engage in social change and narrative transformation.

4:45-6:00 Poster Presentations [Glynn 405/406], PJSA Membership Meeting [Glynn 407], Vendor and Organization Tabling [Glynn 3rd & 4th floors]

• Individual posters are listed at the bottom of the full schedule

• • 7:00-8:00 (at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, 825 Depot Ave. West)

6:00-7:00

• Dinner reception at the Niagara University Dining Commons.
• Poetry reading with Desiree McCray and Jasiah Hackett

7:00-8:00

• Dessert and Tours of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center [Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, 825 Depot Ave. W., Niagara Falls, NY]

8:00-9:30 Keynote Discussion with Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of Respair Media with icon Bill Ayers on the toipic of When Freedom is the Question… [Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, 825 Depot Ave. W., Niagara Falls, NY]

Sunday, October 27

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8:00-9:00 Registration Check In [Glynn 1st Floor], and Breakfast [Dining Commons]

• Coffee, tea, and refreshments offered in Glynn 210 throughout the conference
• Relaxation area and office space in Bailo Hall throughout the conference

9:00-10:15 Breakfast interactive roundtable workshop: Palestinian-Israeli Peace in a Time of War [Location Dining Commons]

• Moderator-Panelists:
  • Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco
  • Elliot Ratzman, University of Michigan
  • Sarah Nahar, Syracuse University
  • Derek Seidman, writer
  • Mustafa Gokcek, Niagara University
  • Jonathan Brenneman, Christians for a Free Palestine

10:30-11:45 Concurrent session #8

• [PANEL 8A] Exploring Political Violence in an Age of Extremism (Chair: Michael Loadenthal) [Glynn 201]
  • Intersectional Hate: A Case Study in Right-Wing Accelerationist Propaganda (Alexandria Grace Olsen, Georgetown University)
  • Examining Incel Culture from a Peace and Justice Standpoint (Wim Laven, Cuyahoga Community College and Christian Schlaerth, Waldorf University)
  • We Are All Conspiracists? (Robert Kane, Niagara University)
  • Look Mom I’m On TV: Crowd-sourced policing, social media, and the prosecution of January 6 Capitol defendants (Michael Loadenthal, The University of Cincinnati and Ellis Langham, Regis University)
• [PANEL 8B] On Climate, Ecology, and Non-Human Animals (Chair: Randall Amster) [Glynn 215]
  • Learning in Bear Country: Reflections on Methods of Peace Research in the More-than-Human World (Matthew Breay Bolton, Pace University)
  • Justice Education for a Changing Climate (Jessica M. Young, University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
  • Climate change adaptation as violence in coastal communities (Greg Oulahen, Toronto Metropolitan University)
  • Intersectional Ecology (Randall Amster, Georgetown University)
  • Cultivating Peace and Sustenance: The Role of Education in Addressing Crises (Juan Salcedo, New York University)
• [PANEL 8C] Cyber, Technology, and Surveillance (Chair: Kevin Hinkley) [Glynn 301]
  • Digital Panopticon: The use of Cyber Space to Surveil, Discipline, Control and Set Agenda in Ethiopia (Alazar Melkamu Bayou and Axumawit Haileselassie, Institute for Peace and Security Studies)
  • The Analog Ethics Project: Historical lessons for mitigating technological injustices (Will O’Brien, University of Notre Dame)
  • The AI/Digital Revolution: Implications For Democracy & Peace (Linda Groff, California State University, Dominguez Hills)
• [PANEL 8D] Transpersonal and the IntraConnected Collective: Expansive Ontologies and Identities in Peace Scholarship (Chair: Roy Tamashiro) [Glynn 315]
  • “Identity Paradigm Shifts: Transpersonal Presence and CollectiveWe Consciousness” (Roy Tamashiro, Webster University)
  • “Autoethnography of Diasporic Consciousness: Dignity Upheld In Exile” (Noor El-Gazairly, George Washington University)
  • “Co-Witnessing Dialogues as Methodology in Reconciliation Spaces” (Janine Joyce, Edith Cowen University)
• [WORKSHOP 8E] The Secret Sauce: Creating an Anti-Racist Mindset for White Students and Community Members [Glynn 206]
  • Dennis Cornell, Antiracism4u
• [FILM] In the Wake of Loss (Aminata Ndow, Harvard University) [Glynn 407]
  • In the Wake of Loss presents an ethnographic account of twenty-year-old Amie Lowe, whose father – a victim of Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year-long dictatorship in The Gambia – disappeared when she was only three years old. This documentary portrait examines how a young adult child of the forcibly disappeared, in the “post-truth commission era” deals with the ramifications of this violent past after the official channels of mourning have stalled. The personal portrait between Amie in front of the camera and Amie behind the camera illuminates the intimate and small in the interminable wake of unresolved loss. 

12:00-1:15 Concurrent session #9

• [PANEL 9A] On the Question of Palestine (Chair: Michael Loadenthal) [Glynn 201]
  • Bias and Double-standards of Implicit Protest: An evaluation of social politics for Palestinian support and perspectives on Gazan genocide (David Bell, Niagara University) 
  • Beyond Women and Children: Interrogating Heteronormative Visuals in UNRWA Reporting on Palestine (Sreeparna Das, The University of Cincinnati)
  • Until We are All Free: Zionism, Palestinian Liberation, and Intersectionality in the Women’s March (Francesca Freeman, University of Notre Dame)
  • “āḥnā mawǧūdyn!” Presence as an Index of Respect in Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding (Alyssa M. Paylor, University of Notre Dame)
  • Charges of Antisemitism in the Pro-Palestinian Movement: What’s Real, What’s Not, and Why it Matters (Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco)
• [PANEL 9B] On Intersectionality as Education and Peacebuilding (Chair: Pushpa Iyer) [Glynn 215]
  • Intersectional Identities and Community Development: Understanding Minority Participation and Voice (Felix Akinboyewa, Kent State University and Mnguashima Valentina Soomiyol, Rutgers University)
  • Multiple Jeopardy: Intersectionality and Aging (Susan Mason, Niagara University)
  • Bridging Divides: Building Solidarity Through Activism (Pushpa Iyer, Nova Southeastern University)
  • Beyond Violence: Building a Trans Peace Studies Scholarship (Caraline Feairheller, Kent State University)
• [PANEL 9C] Anti-Colonial Resistance and Indigenous Claims (Chair: Lori Quigley) [Glynn 301]
  • Red Paint Resistance: Graffiti and a Queen Victoria statue in Settler Colonial Canada (Eric Lepp, University of Waterloo)
  • Indigenous Restorative Justice Praxis in South Africa and Hawai‘i (Leanne Trapedo Sims, Knox College)
  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girl in Canada in Connection to Extraction Companies (Deborah Canales, Kings University College)
  • Pipelines and Peacebuilding: Conflicting energy sovereignties and environmental knowledge creation along Line 3 (Tiffany Grobelski, Gustavus Adolphus College) 
  • Canada’s Obligation to Search the Landfill (Michael J. Campbell, Western University)
• [PANEL 9D] Reclaiming and Sustaining Peace and Justice: Considering Solidarity from Moral and Philosophical Perspectives (Chair: Jeffery H. Warnke) [Glynn 315]
  • Solidarity in Honneth’s Critical Theory: Implications for Sustainable Democratic Education (Jeffery H. Warnke, Walsh University)
  • Solidarity and Axel Honneth’s Idea of Socialism: Implications for a Pedagogy of Peace (Dale Snauwaert, University of Toledo)
  • Are Progress and Emancipation Contradictory? (Janet Gerson, International Institute on Peace Education)
• [VISUAL ROUNDTABLE 9E] Visual Representations of Movements and Resistance [Glynn 405/406]
  • Project 30.1 – Fostering Peace through Perspective 
    • Liz Malanaphy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Intersectionality and Solidarity Through 100 Years of Nonviolent Resistance to War and Injustice 
    • Joanne Sheehan, War Resisters League
    • Mandy Carter, University of Massachusetts
    • Frida Berrigan, Southeastern Connecticut Community Land Trust

1:30-3:00 Lunch Plenary #3: Augusto Boal Theatre of the Oppressed [NU Theatre] & Conference Close