Panels

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Panel 1: Places and Spaces of Resistance (March 8, 1:15 pm – 3:00 pm) Scofield Hall 109

Moderator: Erik Olsen

  • Deja Beamon: “Ohio Against the World”: The Interplay of Community, DIY Culture, and Third Spaces in Columbus, Ohio during the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Jess Gantt-Shafer: Taking care of each other: Direct service activism and reproductive justice in post-Roe America
  • Jenny Huberman & Cecil Wattree: Building Bridges to Combat Economic Violence: Lessons from The Lafargue Clinic and The Kansas City Black Mental Health Initiative
  • Steve Dilks : Belfast’s “Peace” Walls and the Economics of Enforced Segregation

Panel 2: Rethinking Pedagogies of Learning and Community (March 8, 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm) Location (Scofield Hall 109)

Moderator: Zhongjin Li

  • Michael Schmidt & Sean Eagan: Redefining Higher Education Finance: Towards a Grant-Funded Future.
  • Wendy Smith: Dispelling the Illusion: Making Visible the Hidden Work of Partnerships that Support Successful Transfer Pathways
  • Miguel Angel Lacabana – Community organization in the face of economic violence The Villa Itatí community kindergartens: Protection for early childhood and working mothers
  • Mark Hernandez Motaghy, Cierra Michele Peters, & Alula Hunsen: Fortunately: Pro-Testing for a Solidarity Economy

Panel 3: Kansas City: Structures of Ruin and Repair (March 9, 1:15 pm – 3:00 pm) Scofield Hall 109

Moderator: Jenny Huberman

  • Shannon Jackson: The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness: Rethinking the Hyatt Disaster
  • Linwood Tauheed: What We Must Do Before Reparations!
  • Ely Fair: External Code Violations as a Weapon for Neighborhood Change
  • Matthew Robinson: Environmental Justice and Firearms Violence in Kansas City

Panel 4: Resisting Economic and Social Violence (March 9, 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm) Scofield Hall 109

Moderator: Mat Forstater

  • S.I.N (Safety.In.Numbers)(M’ba ‘Asánáklésh Usen) “Rose” Anna Munoz — Inside the Trafficking Highways: An American Reality For Indigenous Peoples, Women, and Children
  • Muziwami Mtetwa and Sana Ahmed — The workplace and its effects on social morality and ethics
  • Nadège Ngomsi — Economics of the Unconsciousness: Theories on Confronting Reproductive Violence

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