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Social Justice in a Changing World
Conference Date:April 17, 2009
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Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conference
Conference Schedule
Registration 9:00 – 9:30 Session #1 9:30 – 11:00
Attendees will register in the lobby of the Congress Lounge on the second floor of the Auditorium Building. Session #1 9:30 – 11:00
Panel 1: Education as an Agent of Social Change Christine D’Arpa, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Resources for Social Change: Libraries and Librarians as Partners in the Struggle for Social Justice Emely Medina-Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Our Daily Negotiation: No Child Left Behind in Puerto Rico Laura E. Kehoe, Roosevelt University, Education as an Agent of Social Change in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Panel 2: Get Your Oppression off Our Bodies Mary-Margaret Sweeney, Roosevelt University, Marketing of Hormonal Birth Control and Gender Roles Toni Scott, Northeastern Illinois University, Reproductive Rights vs. Reproductive Justice Lindsey N. Bartgis, Roosevelt University, Male versus Female Attitudes for Expected Length of Treatment of Sexual Assault Victims
Panel 3: Conflicts of Place and Culture Aimee Bulthuis, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Ethnic Conflict in Northern Ireland: A Political History of Violence, Religion and Peace. Anne Warshaw, Roosevelt University, A New Kind of Digger: The Radical Pioneers of the Haight-Ashbury Keith Jones, Roosevelt University, “I Only Date Guys That Look Like Me”: Race and Sexuality in the LGBT Community
Session #2 11:15 -12:45
Panel 4: Poverty and Social Services Kristin S. Abner, University of Illinois at Chicago, Determinants of Welfare Policy Attitudes: How do individual level characteristics and contextual characteristics affect attitudes toward welfare policy? Anna Colaner, University of Illinois at Chicago, Childcare Providers and the State: Exploring HowState Intervention Impacts the Ability of Type B Home Childcare Providers to Successfully Provide Childcare for Low-Income Families in Rural Shannon Beaudry, Roosevelt University, Struggling in the Suburbs: A Discussion of Suburban Homelessness Isaac Krantz-Perlman, Roosevelt University, WorkCenters
Panel 5: Development and Labor in the Globalizing World Brianna Bedard, Roosevelt University, Transnational Corporations and the Future of Labor” Joseph Palumbo, Roosevelt University, The Social Life of Mercosur Matthew Joseph Ruggirello, Loyola University of Chicago, The Intangible Zone Initiative: The Cultural Impacts of Globalization on Ecuador’s Indigenous Huaorani and Their Response Evin Rodkey, University of Illinois at Chicago, Life after Deportation: Survival Strategies of Dominican Deportees
Panel 6: Keep Your Pollution off Our Planet Tim Bauer, Roosevelt University, Alignment of Goals in the Environmental Movement: Do Environmental Organizations Represent their Members? Elena S. Ivanova, Roosevelt University, Saving Our Home: Air Pollutions Mariana L. Arroyo, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy: Community acceptance in Rincón towards wind farms James Karner, Roosevelt University, The Green Band Aid
Session #3 2:00 – 3:30
Panel 7: Races and Places and Urban Spaces Bill Byrnes, Roosevelt University, Experiencing Racial Change: A Case Study Nancy Michaels, Roosevelt University, Place and its Influence on Identity Formation and Racial Attitude Ramon Loeza, Roosevelt University, The Slow Roll of Gentrification in the Barrio Lingrui Lui, Roosevelt University, Chinese New Village Construction Plan
Panel 8: Media Mayhem Irina Cline, Roosevelt University, The Disease of Popular Entertainment Eric Krietz, Northeastern Illinois University, Attitudes towards Violence between Adults and Adolescences Michele Chinsky, Roosevelt University, Media and the Arab Israeli Conflict
Panel 9: No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police Christa Jones and Ilana Jackson, Roosevelt University, Involvement of Psychologists in Government Sponsored Coercive Interrogation Chris Poulos, Northeastern Illinois University, Neoliberal Prisons: A Theoretical Perspective on the Proliferation of the US Prison System in the US
Keynote Panel
Working towards Social Justice outside the Classroom:
Social Justice Struggles in Chicago Andy Thayer http://www.gayliberation.net/home.html
Building the Socialism of the 21st Century: Participatory Democracy in Venezuela Rixio Barrios http://www.chicago.embavenez-us.org
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