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2008 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Democracy, HOW?
Justice and Democracy in 2008
Wednesday June 4th to Saturday June 7th, 2008

Wednesday, June 4th
8:00 p.m. Hospitality Suite – Dorms

Thursday, June 5th
Registration from 8 a.m.; Student Union II, 2nd fl.
Book display and breaks in Rm. 1

8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Welcome – Room 5
Introductory Remarks: Susan Krumholz, 2008 JSA President
Notes on Democracy, How? Programme Introduction / Welcome from Programme Chair

9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Session 1: Democracy in Global Context – Room 5
Moderator: Christa Drew (Hunger-Free & Healthy/ Worcester Advisory Food Policy Council)

Michael Hallett (University of North Florida): “Imagining the Global Corporate Gulag: Lessons from History and Criminological Theory”

Rafael Rodríguez Prieto (Pablo de Olavide University/KSG Harvard): “From The Consumer to the Citizen. David G. Gil's Theory of Social Justice”

Shahid M. Shahidullah (Virginia State University): “Political Underdevelopment and Judicial Corruptions in Developing Countries: Crisis of Justice and Democracy”

Olivier Rugira (Kigali, Rwanda): “Democracy in Rwanda: 14 Years After the Genocide”

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
SESSION 2A: Democracy and Education - Room 2
Moderator: Christa Drew (Hunger-Free & Healthy/ Worcester Advisory Food Policy Council)

Robert Costello (Nassau Community College): “When Democracy Goes To College”

Jennifer J. Langdon (Towson University): “Democracy in the Classroom: Teaching Restorative Justice”

SESSION 2B: Democracy and Electoral Politics – Room 3
Moderator: Lois Presser (University of Tennessee)

Sara Ellen Kitchen (Chestnut Hill College): “Barred from the Ballot but Ballot Lowers the Bar to Place Behind Bars: Making a Case to Lower the Voting Age to 16”

Lori Ann Smith (Northeastern Illinois University): “The Politics of Transformation: Comparative Assessment of the Benefits of Democracy on the Black African and Indian Populations of South Africa”

Johannes Wheeldon (George Mason University): “The Nader Knock and other Myths of American Democracy”

Noon -1:30 p.m.
JSA WELCOME LUNCHEON – Room 5
Meet the Members Lunch and Business Meeting – all welcome

1:30 p.m. -2:45 p.m.
SESSION 3: The Global Community: Sanctuary and Human Needs – Room 5
Moderator: Kathryn Sullivan (Hudson Valley Community College)

Sandarshi Gunawardena (George Mason University): “The Impact of War on Children in Sri Lanka”

Peter Cordella (Saint Anselm College): “A Theory of Asylum”

Fred Boehrer (Albany Catholic Worker): “Crossing Boundaries: Immigrants and the New Sanctuary Movement”

Daniel Okada (California State University): “Conversations With Prisoners: Collecting Narratives from the Japanese Internment Experience”

SNACK BREAK

3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
SESSION 4: The Practice of Alternative Forms of Just Community - Room 5
Moderator: Christina Braid, (Independent Scholar; Crescent School, Toronto, Canada)

Margie Deweese-Boyd (Gordon College): “Living Justice in Community: The Grassroots Socialism of the Bruderhof”

Kathryn Sullivan (Hudson Valley Community College), Peter Sanzen (Hudson Valley Community College), Dennis Sullivan (Independent Scholar): “The Practice of Sociality: Cohousing Communities as the Basis of Just Community”

4:30 p.m. -5:30 p.m.
SESSION 5: Workshop: Practicing Compassionate Communication: A Hands-on Workshop for Teaching, Activism, and Everyday Life
- Room 5 –
Led by Emily Gardner

Looking for ways to communicate across difference? To be compassionate with yourself and others, even in the midst of conflict? To honestly express yourself with stimulating defensiveness in the other person? This workshop introduces the basics of Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication" method. These language skills offer a way of listening and speaking that fosters mutual respect, clarity, and peaceful resolutions to conflict. We will "workshop" difficult situations using examples from our own lives. We will also discuss its application in restorative justice processes. Take this opportunity to untangle ongoing conflicts with family, friends, or colleagues.

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Reception for JSA Guests - Bistro

HOSTED BY GMU’s Justice, Law, and Society Program
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY EMMA’S REVOLUTION, featuring Sandy Opatow and Pat Humphries: A musical uprising of truth and hope from award-winning, activist songwriters. read more...

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

8:30 p.m.
SESSION 6: EVENING DOCUMENTARY SCREENING (location tba)

“The Big Sellout” (California Newsreel), directed by Florian Opitz
http://www.thebigsellout.org/ THE BIG SELLOUT is a political film. In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Friday, June 6th
Registration from 8 a.m.; Student Union II, 2nd fl.
Book display and breaks in Rm. 1

8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
SESSION 7: Gendered Democracy- Room 5
Moderator: Jo-Ann Della Giustina (Bridgewater State College)

Carolina Jacobo (Northeastern Illinois University): “Gendered Inequality: Women and the Economy in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

Ingrid Sandole-Staroste (George Mason University): “The Inextricable Link between Gender, Faith, and the State in Tajikistan”

Emily Gaarder (University of Minnesota): “Sentencing Circles & Domestic Violence: Examining a Pilot Project in Minnesota”

COFFEE BREAK

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
SESSION 8: Activist Café: "The Death Penalty and Wrongful Convictions" – Room 5
Virginia Sloan, President of the Constitution Project http://www.constitutionproject.org/

Lisa Greenman, Office of Federal Public Defender

Jon Gould, Chair of the Innocence Commission for Virginia

12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch and Activist Award – Room 5

SESSION 9B: Sustaining Diversity and Stewardship of Green in Community – Room 2

Moderator: Fred Boehrer (Emmaus House, Albany Catholic Worker)

Victoria Rader and Rose Pascarell (George Mason University): “Democratic Community and Campus Climate”

Jamey Piland (Trinity College): “Negotiating Co-Cultural Identity in First Generation College Students”

Lenna Storm (George Mason University): “Making Sustainability Accessible to a Diverse Community”

SNACK BREAK

3:15 p.m. go 4:30 p.m.
SESSION 10A: The Sociological Imagination and Just Community – Room 5

Moderator: Daniel Okada (California State University)

John Wozniak (Western Illinois University): “Crimes Against Nature: The Corruption of Democracy and Exposure to Environmental Harms”

Ian Deweese-Boyd (Gordon College): “Collective Self-Deception, Collective Injustice: Consumption, Sustainability and Homo Economicus”

Christa Drew (Hunger-Free & Healthy/ Worcester Advisory Food Policy Council): “Hunger: A Political Condition without Majority Rule”

SESSION 10B: Students Envision a New World Based in Peace & Justice
Moderator: Vicki Watson (George Mason University)

Whitney Gecker (George Mason University, Feminist Ninjas)

Brian Picone (George Mason University, Students for a Democratic Society/Pride Alliance)

Alex Sims (George Mason University, Alternative Spring Break: HIV/AIDS)

Immigrant Advocacy Group (George Mason University)

4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Open discussion about immigration as a prelude to 2009 JSA Conference- Room 3
Moderator: John Wozniak

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
JSA Chomsky Award Dinner - Room 5 – tickets required
Noam Chomsky Award Recipient, David Gil
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8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Talent Show – Location tba

Saturday, June 7th
Registration from 8 a.m.; Student Union II, 2nd fl.

8:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m
SESSION 11: Democracy, Social Justice, and the Prison System

Moderator: Matthew Robinson (Appalachian State University)

Jo-Ann Della Giustina (Bridgewater State College): “Service Learning Pedagogy: Connecting Volunteerism behind Prison Walls with the Classroom Experience”

Mark Pettigrew (University of Sheffield): “Death Penalty Paradox: Dictation, Democracy, and a European Dictionary”

Matthew Robinson and Andrew Howell (Appalachian State University): “The (Ir)relevance of Democracy for Capital Punishment in the United States”

COFFEE BREAK

10:45 a.m. to noon
SESSION 12A: Democracy and Social Justice Mediated – Room 3

Moderator: Susan Krumholz (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

Butoyi Kashulike Kelly (Bujumbura/ Burundi): “Media and Democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”

Aubri McDonald and Michael Tracey (University of Colorado): “The ‘CSI Effect’: Media, Culture and Jurisprudence In the Age of Grissom”

Bethanny Smith and Diane Schaefer (University of Michigan-Flint): “Playground Profanity and Racism: Expose the Taboo Graffiti?”

Elizabeth Stassinos (Westfield State College): “Why Should Cops Care About How the Media Spins Terrorism?”

SESSION 12B: Global Communities and Conceptions of Justice – Room 2

Moderator: Victoria Rader

Bhavani Arabandi (George Mason University)

Jeremy Rinker (George Mason University)

David Kuebrich (George Mason University)

Victoria Rader (George Mason University)

12:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote – Room 5

ERIC ALTERMAN Nation Media Columnist, and fellow, Nation Institute; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, Media Matters for America; Author, most recently, Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post Bush America

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2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Advisory Board Meeting – Hospitality Suite - Dorm

Thank you, farewell, carpools, and goodbyes, DINNER on your own.

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PROGRAMME APPENDIX

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2008
emma's revolution/Pat Humphries & Sandy O

"The epitome of great, contemporary political music" -- Sing Out. A musical uprising of truth and hope from award-winning, activist songwriters, Pat Humphries & Sandy O. Featured on NPR , "Democracy Now!" and winners of the John Lennon Songwriting Grand Prize, their songs are sung around the world. More at www.emmasrevolution.com

Called the "true spirit-child of Woody Guthrie," Pat Humphries brings her powerful, singable songs to concert halls, coffeehouses, festivals, conferences and demonstrations across the country. Pat has traveled twice to Cuba as part of the Pastors for Peace Caravans and was part of a women's delegation that included author, Margaret Randall, to observe the 1996 Nicaraguan elections. In addition to performing at local and national demonstrations, Pat has written music and advocated for migrant farmworkers in New York State, the Refugee Women's Network in Atlanta, United Students Against Sweatshops and the School of the Americas Watch.

Pat's much acclaimed anthems, "Keep on Moving Forward (Never Turning Back)," "Common Thread," and "Swimming to the Other Side," are sung at peace and justice events around the world and have been translated into 7 languages. The U.N. Fourth Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, opened with "Keep on Moving Forward" and "Common Thread" has been chosen as the theme song of the NYC Labor Chorus.

Pat's singing has been described as "spellbinding" and Kathyrn LaMar of the San Francisco Folk Magazine said about "Hands", "Every single song is full of heart, soul, and verve, and I still can't listen to the whole thing without crying while trying to sing along--a sign of a true masterpiece."
http://www.emmasrevolution.com

2008 Chomsky Award Winner David Gil
FRIDAY JUNE 6, 6 P.M.

Professor of Social Policy,
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Professor Gil studies and teaches societal roots and dynamics of violence and oppression, links between social institutions and human development, the nature and dynamics of social policy, and strategies to transform social orders into development-conducive ways of life.

Awards and Honors include:
Presidential Award, Council on Social Work Education (2006)
40th Heller School Anniversary Award for Leadership in Human Services (1999)
Co-Chair, Socialist Party/USA (1995 - 1999)
President, Association for Humanist Sociology (1981 - 1982)
United Nations Scholarship (1953)

Publications include:
Gil,David G. "In Pursuit of Social Justice." Poverty and Social Justice Section Connection (2006).
Gil,David G. "Reflections on Health and Social Justice." Contemporary Justice Review 9. 1 (2006).
Gil,David G. Perspectives on Social Justice. Reflections, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Social Work, 2004.
Gil,David G. Bullying-A New Research Enterprise."Contemporary Justice Review (2002):69-73.
Gil,David G. "Challenging Injustice and Oppression." Pathways to Power. Ed. Michael O'Melia and Karla Krogsrud Miley. Allyn and Bacon, 2002. Chapter 3, 35-54.
Gil,David G. "Rethinking the Goals, Organization, Design, and Quality of Work in Relation to Individual and Social Development." Contemporary Justice Review (2000): 73-88.
Gil,David G. "Understanding and Overcoming Social-Structural Violence." Contemporary Justice Review (1999): 23-35.
Gil,David G. "Reframing Political Discourse: Politics of Human Needs." New Global Development : Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare (1998): 15-22.
Gil,David G. Confronting Injustice and Oppression. Columbia University Press, 1998.
Gil,David G, with Eva Gil. The Future of Work. Schenkman Publishers, 1986.
Gil,David G. Toward Social and Economic Justice, ed. (with Eva Gil). Schenkman Publishers, 1985.
Gil,David G. The Challenge of Social Equality. Schenkman Publishers, 1976.
Gil,David G. Unravelling Social Policy: Theory, Analysis, and Political Action Toward Social Equality. Schenkman Publishers (4th ed. 1990; 5th ed. 1992), 1973.
Gil,David G. Violence Against Children - Physical Child Abuse in the United States. Harvard University Press (1st ed. 1970; revised ed, 1970)

SATURDAY, JUNE 7th, 2008: ERIC ALTERMAN

Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also “The Liberal Media” columnist for The Nation and a fellow of the Nation Institute, a senior fellow and “Altercation” weblogger for Media Matters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the “Think Again” column, a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute at The New School in New York, and a history consultant to HBO Films. Alterman is the author of seven books, including the national bestsellers, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003, 2004), and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, 2004). The others include: When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences, (2004, 2005). His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award, and Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (1998). His newest book is Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook to Post-Bush America, (2008).

Termed "the most honest and incisive media critic writing today” in the National Catholic Reporter, and author of “the smartest and funniest political journal out there,” in The San Francisco Chronicle, Alterman is frequent lecturer and contributor to numerous publications in the US, Europe and Latin America. In recent years, he has also been a columnist for: Worth, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and The Sunday Express (London). A former Adjunct Professor of Journalism at NYU and Columbia, Alterman received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and his Ph.D. in US History from Stanford. He lives with his family in Manhattan

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