2008 Conference Program and Schedule

Schedule and locations for the 2008 conference are outlined below—download Complete Schedule (pdf) for full information about speakers and titles.

Please see Campus Map for locations.

Friday, March 21

11:00–12:30 pm, Registration
(Butler Board Room)

12:00–1:00 pm, Lunch
(Butler Board Room)

1:00–2:45 pm, Panel 
Language As Social Action, Media Representation, and the Body
(Butler Board Room)

3:00–4:45 pm  Concurrent Panels
—Gentrification, Development, and Displacement: 
Perspectives from Africa and the U.S.
(Butler Board Room)

—Inequalities in Health and Healing
(Butler Conference Room)

5:00pm–6:00 pm, Keynote Speaker:  Brett Williams
(Butler Board Room)

6:30–7:45 pm, Slam Poetry Performance by Alix Olson
(Ward 2)

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Saturday, March 22

8:30–9:00 am,
Registration and Coffee
(Butler Board Room)

9:00–11:00 am, Panel 
American University and Towson University Faculty Panel on Displacement(Butler Board Room)

11:15 am–12:45 pm, Concurrent Panels
—Exploring Agency in Sexual and Reproductive Health
(Butler Conference Room)

—Language, Embodiment, and Exclusion: Issues in the Framing of Immigration
(Mary Graydon Center 200)

1:00–2:30 pm, Performance by Anu Yadav and Lunch
(Weschler Theater)

3:00–4:45 pm, Panel
Contributions to Environmental Policy and Practice
(Butler Board Room)

5:00–6:00 pm, Keynote Speaker:  Tony Whitehead
(Butler Board Room)

6:00–6:15 pm, Closing Remarks: Maria Amelia Viteri
(Butler Board Room)

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