{"id":21345,"date":"2019-05-10T10:35:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21345"},"modified":"2019-05-10T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:02:05","slug":"frontiers-of-democracy-conference-2019-draft-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21345","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2019 Draft Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a working draft (as of May 8, 2019), likely to change in detail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/frontiers-of-democracy-conference-2019-tickets-50972165118\">Tickets are still available<\/a> but are running out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, June 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:00-5:30 registration<br \/>\nHeavy hors d&#8217;oeuvres served<\/p>\n<p>5:30 opening plenary<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming comments by organizers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShort-takes\u201d talks (10 minutes each, no Q&amp;A)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maya Pace, Lead for America, \u201cStart Where You Live\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jamila Michener, Cornell University, author of<em> Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics<\/em>, on \u201cHealth Equity and Democracy\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Willis, Deliberative Democracy Consortium and author of<em> These Are Strange Times, My Dear: Field Notes from the Republic<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Andi Crawford, the Director of Empowerment and Citizen Engagement for the City of Lansing, MI, \u201cLove Your Block in #LOVELansing\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discussions at curated tables of eight<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, June 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8:00-9:00 breakfast served<\/p>\n<p>900-10:30 am: Plenary Session: \u201cWorking at the Frontiers of Democracy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questions:<br \/>\n1. What sense of duty, purpose or mission guides your life?<br \/>\n2. What issues at the \u201cfrontiers of democracy\u201d interest and concern you most right now?<br \/>\n3. What do you not know enough about and hope to learn more about?<br \/>\n4. What issues and questions are you hoping that this conference will address?<br \/>\n5. What do you imagine that you will do after this conference if it goes well for you?<\/p>\n<p>These questions will be discussed first by a panel at the head of the room and then by all participants, seated at assigned tables of eight. The panel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hajer al-Faham, a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Veronica del Carril, a youth program leader\/arts educator from Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Manuela Uribe Henao, Colombian working on public health interventions in El Salvador<\/li>\n<li>Marianne Kwakwa, a PhD candidate in political science at Notre Dame<\/li>\n<li>Jennet Kirkpatrick, political theorist at the University of Arizona, author of the books <em>Uncivil Disobedience<\/em> and <em>The Virtue of Exit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jamie Lee, Communication and Information Specialist, UNESCO\/Cambodia, working on genocide memorials<\/li>\n<li>Debilyn Molineaux, co-founder, The Bridge Alliance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10:30-10:45 break<\/p>\n<p>10:45-12:15 concurrent sessions. Choose among:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Spectacle, Movement, Deliberation: Theoretical Perspectives on Democracy,&#8221; Samuel Schmitt, Aidan Kestigian, Vasiliki Rapti<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Maintaining Meaningful Classroom Dialogue Even on Controversial Subjects,&#8221; Michael Fischer and Katina Fontes<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;BetaBlocks: Democratizing Manifestation of Technology in the Public Realm,&#8221; John Harlow and Eric Gordon<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Renewing Democracy Through Renewal of Infrastructure,&#8221; Tom Flanagan, Craig Lindell, Wendi Goldsmith, Douglas Bruce, Carmen Sirianni<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Love your Block,&#8221; Michael Hammett, Mary Bogle, Mauricio Garcia, and Andi Crawford<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Fixing American Democracy from the Outside In \u2013 Storming the Hill,&#8221; with Represent.Us, American Promise, and Small Planet Institute, the Consensus Building Institute.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>12:15-1:15 lunch<br \/>\n1:15-2:30 plenary activity: \u201cHow to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact\u201d Led by Adam Seth Levine of research4impact. \u201cHow do you build successful working relationships with people who have diverse forms of expertise?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2:30:2:45 break<\/p>\n<p>2:45-4:15 Concurrent sessions. Choose among<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cAmplify Impact, Build Bridges, and Connect Communities through Civil Discourse,\u201d Cheryl Graeve, Robert Boatright, and Timothy J. Shaffer<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Democratizing Research for Environmental Justice and Health,&#8221; Chad Raphael, Doug Brugge, Amy Laura Cahn, Neenah Estella-Luna, Kenneth Geiser, and Charlotte Ryann<br \/>\n3. &#8220;How Interactive Simulations and Film Presentations Enhance Classroom Dialogue on Controversial Issues,&#8221; Joshua Littenberg-Tobias, GR. Marvez, and Jonathan Goodman Levitt<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Gaming and Civic Tech,&#8221; Libby Falck and Dmytro Potekhin<br \/>\n5. &#8220;Fixing American Democracy From the Inside Out &#8211; What\u2019s Hot on the Hill!,&#8221; Jeff Edelstein and others<br \/>\n6. &#8220;Governance and Restorative Justice: The Role of Civic Groups in Problem-Solving in Schools and Drug Policy,&#8221; Nicole Kaufman, Sharyn Lowenstein, Dani O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p>4:15-4:30 break<\/p>\n<p>4:30-6:00 Plenary Session led by Sam Novey and Clarissa Unger, \u201cRecognizing Local Leadership to Build Better Strategies for Civic Renewal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Time at tables for introductions and discussions)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, June 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8-9 Breakfast<\/p>\n<p>9 am-10:15: A choice between two sessions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Panel: &#8220;Political Participation in the City and the Ballot Box.&#8221; with Tanya Gibbs, Benjamin Hernandez, Jonathan Collins, Tammy Esteves<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;The Social Contract of America&#8221; (Interactive workshop) planned by Debilyn Molineaux<\/p>\n<p>10:15-11:30<\/p>\n<p>Plenary Discussion<\/p>\n<p>Questions:<br \/>\n1. What do you plan to do as a result of the conference?<br \/>\n2. Did your understanding of the frontiers of democracy shift?<br \/>\n3. What did you learn from someone in a different domain?<br \/>\n4. What are we committed to doing together?<\/p>\n<p>These will be addressed first by a panel seated at the front of the room, and then by participants at assigned tables of eight. The panel is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nakeefa Garay, urban studies PhD Student, Rutgers Newark<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Elizabeth Jabar, artist, Colby College<\/li>\n<li>Liza Kostanyan, NGO leader, Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Sterling Speirn, CEO, National Conference on Citizenship<\/li>\n<li>Amber Wichowsky, political scientist, Marquette<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>11:30 What are we committed to doing together?<\/p>\n<p>Report outs from tables, discussion.<br \/>\nDiscussion of a follow up report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a working draft (as of May 8, 2019), likely to change in detail. Tickets are still available but are running out. Thursday, June 20 4:00-5:30 registration Heavy hors d&#8217;oeuvres served 5:30 opening plenary Welcoming comments by organizers. \u201cShort-takes\u201d talks (10 minutes each, no Q&amp;A) Maya Pace, Lead for America, \u201cStart Where You Live\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21366,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345\/revisions\/21366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}