Conference Schedule
This is a tentative schedule and is subject to change.
Friday
6:00-7:00 Registration
7:00-8:30 Plenary 1: From Protest to Disruption: Organizing for Social Change
Jim Miller
Saturday
8:00 – 9:30 Breakfast/Registration
10:00-10:50 Workshop Block A
1. Why Is Tuition Rising?
Andrew Porter – National YDS Organizer
Cryn Johannsen – All Education Matters
2. A Socialist-Feminist Response to Patriarchy
Amber Frost – Women’s Caucus Chair
Nicole Shippen – Visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers University
3. There is Power in a Union: Union and Student Solidarity
Chris Hicks – Student Labor Action Project Coordinator
Dan Hanson – Chapter Activist at the College of Wooster
4. Recruitment Tools: How to Table, Phone-bank, and Petition
David Duhalde – Member of Boston DSA
5. An American Tradition: The History of Democratic Socialism in the US
Maurice Isserman – James L Ferguson Professor of History at Hamilton College
6. What Is Democratic Socialism? An Introduction to Democratic Socialism
Chris Maisano - NYC DSA Chair
11:00-11:50 Workshop Block B
1. Why Is Student Debt Rising?
Chris Hicks - Student Labor Action Project Coordinator
2. Socialists in the World: A Democratic Socialist Foreign Policy
Bogdan Denitch – DSA Honorary Chair
Sean Monahan - YDS Co-Chair
3. The General Strike and Occupy: Rosa Luxemburg and OWS
Scott McLemee – The Intellectual Affairs columnist for Inside Higher Ed and is on the Editorial Board of New Politics
Chris Maisano – Editor in Chief of the Democratic Left
4. Radical Politics in Latin America
SOA Watch
5. Building Strong Leadership: How to Do Leadership Development
Andrew Porter – YDS National Organizer
12:00-12:15 Break
12:15-1:15 Plenary 2: You Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back. Student Activism around Higher Education
1:30-2:30 Lunch - Women's Caucus and Male Auxiliary
2:30-2:40 Break
2:45-3:35 Workshop Block C
1. Socialized Medicine? You Betcha!
Martha Livingston
Tom Dinardo - LBGTQ Caucus Chair
2. Building a Healthy Chapter: How to Plan A Recruitment Drive
Sean Monahan – YDS Co-Chair
3. The Need for An Organized Socialist Voice Today: Advanced Democratic Socialism
Joseph Schwartz – DSA National Political Committee Member and Temple Professor
Corey D B Walker - Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University
4. Tribunes for Socialism: A Primer on Public Speaking
Matt Porter – Chapter Activist at the College of Wooster
5. The Crisis Explained
Steve Max - DSA Vice Chair
3:45-4:30 Workshop Block D
1. Why Is Student Debt Rising
Andrew Porter - YDS National Organizer
Cryn Johannsen – All Education Matters
2. Getting Your Story Out There: How to work with Old and New Media
Sarah Gollwitzer – YDS Coalitions Coordinator
3. How to Run Effective Meetings
Matt Porter – College of Wooster Chapter Activist
Beth Cozzolino – University of Temple Chapter Activist
4. How to do Socialist Education
Dan Hanson – College of Wooster Chapter Activist
5. How to Win: Campaign Planning for the Campus
Jackie Sewell – YDS Co-Chair
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-5:40 Regional Meeting
5:45-6:50 Plenary 4: What Does Democracy Mean?
7:00-7:15 Why Be A Socialist
Dinner - LGBTQ's Caucus and Straight Auxiliary
8:00 – 12:00 Party - Dance Dance Revolution
Sunday
8:00-9:30 Breakfast/Registration - People of Color Caucus
10:15-11:45 Plenary 2: Democracy Matters: Political Action in Uncertain Times
12:00-1:00 Lunch - Regional Meetings
1:15-2:45 Plenary 5: OWS: All Day, All Week, Occupy All the Streets
Evan Hoskin
