Agenda

Time	Session Information	Location
8:30	Registration Free, with registration encouraged for events specified below
9:00	Welcome David Procter, Director, Center for Engagement and Community Development and the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy Charles Taber, Provost and Executive Vice President	Flint Hills Room
9:20	Opening Keynote Address [registration encouraged] Lynnette Young Overby, Deputy Director, Community Engagement Initiative, Partnership for Arts and Culture of the University of Delaware
10:00	Opening Performance: Kansas State University African Ensemble Neil Dunn, Dance and Percussion Instructor; Julie Pentz, Dance Program Director, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
10:30-11:20	Concurrent Sessions I
	Living History- Using the Underground Railroad to Understand Oppression and Build Democracy Richard Pitts, Director, Wonder Workshop Children's Museum; Tandalayo Kidd, Associate Head, Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health; Ron Wilson, Director, Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development.	Flint Hills Room
	The Art of Empathy – A Workshop for Tough Conversations [registration encouraged] Aliah Mestrovich Seay, 4-H Youth Development Specialist, K-State Research and Extension	Room 227
	Science Communication in the Era of "Alternative Facts" Michael Tobler, Associate Professor, Division of Biology Book Talk - Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right Heather Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and Its Discontents Tim Shaffer, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies	Room 206
11:30-12:20	Concurrent Sessions II
	What to the Prisoner is the 4th of July? Anthony Warnick, Assistant Professor, Department of Art To Be Quiet and Permanently Beautiful: Women on Display Jennifer Hudson, M.F.A. Candidate, Department of Art Fighting Tunnel Vision with Art: Zhang Hongtu at the Beach Museum of Art Aileen Wang, Curator, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art	Flint Hills Room
	The Democratization of Suffering Through Art Practices Lucía Garavito, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages; Laura Kanost, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages; Victoria Loza, Master's candidate, Department of Modern Languages Panel: The Fear of (Public) Art Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Art; Trey Hock, Multi Disciplinary Artist, Assistant Professor of Film-making and Creative Writing Kansas City Art Institute; Jason Zeh, Multi Disciplinary Artist, Kansas City	Room 227
	Navigating Through Our Cultural Understanding - A Diversity Game La Barbara James Wigfall, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional and Community Planning; Mirta Chavez, Director, Diversity and Multicultural Student Affairs; Katie Kingery-Page, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional and Community Planning	Courtyard
	The Struggle to Save the Quindaro Site in Kansas City Fred Whitehead, Independent Scholar, Kansas City, Kansas	Room 207
	Painting the Picture of Community Engagement and Democracy - Stories from Kansas Communities Marlin Bates, K-State Research and Extension – Douglas County; Greg Stephens, Associate Professor, School of Integrated Studies, K-State Polytechnic and Coordinator, TALK Salina; Julia Ramos, City of Salina; Julie Bretado, Heartland Early Education Center	Room 206
12:00-1:00	Lunch Hour (Self-service from 1st Floor Union Food Court) Continued sessions in the Courtyard or Room 206
	What Say, Democracy? Shreepad Joglekar, Associate Professor, Department of Art	Courtyard
	Leading Change - Leadership Communication PhD Brown-bag Tim Steffensmeier, Associate Professor, Staley School of Leadership Studies	Room 206
1:00-3:00	Concurrent Sessions III
	National Issues Forum on Immigration [registration FULL: observers welcome] Donna Schenck-Hamlin, Program Associate, Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy	Flint Hills Room
	Developing Community by Engaging Students in Voter Registration Colene Lind, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Hayley Spellman, Government Relations Committee Chair, KSU Student Governing Association All Democracy is Local: How We Can Strengthen our Democracy Letitia Harmon, Policy Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas	Room 206
3:00-5:00	Concurrent Sessions IV
	Screening of BlacKkKlansman Lorenza Lockett, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work	Room 207
	Journey to Refuge in a Democracy: From the Congo to Kansas and Screening of Refuge in the Heartland Trina Harlow, Coordinator, Art Education, College of Education Rusty Earl, Television Producer/Director, College of Education	Room 206
5:30-7:00	Closing Keynote: [registration encouraged] BlacKkKlansman - A Response to the Resurgence of Overt Racism in America Today Kevin Willmott, Oscar winning co-writer of BlacKkKlansman and Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Kansas	Bluemont Room