24th ANNUAL 2012 PEACE STUDIES CONFERENCE
a project of the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium
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CONFERENCE THEME:
“Intersecting Power and Global Justice:
Building Solidarity in Social Justice Movements”
December 1, 2012
120 Room, Clemens Hall
University of Buffalo, North Campus
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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Conference Chair
Theresa Warburton, University of Buffalo
theresa.warburton@gmail.com
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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10:00 to 10:30
Introduction and Welcoming
Theresa Warburton, University of Buffalo
Lou Williams, University at Buffalo
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10:45PM to 12:00PM
PANEL ONE – Intersecting Environmentalism
Chair: Dr. Mark Lafrenz, University of Buffalo
1. “Neocolonial vs. Intersectional Environmentalisms: Gender and the Reinscription of Resistance”
Adam Drury, University of Buffalo
2. “Traveling Down the River of Life Together: the Haudenosaunee, their Neighbors, Treaty Rights, and Environmental Sustainability”
Lindsay Speer, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation and Chief Darwin Hill, Tonawanda Seneca Nation
3. “Mountaintop Removal and Ecological Violence”
Dr. Brandon Absher, D’Youville College
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12:00pm to 1:15pm – Lunch Break
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1:30pm to 2:45PM
PANEL TWO – Queer Justice, Militarism, and State Violence
Chair: Dr. Steven W. Halady, Canisius College
1. “‘Presumptions of Prohibited Conduct’: Sexuality in the U.S. Military”
Josh Cerretti, University of Buffalo
2. Megan Michalak, University of Buffalo
3. “Queer Settler Colonialism?: Pinkwashing in Israel and Palestine”
Theresa Warburton, University of Buffalo
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3:00PM to 4:15PM
PANEL THREE- Social Justice Medias
Chair: Cayden Mak, University of Buffalo
1. “Participatory Archives, Community Organizing, and Walter Benjamin’s Dialectical Image”
Cayden Mak, University of Buffalo
2. “From Manhattan to the Rockaways and Beyond: Rebuilding Together After Hurricane Sandy”
Janna Powell, Occupy Sandy Volunteer and Education Activist
3. Luke Noonan,
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4:30PM to 5:00PM
Closing and Awards
Closing: Brandon Absher, D’Youville College
Awards Presentation: Dr. Nancy Rourke, Canisius College
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Annual Peace Studies Scholars:
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Undergraduate Scholar of the Year
Brittany Brathwaite, Syracuse University
Graduate Scholar of the Year
Theresa Warburton, University of Buffalo
Josh Cerretti, University of Buffalo
Media of the Year
“One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility” (Temple University Press, 2010)
Dr. Zach Furness, author, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Pittsburgh
Peace Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/thesis of the Year
Tessa Mortenson, Editor, Poetry Behind the Walls
Undergraduate in the School of Education, Hamline University
Peace Studies Graduate Paper/Project/Dissertation of the Year
Cayden Mak, graduate student, University of Buffalo
“Organizing the research assistants at SUNY Stony Brook“
Peace Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year
Dr. Jim Holstun, Professor, Department of English, University of Buffalo
“Faculty Organizer against the Shale Institute at University of Buffalo”
“Life Time Achievement Award in Peace Studies
Dr. Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles
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PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Dr. Brandon Absher is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at D’Youville College. His primary research is focused on the theories of language and mind developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger and their intersections with Political and Social Theory. He also has interests in Environmental Philosophy and Critical Theory. He is a longtime activist, having worked with organizations such as Berkeley Copwatch, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and Mountain Justice.
Josh Cerretti is a Buffalo, NY-based scholar-activist who works on issues relating to militarism, prisons, sexual justice, and life in the city. He is a founding member of the Buffalo Support CeCe Committee, Prison Abolition Reading Group, Defend Our Education Coalition, and UB CLEAR. Josh is a PhD Candidate in Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo where he also serves at GA for LGBTQ Wellness Outreach.
Adam Drury holds an MA in English Literature and Culture from Oregon State University and is currently in his second year of the PhD program in English at the University at Buffalo. His research interests include psychoanalysis, postcolonial criticism, experimental poetics, and transnational feminisms, all with an increasingly ecocritical inflection. His work has been published in The International Journal of Zizek Studies.
Cayden Mak is an MFA candidate and adjunct instructor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. They prefer gender neutral pronouns, or he/him/his. They are a cyborg and hopeless nerd, and spend much of their time on the internet, scheming ways to help their communities and affinity groups rise up. They are currently organizing and coordinating technology with New York Students Rising, and also works for 18 Million Rising, a new Asian American Pacific Islander online organizing initiative. They have cats.
Luke Noonan
Janna Powell is currently $10,000 in debt after just one year at Hampshire College, but she is not alone. Now a full time learner living in Brooklyn, NY, Janna Powell spends most of her time: Organizing creative actions focused on the education crisis in the US with the activist collective, All in the Red; brainstorming and discussing alternative methods of learning; performing; and coordinating hurricane relief in Coney Island #OccupySandy. She is new to Instagram and has fond memories of the Jersey Shore. Janna Powell is a big//little sister.
Linday Speer
Theresa Warburton is a PhD Candidate in the Global Gender Studies Department where currently teaches. She is especially interested in contemporary anarchist theory, women of color feminisms, and speculative fiction as radical praxis. She is committed to community organizing and works mostly in the interests of prison abolition, student movements, reproductive justice, and urban farming. Her life is made up of the people she loves, the food she feeds them, the books she read and discusses with them, and the music she listens to and plays with them. She believes strongly in the radical potential of the imagination and is constantly trying to engage her own and others’ imaginations through all of the things she mentioned above.
Lou Williams, Jr. is a member of the Oneida Nation. He is Wolf Clan Lou is also a third year Ph.D student in American/Transnational Studies at the University of Buffalo. His studies include: Indigenous Cultural Identity, Indigenous Teaching Methods, Decolonization Strategies, Ecological Restoration and Indigenous Agricultural Methods. Lou’s main focus is developing strategies to help overcome the deep rooted colonial mindset in his community. Lou is co-author of an exciting book to be released soon under Aboriginal Issues Press, Manitoba, entitled, Connective Pedagogy: Elder Epistemology, Oral Tradition, and Community.