Registration
Coffee/tea
Opening Remarks

Activism

Presenters:
Cynthia Banas: Eye Witness to War

Adele Welty: The Journey from Grief to Activism

Mary Barr: A Peace Plan for the Drug War

Philosophical Approaches

Presenters:
Dr. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon: Is Love Nonviolent?

Richard Lansdowne: A Choice Between Enemy and Hunamity

Dr. Lorraine Berry: War and the Body

Feminism and Violence

Presenters:
Liat Moshe &Anthony Nocella: Violence of Normalcy in the Era of Terrorism

Meaghan Connaire: Irish-American Feminism: Studying the Violent Past While Working for a Peaceful Future

Dr. Kathryn Russell and Dr. Victoria Boynton: The Rhetoric of Motherhood: A Tool for Peace or a Risky Limitation?

Break

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy

12:20-1:30pm

Terrorism

Presenters:
Joshua Frank & Pamela Carlisle-Frank: Who is a "Terrorist?"- The Case of the Domestic "Terrorism"

Adam Carpinelli: Who You Callin a Terrorist? Post 9-11 "Terrorism", Civic Engagement and Activism

Historical Perspectives

Presenters:
Dr. Barry Gan: Pressed Into War

Timothy La Goy: Conscription and Conscience: A Comparative Examination of Military Conscription and Conscientious Objection in Britain and the US during the First World War

Dr. Charles Maxfield: An American Soul

Philosophy of Violence and Peacemaking

Presenters:
Karin Howe: Capital Punishment and Violence

Dr. Mecke Nagel: Waht If Habermas Went Native

Katie Hudy: Harry Potter & the Myth of Redemptive Violence

War

Presenters:
Tiyo Attalah Salah-El: Government Manipulation of Language

Kelly Dietz: Framing the Violence of "Peacetime": The Normalization of America's Global Military Reach

Film

Dr. Sheila Cohen: Promises (Run time, 102 minutes)

Panel

Dr. Caroline Kalteleiter & Meaghan M. Connaire, Chad M. Daniels, Gilbert Feliciano, Dustin S. Good: Reading War: Media Analysis if Mainstream War News Coverage

Concluding Remarks