Conference Schedule

• 4:00pm

Registration opens

• 4:30pm

Reception

• 5:00pm 

Pre-Conference Film - "Hip-Hop:  Beyond Beats and Rhymes", a Byron Hurt film

• 6:30pm

Dinner

• 8:00am

Registration

• 9:00am

Opening Plenary:  Patricia Eng, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Courtney martin and Shira Tarrant  Michael Kimmel, moderator

• 10:30am

Break

• 10:45am

Session Block I

• “Meeting Men Where They Are: Understanding and Productively Engaging Men’s Resistance to Feminism” – Robert Pleasants (U. of No. Carolina Chapel Hill) and
  “Changing Carolina: Changing the Culture of Men’s Indifference to Violence Against Women” – Christopher Allen (U. of South Carolina)
• “The Ethics and Erotics of Sexual Consent: Beyond 'But We Were Both Drinking' - Harry Brod (University of Northern Iowa)
• “The Line” film and discussion of “What is Your Line?” - Nancy Schwartzman, film director

•  12:00n

Lunch 

• 1:45pm 

Session Block II

• “Meeting Them Where We Were” - Jonathan Grove (PLU)
• “Beyond Best Practices” - Robert Buelow (UC Irvine)
• Organizing Male Allies: Opportunities and Challenges” - Ed Heisler (Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women) and
  “Minnesota Men’s Action Network: Alliance to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence" - Chuck Derry (MN-MAN)
• "Liberating Space: A conversation exploring the possibilities for a 'break out' movement of men away from conventional masculine performance and roles in the politics of dominance and patriarchy"  – Charles Knight, Ozzie Mayers and Ethan Wang will lead the conversation. All attending are invited to participate in the conversation.

•  3:00pm

Break 

• 3:30pm 

Session Block III 

• “Voices of Men” - One-Man Play by Ben Atherton-Zeman
• "What's Your Stake?" - Sharon Sobotta (Saint Mary's College of California) and “Collaboration across Social Justice, Multicultural, and Queer Student Organizations on Campus to Fight Classism, Racism and Homophobia” - Xavier Guadalupe (Virginia Commonwealth U)
• “Involving Student Athletes” - Lauren Pilnick (MSU Mankato) and 
  “Male Athletes Against Violence, Real Men vs Reel Men)” – Andrew Loring (U. of Maine)
• “Hip-Hop:  Beyond Beats and Rhymes" film discussion - Byron Hurt, film director

•  5:00pm

Reception and Social

•  7:00pm

SAVE Forum Actors Troupe from the University of Northern Iowa

• 8:00am

Registration

• 9:00am

Opening Plenary:  Ted Bunch, Jimmie Briggs, Pat McGann and Mark Matousek
Michael Kaufman, Moderator

• 10:30am

Break

• 10:45am

Session Block IV

• "The Spitting Game:  The College Hook-Up Culture" film and discussion - Denice Ann Evans, J'Hue Film Productions
• “Building and Fostering a College Men’s Group” - Joshua O’Donnell (Western Washington U.) and
  “A Genderation of Men: Progressive Masculinities Mentors (strategies for building a men’s group)” – Derrick Williams (University of Southern Illinois)
• "The Men's Story Project" film and discussion - Josie Lehrer (UCSF)
• "The Three Secrets to Successfully engage Campus Men & Build a White Ribbon Campaign" - Michael Kaufman

•  12:00n

Lunch 

• 1:45pm 

Session Block V

• “Welcome to the Party: A Curriculum for Freshmen Sexual Assault Prevention”  - Deb Beazley and 
  “Men Can Stop Rape” - Joseph Vess (Men Can Stop Rape)
• "Changing College Sexual Assault Policies Workshop” – Daniel Wald (Students Active for Ending Rape)  and 
  “Selling Masculinities (selling a new vision of what a man is)” – Jonathan Grove (PLU)
• "Expanding the Work:  From Men's Groups Working to Stop Violence to Redifining masculinity.  A review of recent activities of the SJU Men's Center" - Gar Kellom, SJU
• "Bystanders and Familiar Assault” – Stephen Thompson (Central Michigan U) and
  "Leading Leaders in Search of our Lost Afrocentric Behaviors: Mirroring Ourselves” – Olali, David Omunukum (U. of Ibadan, Nigeria)

•  3:00

Break 

• 3:30pm 

Session Block VI

• “The Prophet Muhammad Never Beat His Wife” – Shyam Sriram (Men Stopping Violence/Muslim Men Against Domestic Violence) and
  "A Men's Issue:  Who Are They?" - Sacchi Patel and Kieran Siao (Syracuse University)
• The Family Violence Prevention Fund and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity: A campus-based partnership to end violence against women - Jeanine Hays (Family Violence Prevention Fund) and 
  "Risk and Rewards:  Participating in Football at a Rural University" - Mario Olivares and Ryan Moss (Eastern Oregon University)
• "How Good are the Good Guys?  Contradictions in College Men's Anti-Sexist Activism" - Tal Peretz (University of Southern California) and
  "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? - Men in the Social Justice Movement" - Christopher Leck and Monica Collins (Colorado State University)

•  5:00pm

Conference Closing - a session chaired by the Organizing Committee on leassons learned from the conference and where we go from here.

•  6:00pm

Closing dinner for those who wish to attend - RSVP to Tonya Miller or call (320)363-2737.