All sessions of the RF@AERA 2012 will be held in HSBC Hall on the Robson Square Campus of the University of British Columbia in Downtown Vancouver, near the AERA hotels and a short distance from the Vancouver Convention Centre.
Coffee, Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:15am-10:00am
Session I: What might happen when teachers and other academics connect reason to power and power to resistance?
10:00am – 12:00pm
Patrick Shannon, Penn State University
Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University
Abraham DeLeon, University of Texas, San Antonio
Natalia Jaramillo, University of Auckland
Ken Saltman, DePaul University
Lunch (on your own)
12:00 – 1:30-pm
Session II: How can academic work (in universities and other learning environments) support local and global resistance to global capitalism?
1:00pm – 3:30pm
Peter McLaren, University of Auckland
Gustavo Fischman, Arizona State University
Rebecca Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University
Jill Pickney Pastrana, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Afternoon Tea & Coffee
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Special Session – Great Schools Project
3:45pm – 4:15pm
Session III: How do we respond to the obstacles and threats faced as activist scholars?
4:15pm – 6:00pm
Stephen Petrina, University of British Columbia
Elizabeth Heilman, Michigan State University
Nancye E. McCrary, University of Kentucky
Brad Porfilio, Lewis University
