8:00-3:00pm – Registration in front of rooms 4 and 5 on the ground floor of Mary Graydon Center (Ground Floor)

8:45-9:00 am - Opening Remarks by Tara Mancini, Sociology
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10:00 am-5:00 pm-Documentary/Alternative Panel Presentation Room:(MGC 200)
10:00-10:50 am Sydney Taylor, Akele Coffey, Jeremiah Headen, American Univ.
" One City Two Sides: Gentrification in Our Nation's Capital"

11:00-12:00 am (MGC 200) Jerri Castillo, American University "Constructing and
De- constructing the Urban Landscape" Photography Presentation
Frances Raven, Temple University- " Architectonic Conjectures"
Manuscript Reading
Moderator, Arin Mason, American University

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9:00-10:25 am-First Panel Session
Public Health and Environmental Justice(Room-MGC 203)
Joshua Mason-
Erin Pischke, “Forests, Trash, Land: Environmental Justice in Guatemala”
Churchill Okonkwo-“Environmental Justice as a Tool to Peace and Sustainable
Development in Niger Delta, Nigeria”
Moderator: Dr. Stacey Snelling, Assoicate Professor, Director of Academics, School of
Education, Teaching, and Health at American University
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Community Based Collaborative Research (Rm MGC 205)
Sean McNamara, Georgetown University and Pulchery Thelusma
“Faith-Based Affordable Housing Initiative”
Tony Samara, George Mason University, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology-
“Reconstructing Rights and Citizenship: The Struggle for Urban Democracy in the
Neoliberal City”
Ernest Quimby, Howard University and Sylvia Robinson, Emergence Community Arts Collective
Preserving a Community in the Context of Gentrification and Urban Renewal”
Kevyn Bowles and Bukola Bambigboye, Georgetown University: “The Empowering Possibilities of Community
Collaboration, Research, and the Performing Arts”
Moderator: Anthony Gualtieri, Smithsonian Institute
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Engaging the Community (MGC 247)
Tanetta Isler, DC Resident/Kressley Institute Fellow-“Of Public Interest: The Influence
of Newsletters on the Perception of the Community”
Adam Ross Pearlman “Valuing Volunteers: The Case for a Community Service Tax
Benefit”
Sean T Bennett- “Binghamton’s Neighborhood Assemblies: Creating Opportunities for
Partnership and Empowerment”
Elgin Klugh, Elgin Klugh, Ph.D. (Anthropology) Coppin State University “Achieving Community Through Conversation: Living Room Discussion Groups as a Means for Stabilizing Community”
Moderator:
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Second Panel Session
10:30-11:55
Culture and Politics of Marginalization (RM, MGC 205)
Michael Tinguiri- “ From Spectacles, Monuments Construction to Forced
Displacement in the context of Project ZACA in Ouagadougou”
Lynn M. Schneider, American University, M.A. Candidate, International Affairs, Natural
Resources and Sustainable Development"
“La Carpio: Exposing the Hidden Violence of Poverty and Marginalization in Urban
Costa Rica”

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Gentrification and Urban Renewal (RM, MGC 245)
Matthew Soule-“Confronting an Ecology of Gentrification through Landscape”
Nicole Stewart, University of Maryland
"Heritage Crossing at 5: Successes and Challenges in a HOPE VI Development”
William Stokes, Social-Cultural Anthropologist and Community Developer
“An Urban Renewal and Gentrification Project in the District of Columbia-
The Carver Terrace Community”
Justin Bibb, American University-
“Urban Income Inequality: Challenges & Solutions for the 21st Century”
Moderator: Kaleema Sumareh, American University, Department of Sociology, MA
Candidate
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Redefining the City through Architecture (MGC 247)
Clarissa Olivarez, American University
“Patterns Repeat: Desire, Accessibility and Existing Pressures in Zola
And its Relevance to Modern Conditions in Our Nation’s Capital”
David Cook and Robert M Finch, Georgia State University
“On Redefining the Urban Playground”
Barbara Antoniazzi, Freie Universitat-Berlin, J.F.K Institute for North American Studies, Doctoral Candidate
“The ‘Law of Adaptation’ and the democratization of American City Planning: The
Lincoln Centre between Philip Johnson’s International Style and Elizabeth Diller’s
Generative Criticism”
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12:00-1:00 pm – (Lunch- Mary Graydon Room 6)

1:15-3:00 pm – (Keynote Address - Mary Graydon rooms IV,V,VI -

1:15-1:30 pm - Keynote Introduction by Barbra Lukunka, Anthropology

1:30-2:00 pm - Sabihya Prince - "The City Formerly Known as Chocolate City: Race,
Class, Neoliberalism and Change in Washington, DC."

2:00 - 2:30 pm - Mindy Fullilove - "Root Shock: How Tearing Up City
Neighborhoods Hurts America and What we Can Do About it."
2:30 - 3:00 pm Q and A
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3:05-4:30 Third Panel Sessions

UDC: Addressing Urban Transformations and Advancing Social Change (MGC 203)

Sandra Jowers-Barber, UDC-““Using Oral History to Preserve and Document the Past”
Deborah Dessaso, UDC-
“Preparing Student to Participate in Urban Transformation as Social Change Agents”
Sylvia Ramirez Benatti,UDC-
“Flagship of Missed Boat: The Challenge of Reconfiguring the Public University in a
Transformed Urban Environment”
Margaret Moore, UDC-
“Transforming Public Policy to Create Safer Spaces for Women and Families”
Moderator: Dr. Sinclair Jeter, University of District of Columbia
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Cultural and Sexual Identities (Room, MGC 205)
Clare Forstie- “Sisters” in Space: The Shifting Meanings of “Lesbian Identity”
in a Local Lesbian Bar
Arin Mason- “Trans as Trope? Citizenship as Trope? Provocation on the Relationship of
Sexual Difference and Citizenship Status”
Isabel Montemayor, Michigan State University
“Making the Local Transnational: Mexican Immigrant Children and Their
Negotiation of Cultural Identity”
Dennis Skocz, Independent Scholar (Ph.D., Philosophy, Duquesne University), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, UDC-“Cities for Sale-The Global Market in Place”
Moderator: Dylan Kerrigan, American University

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Urban Education Policy I (245)
Ashley Bratton, Samantha Catlett, Emilie Kama, Max Hsu, Rebecca Shinners,
David Simnick-“Policy Proposal for Creation of Alternative Teacher Certification
Program”
Moderator: Dr. Stacie Tate, American University, Assistant Professor, School of
Education, Teaching and Health
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Re-Framing Crime in Urban Space (247)
Katherine Broendel- “Framing Sexual Violence in the Media”
Rob Goodman, George Washington University, Philosophy and Social Policy, Graduate
Student “Mass Incarceration and Family Stability”
Ikram Ally, American University, Ph.d candidate, Anthropology-“Interrelations of the
80s Crack Epidemic and Modern Day Prison Industrial Complex."
Tatyana Varshavsky, George Washington University-“Kids These Days-Youth
Negotiating Urban Space in the Public Eye”
Moderator:Kathy Chamberlain, American University
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4:35-6:00 Fourth Panel Sessions

Food Policy (Room, MGC 203)
Katie Kassof, Heather Danskin, Chelsea Strandberg, American University,
"Urban Jungle, Food Desert: How Media Can Help Redefine the Cityscape"
Brian McKenzie, SUNY Albany-“ Neighborhood variation in Transit and Walking-Based
Access to Supermarkets in Portland, OR”
Moderator:Simon Nicholson, American University, Professor of Global Environmental
Politics
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Urban Education Policy II (Room, MGC 245)
Maura Garven, Sarah Maxey, Elisa Rincon, Eileen Ward, Rachel Weinman
Program Policy Evaluations: Youth and Government, Meyers Institute for College Preparation
Heather Voke-“Evaluating Public School Reform in the District of Columbia: Decisive
Actions with Good Intentions Don’t Measure Up”
Moderator: Dr. Stacie Tate, American University, Assistant Professor, School of
Education, Teaching and Health

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6:05-6:35 "Class Lines" Performance by Anu Yadav et al. - (Location - Kay Life Chapel)

6:45 - 7:00 pm Introduction of keynotes by Jessica Rucker of ONE DC

7:00 - 7:30 Carol Stack -"Doing Ethnography/Poverty Research for Social Justice"
7:30 - 8:00 Angela Davis- "Prosecution, Race, and the Future of Urban America"
8:00- 8:30pm Q & A - Closing Remarks by Kalfani N. Ture, Anthropology