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Conducting Critical Social Science Research
Critical Sociology
Chair: George Sanders
Ishay Landa - The Open University, Ra'anana, Israel
Paul Paolucci - Eastern Kentucky Universitya
Richard Dello Buono - Manhattan College

Teaching About Palestine
Radical Teacher
Chair: Richard Ohmann
Ammiel Alcalay - Professor, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
Anthony Alessandrini - Assistant Professor, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Ellen Cantarow - Journalist

Academic Repression (AK Press) Book Talk
Theory and Action
Chair: Anthony J. Nocella, II
Liat Ben-Moshe and Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter - Syracuse University and Caroline Kaltefleiter, SUNY Cortland
Victoria Fontan - University of Peace, Costa Rica
Deric Shannon - University of Connecticut

Educating Youth in These Conservative Times: Cultural-Politics, Possibilities, and Strategies for Improving Urban Schooling
Chair: Biany Perez
Decoteau J. Irby - AAKT (Advocacy, Action, Knowledge, and Training) Concepts LLC
Emery Petchauer - Professor of Education, Lincoln University
Patrick Camangian - Professor of Teacher Ed., Urban Ed., and Social Justice, University of San Francisco English Teacher, Mandela High School (Oakland, CA) 

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Chair: John Cronan Jr.
John Cronan Jr. - Organization for a Free Society (OFS)
Ashley Marinaccio - Co-Op Theatre East, Project Girl Performance Collective
Faiza N. Ali - Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)

The Fight for Public Higher Education in New York City
Chair: TBA
Larry Hales - Students for Educational Rights, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
Claudia O'Brien - CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
Conor Reed - City College Student Union, International Socialist Organization
PSC-CUNY member, TBA -

Economics for the Rest of Us: Teaching Economics to Workers
Chair: Michael Merrill
Moshe Adler - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies & Columbia University
Howard Harrington - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
Kate Spaulding - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
Michael Merrill

The Case of California: Coming Soon to Schools Near you
San Francisco Freedom School
Chair: Kathryn Johnson, Vampire Slayer
Kathy Emery - San Francisco Freedom School; San Francisco State, Political Science
Jerry Shapiro - School of Social Work, San Francisco State University
Bob Meister - UC Santa Cruz, Rethinking Capitalism

Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left
Chair: Pam Nogales
Ashley Weger - Platypus Affiliated Society (Depaul Chapter Head)
Hannah Rappleye - New School alumni, ex-Senior Editor of the NS Free Press
Easton Smith - Sarah Lawrence Student, Unite Here organizer

Rethinking Education
Chair: Brian Kelly
Pat Korte
Andrej Grubacic
Meaghan Linick-Loughley

Public Education: Privatization and Inequity
Chair: Donna Nevel
Center for Immigrant Families (Ujju Aggarwal and Perla Placencia)
Donna Nevel (Moderator) *listed above as chair
New York Collective of Radical Educators (Edwin Mayorga)
The Public Science Project (Michelle Fine)
Students Fighting for Equitable Admissions at Beacon High School (Antonia Perez)

The Fertile Grounds Project: Spaces for Youth To Be Youth/Education Over Indoctrination
Chair: co-founder/educational director
Jonah Canner -
Ileia Burgos - Movement In Motion Artists and Activists Collective.
Becky Raik

Academic Freedom under Attack
Chair: Snehal Shingavi
Margo Ramlal-Nankoe
Loretta Capeheart
Nagesh Rao

"Race to the Top"--Millions of Children Left Behind"
Radical Teacher
Chair: Susan O'Malley
Jean Anyon - Professor of Social and Educational Policy, Graduate School, City University of New York
Norm Fruchter - Annenberg Institute for Education and Social Policy, Brown University
Stan Karp - Editorial Board of and frequent contributor to RETHINKING SCHOOLS