SPHR 2019: Program
5:00-6:30pm
Reception and Dinner
6:30-7:00pm
Remarks: President Eric F. Spina, University of Dayton
Performance: The Ebony Heritage Singers, the University Gospel Choir led by Rev. Dr. Donna M. Cox
7:00-8:30pm
Keynote: Opal Tometi, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter and Senior Fellow at the Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Moderated by Shannon Isom, YWCA Dayton
7:30-8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30-9:00 am
Opening Remarks
Shelley Inglis, Executive Director, Human Rights Center
9:00-11:00 am
Plenary 1: Social and Political Transformation
Moderated by Joel R. Pruce, Human Rights Center
11:00-11:30am
Coffee Break
11:30am-1:00pm
Concurrent Sessions 1
1:00-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-3:30pm
Concurrent Sessions 2
3:30-4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00-6:00pm
Plenary 2: Technological Transformation
6:00-7:00pm
Reception and Dinner
Performance: A night of Turkish Sufi Mystic Music with Latif Bolat
7:00-8:30pm
Keynote: Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor at the University of North Carolina, and author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest.
Moderated by Sam Gregory, WITNESS
Book signing follows
7:30-9:00 am
Breakfast and Poster Session
9:00-10:30am
Concurrent Sessions 3
10:30-11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm
Concurrent Sessions 4
12:30-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-4:00pm
Plenary 3: Eco-Economic Transformation
Moderated by Shelley Inglis, Human Rights Center
4:00-4:30pm
Reception
4:30-5:30pm
Performance: Representation as Resistance: The Dream Unfinished, featuring Eun Lee, founder and arts activist, and musicians: Emily Kalish and Kyle Walker.
5:30 - 7:00pm
Dinner
7:00-8:30pm
Keynote: Anand Giridharadas, author of the New York Times best seller Winners Take All The Elite Charade of Changing the World and editor-at-large for Time.
Moderated by Nayyera Haq, SiriusXM
Book signing follows
7:30-8:30am
Breakfast
8:30-10:00am
Concurrent Sessions 5
10:00-10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am-12:00pm
Concurrent Sessions 6
12:00-12:30pm
Coffee Break
12:30-1:30pm
Concluding Plenary
Raphael Hoetmer, JustLabs
Shelley Inglis, Human Rights Center
Archana Pandya, OpenGlobalRights
1:30-2:00pm
Closing Remarks
Youssef Farhat, Human Rights Center
The program will include a series of performances featuring artist-activists:
- Ebony Heritage Singers
Choral music led by University of Dayton | October 1, 2019 - Latif Bulat
A night of Turkish Sufi Mystic music wth Latif Bolat | October 2, 2019 - Representation as Resistance
The Dream Unfinished an Activist-Orchestra | October 3, 2019
Featuring Eun Lee, founder and arts activist, and musicians: Emily Kalish and Kyle Walker. The Dream Unfinished is an activist orchestra. Learn about how this NYC-based group of activists and artists uses classical music as a platform to engage dialogues in social and racial justice.
For Good
This exhibit presents work created by sixteen senior level graphic design students in the Department of Art and Design specifically designed for SPHR conference and inspired by “going against the grain.”
Moral Courage Project
The Center's Moral Courage project develops multi-platform, multi-media products that utilize audio recording, photography, music, and writing to bring stories to life. Both exhibits will be on display:
- America the Borderland
A border wall splits the sister cities of El Paso and Juarez as a symbol of distance and exclusion. The choice to love one another beyond borders is an act of resistance. Our students traveled to El Paso, Texas to interview and photograph human rights advocates, community leaders and faith leaders about their commitment to immigration rights work at the U.S.-Mexico border. - Ferguson Voices
The people of Ferguson have a story to tell – and one that the majority of those in the United States have not heard or fully understood. The stories captured in Ferguson Voices are a testament not only to the systemic discrimination that the Ferguson protests laid bare, but also to the power of transformative action taken to foster community, accountability and justice.
SPHR19 includes the following book signing events:
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci | October 2, 2019 - Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas | October 3, 2019
Books are available for purchase on site. Participants are welcome to bring their individual copies.
Authors, organizations, and students are provided with a space at no additional charge to promote their work with SPHR 19 participants. If you would like to use this space, please contact us at hrc@udayton.edu
All authors must coordinate with their publishers to mail display copies by October 1, 2019:
Human Rights Center, Attn: SPHR 2019
Keller Hall Room 455
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-2790