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Allied Media Conference 2016

Welcome to the 18th annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 300+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come first serve.

Ras Mashramani

Metropolarity
Co-Founder/Accomplice
ras.mashramani@gmail.com

metropolarity.net

Co-founder of the Philadelphia-based DIY sci-fi collective, Metropolarity [alongside Alex Smith, Rasheedah Phillips, and M. Eighteen Téllez]. Science-fiction writer of the CaliJerseyPhillyGuyana diaspora exploring online worlds, alien abductions, gender and state violence, and working class lives of the future. Talk to me about: mental health, intergenerational psychological/neurological states, body horror, the internet and adolescence, working class sci-fi, violence, aesthetics for healing, digital worlds for healing, screaming for healing, honesty for healing, dystopias, eutopias, youtopias.

6:00pm EDT

Transformative Media Organizers Dinner Meetup Private Location

4:00pm EDT

Deep Space Mind: Insanity for Survival State Hall: Room 113

5:45pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film Theater

8:00pm EDT

Karaoke + Bowling The Majestic Garden Bowl

9:00am EDT

Don’t Panic, Organize! State Hall: Room 128 Oral History 101 for Organizers State Hall: Room 125 Out of the Attic: Dissociation and Social Justice Part 1 McGregor: Room F/G Black to the Land Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

11:00am EDT

Designing Games for Social Justice Student Center: Hilberry B

2:00pm EDT

DAY Project: Media Strategies to Counteract Gentrification State Hall: Room 118 Incite Change! LGBTQ Youth in the System State Hall: Room 115 Peer-to-Peer, Sharing Economy, and Commons Roundtable State Hall: Room 112 Demystifying Grieving Arts and Grief Work McGregor: Room F/G Interrupting Internalized Anti-blackness State Hall: Room 113

4:00pm EDT

Designing Neighborhood Futures State Hall: Room 114 Ghost Writing: Black Cosmic Mythologies State Hall: Room 137 Virtual Reality for Movement Building Student Center: Hilberry A Abundant Activism: Practical Tools for Empowering Youth State Hall: Room 118

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCAD Gender Blender Circa 1890 Saloon

10:00am EDT

Tarot of the Heart: Radical Reading for Self Care State Hall: Room 125 Decolonizing Faith State Hall: Room 112 Birds, Bees and Wolves: 'The Talk' as a tool to End Child Sexual Abuse State Hall: Room 117 Grow the Commons: Asset Sharing with Tool Lending Libraries State Hall: Room 127

11:45am EDT

Education for Freedom Beyond the AMC State Hall: Room 123

1:00pm EDT

Learning about the Tor Network and .onion Services Student Center: Hilberry D Preparing for Free Minds Free People 2017 State Hall: Room 123 Privacy, Surveillance, Secure Access: Planning the Fight State Hall: Room 113 The Queer Red Phone: Designing Interfaces and Community Accountability Networks State Hall: Room 131

3:00pm EDT

A World of Q: A Soft Sci-fi Collaborative Filmmaking Quest State Hall: Room 128 Cyber Security for Political Activists Part 2 Student Center: Hilberry A Holding Space Part II: Anti-Oppressive Conflict Intervention for Facilitators McGregor: Room L/M Rituals for Reconciliation Student Center: Room 285