Thursday, April 14th
8:00 pm – Informal evening social at Joe’s
Downtown Iowa City
Friday, April 15th
9:00-10:00am – Registration/Breakfast
Iowa City Public Library, Conference Room A
10:00-11:15am – Welcome and Presentation of White Paper
Started from the Bottom Now We’re Here: 20 Years Later, Administrators Still Hoard While We Still Struggle
Iowa City Public Library, Conference Room A
11:30-12:00pm – Rally to Fund the Future
Pentacrest
12:00-1:30pm – Lunch on your own
Downtown
1:45-3:15pm – Workshop Session I
“Starving the University: Struggles for Funding”
Chair: Jeannette Gabriel, COGS President & UI Grad Student, Teaching & Learning
Presenters: Laura Crossett, UI Alumna, English & Coralville Public Librarian; Madelyn Elfenbein, UChicago Grad Student, History; Rob Russell, UI Alumni in Geography & Labor Education Specialist, UMO Extension
Iowa City Public Library, Conference Room A
“Building Unity: Who are We Fighting For?”
Chair: Ana-Monica Racila, COGS Unity Chair & UI Grad Student, Anthropology
Presenters: Alejandra Azuero-Quijano, UChicago Grad Student, Anthropology; Rachel Walerstein, COGS Chief Grievance Officer & UI Grad Student, English; Wendy Robertson, UI Library Digital Scholarship Librarian; Nikki White, UI Digital Humanities Research and Instruction Librarian
Iowa City Public Library, Conference Room B
COGS Oral History
Iowa City Public Library, Conference Room C
3:30-5:00pm – Workshop Session II
“Fighting Fear for 20 Years: COGS Proud History at the University of Iowa”
Chair: Shelton Stromquist, Emeritus UI Professor of History
Presenters: John McKerley, UI Alumni, History & Oral Historian at UI Labor Center; Dana Quartana, UI Alumna, History & Doctors Council, SEIU; Rob Russell, UI Alumni , Geography & Labor Education Specialist, UMO Extension
Iowa Public Library, Conference Room A
“Defending Education through Affordable Housing”
Chair: Sam Lustgarten, UI Grad Student, Counseling Psych
Presenters: Daniel Elchert, UI Grad Student, Counseling Psych; Thomas Kindred, UI Grad Student, Mathematics; Christian Latino, UI Grad Student, Counseling Psych
Iowa City Public Library, Conference Room B
6:00pm – Champagne Reception
COGS will honor our university and community friends and allies and announce the formation of the Jacob Hall Memorial Scholarship
Old Brick Building, Ballroom
Saturday, April 16th
9:00-10:00am –Breakfast & Registration
Van Allen LR2, 1st Floor
10:00-11:30am – Keynote Address
“Corporatization, Casualization, and the Erosion of Higher Education as a Common Good”
Julie Schmid, Executive Director of AAUP and COGS Alumna, English
Van Allen Auditorium LR2, 1st Floor
11:30-1:00pm – Lunch on your own
12:00-1:00pm Presentation
“The History & Power of Broadsides in the Labor Movement: An Artist Presents Her Work”
Ruth Bryant, COGS Publicity Chair & UI Grad Student, Center for the Book
COGS Office
1:00-2:30pm – Panels and Networking
COGS Speakout – Sharing Memories
Van Allen Room 70, Basement Southeast
Graduate student Meeting
Van Allen Room 301
3:00-4:30pm – Workshops III
“Parenting in Academia: Demands for Childcare and Parental Leave”
Chair: Nicole Filloon, COGS Vice-President & UI Grad Student in Sociology
Presenters: Madelyn Elfenbein, UChicago Grad Student, History; Amanda Gallogly, UI Grad Student, Language, Literacy & Culture; Liz Lundberg, UI Alumna, English & Academic Adviser; Charity Schmidt, TAA-Madison Grad Student
Van Allen Room 70, Basement Southeast
“Mired in Debt: What the Debt Crisis Means for the Future of Academia”
Chair: Jaclyn Carver, UI Grad Student, English
Presenters: Moira Casados Cassidy, COGS B&G At-Large Chair, UI Grad Student, Writer’s Workshop; Sara Kaalberg, COGS Green Area Steward & UI Grad Student, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering; Michael Marchman, UI Alumni, Geography
Van Allen Room 201
7:00pm-midnight – COGSapalooza (Don’t forget to sign-up your act!)
Gabe’s, Iowa City
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