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19th annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 19th annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 250+ 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.

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9:00am EDT

Stories Become Movements, Become Stories DeRoy Auditorium AMC Exhibition Area Student Center Main Ballroom

9:30am EDT

Deep Relaxation Room Student Center: Room 010

11:00am EDT

'The Year We Thought About Love' Film Screening State Hall: Room 128 A Rehearsal for the Revolution Student Center: Room 020 Activist Archiving 101 State Hall: Room 113 Another World is Possible: Poetry as Speculative Activism State Hall: Room 123 Building Consentful Technologies State Hall: Room 131 Decolonize This! Reindigenizing Tech and Media State Hall: Room 101 Detroit Comix Party: Something from Nothing Student Center: Room 137 Facebook Warfare: Sharing Stories, Staying Safe State Hall: Room 125 Get Over Your Fear of Asking Student Center: Hilberry A How to Set-Up and Livestream an Event Student Center: Hilberry D Mamas and Grandmas for the Revolution State Hall: Room 135 Oral History 101 for Organizers State Hall: Room 117 Personal Digital Safety: Where Do I Start? State Hall: Room 114 Street Therapy: Emotional Safety for Resistance State Hall: Room 116 Sustainable Building Solutions for Climate Change State Hall: Room 118 Wonderful Welcome Games Student Center: Hilberry E Creating Nuanced Stories of Communities of Color State Hall: Room 129 Detroit Through the Eyes of James and Grace Lee Boggs Student Center: Hilberry B Humanizing Schooling in Detroit State Hall: Room 106 Podcasts for Re-Centering Narratives State Hall: Room 115 Publishing for the People: Books as Lovework Student Center: Room 285 Starting an Ancestor Practice State Hall: Room 111 The Art of Detroit's Resistance McGregor: Room F/G/H Fact Checking Fake vs. Real News State Hall: Room 127 Kreung Cooking: Cambodian Pickles Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby Design Justice Exhibition McGregor: Room B/C Black Unicorn Pop-Up Library McGregor: Room D

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

12:45pm EDT

Alternative Teaching Practice: FemTechNet State Hall: Room 127 Black Touch: A Somatic Healing Space McGregor: Room L/M Creating All-Black Spaces State Hall: Room 117 Community Care Lunch Meet-Up Student Center: Room 020 Detroit UNESCO City of Design conversation State Hall: Room 118 Developing Resilient Data Infrastructures State Hall: Room 131 Healers Rise Up State Hall: Room 111 Lunch Love: Parents & Child Caregivers Student Center: Hilberry E Making Abolitionist Media Student Center: Hilberry D Pulling Strings at ArtPrize 2017 State Hall: Room 115 Sarma: Diaspora of the Caucasus and Middle East State Hall: Room 114 Technology for Social Justice: Field Scan Workshop State Hall: Room 116 Dreaming from the Archive State Hall: Room 123 Pro Heaux: Sex Positivity From the Ground Up State Hall: Room 113

1:00pm EDT

Kreung Cooking: Cambodian Pickles Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

2:00pm EDT

The Remedy - Afrosonic Liberation Sessions Student Center: Room 285 Police Brutality Across Borders: FTP and the Missing 43 State Hall: Room 128 QTIPOC are Living Mythologies Student Center: Room 025 Community Archiving for Audiovisual Recordings State Hall: Room 123 Community Led Business Models State Hall: Room 125 Cover Your Tails! Student Center: Room 384 Crash Course in Photography and Storytelling Student Center: Hilberry E Digital Timelines for Movement Organizing State Hall: Room 118 Encrypt Your Footage, Secure Your Movement State Hall: Room 131 Expressive Electronics State Hall: Room 127 Feminist Transformative Justice Writing Workshop State Hall: Room 129 Get Ready Stay Ready Skillshare (Part 1) State Hall: Room 137 Holding Space Part 1: Strategies for Anti Oppressive Facilitation State Hall: Room 101 Interactive Streets: Biking and Placemaking Student Center: Hilberry C Place-based Poetry (Part 1) State Hall: Room 115 The Nuts and Bolts of Fundraising From Foundations McGregor: Room L/M Your Problems Are Relevant State Hall: Room 117 Impact, Storytelling, and Community Archives State Hall: Room 114 Meme On: BIPOC Punk Fest Organizing In The Age of Dinosaurs Student Center: Hilberry A Pathways for Youth Voice in Public Media State Hall: Room 135 Poet as Witness McGregor: Room F/G/H SNCC Digital: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future State Hall: Room 106 What Can a Party Change? On Party Noire and the Black Renaissance State Hall: Room 113 The Human Right to Water State Hall: Room 116 From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

4:00pm EDT

'WITH YOU!': A Queer Sports Rom-Com Student Center: Room 020 Vida Muertos: Critical Genre Practice Student Center: Hilberry C Care Webs McGregor: Room J Communiversity: Counter Narratives Matter McGregor: Room B/C Diggin Deep: Remixing Research State Hall: Room 117 Get Ready Stay Ready Skillshare (Part 2) State Hall: Room 137 Holding Space Part 2: Facilitating Collective Self-Governance State Hall: Room 101 Poetry As Visionary Resistance McGregor: Room F/G/H Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma Through Food State Hall: Room 106 Reimagining Food Media State Hall: Room 128 Surveillance As a Primary tool of The Stalker State State Hall: Room 123 Video for Revolution State Hall: Room 118 What's In Your Wallet? State Hall: Room 131 Civic Institutions and Youth Experiences State Hall: Room 125 Beyond Security: Technology and Revolution State Hall: Room 111 Build an Individual Giving Program from Scratch State Hall: Room 114 Engaging Interviewing and Hosting Student Center: Hilberry D Mothering the Revolution State Hall: Room 116 OpenOversight Student Center: Hilberry A Illuminate the World with Light Painting McGregor: Room L/M Who Are You?: A Visual Storytelling Exercise for Children Student Center: Hilberry E Design Justice Network Planning Session State Hall: Room 129 Graffiti and Rap Against The System State Hall: Room 113 Migratory Times, Staying Power State Hall: Room 127 Numbers and Narratives Student Center: Room 384 Translating Legends: Preserving Native History of the Americas Student Center: Room 285 From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film Theatre

7:00pm EDT

AMC Kids Party New Center Park

7:30pm EDT

Making Space for Sobriety Cass Commons: Memorial Hall

8:00pm EDT

#MediaJustice Mixer McGregor: Room F/G/H The Black Joy Mixtape Podcast State Hall: Room 131 Get Down, Stay Ready The Marble Bar Karaoke + Bowling The Garden Bowl

9:00pm EDT

Thundercunts: Boom Concepts Party Baltimore Gallery