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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

Data and Power DeRoy Auditorium

11:00am EDT

DIY Futures Through Architectural Zines State Hall: Room 137 From Media to Medium: Creating Revolutionary Oracles Student Center: Hilberry A Listening is a Revolutionary Act State Hall: Room 127 Open Source Virtual Drum Machines Student Center: Room 384 Portable Network Kits McGregor: Room F/G/H Power Not Paranoia! Student Center: Hilberry C Protect Ya Self Love McGregor: Room J Spells for Radicals Student Center: Room 020 Transformative Radio with CKUT 90.3 FM Student Center: Hilberry D Transp0se: Music and Mindfulness McGregor: Room L/M Visual Media and Social Movements 101 State Hall: Room 131 Words are Spells: Daily Consent for Kids Student Center: Hilberry E 360-Degree Video for Activists Student Center: Room 285 City Government and Civic Media State Hall: Room 125 Crowdfunding for Social Justice State Hall: Room 115 Modeling the Micropress: A Publishers’ Roundtable State Hall: Room 106 Music Journalism For the People Student Center: Room 025 Rejecting the Master’s Tools to Transform Public Libraries State Hall: Room 116 Teen Presence in the National Museum of Mexican Art State Hall: Room 111 We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective State Hall: Room 117 DIY Embroidered Patches McGregor: Room B/C Black Trans Futures State Hall: Room 114 Grassroots Infographics: Designing Data Equity State Hall: Room 123 Map the Power State Hall: Room 118 Mitigating Evidence State Hall: Room 113 Organizing for Cultural Equity State Hall: Room 131 Read the Comments! Fostering Constructive Digital Dialogues Student Center: Hilberry B Kreung Cooking Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby The Dreamspace Project: Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Museum Education Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

12:30pm EDT

The Dreamspace Project: Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Museum Education Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby Lunch Break TBA Kreung Cooking Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

12:45pm EDT

MAG-Net Media Justice Salon Student Center: Hilberry D Latinx Healing from Colonialism State Hall: Room 118 Community Care Lunch Meet-Up Student Center: Room 020 Go Big: Launching A Massive Student Movement State Hall: Room 127 Ratchet Teachers State Hall: Room 114 Know Admin, Know Art: Resource Sharing Through Fiscal Sponsorship State Hall: Room 135 Meaningful Acts of Disruption State Hall: Room 125 Parenting for Liberation Student Center: Hilberry E

1:00pm EDT

Gathering to Honor Philando Castile and Families Impacted by Police and State Violence McGregor Conference Center Coalition to End Unconstitutional Tax Foreclosures - People's Forum Wayne State University Law School - Partrich Auditorium

2:00pm EDT

With Wings and Roots: Screening and Discussion State Hall: Room 106 Adornment: Self-Care Beauty Rituals Student Center: Hilberry B Beyond "install tor, install signal": advanced infosec & opsec State Hall: Room 123 Dalit History Month - Telling our History McGregor: Room F/G/H Electronic Health and Safety in the Borderlands State Hall: Room 125 Fighting Islamophobia and Anti-blackness Through Youth Media State Hall: Room 118 Finding Yourself in the Break: Lessons in Black Jazz Meditation McGregor: Room L/M Organizing for Healing Justice State Hall: Room 127 Packet Sniffing for Everyone State Hall: Room 115 Pocket Histories: Zine-making to Share Community Stories McGregor: Room B/C Remixing Archival Videos Student Center: Room 384 Resourcing Your Work Through Residencies State Hall: Room 129 Start Your Own Podcast Student Center: Hilberry D Teaching Community Technology Student Center: Hilberry C The Art of Coping State Hall: Room 117 The Black Joy Project Student Center: Room 285 Training a New Generation of Language Justice Workers State Hall: Room 131 Using Tarot to Access Poetry’s Possibilities State Hall: Room 113 Visual Resistance and Design for Our Movements Student Center: Hilberry A Counterpoints: Stories and Data for Resisting Displacement State Hall: Room 135 Don't Stop! Get it, Get it: A Pan African History of Twerk Student Center: Room 020 Living Your Soul's Purpose in Community State Hall: Room 116 Soul of a Public Library State Hall: Room 114 The Black Photographic Image: Future Perspectives State Hall: Room 128 Deep Listening: An Embodied Meditation McGregor: Room J Liberated Kids: Superheros for the Revolution Student Center: Hilberry E Decolonizing Indigenous Food and Seed Student Center: Room 137 All Good Food Has A Story Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby Farm Fun Exploration Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby FireHouse Music Series Day Party Cass Commons: Macalister Hall Black Youth Storytelling Through Virtual Reality State Hall: Room 111

4:00pm EDT

Artivists' Music Video Lounge Student Center: Room 285 Black x Queer x Poly: 195 Lewis State Hall: Room 117 Food Chains: Farmworker Rights in the 21st Century McGregor: Room F/G/H Poetry and Publishing from Inside State Hall: Room 106 2 Cute 2 Be Erased: DIY Video Diaries State Hall: Room 135 Clifford Cartel's Rap Stories McGregor: Room L/M Comida Con Cuidado (Food With Care) State Hall: Room 137 Create Your Own Social Justice Warrior Student Center: Hilberry E Electronically Woke Student Center: Room 384 Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Student Center: Hilberry A Getting Good Audio State Hall: Room 116 M.A.R.CH.ing Together: Childcare Collectives for Liberation! State Hall: Room 113 NADA Ear Acupuncture and Reiki Circle McGregor: Room J Rapid Accessibility Consultation Student Center: Hilberry B STEM for the Resistance State Hall: Room 115 Supporting Loved Ones in Times of Crisis State Hall: Room 131 The Connective Kite McGregor: Room B/C Ableism, Accessibility, and Oral Histories State Hall: Room 127 brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque Student Center: Room 020 Counterstrike News Network State Hall: Room 129 Design in Full Color: An Authentic Discussion on Diversity State Hall: Room 128 Capoeira Angola of Bahia in Detroit Student Center: Room 025 Talk the Talk: AirGo and Dialogue as Resistance Student Center: Hilberry D Diversity in Youth Literature State Hall: Room 114 Doing Data Justice State Hall: Room 125 Facilitating a Community Accountability Process Student Center: Hilberry C All Good Food Has A Story Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby Farm Fun Exploration Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

6:00pm EDT

Digital Stewards meetup and strategy session (NYC+Detroit) State Hall: Room 129 Self Care for Birthworkers McGregor: Room J Shared Spaces: Imagining A Radical History Online Portal State Hall: Room 118 Toward Education Justice State Hall: Room 125 Trap Yoga Party (Flicka da Wrist) Cass Commons: Macalister Hall Kreung Cambodia Community Dinner New Center Park

7:30pm EDT

The Gathering: An AMC Youth Party! Grace in Action

8:00pm EDT

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