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19th annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 19th annual Allied Media Conference!

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Nina Bhattacharya

Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University
Nina Bhattacharya (she/hers) is an educator and cultural organizer based in Cambridge, MA. She received her M.S. in Glob

Nina Bhattacharya (she/hers) is an educator, visual artist, and cultural organizer based in Cambridge, MA. She received her M.S. in Global Health & Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and was previously a Fulbright fellow in Indonesia. In her current work, Nina develops multimedia-based curriculum and tools for teaching and communicating big global health ideas. She co-hosts and produces the politics and culture podcast, The Almirah Radio Hour, and coordinates outreach for Subcontinental Drift, Boston's South Asian open mic. Her writing has been published in The Toast, The Hairpin, and The Aerogram.

1:00pm EDT

Kreung Earthworks Urban Farm Tour Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

6:00pm EDT

Welcome Plenary: Past, Present, Futurism The Jam Handy

9:00pm EDT

Welcome Party: Detroit Culture Council x One Mile ONE Mile

9:00am EDT

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

9:30am EDT

Deep Relaxation Room Student Center: Room 010

11:00am EDT

Design Justice Exhibition McGregor: Room B/C Activist Archiving 101 State Hall: Room 113 Podcasts for Re-Centering Narratives State Hall: Room 115 Black Unicorn Pop-Up Library McGregor: Room D

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

12:45pm EDT

Making Abolitionist Media Student Center: Hilberry D Dreaming from the Archive State Hall: Room 123

1:00pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

Community Archiving for Audiovisual Recordings State Hall: Room 123 Your Problems Are Relevant State Hall: Room 117 Impact, Storytelling, and Community Archives State Hall: Room 114 Pathways for Youth Voice in Public Media State Hall: Room 135 What Can a Party Change? On Party Noire and the Black Renaissance State Hall: Room 113 From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

4:00pm EDT

Care Webs McGregor: Room J Communiversity: Counter Narratives Matter McGregor: Room B/C Diggin Deep: Remixing Research State Hall: Room 117 Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma Through Food State Hall: Room 106 Illuminate the World with Light Painting McGregor: Room L/M From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film Theatre

8:00pm EDT

Karaoke + Bowling The Garden Bowl The Black Joy Mixtape Podcast State Hall: Room 131

9:00pm EDT

Thundercunts: Boom Concepts Party Baltimore Gallery

9:00am EDT

Data and Power DeRoy Auditorium

11:00am EDT

From Media to Medium: Creating Revolutionary Oracles Student Center: Hilberry A Listening is a Revolutionary Act State Hall: Room 127 Portable Network Kits McGregor: Room F/G/H Spells for Radicals Student Center: Room 020 Transformative Radio with CKUT 90.3 FM Student Center: Hilberry D Visual Media and Social Movements 101 State Hall: Room 131 Modeling the Micropress: A Publishers’ Roundtable State Hall: Room 106 DIY Embroidered Patches McGregor: Room B/C Black Trans Futures State Hall: Room 114 Grassroots Infographics: Designing Data Equity State Hall: Room 123 Organizing for Cultural Equity State Hall: Room 131 Kreung Cooking Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

12:45pm EDT

Know Admin, Know Art: Resource Sharing Through Fiscal Sponsorship State Hall: Room 135

2:00pm EDT

Organizing for Healing Justice State Hall: Room 127 Pocket Histories: Zine-making to Share Community Stories McGregor: Room B/C Resourcing Your Work Through Residencies State Hall: Room 129 The Art of Coping State Hall: Room 117 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 Decolonizing Indigenous Food and Seed Student Center: Room 137

4:00pm EDT

Poetry and Publishing from Inside State Hall: Room 106 2 Cute 2 Be Erased: DIY Video Diaries State Hall: Room 135 Comida Con Cuidado (Food With Care) State Hall: Room 137 Getting Good Audio State Hall: Room 116 Supporting Loved Ones in Times of Crisis State Hall: Room 131 Ableism, Accessibility, and Oral Histories State Hall: Room 127 Capoeira Angola of Bahia in Detroit Student Center: Room 025 Talk the Talk: AirGo and Dialogue as Resistance Student Center: Hilberry D Facilitating a Community Accountability Process Student Center: Hilberry C

6:00pm EDT

Kreung Cambodia Community Dinner New Center Park Trap Yoga Party (Flicka da Wrist) Cass Commons: Macalister Hall

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCAD

10:00am EDT

DIY Internet Radio Exploration Student Center: Hilberry C Game Curious: Videogame Literacy For Underserved Communities State Hall: Room 114 Insurgent Logistics: Taking Back Supply Chains Student Center: Room 285 Transforming the Family Album State Hall: Room 117 Translation, Migration and Creative Resistance Student Center: Hilberry A Tools to Destigmatize Everyday Mental Health State Hall: Room 113 Archives for Empowerment McGregor: Room F/G/H Writing Resistance and Recovery State Hall: Room 123

11:45am EDT

Using Creative Commons for Collaboration State Hall: Room 117 The Building of Black Detroit Tour Part 1 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

1:00pm EDT

360 Degrees of Dance Student Center: Room 020 Build it Strong: Collective Governance for Collective Liberation State Hall: Room 135 Radical Visibility: QueerCrip Fashion and Performance Student Center: Hilberry C Tendings: Sustainable Artful Lives Student Center: Room 025 Artists and Organizers Shifting Culture State Hall: Room 131 Real Talk with Major Donors State Hall: Room 123 Stop-Motion PSAs Student Center: Hilberry D The Building of Black Detroit Tour Part 2 Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby

3:00pm EDT

Closing Plenary: Popular Cultures for New Worlds DeRoy Auditorium