| Time |
Description |
Room Location |
| 8 - 9 a.m. |
Check-in/Registration
|
Glass Gallery Lounge |
| 8:45 - 9 a.m. |
Welcome Remarks with NIU Land Acknowledgement
President Freeman and Dr. Sumner
|
Duke Ellington Ballroom |
| 9 - 9:30 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
Aaron Golding from Northwestern University |
Duke Ellington Ballroom |
| 10 - 11 a.m. |
Breakout Workshop Sessions 1
Session Themes:
- Narrative change through storytelling, memory, and cultural archives.
- Centering marginalized identities and community wisdom.
- Interrogating systems, structures, and norms.
- Healing-centered community building and relationship-rich dialogue.
- From awareness to action: Practical strategies, advocacy, and institutional change.
|
Various rooms in HSC |
| 11:05 a.m. - 11:55 p.m |
Lunch |
|
| 12 - 1 p.m. |
Afternoon Keynote
Durryle Brooks, Ph.D.: Operationalizing Love |
Duke Ellington Ballroom |
| 1:20 - 2:20 p.m. |
Breakout Workshop Sessions 2
Session Themes:
- Correcting erasure, reframing history, and reclaiming voice.
- Healing and belonging through relational practices.
- Naming systemic harm and challenging institutional power.
- Centering lived experience as a legitimate knowledge.
- Practical tools for transformative education and community action.
|
Various rooms in HSC |
| 2:35 - 3:35 p.m. |
Breakout Workshop Sessions 3
Session Themes:
- Narrative change through story, voice, and truth-telling.
- Relational healing and belonging built through dialogue and shared practice.
- Challenging structural power: colonization, exclusion, and "neutrality myths."
- Centering marginalized knowledge and expanding what "counts" as expertise.
- Practical skill-building for equity-oriented action.
|
Various rooms in HSC |
| 3:40 - 4 p.m. |
Closing
with Frank Waln |
Duke Ellington Ballroom |