Monday, September 24 12:30 PM - 9:00 PM Pre-Conference Event: Unity in Community Film Festival PSU Theater Pre-conference special event
Tuesday, September 25 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Pre-Conference Event: Forgotten Children of Eden PSU Ballroom West Pre-conference special event 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM KEYNOTE Making a difference: How the power of compassion changes lives Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts Jenna Bush Hager Contributing Correspondent, Today Show
Wednesday, September 26 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Poverty is not a state of mind PSU Ballroom East The role of science and philosophy in an existential vacuum PSU 313 Prison pipeline: Minorities and the law PSU Theater 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Steps toward building and maintaining healthy communities PSU 313 Addressing food insecurity: It takes a village and a farm PSU Ballroom East 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM KEYNOTE Stoicism and the idea of cosmopolitanism PSU Theater Massimo Pigliucci K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM All the colors of the rainbow: An untattered flag of freedom in former fringe communities PSU Ballroom West Mythology in modern America: Stereotypes and minority groups PSU Ballroom East Volunteerism and civic engagement in a hectic and skeptic world PSU 313 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM It takes a school to raise a village: Using schools to elevate communities PSU Theater The fact of pluralism: How much unity, how much diversity? PSU Ballroom East Business meets green PSU 313 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM KEYNOTE Ten ways to have better conversations PSU Theater Celeste Headlee Journalist, Professional Speaker and Author
Thursday, September 27 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Healthy homes, healthy communities PSU Theater Gather ‘round the table: Food, shared conversation and community PSU Ballroom East Universities as community anchors PSU 313 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM In the age of tribalism, is there a common, unifying curriculum? PSU Ballroom East The arts as the heart of Utopia PSU Ballroom West 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM KEYNOTE Changing the world with just $45, a camera and a smartphone PSU Theater Mark Horvath Founder 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM What is the good life? PSU Ballroom West Neighborhoods rule! Grassroots social activism is community at its best PSU 313 Where I’m from and where we’re going PSU Ballroom East 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Building community through storytelling PSU 313 Faith-based communities: Unifying or divisive? PSU Ballroom East 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Johnny Cash and the Road to Redemption PSU Theater