COV4 Schedule Overview
The detailed COV4 schedule is here. Check that page for updates!
You can also check out the print version of the program.
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015
Pre-Conference Institutes:
More info about all of these institutes here!
9am - 3pm - Law Enforcement Violence Against Women & Trans People of Color, Adler A (Registration now closed!)
10am - 12pm - Will the revolution be funded? A dialogue between social change philanthropists, Burnham A
10am - 3pm - People of Color and Indigenous People with Life Experience in the Sex Trade, Clark A
3pm - 5pm - Pick Up Box Meal in Grant Room A! Pre-Order Here!
5pm - 7pm - OPENING PLENARY A: Ending Gender Violence Beyond Carceral Feminisms, Ballroom
Welcome: Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, INCITE! co-founder
Chi-Nations Introduction & Song
Moderator: Andrea Ritchie, INCITE!
Ashley Yates, #BlackLivesMatter & Ferguson Action
Shira Hassan, Just Practice & Young Women's Empowerment Project
Soniya Munshi, INCITE! national collective
Nada Elia, US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), INCITE!
Reina Gossett, filmmaker, Activist Fellow at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women
Andy Smith, INCITE! co-founder
Rasmea Odeh, Arab American Action Network
7pm - 7:30 pm - Break
7:30pm - 8:30pm - PLENARY B: The Fight of Our Lives: The Criminalization of Self-Defense, Ballroom
Moderator, Mariame Kaba, Project Nia & Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander
Marissa Alexander and Mrs. Helen Jenkins, Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign
CeCe McDonald, FREE CeCe - A Documentary
Renata Hill, New Jersey 4, Out in the Night (documentary)
Yvonne Swan (formerly, Yvonne Wanrow), Colville Confederated Tribes
8:30pm - 9pm - Angela Y. Davis, Ballroom
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015
All Day - Healing Justice Practice Space, Field A
All Day - DISRUPT the STATE Art Exhibit, Field B
All Day - COV4 Film Lounge, Prairie Foyer
9am-6pm - COV4 Marketplace, Prairie AB
9am-1:30pm; 2:30pm-4pm; 5pm-9pm - Children's Track in Interplanetary Space Room, Adler C
9am - 8pm - (This meeting is closed.) National Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence Convening, Hyde Park A
8am - 9:30am - Session #1: Break Out Space & Workshops
10am -11:30am - Session #2: Break Out Space & Workshops
11:30am - 12pm - BREAK
12pm - 1:30pm - Session #3: Break Out Space & Workshops
1:30pm - 2:30pm - BREAK
2:30pm - 4pm - Session #4: Break Out Space & Workshops
4pm - 5pm - BREAK
5pm - 6:30pm - Session #5: Break Out Space & Workshops
5pm - 6pm - Black Women's Blueprint presents Surviving the Mic: A Black Feminist Poetic Dialogue, Ballroom
Doors open at 4:30pm, show begins at 5pm
Performers: Sherina Rodriguez (Obsidian Blues), Kamaya Thompson, Nikki Patin, Lakeesha Harris, Piper Anderson, and e. nina jay
Directors: Piper Anderson and Nikki Patin
6:30pm - 7pm - BREAK
7pm - 9pm - PLENARY C: Insurgent Possibilities
Roundtable A
Moderator: Ujju Aggarwal, INCITE! National Collective
Bridget Tolley, Families of Sisters in Spirit
Clarissa Rojas, INCITE! co-founder
Cara Page, Audre Lorde Project
Ash Stephens, Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander
Dominique McKinney, Young Women's Empowerment Project
Tannia Esparza, Young Women United
Roundtable B
Moderator: Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Black Youth Project
Rachel Herzing, Critical Resistance
Krysta Williams, Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Alice Kim, filmmaker, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
Kris Hayashi, Transgender Law Center
Patreese Cullors, Dignity and Power Now; co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter
Isa Noyola, Transgender Law Center
9:30pm - 11pm - Cultural Performance: “Won’t you celebrate with me?”
Performers: Melissa Du Prey, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Allegra Dolores, NIC Kay and Benji, Dark Matter, and Zizi from YEPP.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015
All Day - Healing Justice Practice Space, Field A
All Day - DISRUPT the STATE Art Exhibit, Field B
All Day - COV4 Film Lounge, Prairie Foyer
9am - 6pm - COV4 Marketplace, Prairie AB
9am-11:30am; 1pm-7pm - Children's Track in Interplanetary Space Room, Adler C
9am - 8pm - (This meeting is closed.) National Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence Convening, Hyde Park A
8am - 9:30am - Session #6: Break Out Space & Workshops
10am -11:30am - Session #7: Break Out Space & Workshops
11:30am - 1pm - BREAK
1:pm - 3pm, Ballroom - CLOSING PLENARY D: Revolutionary Organizing Across Time and Space
Moderator: Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois, Chicago
Paula X. Rojas, Mamas of Color Rising, INCITE!
Nadine Naber, University of Illinois, Chicago; Rasmea Odeh Defense Committee; US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI); INCITE!
Mia Mingus, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
Lee Maracle, Sto:loh Nation
Page May, we charge genocide
Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, reproductive justice activist & scholar
Joo-Hyun Kang, Communities United for Police Reform
LaSaia Wade, Tennessee Transgender Justice Project: Report back from National Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence Convening
Closing Performance: Radmilla Cody
3:30pm - 5pm - Session #8: Break Out Space & Workshops
5pm - 5:30pm - BREAK
5:30pm - 7pm - Session #9: Break Out Space & Workshops
9:30pm - 1am - Incite! The Get Down - DJ Ang, DJ Emancipacion Photo Booth by Glitter Guts & Lounge!, Prairie AB
co-sponsored with the Trans Leadership Summit
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015
9am - 1pm - COV4 Marketplace, Regency Ballroom Foyer
9am - 1pm - Children's Track in Interplanetary Space Room, Ballroom D
9am - 10am - Furthering our Existence: INCITE Network Info-gathering and Info-sharing (Forum), Ballroom A
10:15 am - 11:30 am - Transformative Justice/Community Accountability Roundtable, Ballroom A
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom A
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom B
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom C
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom E
You can also check out the print version of the program.
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015
Pre-Conference Institutes:
More info about all of these institutes here!
9am - 3pm - Law Enforcement Violence Against Women & Trans People of Color, Adler A (Registration now closed!)
10am - 12pm - Will the revolution be funded? A dialogue between social change philanthropists, Burnham A
10am - 3pm - People of Color and Indigenous People with Life Experience in the Sex Trade, Clark A
3pm - 5pm - Pick Up Box Meal in Grant Room A! Pre-Order Here!
5pm - 7pm - OPENING PLENARY A: Ending Gender Violence Beyond Carceral Feminisms, Ballroom
Welcome: Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, INCITE! co-founder
Chi-Nations Introduction & Song
Moderator: Andrea Ritchie, INCITE!
Ashley Yates, #BlackLivesMatter & Ferguson Action
Shira Hassan, Just Practice & Young Women's Empowerment Project
Soniya Munshi, INCITE! national collective
Nada Elia, US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), INCITE!
Reina Gossett, filmmaker, Activist Fellow at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women
Andy Smith, INCITE! co-founder
Rasmea Odeh, Arab American Action Network
7pm - 7:30 pm - Break
7:30pm - 8:30pm - PLENARY B: The Fight of Our Lives: The Criminalization of Self-Defense, Ballroom
Moderator, Mariame Kaba, Project Nia & Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander
Marissa Alexander and Mrs. Helen Jenkins, Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign
CeCe McDonald, FREE CeCe - A Documentary
Renata Hill, New Jersey 4, Out in the Night (documentary)
Yvonne Swan (formerly, Yvonne Wanrow), Colville Confederated Tribes
8:30pm - 9pm - Angela Y. Davis, Ballroom
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015
All Day - Healing Justice Practice Space, Field A
All Day - DISRUPT the STATE Art Exhibit, Field B
All Day - COV4 Film Lounge, Prairie Foyer
9am-6pm - COV4 Marketplace, Prairie AB
9am-1:30pm; 2:30pm-4pm; 5pm-9pm - Children's Track in Interplanetary Space Room, Adler C
9am - 8pm - (This meeting is closed.) National Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence Convening, Hyde Park A
8am - 9:30am - Session #1: Break Out Space & Workshops
10am -11:30am - Session #2: Break Out Space & Workshops
11:30am - 12pm - BREAK
12pm - 1:30pm - Session #3: Break Out Space & Workshops
1:30pm - 2:30pm - BREAK
2:30pm - 4pm - Session #4: Break Out Space & Workshops
4pm - 5pm - BREAK
5pm - 6:30pm - Session #5: Break Out Space & Workshops
5pm - 6pm - Black Women's Blueprint presents Surviving the Mic: A Black Feminist Poetic Dialogue, Ballroom
Doors open at 4:30pm, show begins at 5pm
Performers: Sherina Rodriguez (Obsidian Blues), Kamaya Thompson, Nikki Patin, Lakeesha Harris, Piper Anderson, and e. nina jay
Directors: Piper Anderson and Nikki Patin
6:30pm - 7pm - BREAK
7pm - 9pm - PLENARY C: Insurgent Possibilities
Roundtable A
Moderator: Ujju Aggarwal, INCITE! National Collective
Bridget Tolley, Families of Sisters in Spirit
Clarissa Rojas, INCITE! co-founder
Cara Page, Audre Lorde Project
Ash Stephens, Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander
Dominique McKinney, Young Women's Empowerment Project
Tannia Esparza, Young Women United
Roundtable B
Moderator: Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Black Youth Project
Rachel Herzing, Critical Resistance
Krysta Williams, Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Alice Kim, filmmaker, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
Kris Hayashi, Transgender Law Center
Patreese Cullors, Dignity and Power Now; co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter
Isa Noyola, Transgender Law Center
9:30pm - 11pm - Cultural Performance: “Won’t you celebrate with me?”
Performers: Melissa Du Prey, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Allegra Dolores, NIC Kay and Benji, Dark Matter, and Zizi from YEPP.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015
All Day - Healing Justice Practice Space, Field A
All Day - DISRUPT the STATE Art Exhibit, Field B
All Day - COV4 Film Lounge, Prairie Foyer
9am - 6pm - COV4 Marketplace, Prairie AB
9am-11:30am; 1pm-7pm - Children's Track in Interplanetary Space Room, Adler C
9am - 8pm - (This meeting is closed.) National Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence Convening, Hyde Park A
8am - 9:30am - Session #6: Break Out Space & Workshops
10am -11:30am - Session #7: Break Out Space & Workshops
11:30am - 1pm - BREAK
1:pm - 3pm, Ballroom - CLOSING PLENARY D: Revolutionary Organizing Across Time and Space
Moderator: Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois, Chicago
Paula X. Rojas, Mamas of Color Rising, INCITE!
Nadine Naber, University of Illinois, Chicago; Rasmea Odeh Defense Committee; US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI); INCITE!
Mia Mingus, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
Lee Maracle, Sto:loh Nation
Page May, we charge genocide
Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, reproductive justice activist & scholar
Joo-Hyun Kang, Communities United for Police Reform
LaSaia Wade, Tennessee Transgender Justice Project: Report back from National Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence Convening
Closing Performance: Radmilla Cody
3:30pm - 5pm - Session #8: Break Out Space & Workshops
5pm - 5:30pm - BREAK
5:30pm - 7pm - Session #9: Break Out Space & Workshops
9:30pm - 1am - Incite! The Get Down - DJ Ang, DJ Emancipacion Photo Booth by Glitter Guts & Lounge!, Prairie AB
co-sponsored with the Trans Leadership Summit
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015
9am - 1pm - COV4 Marketplace, Regency Ballroom Foyer
9am - 1pm - Children's Track in Interplanetary Space Room, Ballroom D
9am - 10am - Furthering our Existence: INCITE Network Info-gathering and Info-sharing (Forum), Ballroom A
10:15 am - 11:30 am - Transformative Justice/Community Accountability Roundtable, Ballroom A
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom A
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom B
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom C
11:30 am - 1pm - Breakout Sessions, Ballroom E