Midwest Conference on Technology, Employment & Community

Conference Schedule

• Thursday, March 2
• Friday, March 3
• Saturday, March 4
• Conference Details

THURSDAY, MARCH 2

• 7:30 pm - OPENING PLENARY(Notes)
  Jeremy Rifkin author, The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post- Market Era

FRIDAY, MARCH 3

• 8:30 am - REGISTRATION
• 9:00 am - PLENARY #1: THE FUTURE BEFORE US (Notes)
  • Nancy John (Chair), Assistant University Librarian (UIC)
  • Ada Lopez (Welcome), Board of Trustees, University of Illinois
    
  • Don Holt, Associate Dean, College of Agriculture
    University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
  • Thomas DeFanti, Professor of Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience, University of Illinois - Chicago
    
  • Robert Wedgeworth, University Librarian, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
    
  • Jonathan King, Professor of Molecular Biology, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
    
• 11:00 am WORKSHOPS
  • Access to Education (Notes)
  • For Whom the Bell Curves: Racism and the Violence Initiative (Notes)
  • New Technology and Our Workplace (Notes)
  • Plenty to be Done: What New Jobs Should Be Created? (Notes)
  • High Tech Work: Will Getting the Training Mean Getting the Job (Notes)
  • Let Us Proclaim! Chicago, from Hog Butcher to ... What We Envision It (Writing Workshop) (Notes)
  • plus: GETTING YOUR ORGANIZATION ONLINE: A special workshop for representatives of community organizations and non-profits to find out what it takes to get your organization connected and online. Presenter: Al Schorsch, Manager, UIC Neighborhoods and NonProfits Network, at the Center for Urban Economic Development.
• 12:30 pm LUNCH
• 2:00 pm WORKSHOPS
  • Who is Deciding? (Notes)
  • Fighting Back Against the New Poverty (Notes)
  • Work and the Global Economy (Notes)
  • Will Hard Copy Survive? Printing and Publishing in the Digital Age (Notes)
  • The New Biology (Notes)
  • Robots and Political Economy (Notes)
  • Plus: DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFO HIGHWAY: An introduction to the Internet (Science & Engineering Lab 2249). This intro will be repeated at 3:00 pm
  • Plus: CRUISIN' THE INFOBAHN: Open Internet use (volunteers will be available give directions) (Science & Engineering Lab 2249). 2:00 - 5:00 pm
• 4:00 pm PLENARY #2: THE MORNING AFTER: In the Wake of the Technology Revolution (Notes)
  • Wanda White (Chair), Community Workshop on Economic Development
  • Richard Hatcher, Former Mayor, Gary, Indiana Professor of Law, Valparaiso University
  • John Betancur, Center for Urban Economic Development (UIC)
  • Dan Lane, Strike Negotiations Team, Staley Workers (Decatur, Illinois)
  • General Baker, UAW Veteran Worker/Activist
• 7:00 pm Cultural Event
  • TECHNO REVOLT -- A CYBER CABARET: The Guild Complex presents poet, videographer, and techmaniac Kurt Heintz featuring videos Vogues with the War Dead, In Flight Magazine, and excerpts from Telepoetics. Eric Leonardson performs electro-acoustic music, or audio art, breaking orthodoxy to produce new sounds with computer technology, digital sampling, sequencing, and instruments of his own creation. Tim W. Brown, author of On Sangamon - a novel on computer disk, set in a post-industrial Chicago wasteland, read from his works. Formerly homeless poet, and founder of the Los Angeles Homeless Writer's Coalition, DINO performs works concerning the social impact of technology. Plus an onsite art gallery trip via the INTERNET, and more. Admission to the Cyber Cabaret is $5.00.
  • followed by MAMBO EXPRESS -- Afro-Cuban dance music (separate admission, $6)
  • NOTE: This event will be held at the HOT HOUSE, 1565 N. Milwaukee, Chicago. (At the Damen stop on the Blue Line). For more info call: 312-907-2189

SATURDAY, MARCH 4TH

9:00 am PLENARY #3 MOVING FORWARD, PART 1: Local Initiatives (Notes)
• Alice Palmer (Chair), Illinois State Senator
• Dave Ranney, Center for Urban Economic Development
• Lourdes Silva, Comite Latino
• Hazel Johnson, People for Community Recovery
• Phil Nyden, Policy Research Action Group (Loyola University)
• 11:00 am WORKSHOPS
  • Access to Information (Notes)
  • Prisons, Police and Their Technology (Notes)
  • Developing Our Communities (Notes)
  • What Happened to Steel? (Notes)
  • Is There a Future in the Software Industry? (Notes)
  • Youth, Culture and Survival in a Jobless World (Notes)
  • DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFOBAHN (see Friday pm above)
  • GETTING YOUR ORGANIZATION ONLINE (see Friday am description for more info)
• 12:30 pm LUNCH
• 1:00 pm DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFOBAHN: An Introduction to the Internet (see Friday pm above)
• 2:00 pm PLENARY #4: MOVING FORWARD, PART 2: Seizing the Future (Notes)
  • Trini Rodriguez (Chair), Tribuno del Pueblo Editorial Board
  • Michael Warr, Guild Complex
  • Carl Davidson, Chicago Coalition for Information Access
  • Sally Lerner, University of Waterloo
  • Nelson Peery, National Organizing Committee
• 4:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS
  • Abdul Alkalimat, 21st Century Books
• 9:00 am - 5:00 pm CRUISIN' THE INFOBAHN: Open Internet use. See Friday pm above.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

2 blocks south of the Halsted/UIC CTA stop (Blue Line) Public parking available across the street.

Conference fee: $20.00 / $5.00 Student & Community / $2.00 Unemployed. Keynote is free and open to public. Plenaries and Workshops require registration. Register at the conference.

Conference hotel: Quality Inn at Madison and Halsted. Phone: 312- 829-5000. Tell them you are attending the Technology conference at UIC. This hotel is about 3 blocks from the student union where most of the conference will be held. There are also lots of hotels in downtown Chicago, which is less than a mile from campus.

For more information call 312-996-5463 or e-mail to jdav@mcs.com

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