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Conference Agenda

Thursday, June 10

11am-8pm

Registration, Capital Community College, 2nd Floor

1pm-3pm

Pre-Conference Tour of Hartford's neighborhoods. The tour will depart promptly at 1pm from Capital Community College. Please check in at registration desk prior to tour.

3:30pm-5pm

Facilitated discussion based on the tour

"Building partnerships in urban environments." 

Facilitator: Robert Rooks, Executive Director, A Better Way Foundation

The tour will end at the Institute for Community Research's offices in Hartford, where the discussion will take place. Participants will then be given transportation back to the Crowne Plaza hotel and Capital Community College.

6pm-8pm

Welcome, Opening Reception and Exhibit Opening, Capital Community College 960 Main Street (right next door to the College)


Marnie Mueller, President, Board of Directors, Institute for Community Research
Jean J. Schensul, Executive Director, Institute for Community Research
Eddie Perez, Mayor, City of Hartford
Exhibit: "Living Spaces at the Crossroads", Colleen Coleman, Artistic Director, Institute for Community Research

Entertainment: Manchester Community College Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Deborah Simmons, Pianist and Associate Professor of Music, Manchester Community College

Friday June 11

8:00am

Registration Opens, Capital Community College, 2nd Floor

9:00am-10:00am

Welcome and Opening Plenary, Auditorium

Drumming: The Alvin Carter Project
Marnie Muller, President, Board of Directors, Institute for Community Research
Jean J. Schensul, Executive Director, Institute for Community Research
Maryland Grier, Associate Director, Communications, Institute for Community Research

9:00am-7:00pm

Artists' Marketplace, Community Room, 2nd Floor

10:00am-10:15am

Break

10:15am-11:45am

Breakout Session I (click on session title for details on the session and presenters)

1.A. Community Based Research: Communities, community research organizations, and university collaborations in Hartford (Room 1120)

1.B. Engaging city residents through Community Based Research: A comparison of 3 models (Room 1024)

1.C. Improving Services for Asians in the US through Community Based Research (Room 302)

1.D. Methods, benefits and challenges of using video and photography in community based art and research (Room 703)

1.E. Engaging the community in research partnerships (Room 1126 - Dengan Lecture Hall)

1.F. Leaving the Ivory Tower: Involving undergraduates in Community Based Research
(Room 1101)

1.G. What's the point? Models of evaluating CBR processes and outcomes (Room 1103)

1.H. Towing the line: external barriers and pressures that impact Community Based Research (Room 702)

1.I. Mixing it up: Diverse research methods and philosophies in Community Based Research (Room 315)

1.J. Communities of Color and Bioethics: Expanding the Debate (Room 317)

12:00pm-1:45pm

Lunch, Auditorium


Performance: Efraim Silva, Capoeira, Afro-Brazilian Dance
Keynote: "Community-Based Research Partnerships "
Chair: Margaret R. Weeks, Institute for Community Research
Virginia Boudreau, Community Research Coordinator, Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen's Association (Nova Scotia, Canada)

2:00pm-3:30pm

Breakout Session II (click on session title for details on the session and presenters)

2.A. History is Political: Reconstructing an excluded past (Room 317)

2.B. Complexities of Collaboration: Conceptual and Derivative ( Room 1120)

2.C. Building Partnerships to Improve Men's Health (Room 703)

2.D. Whose Voice: Research Collaborations with Youth (Room 1103)

2.E. Collaborative approaches to community HIV prevention research (Room 702)

2.F. The transformative potential of participatory research in communities and organizations (Room 306)

2.G. A thousand drops in the ocean: Communities and collaborations in fisheries (Room 302)

2.H. Complex realities: Confronting power in building local knowledge (Room 1126 -Dengan Lecture Hall)

2.I. Rules of engagement: Developing guidelines for creating and sustaining research partnerships (Room 315)

2.J. GIS and other technologies in Community Based Research (Room 1101)

3:30pm-3:45pm

Break

3:45pm-5:15pm

Auditorium

Performance: Marianela Medrano, Poet, New Milford, CT

Plenary Session:"Evaluating the field: A critical look at Community Based Research"
Chair: Jean J. Schensul, Institute for Community Research
Lawrence Green,
U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Peter Levesque, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

5:30pm-7:00pm

Poster Session, Reception and Artists' Marketplace, 2nd Floor (click on link for list of posters to be presented)

5:30pm-7:00pm

Book Signing, Various Authors, 2nd Floor

7:00pm-8:30pm

Dinner on your own - Visit the Taste of Hartford!

8:30pm-11:00pm

Open Mic, Crowne Plaza Hotel
Guest Performers: Ed Trickett, Celtic Folk Singer; Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, National Slam Poetry Winner

Saturday, June 12

8:00am

Registration Opens, 2nd Floor


Breakfast - Auditorium

Performance: Women of the Cross, A capella gospel/traditional

9am-10:30am

Concurrent Plenary Sessions

Auditorium

"Research Ethics in Community Based Research"
Chair: Molly Lauck, Institute for Community Research

Joan Sieber, University of California, Hayward
Robert Levine, Yale University
Ivor Pritchard, Institute of Education Sciences
Carmen Reyes, North Central Area Agency on Aging
Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut

Dengan Lecture Hall

"Making Science-Based Behavioral Interventions Accessible to Community-Based Organizations"
Chair: Bonnie K. Nastasi, Institute for Community Research
Ron Stall, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bruce Rapkin (respondent), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

10:30am-10:45am

Break

10:45am-4:00pm

Video screening room (Room 302)

Come view video developed, produced and featuring youth and adults involved in community-based research projects on a variety of topics

10:45am-12:15pm

Breakout Session III (click on session title for details on the session and presenters)

3.A. Balancing your act: Partnering with multiple stakeholders (Room 1126 - Dengan Lecture Hall)

3.B. Making it last: The challenges of sustainability and project continuity (Room 702)

3.C. The power to define: The meaning of community and community involvement (Room 703)

3.D. Making a difference: Linking research to policy (Room 306)

3.E. Bridges or boundaries? The politics of identity in community based research (Room 1101)

3.F. Training in Participatory Action Research: Supporting Resident Research (Room 318)

3.G. Folklore and Research: Examples, Uses and Reflections (Room 301)

3.H. Community Research Ethics for Public/Environmental Health (Room 315)

3.I. Action Research in Chicago (Room 307)

3.J. Integrating software into qualitative analysis (Room 1103)

3.K. A tale of two cities: Peer led interventions for HIV prevention among active drug users in Baltimore and Hartford (Room 1120)

12:15pm-2pm

Lunch, Auditorium

Performance: Somaly Hay, Cambodian Court Dance

Keynote: "Community-Based Research in the Built Environment"
Chair: Marlene Berg, Institute for Community Research
Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Columbia University

Performance: Negrura Peruana, Afro-Peruvian Dance and Drumming

2:15pm-3:45pm

Breakout Session IV (click on session title for details on the session and presenters)

4.A. Translating research ethics into practice (Room 703)

4.B. Filling the gap: community based mental health interventions with youth and older adults (Room 1103)

4.C. Tools of communication: The politics and ethics of disseminating research findings through the media (Room 307)

4.D. Building theory from the ground up (Room 1101)

4.E. A skill building workshop on Community -based participatory research partnerships (Room 306)

4.F. Building democracy: Partnership, research and advocacy for effective public policy
(Room 315)

4.G. The family challenge trail: Engaging families to support and promote community-based health research and behavior change (Room 303)

4.H. Benefits and Challenges of Engaging in Community-University Research Partnerships (Room 1126 - Dengan Lecture Hall)

4.I. Training in Participatory Action Research: Supporting Youth Research (Room 318)

4.J. Using folklore for social change (Room 301)

3:45pm-4:00pm

Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Concurrent Plenary Sessions

Performance, Auditorium: Abigail Jefferson, Storyteller
Plenary: "Funding Community-Based Research"
Kaytura Felix-Aaron, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Audrey Jordan, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Raymond Andrews, Donaghue Medical Research Foundation
Amos Smith, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Bill Crimi, Connecticut Health Foundation

Performance, Degnan Lecture Hall: Glaisma Perez, Poet and Performing Artist
Plenary: "Integrating art and research: A two way street"
Chair: Margaret LeCompte, University of Colorado
David Henry, Rhode Island School of Design
Marty Pottenger, Community Performance Artist
Vijay Iyer, New York-based composer, pianist, improvisor, and scholar

Beth Krensky, Utah State University

6:30pm

Dinner, Awards, Performance, 960 Main Street

Performance: Nzinga's Daughters, A capella music of African Diaspora
Keynote: Vijay Iyer, New York-based composer, pianist, improvisor, and scholar

Sunday, June 13


7am-11am

Breakfast available at the Crowne Plaza Hotel