Whats Up Weekly: CWA Edition

Maybe you’ve spent the last four mid-Aprils clutching your rumpled CWA booklet, and maybe this is your first time experiencing the conference. Either way, let CUIndependent guide you through this week of the 64th Conference on World Affairs.

MONDAY

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Improv – Spontaneous, Innovative, Fundamental @ UMC 235
1:00 – 2:20 p.m. 

Gordon Adams – political blogger, actor and writer
Rony Barrak – Lebanese percussionist, singer and performer
Lillian Boutté - jazz, gospel, soul and blues singer
Abraham Laboriel – bassist and worship leader
Clare Murphy – storyteller, social entrepreneur and writer
Moderator: Mark Diamond

Reality TV: Wife Swap to Weight Loss @ UMC 235
4:30 – 5:50 p.m. 

Gooding – musician with a more than 700-show touring history
Mary Hughes – co-founder and president of strategic communications and political consulting firm
Howard Schultz – CU alum and reality TV creator of “Extreme Makeover” and “Next!”
Liz Weir – Irish librarian, children’s book author and storyteller
Moderator: Mindy Pantiel

Universities in the Age of Economic Uncertainty @ Old Main Chapel
4:30 – 5:50 p.m. 

Michael Bérubé  – professor and author of “Higher Education under Fire: Politics, Economics and the Crisis of the Humanities”
Louis Goodman – dean emeritus of American University of International Service
Reza Ramazani – Vermont professor of international and environmental economics with an MA and phD from CU Boulder
William Shutkin – president and CEO of the Presidio Graduate School
Moderator: Albert Hand

TUESDAY

What Is a Cult @ UMC 235
11:00 – 12:20 p.m. 

Margot Adler - Wiccan priestess, author of “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess Worshippers and Other Pagans in America Today” and chronicler and spokesperson for Wiccan and Pagan movements
Chip Berlet – investigative journalist and photographer, documenting social and political movements that undermine human rights
Ross Haenfler – professor at Ole Miss, graduate of CU Boulder and author of “Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls: Deviance and Youth Subcultures”
Peter Morales – president, spokesperson and minister-at-large of the Unitarian Universalist Association
Moderator: Terry Odendahl

The Lure of Interstellar Travel @ UMC 235
2:00 – 3:20 p.m. 

Margot Adler – New York correspondent for NPR and frequent voice of All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition
Andy Ihnatko – tech columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, Macworld magazine and regular panelist on This Week In Tech
Sidney Perkowitz –  physics professor and author of “Universal Foam,” which discusses foam’s role (from quantum to galactic) in the universe and in what we eat and drink.
Seth Shostak – astronomer, currently searching for extraterrestrial intelligence through the SETI Institute
Moderator: Maria Uspenski

Jobs Are So Mainstream: When Punks, Goths and Hipsters Grow Up @ ATLAS Black Box
3:30 – 4:50 p.m. 

Clare Murphy – founder of Story Night, a gathering of storytellers to promote storytelling, community and integration
Jo Muse – founder and chief creative officer at Muse Communications and named “Best Creative Director in the West” by Adweek
Diana Ryall – managing director at Apple Australia from 1997 to 2001
James Tanabe - former artistic director of Cirque du Soliel, researched molecular biology and neurology at Mayo Clinic, space plasma physics at MIT and NASA’s Wind spacecraft.
Moderator: Scott Beard

WEDNESDAY

Beatles to Bassnectar: The (De)evolution of Music @ ATLAS Black Box
11:00 – 12:20 p.m. 

Charlie Bisharat – Grammy Award-winning jazz violinist
Gooding – creator of music for commercials for Fortune 500 companies and celebrity ambassador for Operation HOPE, a nonprofit organization whose aim is to bring financial literacy to America’s underprivileged students
Dave Grusin – former arranger and producer of jazz albums, currently touring as a keyboardist with Lee Ritenour
Abraham Laboriel – gospel and worship musician who is ”the most widely used session bassist of our time,” according to Guitar Player magazine
Moderator: Mikhy Ritter

My Best Sexual Experience and How to Do It @ UMC Center Ballroom
1:30 – 2:50 p.m. 

Margot Adler – a newscaster, reporter and host of shows on NPR who pioneered live, free-form talk shows, in which she dealt with spirituality, feminism, and ecology among other topics.
Evelyn Resh – nurse-midwife, sexuality counselor and author of “The Secret Lives of Teen Girls: What Your Mother Wouldn’t Talk About but Your Daughter Needs to Know” 
Howard Schultz - CU alum and creator of “relationship shows,” a genre of reality television
Moderator: Jane Saltzman

Why Video Games Matter @ UMC West Ballroom
3:00 – 4:20 p.m. 

Mark Frauenfelder - editor-in-chief of DIY magazine Make, founder of bOING bOING blog, former editor of Wired magazine, tech columnist for Playboy and designer of Billy Idol’s album “Cyberpunk”
Devin Hurd – videogame music composer, currently working on the latest installment of “Splinter Cell”
Andy Ihnatko – science and technology writer and panelist on This Week in Tech and MacBreak Weekly podcasts
Moderator: Peggy Mansfield

THURSDAY

Netflix, eBooks, Hulu, Zite: The Rebirth of Media @ ATLAS Black Box
11:00 – 12:20 p.m. 

Andy Ihnatko – tech columnist whose writings have been licensed by NASA and pirated in a Brazilian videogaming magazine
Sidney Perkowitz – physics researcher and author of several books about science and human life, including “Hollywood Science,” about science and film
Steve Sauer – personal manager, packager, producer and founding partner and principal of MediaFour
Jon Sinton – social media entrepreneur
Moderator: Allen Carmichael

Drugs: Enlightening, Illegal, Fun and Addictive @ UMC West Ballroom
2:00 – 3:20 p.m. 

Sanho Tree – fellow and director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Public Studies
Glenn Treisman – professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and internal medicine at Johns Hopkins
Moderator: Lee Shainis

Between Things Known and Unknown: The Nature of Perception @ VAC 1B20
3:30 – 4:50 p.m. 

Margot Adler – NPR correspondent and author of “Heretic’s Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution”
Don Grusin – jazz arranger and producer as well as touring live musician
Jeff Lieberman – host of “Time Warp” on the Discovery Channel, which uses technology to see beyond the limits of our normal human perception
Clare Murphy – performance storyteller, social entrepreneur and writer
Moderator: Tom Trager

From Virginity Pledges to Nymphomania: Sex in College @ UMC 235
5:00 – 6:20 p.m. 

Ross Haenfler – sociology professor at Ole Miss, graduate of CU Boulder and author of “Straight Edge: Clean Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change”
Evelyn Resh – nurse-midwife, sexuality counselor, author, and contributing writer for Oprah.com and the Huffington Post
Howard Schultz – CU alum who was named one of the top 50 forces in the field of reality television by The Hollywood Reporter
Moderator: Ryan Van Duzer

FRIDAY

Unhappy Endings: Apocalypse Now! @ VAC 1B20
10:30 – 11:50 p.m. 

Chip Berlet – investigative journalist and photographer who has been called “a Stalinist, a CIA agent, a ‘sewer creature’ and a ‘slimy character assassin’” by his critics
Joe Cirincione – president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation
Howard Schultz – CU alum and owner of Lighthearted Entertainment
Ike Wilson – a decorated combat veteran, soldier-scholar and advocate for change in security policy, war and peace
Moderator: Paul Shankman

Are Corporations People: Would Texas Execute One? @ UMC Center Ballroom
11:00 – 12:20 p.m. 

Lou Dubose – coauthor of “Shrub: The Short and Happy Political Life of George W. Bush” and “Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America”
Ted Nace – director of CoalSwam, a collaborative information clearinghouse for anti-coal activists
Gene Nichol – law professor and director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina and law dean at CU Boulder
Moderator: Jefferson Dodge

The Generational Road Map from Mad Men to Millennials @ UMC East Ballroom
1:00 – 2:20 p.m. 

Lou Dubose - editor of The Washington Spectator
Matt Howard – president of the San Francisco chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, a post 9/11 veterans organization focused on ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, getting military members and veterans the care they need and compensating the people of Iraq and Afghanistan
Julie Pezzino – executive director of Grow Pittsburgh, an urban agriculture nonprofit that promotes food production and education through development of urban farms and gardens
Howard Schultz – CU alum and reality tv producer
Moderator: Mary Ann Mahoney

Not enough? For even more CWA coverage, check out Entertainment Writer Isa Jones’ Top 10 CWA Events, and watch for the CUI’s CWA reviews.

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