2015 Annual Meeting Live-Streamed Sessions

This is a list of 2015 Annual Meeting live-streamed sessions. Additional details, descriptions, and how to register will be added to this page as information becomes available.

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AERA Presidential Sessions: Key Addresses, Lectures, and Special Events
AERA Opening Plenary Session: John Whittington Franklin, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Creating the Smithsonian's Newest Museum: the National Museum of African American History and Culture Thursday April 16, 4:05 to 5:35 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF Session hashtag: #AERAFranklin John W. Franklin, Senior Manager in the Office of the Deputy Director at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will trace the museum's history from the Colored Civil War Veterans who asked for the museum through the conceptualization of the museum's scope by scholars and educators. Franklin will explain the processes involved in engaging architects, designers and builders to construct the edifice, develop its exhibitions and programs and plan for the Grand Opening in 2016. Link to session Register to watch live (free)

AERA Presidential Address: Joyce E. King, AERA President; Professor and Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University
Morally Engaged Research/ers Dismantling Epistemological Nihilation in the Age of Impunity Saturday April 18, 4:35 to 6:20 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF Session hashtag: #AERAPres Link to session Register to watch live (free)

The Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: William F. Tate, AERA 2008 Past President
Who Is My Neighbor? The Geography of Opportunity in Ferguson and Beyond Friday April 17, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF Session hashtag: #AERAWallace William F. Tate, AERA 2008 Past President, will give the Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture on April 17. Link to session Register to watch live (free)

AERA Distinguished Lecture: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Bard College
College in Prison: A Cause in Need of Advocacy Research Friday April 17, 10:35 to 12:05 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF Session hashtag: #AERALagemann Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, a leading historian of education and a nationally known expert on education research, will give the AERA Distinguished Lecture on April 17. Link to session Register to watch live (free)


Awards Ceremony Luncheon: 2015 Award Winners in Education Research
Saturday April 18, 12:25 to 2:25 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand ABCDEF Session hashtag: #AERAAwards Link to session Register to watch live (free)

More Live-Streamed Sessions
Sessions are listed chronologically

Thursday, April 16
And We Are Still Not Saved (Redux): Critical Race Theory in Education 20 Years Later
Thursday April 16, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF This session will consider the contribution critical race theory (CRT) has made to educational scholarship and examine the progress made in terms of the field’s understanding of racial inequity in education since CRT was first introduced to the field. This session aims to: commemorate the 20th anniversary of CRT in education; provide examples by both new and established scholars of current work on CRT in education; and open a space for the exploration of next steps with regard to CRT in education. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chairs:* Adrienne D. Dixson Celia Rousseau Anderson Jamel K. Donnor *Discussant:* Gloria J. Ladson-Billings *Participants:* Adrienne D. Dixson Celia Rousseau Anderson Jamel K. Donnor Nicola Rollock Paul Warmington Rema Ella Reynolds Sonya Aleman Enrique Aleman Aparecida de Jesus Ferreira

Toward What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education
Thursday April 16, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF This session brings together compelling scholars within diverse intellectual traditions in educational research to discuss corresponding and sometimes competing definitions of justice. Each panelist will respond to a set of questions designed to reveal the salient points of convergence and difference between Indigenous studies, critical disabilities studies, critical race studies, immigration and border studies, and queer studies in education. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chairs:* Eve Tuck K. Wayne Yang *Discussants:* Kris D. Gutiérrez Linda T. Smith *Participants:* Lisa Patel Nirmala Erevelles Jen Jack Gieseking Sandy M. Grande Michael J. Dumas
Friday, April 17
From Classrooms to Outer Space via Public Policies: Renowned Intellectuals and Leaders Articulate Opportunities and Challenges
Friday April 17, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF Select demographic groups—racial minorities, women, and religious minorities—are consistently underrepresented in the STEM professions in both the U.S. and England. This session explores modes to increase representation. Each participant will present aspects of their work on education and science research and public policy. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* Beverly Lindsay *Participants:* James Gates Shirley Malcom Michael Jonathan Reiss
Saturday, April 18
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Sunday, April 19
Bending the Arc Toward Justice: New Orleans, Black Education, and the National and International Struggle Against Market-Based Reform
Sunday April 19, 8:15 to 10:15 a.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF Educators, students, and parents in New Orleans have articulated serious concerns about the effects of charter school reform on black communities. This session will address the question, whose interests have been served by market-based reform in urban communities? Participants will address the trend towards education privatization and collectively consider how these reforms have affected public schools and neighborhoods in cities nationwide. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* Kristen L. Buras *Participants:* Michael W. Apple Kristen L. Buras V. P. Franklin Pauline Lipman Theresa Perry Ibrahima Seck David O. Stovall Terrenda Corisa White Kofi Lomotey

The White House Initiatives on Educational Excellence for Diverse Groups
Sunday April 19, 10:35 to 12:05 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF Panelists will focus on the role that their respective White House Initiatives play in shaping public policy for communities of color. A key part of the Initiatives’ mandate is to advise the President and U.S. Secretary of Education on issues related to the educational attainment of diverse groups and seek ways to increase student success through improved policies, practices, and allocation of resources. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* Linda C. Tillman *Discussant:* James T. Minor James E. Davis *Participants:* Patricia Whitefoot James Pierpont Comer Alfredo J. Artiles Dee Jay Mailer David Wilson

Education for Social Transformation: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Radical Intellectual Tradition
Sunday April 19, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF This session will present W.E.B. Du Bois in historical context as a founding sociological researcher, a founder of the Pan African Movement and the NAACP, and a transformative educator in the radical black intellectual tradition. Film clips will be shown from the historic University of Pennsylvania conference honoring DuBois in 2012. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* AERA President Joyce E. King *Discussant:* Gloria J. Ladson-Billings *Participant:* Tufuku Zuberi

Transforming Research: The Indigenous Struggle for Social, Cultural, and Economic Justice Within and Through Education
Sunday April 19, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF This presentation will look at the struggle to change educational outcomes for indigenous and disadvantaged communities. Of concern is the need to challenge the ongoing reproduction of high and disproportionate levels of learning underdevelopment and subsequent social and economic marginalization. In this presentation, strategies from the New Zealand context that have potential for wider applications will be shared, including the development of alternative schooling and higher education models. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* Tanya L.M. Samu *Discussant:* Jonathan D. Jansen *Participant:* Graham Hingangaroa Smith

Linking Our Struggles: Visioning a Different Future
Sunday April 19, 4:05 to 6:05 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF In this session, Professor Charles Ogletree will moderate a fast-paced discussion among the panelists in an effort to illuminate the intersectionality of struggles for justice across diverse communities. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* AERA President Joyce E. King *Discussant:* Charles Ogletree *Participants:* Alan Parker Robert Miller Valerie Ooka Pang Iva E Carruthers Julian Vasquez Heilig Cirecie West-Olatunji Curtis Acosta Stan Willis Susan Goodwin Jesse Hagopian Malik Burnett Mike Honda
Monday, April 20
Justice Requires Informed Action: Fighting Anti-Intellectualism with Educational Research
Monday April 20, 10:35 to 12:05 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand EF This session will address the assumption that research endeavors will be embraced in policy and instruction; however, it is often the flashiness of the message rather than the soundness of the evidence that is heard and acted upon. This session will discuss the two-fold challenge for those vested in the pursuit of justice through and in education. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* Patricia A. Alexander *Participants:* W. James Popham Gale M. Sinatra Angela Valenzuela Zeus Leonardo Catherine A. Lugg

Culture, Language, and the Politics of Forgetting: Beyond Restrictive Language Policies in Education
Monday April 20, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m. CDT Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand EF This session will critically examine the inextricable relations of power that exist between culture, class, and language within the context of classroom practices. Central to this discussion is unveiling the epistemicides that accompany practices of language in education and the need to embrace a decolonizing and emancipatory political project of schooling and society. Link to session Register to watch live (free)	*Chair:* Ruben Donato *Discussant:* João Menelau Paraskeva *Participant:* Antonia Darder

AERA Presidential Sessions: Key Addresses, Lectures, and Special Events

AERA Opening Plenary Session: John Whittington Franklin, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

AERA Presidential Address: Joyce E. King, AERA President; Professor and Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University

The Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: William F. Tate, AERA 2008 Past President

AERA Distinguished Lecture: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Bard College

Awards Ceremony Luncheon: 2015 Award Winners in Education Research

More Live-Streamed Sessions

Thursday, April 16

And We Are Still Not Saved (Redux): Critical Race Theory in Education 20 Years Later

Toward What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education

Friday, April 17

From Classrooms to Outer Space via Public Policies: Renowned Intellectuals and Leaders Articulate Opportunities and Challenges

Saturday, April 18

Sunday, April 19

Bending the Arc Toward Justice: New Orleans, Black Education, and the National and International Struggle Against Market-Based Reform

The White House Initiatives on Educational Excellence for Diverse Groups

Education for Social Transformation: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Radical Intellectual Tradition

Transforming Research: The Indigenous Struggle for Social, Cultural, and Economic Justice Within and Through Education

Linking Our Struggles: Visioning a Different Future

Monday, April 20

Justice Requires Informed Action: Fighting Anti-Intellectualism with Educational Research

Culture, Language, and the Politics of Forgetting: Beyond Restrictive Language Policies in Education