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| Advocating progressive values and equality for humanists, atheists, and freethinkers |
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The 69th Annual Conference will be held June 3-6, 2010. Please check back to this page for up-to-date changes to the conference schedule.
Thursday, June 3 (Pre-Conference) - Open to all Registrants
| 8:00am-8:00pm | Registration (Bayshore Foyer ) |
| 9:00am-6:00pm | Essays in the Philosophy of Humanist Symposium (Download Schedue and Abstracts) |
| 9:00am-10:00pm | Exhibition Room (Bayshore Foyer - Large ) |
| 10:00am-5:00pm | AHA Board Meeting - Open to all AHA members |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Broadening the Appeal: Attracting Diversity to Your Humanist Group - Sharon Moss |
| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Media Training for Chapter Leaders - Fred Edwords |
| 3:15pm-4:15pm | Membership Recruitment: How to Build Your Numbers - Lindsay Gemberling |
| 4:30pm-5:45pm | Chapter Expansion Panel - Bob Stephens, Arthur Jackson, Susan Sackett, Ron Herman, and Sharon Moss |
| 5:45pm-7:00pm | Dinner break |
| 8:00pm-9:30pm | Movie Screening - "Creator of God" - with filmmaker Vivekanand Palavali |
| 8:00am-8:00pm | Registration (Bayshore Foyer ) |
| 8:00am-9:00am | Meet and greet for new members |
| 9:00am-10:00pm | Exhibition Room (Bayshore Foyer - Large ) |
| 9:00am-10:15am | Morning Breakout Sessions: • Defending the Wall: The Next Wave of Threats to Church-State Separation - Rob Boston • Freethinkers, Religion, and Work-Oh, My!- Amanda Knief • The Humanist Commitment to LGBT Equality: Building the LGBT Humanist Council - Jason Frye |
| 10:30am-11:45am | Morning Breakout Sessions: • Help! Help! The Secular Student Movement is Growing Too Fast! - August Brunsman and Lyz Liddell • Can We Realistically Hope to Live in a Humanist Civilization? - Rodrigue Tremblay • The Salvation of Sports? Sports-World Christianity in the Age of Religious Diversity - Tom Krattenmaker |
| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch Break |
| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Feminist Caucus Brown Bag Lunch (Open to All - Donation Suggested) |
| 1:30pm-2:45pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions: • Humanist Society Meeting • The Inhumanity of Circumcision: The case against neo-natal male circumcision - Raul Martinez • Whose Life Is It Anyway? Resources for Planning a Dignified Death - Faye Girsh |
| 3:00pm-4:15pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions: |
| 4:30pm-6:00pm | AHA Annual Membership Meeting |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm | Welcome Reception (Sponsored by the Humanist Community of Silicon Valley) |
| 7:00pm-10:00pm | Friday Banquet |
| 8:00am-8:00pm | Registration (Bayshore Foyer ) |
| 8:00am-9:00am | Meet and greet for new members |
| 9:00am-10:00pm | Exhibition Room (Bayshore Foyer - Large ) |
| 9:00am-9:30pm | Camp Quest Kids' Program: "A Taste of Camp Quest" ( CANCELLED ) |
| 9:00am-10:15am | Plenary: • Greg Epstein, Harvard Humanist Chaplain and author, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe |
| 10:30-11:45am | Morning Breakout Sessions: • Why Was I Born? - Lyle Simpson • World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Fantasy or Serious Goal? - Bob Gauntt • A Plan for a Secular Decade: One Nation Under the Constitution - Sean Faircloth |
| 12:00pm-2:45pm | Saturday Luncheon: |
| 3:00pm-4:15pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions: • Why Peace is a Humanist Issue: A Panel - Jeff Nall, Armineh Noravian, David Swanson, Debra Sweet • Public Policy and Humanist Bioethics - Dr. Ana Lita • Art & Religion & Science & Reason - Zelda Gatuskin |
| 4:30pm-5:45pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions: • Porn, Prostitution, Pimps, and Patriarchal Religions - Pat Willis • Exploring Atheism - August Berkshire • Blasphemy! - David Fitzgerald |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm | Humanist Contributors Reception RSVP required |
| 7:00pm-10:00pm | Humanist of the Year Banquet: • Bill Nye, Humanist of the Year • Frank Berger, Humanist Lifetime Achievement Award • Entertainment by Jamy Ian Swiss, "Heavy Mental" magic show |
| 10:00pm-12:00am | Pool Party |
| 8:00am-8:00pm | Registration (Bayshore Foyer ) |
| 9:00am-1:00pm | Exhibition Room (Bayshore Foyer - Large ) |
| 9:00am-10:15am | Morning Breakout Sessions: • SMART Recovery - A Nontheistic, Scientific Approach to Addictions - Michael Werner • Where's Critical Thinking in Our Public Schools? - Brant Abrahamson, Dr. Rodger E. Cryer, Paula Fraser, Hemant Mehta, and Andy Norman • A Matter of Degrees: Global Warming is Real - George Erickson |
| 10:30am-12:00pm | Closing Plenary: • Live taping of the Philosophy Talk radio show featuring Stanford University philosophers Ken Taylor and John Perry. |
| 12:00pm-6:00pm | Humanist Foundation Trustees Meeting |
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