CSA Conference Schedule
Friday, April 24, 2009
“Debugging the Silicon Dream: Real Life in a Virtual World”
De Anza College, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA
Track I: Debugging Silicon Valley
Track II: Fragmented Technopolis
8:30-9:00
Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:50
Welcome:
De Anza College President, Brian Murphy
Plenary:
Richard Walker, UC Berkeley & Nari Rhee, UC Berkeley
Challenges of Organizing in the
Arts, Youth & Civic Engagement
“Valley of Non-Joiners”
10:0011:20
11:3012:50
Terry Christensen, Political Science,
SJSU
Matt Hammer, People Acting in
Community Together (PACT)
Mark Linder, Cupertino Parks & Rec
Dayana Salazar,
SJSU/CommUniverCity
Jaime Contreras, Generation Engage
Jan English-Lueck, Anthropology,
SJSU
Angel Luna, Silicon Valley De-Bug
Kelli Sicat, Montalvo Arts
Housing & Homelessness
The Right to the City
Shiloh Ballard, Housing and
Community Development, Silicon
Valley Leadership Group
Bena Chang, Silicon Valley
Leadership Group
Carol Lamont, Destination: Home
Jenne Wood-Taylor, PACT
Aaron Cavin, U of Michigan
Raj Jayadev, Silicon Valley De-Bug
Dennis King, Hispanic Chamber of
Commerce
Chris Lepe, De Anza College
1:00-1:50
Lunch / Keynote Address: Glenna Matthews, Historian
2:00-3:20
Euphrat Museum of Art
Perspectives on the Silicon Valley
Immigration
Angela Buenning Filo, Photographer
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood,
Textiles, SJSU
Jan Rindfleisch, Euphrat Museum of
Art, De Anza College
Teresa Castellanos, Immigration
Relations & Integration Services
(IRIS)
James Lai, Political Science, Santa
Clara University
Calvin Miaw, UNITE HERE Local
19 Representative
Green Economy & Workforce
Development
Satire, Romance & SV in Fiction
3:30-4:50
Track III: Material World in a
Digital Age
The Economic Crisis & the
Valley
Ashok Bardhan, Center for Real
Estate Research, UC Berkeley
Sarah Lacy, co-host of "Tech
Ticker" on Yahoo Finance
Chris O'Brien, Business writer for
San Jose Mercury News
Richard Walker, Geography, UC
Berkeley
Emerging Critical Scholars:
Defining Landscapes and
Workers in the Global Economy
Willow Lung Amam, UC
Berkeley Landscape
Architecture
Marianne Cooper, UC Berkeley
Sociology
Richard Simpson, Stanford
Modern Thought & Literature
Shaping Nature & Community
Michele Beasley, Greenbelt
Alliance
Jon Christensen, Stanford Spatial
History Center
Carrie Denning, Stanford
Jane Mark, Santa Clara County
Parks & Rec
Richard Walker, Geography, UC
Berkeley
South Bay Studies Working
Group
5:00-5:30
Louise Auerhahn, Working
Discussion and launch of group.
Paulina Borsook, Cyberselfish
Partnerships USA
Ellen Ullman, The Bug
Ian Kim, Ella Baker Center
Rick Kuhn, Center for Applied
Competitive Technologies
Alex Schafran, City & Regional
Planning, UC Berkeley
Cultural Performance: De Anza College students: Marlo Custudio and David Sosa
5:30-6:00
CSA Business Meeting (open to everyone) at the California History Center, De Anza College
6:00-7:30
Informal Dinner (no host, $20) at the California History Center, De Anza College
CSA Conference 2009 / 4-21-09