AMERICAN ATHEISTS 2019 NATIONAL CONVENTION APRIL 19–21, 2019 Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel Cincinnati, OH EVERYDAY ATHEISM EXTRAORDINARY ACTIVISM FROM EVERYDAY PEOPLE CONFERENCE AGENDA YOUR NAME Table of Contents Convention Site Layout ......................................................2 Exhibitors and Guests ..........................................................3 Service Project ..........................................................................4 Recording Policy ......................................................................4 Meet Your Emcee ...................................................................5 Convention Schedule Thursday ..............................................................................5 Friday ......................................................................................6 Saturday ...............................................................................8 Sunday ..................................................................................10 Convention Speakers ...........................................................11 God Awful Movies LIVE! .....................................................17 Saturday Main Stage ............................................................18 Saturday Workshops ............................................................19 Full Code of Conduct ...........................................................23 Join the Conversation American Atheists @AmericanAtheist #AACon2019 Convention Layout Fourth Floor Freight Rosewood Elevator Rosewood Foyer Women To Third Floor Pavillion Hall of Mirrors Fourth Floor Foyer Main Entrance on Third Floor Registration Ballroom Balcony Entrance on Fourth Floor To Third Floor Elevators Caprice 1 4 Salon 2 3 M Business Banquet Office Men Center Rookwood Hall of Nations Salon Salon Salon Salon Salon Salon Salon Salon Salon I H G F E D C B A All main stage convention sessions listed in the program will be held in the Pavillion Caprice Ballroom unless otherwise noted. Saturday’s workshops will be held in the Salon Rooms in Hall of Nations. Exhibitors and the American Atheists Convention Store are located in the Rookwood Room. The Friday Awards Dinner will be located in the Hall of Mirrors. The entrance to the Hall of Mirrors is located on the third floor. The VIP Reception and Mixer (Friday, 6:00pm) will be held in the Continental Ballroom which is located on the Mezzanine Level. Focus group sessions will be located in Salon A and Salon C. Sunday’s service project will be held in the Rosewood Room. - 2 - Exhibitors Please visit the Rookwood Room located in the Hall of Nations on the fourth floor, just outside the Pavillion Ballroom and convention main stage area to see the diverse collection of vendors and exhibitors at the American Atheists National Convention. The Exhibit Area and Convention Shop will be open from 8:30am to 7:00pm on Friday and Saturday and from 8:30am to noon on Sunday. Coffee breaks will be served in the Rookwood Room before morning sessions begin. Ateístas de Puerto Rico NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Atheist Community of Austin Northern Indiana Atheists Black Nonbelievers The Oasis Network Camp Quest Planned Parenthood Advocates of Community of Reason (COR): Indiana & Kentucky Atheists & Humanists of OH/KY Planned Parenthood Southwest OH The Divide Recovering from Religion Equality Ohio Secular Coalition for America Final Exit Network Secular Student Alliance Foundation Beyond Belief Secular Woman Freedom From Religion Foundation Street Epistemology (Kentucky Chapter) Tri-State Freethinkers Kentuckians for the Commonwealth The Truth & Transparency Kentucky Secular Society Foundation Louisville Atheists and Freethinkers Special Guests We are pleased to be joined by more than a dozen of your favorite YouTubers and podcasters. Many will have tables in the Rookwood Room located in the Hall of Nations on the fourth floor, in the same space as exhibitors. Others will record live episodes of their podcasts and interviews in the Rosewood Room on the fourth floor. Aron Ra How-To Heretic Atheist in the Trailer Park Opening Arguments Genetically Modified Skeptic Podunk Polymath Habeas Humor Queersplaining Holy CRAP! The VlogCast Telltale Atheist Holy Koolaid The Thinking Atheist - 3 - Service Project American Atheists is pleased to once again partner with The Outreach Program, a nonprofit organization that works to provide safe water, food, medical care, and education to those in need, here in the United States and abroad. The Outreach Program organizes food packing events for charity across the nation. American Atheists invites you to help us pack 50,000 meals for charity by volunteering on Sunday at noon in the Rosewood Room! Please sign up to volunteer at the Registration Desk! Last year, more than 200 atheists joined us and packed 30,000 meals in less than an hour and a half! Let’s see if we can beat that record! Recording Policy Video and photographic recording of this convention is in progress. By attending the convention, you understand that convention staff, media, and attendees may take video footage and photographs throughout the convention which may be used in social media, news articles, highlights, promotional endeavors, and other uses. You consent to be filmed or photographed by staff, approved industry, or media during the entire convention without compensation to you. Your attendance constitutes a grant of rights to American Atheists and/or its designees to reproduce, display, distribute, perform, create derivative works of, or otherwise use any video of pictures that it obtains in any manner throughout the world in perpetuity, including online, for broadcast, or other transmissions. As stated in our convention code of conduct, harassing photography or recording is not permitted. Live streaming or recording of conference sessions by attendees is not permitted. - 4 - Meet Your Emcee Callie Wright Callie Wright is the producer/host of Queersplaining, a podcast that seeks to tell the real life stories of queer and transgender folks from all walks of life. She’s a public speaker, educator, and advocate for the queer and trans com- munity. An atheist since childhood, she’s particularly interested in the ways that conservative mainstream organized religion has marginalized the queer and trans community in the United States. Callie is based in the Cincinnati area. Thursday Events 2:00pm Registration Opens Fourth Floor Foyer 7:00pm “You Can’t Explain That” Pub Quiz Pavillion Ballroom Separately ticketed event: $10 8:00pm Cards Against Humanity Charity Tournament and Game Night Pavillion Ballroom Separately ticketed event: $20 Note: A limited number of special American Atheists Cards Against Humanity decks will be for sale in the conference store. - 5 - Friday Schedule 8:00am Registration Opens Fourth Floor Foyer 9:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks Johnny Pike, Kentucky State Director 9:45am Dr. Hector Garcia God, the Dominant Ape: How Evolutionary Science Explains Religious Violence and Oppression 10:15am Kevin Bolling The Next Generation of the Secular Movement: Are You Ready? 10:45am Break Head to Fountain Square for Equality Rally 11:30am EQUALITY RALLY AT FOUNTAIN SQUARE Volunteers and marshals will be available to assist attendees walking to Fountain Square. A map is below. Food trucks will be serving lunch in Fountain Square. 1:00pm Equality Rally Ends Volunteers and marshals will be available to assist attendees returning to the convention hotel. - 6 - Friday Schedule 1:30pm Debbie Goddard Making Change, One Community at a Time 2:00pm Friday Keynote: Jim Obergefell Author and “Accidental” Activist 3:00pm Fraidy Reiss “But Joseph Married Mary When She Was 8” How Legislators Use Religion to Justify America’s Child Marriage Problem 3:30pm Dr. Zachary Moore Pearls Before Swine: Advancing Atheism in a Post-Evangelical America 4:00pm Afternoon Break 4:15pm Adriana Buenaventura-Martinez Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: A Call for Action! 4:45pm Alison Gill Project Blitz: A Christian Nationalist State Campaign 5:30pm Heron Greenesmith 6:00pm VIP Reception & Mixer Separately ticketed event: $250 (limited availability) Continental Ballroom (Mezzanine Level) Student Reception Event is open to students and is made possible thanks to the generous support of Phil Ferguson and Polaris Financial Planning 7:00pm American Atheists Awards Dinner Sponsored by Eddie Tabash Separately ticketed event: Sold Out Hall of Mirrors (3rd floor) and Hall of Mirrors Balcony (4th floor) 9:00pm God Awful Movies Live Show Eli Bosnick, Heath Enwright, Noah Lugeons Separately ticketed event: $25 Pavillion Ballroom - 7 - Saturday Schedule MAIN STAGE 8:30am Registration Opens Fourth Floor Foyer Morning Coffee Break Rookwood Room 9:00am Panel: Philanthropy in a Post-Religious World Noelle George, Dale McGowan, Jude Lane 10:00am Lorelei Eschbach Why Satan?: How Secular Organizations Can Work with the Satanic Temple to Better Help Their Communities 10:30am Gayle Jordan The Most Dangerous Woman in Tennessee 11:00am Saturday Keynote: Nick Fish Stories to Tell: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges by Putting a Human Face on Atheism 12:00pm Lunch Break Dining options are available throughout the Carew Tower arcade on the lower level. Note: After the lunch break, workshops will be available for convention attendees who would like to receive in-depth training on specialized topics. Those sessions are on the next page. Main stage events are listed below. 1:30pm Talk Heathen Live Taping Atheist Community