Wiscon Panel Brainstormer Deadline 1/19

[jesse_the_k]

I searched Twitter and discovered that the WisCon programming deadline is January 19th.

http://wiscon.net/programming/panels/

Anyone can submit panel ideas -- you don't even have to be a member or attend!

kate_nepveu reported on a brilliant Arisia panel:
"50 Panels in 75 minutes: You write down panel titles at the beginning. We’ll draw them out of a hat, and try to get through 50 panels in 75 minutes."
Full result list here: https://kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1006137.html

How could we modify this for WisCon?

Any other grand ideas cooking in your head?

Comments

Re: Yes!

[brainwane]

Your mention of the pod-mapping exercise reminded me: do you think https://www.metafilter.com/167493/Distinguishing-character-assassination-from-accountability could turn into a panel?

I am prepping for travel and can't submit it in the next day but others should feel free to.

Re: Yes!

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, yes it should be a panel, and I'll attempt to submit it, and I'll suggest you as a panelist.

Re: Yes!

[jesse_the_k]

Ok, I did submit it, as follows


WisCon Program Idea "Calling in: Distinguishing character assassination from accountability"

Description: How can we teach, learn, disagree & grow without destroying our communities? In 1976, Jo Freeman blasted feminist 'trashing': "It is what one is & not what one does that is objected to & these objections cannot be easily phrased in terms of specific undesirable behaviors." 40 years later, Mary Ann Mohanraj wrote: "...when [WisCon members] have the mental fortitude & the energy for it, we should try to be gentle with each other, to advocate for social change from a space of respect & affection & even love. Note that I am not asking for 'civil' discourse, or even politeness."


Track(s): Feminism and Other Social Change Movements / Power, Privilege, and Oppression
Format: Panel
Equipment Needed/Alternative Format:
Suggested Panelists/Presenters: Sumana Harihareswara, Nora Jemisin, B.C.Holmes, other folks with lived experience of organizing--successful and not
Suggested Moderators: Debbie Notkin

800 character limit was cruel I know some program wrangling minions so any thoughts you have on improving it can be passed along to those with database access