Event Schedule

Day	Start	Finish	Program	Title	Name
Friday	9:00	10:00	Registration and free brunch (participants watch email for invitation)
	10:30	10:45	Opening		Holli Emore, Cherry Hill Seminary, Jonathan Leader, University of South Carolina
	10:45	11:45	Paper 1	Sacred Symbols as Battleground	Tahni Nikitins
	11:45	12:15	Paper 2	Reconstruction and Racism in Modern Heathenry	Stephan Grundy
	12:15	1:15	Lunch on own
	1:15	2:15	Paper 3	Reclaiming the Double Helix: Countering Racist Heathenry's Co-Option of Human Genetics	Ben Waggoner
	2:15	3:15	Paper 4	The tightening control of extremist activity in Russia and studying under-the radar racist Rodnoverie groups and politics	Kaarina Aitamurto
	3:15	3:30	Break
	3:30	4:30	Paper 5	Performing “American Völkisch”	Jefferson Calico
	4:30	5:30	Paper 6	NeoPagans, the Volk, and the Authoritarian Right	Gus DiZerega
	5:30		Close & Announcements
Saturday	9:30	9:45	Opening		Holli Emore, Cherry Hill Seminary
	9:45	11:00	Guest Speaker	Balancing on the Rainbow Bridge: the Challenge of Inclusive Heathenry	Diana Paxson, The Troth
	11:00	11:15	Introduction		Jonathan Leader, University of South Carolina
	11:15	12:30	Keynote Address	Arguing with the Ancestors: Making the Case for a Paganism Beyond Racism	Michael Strmiska, Ph.D., State University of New York-Orange
	12:30	2:00	Lunch on own
	2:00	3:45	Panel Discussion	Moving Forward from Declaration 127: A Heathenry For The Future	Diana Paxson and Berkano Hearth Union
	3:45	4:00	Break
	4:00	5:00	Special Guest		Omar Shaheed
	5:00		Close & Announcements
Sunday	9:30		Opening		Jonathan Leader, University of South Carolina
	9:30	10:15	Paper 7	Child of the Lost Cause: the Lingering Malaise of Post-Reconstruction Racism in The American South	Holli Emore
	10:15	11:00	Paper 8	Radicalization, Recruitment and Realities in Modern Paganism and Heathenry: a perspective	Jonathan Leader
	11:00	11:15	Break
	11:15	11:45	Summary Response		Michael Strmiska
	11:45	12:00	Closing		Holli Emore, Cherry Hill Seminary, Jonathan Leader, University of South Carolina