Rouge Forum Conferences

Rouge Forum Conference 2017: Resist. June 23-24, 2017, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Rouge Forum Conference 2016: Teaching for Democracy and Justice in an Age of Inequality. May 27-28, 2016, St. Mary's University, Calgary, Canada.

Rouge Forum Conference 2014: The Struggle for Social Justice Inside and Outside the Classroom. June 5-7, 2014, Metropolitan State University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.

Rouge Forum Conference 2013: Winning the Class Struggle Against Corporate Education Reform. May 16-19, 2013,Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Rouge Forum Conference 2012: Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change. June 22-24, 2012, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Rouge Forum Conference 2011. May 20-22, 2011, Lewis University's suburban campus in Romeoville, IL

Rouge Forum Conference 2010: Education in the Public Interest: Teaching and Learning for a Democratic Society.Williams Bay, Wisconsin, August 2-5, 2010.

Papers, Videos, and Pictures from the Rouge Forum Conference 2009: Education, Empire, Economy & Ethics at a Crossroads: What do we need to know and how can we come to know it? Ypsilanti, Michigan, May 15-17, 2009

The Rouge Forum made presentations at the César Chávez Education Conference March 28-29, 2009 at Fresno State.

Papers presented by Rouge Forum members at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education conference on June 2, 2008

Dave Hill -- Educational Perversion and Global Neoliberalism (PowerPoint Show)*
David Hursh -- Neoliberalism and the control of teachers, students, and learning: The rise of standards, standardization and accountability in the United States(pdf)
Rich Gibson -- The Dead End at Freire
Ashwani Kumar (as discussant) -- CSSE Symposium on Neoliberalism and Education Reform

*Please note that if you do not have PowerPoint on your computer, you may download the PowerPoint Viewer to your computer to view the slide show.

Papers, Videos, and Pictures from the Rouge Forum Conference 2008: Education: Reform or Revolution? Louisville, Kentucky, March 14, 15, 16, 2008

The Rouge Forum gathered at the National Council For Social Studies conference in San Diego November 29 to December 2. We led several presentations and workshops, and we will also had a booth in the exhibit hall and hosted a social event on Saturday, December 1st as well.

The Rouge Forum made presentations at the 2007 AERA Annual Meeting April 9-13, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

Rouge Forum Conference "Their Wars Left Behind: Education for Action" was March 1-4, 2007 at Wayne State University in Detroit.

The Rouge Forum made presentations at the 2006 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference December 1-3, 2006 in Washington, DC .

The Rouge Forum made presentations at the The North American Labor History Conference October 19-21, 2006 in Detroit, Michigan.

Writing the War -- Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:15-7:30 pm Endless killing, government lies, a rush to war …. Get an inside look at the state of the union from Dave Lindorff - The Case for Impeachment: the Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office Charlotte Dennett - Into the Buzz Saw

The Rouge Forum was at the North Coast Education Summit. It was February 6-8, 2004 in Arcata, California at Humboldt State University. We made a presentation and had a table in the exhibit section.

The Rouge Forum made presentations at the 2004 AERA Annual Meeting April 12-16, 2004 in San Diego, California.

The Rouge Forum will be hosting another Summer Institute on Education and Society. It was June 24-27, 2004 in Syracuse, New York. View papers from this institute here.

The Detroit Rouge Forum held a "Lessons of War Teach-in for a Democratic Society" November 8, 2003 at Wayne State University. View flyer here.

The Rouge Forum was at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference last fall. It was November 14-16, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois. We made presentations and had a booth in the exhibit hall.

The Rouge Forum had a wonderful thought-provoking Summer Institute on Education and Society Institute June 26-29, 2003. This interactive conference focused on the question of building a caring education community while, at the same time, building serious resistance to inequality, racism, sexism, and irrationalism—in schools and out. View pictures from the Summer Institute here.

The Rouge Forum was at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference November 22-24, 2002 in Phoenix, Arizona. We made presentations and had a booth in the exhibit hall. Come visit our booth!---We tried our hand at retailing this year in Phoenix. We had some fabulous posters and other mechandize we sold as a way to support our efforts, not to mention the new Rouge Forum cd compliation which was 'released' in Phoenix (it's called "I'm Being Watched By the C.I.A."). But, as usual, the bulk of our efforts was focused on giving away thought-provoking literature and talking with conference goers about creating a more democratic society...

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