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Julia
Sweeney, writer-actress, winner of this
year's Dawkins Award and author of Letting
Go of God: My
Beautiful Loss of Faith Story.
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Dr. Hector Avalos, Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Director
of U.S. Latino/a Studies at Iowa State University and author
of Fighting
Words: The Origins of Religious Violence.
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Lori Lipman Brown, freethought's
first Washington lobbyist and Executive Director
of the Secular
Coalition of America.
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Matt Cherry, President of the United
Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion
or Belief, Executive Director of the Institute
for Humanist Studies, and author of Imagine
There's No Heaven Voices of Secular Humanism.
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Dr. Paul Mirecki, Professor and past Departmental Chair of
Religious Studies at the University of Kansas, the first to propose
teaching ID as mythology, and author of Magic
and Ritual in the Ancient World.
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Dr. Ron Pine, Research Associate, Field Museum
of Chicago and Permanent Visiting Scholar at the Natural
History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University
of Kansas.
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Dr. Fred Whitehead, freethought historian and author of Freethought
on the American Frontier.
- The convention will also include:
“Camp Quest: A Summer Away Camp for Atheist Kids” by
Katie Hladky & Shawn Jeffers
“
How to talk about Atheism” hands-on training by August Berkshire
and Margaret Downey
“
Leaving the Fold: Ex-ministers Speak Out” by Don Bell, Lee
Dietz and Mark Killingsworth
“
Religion, Science, Secular Humanism and Well-being" by Dr. Gale
Fuller
“
Selling Atheism" hands-on training by Woody Kaplan
and panels on Atheist Parenting, Lobbying for Separation of Church
and State, and Secular Meditation.
- And much more!
Tentative Schedule
Friday, April 14
Registration - 3:00pm
Reception - 5:00pm
Banquet - 7:00pm Saturday, April 15
Breakfast - 8:30am
Lunch - 12:00pm
Banquet - 6:30pm
Sunday, April 16
Breakfast - 9:00am
(you'll want to stay for this--we've got great speakers lined up including
Hector Avalos!)
Convention concludes by 12:00pm
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