Conferences

An Intern's Reflection on the SSA New England Leadership Summit

Submitted by nsmauger on Tue, 2010-04-20 13:09.
 by Nathaniel Mauger

Oftentimes, internships burden students with tedious unenviable tasks that dull the mind and leave the intern feeling bored and underutilized. Fortunately for me, the Secular Student Alliance does not emulate this practice. Starting April 16th, The Secular Student Alliance hosted the 2010 New England Leadership Summit at Harvard University, and I was thrilled to accompany them. The summit featured sessions focused on a multitude of issues facing secular s tudent groups and the movement in general. Preparing student leaders to facilitate cooperation with other campus groups, come up with interesting programming ideas, and get people to meetings were a few of the many topics discussed at the summit. The summit struck a balance between introducing new speakers with fresh perspectives on the direction of the movement and providing access to established freethought leaders such as Greg Epstein, Rebecca Goldstein, and Greta Christina.

Secular Student Alliance 2010 Annual Conference - July 23-25, Columbus OH

Submitted by Lyz on Sun, 2010-02-07 04:36.

Ohio UnionThe Secular Student Alliance 2010 Annual Conference was held July 23-25 in Columbus OH, hosted by Students for Freethought at the Ohio State University. Our annual conference is the largest event held by the Secular Student Alliance and attracts student leaders from all over the U.S. and around the world.  Attendees had the opportunity to learn great group-running skills, network with other student leaders, meet with leaders of the freethought movement, and more!

Read about the conference at http://www.secularstudents.org/node/3207.

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Secular Student Alliance Northern California Regional Leadership Summit: Stanford University

Submitted by Lyz on Sun, 2009-11-08 05:10.

The Secular Student Alliance is proud to announce its first-ever Regional Leadership Summit, to be held Feb. 12-14, 2010.  The summit will be hosted by the Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics (AHA!) at Stanford University in Stanford, CA.  This weekend session is a great opportunity for student leaders to fine-tune their group-running skills, meet other leaders from the area, network with local off-campus organizations, and have a great time!

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Secular Student Alliance 2009 Conference Audio Now Online!

Submitted by Lyz on Fri, 2009-10-23 13:36.
Conference AudioThe Audio Archives from the 2009 Secular Student Alliance Conference are now online!  Whether you missed the conference or just want to hear your favorite talk again, head to our conference Audio Archives to listen to the talks in an easy-to-use, iPod-compatible .mp3 format. 
 
Hear talks from movement leaders such as Sean Faircloth (Secular Coalition for America), Dan Barker (Freedom From Religion Foundation), Fred Edwords (United Coalition of Reason), and many more.  Learn to run your student group with talks on Getting People to Meetings, Cooperating with Off-campus Groups, and Succession Planning.  And don't miss PZ Myers' keynote presentation, "Counting Coup on Creationism."
 
The Audio Archive also includes our conference talks from previous years' conferences.  Check it out today!
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Secular Student Alliance Trip to the Creation Museum Documented in Skeptics Among Us: Atheists Visit the Creation Museum

Submitted by august on Sat, 2009-08-08 06:36.

On August 7th, 2009, over 300 atheists, agnostics, humanists, and freethinkers participated in the Secular Student Alliance's group trip to the Creation Museum with science blogger PZ Myers.  Around the Secular Student Alliance office, our favorite part so far is that Ken Ham (founder of Answers in Genesis, the organization behind the museum) actually wrote on his official blog that our own Lyz Liddell "she was a pleasure to deal with—always courteous and polite—what one would expect from a professional organizer."  The event has was also covered by both the ABC and USA Today news blogs and Science + Religion Today.

Independent video producer Paige E. Malott came with us that day and she made her own 30-minute video about our trip titled Skeptics Among Us: Atheists Visit the Creation Museum.  Enjoy!

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Secular Student Alliance Creation Museum Trip Highlighted on ABC News

Submitted by august on Sun, 2009-08-02 22:02.

ABC News covered the Secular Student Alliance's Creation Museum Trip.  You can read the story here until we get permission to reprint it on the site.

In the meantime, if you'd like to support the SSA and the work we do, please consider making a donation and help us spread reason and science to students across the country.

The Secular Student Alliance 2009 Conference: Freethinking Friends & Secular Cephalopods

Submitted by Amber.Scott on Sat, 2009-07-25 19:00.
 
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 Conference attendees getting down with their cephalopod selves!

Conference Early Registration Rates Extended!

Submitted by Lyz on Thu, 2009-06-25 21:59.

Great news!  Because of the recent surge in new events and conference information, we've extended the early registration rates for the SSA's 2009 Conference until Friday, July 10!  If you haven't registered yet, you can still take advantage of early registration rates.

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The Secular Student Alliance Is Sending PZ Myers to the Creation Museum

Submitted by Lyz on Mon, 2009-05-18 04:17.
PZ MyersAnyone who follows PZ Myers' blog Pharyngula knows how he feels about Ken Ham's infamous, biblically-literal Creation Museum.  However, all his observations have been made from afar...until now!

At 10:00am on Friday, August 7, in conjunction with the 2009 SSA Conference, the Secular Student Alliance will be sponsoring PZ Myers to take a one day, in-person tour of the Creation Museum! 

Secular Student Alliance 2009 Conference Registration Now Open!

Submitted by Lyz on Sat, 2009-05-09 07:37.

Register today for the Secular Student Alliance 2009 Conference!

  • Humanists form Four ContinentsHappy Hour and keynote speech with PZ Myers.
  • "How to Debate" with Dan Barker.
  • Meet the new Executive Director for the Secular Coalition for America.
  • Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist, talks about his new summer project.
  • Solve your group's problems with advice from your peers.
  • Meet and network with secular student group leaders from all over the country.
  • And much more!

Sound like a great opportunity? It's the Secular Student Alliance's 2009 Conference! Events run from August 7 - 9, 2009 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

REGISTER NOW!

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