Calendar 2008 | Matt Hern

Matt in Fort Good Hope Matt tours and lectures pretty much year-round. Here is where he is speaking or appearing in the near future, but dates and cities are added often. To book him, just drop him a line at the address below. His fees are on a sliding scale between $1000 - $3000.

There are a variety of topics Matt speaks on and at any given time he usually has five or six lectures going.

Right now they are:

Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn’t Always Better - there are four versions of this talk all of which are related to his new book: 1) a general argument drawing together a number of threads around risk theory, the uses of safety, community control and resisting authoritarian expansion; 2) one which is specifically about kids; 3) one which is specifically about urban planning and design; 4) one which is around community security and the commons
Possibility in the Face of Probability – deschooling and alternatives-to-school as reimagining and remaking a freer, more respectful and more democratic society
Deschooling and Social Justice – why deschooling has to be thought of a social justice movement towards self-determination – not just another lifestyle option.
Radically democratic urbanism – the world is rapidly becoming urbanized and in many ways cities are our ecological hope: what might a radically democratic and participatory urbanism might look like and how to get there.
The Promise of Democratic Schools – what the democratic school movement looks like worldwide, why it matters, and how it can mean more than just a few nice schools
Social Ecology and Counter Institutions – social ecology suggests that the domination of the natural world by humans flows directly from the domination of human by human. Matt suggests that only by building networks of radically democratic counter-institutions can we begin to imagine an ecological society.

Those are the lectures that Matt has all good-to-go, but they are hardly set in stone (!). If there is something specific you want him to discuss/address, or a variation on the above, don’t hesitate to ask.

Here’s his 2008 schedule as it stands right now:

January to April – Simon Fraser – Global Cities, Urban Studies course

Feb 27th to 28th – Red Deer, Alberta – Social Planning Conference

March 6th – Richmond, BC – Richmond PAC

March 15th – Portland, OR – Village Free School

April 21st – Worcester, MA -Stone Soup Centre

April 22nd – Boston – Cambridge Public Library

April 24th – Little Falls, NJ – Teddy McArdle Free School

April 27th – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Free School

April 28th – New York, NY – Calhoun School

May 3rd – Thetis Island, BC – BC Paddlers Conference

May 5th to July 18th – Vancouver, BC at UBC – Media education courses