Welcome and Registration opens at 4:30pm in Boca Marriott Lobby/Bar
Welcome Dinner at the Boca Marriott, 6pm, with Plenary Panel to follow
6:30pm: Plenary Panel in honor of Teresa Brennan
Moderated by Lauren Guilmette (Florida Atlantic University)
- Welcome from Michael Horswell (Associate Dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, Florida Atlantic University)
- Introductory Remarks by Lalita Janke (Board President, US National Committee on UN Women), “Equal Pay: Stepping It Up for Gender Equality”
- Introductory Remarks by Mary Murphy (Pembroke Center Archivist, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University)
- Jane Caputi (Florida Atlantic University), “Imitation of Death: The Ecological Theory of Teresa Brennan”
- Kyoo Lee (City University of New York), “uVibe: with Brennan, Q, Simondon…”
8-11pm Reception and Cash Bar at the Boca Marriott
Friday, March 31st
Culture and Society Building (CU), 3rd floor, at Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
Registration, Coffee, and Light Breakfast, 8:15-9am
Session One: 9 – 10:30am
AH 205) Trauma and Mourning
Moderated by Erica Nelson (Florida Atlantic University)
- Andrea Long Chu (New York University), “Study in Blue: Trauma, Affect, Event in Claudia Rankine and Emma Sulkowicz”
- Ege Selin Islekel (Loyola Marymount University), “Haunting Dead: Necropolitical Practices of Mourning”
CU 321) Politics and Grief
Moderated by Quin Rich (Emory University)
- William Paris (Pennsylvania State University), “Black Grief and the Politics of Time”
- Jennifer Scuro (College of New Rochelle), “The Politics of Grief”
CU 321 A) Rethinking Solidarity
Moderated by Rachel Copley (Florida Atlantic University)
- Barbara Fultner (Denison University) “Affect and Solidarity”
- Gary Lee Pelletier (York University), “On Solidarity Wishes”
CU 301) Affective Economies and Response Ethics
Moderated by Adriel Trott (Wabash College)
- Shiloh Whitney (Fordham University), “Two feminist theories of affective economies: Ahmed and Brennan on circulation and transmission”
- Ellie Anderson (Muhlenberg College), “The imaginary space between us: Response Ethics and Affect Theory”
Session Two: 10:45am – 12:15pm
AH 205) Bodily Habits and Meanings
Moderated by Ashley Williams (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
- Céline Leboeuf (Florida International University), “Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: The Practice of Mindfulness”
- Jacob Rump (Boston University), “Motivations beyond words: Affect Scripts and Embodied Meaning”
CU 321) Disrupting and Challenging Norms
Moderated by Chris Ma (Villanova University)
- Celiese Lypka (University of Calgary), “Anxiety, Aliens, Alliances: Disrupting the Feminine through Divergence”
- María de la C. Salvador López (DePaul University), “Failing to Resign: Generative Failure and the Challenging of Norms”
CU 321 A) The Politics and Ethics of Ableism: From Thought-Experiments to Murder
Moderated by Christine Wieseler (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern School of Medicine)
- Joel Michael Reynolds (Emory University), “The Silence of the Abled: Kristeva, Levinas, and the Sagamihara 19”
- Ally Peabody (University of California, Los Angeles), “Would de-ableizing thought experiments destabilize philosophy?”
CU 301) U.S. Political Affect, Sports, and Race
Moderated by Kira Apple (Florida Atlantic University)
- Jana McAuliffe (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), “A taste for the political: aesthetics, race, and U.S. partisan politics”
- Erin Tarver (Emory University), “Bigger Than Football: Nostalgia, White Trauma, and Sports Fan Affect”
Lunch Session 12:15 – 1:30pm
CU 301) Pedagogy for Critical Consciousness in the Age of Trump – Lunch Discussion
- Moderated by Karen Leader (FAU), Devonya Havis (Canisius College), Jennifer Scuro (College of New Rochelle)
Lunch on your own at FAU (on-campus options): 12:15 – 1:30pm
Session Three: 1:30 – 3:15pm
AH 205) Vulnerability, Ethics, Politics
Moderated by Lynne Huffer (Emory University)
- Jana Sawicki (Williams College), “Queer Ethical Gestures: Vulnerability, Erotics, and the Impersonal”
- Falguni Sheth (Emory University) “Race, Vulnerability, and Violence”
- Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University), “Methodological Vulnerability”
AL 338) Environmental Justice Panel organized by FAU Philosophy Club (2-5pm)
Moderated by Benjamin Magee (Florida Atlantic University)
- Irene Klaver (University of North Texas), “Metis & Mood: Women Water Crosscurrents”
- Oli Stephano (Fordham University), “Affect, Ethics, and Ecology”
- Shaheen Moosa (North Central College), “Indifference and Climate Change”
- Jane Caputi, Screening of Feed the Green (2015)
Session Four: 3:30 – 5:15pm
AH 205) Latina Feminist Approaches to Affect, Selfhood, and Coloniality
Moderated by Andrea Pitts (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
- Emma Velez (Pennsylvania State University) "En Estos Tiempos de La Llorona, An Ethics of Our Time"
- Denise Meda (Mount Saint Mary's University) "La Mexicana and Lived Experience: Revisiting La Malinche and Mexicana Selfhood"
- Lori Gallegos de Castillo (Texas State University) "Affective Tools for Epistemic Aims: Loving Perception and Solidarity in Latina Feminist Philosophy"
CU 321) Affective Resistance in the Wake of Precarious Life
Moderated by Jonathan Jackson (Recent FAU Graduate / AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
- Alice Everly (McGill University), “Lies, Love, and Statistics: Building Coalition in Dark Times”
- Omari Weekes (Willamette University), “Sick and Tired and The Being of Sick and Tired”
- Quin Rich (Emory University), “Make the Present Strange Again: Cultivating a Political Ethics of Anxiety”
CU 321 A) Refiguring Sexual Violence: On Grief, Shame, and Willing Otherwise
Moderated by Noëlle McAfee (Emory University)
- Leila Whitley (University of Konstanz), “Narratives of Harm: Sexual Harassment in the University”
- Debra Bergoffen (American University), “The Genocidal Politics of Rape-Shame”
- Kit Connor (Miami University of Ohio), “Willing Grief Otherwise”
AH 209) Workshop: On the Idea of Vulnerability: Queer Theory, Ethics and Politics
Moderated by Jana Sawicki (Williams), Falguni Sheth (Emory) and Dianna Taylor (JCU)
- Randi Nixon (University of Alberta) “Pride and the Affective Politics of Laughter”
- Erinn Gilson (University of North Florida), “The Problems and Potentials of Vulnerability”
- Tiffany Tsantsoulas (Pennsylvania State University), “Narrating Different Genres of the Vulnerable Human”
- Stephanie Koziej (Emory University), “In Search of Adult Erotic Tenderness”
5:30pm, FAU University Theater — Keynote Lecture
Sara Ahmed: “Snap! From Feminist Moments to Feminist Movements”
Reception to follow, 7-9pm in the Performing Arts Building outside the Schmidt Gallery, with gallery tours generously hosted by FAU University Galleries
Saturday, April 1
Culture and Society Building (CU), 3rd floor, at Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
Coffee and Light Breakfast, 8:30 – 9:15am
Session Five: 9:15 – 10:45am
AH 205) Anger, Resentment, and Justice
Moderated by Kira Apple (Florida Atlantic University)
- Heidi Samuelson (Sweet Briar College), “Resentment, Populism, and Economic Injustice”
- Tamsin Kimoto (University of Memphis and Emory University), “Fielding Anger: From Universal Political Emotion to Contextual Political Affect”
CU 321) Contagion and Abjection **PowerPoint Projection
Moderated by Stephanie Flint (Florida Atlantic University)
- Abby Kluchin (Ursinus College), “Fragile Readers: Textual Contagion in Kristeva and Duras”
- Sofia Varino (Stony Brook University), “Disassembling the Subject: Monstrous Leaks & Environmental Abjection in Todd Haynes’s Film Safe”
CU 321 A) The Politics of Mourning
Moderated by Lilyana Levy (Emory University)
- Noëlle McAfee (Emory University), “Fear of Breakdown and the Work of Mourning”
- David Pena-Guzman (Johns Hopkins University), “Primate Affects: Can Non-Human Animals Mourn?”
CU 301) Aesthetic Resistance in the Prison Industrial Complex
Moderated by Elisabeth Pacquette (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
- Stephanie Holt (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “The Aesthetic Dimension of the Prison Industrial Complex: Rendering the Invisible Visible Through Art”
- Wendy Hinshaw (Florida Atlantic University), “Why I Write Across Bars”
Session Six: 11am – 12:30pm
AH 205) Identity and Desire
Moderated by Emily Parker (Towson University)
- Desiree Valentine (Marquette University), “Identities as Possibilities: On the Conceptual Structure of ‘Identity’ as Liberatory”
- Sarah Lachance Adams (University of Wisconsin, Superior), “Outline for a Political Phenomenology of Desire”
CU 321) Postcolonial Theories of Trauma, Death, Utopia **Skype (A/V Projection)
Moderated by Kailin Regutti (Florida Atlantic University)
- Namita Goswami (Indiana State University), “Ek Baat, Saari Baat: Flesh, Death, and Utopia” ** Skype Session
- Sujaya Dhanvantari (Concordia University), “Colonial Trauma and Psychic Disaffection Today”
CU 321 A) Bodies in Movement: Protest, Performance, and Historical Memory
Moderated by Clarence Brooks (Florida Atlantic University)
- Ashley S. Williams (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “Black Bodies that Matter”
- Ximena Keogh Serrano (University of Colorado at Boulder), “Beating Archives, How Latin@ Artists Build Spaces to Recordar”
CU 301) Cultures of Surveillance: From the Closet to the State **PowerPoint Projection
Moderated by Sterling Da Silva (Florida Atlantic University)
- Luke Wilson (Florida Atlantic University), “Liberty Post-Liberty University: The Ethics of Coming Out after Gay Reparative Therapy”
- Shelley Park (University of Central Florida), “Helicopter Moms and Smart Homes: Fear of the (M)other in the Surveillance State”
Catered Lunch – free for all registered participants
12:30 – 2: Business Meeting, open to all (CU 301)
Session Seven: 2 – 5pm (as needed):
AH 205) Frantz Fanon: Human, Body, Colony
Moderated by Johan Vasquez (Florida Atlantic University)
- Axelle Karera (Wesleyan University), “The Unthinkability of Black Affect: A Lesson from Fanon”
- Romy Opperman (Pennsylvania State University), "Property and Properties of Humanity in Frantz Fanon and Saidiya Hartman"
- Kimberly Ann Harris (Pennsylvania State University), “Fanon’s Theory of Self-Constitution as Failed Hegelian Recognition”
- Emily Parker (Towson University), “Latour's Crisis, Fanon's Justice”
CU 321) Affect and Political Action
Moderated by Stephanie Alvarez (Florida Atlantic University)
- Cynthia Willett (Emory University), “The Belly Laugh: A Catharsis of Slut Shame and Other Negative Emotions”
- Marta Jimenez (Emory University), “Aristotle on Anger and Indignation as the Motives for Revolution”
- Katherine Howard (Emory University), “Shame, Responsibility, and ‘Being Moved’ to Act: Affect and Response in Butler”
- Taina Figueroa (Emory University), “‘Oigan mi gente’: Community Pride and Political Action”
PA 101) Resistant Affects: On Building Active Intolerance against the Intolerable
Moderated by Kyoo Lee (City University of New York)
- Natalie Cisneros (Seattle University)
- Stephen Dillon (Hampshire College)
- Andrew Dilts (Loyola Marymount University)
- Andrea Pitts (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
- Falguni Sheth (Emory University)
- Perry Zurn (University of Pennsylvania)
CU 301) Book Panel: Melinda Hall, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
Moderated by Jennifer Scuro (College of New Rochelle)
- Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar / Coordinator, Discrimination and Disadvantage)
- Jane Dryden (Mount Allison University)
- Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond)
- Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton University)
- Response – Melinda Hall (Stetson University)
5:15pm, PA 101 – Social Justice Plenary Panel
Moderated by Lauren Guilmette (Florida Atlantic University)
- Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar/Coordinator, Discrimination and Disadvantage blog), “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability”
- Devonya Havis (Canisius College), “The ‘Dangerous Individual’, ‘Race’, and the Possibility of Social Justice”
- Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond), “After Genealogy: Propriety, Community, Materiality”
Reception to follow, 7:15-9pm in the Performing Arts Building outside the Schmidt Gallery, with tours generously hosted by FAU University Galleries
For more details about the conference, go here.
Organized by Lauren Guilmette and Robert Leib, Florida Atlantic University
(Please forward any conference inquiries to Lauren at: lguilmette@fau.edu)
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