Conference Program

(All times are presented in Pacific Time)

Panels and Keynote will be hybrid

friday | april 8th

*Please read our conference guide for information on participating in the conference 

8:00 am – 9:30 am Graduate Student Workshop + Meditation. SBSG 1517. 

9:30 am – 10:00 am Coffee + Tea Break. SBSG 1517.

10:00 am – 11:30 am Panel 1: Characterizing Crisis with Dr. Valerie Olson. Zoom & SBSG 1517

Aaron Hopes  Extinction and the Eerie: Getting Help from Ghosts of American Militarism Abroad for Rethinking Forms of Spectrality and Haunting in the Anthropocene Imagination

Hunter Kennedy Idioms of American Crisis: Climate, Industry, and Salvage

Emma Pask Bats Under the Bridge, Crisis in the Corridor

11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch Break. SBSG 1517. 

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Panel 2: Care, Solidarities and Refusals with Dr. Sal Zarate. Zoom & SBSG 1517

Céline Eschenbrenner Crisis and the Ethics of Inaction

Sarah Kayali Tithes and Trust: A Study on the Intersection of Zakat and Mutual Aid Projects

Sarah Mellman Beyond Crisis: Red Beans and Mutual Aid in New Orleans

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Panel 3: Conditions of Possibility with Dr. Justin Richland. SBSG 1517 & Zoom.

Scott Jung & Darwin Rodriguez  The Stakes of “Crisis,” or Who Cares?

Juwon Lee Built Nature and Ecological Livabilities: Imagining Life and Death of the Han River Urban Ecologies

Matt Schneider ​​The University and the Police: Accountability at Large

Isabelle Soifer Racialization and University Land Policy in the Smart City

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Social Hour. SBSG 1517.  

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Evening Keynote & Q&A: Framing Crisis with Dr. Janet Roitman. Zoom & SBSG 1517. Introduction by Dr. Mei Zhan.

 

The PDF of the 2022 Conference Program is HERE.

Make sure to also read our Conference Guide!