FINAL SCHEDULE
10:30 – 10:45 am: Welcome
10:45 – 12:00 pm Panel I : World Order and Disorder
- Chair: Professor Caroline Hong
- Noah Baum, “Tidalectic Intersubjectivity: Caribbean and Black Models of Oceanic Being”
- Amanda Long, “From Slow Death to Revolutionary Awakening: Melancholia as Dialectical Image”
- Sana Younis, “Critical Resistance: Imagining Muslim Worlds in Speculative Fiction”
12:15 – 1:30 Panel II: Suspensions of Time and Space
- Chair: Professor Omari Weekes
- Zaira Bardos, “Marginal Worlds: Redefining “Home” Within the Filipina Body”
- Brandon Borcoman, “The Swerve That Started It All”
- Julie Goodale, “Taking Up Space: Extending the Document into Multiple Dimensions”
- Sarina Sandwell, “Critical Fabulation as Utopian Hypothesis in Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives”
1:45 – 2:45 Lunch (Klapper Hall 710)
3:00 – 4:15 Panel III: Remaking Institutions
- Chair: Professor Chamara Moore
- Hayley Blair, “Captain America v. Peacemaker”
- Richard Prins, “Kusadikika and Walenisi: The Purpose of Utopia in the Swahili Novel”
- Sal Sayema,“Leaving Machine Politics: Demanding Bangladeshi Student Autonomy”
- Elle Schwetz, “Awareness, Apparatuses, Alienation, and Aliens!: Applying Theory of Ahmed, Althusser, and Marx to Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’”
430 – 6:00 Panel IV: Afterlives of Empire
- Chair: Professor Megan Paslawski
- Lily Alvarado, “From Bushwick to Portland: Bori Girls of the Diaspora Revolutionizing Puerto Rican Narrative”
- Kayla Baur, “Mixed Feelings: The Emotional Appeals of Zitkala-sa’s American Indian Stories”
- Lilian Chines Marzo, “Mother-Daughter Dynamics Towards a ‘Broken Language’ Repaired”
- Yasmin Tehrani, “Ocean Vuong’s Entanglements in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
6:00 – 6:45 Closing Reception & Awards (Klapper Hall 610)
7:00 – 8:30 NK Jemisin Reading (Godwin-Ternbach Museum)
Masks encouraged!
