Schedule
Location: Research I, room 163.
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- Registration and Introduction: (9:00 am - 10:00 am)
- Session I: Violence and Aesthetics (10:00 am - 11:00 am)
- Michelle Yee, University of Connecticut: "The Dark Side of Cute."
- Eric Vazquez, Literary & Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University: "The Disastrous Sublime: Photography and the Figure of Globalization."
- Session II: Structural Violence (11:15 am - 12:45 pm)
- Srinath Jayaram, Department of Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "Thresholds of Modernity: Political Technologies of Life and Death on the Urban-Rural Frontier in India."
- Nuh Yilmaz, PhD Program in Cultural Studies, George Mason University, "Violence, Humanism and Human Rights."
- Elaine Kelly, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University: "Sovereign Hospitality: Negotiating Violence at the Border."
- Lunch 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm
- Keynote Speaker: Robin Wagner-Pacifici (1:30 pm - 2:30 pm)
- Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College, author of The Art of Surrender, Theorizing the Standoff, and Discourse and Destruction, Dr. Wagner-Pacifici is interested in the "Analysis of interstitial moments in social and political contexts (including standoffs and surrenders), with a methodological approach that includes discourse analysis, semiotic analysis of visual material, and hermeneutics."
- Session III: (Re) Narrating Violence (2:45 pm - 3:45 pm)
- Annette M. Rodríguez, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico: "The Noose That Built the Nation: Recovering the History of Mexican Lynching in the Southwest."
- Ebru Aykut, Bogazici University: "Denied Feminine Subjectivity: Murderous Wives in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire."
- Session IV: War (4:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
- Robert Gehl, PhD Program in Cultural Studies, George Mason University: "Rules of Engagement: Abu Ghraib and Ohio's Issue One."
- Andrew Culp, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University: "Virtuous Bombs: The Mechanical Eye and Friction Embodied in the Gulf."