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TheTenthAnnualMeetingofthe CulturalStudiesAssociation(US) CULTURE MATTERS UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego LaJolla,CA March29March31,2012

Conference Schedule
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012

T11 A
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:OnSpeculation:Fiction,Finance,andFuturity CLOSEDSEMINAR Director: AimeeBahng,DartmouthUniversity Participants: ReginaYungLee,UCRiverside GrantOtsuki,UniversityofToronto SonjaSchillings,FreeUniversityofBerlin AlexisLothian,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia JohnAndrews,CityUniversityofNewYork MichelleYates,UCDavis MykaAbramson,SimonFraserUniversity LeighClaireLaBerge,UniversityofChicago RickyCrano,OhioStateUniversity ChristopherPatterson,UniversityofWashington TravisSands,UniversityofWashington

T11 B
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:QueerEphemera,QueerArchives Chair:TomRoach,BryantUniversity Panelists: NicholasdeVilliers,UniversityofNorthFlorida QueerTactics:Interviews,Mediation,Remediations TomRoach,BryantUniversity WhateverFriends:TheMusickedBodyandthePoliticsofUnrepresentabilityinBobOstertags AlltheRage LucasHildebrand,UCIrvine ArchivesinBlackLeather:PreservingGayCinemasPornographicHistory RobertSummers,OtisCollegeofArt LookingOtherwise:QueerArchival,Materialist,&HistoricalPracticesofVaginalDavis

T11 C
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:ClimateChangeand NewArtPracticesonLandscapesandthePolarRegions Chair:JuditHersko,CaliforniaStateUniversitySanMarcos Panelists: JuditHersko,CaliforniaStateUniversitySanMarcos AnnasCabinetofCuriosities:fromtheseriesPagesfromtheBookoftheUnknown Explore(r?)

LisaE.Bloom,UCSanDiego FeministLandscapesandClimateChange:TheAestheticsofDisappearanceatthePoles MarkoPeljhan,UCSantaBarbara ArcticPerspectiveInitiative(API)

T11 D
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:CreativeCritique:MakingSeriousDigitalMedia ROUNDTABLE Chair:JamieSkyeBianco,UniversityofPittsburgh Participants: ErinR.Anderson,UniversityofPittsburgh KerryBanazek,UniversityofPittsburgh LaurenRaeHall,UniversityofPittsburgh TrishaRedCampbell,UniversityofPittsburgh

T11 E
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:VisualCulturesofBlood VISUALCULTUREDIVISION Chair:CathyHannabach,UniversityofPittsburgh Panelists: KathyHigh,RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute BloodWars DrewAyers,GeorgiaStateUniversity

DrawingBlood:SurfaceandDepthinDNAPortraitsandHumanMigrationMaps DahliaSchweitzer,ArtInstitute Hollywood TheBloodyandtheViral:ContaminationandDecayinCindyShermansOfficeKiller CathyHannabach,UniversityofPittsburgh BleedingIdentities:TheRacialandSexualPoliticsofBloodDriveActivism

T11 F
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:YouthCultures Chair:YaelWarshel Panelists: JaimyMann ChildrensCountingBooksandRacialViolence AndreaM.Dominguez IndigenousSplash:(Re)ConsideringIndianPresenceandAbsenceinModernAgeComics ChristopherPatterson TheGamificationofNeoRacism:BiowaresDragonAgeandMassEffectSeries

T11 G
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:RethinkingtheSyllabus SEMINAR(Open) Directors:JillianSandell,SanFranciscoStateUniversityandCharlieBertsch,ArizonaState University

Participants: PatrickDacey,Virginia,CommonwealUniversity NatalieWilson,CaliforniaStateSanMarcos BethCorzoDuchardt,NorthwesternUniversity

T11 H
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:DecenteringtheHuman Chair: Panelists: JanetWirthCauchon,DrakeUniversity Relationality,VitalMatter,andAnimalDeath:NewMaterialismandthePhotographsatMidway Atoll TerraEggink,UCSanDiego PrehumanismandPosthumanism:NonhumanAnimalsonTrial LaurieMoberg,UniversityofMinnesota BeyondtheRiverbanks:ReImaginingHumanEntanglementswithWaterthroughThailands FloodedRivers MarkPizzato CultureintheBrainMatter:TheatricalStructuresoftheHumanMind

T11 I
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:BackdropofWar:TheFilmsofWorldWarI MEDIAANDCINEMADIVISION

Chair:PaulGaustad,GeorgiaPerimeterCollege Participant: ThomasE.Graham,GeorgiaPerimeterCollege

T11 J
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:IsCulturalStudiesGoodEnoughing? Chair:DebbieBrown,GonzangaUniversity Panelists: PeterFreeman,UniversityofWashingtonBothell UrbanPlunceandHomelessness:ADiscourseinDifference AmandaMartinSandino,UCSanDiego GimpifyingtheCulturalStudiesCrip TiffanyMurray,UniversityofWashingtonBothell EducationinDevelopingCommunities:DevelopmentandAdvancementorNeoliberal Colonialism?

T11 K
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:SubstanceofStyle Chair:TBA Panelists: TaylorBlack,RutgersUniversity

AHopelessCase:Quentin CrispandtheArtofProfessionalFailure MelissaPeck,PurdueUniversity DocumentL85:CreatingandContainingtheFemaleBodyDuringWWII JohnVilanova,UniversityofKansas SurfersforSale:TheEndlessSummerandtheCommodificationofAmericanSubculture BenSegal,UCSanDiegoandtheEuropeanGraduateSchool AMaterialistPoeticsoftheSentence:OnGaryLutz

T11 L
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:SpacesofVulnerability,SpacesofHealing:Race,Performance,andNation Chair:TriaAndrews,UCBerkeley Panelists: TriaAndrews,UCBerkeley RaceandYogainthePrisonIndustrialComplex MariaFaini,UCBerkeley MilitarismthroughInternetSockPuppetry AngelaAguilar,UCBerkeley MeditationasDecolonizedHealing TalaKhanmalek,UCBerkeley WomynsCircleandMultipleOppressions:BecomingVulnerabletoHeal

T11 M
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA

Title:ConsideringFoodStudiesResearchfromaCulturalStudiesApproach Chair:ElisaOcerguera Panelists: StephanieMaroney,UCDavis ACaseofCookbooks:GenderandMaterialCulture TrishaBarua,UCDavis ACaseofTraderJoes:CulturalConsumptionandInvisibleLabor ElisaOcerguera,UCDavis ACaseofFarmLabor:RightsDiscourseandTransPolitics

T11 N
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:ViolenceMatters:TheRepresentationofGlobal(Dis)EncountersinContemporary HispanicFilm Chair:RobertoPonceCordero,UniversityofPittsburgh Panelists: RobertoPonceCordero,University ofPittsburgh DetectivesCreatingTheTruth:OntheFilmicAttemptstoMakeSenseofGenderViolencein CiudadJurez JungwonPark,UniversityofNorthernColorado NoWayOut,Otherwise:TheRepresentationofDrugTraffickersinRecentMexicanFilms RafaelPonceCordero,CentralMichiganUniversity TalentodeBarrio,or,TheReturnoftheSocialBanditintheEraofGlobalizationReggaeton Style LizardoHerrera,WhittierCollege BiutifulandGlobal(Dis)Encounters:NotesforaContemporaryCritiqueofViolence

T11 O
Thursday,11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:ResistingInstitutionalBarriersinEducation:DimensionsofCulture,Summer Bridge,andTRIOasThreePotentialSitesofResistance Roundtable Chair:JorgeMariscal,UCSanDiego Participants: FnannKeflezighi,UCSanDiego VioletaSanchez,UCSanDiego NiallTwohig,UCSanDiego PatrickVelasquez,UCSanDiego

T12 A
Thursday12:002:00pm Location:TBA LateralMeeting

T2 A
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:CulturalStudiesinCrisisRivenTimes Chair:KelleyGates,UCSanDiego Panelists:

RichardMaxwell,QueensCollege,andTobyMiller,UCRiverside GreeningCulturalLabor:TheFutureofMediaAccounting CharlesThorpe,UCSanDiego ArtificialLifeonaDeadPlanet MarisaBrandt,UCSanDiego TheUltimateDisplaytoTheUltimateSkinnerBox:VirtualRealityandtheFutureof Psychotherapy JackBratich,Rutgers FromAudiencestoMediaSubjectivities:MutantsintheInterregnum

T2 B
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:ReadingMaterial:GraphicNarrative,ClassicLiterature,andReimaginingtheBook Chair:JamesF.Wurtz,IndianaStateUniversity Panelists: JamesF.Wurtz,IndianaStateUniversity ReimaginingthebookinAlanMooresFromHellandLeagueofExtraordinaryMen JakeJakaitis,IndianaStateUniversity GraphicNovelorSequentialArt:WordandImageintheAdaptationsof Fahrenheit451andDo AndroidsDreamofElectricSheep MichaelMillington,IndianaStateUniversity ThePlayWithintheFrame:TheImplosionofShakespeareinY:TheLastMan

T2 C
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA

Title:CulturesofColonialism Chair:TBA Panelists: AyhanAytes,UCSanDiego TheOtherintheMachine:EnlightenmentAutomata,CognitiveApparatusandMechanization oftheMind Dr.K.SripadBhat,GOAUniversity,India Colonialism,ModernityandCulture:HistoricisingYakshagana AdamKatz,SUNYStonyBrook TheQueensIndianDefense:ChessinVictorianEnglishLiterature

T2 D
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:FraughtIncorporations:ReconsideringProductionandConsumptioninPopular Culture Chair:PriscillaLeiva,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Panelists: KaiM.Green,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia MeetingMyselffortheFirstTime:SonicReflections(Re)MakingoftheBlackSubject JessicaYoung,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia APictureisWorthaThousandWordsSoisA Joke,ASong,andATouchdown PriscilaLeiva,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia WhereEveryoneComesTogether:AConsiderationofDifferenceintheStadium SriyaShrestha,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia ProducingGlobalization:UnderstandingConsumptionthroughCommodityChainsacrossthe UnitedStatesandIndia

T2 E
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:MuseumSpaces Chair:TBA Panelists: LyndseyBeutin,UniversityofPennsylvania TheMaterialityofSpaceinthePennMuseum's"ImagineAfrica"Project AleksandraBida,RyersonUniversityandYorkUniversity TheMuseumHome:MaterialityandMemorializationinTimothyTaylor'sStoryHouse LizGomez,AthabascaUniversity ExhibitingAffect:ACaseStudyinMaterialEncountersandCuratorialPractice LaurelFriedman,UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego TheWellcomeCollection:MaterialityYieldingDialogisminMuseums

T2 F
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:Youth,IdentityandPower:DiscourseofTransnationalChildrensTelevision GLOBALISMSDIVISION Chair:MattSienkiewicz,GettysburgCollege Panelists: KristinMoran,UniversityofSanDiego ChildrensTelevisioninMexico:Delocalization,Glocalization,andMexicaness

LindsayGarrison,UniversityofWisconsinMadison WhenYouWishUponaGlobalStar:DisneyWorldwide,SelenaGomez,andTransnational Appeal MattSienkiewicz,GettysburgCollege MediaasChildAbuse: DiscursiveStrugglesandTransnationalSocialAdvocacyNetworks

T2 G
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:Legacies,MemoryandIdentityoftheGreatWar CULTUREANDWARDIVISION Chair:KarenSelbey,BaruchCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Panelists: EmmanuelDebruyne,UniversitdeLouvain OnBothSidesofDeath:TheExecutedResistersLastLettersandTheirLegacy.Franceand Belgium,19141918 JuliaWalleczek,UniversityofInnsbruck MarketNiches:WarTourismattheSouthwesternFrontlineof19151918 NicholasMartin,LoyolaUniversity TheLivingDead:MythsofLangemarckinGermany,19141933 LisaM.Budreau,NationalWorldWarIMuseum Repatriation,RemembranceandReturn:ThePoliticsofCommemorationinPostWarAmerica, 19191933 BruceJohnson,independentscholar,ScottsdalePresbyterianChurch FalconCircle:TheOriginsofaPaganWorshipSiteattheUnitedStatesAirForceAcademy

T2 H
Thursday2:003:45pm

Location:TBA Title:MakingKnowledgeCommon:PerspectivesonCulturalStudiesMethodologiesand thePoliticsoftheEveryday OrganizedbytheUCDavisCulturalStudiesGroup Chair:TallieBenDaniel,UCDavis Panelists: SaraBernstein,UCDavis TheDoubleLifeoftheAmericanShopgirl:ParallaxHistoriographyasaMethodforCultural Studies TerryPark,UCDavis RefusingEmpire:ACulturalStudiesHermeneuticsoftheKoreanDMZ TristanJosephson,UCDavis WritingViolence:CulturalStudiesandtheLaw

T2 I
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:Techknowledgies:Aseminarinquiryintothepoliticsandpracticeofpedagogyinan eraofenhancedtechnofetishisminhighereducation SEMINAR Directors: ErinSiodmak,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork StephenBoatright,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork PatriciaClough,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Participants: TomBuechele,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork TaraWarman,UniversityCollegeatVirginiaCommonwealthUniversity ChristinaNadler,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork KarenGregory,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork KimCunningham,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork

CarolynElerding,OhioStateUniversity SimoneKolysh,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork SeanJohnsonAndrews,ColumbiaCollege,Chicago IanPorter,UniversityofWashington,Bothell KarenRosenberg,UniversityofWashington,Bothell KarynHollis,VillanovaUniversity AlysonSpurgas,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork

T2 J
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:HistoriographicalMethodologiesinCulturalStudies Chair:RobertCarley,TexasA&MUniversity Panelists: SeanAndrews,ColumbiaCollege ThePropertiesofProperHistory:AMeditationonCulturalStudies,Methodology,andPolitics PabloAndrsCastagno,UniversidadNacionaldeLaMatanza,Argentina HistoricalPoliticalEconomyandCulturalStudies:Neoliberalism,StateFormations,and PeronisminArgentina1988thePresent ChristopherM.Sutch,WilliamPennUniversity TheTriumphofSpiritoverMatter:TheContradictionsandComplexitiesofWhyMenClimb Mountains RobertCarley,TexasA&MUniversity Gramsci'sAfterlives:AnHistoricalAnalysisofGramsci'sContributiontotheoriesofRaceand Ethnicity

T2 K
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA

Title:CulturesofWhiteness Chair:TBA Panelists: Dr.ReneeR.Curry WoodyAllen'sGrandScheme:TheWhiteningofManhattan,LondonandBarcelona TimChristensen WilliamBennett'sBookofRacialVirtue SusanaLoza MulticulturalMasquerade:TheResurgenceofMinstrelsyonAmericanCollegeCampuses DanielleShaw ScottPilgrimvs.WhitePrivilege:IronicIterationsofWhiteMasculinityinScottPilgrimvs.The World

T2 L
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:AnatomiesofExclusion Chair:TBA Panelists: MattFranks,UCDavis QueerEugenics:ReproductiveExceptionalismintheEssaysofEdithLeesEllis ChristyPottroff,FordhamUniversity HeadonCollusions:TheConsequencesoftheBody/BehaviorAssemblageonPhysical/Mental IllnessinEarlyModernScientia PeytonJoyce,GeorgeWashington University UneasyBodies:AffectiveEthicsandRuralAddictionin WintersBone

DeannaGross, IndianaUniversityBloomington "Chestburster"Children:SurrogacyandtheAlienSeries

T2 M
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA FILMSCREENING MeanWorldSyndrome:MediaViolenceandtheCultivationofFear MediaEducationFoundation

T2 N
Thursday2:003:45pm Location:TBA Title:NewConceptionsofSpace Chair:TBA Panelists: KatrinaPetersen,UCSanDiego EdgesandNetworks:ThePracticeofWildfireMappingandtheEmergenceofNewConceptions ofSpace JillAston,UniversityofTexas,Dallas TheRootsofGoodandEvil:ThePineandtheOakinEarlyAmericanLiterature MollyHankwitz, FlexibleConnections:LocationsandLanguagesofEmergingTechnologiesandNewMedia formsinUnderstandingDisciplines

T4 A
Thursday4:005:45pm

Location:TBA Title:HBOs TheWireasCritiqueofModernity:MaterialProblemsandtheDecaying UrbanLandscape Chair:MorganShipley,MichiganStateUniversity Panelists: NatalieGraham,MichiganStateUniversity NegotiatingAuthenticResistancein TheWire JackTaylor,MichiganStateUniversity TheWireandDisciplinaryTactics:TheSchoolasthePrisonIndustrialComplex MorganShipley,MichiganStateUniversity BodiesasStatistics:TheWire'sCritiqueofModernPolicing

T4 B
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:MaterialCultureintheClassroom:FosteringInterdisciplinaryPedagogies Roundtable CoChairs:LauraE.Ruberto,BerkeleyCityCollegeandSarahMiller,UniversityofChicago Participants: BetteHollis,DominicanUniversity CourtneyFullilove,WesleyanUniversity RubenMendoza,CalStateMonterreyBay

T4 C
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:MaterialitiesandDisciplines

Chair:ChandraMukerji,UCSanDiego Panelists: KellyGates,UCSanDiego DigitalMediaStudiesandtheMaterialityofDigitalPhotographs MarianFeldman,UCBerkeley TheMaterialityofStyleandArtHistory ChandraMukerji,UCSanDiego NonHumanAgencyandScienceandTechnologyStudies

T4 D
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:TheBody,Materiality,andaNewFeministFrameworkforFashionStudies CRITICALFEMINISTSTUDIESDIVISION Chair:SarahL.Rasmusson,UniversityofIllinoisatChampaignUrbana AnnemarieStrassel,YaleUniversity

T4 E
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:ContestingOwnership Chair:TBA Panelists: BrandonLoper,ClaremontGraduateUniversity TowardsaMetaphysicsoftheTag:NewPerspectivesonGraffitiPractices

AndrewWhitworthSmith,UCSanDiego Vyingforthe"National":MeditatingDifferentScalesofPowerThroughCopyrightReformin Brazil IoanaLiterat,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia PolicingVirtualWorlds?TheSpinyIssueofLawandJusticeinVirtualCommunities

T4 F
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:CulturesofIntimidationandBullying Chair:RoddyReid,UCSanDiego Panelists: RoddyReid,UCSanDiego Affect,Trauma,andDailyLifeinaTransnationalFrame:TheLegalandMedicalStatusof PsychologicalIntimidationandBullyinginEuropeandtheUnitedStates LynnChancer,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork&JessicaKlein,Adelphi University BullyingandMasculinities LaurenBerliner,UCSanDiego ItGetsBetter?LGBTTeenFilmmakersIdentifyaCultureofBullying

T4 G
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:Envisioning,Revising,andMisappropriating:AfricanAmericanMaterialityand Culturevs.ImmaterialIdealsandMyths Chair:CherylL.Johnson,MiamiUniversity

Panelists: NatashaAllen,MiamiUniversity ...Whomademeso?:Labor,Christianity,andSentimentalityinHarrietE.WilsonsOurNig KhalidY.Long,MiamiUniversity EmbodyingtheHeroortheHomo(?):PerformingtheMaterialBodyofMalcolmX JonnettaWoodard,MiamiUniversity Takemoneymoney,takemoneymoney!:ThePowerofMaterialityinSisterSouljahsThe ColdestWinterEver AdisaAdrianPrice,MiamiUniversity FromtheAuctionBlocktoCoverBoys:TheSpectacleofBlackMasculinityandthe CommodificationoftheGangsta

T4 H
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:ProducingCommunity Chair:TBA Panelists: DanielLanza,ClaremontGraduateUniversity BetweenFriends:QueerMaleFriendshipinPoststonewallAmericanLiterature SunnyXiang,UCBerkeley TheSpeakingLiteraryNarratorandtheNonspeakingPoliticalSubjectinMoniqueTruong's TheBookofSalt KatjaSarkowsky,UniversityofAugsburg,Germany DoesCultureMatter?ThinkingCulturalCitizenship

T4 I
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:MutantSubjectivities:SpeculativeFictionsandtheFreaksofNeoliberalism Chair:JohnAndrews,CityUniversityofNewYork Panelists: JohnAndrews,CityUniversityofNewYork BurnoutandReaganomicsin TheIncredibleShrinkingWoman KennethRogers,UCRiverside AdventoftheBiocapitalistMachine:HumanAttentioninMichaelChrichtonsLooker(1981) KatherineSugg,CentralConnecticutStateUniversity ZombiesandFrontierFantasies:NeoliberalMasculinityintheApocalypse

T4 J
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA DocumentationandDiscourse Chair:TBA Panelists: KelliD.Moore,UCSanDiego VisualizingtheBatteredWomanSyndrome:AffinitiesbetweentheScienceofExpertTestimony andVisualEvidence CraigRobertson,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia TheLifeofPaper:"OldandNewTechnologies,OldandNewEthnicities" SharonLuk,NortheasternUniversity

"AMoreLogicalandPurposefulHistory":Files,PaperandtheMaterialityofIdentity

T4 K
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:CulturesofBlackResistance Chair:SaraClarkeKaplan,UCSanDiego Panelists: DouglasFlowe,UniversityofRochester "CocaineCrazyNegroes":Narcotics,NegrophobiaandBlackResistance,18801920 AnthonyRatcliff,CaliforniaStateUniversityNorthridge BlackAugust/AgostoNegro:SketchingHipHop'sAfricanDiasporicRevolution RashadShabazz,UniversityofVermont MasculinityandtheMic:ConfrontingHipHop'sUnevenGeography BenjaminD'Harlingue,St.Mary'sCollegeofCalifornia MOVE,SpeciesSpaces,andBiopoliticalGovernmentalityin1980sPhiladelphia

T4 L
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:InstitutionalLifeofCulturalStudiesII SEMINAR Directors: AbigailBoggs GregGoldberg NickMitchell LizMontegary SarahMcCullough

GeorgiaRoberts ElizabethBullock Participants: CraigWillse ArenAizura BalibirSingh

T4 M
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title: Landscape,EnvironmentandCulturalConstruction Chair:ThomasHerman,SanDiegoStateUniversity JayJohnson,SanJosStateUniversity CatchingtheGreenWave:ACriticalExaminationoftheEcoMarketingInitiativesofProfessional SportsTeams JessicaBuddsandLeonithHinojosa,TheOpenUniversity MineralExtractionandtheSocioNaturalProductionofWaterscapesinthePeruvianAndes RitaM.RufinoValente,UCLosAngeles Alentejo:TheBarnyard,theCollectiveLand,andtheGarden.ThreeMythsaboutaLandscape

T4 N
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:MaterializingBodies:RepresentationsofDifferenceinVisualMedia Chair:TBA ThomasX.Sarmiento,UniversityofMinnesota,TwinCities TheEmpireSingsBack: Glee'sQueerMaterializationofFilipina/oAmerica

JoseNavarro,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Material&(Hyper)MasculineRealities:FilmicRepresentationsofChicano/LatinoGangsters JoshBeaty,UniversityofPittsburgh "HarrisonFord'saQuarterJewish":TheChangingImagesofJewishFilmStarsandtheChanging IdentityofJewishAudiences, AlfredL.Martin,Jr.,UniversityofTexas,Austin Unseen:ReifyingHistoricalHeteronormativitythroughOmissioninTVOne'sUnsung

T4 O
Thursday4:005:45pm Location:TBA Title:MaterialMemory:RememberingandReimaginingCulturalTraumaThroughtheBody ChairandDiscussant:UriMcMillan,UCLosAngles JenniferDeClue,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia PostBellumFracture:ADiscussionofMixedRaceTraumainKaraWalkersBureauofRefugees: MulattohungbyagrapevinenearoadsideBetweenTuscaloosa&Greensboro JolieChea,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Refuge(e)ofSilence:ThePerformanceofMemoryandTraumaAmongKhmerRougeSurvivors DeborahAlNajjar,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia TheGulfWarand1990sFeminisms:TheCulturalBodyRe/membered

T6 A
Thursday6:007:45pm Location:TBA Title:QueerofColorandDiasporaCritique PLENARY

Chair:RoderickFerguson,UniversityofMinnesota Plenarists: FatimaElTayeb,UCSanDiego TitleTBA JuanaRodriguez,UCBerkeley TitleTBA GayatriGopinath,NYU TitleTBA

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012

F9 A
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:NetworksofResistance Chair:JamieSkyeBianco,UniversityofPittsburgh Panelists: SarahHanks,CUNYGraduateCemter ManarchistsandFeminazis:GenderPoliticsinActivism LukeStark,NYU EuconspiracyandtheMoralLogicofNetworks SteveKlabnik,UniversityofPittsburgh Wikileaksvs.Anonymous:NetworkEntitiesInterfacingWithaCentralizedWorld JocelynMonahan,UniversityofTexas,Austin RubyCulture:SocialLearninginanOpenSourceCommunity

F9 B
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:FrenchMaterialisms? Chair:JanellWatson,VirginiaTech Panelists: GiuseppinaMecchia,UniversityofPittsburgh MaterialismandItsDiscontents:OnPoliticalPhilosophyinToday'sFrance KennethSurin,DukeUniversity WasDeleuzeaMaterialist? JanellWatson,VirginiaTech CyberMaterialism?TheEcoPhilosophyofMichelSerres

F9 C
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:RethinkingEducationalCultures Chair:TBA Panelists: ThomasBatt,MaineMaritimeAcademy TheCriticalPotential of"PotentialSpace":LudicPedagogiesinaHumanitiesSurveyCourse DonaldHedrick,KansasStateUniversity TheProductionofStupidity:ScatteredSpeculationsonaTheoreticalProblem LoriL.Hager,UniversityofOregon

ProblematizingtheRoleof FederalArtsPoliciesinCommunityYouthArtsandEmerging ModelsforYouthArtsParticipationinthePublicSphere

F9 D
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:PerformanceandEmbodiment Chair:TBA Panelists: JuanaMariaRodriguez,UCBerkeley QueerGestureinMamboTime JoshuaTakanoChambersLetson,UniversityofCincinnati AHeavierBurden:PerformanceandPatriotismintheJapaneseAmericanConcentrationCamps AlexPittman,NewYorkUniversity ThePoliticsoftheBrokenGesture:Chaplin/Ball/Hsieh AmyBarber,EastTennesseeStateUniversity DigitalSubjugation:HowSocialNetworkingSitesMakeBodiesMatter

F9 E
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:TheNegotiationandProductionofMemoryfortheOther:WhyDiscursiveand MaterialMemoryMattersforMarginalizedCollectiveIdentity Chair:PatriciaDavis,GeorgiaStateUniversity Panelists: PatriciaDavis,GeorgiaStateUniversity

FromCelebrationtoCommemoration:MonacanIndians,Jamestown,andtheStrugglefor Sovereignty/Identity KatharineZako,GeorgiaStateUniversity TruthIsMarchingOn:TheLasershowSpectacularattheStoneMountainParkConfederate MemorialandtheChangingNarrativesofHistory AronChristian,GeorgiaSateUniversity GettingCulturalMemoryOutoftheCloset:(Re)ClaimingG.L.B.T.Q.Q.MemoriesofStruggle andWhyItMatters

F9 F
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:MaterialitiesinFeministFilmStudies Chair:BradHoustonLane,SeattleCommunityCollege Panelists: BradHoustonLane,SeattleCommunityCollege TheEyesoftheBeholder:TheVisualPoliticsofPerverseSpectatorshipin Capturingthe Friedmans StephanieDowdleMaenhardt,SaltLakeCommunityCollege FromElizatoVivian,fromStepfordtoForks, andBeyond:CreationMythsandtheIdealof FemininityinFilm JenniferMaher,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington SomethingElseBesidesaFather:ReproductiveTechnologyinRecentHollywoodFilm

F9 G
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:CulturalStudiesEncountersBehavioralScience

ROUNDTABLE Chair:MirandaJoseph,UniversityofArizona Participants: AdamGeary,UniversityofArizona AdelaC.Licona,UniversityofArizona StephenT.Russell,UniversityofArizona

F9 H
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:TheImmaterial THEORIESOFCULTURALSTUDIESDIVISION Chair:ZahidChaudary,PrincetonUniversity Panelists: AmirAlexander,UCLA TheRomanceofImmaterialMathematics EleanorKaufman,UCLA Rocks,SardineCans,andCutFruit:ClassificationandtheIncorporeal JaniScandura,UniversityofMinnesota Skinless:Or,WithoutTime

F9 I
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:DiasporicCultures Chair:TBA

Panelists: MarianAguiar,CarnegieMellonUniversity ArrangedMarriage:NarrativesofConsentintheSouthAsianAmericanDiaspora CourtneyDorroll,UniversityofArizona ShiningtheLightontheTurkishGuestworkers:ADiasporicImaginedCommunity DefneKaraosmanoglu,BahcesehirUniversity,Istanbul ManagingSelvesBetweenCapitalandCulture:TheCaseofTurkish/KurdishRestaurantsin London

F9 J
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:PlaceandtheMaterialityofCulturalConstruction ENVIRONMENT,SPACE,ANDPLACEDIVISION Chair:JayJohnson,SanJosStateUniversity Panelists: CharleneMires,RutgersCamden Creatingthe"CapitaloftheWorld" ElizabethHarrington,NewYorkUniversity SpacesofCulture:theCreationofAbuDhabisSaadiyatIsland ThomasHermanandLydiaWood,SanDiegoStateUniversity PlacefullyRevitalized,Nowwith EvenMoreSenseofPlace:San DiegosLittleItalyand HeritageTourism AsmaaBenbaba,MohamedVUniversity TheCaseofTheJamaaLefnaSquareinMarrakeshCity

F9 K
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:NewWaysofKnowing Chair:TBA Panelists: CarolynErler,TexasTechUniversity Exhumations:AFeministMaterialistAccountofBreastCancerinWardOneofToledo,Ohio KaraJesella,NewYorkUniversity RethinkingtheFeministArchive:HowTumblrTransformsMateriality LaurelFriedman,UCSanDiego ThisTimeNothing:TheMaterialRoleofVisualPraxisinExpressingExperiencesofIllness JessicaJacobsonKonefall,QueensUniversity DigitalModalitiesofSitedMemory:AthavaleandShield'sAnimatedTerritories

F9 L
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:Propaganda,Trauma,andIdentity:ArtistsRespondtoWar Chair: KarenShelby,BaruchCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Panelists: DarolL.Kay,CaliforniaStateUniversity,DominguezHills BlacknessandRacialFantasiesinEdwardZwick'sGlory IkuyoNakagawa,CityUniversityofNewYork

TheBreakingJewel:ScenesofDefeatandtheRhetoricofMourninginTsuguharuFoujitasWar Paintings NogaWizansky,UCBerkeley War,Mourning,andBelonginginIsraeliVisualCulture:EfratNatansPerformanceArt,1973 74 JenniferKarady,independentartist Soldiers'StoriesfromIraqandAfghanistan

F9 M
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:WorldsApart?WhyTeaPartiersandBrooklynFoodiesHaveMoreinCommon thanWeThink Chair:JamieK.McCallum,MiddleburyCollege Panelists: MuniCitrin,UCSanDiego TeaPartyActivismas"MarketCommunitarianism" ReecePeck,UCSanDiego ArtisanalEntrepreneursandtheTeaPartyMovement JamieK.McCallum,MiddleburyCollege FoodandNeoArtisanalCapitalism

F9 N
Friday9:00am 10:45am Location:TBA Title:ThinkingtheTransnational SEMINAR

Directors: PurnimaBose,IndianaUniversity EvaCherniavsky,UniversityofWashington,Seattle Participants: S.Charusheela,UniversityofWashington,Bothell NedaAtanasoski,UCSantaCruz TomFoster,UniversityofWashington,Seattle CarenKaplan,UCDavis RonKrabill,UniversityofWashington,Bothell MaryLayoun,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison MinooMoallem,UCBerkeley LizMontegary,YaleUniversity DanielOlmos,UCSantaBarbara ChristinaOwens,UCDavis CatherineSameh,BarnardCollege JenniferTerry,UCIrvine, RobynWiegman,DukeUniversity KathleenBoyd,UniversityofWashington,Seattle

F11 A
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:InfamousBodies:TheRacialLureofTransnationalCelebrity Chair:SamanthaPinto,GeorgetownUniversity Panelists: SamanthaPinto,GeorgetownUniversity SomethingAkintoHumanRights:MarySeacolesAdventuresinGlobalCitizenship DeborahParedez,UniversityofTexasatAustin QueerforUncleSam:Anita'sDivaCitizenshipinWestSideStory JenniferBrody,StanfordUniversity IncidentsAbroad:Obscurity,CelebrityandtheCaseofEdmoniaLewis

FrancescaRoyster,DePaulUniversity Fela!,BillT.JonesandtheMarketingofBlackMasculineExcessonBroadway

F11 B
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:EthicalMatters:PoliticsandFeministEpistemologies Chair:KalindiVora,UCSanDiego Panelists: KalindiVora,UCSanDiego HumanitarianEthics,War,andFeministThought NedaAtanasoski,UCSantaCruz Empathy,EthicsandPrimates JuliettaHua,SanFranciscoStateUniversity RadicalBioethicsandCommodifiedLife

F11 C
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:NetworkingCultures Chair:TBA Panelists: ConstantaAlinaHogea,TempleUniversity FightingAgainsttheBanks:TheUseoftheInternetintheAssociationalPracticesofBank CustomersinRomania

KevinGotkin ButHeCan'tStop':GuiltandObsessioninPhonePhreaking,19601980 Cecilia"Lia"UyTioco MobilePhonesintheDevelopingWorld:TheAnswertothe"DigitalDivide?" BabakRahimi,UCSanDiego TheVirtualandtheMaterialasPerformance:CyberactivismandMaterialCulture(as Performance)inPostElectionIran

F11 D
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:RethinkingtheMaterialityof RadicalPoliticsThroughTangibility&Absence Chair:MichalOsterweil,UNCChapelHill Panelists: MagalRabasa,UCDavis MapsMadeofBooks:RadicalBookmakingandIntellectualPoliticalNetworksinaContinent inMovement NathanielFreiburger,UCDavis TheMaterializationoftheIntangible:GeopoliticalConsequencesofSmallObjects NikolasSparks,DukeUniversity RadicalDisappearancesandSonicMateriality:RememberingBobKaufman SampadaAranke,UCSanDiego ItBecomesAboutLookingforNothing:FredHamptonandRevolutionaryAbsence

F11 E
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA

Title:Biovisuality VISUALCULTUREDIVISION Chair:RandalRogers,UniversityofRegina Panelists: MarkMartinez,UniversityofMinnesota AProductiveEyeforTerror:TheNewImaginativeBiopoliticsin VisualAnalyticsforaTechno SecurityCulture PamelaHillNettleton,MarquetteUniversity EnvisioningConception:FallopianGenderPoliticsonYoutube ChantalNadeau,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaign BeyondQueerBlood RandalRogers,UniversityofRegina BorninBlood

F11 F
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:DetroitCulturalProduction Chair:TBA Panelists: ShanaL.Redmond ASceneUnseen:TheSightSoundIndexof Detroit'sNewProduction CarletonS.Gholz LaboringforSound:ListeningtotheAmericanFederationofMusiciansLocal#5'sKeynotes

F11 G
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:GlobalColonialityandtheCulturalPoliticsofDecoloniality Chair:GabrielSoldatenko,KennesawStateUniversity Panelists: GabrielSoldatenko Aquiparamibarrio!:TheColonialityofUrbanSpaceandDecolonial CulturalPraxisinLos Angeles NikolayKarkov,SUNYCortland EasternEuropebetween(Post)Socialismand(De)coloniality XhercisMndez,SUNYBinghamton Unsettlingthe"ColonialityofGender":ThinkingFromOutsideModernity RobertoD.Hernndez,SanDiegoStateUniversity Indigeneity,CulturalPoliticsandPoliticalCulturesacrossColonial Contexts

F11 H
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:CulturalProductionandImperialism Chair:TBA Panelists: JinahKim,NorthwesternUniversity TransnationalizingNoirTowardsAnticolonialCulturalPoliticsinthePacificWorld AnthonyYooshinKim,UCSanDiego

LikeChocolateforEmpireandOtherCircuitsofKorean/AmericanPerformance DavidToohey,AichiUniversity CirculatingMaterialandPeople:WesternandJapaneseRepresentationsofWarinGlobalSpace AmyReddinger,UniversityofWisconsinMarinette BettyCrocker'sSukiyakiSupper:PostwarRepresentationsofJapaninSerializedCookbooks

F11 I
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:FeministStuff/FeminismMatters CRITICALFEMINISTSTUDIESDIVISION Chair:SarahL.Rasmusson,UniversityofIllinoisatChampaignUrbana Panelists: JulieE.Dowsett, YorkUniversity SellingFeminismtotheIrrationalFemaleMasses:Freud,HisNephew,andEarlyCommodity Feminism ClareLemke,BowlingGreenStateUniversity Readingthefemplace:AffectiveAffinitiesBetweenFemmeandThirdWaveFeminists SaraReginaMitcho,GeorgeMasonUniversity TheUseandRejectionofTechnologiesofViolenceinAmericanProtest SusannahKopecky,CalPolySanLouisObispo KickingAssandTakingNames:WomenDrivingRevenge

F11 J
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:NarratingNarcoCulture

ChairandDiscussant:DesireeMartin,UCDavis Panelists: JosefinaSaldaaPortillo,NewYorkUniversity Why"Geronimo"wastherightnamefortheCommandoWhoAssassinatedBinLaden BernardoRuiz,filmmaker,QuietPictures Reportero GabrielaNuez,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Fullerton NarcoqueensandGenderViolence

F11 K
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:PerverseModernities:Race,SexandtheBreakupofModernity Roundtable Chair:LisaLowe,UCSanDiego Participants: ChandanReddy,UniversityofWashington JafariSinclaireAllen,Yale GraceHong,UCLA RoderickFerguson,UniversityofMinnesota PatrickAnderson,UCSanDiego

F11 L
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:InhabitingSpacesofResistanceandPossibility Chair:TBA

Panelists: StephenBoatright,CUNYGraduateCenter NavigatingTowardFirstTimeHomeownership:AnEthnographicInvestigationofAffect, Emotion,andEconomicRationalityintheHomeBuyingProcess NaomiLesley,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity CharacterEducationandthePerformanceofCitizenshipin Glee ColleenJankovic,UniversityofPittsburgh PalestinianCinema'sQueer/UncannyNationalism YaelWarshel,UCLA TemporaryCulture:TheConstructionofIdentityamongSyrianFamiliesintheSplitIsraeli LebaneseVillageofGhajar

F11 M
Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:SeductionsoftheReal:RethinkinghowPowerMatters Chair:JackieOrr,SyracuseUniversity Panelists: JoeRollins,CityUniversityofNewYork Childhoods'Horizons AnnBurlein,HofstraUniversity ReligionandtheReal? JackieOrr,SyracuseUniversity ThePSYCHOpoliticsofSimulation

F11 N

Friday11:00am 12:45pm Location:TBA Title:TeachingCulturalStudiesNow SEMINAR Directors: JaafarAksikas,ColumbiaCollegeChicago DonHedrick,KansasStateUniversity Participants: AshleyBrown,KansasStateUniversity ZackFuness,ColumbiaCollegeChicago BenGardner,UniversityofWashington,Bothell RobertGehl,UniversityofUtah SusanHarewood,UniversityofWashington,Bothell SeanAndrews,ColumbiaCollegeChicago RonKrabill,University ofWashington,Bothell DanielleMaggio,ColumbiaCollegeChicago ChrisPatch,KansasStateUniversity MelissaPrescott,KansasStateUniversity KatyRazzano,GeorgeMasonUniversity EricStewart,UniversityofWashington,Bothell FanYang,University ofMarylandBaltimoreCounty

F1245 A
Friday12:452:00pm LocationTBA CSAMembershipMeeting

F2 A
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA

Title:Marxismin/andCulturalStudies Chair:S.Charusheela,UniversityofWashington,Bothell Panelists: PurnimaBose,IndianaUniversity IdeologyCritique,GeopoliticalFetishism,andAfghanistan LauraE.Lyons,UniversityofHawaii FertileGround:Globalization,LandandMarxismToday S.Charusheela,UniversityofWashington,Bothell ExploitationandStructure:CulturalStudiesbeyondCapitalcentrism

F2 B
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:EmbodiedNegations:HungerPolitics Chair:FatimaElTayeb,UCSanDiego Respondent:JackHalberstam,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Panelists: MacarenaGomezBarris,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia RefusalandCapitalistRiskinMapucheHungerStrikes PatrickAnderson,UCSanDiego SavageObjects:ForceFeedingandSocialDeath NancyPosteroandNicoleFabricant,UCSanDiego HastaLasltimasConsequencias:BolivianHungerStrikesfromthe1970sDictatorshiptothe AutonomyBattlesofthe2000s AngelicaCamacho,UCRiverside EmbodiedandSocialReclamations:ThePelicanBayHungerStrike,PoliticsofCaring,andthe NeoliberalCarceralState

F2 C
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:NegativityasFilipinoAmericanCulturalCritique Chair:HarrodJSuarez,SanDiegoStateUniversity Panelists: JosenGayleDiaz,UCSanDiego PeculiarUlteriors:OnNeocolonial SecurityandFilipino/AmericanSubjectFormation AmandaLeeA.Solomon,UCSanDiego TheHypersexualizationofPhilippineIndependenceandIdeaofthe(Post)Colonial JanChristianBernabe,WhitmanCollege ShreddedBeauty:GinaOsterlohsCutRoom,BlankAttempts,andFilipinoAmericanNegative Aesthetic TheaQuirayTagle DearLovethisstreetisnotyours:FeministandQueerCartographiesofFilipinoSanFrancisco

F2 D
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:CulturalStudiesand/astheEnd oftheHumanities Chair:PaulSmith,GeorgeMasonUniversity Panelists: TobyMiller,UCRiverside BlowUptheHumanities

KatharinaVester,AmericanUniversity DiscipliningCulturalStudies:KulturwissenschaftenandCulturalStudiesinGermany PaulSmith,GeorgeMasonUniversity FromHumanitiestoCulturalStudies JorgeMariscal,UCSanDiego HowPrivatizationDigitalizedCritiqueOutoftheHumanitiesandRebrandedCultural Studies

F2 E
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:EducationPolitics Chair:AnitaFernandez,PrescottCollege Panelists: MarkStern MayoralControl,CharterSchoolsandEducationalStatesofException CruzMedina HB2281,EthnicStudiesandCulturallyRelevantCurriculum

F2 F
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:BodyPolitic Chair:TBA Panelists:

HeidiHoechst,UCSantaBarbara ToxicTransactions:SubprimeandtheCulturalCirculationofFat StephenKnadler,SpelmanCollege GetMovingWhere?:Neoliberalism,BiolegitimacyandMichelleObama'sHealthCampaign InSungHwangandYoungyiilKim,SogangUniversity BoundariesofBodyandPoliticsofSelf:Flesh,BloodandInvasionoftheOtherness ShaunOsseiOwusu,UCBerkeley ElephantintheRoom:Notesonthe(Ir)relevancyofWeightandRace

F2 G
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:Inside,Outside,andInBetween:TopologiesofFeministDiscourse Chair:SaraPerryman,RutgersUniversity Panelists: AgathaBeins,TexasWoman'sUniversity FeminismsAffectiveTopology:WomensLiberationandWomenofColorinthe1970s AmberMusser,NewYorkUniversity TheStructureofSensation:ReadingFeministArgumentsAgainstS&M StephanieClare,OxfordUniversity LituyaBay,FeministPoststructuralism,andtheOutside

F2 H
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA

Title:BeyondtheplayingfieldRace,SportsandMediaintheEraofObama Roundtable Chair:DavidJ.Leonard,UniversityofWashington Participants: TheresaRunstedtler,SUNYBuffalo MarkAnthonyNeal,DukeUniversity JamesBraxtonPetterson,LehighUniversity LisaAlexander,WayneState

F2 I
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:SexandtheCitizen Chair:TBA Panelists: KadjiAmin,ColumbiaCollege,Chicago HarnessingPederasticAffect:FromtheFrenchBoys'PenalColoniestotheBoyScouts CharlesLee,ArizonaStateUniversity TheCulturalMaterialityofSexWork:TheGlobalLiveSexActsofCitizenship ErinL.DurbanAlbrecht,UniversityofArizona TransnationalFeministCulturalStudies:BuildingaFrameworkforQueerlyUnderstandingHow CultureMattersintheContextofPreandPostEarthquakeHaiti CharityFox,UniversityofBaltimore LoveorVigilance?ImaginingTerroristsandtheGlobalWaronTerrorin FromParisWithLove

F2 J

Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:ComplicatingConsumption Chair:TBA Panelists: AndrewMcKinney,CUNYGraduateCenter FanaticalFantasySportsFans:ContemporarySportFandomandEnthusiasmfortheAbstract JungminKwon,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaign GlobalQueers,LocalStraightGirls SusanPearlman,UniversityofEastAnglia TheCostofBecominganAdult:TheSocioEconomicRealityofAdolescenceinContemporary AmericanRepresentationalCulture MichaelGoebel,GeorgeMasonUniversity ThePoliticalEconomyofConsumerSubjectivity

F2 K
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:NegotiatingHistoriesofErasureandLoss Chair:TBA Panelists: JustinArmstrong,WellesleyCollege TheDreamsWeLostintheFire:Materiality,GhostTowns,andtheEthnographicImagination NiallTwohig,UCSanDiego TheGhostI"Can'tGetAwayFrom":OnNotMakingSenseofFaeMyenneNg'sBoneinthe CompositionClassroom BryanYazell,UCDavis

RevisitingHauntedSpace:TransformativeCulturalIdentitiesinCoetzee DavornSisavath,UCSanDiego TheRemainsofWarinPostWarPhotographsofLaos

F2 L
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:StatesofException:ExplainingandContainingViolence Chair:TBA Panelists: BilgeYesil,CUNYStatenIsland WiretappingandSelfCensorhip:NotesontheTransformationofTurkishJournalism Tabassum Kahan,UCRiverside Muslims,MaoistsandIndianDemocracy:CasualtiesintheGlobalWaronTerror RenieM.Byrd,UniversityofWashington "ALivedFiction":TheorizingtheStateinanEraofMassImprisonment

F2 M
Friday2:00pm 3:45pm Location:TBA Title:Narcotraficantes,Gangsters,andBandidos,:NarrativesofCriminalization andResistanceacrosstheAmericasandGlobalPeripheries Chair:MarthaVanessaSaldivar,UCSanDiego Panelists: JuvenalCaporale,UCSanDiego StreetGangsand2Pac:CanGangstersBeSelfProductive?

LeonoraPaula,UCSanDiego SalveGeralandOccupationofSoPaulobytheOrganizedCrime MarthaVanessaSaldivar BandidosandTerrorists:SettlerColonialismandtheDiscourseofTerrorinthe US/MexicoandIsrael/Palestine SalvadorZarate NarcotraficoandtheGlobalPeriphery:ViolenceandtheBody

F4 A
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:MaterialPractices:BringingtheMaterialBackIn Chair:JaneD.Griffin,BentleyUniversity Panelists: JaneD.Griffin,BentleyUniversity Elgnero:NewMaterializationsofGenreandGenderinPostDictatorialArgentineFilm. MargauxCowden,TempleUniversity TerrestrialEffects:GeographyandSexualDegeneracyintheEarlyTwentiethCentury JanetNeary,HunterCollege CottonBabies,PapasMaybe:Invention,Matter,andMythology inKaraWalkers8Possible Beginnings AmyParsons,UniversityofWisconsin,Platteville Hello,Sailor:MaritimeLabor,Capital,andQueernessinNineteenthCenturyLiterature

F4 B

Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:Lateral:Mobilisations,InterventionsandCulturalPolicy Chair:EmmaDowling,UniversityofLondon Panelists: MichalOsterweil,UniversityofNorthCarolina ErikaBiddle,YorkUniversity JamieSkyeBianco,UniversityofPittsburgh

F4 C
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:MadasHell:MeditationsonMonae,MissyandMinaj Chair:JaynaBrown,UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside Panelists: KaiSmall,UCSanDiego Broke,Brokedown,andBreakingEnergy:CrazyandtheScreaminJanelleMonaesCome Alive JananiSubramanian,PitzerCollege ShesABitch/Monster/Android:MissyElliottandaGenealogyofQueerPerformance WayneYang,UCSanDiego AndysandCindisandSyborgScapegoats:MessianicPraxisinJanelleMonaesCindi Mayweather

F4 D
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA

Title:PhysicalCultureMatters Chair:DavidL.Andrews,UniversityofMaryland Panelists: MichaelGiardinaandJoshuaNewman,FloridaStateUniversity ASpectacleofBodies,TheSpectacleofWar:PhysicalCulture,PoliticalConsumerism,andthe NeoliberalSelf ShannonJette,UniversityofMarylandandPatriciaVertinsky,UniversityofBritishColumbia TheContingenciesofExerciseScienceinaGlobalizingWorld:OlderChineseCanadianWomen inCanadaandtheirPlayandPleasureinExercise MichaelAtkinson,UniversityofToronto HungOuttoDry:Sweat,AshtangaYogaandFluidCulture

F4 E
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:TheCirculationofAffect:MaterialTechnologiesandPoliticalAction Chair:AndrewCulp.OhioStateUniversity Panelists: RDCrano,OhioStateUniversity Neoliberalism@Cybernetics:TheorizingtheTelematicSociusofContemporaryFinance BrianMichaelMurphy,OhioStateUniversity TheFantasyofPermanentPreservation:CorbisandtheRematerializationofAffectiveCircuitry OdedNir,OhioStateUniversity AffectiveParallax:ImmanentRepresentationandtheIsraeliMassProtestsofSummer2011

F4 F

Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:FoodforThought:TheCulturalSignificanceofFoodinFilmandTV Chair:TBA Panelists: SarahMurray,UniversityofWisconsinMadison TheChewReplacesAllMyChildren:Democracy,Distinction&DaytimeTV BrendonWocke,UniversityofBergamo GourmandiseandJouissance:From LaGrandeBouffe toJulie&Julia AbigailLoxham,UniversityofQueensland DigestingtheImage:CarnalAppetitesintheFilmsofBigasLuna ShaunKimber,BournemouthUniversity "Meatsmeat,andaman'sgottaeat."(MotelHell 1980):FoodandEatingWithinContemporary HorrorFilmandHorrorFilmCultures

F4 G
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:FollowingEdgestotheOtherSide:UsingZinestoBridgeCultureandMateriality WORKSHOP Directors:HeathR.DavisandArielD.Roy,UniversityofWashingtonBothell

F4 H
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:Filiation,theRacialState,andtheMaterialityofKinship:ARoundtableonCheryl DunyesStrangerInside

ROUNDTABLE Chair:SoraHan,UCIrvine Participants: PatriceDouglass,UCIrvine JaredSexton,UCIrvine

F4 I
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:SpiritualityandMateriality Chair:TBA Panelists: MarielleBarrow SacredSpaceandJunkanoo:Affect,MedialityandMyth DixaRamirez,UCSanDiego MagicandPatriarchalLegacyinJunotDiaz'sTheBriefWondrousLifeofOscarWaoandViriato Sencian'sTheyForgedtheSignatureofGod DariusBost,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark ChangingCharisma:"BlackChurch,"Homophobia,andEconomicDevelopmentinMetropolitan Atlanta StephanieA.Martin,UCSanDiego DisintegratingDiscourses?ARhetoricalAnalysisofHowEvangelicalPastorsareTeachingthe FreeMarketandPreachingPersonalResponsibilitysincetheOnsetoftheRecessionof2008

F4 J
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm

Location:TBA Title:ChineseCulturalPolicy:AnExplorationoftheGlobalLocalDialectic CULTURALPOLICYSTUDIESDIVISION Chair:SeanJohnsonAndrews Panelists: BingjuanXiong,UniversityofColoradoBoulder ACulturalAnalysisoftheDiscourseofChinaU.S.TradeDisputes WendySu,UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside CulturalPolicyasNegotiationofPower:ChinasTugofWarwithGlobalHollywood19942010 FanYang,UniversityofMaryland,BaltimoreCounty Contesting(Intellectual)PropertyatBeijingsSilkStreetMarket,20012011

F4 K
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:RadicalismandInsurrectionintheAmericas:GeneologiesofResistance Chair:DayoGore,UCSanDiego Panelists: BenjaminBalthaser,UniversityofIndiana,SouthBend TravelsofanAmericanIndianintotheHinterlandsofSovietRussia:NativeAmericansand TransnationalSocialismintheWorkofArchiePhinneyandD'ArcyMcNickle MatthewCarlin,PrattInstitute NahaulesandtheTerrestrialViolenceoftheZapatistas MeganTurner,UCSanDiego TheFutureisUtopian:MessianicFuturity intheAnarchistPrintCulture oftheMexican Revolution

F4 L
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:ComplicatingAffect Chair:JamieSkyeBianco Panelists: reneec.hoogland,WayneStateUniversity RevisitingthePhotographAftertheAffectiveTurn LizGomez,AthabascaUniversity ExhibitingAffect:ACaseStudyinMaterialEncountersandCuratorial Practice AlexChang,UCSanDiego RevindicatingAesthetics:Marx,ArtandtheStudyofCulture RebekahSheldon,UniversityofWisconsinMilwaukee Meaningas(a)Feeling:Repetition,Rhythm&SenseinChuckPalahniuk'sFightClub

F4 M
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:VisibilityandEmbodimentinPublic Chair:HannahDick,UCSanDiego Panelists: HannahDick,UCSanDiego TheLimitsofReasonableAccommodation:SeeingReligioninPublic PawanSingh,UCSanDiego QueerVisibility anditsDiscontents

MargitteKristjansson,UCSanDiego StaringBack:NonnormativeBodiesandAgency

F4 N
Friday4:00pm 5:45pm Location:TBA Title:NationalismandItsDiscontents Chair:TBA Panelists: ChristopherJ.Finlay,CaliforniaStateUniversity,SanBernadino WhoseOlympicCanada?PerformingHeritageandFutureintheOpeningandClosing Ceremoniesofthe2010VancouverWinterOlympics BertEmerson,WoodburyUniversity RematerializingNationalSpaceandSovereigntyinRidge,Harte,andDeadwood CameronLeaderPicone,KansasStateUniversity EchoesofaMorePerfectUnion:SuzanLoriParks' TheAmericaPlayandtheIntersecting IdeologiesofAmericanExceptionalismandPostRacialism PetraSvoljak,SlovenianAcademyofSciencesandArts MemoryandCommemorationinSuccessorStatesoftheAustroHungarianMonarchy:ACase ofSlovenianProvincesintheKingdomofYugoslavia

F6 A
Friday6:00pm 7:45pm Location:TBA PRESIDENTIALPLENARY Chair:BruceBurgett,University ofWashington,Bothell

Discussants:UnaChung,SarahLawrenceCollegeandAmitRai,UniversityofLondon PatriciaClough,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork AfterCulture:BodiesExperienceandMedia

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012

S9 A
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:SpeculativeTurn(s):Bodies,Culture,andPolitics ChairandDiscussant:JosephSchneider,DrakeUniversity Panelists: JoshScannell,CityUniversityofNewYork TheBody'sObject TomBuechele,CityUniversityof NewYork PanpsychismandNonIdentity:OnAestheticExperienceandObjectRelationsintheWorksof ShaviroandAdorno KarenGregory,CityUniversityofNewYork WhyObjectsNow? BenjaminHaber,CityUniversityofNewYork LatourandPedagogy

S9 B
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:WhatWe'reReading ROUNDTABLE Chair:RobynWiegman,DukeUniversity Participants:

CarenKaplan,UCDavis JennyTerry,UCIrvine MinooMoallem,UCBerkeley RobynWiegman,DukeUniversity

S9 C
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:CultureasMatterofStateandNationalInterest:CaseStudiesfromtheAmericas Chair:TBA Panelists: LudyGrandas,AmericanUniversity Colombiaespasin:CulturalandMaterialForcestoRecreatetheNation PiaMller,GeorgeMasonUniversity StateofSecurity:CivilianImmigrationControl OlgaUlloaHerrera,GeorgeMasonUniversity StateandSecurity:ModernArtandtheImmaterial

S9 D
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:TechnologyandtheBody Chair:TBA Panelists: JoLatham,UniversityofMelbourne "Mydickneednointroduction/Yourdickdon'tevenfunction":Technology,"Sex"andTrans MaleCulture YeesheenYang,UCSanDiego "That'saHellofaWaytoTalkaboutMyNewWife":TheBodyofFrankensteininOrgan TransplantNarratives

StevenPustay,GeorgiaStateUniversity TheImmortalMachineConsciousness:Bodies,Machines,andDeathinContemporaryMoving Images

S9 E
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:GeographiesofSound Chair:TBA Panelists: RoshanakKheshti,UCSanDiego SonicMaterialities:Foucault's"IncorporealMaterialism"andtheWorldMusicListeningEvent ChaseSmith,UCSanDiego OfftheCharts:TheCulturalEconomyofEarlyTwentiethCenturyUkuleleMusicintheU.S. WestandPacific EmilyHue,NewYorkUniversity Negotiating"SublimeFrequencies":CritiquesofKnowledgeProductionAroundBurmese DiasporicExpressiveCulture BrentBiglin,OhioStateUniversity LebaneseUnderground:NothingIsEast,NothingIsWest

S9 E
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:GlocalizationandNegotiatingtheProblematicsoftheGlobalandtheLocal GLOBALISMSDIVISION Chair:SreyaMitra,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison Panelists: AshvinKini,UCSanDiego

"Culturalbastards,datiswhatweis":TheTimeandSpaceofQueerDiaspora SreyaMitra,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison LoveKiyaTohDarnaKya:NegotiatingthePerilsofLoveandRomanceonIndianReality Television PeterKraghJensen,UniversityofCopenhagen TwoSitcoms:AGlocalizedRelationship

S9 G
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:Space,Affect,Biopolitics:TransnationalMethodsofQueernessandRaciality Chair:JinHaritaworn,HelsinkiUniversity Panelists: FredaFair,UCLA TheBlackPowerMixtape19671975andtheLiminalMaterialityoftheBlackQueerArchive ChristinaB.Hanhardt,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark LAUREL:TheQueerContradictionsofMilitantGayLiberalism JinHaritaworn,HelsinkiUniversity QueerRegenerations:MetonymiesofHate,CrimeandSpaceinGermanCrimePanics CraigWillse,CollegeofWooster RacingSpaceandSexingSociology AndreaSmith,UCRiverside DyingsothatChristiansCanLive:TheBiopoliticsoftheChristianRight

S9 H
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:MediatingMatter Chair:TBA

Panelists: RonaldJ.Zboray,UniversityofPittsburgh PrintMatter:CulturalNegotiationonthePageintheMidNineteenthCenturyUS JenniferCarlson,UniversityofTexas,Austin TheMatterofManure:SpeculationandtheWorldingofSlurryinaNorthernGermanVillage KyleRentschler,NewYorkUniversity PlasticPolitics:HowtheDesignofVideoGameControllersShapestheGamesThemselves AlbertFu,KutztownUniversity CementingtheVernacularLandscape:BuildingMaterialsandSpanishColonialArchitecturein California

S9 I
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:AddictionandItsOthers Chair:TBA Panelists: William Brigham,RooseveltUniversity AfricanAmericanFootballPlayersandSubstanceAbuse ScottSt.Pierre,OklahomaStateUniversity DisablingAddiction SaraPerrryman,RutgersUniversity TheEpidermalArchive:Habits,Habitats,andOntologicalUncertainty DiegoCosta,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia WiththeMotherboard:DigitalIntoxicationandtheQueerInfantilityoftheiSubject

S9 J
Saturday9:00am10:45am

Location:TBA Title:TechnologiesofMigrantMemoryandMovement Chair:CurtisMarez,UCSanDiego Panelists: RandyOntiveros,UniversityofMaryland TheSixtiesRetold:ChicanaLiteratureandtheLegaciesofTheChicanoMovement CurtisMarez,UCSanDiego FarmWorkerFuturism DanielOlmos,UCSantaBarbara TheArtofGoverningMigrants:LeafBlowersandTacoTrucksasProblemsintheConductof Conducts

S9 K
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:CulturesofNeoliberalism Chair:TBA Panelists: AbdullahAlDagamseh,IndianaUniversityofPennsylvania WorldBankLiteratureasaModeofProductionCritiqueofGlobalNeoliberalCapitalism: MohsinHamid'sMothSmokeasaCaseStudy PeterMcDonald&MykaTuckerAbramson,independentscholars SerialRealisms MelihYesilbag,BinghamtonUniversity CultureasaPoliticalArsenal:ImageRestorationStrategiesofBusinessinTurkeyin thePost 1980Period RosauraSanchez,UCSanDiego WaterWarsinLatinAmerica:FilmsandtheProcessofEnclosures

S9 L
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:AVirtualPresenceandaHauntingAbsence:ThePlaceoftheBodyinWar CULTUREANDWARDIVISION Chair:KarenShelby,BaruchCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Panelists: JessicaAuchter,ArizonaStateUniversity BonesinaBrownBag:HauntingandthePlaceoftheBodyinRwandanGenocide Memorialization HeleneVosters,YorkUniversity IftheDeadCouldSpeak:TheAvowalsandDisavowalsofUSandCanadianResponsesto AfghanWarDeaths TylerWall,EasternKentuckyUniversity FramingAtrocity:ScopicRegimesandtheCulturalLifeofDeadCivilians JacobHustedt,UniversityofTexasatAustin "Microzeitgeists":PublicExecutions,NewMedia,andtheDeathofOsamabinLaden

S9 M
Saturday9:00am10:45am Location:TBA Title:CulturesofColorblindness:Race,Place,andPerformance Chair:LeighRaiford,UCBerkeley Panelists: JustinGomer,UCBerkeley Colorblindness,TheEarlyYears(19701979):TheState,Film,andtheBeginningsofan Ideology JasmineJohhnson,UCBerkeley

ColorblindAfricanness:Race,Performance,andtheEconomyofWestAfricanDanceandDrum intheUS PetraRiveraRideau,UCBerkeley AWomanWithCojones:AmbivalentEleganceinIvyQueensReggaetn

S11 A
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:TheMaterialityofSound Chair:JamieSkyeBianco,UniversityofPittsburgh Panelists: PwyllapStifin,UniversityCollegeLondon TheResonatingVoice:TheMaterialityofTestimonyatGroundZero CarolynElerding,OhioStateUniversity,Columbus Im/Material Assemblages:TwoInteractiveNewMediaToolsImpactingAcademicMusic TrentCunningham,UniversityofPittsburgh TheMeaningofWithin:AffectandAppropriationinTheBeatles'"TomorrowNeverKnows" RyanP.Randall,UniversityofRochester MusicalMutations,AlternativeInstitutions:AMaterialistCulturalStudiesApproachtotheEarly WorksofLaurieAndersonandSonicYouth

S11 B
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:RecenteringtheRural Chair:TBA Panelists: MichaelLecker,GeorgeMasonUniversity TheQueer"InsurgentArchitect":TheProductionofQueerCommunalSpace

JenniferAnsley,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia GeographiesofIntimacyinWomen'sRegionalistFiction:MaryWilkinsFreeman's"AMistaken Charity"(1887) SusieHatmaker,UniversityofMinnesota FloodedinToxicSludge:OntheFluidResistanceofanAppalachianLandscape

S11 C
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:FoodandCulture Chair:TBA Panelists: DeloresB.Phillips,OldDominionUniversity FoodandMaterialCulture ZilkiaJaner,HofstraUniversity SpicesandtheColonialityofTaste RahulK.Gairola,CornishCollegeoftheArts&UniversityofWashington EngenderingCuisines:TheIdeologicalIngredientsofGenderinSalmanRushdie'sMidnight's Children

S11 D
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:Anarchisms:Politics,History,Culture ROUNDTABLE Chair:JaynaBrown,UCRiverside Participants: CurtisMarez,UCSanDiego JackHalberstam,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia

EmmaPrez,UniversityofColorado ShelleyStreeby,UCSanDiego

S11 E
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:(Im)MaterialityofGender Chair:TBA Panelists: AndrewM.Hakim,NewYorkUniversity MissingBodies,MistakenIdentities:TheMaterialityofGenderinChandler'sTheLadyinthe LakeandO'Brien'sIntheLakeoftheWoods DeniseGoerisch,SanDiegoStateUniversityandUCSantaBarbara LearningtoCare:SpacesofCapitalismandCareintheGirlScouts AmyBarber,EastTennesseeStateUniversity DigitalSubjugation:HowSocialNetworkingSitesMakeBodiesMatter TaherehAghdasifar,EmoryUniversity ReOrientingDesires:ContextualizingIranianFemaleSexualitiesintheNeoliberal"Green Movement"

S11 F
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:ResistingPrivatization:CinematicandMediaRepresentationsofPoverty MEDIAANDCINEMADIVISION Chair:KimHesterWilliams,SonomaStateUniversity Panelists: LauraL.Sullivan,UniversityofFlorida IAm aManRevisited:GrassrootsMediaActivismAgainstPrivatizationofMemphis SanitationWorkers

KimD.HesterWilliams,SonomaStateUniversity PreciousNeoliberalismintheSubprimeAge:TheOprahEffect,IyanlaVanzant,andthe Transfigurationof Push

S11 G
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:ModulatingBodies,MobilizingCitizenship Chair:LizMontegary,YaleUniversity Panelists: LizMontegary,YaleUniversity,Chair LetsMove!:NationalSecurityandtheWaronChildhoodObesity AbigailBoggs,UCDavis IncitingHygienicBelonging:OntheIncorporationofForeignStudentBodies TobyBeauchamp,UCSanDiego MovingViolations:ChemicalContainmentofSexualDeviance

S11 H
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:AlternateRetellings:ReadingtheIllegible Chair:TBA Panelists: LisaHo,UCSanDiego TheJourneyofHanMi:AssemblingRepresentationsofNorthKoreanRefugees ChunMeiLam,IndependentScholar TheHauntingofPower:TracingDomesticViolenceintheLivesofAsianAmericanWomen MaiYangVang,IndependentScholar

TheFailuresofSuccessfulAging:(Re)conceptualizingSuccessfulAgingthroughtheVoicesof HmongElders WendiYamashita,UCLosAngeles TheViolenceofContinuingFamilyStories:CriticallyAnalyzingJapaneseHistoriography, CommunityandNationalism

S11 I
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:MappingMemory Chair:TBA Panelists: EvetteHornsbyMinor,St.LawrenceUniversity,andRachelRaimist,University ofAlabama AnExcerptfrom Goin'HomeDownSouthandUpSouth:AnAutobiographicalMultimedia Performance JennieDaniels UCSanDiego ShadowsofAuthoritarianism:TheMaterialPresenceofthePastinUnasombrayaprontosers CecilioStephanieCooper,UCDavis Laye(RED):BlackMaterialCultureandtheGap(RED)Campaign

S11 J
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:DiscursiveRevolutions:InvestigatingtheSplitBetweenDiscourseandMateriality Chair:BrianCreech,University ofGeorgia Panelists: BrianCreech,UniversityofGeorgia FromtheOutsideIn:ReconsideringMaterialPracticeinPostcolonial MediaTheory LorenSaxtonandEllieLesterRoushanzamir,UniversityofGeorgia

TheStepChildofPRPractice:IntheWildernessoftheAtheoreticalField AmberRoessner,University ofTennesseeKnoxville WilltheREALJanieJunePleaseStandup:ACaseStudyintheMaterialityofJournalism's HistoricalRecord KurtWanner,ToccoaFallsCollege TheRightStuff:MaterialCultureandtheRisingPopularityofAmerica'sReligiousRightinthe 1970's

S11 K
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:MateREALITYandtheMedia Chair:KathrinFriederikeMller,LeuphanaUniversity,Germany Panelists: KarinKnop,LudwigMaximiliansUniversityMunich RealityTVCultureMatters:TheMeaningofGender,ClassandEducationwithRegardto MotivesofReceptionandPerceivedLearning KathrinFriederikeMller,LeuphanaUniversity,Germany TransformingGenderintoSocialAction:TheCulturalPracticeofReadingWomensMagazines CorinnaPeil,LeuphanaUniversity TheCulturalInfrastructureofMobileCommunication MiriamStehling,LeuphanaUniversity TheProductionofLocalitiesthroughTransculturalTelevisionFormatsandtheNegotiationof AmbivalencesinEverydayLife

S11 L
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:UglyKnowledge:DisruptingNeoliberalism,Nationalism,andNormalTime

ChairandDiscussant:MimiNguyen,UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign Panelists: AmandaDykema,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark RegisteringLack:RepresentationMeetstheBlankPage EvaHageman,NewYorkUniversity CommodifyingtheMomentofDeathinRealityTelevision DouglasS.Ishii,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark HerFirstWordWasEveryGayFathersNightmare:ProblematizingthePoliticsofModern FamilysDiverseModernity BrianaBrickley,CityUniversityofNewYork SlowDeath,OrganTrafficking,andKarenTeiYamashitasTropicofOrange

S11 M
Saturday11:00am12:45pm Location:TBA Title:InterdisciplinarityBeyondDiscipline SEMINAR(Closed) Directors: ChristinaNadler,CityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenter PatriciaClough,CityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenter Participants: AnnBurlein,HofstraUniversity ReneeByrd,UniversityofWashington UnaChung,SarahLawrence KaiM.Green,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia KarenGregory,CityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenter RoshanakKheshti,UniversityofCalifornia,San Diego SimoneKolysh,CityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenter OliveMckeon,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles ShelleyM.Park,UniversityofCentralFlorida AmitS.Rai,QueenMary,UniversityofLondon JoeRollins,CityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenterandQueensCollege ErinSiodmak, CityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenter AlysonSpurgas,CityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenter

S2 A
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:QueerCulturesinaGlobalContext Chair:PatrickAnderson,UCSanDiego Panelists: SaranMahasupap,ChulalongkornUniversity InShadesofSiameseQueer:TheRepresentationof"Katoey"inThaiPopularCulture LakshmiPadmanabhan,GeorgetownUniversity QueerAffects:ThePoliticsof"ComingOut"inIndia DijanaJelaca,UniversityofMassachusetts,Amherst HappilySick:Trauma,Nation,andQueerAffect

S2 B
Saturday2:00pm3:45Pm Location:TBA Title:Passportor,ImageMatters THEORIESOFCULTURALSTUDIESDIVISION Chair:JaniScandura,UniversityofMinnesota Panelists: AncaParvulescu,WashingtonUniversity,St.Louis PassportLove AliceBardan,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia TheCinemaofPrecarity ZahidChaudary,PrincetonUniversity MimesisinDifference

S2 C
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:PoliticalCultures Chair:PamelaPalmater Panelists: PhyllisLynneBurns,OtterbeinUniversity ThePersistenceofPresidentialHostility JohnM.Woolsey,GeorgeMasonUniversity TheCulturalProductionof"Darfur"asHumanitarianEmergency MarcusHassell,UniversityofMemphis PromiseofPerpetualPeaceandProtectionofHumanCapitalinDarfur:TheInternational CriminalCourtandGovernmentality JoeParker,PitzerCollege SubalternCitizenshipandDemocraticPractices

S2 D
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:ComplicatingNarrativesofProgress Chair:TBA Panelists: JedMurr,UniversityofWashingtonBothell NewMaterial,OldArticulations:StateTransformation,Antiblackness,andtheDesireforWhite (Heteromasculine)AntiRacism SeydaBarlasBozkus,MarmaraUniversity PuttingIstanbulontheMapofArtWorld:AnalysingIstanbul2010CulturalCapitalofEurope

CarlyThomsen,UCSantaBarbara QueeringVisibility NickersonHill,ColumbiaUniversity RadicalResistanceorUnwitting(Re)EnforcementofStigma?TowardsanAlternative, CollectiveLiberationistStanceonTransActivism&DSMDiagnoses

S2 E
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:TheRenewalofCulturalStudies WORKSHOP DeniseAlbanese,GeorgeMasonUniversity TheLiterary:CulturalCapitalandtheSpecterofElitism MaxGulias,TrumanCollege,CoChair AMarxistMethodologyforCulturalStudies:Analyzing(Over)ProductionoftheCommodity Sign TimothyW.Luke,VirginiaPolytechnicInstituteandStateUniversity CultureandWar RandyMartin,NYU MarxismafterCulturalStudies SaraReginaMitchoandJohnWoolsey,GeorgeMasonUniversity CulturalStudies:AlwaysAlreadyDisciplinary VincentMosco,QueensCollege CommunicationandCulturalLabor MichelleYates,UCLA TowardaGreenMarxistCulturalStudies:NotesonLabor,Nature,andtheHistoricalSpecificity ofCapitalism

S2 F
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA

Title:ViolenceGirl:EastL.A.RagetoHollywoodStage,AChicanaPunkStoryAn Artivista/ArchiveristaConversation MULTIMEDIAROUNDTABLE ChairandDiscussant:MichelleHabellPallan,UniversityofWashington Multimediapresentationandroundtablediscussion: Alice"Bag"ArmendarizVelasquez,IndependentMusician,Author,Artivista,Teacher MarthaGonzalez,UniversityofWashingtonmember,Quetzal

S2 G
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:NewPerspectivesonEducationandAcademia Chair:TBA Panelists: RachelLevitt,UniversityofNewMexico HeteronormativityandthePedagogyofColonialism:TheViolenceofExcuses ElisabethChaves,VirginiaTech PeriodicalsPixilated:TheChangingMaterialityofIntellectualProduction J.ScottKillen,GeorgeMason NoChildLeftBehind,RacetotheTop,andHighStakesTesting:Accountability,Surveillance andSubjectivitywithinPublicEducation SusanHarewood, UniversityofWashingtonBothell UniversityCultureandtheProjectofCulturalStudies

S2 H
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:ReadingAgainsttheGrain

Chair:GregGoldberg,WesleyanUniversity Panelists: GregGoldberg,WesleyanUniversity BitsofPleasure:InterrogatingDigitalDystopianism ElizabethBullock,CityUniversityofNewYork WhatsSustainableAboutFoodSecurity? RachelSchiff,CityUniversityofNewYork AffectiveParentingandInfantBeing JonathanCutler,WesleyanUniversity ArchivesofFear:CulturalStudies,SubalternStudies,&BossyBottoms

S2 I
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:MaterialCulturalPoliticsInandOutofNorthAmerica Chair:GiuseppinaMecchia,UniversityofPittsburgh Panelists: MohammadMozumdar,UniversityofPittsburgh InterrogatingPostSecularism:JrgenHabermas,CharlesTaylor,andTalalAsad DonaldE.Simpson,UniversityofPittsburgh CenteringtheModernMetropolis:TheEmergenceofMonumentalArchitecturalGroupsin Pittsburgh,Cleveland,andDetroit,19111961 DylanParkerShaw,UniversityofPittsburgh Citizenship,MilitarismandMasculinity:ACulturalandLiteraryHistoryofBoyScoutsinthe SouthernCone

S2 J
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA

Title:Imagined...orImaginaryCommunities:NewMediaTechnologiesandthe TransformationofAmericanCulture Chair:LisaGuerrero,WashingtonStateUniversity Panelists: LisaGuerrero,WashingtonStateUniversity SocialMediaCitizenships:FacebookandtheQuestionofIdentity inaCommunityof Surveillance AurelianoMariaDeSoto,MetropolitanStateUniversity ComputerLove:GayOnlineSexCultures DavdJ.Leonard,WashingtonStateUniversity VirtualConnections,RealChange:SocialMediaandtheStruggleforJustice

S2 K
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:TeachingInsideCarceralInstitutions SEMINAR(Closed) Directors: GillianHarkins,UniversityofWashington AnneDwyer,UniversityofWashington KateDrabinski,UniversityofMarylandBaltimoreCounty Participants: LeylaSavloff,UniversityofWashington EllaTurenne,OccidentalCollege SarahRebollosoMcCullough,UCDavis LizMontegary,YaleUniversity GeorgiaRoberts,UniversityofWashington ElizabethBullock,CityUniversityofNewYork SarahVitorino,EmoryUniversity AnoopMirpuri,DrewUniversity KaelynCaldwell,UniversityofWashington,Bothell StuartSmithers,UniversityofPugetSound SampadaAranke,UCDavis RebeccaGinsburg,UniversityofIllinois JeniferD.Drew,BostonUniversity

BarbaraRoswell,GoucherCollege TriaAndrews,UCBerkeley AndreaDooley,UCDavis TerryKPark,UCDavis BreeaC.Willingham,UniversityatBuffalo ClaudiaSchippert,UniversityofCentralFlorida AndrewVentimiglia,UCDavis EllenBenowitz,MercerCountyCommunityCollege JoAnnSkousen,HudsonLink NickMitchell,UCBerkeley

S2 L
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:Mobilities:Culture,Power,Space,Motion Chair:RebeccaScott,UniversityofMissouri Panelists: SaritaGaytan,UniversityofUtah Tequila,theBorderandUS/MexicanMasculinities BarbaraBarnes,UCBerkeley EmptySpacesforMobileSubjects RebeccaScott,UniversityofMissouri NASCAR,AutomobilityandSpace

S2 M
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:TraumaandtheMaterialBody:WomenNegotiatingIdentityinContemporary Fiction Chair:TerraA.Kaputo, AlleghenyCollege Panelists:

JenniferL.Griffiths,NewYorkInstituteofTechnology PosttraumaticLiteraciesandtheMaterialBodyinSapphire'sPush JooriLee,TexasA&M EmbodyingBody:IsThereAnyBeautifulAspectofPoverty? TerraA.Caputo,AlleghenyCollege TraumaBegetsTrauma?Pain,Fragments,andNegotiatingHybridityinSigridNunez'sA FeatherontheBreathofGod NishaKunte,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia WhyDon'tTheyRun?CorporealResistanceandtheTraumaticBordersoftheHumanin"Never LetMeGo"

S2 N
Saturday2:00pm3:45pm Location:TBA Title:PuttingCulturalStudies(Back)toWork Chair:JaafarAksikas,ColumbiaCollegeChicago Panelists: JaafarAksikas,ColumbiaCollegeChicago WhatstheMatterwithArabsandOtherLosers?CulturalStudiesJottingsontheRevoltsin theMiddleEast,NorthAfrica,andBeyond TobyMiller,UCRiverside TheNewRightofCulturalStudies KelleyGates,UCSanDiego CulturalStudiesinCrisisRivenTimes:A ViewfromtheUniversityofCalifornia FanYang,UniversityofMaryland,BaltimoreCounty DefetishizingMedia:PuttingCulturalStudiestoWorkintheMediaStudiesClassroom

S4 A

Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:PureSociality:AffectiveMemories,Events,andMethodologies Chair:PatriciaClough,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Panelists: KimCunningham,CityUniversityofNewYork UncontainableGenealogies:PreEmptivePower,Forgetting,andRememberingthroughEye MovementDesensitizationandReprocessing(EMDR)Psychotherapy ChristinaNadler,CityUniversityofNewYork AffectMatters:TheRelevanceofaQuantumDeleuzianSpinozism ErinSiodmak,CityUniversityofNewYork TheLine:TheAffectiveBodiesTemporaryCollectivitiesofTheArtistisPresent AlysonK.Spurgas,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Interest,Arousal,andtheReceptiveFeminineBrain/Bodyor:HowWomenLearnthe Truthabout(theirown)Desire

S4 B
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:NeoliberalParenting:GovernmentalityandtheBody/Politic CULTURALPOLICYSTUDIESDIVISION Chair:LeahPerry,SUNYEmpireStateCollege Panelists: ChristineQuail,McMasterUniversity RealityTVParentingProgramsandNeoliberalConsumeristPolitics LeahPerry,SUNYEmpireStateCollege ImmigrantMaternityandtheReaganRevolution:NeoliberalNation,NeoliberalMothers KathaleneA.Razzano,GeorgeMasonUniversity ResurrectionandReinsertion:WelfarePolicysSearchfor theFather SumanMishra,SouthernIllinoisUniversityEdwardsville

CultureandObesityRelatedHealthPolicies

S4 C
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:NewArchives Chair:TBA Panelists: Eunsong(Angela)Kim,UCSanDiego Appropriation,CopyrightandArchives:ThePoliticalRhetoricalRangeFoundinMaterial AppropriationsintheWorldofContemporaryMuseumArt DaphneTaylorGarcia,UCSanDiego DecolonialHistoriography:LandandRaceina"Transcolonial"Context MayChew,QueensUniversity PhantasmagoriaasApparatusandRuptureintheNeoColonialArchive YuFangCho,MiamiUniversityofOhio "New"Asian/AmericaasanArchiveofComparativeEthnicStudies

S4 D
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:LaborMatters Chair:TBA Panelists: BeatricePita,UCSanDiego TheElephantintheRoom:RepresentationsofDomesticLaborin TwoRecentLatinAmerican Films HyeJinLee,UniversityofIowa It'saRabbitEatRabbitWorld:TaskRabbitandItsConvergenceof GameandLabor

ChristinaOwens,UCIrvine FromInternationalizationtoDiversification:Race,Politics,andLaborinJapan'sEnglish TeachingIndustry MarcoDeseriis,TheNewSchool SerpicaNaroandtheSelfValorizationofSocialBranding

S4 E
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:TransformingTemporality Chair:TBA Panelists: JoanneTaylor,UCBerkeley Inauguratingthe21stCenturyZombie:EmbodyingBiomediaandLiminalityinDannyBoyle's 28DaysLater(2002) ThomasJ.Connelly,ClaremontCollege ExploringMumblecore:DigitalCinema,MediaConvergenceandCounterpublics CharlieBertsch,ArizonaStateUniversity AMatterofTaste:SlowFoodandtheTemporalityofAesthetics EmilyMattingly,UCRiverside TheAgeComplex

S4 G
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:TransgenderInsurrection:GenderNonConformingMaterialistPolitical Imaginaries Chair:ArenAizura,RutgersUniversity Panelists:

EricStanley,UCSantaCruz DaysWithoutRage:VisualizingAntiBlackness,TransDeathandtheEverydaynessofViolence NaelBhanji,YorkUniversity The(Un)HeimlichManoeuvre:HomingDesires,RacializedBodiesandthePsychoAffective PoliticsofTranssexualCitizenship BoLeungsuraswat,independentscholar Your ObsessionwithAuthenticityaintMyPeanutSauceBusiness:OntheBiopoliticsof MulticulturalismandTransmasculineThaiImmigrantLaborintheQueerWhiteCube ArenAizura,RutgersUniversity IncommensurableBodies,IncalculableViolence:ImmigrationAdvocacyandTransgender Visibility

S4 H
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:ReconfiguringtheBioeconomicHuman:ColonialTechnologies,SocialPractices Chair:OliverTing,UCSanDiego Panelists: StephanieSantos,UCLA TheBiopoliticsandNecropoliticsofMicrocredit ChienTingLin,UCSanDiego HumanRights,Democracy,andtheFeminisms:TransnationalPoliticsofLaborandMigrationin Taiwan OliverTing,UCSanDiego Caring(for)Capital:A(Neo)colonialBioHistoryofJuteor,AreIndianMigrantSexWorkers (Bioeconomically)Human? SonyCorezBolton,UniversityofMichigan QueeringtheArchive:ImperialAccumulationbyBioeconomicDispossession

S4 I

Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:What'stheMatterwithRemixCulture? Chair:ZacharyMcDowell,UniversityofMassachusettsatAmherst Panelists: DavidGunkel,NorthernIllinoisUniversity AudibleTransgressions:ArtandAestheticsaftertheMashup ZacharyMcDowell,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst RemixCultureandtheLogicoftheShare RichardEdwards,BallStateUniversity PotentialMatters:TheConstraintsofVideoMashupsandtheRoleoftheClinamen

S4 J
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:SeeingisBelieving:documentaryfilm,artandthematerialityofevidence Chair:TomsF.CrowderTaraborrelli,SokaUniversityofAmerica Panelists: KristiM.Wilson,SokaUniversity Revisitingmemory:touringsitesoftraumaticmemory TomsF.CrowderTaraborrelli,SokaUniversityofAmerica The1985TrialsoftheArgentineJuntas:courttestimonies,visualdocumentation,andtheerasure ofevidence JenniferBarker,EastTennesseeStateUniversity DocumentaryFilmasMaterialWitnessandSocialConscienceinTheStranger StephenCooper,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach AccesstoEvidence:Filmand/asArchive

S4 K
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:Envisioning,Revising,andMisappropriating:AfricanAmericanMaterialityand Culturevs.Immaterial IdealsandMyths Chair:CherylL.Johnson,MiamiUniversity Panelists: NatashaAllen,MiamiUniversity ...Whomademeso?:Labor,Christianity,andSentimentalityinHarrietE.WilsonsOurNig KhalidY.Long,MiamiUniversity EmbodyingtheHeroortheHomo(?):PerformingtheMaterialBodyofMalcolmX JonnettaWoodard,MiamiUniversity Takemoneymoney,takemoneymoney!:ThePowerofMaterialityinSisterSouljahsThe ColdestWinterEver AdisaAdrianPrice,MiamiUniversity FromtheAuctionBlocktoCoverBoys:TheSpectacleofBlackMasculinityandthe CommodificationoftheGangsta

S4 L
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:RepresentationsinJapaninthe21stCentury Chair:ShinTakahashi,AustralianNationalUniversity Panelists: HiroshiIshiwata,ChuoUniversity "JapanasAffluentSociety":FinancialReformandJapaneseSelfRepresentation YukoFukata,ChuoUniversity RepresentationsofChinainContemporary Japan

ShinTakahashi,AustralianNationalUniversity OkinawasHistoriographyandIdentityintheGlobalEra

S4 M
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:CulturalStudiesandtheUniversityinQuestion WORKSHOP BruceBurgett,UniversityofWashington,Bothell RandyMartin,TischSchooloftheArts,NewYorkUniversity MeganTurner,UCSanDiego

S4 N
Saturday4:00pm5:45pm Location:TBA Title:(Re)memberingtheHistorical"Monster" CoChairs:SarahJoMayville,UCSanDiegoandErinDeYoung,TrinityCollegeDublin SarahJoMayville,UCSanDiego DecapitationandtheDisabled:Deadwood(Re)MemberstheNationalBody KeithClavin,AuburnUniversity TheMonsterintheCity:ReconcilingImagesofUrbanDestructioninPost9/11PopularCinema ErinDeYoung,TrinityCollegeDublin MonstrousMasculinity:ThePhysicalInscriptionofCollectivePsychologicalTrauma

S6 A
Saturday6:00pm7:45pm Location:TBA Title:Sound,Vision,Politics PLENARY RicardoDominguez,UCSanDiego ContestationDesign:TacticalPoeticsandStrategicAesthetics

KaraKeelingandThenmozhiSoundararajan,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia

TheCulturalStudiesAssociationisgratefultotheUniversityofPittsburghfor theirgenerouscosponsorshipofthe2012Conference.

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