Thursday 10:30 - 12:00 Draft...Debt, Ethics, and Opacity in Samuel Delany’s The Mad Man Christian Ravela, University of Central Florida [T]ouching there: Affect and Hauntological

Thursday 10:30 - 12:00

SESSION B | ROOM TBA |

Let’s Make America Decolonial Again!

Chair: Henry Schwarz, Georgetown University

Let's Make America Decolonial Again!

Henry Schwarz, Georgetown University

The Postcolonial Still Speaks

Deepika Bahri, Emory University

My African President

Namita Goswami, Indiana State Univ.

Climate Justice Now!

Brendan Corcoran, Indiana State Univ.

SESSION C | ROOM TBA | GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE WORKING GROUP PANEL

Global/Imperial Food and Waste

Chair: TBA, TBA

Plastic Peril: Imperial Form and Racial Matter

Mingwei Huang, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

The The Phenomenology of Resistance: Farming Practices in Eastern

Zambia and the Recalcitrance of the Chewa

Debbie Jean Brown, Gonzaga University

The Impact of Large US Agri-Business on Food Sovereignty

Cornelia Catuneanu, George Mason University

SESSION D | ROOM TBA |

Podcasting and Public Intellectualism: A Praxis Session

Chair: Cathy Hannabach, Ideas on Fire

SESSION E | ROOM TBA |

Escape in/of the City: Urban Spaces of Cultural Resistance

Chair: TBA, TBA

Escaping Capitalism: Explorations in Autonomous/ist Resistance

James Simmons and Targol Mesbah, CIIS- Department of Anthropology & Social

Change

At the Nexus of Art, Social Engagement, and Revitalisation

May Chew, York University

Days of Troy Oppositional Performance As Cultural Production in Los

Angeles’ Troy Café, 1990-1995

Thomas Carrasco, Santa Barbara City College

The Political Subjectivization of Korean Creative Workers: Working and

Living as Urban Precariat in Creative City Seoul

Changwook Kim, Handong Global University

SESSION F | ROOM TBA |

Reading the Affect and Ethics of Debt

Chair: TBA, TBA

Debt, Ethics, and Opacity in Samuel Delany’s The Mad Man

Christian Ravela, University of Central Florida

[T]ouching there: Affect and Hauntological Alienation in M. NourbeSe

Philip's Zong!

Emily Campbell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Unpayable Debts and the Crisis of Subjectivity in The Beautiful Things

That Heaven Bears

John Macintosh, University of Maryland - College Park

SESSION G | ROOM TBA |

Preservation and the Debt of Cultural Commodities: Collecting vs. the Record

Contrract

Chair: TBA, TBA

Rock Out with Your Checkout: Preserving Local Music Archives with the

Help of Local Libraries

Frank Bridges, Rutgers University

Streaming Bootlegs: Collecting and Media Specificity

Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island

Intellectual Property and Debt: The ideology of the record contract

David Arditi, University of Texas at Arlington

SESSION H | ROOM TBA |

Representation, Reproduction, and Change in Global TV

Chair: TBA, TBA

TV, internet piracy and media change

Sean Fuller, The University of Sydney

“Puerto Rican and Redheaded!?”: Constructions of Race, Ethnicity, and

Identity on Switched at Birth

Donica O'Malley, University of Pittsburgh

Altered States: Drugs, Bipolarity, and Affect in Homeland

Randal Rogers, University of Regina

Thursday 12:00-1:00

Thursday 1:00-2:30

SESSION A | ROOM TBA | ENIVRONMENT, SPACE, PLACE WORKING GROUP PANEL

Visualizing Environments: Imagining Futures Otherwise

Chair: Lindsay Garcia, The College of William and Mary

Digital Mediations of Care and Responsibility in Tree Planting Campaigns

Shruti Desai, Goldsmiths, University of London

Empathy and Environmentalism in 1970s Visual Culture

Daniel Belgrad, University of South Florida

The Art of Coal Waste: Disjunct temporalities and the use of coal waste as

a material in contemporary fine art

Richard Todd Stafford, George Mason University

Art [*Strikethrough* at the End of the World]

Matthew Reynolds, Whitman College


Figurations of Decolonization

Chair: Sandeep Banerjee, McGill University

Against the Notion of Break

Auritro Majumder, University of Houston

Decolonizing Domestic Space: Gender and ‘the Troubles’ in Jennifer

Johnston’s Shadows on Our Skin

Sreya Chatterjee, West Virginia University

Art for Utopia’s Sake: Visions of Decolonization in Goopy Gyne Bagha

Byne

Sandeep Banerjee, McGill University

Decolonize Now! The Failure of Postcolonial Independence in the United

States

Henry Schwarz, Georgetown University

SESSION C | ROOM TBA | GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE WORKING GROUP PANEL

Global Culture and/of Debt

Chair: TBA, TBA

Valuing Voluntourism: Moral Economy and the Debt of Doing

Development

Margaret Zeddies, George Mason University

Youth Empowerment in the Age of Mass Debt

Loubna Hanna, University of California Washington Center

Dignity and Debt

Katy Razzano, George Mason University


Old Cultural Studies (or, "We Have Never Been Cultural Studies")

Chair: Josh Smicker, Philadelphia University

Allison Schlobohm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Megan WoodUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

, SESSION E | ROOM TBA |

The Trump Affect: Media, Violence, and Cognitive Bias

Chair: TBA, TBA

The Affective Violence of Trumpian Politics

Christina Riley, George Mason University

Cognitive Biases, Planning Fallacies, and the Inevitable Trumpery

(working title)

Erika Biddle and Erika Biddle, York University

Media concatenation: Emotional Reaction & Affect in “the Age of Trump”

Marcus Breen, Boston College


Reproducing the Repressive State Apparatus: Policing, prisons, and identity

politics

Chair: TBA, TBA

Criminal Debtors: Seizing the Means of Gender Self-Determination

Lars Mackenzie, University of Minnesota

Incarcerated in Kansas: Gender Policing and the case of Chelsea

Manning

Hannah Bailey, University Of Kansas

Debt and Identity Politics in the Hebron Shooting Incident

Revital Madar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Landmarks of Dissent: Imperialism, Incorporation, and Commodification

Chair: TBA, TBA

Desired Body Made Cultural Commodity: Hawaiians in the Imperial U.S.

from 1900-1960

Leah Kuragano, The College of William and Mary

Hawai`i Island’s Saddle: Shaping the Landscape, Deepening the Conflict,

& Protecting Resources

Christine Rosenfeld, George Mason University

Landmarks of Dissent: National Park Service and the LGBTQ Heritage

Initiative

Helis Sikk, College of William & Mary

SESSION H | ROOM TBA | CRITICAL FEMINIST STUDIES WORKING GROUP PANEL

Critical Feminist Studies and Social Justice

Chair: Dara Persis Murray, Manhattanville College,...

Producing the Female Subject in/of Austerity-Excess

Sheshalatha Reddy, Howard University

Rationality, Intensity, and Whiteness: A Feminist Crip of Color Materialism

Tanja Aho, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Unrested Bodies: On Having The Empire As Debiteur

Beaudelaine Pierre, University of Minnesota;

Thursday 2:45-4:15

SESSION A | ROOM TBA |

Petro-landscapes: Aesthetics, Gender, and Geopolitics

Chair: Michael Malouf, George Mason University

Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil

Helen Kapstein, John Jay College City University of New York

Petro-Debts: US Legal Geographies, Gender Violence, and the Cost of

Petro-Justice

Heather Turcotte, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Petroculture, Water, and the Sublime in Lake Chad, the Great Lakes, and

Standing Rock

Michael Malouf, George Mason University

SESSION B | ROOM TBA | AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS

Minh-Ha T Pham Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the

Work of Personal Style Blogging

SESSION C | ROOM TBA |

Starting with Trump: Research and Reflection on the Changing Realities of

Everyday Life

Chair: Megan Wood, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nicole Castro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Marie EszenyiUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

David Farrow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Allison Schlobohm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Who will (get paid to) watch the watchers?

Chair: TBA, TBA

Networking Exposure: Police Misconduct and the Precondition of a Data

Plan

Jeff Heydon, Wilfrid Laurier University

Undercover Surveillance and Disorder in New York City

Austin Gallas, Cultural Studies, George Mason University

Paying Your Risk to Society: Risk, Remote Tracking, and Realignment

Raymond Scannell, CUNY Graduate Center


Debt, Social crime, and Anti-social Finance: Some recent films

Chair: Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago

Race, Debt, and Social Crime in Hell or High Water (and Trump’s

America) -“You boys robbing a bank? That’s Crazy Ya’ll Ain’t Even

Mexicans”

Sean Andrews, Columbia College Chicago

We Don't Need Another Hero: Psychosocial Indebtedness and Anti-

Villainy

David Reznik, Bridgewater College

The 2008 Crash, Documentary, and Contemporary Cultural Hierarchies

Daniel Marcus, Goucher College


Unpacking Politics: Populism, Progressives, and Power

Chair: TBA, TBA

Election 2016: Right-Wing Populism and the Crises of Capitalism

Lindsey Macdonald, George Mason University

Cultural positions and support for populist far-right parties in Western

Europe

Aline Burni, New York University

Toward a Post-Emancipatory Biopolitics: Freedom and Political

Correctness in the Age of Trump

Matthew MacLellan, Mount Saint Vincent University


Theories of Dissent and the Descent of Theory

Chair: TBA, TBA

The Epistemological Status of Tactics in Marxism--Notes Toward a

Methodology

Robert Carley, Texas A&M University

What's Left in Cultural Studies? Reclaiming Historical Materialist Analysis

for Critical Media Research

Janice Peck, Media Studies Department, University of Colorado at Boulder

Rethinking Moralism Around Debt (in the Age of Trump and Brexit)

David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University

Self/Writing/Control (Working through New Media with Late Foucault)

Ricky Crano, Tufts University

SESSION H | ROOM TBA | ENIVRONMENT, SPACE, PLACE

Posthuman Debts: Socio-Ecological Landscapes in the Age of Trump

Chair: Sophie Sapp Moore, University of California, Davis

Trump vs. Posthumanism: what does a Trump presidency mean for

animals?

Lindsay Garcia, The College of William and Mary

“Debt, Death and Disease: How Homelessness Became the Focal Point in

the Rhetorics of ‘Revitalization’ and the ‘Housing Crisis’ in Downtown Los

Angeles and Sacramento”

Douglas Mungin, Solano Community College

Reflections on Mapping the Conflict at Standing Rock

Cinthya Ammerman and Jessa Rae Growing Thunder-Slivers, University of California

Davis

Thursday 4:30-6:30

SESSION P | ROOM TBA | OPENING PLENARY

Opening Plenary

Chair: Jessica Scarlata , George Mason University

"Grab 'Em By The Pussy": Sovereign Longings in the Age of Trump

Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University

he Trump Show,’ Economies of Branding, & Currencies of Political

Populism in the U.S.

James Hay, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Don Hedrick

Adorno Does Donald, Kansas State University

Friday 8:45-10:15

SESSION A | ROOM TBA | PERFORMANCE

Water is Life: Water, Debt, and Performance Activism

Chair: Stefanie A. Jones, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center

The Politics of Lakes: Public Parks, Public Art, and Histories of Erasure

Gwyneth Shanks, Walker Art Center

Seawalls, Shorelines and Forgotten Ecologies.

May Joseph, Pratt Institute

Documenting Precariety and Other Ghostly Remains: Passivity as Political

Practice in Betzabé García’s documentary Los reyes del pueblo que no

existe

Lilia Adriana Perez Limon, University of Oklahoma

Counter-currents and Counter-topographies in Communities of Color:

Agrarian Resistance to Water Grabbing in Central California and Central

Morocco

Priya R. Chandrasekaran, SIT Study Abroad International Honors Program in Climate

Change and Kimberly C. Welch, University of California, Los Angeles

SESSION B | ROOM TBA | PRAXIS

Providing Decolonial Contexts: Trump as the Newest Mask of Coloniality

Chair: Luis Gabriel Sanchez Rose, University at Albany

, SESSION C | ROOM TBA |

The Sea Birds, Still: Owing to Toni Cade Bambara

Chair: James Bliss / Diana Leong, University of California, Irvine / University of Utah

Broken Field Running

James Bliss, University of California, Irvine

The Cohesion (and/or) Coherence of Racial Ecology in Toni Cade

Bambara’s “The Seabirds Are Still Alive”

Diana Leong, University of Utah

(Un)Burdened Blackness: On the Logic of Compulsory Resistance

Tyrone Palmer, Northwestern University

The Limits of Genre: Black Feminist Soundscapes in Toni Cade

Bambara’s “Medley”

Brittnay Proctor + Discussant Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University Vancouver,

Northwestern University


The emergent crafts of gendered protest: A guide for nasty, gross, foul women

Chair: TBA, TBA

Nasty Women: Gender, Foulness, Power

Delores Phillips and Sarah Appleton, Old Dominion University

The Good, The Bad And The Gross: Pivoting From The Ethical To The

Aesthetic In Responding To A Trump Regime

Shelley Park, University of Central Florida

Guidebook for the Revolution: An Analysis of Anti-Trump Activists through

Their Handbooks

Sara Mitcho, Independent Scholar

Craft as Protest in the Trump Era: Feminism and the Pussyhat Project

Karen Walsh, University of Hartford


Debts to Science and Methods of Hope

Chair: TBA, TBA

An Indebted Researcher And A Critique Of Hope: The Case of My

Research at the Jackson Laboratory

Ekin Yasin, University of Washington

Marx, culture and science

Mckenzie Wark, The New School

Imagined immunities: President Trump and the neoliberal debt economy

Liane Tanguay, University of Houston-Victoria


Immigrant Imaginaries and the Politics of Hope and Debt

Chair: TBA, TBA

The Great Weight of Debt on Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

Hansel Aguilar, George Mason University

Just-in-Time Politics: Activism in the Age of Trump and HB2

Chuck Tryon, Fayetteville State University

Un/Settling the "Nation of Immigrants": Indigeneity, Immigration Policy,

and Media

Leah Perry, SUNY Empire State College


Memory, Identity, and Resistance

Chair: TBA, TBA

Reclaiming Memory and Mourning: Grievability and Resistance in Mexico

Benjamin Nienass and Alexandra Delano, California State University San Marcos and

The New School

Islam, Ethnicity, and the Spanish Roma in Flamenco-Arab Fusion

Brian Oberlander, Northwestern University

Dreaming in Boricua: The Young Lords and the Solidarity Economy

Eric Morales-Franceschini, University of Georgia

SESSION H | ROOM TBA | GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE WORKING GROUP PANEL

Interface: The Cultural Politics of U.S.-China Transnationalism

Chair: Calvin Hui, College of William and Mary

Becoming Americans: Chinese Brides in Chinese American Literature and

Cinema

Yu Min Claire Chen, St Mary’s College of Maryland

The Chinese Dream: Imag(in)ing the Culture of the Middle Class in the

Late 2000s & Early 2010s

Calvin Hui, College of William and Mary

Dwelling Across the Pacific: Minor Transnationalisms in Karen Tei

Yamashita's I Hotel

Lily Wong, American University

Unsettling the State: China, House of Cards, and Transnational Media

Fan Yang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Friday 10:30-12:00

SESSION A | ROOM TBA |

Visual Representation of Heritage, Protest, and Post-Racial Politics

Chair: TBA, TBA

“Straight Outta Congress”: Ted Cruz’s 2016 Election Posters and

(Post)Racial Politics

Kayla Meyers, College of William and Mary

Woke Digital Protest Art in the Wake of Donald Trump's Inauguration

Emily Mattingly, University of the Arts

Envisioning America's Presidents

M. Liz Andrews, George Mason University


Tressie McMillan Cottom, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in

the New Economy

Critics: TBA

SESSION C | ROOM TBA |

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Debt

Chair: Marcia Klotz, University of Arizona

Performative Accounting of Debt, Time, and Labor in the Financialized

University

Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona

From Wages for Students to Strike Debt: Struggles over the Wage

Leigh Claire La Berge, BMCC SUNY

Debt and Whiteness in Contemporary Cinema

Marcia Klotz, University of Arizona

SESSION D | ROOM TBA | CULTURE AND WAR

Culture and War Working Group

Chair: TBA, TBA

Soldier, You’re A Fag: Analyzing impacts of college campus homophobic

discourse on student veterans

Steven Dashiell, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Fronterlebnis , War Trauma and the Collapse of German Veteran Identity

Howard Hastings, Univeristy of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

The Algorithmic Governance of the Image: ISIS, Digital Media, and

Technologies of Automated Censorship

Ryan E. Artrip and François Debrix, Guilford College


Reading the Writing on the Wall

Chair: TBA, TBA

The Trump Wall: A Cultural Security or A Cultural “Scar”?

Mimi Yang, Carthage College

Walls of Insecurity: ‘Slow Violence’ in Donald Trump’s Proposed Border

Wall

Alyssa Quintanilla, University of Pittsburgh

Border Walls: Graffiti as a global resistive practice

John Lennon, University of South Florida Tampa


Neoliberal Pathologies: Racism, Ablism, and Queer Exceptionalism

Chair: TBA, TBA

Rationality, Intensity, and Whiteness: Revisiting Financialization and

Neoliberalization

Tanja Aho, University at Buffalo, SUNY

“An Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Engaging Disability Studies as a Site of

Activist and Leadership Possibilities in the Age of Trump

Stephanie Wheeler, University of Central Florida

Pill Pushers: Pharmaceutical Deregulation and Queer Exceptionalism

Andy Eicher, Stony Brook University


Love, Debt, and the Ends of the University

Chair: TBA, TBA

A student body in debt: value, labour, and sports

Kimberly Klinger, George Mason University

Whose "good life" is this?: Student Debt and For-Profit Education

Jaime Madden, Univ. of Maryland & Georgetown Univ.

Doing What You Love in the Age of Mass Debt

Elizabeth Verklan, University of Arizona

SESSION H | ROOM TBA | CRITICAL FEMINIST STUDIES

Critical Feminist Studies Working Group Roundtable: "Capitalism, Affect, and

Mass Debt”

Chair: Discussion Leaders: Dara Persis Murray, Wendy Burns-Ardolino, and Jennifer

Scuro,

Friday 12:00-1:00

SESSION | ROOM TBA |

Lunch/Business Meeting

Friday 1:00-2:30


Enacting Solidarity with Student Workers and Students in Debt

Chair: Heather Steffen, University of California, Santa Barbara

Erika Carlos, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chelsea BrandweinUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Nastacia Schmoll, Independent Scholar

SESSION C | ROOM TBA | ETHNOGRAPHY

Dispatches from the Field

Chair: TBA, TBA

Why We Marched: A feminist ethnography of women's resistance the day

after the inauguration

Wendy Burns-Ardolino, Grand Valley State University

Crunch at the Game Jam: Making Videogames and Taking Field Notes

Chris Young, University of Toronto

An Ethnographic Study of the Imagined User and Responsibility in Toronto

City Planning

Christian Quaresma, McMaster University


Care and Maintenance #1 Maintenance Regimes

Chair: Michael Denning, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University

Maintaining Nature’s Household

Alyssa Battistoni, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University

Maintaining Settler Colonialism Along Rivers in the US West

Sigma Colón, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University

“We cannot tell their features:” Syrians Crossing the US Mexico Border

and the Production of Race

Randa Tawil, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University

Maintaining Life: Biopolitics, Technology, and the Mid 20th Century Birth

of Intensive Care

Jonny Bunning, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University


Drones, Doomsday, and other features of Late Exterminism a la Trump

Chair: TBA, TBA

Notes on Late Exterminism, the Trump Stage of Civilization

John Carl Baker, Mellon-ACLS Public Fellow/Ploughshares Fund

Trumpeting Doomsday: Knowledge, Media, and the Nuclear Imaginary

Calum Matheson, University of Pittsburgh

Killer Drones, Legal Ethics, and the Inconvenient Referent

Vaheed Ramazani, Tulane University


The discourses of post-racial racism and respectability

Chair: TBA, TBA

Pink Lipstick, Prayer, & Putting Out: Tracey, Beyoncé, and Black

Respectability in the Twenty-first Century

Gretta Moody, Independent Researcher

“Black is Beautiful”: Post-Racism and the Relief from Debt Relief

Christopher Chamberlin, University of California, Irvine

Everyday Neoliberalism in the Discourses on Intimate Interracial

Relationships

Andrea Jonahs, University of Calgary


Traumatic Masculinities in the Age of Trump

Chair: Josh Smicker, Philadelphia University

Kathleen Bachynski, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Allison SchlobohmUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

SESSION H | ROOM TBA | VISUAL CULTURE

Resistant Images: How to Make Injustice Visible

Chair: Lisa Daily, New York University

“The Culture of Debt and the Eviction of the Human: The Case of the

Caribbean.”

Carlos Cordero Cancio and René Rodríguez-Ramírez, Universidad del Turabo

Why the Locust: Parallel Trading in Hong Kong

Annie Hui, George Mason Universoty

Looking at Appalachia: Poverty Photography Rebranded

Caroline West, George Mason Universoty

Friday 2:45-4:15


Rebekah Sheldon, The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe

SESSION C | ROOM TBA | ETHNOGRAPHY

Ethnographies of Debt, Voice and Errors

Chair: TBA, TBA

Not that kind of doctor: Ethnographic remedies for postcolonial debts

Sophie Moore, University of California-Davis

Ethical Costs, Debts, and Errors

Michelle Walsh, Boston University School of Social Work

Power, Voice, Reciprocity: Conducting Research with Girls Exeriencing

Foster Care Drift

Marina Del Sol, University of Pennsylvania


Care and Maintenance #2 Technologies of Care

Chair: Michael Denning, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University

What Is Love? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)

Peter Raccuglia, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University

Deadly Neglect: Withholding Medical Care for Migrants in Detention

Damian Vergara Bracamontes, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale

University

Educational Networks of Care & Maintenance: The Barbour Scholarship

for Asian Women

Courtney Sato, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University

Entitlement and the Politics of Care

Gabriel Winant, Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University


Performing Race, Whitewashing Awards

Chair: TBA, TBA

Banned in La La Land: Diversity and its Discontents at the 89th Academy

Awards

Anne Ciecko, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Not “Simply the Best”: Quantifying Discrimination in Music Industry Award

Shows

John Vilanova, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Asian Bodies in Motion: Sonic and Visual Identities in Hollywood Movies

Su-Ching Huang, East Carolina University


Representations of Debt and Reparations

Chair: TBA, TBA

The Image of Reparations: Television, Debt, and the Discourse of

Diversity

Brandy Monk-Payton, Dartmouth College

Loans, Justification and Freedom: Narrativizing Debt in Thai TV

Commercials

Suradech Chotiudompant, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Nostalgia, Frustration and Desperation: a Discursive Analysis of the

Second Season of The Wire

Elisa Hernández-Pérez, Universidad de Valencia


Trumpery, big league: sports, reality TV, and participatory media resistance

Chair: TBA, TBA

Donald Trump’s Predictability Repertoire: Lessons from Celebrity

Apprentice

Dadland Maye, CUNY Graduate Center

Resistance Big League: The Role of Citizen Media in Protesting a

Celebrity President

Kj Surkan, MIT

My Whole Life is About Winning: The Trump Brand the Political Uses of

Sport

Thomas Oates, University of Iowa

SESSION H | ROOM TBA | VISUAL CULTURE

Digital Truths: The Visual ReConstruction of Reality in New Media

Chair: Daniel Belgrad, University of South Florida

Visualizing Crime and Criminality: Photographic Evidence and Russell

Williams

Jonathan Finn, Wilfrid Laurier University

The Googlization of the Gallery

Savannah Fetterolf, George Mason University

Crafting Identity: Affective Engagement and Representation in an Etsy

Economy

Kayla Keener, George Mason University

“’Windows & Wormholes:’ Virtual Reality as ‘Empathy Machine’”

Lisa Daily, New York University

Friday 4:30-6:30

SESSION P | ROOM TBA |

Presidential Plenary

Chair: Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside

TBA

Christopher Bonner , University of Maryland

TBA

Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University

TBA

Carroll Doherty, Pew Director of Political Research

TBA

Tim Johnson, McClatchy

Saturday 8:45-10:15


Sunaina Maira, 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on

Terror

SESSION C | ROOM TBA | TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE

Dealing with Trump: Technology and Culture Working Group

Chair: Chris Alen Sula, Pratt Institute

The Great Unfriending: The Politics of Networks, Field Guides, and Digital

Withdrawal

Andrew Culp and Josef Nguyen, University of Texas at Dallas

Viral Validity Revisited: Fake News in a Republic of Spam

Mark Nunes, Appalachian State University

“Fake News”: A Discourse Analysis

Juho E Hakokongas, Heather V Hill, Kristen Iemma, Elijah Jonas, Nanyamkah Mars,

Kieran L Raines, Chris Alen Sula, D Andrea Thompson and Alexander Whelan, Pratt

Institute


The Financialization of Everyday Life: Debt and the Commodified Contract

Chair: TBA, TBA

“When Merit Becomes Credit:” The Bank of Goodness in Thailand and the

Indoctrinating Power of the Loans

Pasoot Lasuka, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Strike Debt’s Rolling Jubilee: the Promise and the Performativity of

Financial Contracts

Christian Nagler, University of California, Berkeley

LGBT Families, Financial Planning, and the Future of Sexual-Economic

Justice

Liz Montegary, Stony Brook University

“We’ve been surviving, what else can I have?”: Neoliberalized racial

aspiration in the design of a financial empowerment program

Miranda Martinez, Ohio State University


Social Media Activism and the Spectacle of Accountability

Chair: TBA, TBA

Memes and Their Targets: Slovenian Internet Humour in Times of

Economic Crisis

Peter Stankovic, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Truth and Accountability in Hungarian Media

Lilla Toke, CUNY, LaGuardia Community College

Putin’s Celebrity Spectacle: Mobilizing Anti-fascist Affect Among Russian

Youth

David Zeglen, George Mason University


Inhospitable progressivism

Chair: TBA, TBA

Men Explain Things to Me: Mansplaining, Misogyny, and Feminist Film

Criticism

Rachel Thibault, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hospitality in an Age of Mass Debt

Lindsay Balfour, New York University

Towards a #CriticalBeckyStudies: Teach for America, White Saviors and

the Neoliberal Deferral of Reparations

Vineeta Singh, University of California, San Diego

SESSION H | ROOM TBA | CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

Critical Pedagogies Working Group Workshop

Chair: TBA, TBA

Putting Critical Media Literacy into Action Through Community

Engagement and Service Learning

Bill Yousman, Sacred Heart University

Exploring Gender in Media Texts through Critical Cultural Studies

Lori Bindig, Sacred Heart University

Teaching Immigrant ESL Students in the Era of Trump

Joanna Labov, Community College of Philadelphia

Saturday 10:30-12:00

,

SPECIAL SESSIONS - TBA

Saturday 12:00-1:00

SESSION | ROOM TBA |

Lunch/Business Meeting

Saturday 1:00-2:30

SESSION C | ROOM TBA | TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE WORKING GROUP

Networked Relationships

Chair: Mark Nunes, Appalachian State University

Seeing is Believing: Trust and the Digital Archive in Black Mirror’s “The

Entire History of You”

Derek Blackwell, Prairie View A&M University

Gregariousness as Governmentality: The Reproduction of Debt and Credit

Relations in the Social Media Subject

Ricky Crano, Tufts University

Road to the U.S. with Social Media: International Students and their

Language Choices Online

Haijing Tu, Indiana State University

SESSION D | ROOM TBA | CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES WORKING GROUP

Race and Critical Ethnic Studies Working Group

Chair: TBA, TBA

Transnational Debts of Whiteness: Die Antwoord, Post-Apartheid South

Africa, and the Hip Hop Industry

Seth Cosimini, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Debt as the mythology for white nationalism: notes on the affective

economy of racism in the US and UK

Bryce Peake, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Teaching Resistance: Commodifying the Students of Color Bodies in the

Neoliberal Universities

Khoi Nguyen, George Mason University


Labor, Domesticity, and the Archaeologies of Technology

Chair: TBA, TBA

Computers go home: A media archaeology of early home computing

Bailey Kelley, University of Iowa

Critical Labor History of the Early PC Gaming Industry

Logan Blizzard, University of Pittsburgh

Critmas: moral debt and gift economies of fandom in commercial

streaming gameplay

John Carter Mcknight, Harrisburg University of Science & Technology


Loving the Nerds; Smashing their Machines

Chair: TBA, TBA

Intellectualism Now – Nerds, Experts, Geniuses and Big Data Culture

Steven Gotzler, Carnege Mellon University

High Tech Luddism

Gavin Mueller, University of Texas at Dallas

Autonomous Exchanges: IBM's Watson and The Indebtedness of Artificial

Intelligence (AI) Platforms and Human Beings

Christopher Cox, Georgia State University


Virtual Identities; cyborg mobilities: in representation, practice, and place

Chair: TBA, TBA

Power of Identity in the Cyber World: Virtual Ethnography on Macau

Netizens’ Practice of Identity Performance

Zhongxuan Lin, Sun Yat-sen University

Cyborg Neoliberalism: The Necropolitics of Bodies in Cities

Caroline Alphin, Virginia Tech

Virtually Mobile: The Holodeck and Hyper-mobility in the Long 90s

Brent Smith-Casanueva, Stony Brook University


Critical Pedagogies Working Group Panel

Chair: TBA, TBA

Teaching on the Ledge: PejePrepa Educator Communities in Mexico City

Sarah Cook, Juvenile Justice Advocates International

Love, Rage and Debt: Affective practices and pedagogies of student debt

Mary Ebeling, Rebecca Carlson, Keshema Davidson, Sam Price and Anna Clapham,

Drexel University

Intersectional Pedagogy: A Critical Approach to Teaching Across Cultures

Khoi Nguyen, George Mason University

Teaching "Truth" in the Age of Trump

Sara Mitcho, Independent Scholar

Saturday 2:45-4:15

SESSION D | ROOM TBA | THEORIES OF CULTURAL STUDIES WORKING GROUP

Cultural Studies in the Era of Trump: A Roundtable

Chair: Jaafar Aksikas, Columbia College Chicago

Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside

Hilary BerwickIndependent Scholar


Suffering Debt and/as a Global Spectacle

Chair: TBA, TBA

On the Subject of Democracy: Debt and the Melodrama of Wealth in

Argentina’s 2015 elections

Charles Dolph, CUNY Graduate Center

Indebted Economies

Maria Giannacopoulos, Flinders University

Suffering and its Spectacle in the Age of International Debts

Yurika Tamura, University of California, Riverside


The Spectacle Imperfected: Post-fact Propaganda and the Social Media

Economy

Chair: TBA, TBA

Fake News Spectacle

Tai Neilson, George Mason University

Hate Clicks: Steve Bannon, Breitbart, and The Content Economy

Andrew Mckinney, CUNY Graduate Center

Post-Truth, Alternative Facts, and the Mediation of Threat in

Contemporary America: A New Virtual Reality

Chris Richardson, Young Harris College


Noise Uprisings: Radicalism and Reaction in Music

Chair: TBA, TBA

A Debt to Heredity? Music and Eugenics during the Interwar Period

Amanda Modell, University of California, Davis

We Gon’ Be Alright?: Civil Rights Nostalgia, Racial Individualism, and New

Black Protest Music

Cameron Leader-Picone, Kansas State University

Against Zion: The Music & Politics of Israeli Anarchist Punk

Zack Furness, Penn State Greater Allegheny


Optimism of the Will: Resistance, Persistence, and Critical Drinking

Chair: Gil Rodman, University of Minnesota

Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago

Lisa DailyNew York University

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Saturday 4:30-6:30

SESSION P | ROOM TBA |

Closing Plenary

Chair: Brett Williams, American University

Debt and Utopia

Richard Dienst, Rutgers University

The Emperor’s New Clothes: “Risk” and the New Calculus of Capitalism

Carolyn Hardin, Miami University

Kings of Debt

Andrew Ross, New York University

Documents

Thursday 10:30 - 12:00 Draft...Debt, Ethics, and Opacity in Samuel Delany’s The Mad Man Christian Ravela, University of Central Florida [T]ouching there: Affect and Hauntological