SCHEDULE
Jadwin Hall, Room A08
8:30 – 9:00 AM | COFFEE & BREAKFAST
9:00 – 9:30 AM | OPENING REMARKS
9:30 – 11:30 AM | PANEL I: SPECULATIVE RELATIONS
Moderator: Elizabeth Davis (Department of Anthropology)
Drone Bomb Me: Conspiracy as a Path to New Relationality | Paloma Orozco Scott (Brown University)
Conspiracy: A Praxis | Kimberly Bain (Princeton University)
Nothing More Magical: The Unbelievable Images of The X-Files | Max Suechting (Stanford University)
Bridges of Lost and Found Desire: AIDS and the Hermeneutic of Conspiracy in Samuel R. Delany | Stefan Yong (University of California Santa Cruz)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | LUNCH (PROVIDED)
12:30 – 2:30 PM | PANEL II: SITES OF SURVEILLANCE
Moderator: Aisha Beliso-De Jesús (Program in American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Coffee, Sugar, and Taxes: The Economic Conspiracy Against Puerto Rican Independence | Mary Kate Cowher (Penn State Harrisburg)
Postwar Painting and the View from Below: Budd Hopkins , 1964–1976 | Joe Bucciero (Princeton University)
Criminals Among Us: Background Checks and Blacklists in Depression Era Employment | Daniel Ewert (Princeton University)
Fear the Border Child: Israeli Wall Construction along the U.S.-Mexico Border | Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn (Yale University)
2:30 – 2:45 PM | COFFEE BREAK
2:45 – 4:45 PM | PANEL III: COUNTER EPISTEMOLOGIES
Moderator: Rachel Price (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies)
Servin’ Up Resistance: Reclaiming the Narrative of Black Women Cooks of the Antebellum Era | Ariel Smith (Purdue University)
Spectral Indigeneity: Possibilities of Being ‘O ̄iwi in the Digital Age | Brie Adams (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
A Comparison of El Folklore Filipino and the Publications of the Philippine Bureau of Science | Karlynne Ejercito (University of Southern California)
Hip-Hop Cops: Surveillance and its Afterlives in Caribbean New York | Adlan Jackson (New York University)
5:00 – 6:00 PM | KEYNOTE
A False Flag | Joseph Masco (University of Chicago)
6:00 PM | RECEPTION