Here is a PDF of our schedule.
(Last Updated April 16th, 2021)
Craft Critique Culture Conference:
Justice Framed
April 16th – 17th, 2021
| Times (CST) | All Presentations Zoom Room 1 Link | All Presentations Zoom Room 2 Link |
| Asynchronous Panels | Domesticity, Deviancy, and Dystopia Moderator: Paul Schmitt, University of Iowa Christine Stevens, University of St. Thomas Examining Migrant Filipina Domestic Work in the United Arab Emirates Elizabeth Laughlin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania “Mária” Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati, Devangha Singh, Ishan Vijay, Malini Chidambai, Jindal Global Law School Crafting Criminality: Into a Magical Dystopia with Delinquent Objects Griffin Reed, Saint Louis University“ Use as Well as a Delight”: A Materialist Critique of Representations of Underage Sex in Film | |
| FRIDAY 4/16 | SYNCHRONOUS PANELS Room 1 | SYNCHRONOUS PANELS Room 2 |
| 9:00 am – 10:15 am | A1. Feminism beyond Borders Moderator: Laura Hayes, University of Iowa Tove Conway, University of Iowa Feminist Forms and Borderless Landscapes in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet Cali Mellin, University of St. Thomas Visibility and Community in Ciudad Juárez: Returning to Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera Kanishka Sikri, University of Toronto “Are you sure that’s violence?”: Unpacking Knowledge as Violence | A2. Towards a Moral Politic Moderator: Joshua Foley, University of Iowa Farhan Lakhany, University of Iowa The Demands of Morality Max Bouratoglou, Pomona College Bureaucratic Totalitarianism: Reading Arendt in the Age of Neoliberalism |
| 10:30 am – 11:45 am | B1. Fund Counselors Not Cops: CANCELLED Panelists TBA | **In the wake of recent murders of unarmed black men coupled with the continuing fight against Covid-19, the panel of scholar-activists, community organizers and counselors could not meet today; however, this conversation continues to be at the center of national dialogue and will continue at a later date. If anyone is still interested in having this discussion publicly or privately, please add your name/email to the following Google Doc, and we will have the panelists reach out to you at a more appropriate time. You can also email Leia Belt directly at Leia-belt@uiowa.edu who can connect you. Fund Counselors Not Cops Panel Interest List (Google Doc) |
| 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm | PLENARY ADDRESS Dr. Rachel Williams, “Research, Reflect, & Amplify: Engagement through Art” Professor, School of Art and Art History, Gender Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa With Introduction by Caroline Cheung, University of Iowa | Zoom Link to the Plenary Address! |
| 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm | KEYNOTE ADDRESS Harsha Walia, “Abolish I.C.E., Abolish Borders” With Introduction by Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo, Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and History, University of Iowa | Zoom Link to the Keynote Speech! |
| 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm | C1. Paths to Career Activism Moderator: Marvin Logan, Strategist, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan Isaac Floyd, Research and Development Food Scientist Marcus Wright, Kent State University | C2. Reimagined Communities Moderator: Maddison McGann, University of Iowa Conor Hilton A Pirate’s Life for Me: Imagining a Heterotopia in “The Encantadas” and The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main Kathleen Shaughnessy Citizen Hyde: Cosmopolitan Contradictions in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| SATURDAY 4/17 | SYNCHRONOUS PANELS Room 1 | SYNCHRONOUS PANELS Room 2 |
| 9:30 am – 10:45 am | D. Educators as Activists Zoom Room 1 (Direct Link) Amanda Paniagua, Bowling Green State University Leia Belt, University of Iowa Devin Bates, Lead Pre-K Teacher, Assistant Childcare Administrator, East End Neighborhood House | |
| 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | E1. Arts as Activism Kaylene Abernathy, Digital Artist, Kent State University Leia Belt, University of Iowa Sierra Shepard, Film Maker, Michigan University | E2. Trauma Art in the Media Age Moderator: Kyler Dill, University of Iowa Maddison McGann, University of Iowa Writing the Line: Railway Fiction and the Industrialization of Nineteenth-Century Print Jeremy Lowenthal, University of Iowa Air Pixel Paper Tape: Trauma and Transmediality in Kamau Braithwaite Tom Jackson, University of Iowa Drawing a Lineage: Alain Resnais’s Painting Films and the Animated Trace |
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | SURVIVOR DEFENSE CAMPAIGN WORKSHOP K. Agbebiyi With Introduction by | Zoom Link to the Workshop! |
| 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm | F1. Intersections of Racial Embodiment Moderator: Enrico Bruno, University of Iowa Dani Putney, Oklahoma State University Miscegenation & Racial Deviancy: A Poetry Reading Leia Belt, University of Iowa Abali has to Boo-Boo Rajorshi Das, University of Iowa Negotiating Cis-whiteness in Iowa City | F2. Mediating Female Agency Moderator: Jamie Chen, University of Iowa Bryanne Estes, University of Iowa “Ready for Other Eyes”: The Recording Angel as Vampire in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Bronwyn Stewart, University of Iowa Cyborgs, Sexploitation, and Lumpy Women, Oh My! Performing Deviancy on the Cybernetic Stage of House/Lights Maria Capecchi, University of Iowa To Spy or to View: The Gaze of the “Other” in Book III of Spenser’s The Fairie Queene |
| 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm | G1. Levinas and Literature, Ethics and Aesthetics Moderator: Konrad Swartz, University of Iowa James Neisen, Indiana University Attending to the Saying, Not the Said: Levinas and Derrida on the Ethics of Bearing Witness Pedro Martinez, University of Iowa Everybody Knows this is Nowhere: Levinas and the Frantic Quest for Metaphysical Fulfillment in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Philip Zaborowski, University of Iowa Of Badger and Beavers: Medieval Race-Making in Gerald of Wales’ Topographica Hibernica | G2. Literary Means, Political Ends Moderator: Kassie Baron, University of Iowa Jamie Chen, University of Iowa Activist Aesthetics: The Ends of Imagination in Arundhati’s Prose Politics Orit Klein Vartsky, Tel Aviv University Critique of the Courtly Class in Ballad Analogues of “The Clerk’s Tale” Spencer W. Shin, Independent Scholar Contesting Colonialism: Paratext and British Hegemony in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart |
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