Thursday – February 21st, 2013
Pless Hall Lounge, 82 Washington Square East | New York University
5:45 pm — Doors open
6:00 pm — Introduction and Welcome
6:15 pm — Premiere screening of Type-Writer Opera, a ten-minute audiovisual piece (featuring music composed by Martin Scherzinger and video composed by Carlin Wing).
6:30 pm — Media, Culture, Communication Faculty, Pre-Conference Panel #1
- “Of Platonic Objects and their Mesmers (Type-Writer Opera)” —Martin Scherzinger
- “The Cybernetic Hypothesis” —Alex Galloway
- “Faceless Speciation: of Gnats, Roaches and Sovereigns” —Allen Feldman
7:30 pm — Break
7:45 pm — Media, Culture, Communication Faculty, Pre-Conference Panel #2
- “The Circuitous Routes of Undersea Cables” —Nicole Starosielski
- “Gaza: Geo-Political Containment and Technological Firewalls” —Helga Tawil-Souri
- “Occupy and the Art of Protest” —Stephen Duncombe
9:00 pm — Reception
Friday — February 22nd, 2013
Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East | New York University
8:30 — Registration/Coffee
9:00 — Opening Remarks
9:15-9:35 — “Open Platforms, Para-Academic Practices, and Possible Futures for the University” — Paul Boshears
9:45-11:00 — Panel: Mediating the Body | Moderated by Paige F. MacGregor
- “Disciplining language: The Response to Anatomical language in Social and Political Settings” — Saniya L. Ghanoui
- “Domestic Violence Services as Sites of Contested Media Framing and Engagement: Two case studies from Ontario” — Janan Dean
- “Tumblr Feminism – Third-wave subjectivities in practice” — Fredrika Thelandersson
- “Too Close for Comfort: Intimacy, Proximity and Transgression in Location-Based Technology” — Maxwell Foxman
11:15-12:30 — Panel: History and the Archive | Moderated by Susan Murray
- “Insufficient Evidence: The Historical Question of Snuff” — Abby Hinsman
- “Co-opting History, Delivering Culture: Korean fusion sageuks as dramatic vehicles of hybridization” — Sabrina Weiss
- “History, Memory and the Pirate Archive of Cinema” — Kuhu Tanvir
- “The Parasitic Behavior of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS)” — Heather Contant
12:30-1:15 — Lunch
1:30-3:00 — Panel: Geo-Politics | Moderated by Charlton McIlwain
- “Media practice as a form of spatial conversation and political fortification: Occupying the Buffer Zone”— Petros Siammas
- “Narcocinema: On Liminal Tastes, Audiences, and Circulation” — Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
- “Re-coding culture: Reprogramming the relationship between culture and social development through critical networking practices in Latin America” — Mauricio Delfin
- “Iceberg Economies and the New Media of Natural Resources” — Rafico Ruiz
- “Distributed Denial of Statute: How the Internet Killed SOPA/PIPA” — Michelle C. Forelle
3:15-4:30 — Panel: The Materiality of Mediation | Moderated by Laura Portwood-Stacer
- “Displaced or Relocated Digital Labor? Studies on Chinese Game Play-Workers and Transnational Labor Mobility in the Virtual World” — Yujie Julie Chen
- “DIYbiology, Mediation, Institution” — Sarah Choukah
- “On the Materiality of Simulated Objects” — Jacob Gaboury
- “Unprofessional: The Abject Bodies of Social Media” — Brian Droitcour
4:30 — Coffee
5:00 — Keynote:
“Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age” — Manuel Castells
6:00 — Concluding Remarks
6:15 — Reception
* The 2013 Neil Postman Conference will include an art exhibition curated by Brian Droitcour, featuring works by Taeyoon Choi, Joshua Clayton, Duane Reade, Constant Dullaart, Mitch Patrick, Kate Steciw, Visitor Design and Laura Yuile.
The 2013 Neil Postman Graduate Conference
New York University
February 21-22, 2013
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