An unfolding situation on campus has regrettably convinced us to cancel the Neil Postman Graduate Conference scheduled for March 12, 2015.
The Union for Graduate Employees at NYU (GSOC) has been in a protracted negotiation for a fair contract. Negotiations are at a standstill. There will be one final mediation session on Monday March 9th; GSOC has set a strike deadline of Tuesday March 10th. A strike seems very likely. After speaking with participants, we determined that it would not be possible to hold the conference as planned if a strike were to materialize.
As the conference organizers, we regret that the strike deadline coincides with the Neil Postman Graduate Conference, especially given its pertinent themes. With the conference less than three weeks away, we know that many of you have already made travel plans and financial commitments in order to attend. We sincerely apologize for the inconveniences this cancellation will cause.
—2015 Organizing Committee
The 2015 Neil Postman Graduate Conference | New York University
Thursday, March 12, 2015
new feminisms / new materialisms / new media
Keynote: Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz
Art: Geographies and Temporalities
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Moderator: Lily Chumley, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
The Matter of Violence: Teresa Margolles at the Scene of the Crime
Ivan Ramos, Performance Studies, University of California-Berkeley
‘Unfolding’ Gurgaon in Jagannath Panda’s Art
Karin Shankar, Performance Studies, University of California-Berkeley
A Curse: The Unseen and its Queer Durations
Aliza Shvarts, Performance Studies, New York University
Faculty Panel
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Moderator: Aaron Pedinotti, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
#clusterMucks: the Fecundity of Toxicity and Trash (an algoRhythmic Syncope)
Jamie Skye Bianco, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Melanie Kohnen, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Crossed Wires
Nicole Starosielski and Shane Brennan, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Lunch
12:30 pm
Constructing the Body
1:30 – 2:45 pm
Moderator: Laura Forlano, The Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Mourning the First Object: Breast Reconstruction, Fetishism, and the Absent Breast
Lana Lin, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Look Pretty, Walk Tall: Limb Loss, Cosmesis and the Prosthetic as Embodied Gendering
Emily Goldsher, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Technologies of Failure, Bodies of Resistance: Diffracting Technoscientific Practices of Materializing Marked Bodies
Josef Barla, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Counter-Networked: Avatars, Algorithms, and the Policing of Child Sexual Abuse Images
Mitali Thakor, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), MIT
Coffee
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Archival Interventions
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Moderator TK
Picture-Work: Romana Javitz, Feminized Labor, and the Circulation of Images at the New York Public Library
Diana Kamin, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
“To Access the File, Click Here”: Rethinking the Materiality of the Archive in the Digital Age
Irina Troconis, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University
The Invention of the Transgender Child: The Matter of Sex and the inherited memory of the race
Julian Gil-Peterson, American Studies, Rutgers University
Keynote
4:15 – 5:30 pm
Reception to follow
KEYNOTE: Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad is the Co-Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC.
Tamara Kneese
Hannah Zeavin
Alex Campolo
Dove Pedlosky
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