POLITICAL EMOTIONS: A NEW AGENDAS CONFERENCE
Friday and Saturday, October 3-4, 2008
9:00am-5:00pm
University of Texas at Austin
Lady Bird Johnson Room, CMA 5.160 (campus map/room map)
Free and open to the public
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
9:00- 9:15
Introduction
9:15-10:45
Deborah Gould, University of Pittsburgh
Affecting the Political: An Assessment of the “Emotional Turn” in the Study of Social Movements
Sasha Torres, University of Western Ontario
Televising Guantánamo
11:00- 1:00
Roberto Tejada, University of Texas at Austin
Tongue Tied, Death Defiant, Wonderstruck: Passing for Politics in Mexico City
Gayatri Gopinath, New York University
Queer Regions: Re-Visioning Space and Sexuality in Transnational Times
Neville Hoad, University of Texas at Austin
How to Have “Political Feeling” in a Pandemic
1:00- 2:00
Lunch - For Panelists, in Burson Conference Room, CMA 4.130
2:00- 3:15
Keynote Address
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
After the Good Life, The Impasse: Human Resources, Time Out, and the Precarious Present
3:30- 5:00
Participant Discussion/Roundtable
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
9:30-11:00
Liza Johnson, Williams College
Return: Some Thoughts Related to a Film in Progress
Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
At Your “Serbis”: Queering Care Work in the Global Era
11:15-12:45
Michele White, Tulane University
Privates and Publics: Gay Underwear Sellers, Reborn Doll Producers, and the Emotive Display of Bodies on eBay
Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania
Hooks, Pegs, and Candy Floss: Personal Identity in 1963
12:45- 2:15
Lunch: On your own
2:15- 3:45
Samuel Baker, University of Texas at Austin
The Transmission of Gothic: Philosophy, Feeling, and the Media of Udolpho
Amy Villarejo, Cornell University
The Birth of Reality Television and the Death of An American Family
4:00- 5:00
Concluding Discussion/Roundtable
