8:30-9AM Coffee/pastries

9-9:15AM Welcome remarks

9:15-10:30AM Lindsay Reckson (Haverford College, English), “We have gone as far as we can together: gesture at the limits of the political act”

Respondent: Gasira Timir, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago

10:30-10:45AM Break

10:45-noon Olivia Hu (University of Pennsylvania, Sociology), “Let’s talk about race, baby: How interracial/-ethnic relationships influence East Asian women’s understandings of race and racism”

Respondent: Andres Villatoro, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Noon-1PM Lunch break

1-2:15PM Candice M. Jenkins (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, African American Studies and English), “Sunlight, Moonlight, and the Breeze of Black Fugitivity”

Respondent: AE Stevenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago

2:15-2:30PM Break

2:30-3:45PM Guillermina Altomonte (New York University, Sociology), “Seeing Independence”

Respondent: Michele Friedner, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

3:45-4PM Break

4-5:15PM Amber Jamilla Musser (CUNY Graduate Center, English and Africana Studies), “Sphinxes and Hieroglyphics: How Lauren Halsey funkifies Architecture”

Respondent: R.L. Willis, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago

5:15-5:45PM Roundtable with presenters

5:45-6PM Break

6-7:15PM Anne A. Cheng (Princeton University, English) remote keynote: reading from Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority (7-8:15PM EST)

Zoom link: TBA

7:15-8PM Reception