Friday, September 2, 2016
9:00AM – 3:00PM
Graduate Center, CUNY – Concourse Level
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Panel Session I
9:20-10:20AM
1. Towards a More Just Education
Chair: Stephen Brier (Urban Education) Room: C205
- Matthew Crisler (Anthropology)
Sunbelt Land and Education Reform - Laura Kaplan (Urban Education)
The Struggle to Create a School for Their Own: Puerto Ricans and the First Spanish-English Bilingual School in New York - Timothy Griffiths (English)
Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890-1905 - Sakina Laskimi-Morrow (Urban Education)
Doctoral Students of Color: Navigating the Ivory Tower
2. Black Radicalism: Past, Present, and Future
Chair: David Waldstreicher (History) Room: C203
- Gordon Barnes (History)
The Crisis of Freedom: Plebian Violence and Elite Discourse in Post-Emancipation Jamaica and Mauritius, 1830-1866 - Makeba Lavan (English)
Changing Same: Black Radicalism in the Late 20th Century - Maria Quinata (Art History)
Black Film and Video Collectives in Britain, 1980-1995 - Krystle Farman (History)
Conceptions of Faith: Afro-Mexican Catholicism in the Seventeenth Century - Elizabeth Newton (Musicology)
Music and Race in the Writing of Melvin B. Tolson
3. Methods in Motion
Chair: Michelle Fine (Urban Education) Room: C197
- Sant Mukh Khalsa (Anthropology)
Reconstructing Proto-Global Medieval Networks at an Icelandic Fishing Station - Esen Karan (Psychology)
Development of Face Morphing Task to Assess Self Other Differentiation - Kristen Ramirez (Anthropology)
Evolution of Hominoid Locomotor Ecology: The Hand and Suspension - Andrew Greene (Psychology)
Intersectional Praxis of Healing
4. Migrations and Figures of (Im)mobility
Chair: Feisal Mohamed (English) Room: C201
- Isabel Gil-Everaert (Sociology)
Crossing Mexico: Migrant Strategies and Spaces of Interaction in Transit - Maria Stracke (English)
Native Mobility and William Penn’s Legacy in Charles Brockden Brown’s “Edgar Huntly” - Nicholas Micinski (Political Science)
Migration Management in the EU: Cooperation and Delegation between European States and International Organizations - Sydnee Wagner (English)
The Figure of the Gyspy in Early Modern Literature and Culture - Fabio Battista (Comparative Literature)
Cultural Translation in Early Modern Italy: Fiction and English Affairs, 1590-1690
Panel Session II
10:30-11:30AM
5. The Politics of Family, Caregiving, and Reproduction
Chair: Colette Daiute (Psychology) Room: C201
- Lisa Jahn (Anthropology)
From Reproducers of Poverty to Global Markets: Gestational Surrogacy in Puerto Rico - Sofia Oviedo (Social Welfare)
Exploring Narratives of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse - Peter Yu (Psychology)
Genetic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Work-Family Conflict and Work-Family Enrichment - Abigail Kolker (Sociology)
Exclusion, Exploitation, and Resistance: A Comparative Study of Filipino Caregivers in New York and Tel Aviv - Nicole Zeftel (Comparative Literature)
Sickly Sentimentalism: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Dime Novels and Emotional Reading
6. Who Leads the Movement?
Chair: Duncan Faherty (English) Room: C203
- James Andrew Sevitt (Psychology)
Rethinking Political Practices and Subjectivities within the Crisis of Liberal Capitalist Democracy - Jonathan Thayer (History)
Merchant Seamen and the Parameters of Involuntary Servitude: The Arago Deserters and the United States Supreme Court, 1895-1897 - Bin Ma (Management/Business)
The Dark Side of Charismatic Leadership: Examining the Impact of a Leader’s Narcissim and Machiavellianism on Leader-Follower Trust Asymmetry - Sarah Molinari (Anthropology)
Island Crisis: Puerto Rico’s Debt Politics and Emerging Movements - Alisa Wade (History)
An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Gendered Constructions of the Upper Class in Early National New York City
7. Trans/Queer Intimacies
Chair: Polly Thistlethwaite (Library) Room: C205
- Jaime Coan (English)
Crucial Circulations: Alternative Periodicals/ Alternative Histories of the AIDS Crisis - Benjamin Adam (Sociology)
Research in the John Preston Papers: Pornography and Media Archeology - Melina Moore (English)
Trans Life Writing from the 18th Century to Present: Genres in Transition - Thomas Muzart (French)
Writing from/beyond the Margins: The Intersection of Homosexuality, Travel and Political Activism from 1900 to Today
Panel Session III
12:30-1:30PM
8. What’s Just?: Criminality, Policing and Punishment
Chair: Donald Robotham (Anthropology) Room: C201
- Sean Kennedy (English)
Elaborating the South African State-Media-NGO Nexus on Crime - Guarav Jashnani (Psychology)
Black on White: African-American Articulations of Whiteness,Racism and Fear of Crime - Hollis Kegg (Criminal Justice)
Addressing an Important Financial Intelligence Gap: Bearer Negotiable Instruments - Nicholas Pehlman (Political Science)
The Dialectic of Police Reform in Ukraine: Reforming Police in Transition and Crisis
9. Collectivities in the Making
Chair: Anthony Alessandrini (Middle Eastern Studies) Room: C203
- Ana Perry (Art History)
Cycles of Destruction and Construction: Rafael Montañez Ortiz, Activism, and Alternative Spaces in New York, 1957-1990s - Cecilia Salvi (Anthropology)
Circuits of “Recuperación” in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Elizabeth Hawley (Art History)
“Imaging the Indian, Imagining the Indian: Modern Art and Native Tradition in Santa Fe, 1909-1931” - Jessie Fredlund (Anthropology)
Rainmaking, Ancestors and Rights to the Land in the Political History of Uluguru, Tanzania - Gillian Sneed (Art History)
Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Film and Video Performance Art of the 1970s and 1980s
10. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Law
Chair: Hester Eisenstein (English) Room: C205
- Parfait Kouacou (French)
Reading Children Rights through West African Oral Traditions - Lynne Stillings (Ethnomusicology)
Children’s Music and Non-Governmental Organizations in Senegal - Benjamin Hellwege (History)
When Old Age Changed: Inventing the “Senior State,” 1945-1980 - Sumru Atuk (Political Science)
A Crime that “Makes Sense” to Commit: Political, Social and Legal Justifications of Femicide in Turkey and Mexico
Panel Session IV
1:45-2:45PM
11. Home, Displacement, Diaspora
Chair: Gracie Davie (History) Room: C201
- Alice Walkiewicz (Art History)
“The American Dream-turned-Nightmare: U.S. Seamstresses at the Turn of the Century.” - Deshonay Dozier (Psychology)
A Blues Geography: Mapping the Contested Development in Skid Row and South Los Angeles - China Sajadian (Anthropology)
From Migrants to Refugees: Agrarian Transformations and Labor Conditions in the Syrian-Lebanese Borderlands - Miriam Liebman (History)
Wives, Diplomacy, and Parlors: American Women in Paris and London in the Early American Republic
12. Idioms of Power
Chair: Mark McBeth (English) Room: C203
- Carolina Chaves-O’Flynn (HLBLL)
Launguage and Violence(s) in Colombia (Lengua y violencia(s) en Colombia) - Amelia Greene (English)
Pragmatic Fantasies: American Pragmatism in the Speculative Writing of Ursula K. Le Guin - Danielle Ronkos (Linguistics)
Language Contact and Tone in Nepal - Talia Shalev (English)
Words Are Found Responsible: Apostrophe and Jurisdiction in North American Times - Michelle Morales (Linguistics)
Using Prosody and Syntax to Automatically Detect Depression from Speech
13. The Craft(ing) of Transnational Aesthetics
Chair: David Joselit (Art History) Room: C205
- Cristina Perez Diaz (Classics)
De-localizing José Watanabe’s Antígona: A Case Study on the Theory of Reception of Ancient Greek Drama - Mohamad Prasad (Theatre)
Historiography of the Body and Corporeality in Indonesian Theatre: The Search for Decolonial Aesthetics - Chelsea Haines (Art History)
Staging the Modern, Building the Nation: Exhibiting Israel, 1948–1965 - Maria Soledad Marambio (HLBLL)
The Introduction of Spanish American Poets in the US: The Transnational Intellectual Network that Spread the Word - Alex Wermer-Colan (English)
Cutting Up the Ugly American: Avant-Garde Collage during the Vietnam War
13. (Re)Visions of Cityscapes
Chair: Claire Bishop (Art History) Room: C197
- Mya Dosch (Art History)
1968 in 2008: Participatory Art and Nostalgia in Mexico City - Cihan Tekay (Anthropology)
Electrifying the Nation-State: Generating Citizens in Turkey’s Early Republican Era (1923-1950) - Caroline Gillaspie (Art History)
- Danielle Stewart (Art History)
