ASA and NWSA 2018 Annual Conferences: List of UT-Austin Presenters

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The 2018 American Studies Association Annual Meeting (ASA) and National Women's Studies Annual Conference (NWSA) will be held simultaneously in Atlanta, GA this November 8th through November 11th (Thursday - Sunday). Many graduate students and professors from UT-Austin's American Studies department will be presenting at both conferences, as well as students and professors from other departments across campus. We have included a list of UT-Austin presenters at both conferences below. There is a separate list for each conference, and the lists are sorted alphabetically.

American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Westin Peachtree, Atlanta, GA,  Nov. 8 - 11)

Betsy Beasley

  • Panelist, Militarism and Capitalism: The Work of Wages and Violence

  • Nov. 8, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain J

Daina Ramey Berry

  • Panelist, Program Committee: The Salience of Slavery: Scholarship and Teaching on Racial Slavery in a Moment of Crisis

  • , Nov. 9, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain F

Nicholas Bloom

  • Paper Presenter, “’Go Home’: Reframing the Subject of Suffering in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing.”

  • Utopic/Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics

  • Sun, Nov. 11, 12 PM, Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta B (Seventh)

Simone Browne

  • Chair, Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine

  • Sat, November 10, Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain J

Nicole Burrowes

  • Panelist, Emergent Counter-Topographies, Infrastructures, and Genealogies of Struggle

  • Nov. 8th, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain H

Christine Capetola

  • Paper Presenter: “And We’ll Try to Imagine What It Looks Like: Prince, Synthesized Femininity, and the Political Potential of Vulnerability.”

  • Remember the 1980s through Black and Latinx Performance

  • Thu, Nov. 8th, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta D

Sarah Carlson

  • Chair: Emergence in the Archive: Cultural Heritage in Theory and Practice

  • Sat Nov. 10, 8 – 9:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta A

Amy Sara Carroll

  • Paper Presenter: “States of Immersion: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Carne y Arena”

  • Sans Emergence: Aesthetics of Immersion, Technology-Mediated Corporealities, and Weaponized Landscapes

  • Nov. 10th, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain E

Christine Castro

  • Paper Presenter: “Agricultural Labor, Discipline, and California’s Rural Salinas Valley as Carceral Palimpsest.”

  • On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition

  • Nov. 8th, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain C

Jose Centeno-Melendez

  • Paper Presenter: “Centering on the Nation’s Capital: Salvadoran Settlement, Survival, and Growth”

  • Performing Care, Domesting Labor, and Empire

  • Nov. 8th, 2 – 3:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta G

Karma Chavez

  • Panelist, No Borders, No Prisons: Emerging from the Settler State Deportation Regime

  • Nov. 8, 10 – 11:45 A.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain 1

Martha Cotera

  • Panelist, Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Years

  • Nov. 9, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Eighth, Peachtree 1

Janet Davis

  • Chair, States of Embodiment: Animality, Racialization, and Environmental Justice

  • Nov. 8, 2 – 3:45 P.M. Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta B

Peace and Love El Henson

  • Paper Presenter: “Pain, Pleasure, and Power: Queer Black Women and Girls Using Non/Erotic Strategies to Resist State Genocidal Terror

  • Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies

  • Nov. 8, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta C

Ana Isabel Fernandez

  • Paper Presenter, “Contemporary Muralism, Performance, and the Emergence of a Zapotec Visual Archive in Los Angeles.”

  • Los Angeles Geographies and Archives

  • Nov. 10th, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta 2

Lyndon Gill

  • Chair and Panelist, Re-Emergent Erotics, On the Uses of Erotic Islands

  • Nov. 9, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain E

Kate Grover

  • Paper Presenter: “The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band and Emergences of Rock and Roll Feminism.”

  • My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock

  • Nov. 10th, 2 – 3:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta 2

Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez

  • Paper Presenter: "Performing Misogyny for the Anarchist Masses: Enrique Flores Magón’s Gendered Denunciations."

  • Fri, November 9, 4:00 to 5:45pm, Westin Peachtree, Twelfth, Piedmont 2 (Twelfth)

Laura Gutierrez

  • Paper Presenter, “Divas, Exoticism, and Freakery in Nao Bustamante’s Filmformance Silver and Gold (2009)”

  • Performance Studies Caucus: Nao Bustamante’s Always Already Emerging Art

  • Nov. 10, 2 – 3:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain 1

Omi Jones

  • Paper Presenter, “The Block Party as Intervention.”

  • Creating States of Emergence: Scholar-Artists and the Life-Giving Capacities of the Arts

  • Nov. 10th, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta E

Kerry Knerr

  • Paper Presenter: “Mai Tai at the End of the World: Nuclear Testing and Tiki”

  • Pacific Currents and Visions

  • Nov. 10th, 8 – 9:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Eighth, Peachtree 1

Marisol Lebron

  • Panelist, Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: Academic Labor, Austerity, and Authoritarianism

    • Nov. 9th, 10 – 11:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain 1

    • Paper Presenter: “Counting Death and Making Death Count: Puerto Rico before and after Maria”

      • Temporalities of Catastrophe

      • Nov. 10, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Overlook

Minkah Makalani

  • Chair: Varieties of Groundings in Black Studies

  • Nov. 10, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta A

Jennifer McClearen

  • Chair: Sex Negativities: The Discursive and Institutional Life of Sexual Violence

  • Nov. 8th, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Eighth, Peachtree 2

Julie Avril Minich

  • Paper Presenter: “The Politics of Public Health: Reading Rafael Campo in a Health Care Crisis.”

  • Embracing the Mess, Engaging the Complex: Disability Politics and Anti-Ableist Practices among Poor and Racialized Populations

  • Nov. 10, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta D

William Mosley

  • Paper Presenter: “Emergent Black Feminism: Intimacy, Interiority, and Tenderness in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Spill.”

  • Queer/Feminist Liberatory Futures

  • Nov. 10, 10 – 11:45 A.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta A

Lauren Nelson

  • Paper Presenter: “Some Third-World Sized Hole: Narrative Thourism in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings.”

  • Global Emergencies, Caribbean Responses

  • Nov. 10, 10 – 11:45 A.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain H

Monica Ortiz

  • Paper Presenter: “Bones and Bodies: Dead Body as Text.”

  • (Re) Emergent Bones: Settler Colonial Spaces and the Accumulation of Human Remains

  • Nov. 10, 2 – 3:45 P.M. Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain J

Paul Joseph Lopez Oro

  • Paper Presenter: “Diasporic Black Indigeneity: Performing Garifuna Memory”

  • Traveling Blackness in the Americas: Obscured Transnational Flows of Race, Culture, Gender, and Politics in the African Diaspora

  • Nov. 9, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Twelfth, Piedmont 1

Ana Schwartz

  • Chair: Our Borderline Concepts

  • Nov. 10th, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain J

Vivian Shaw

  • Paper Presenter: “Crisis Activism: Race, Gender, and Mobilization in the Aftermath of Disasters.”

  • Crisis Obscura: Racialized Exceptions and the Biopolitics of American Empire

  • Nov. 8th, 2 – 3:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain G

Brett Siegel

  • Paper Presenter: “Protect Our Kids!: Friday Night Tykes and the Ideological Crisis for Youth Tackle Football”

  • Emerging Minds, Bodies, and Values: The Concussion Crisis in American Youth Football

  • Nov. 10th, 10 – 11:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain J

Gaila Sims

  • Panelist: Emergence in the Archive: Cultural Heritage in Theory and Practice

  • Nov. 10th, 8 – 9:45 A.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta A

Eric Tang

  • Chair: Domestic Empires: Aftermath, Endurance, and Refuge in the Militarized City

  • Nov. 8th, 8 – 9:45 A.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain H

Lisa B. Thompson

  • Paper Presenter: “Black Women Under a State of Emergency: Black Feminist Revolutionary Theatre.”

  • On the Uses of Political Theatre

  • , Nov. 10, 8 – 9:45 A.M., Westin Peachtree, Seventh, Augusta E

Shirley Thompson

  • Chair: 9-1-1 Emergency: Locating Emergent Racialized Coping Strategies in Popular Culture

  • Nov. 9th, 12 – 1:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain G

Elissa Underwood

  • Panelist: Critical Resistance South at Fifteen: The 21st-Century Landscape of Abolition in the U.S. South and Beyond II

  • Nov. 10th, 4 – 5:45 P.M., Westin Peachtree, Sixth, Chastain F

Tabias Olajuawon Wilson

  • Paper Presenter, “Born to Fly: Black Fugitivity, the Language of Freedom and the Branding of Outlaws.”

  • Racial Terror in the United States: Black Geographies and Popular Culture

  • Sat, Nov. 10, 10 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. Westin Peachtree, Twelfth, Piedmont Three

National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference

(Hilton Atlanta, Nov. 8 - 11)

Shawntal Brown 

  • Poster Presenter, “Teaching While Black: Analysis of Black Women Faculty in Academia and Black Communities”

  • Sat, Nov 10, 1:00 to 2:15pm, Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor Lobby

Christine Capetola

  • Paper Presenter, “‘Could We Go to a Movie and Cry Together?’: Prince, Vibrational Vulnerability, and the Political Possibility of Androgyny”

  • Panel: “Sensing in the Interval: Aesthetics and Alternative Forms of Minoritarian Collectivity”

  • Fri, Nov 9, 2:45 to 4:00pm, Hilton Atlanta, 3, 310 (LCD)

Alexandria Cunningham

  • Roundtable Presenter, “Becoming Undisciplined: Black Graduate Students on Refusal, Pleasure and Possibility”

  • Thu, Nov 8, 1:00 to 2:15pm, Hilton Atlanta, 4, 407

Ann Cvetkovich

  • Roundtable Presenter, “Michfest Legacies: Performing the Impossible”

  • Fri, Nov 9, 9:30 to 10:45am, Hilton Atlanta, 2, 216 (LCD)

Kate Grover

  • Paper Presenter, “Surrogating Sister Rosetta: Shingai Shoniwa, Rhiannon Giddens, and the Performance of Black Feminist Memory Work”

  • Panel: “Performances of New Selves”

  • Sun, Nov 11, 11:00am to 12:15pm, Hilton Atlanta, 3, 308

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez

  • Paper Presenter: “Undocu Pedagogies: The History of Freedom University”

  • Panel: “The Legacies of Freedom University”

  • Fri, Nov 9, 8:00 to 9:15am, Hilton Atlanta, 4, 404

Natassja Gunasena

  • Paper Presenter: “A Handful of Mustard Seeds: Theorizing at the Intersection of Death, Transgenerational Violence and Academia.”

  • Panel: Invoking Remembrance: Spirituality, Embodied Knowledge and the Neoliberal University

  • Friday, Nov 9, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm, Hilton Atlanta, 3, 310.

Annie Hill 

  • Roundtable Presenter, “The Manifesta as Utopian Form: Queer and Feminist of Color Critique

  • Sat, Nov 10, 9:30 to 10:45am, Hilton Atlanta, 2, 222

Alden Jones 

  • Paper Presenter, “Ivory Tower Ignorance: Trans(*) Knowledge and Organizations as Adjuncts of the Academy”

  • Panel: “Thinking Trans*: Emergent Trans* Epistemologies in the Academy and Educational Space”

  • Fri, Nov 9, 11:00am to 12:15pm, Hilton Atlanta, 2, 215 (LCD)

Caitlin O’Neill 

  • Panel Moderator: “Traversing Academic Maroonage: How Black Women’s Kitchen Tables Conjure Radical Spacemaking”

  • Fri, Nov 9, 4:15 to 5:30pm, Hilton Atlanta, 2, 220

Andi Remoquillo

  • Paper Presenter, “Daughterhood and the Diaspora: Asian-American Women on Defining Home, Belonging, and Gender”

  • Panel: “Re-imagining Belonging in Asia and Asian America”

  • Fri, Nov 9, 2:45 to 4:00pm, Hilton Atlanta, 3, 309 (LCD)

Lisa B. Thompson

  • "The Mamalogues:" A Reading of Lisa B. Thompson's "The Mamalogues"

  • Fri, Nov 9, 4:15 to 5:30pm, Hilton Atlanta, 2, 221

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