Andrew Woods "Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method) With a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures, this paper makes the case that punk can be used as a lens informing our investigations of other objects, scenes, themes, and theories. The information of punk as method is not assuming […]

Claudia Lopez "Contesting 'Double Displacement': Rural displaces Persons, informal Settlements, and the 'Medellin Miracle'" This presentation examines the Comuna 8, a sector of the city of Medellin resisting displacement by urban renewal. I highlight a historic voting process in 2014, lead by a committee of displaced persons, to contest the implementation of the redeveloped plan. […]

Jordan Reznick  "Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century" Snapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions about "normal" Americans that naturalize and legitimize ideals of whiteness. As whites became more precarious in the early twenty-first century, they adopted several new snapshot […]

Erin McElroy "Disposals through the #DigitalNomad: The Materialization of a Dispossessive Avatar"  The "Digital Nomad," an illusive figure flourishing alongside the growth of digital and network technologies, has conjured ideas of travel and freedom with the emergence of the Silicon Valley induced Tech Boom. I trace how digital networks, accompanied by fantasies of mobility, contribute to […]