“Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky” The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. […]
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“Homozionism: ‘From the Closet into the Knesset'” My project focuses on the role of sexual politics in Israel’s settler colonial occupation of Palestine, international (queer) complicities, and anti-colonial queer resistance. […]
Veronika Zablotsky “Dealing with the East: Orientalism and the Ideas of Eurasia in Contemporary Geopolitics” In this talk, I mobilize Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism (1978) as a Europrean “style of […]
Rebecca Ora “Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction” Citing her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers, I discuss the […]
Trung Nguyen “War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity” Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains […]
Cathy Thomas “Defining the Fête: The Utopian Potential of Drag, Disease and Diaspora in Oonya Kempadoo’s Carnival Imaginary” The catharsis associated with Caribbean Carnivale has always been situated in the […]
Raul Tadle “FOMC Sentiment Extraction and its Transmission to Financial Markets” Since December 2004, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the governing board that determines U.S. monetary policy, has expedited […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bristol Cave La-Costa “Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I […]
Laura Harrison “Rights Are Not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and How University Accessibility Policies Do Violence To the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act” “Rights Are Not […]
Keith Spencer “What We Talk About When We Talk To Aliens” Throughout the history of the search for ET, strategies for sending radio signals towards potentially inhabited planetary systems have always […]
Amanda Reyes Dangerous Visibility: The Visual Epistemology of Eugenics In the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing sterilization of people determined to have “hereditary” mental […]
Andrei Tcacenco “Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home” My talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the […]
Sophia Magnone “There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an […]
Whitney Devos “After Lives, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine’s (Caribbean) ‘American Lyrics’ “ My project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental, non-linear historiography, examining […]
James Beneda “The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience” I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see […]
Alex Moore “Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson” In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, […]
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve […]
