All events take place at The Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street (between 2nd ave and 9th st. off 3rd ave)
Friday, February 10, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
6 - 7:30 Keynote Speaker: Emma Dowling, Queen Mary, University of London; Respondents: Patricia Clough (CUNY) and Tavia Nyong'o (NYU); Introduction: Barbara Browning (NYU/Women & Performance)
7:30 Opening Reception (Performance: Ivan A. Ramos/Rachel Epithet)
Saturday, February 11, 2012
9:30-10 Brunch and Coffee
10 - 11:45 Panel - Not Not Precarious: Speculative Spaces and Zones of Suspense – Respondent: Emanuela Bianchi
Johanna Linsley, Queen Mary, University of London & Christa Holka
Josh Lubin-Levy, NYU
Anna Fisher, Brown University
Coleman Nye, Brown University
12 - 1 Lunch
1 - 2:45 Panel - The Risk of Belonging: Strategies of Affective Resistance – Respondent: Randy Martin
Gabriella Alberti, Queen Mary, University of London
Jasmine Rault, New School
Karen Gregory, CUNY
Shaka McGlotten, SUNY-Purchase
3 - 4:20 Performances: Kathryn Garcia; Katherine Behar & Marianne M. Kim (Disorientalism) -- Q & A Moderated by Karen Shimakawa (NYU)
4:15 - 7:45 Durational Performance: Julie Tolentino
4:30 - 6:15 Panel - "Everything is Free": The Laboring Body as Promise of Production – Respondent: Gayatri Gopinath
Evan Litwack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Benjamin Gillespie, CUNY
Alex Pittman, NYU
T. Nikki Cesare, University of Toronto
6:30 - 7:30 Roundtable on Precarity: Tavia Nyong'o (NYU), Rebecca Schneider (Brown), Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers), Patricia Clough (CUNY) and Andrea Liu.
7:30 Closing Reception (Performances: Aliza Shvarts; Edisa Weeks)
To register for “The Affect Factory,” please email us, affectfactory [at] gmail.com
