Preliminary Schedule

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)

Saturday, February 11, 2012
(Durational Performance: Julie Tolentino)
9:30-10 Brunch and Coffee
10 - 11:45 Panel
12 - 1 Lunch
1 - 2:45 Panel
3 - 4:20 Performances: Kathryn Garcia and Katherine Behar & Marianne M. Kim (Disorientalism)
   Q & A Moderated by Karen Shimakawa
4:30 - 6:15 Panel
6:30 - 7:30 Roundtable: Tavia Nyong'o, Rebecca Schneider, Nicholas Ridout, Jasbir Puar, Patricia Clough and more
7:30 Closing Reception (Performances: Aliza Shvarts and Edisa Weeks)

Panel Respondents: Randy Martin (Art & Public Policy), Gayatri Gopinath (SCA-Gender & Sexuality), and Una Chaudhuri (English).

Panelists:
Alex Pittman, NYU
T. Nikki Cesare, University of Toronto
Evan Litwack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Benjamin Gillespie, CUNY
Coleman Nye, Brown University
Josh Lubin-Levy, NYU
Johanna Linsley, Queen Mary, University of London
Anna Fisher, Brown University
Gabriella Alberti, Queen Mary, University of London
Jasmine Rault, New School
Karen Gregory, CUNY

Keynote Speaker

Emma Dowling, our Keynote Speaker, will speak Friday night, February 10, 2012. Dowling is currently a Lecturer in Ethics, Governance and Accountability at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on the relationship between social and political conflict and global governance processes and institutions. She is also a member of the NGO Clinic (http://www.ngoclinic.org). Her focus on ethics involves understanding how ethics is increasingly connected to new forms of valorization and measure. Dowling's current work on affect deals with immaterial and reproductive labor in its intersections with gender; she is also concerned with the role of affect in politics and in knowledge production. She is the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Ephemera on Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored (http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1index.htm) and author of "Producing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker" (Ephemera 7(1): 117 -132). A forthcoming article "The Waitress: On Affect, Method and (Re) Presentation" will be appearing in Cultural Studies ←→ Critical Methodologies in 2012.

We are excited to have her with us. The Keynote Respondents will be Tavia Nyong'o (NYU) and Patricia Clough (CUNY), with an introduction by Barbara Browning (NYU, for Women & Performance).

We have been hard at work scheduling and organizing in The Affect Factory. Thanks again to all those who submitted their fine work. We look forward to seeing you next year. Our preliminary schedule will be posted shortly!