Final Schedule

All events take place at The Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street (between 2nd ave and 9th st. off 3rd ave)

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)

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