DAY ONE

 

8:00 PM — Opening Reception

• Manuel’s Tavern, 602 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30307

 

DAY TWO

Location: 3rd floor screening room of the CMII building (entrance on 2nd floor of 25 Park Place)

8:00 – 9:00 — Breakfast and Coffee

 

9:00 – 10:15 — Panel 1: Embodying Process

• Katarzyna Kaczowka (Stony Brook University), “The Matter of Sense: A Reading of the Strike, Sand, and Symbiogenesis Across Luxemburg, Agard-Jones, and Hird”
• Danica Facca (University of Western Ontario), “Transitive Space and Embodied Reading: Negotiating Perceptual Vagueness in the Modern Novel as Pedagogical Practice”
• Laurel McLaughlin (Bryn Mawr College), “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Barren Cave Mute (1974): “Alchemical” Self-Processes”
• Chair and Respondent: Laurel Ahnert (Georgia State University)

                                                                  

10:30 – 11:45 — Panel 2: Mattering Gender

• Jenny Gunn, (Georgia State University) “Neoliberal Sensation: EDM Soundtracks in Recent Post-Cinema”
• Marie Patrick (Florida State University), “Mina Loy’s ‘Parturition’ and the Abject Maternal”
• Candice Merritt (Georgia State University), “‘I Can’t Breathe’: Theorizing Motherhood as a Space of Black Women’s Death”
• Chair and Respondent: Jennifer Barker (Georgia State University)

 

12:15 – 1:15 — Brown Bag Lunch with Amber Jamilla Musser

• Discussion with Musser on Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism

 

1:30 – 2:45 — Panel 3: Sensational Relations

• Silpa Mukherjee (University of Pittsburgh), “An Ecology of Sensations: The New Sonotope of Item Numbers”
• Patricia Ciccone (University of California Los Angeles), “Sharing Sensations: ASMR Videos and the Cultural Production of Sensations”
• Christina Riley (George Mason University), “The Splintering of the Women’s March, or The Affective Accumulation of Digital Divisions in Online Feminist Efforts”
• Chair and Respondent: TBD

 

2:45 – 3:30 —  Coffee Break

 

3:30 – 5:00 —  Keynote: Amber Jamilla Musser

 

DAY THREE

Location: 3rd floor screening room of the CMII building (entrance on 2nd floor of 25 Park Place)

8:00 – 9:00 — Breakfast and Coffee

 

9:00 – 10:15 — Panel 4: Structures of Negativity

• Tyrone S. Palmer (Northwestern University), “Feminine, (B)lack: Ungendering, Affectivity, and the Feminine Question”
• Kevin Rigby Jr. (University of California, Berkeley), “Korryn Gaines, Racialized Affect, and the Potential of Lead”
• Mlondolozi Zondi (Northwestern University), “Dead. . . In Contact Improvisation. But Still. Dead”
• Chair and Respondent: Alessandra Raengo (Georgia State University)

 

10:30 – 11:45 — Panel 5: Messy, Gushy Labor

• Amara Lawson-Chavanu (University of Maryland, College Park), “Sensational Hermeneutics & Labor: Beyond Authenticity in Black Lesbian Pornography”
• Adreanna Nattiel (Georgia State University), “The Gushy Stuff: Affective Excess and Reconfiguration in Shine L. Houston’s The Crash Pad”
• Alithia Zamantakis (Georgia State University), “Gender is Messy: Spectrums, Binaries, and Rectal Bridges”
• Chair and Respondent: TBD

 

11:45 – 12:45 — Lunch

 

1:00 – 2:30 — Keynote: Angela Washko

 

2:45 – 3:00 — Closing Remarks

 

3:00 – 4:00 — Coffee and Mingling

 

4:00 – 8:00 — Dinner Break

 

8:00 — Closing Reception

• The Imperial Bar, 726 W. College Avenue, Decatur, GA