| Breakout Session 1 No Bodies No Society No End |
Breakout Session 2 No Connections No Space No States |
| Breakout Session 3 No Copy No Law No Truth |
Breakout Session 4 No Object No Alien No Education |
No Bodies
Curtin 939
Panel Chair: William Bristow
Nicholas Anthony Eppert (New York University)
“Against Conscious Experience: Towards an Immanent Praxis of the Mind-Body Gap”
Joseph Giardini (Johns Hopkins University)
“Separation and Withdrawal: Refusal in Diane di Prima and Phyllis Webb”
Cameron Kunzelman (Georgia State University)
“No Further Interaction: Video Games That Refuse”
No Society
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Andrew Kincaid
Theodore Martin (UC-Irvine)
“Antisocial: A Literary History”
Tero Karppi (SUNY Buffalo)
“Disconnect. Contesting Social Media”
Kieran Aarons (DePaul University)
“The Destituent Pledge”
No End
Curtin 108
Panel Chair: Ann Mattis
William Paris (Penn State University)
“Refusing the Progress of Time: Black Grief and Critical Consciousness”
Sam Law (University of Chicago)
“Narco-State’s Scandalous Secret: Ayotzinapa and the Refusal of Death”
No Connections
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Jennifer Johung
Derek Maus (SUNY Postsdam)
“Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the Pitfalls of Racial Representation”
Andrew Culp (University of Texas, Dallas)
“Between Non-Standard Philosophy and Afro-Pessmism: A Survey”
Jeremy R. Smith (New York University)
“Red Stars in the Black Universe: A Non-Philosophical Lesson in Democracy”
No Space
Curtin 939
Panel Chair: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Kai Parker (University of Chicago) and Ray Noll (University of Chicago)
“Freedom as Non-Movement: Race, Religious History, and Carceral Ethnography in Chicago”
Hannah Hopewell (Aukland University of Technology)
“Refusal, Minimum Procedures and Creative Powerlessness in Writing the Everyday Urban”
Kris Klotz (Penn State University)
“Construction of Political Subjects: Disidentification in Honneth and Rancière”
No States
Curtin 108
Panel Chair: Erica Bornstein
Sophia Goodfriend (University of Chicago)
“Anxious Itineraries: Affect, Negation, and Belonging on Birthright Israel”
Jenny Kehl (UW-Milwaukee)
“The Disruptive Power of No in Water Privatization: A Study of Resistance, Refusal, and Post-Capitalist Remunicipalization”
Calina Ciobanu (United States Naval Academy)
“Julian Barnes and the Function of Dystopian Literature in Dystopian Times”
No Copy
Curtin 108
Panel Chair: Tasha Oren
Andrew Lison (University of Kansas)
“Post-Historical Media: Negation and Digital Convergence”
Sparkles Stanford (Boston College)
“Rethinking Copyright as a Space of Refusal”
Joyce Latham (UW-Milwaukee)
“#roguerangers and the Right of Public Employees to Speak”
No Law
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Nadine Kozak
Marcus Paul Bullock (UW-Milwaukee)
“Justice Antonin Scalia Says No to Poetry and Philosophy: How the Law Has Been Changed by the Obergefell versus Hodges Decision on Marriage Equality of June 2015″
Marcus Filippello (UW-Milwaukee)
“Seeking a Normal Administrative Life? How a Subtle Refusal Impacted Dahomean Prisoners and Exposed the Banality of French Colonial Rule”
Supriya Karudapuram (American University)
“From AmeriCAN 2 AmeriCAN’T: From the Myth of the Free Market to Freeing the Market as Trump’s—OH NOOOOO!—Ill-Begotten Legacy”
No Truth
Curtin 939
Panel Chair: Ivan Ascher
Bill Martin (DePaul University)
“Making a “non-” of Christianity, Marxism, and Buddhism: Engaging Badiou and Laruelle”
David L. Seim (UW-Stout)
“Refusing To Be Thwarted: Mad Science and the Denial of Validity of Failure”
No Object
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Nathaniel Stern
Andrew Strombeck (Wright State University)
“Gary Indiana, Richard Serra, and the Creative Economy of 1980s New York”
Prayas Abhinav (Indus University)
“Refusing to Make Art, But Not to Being Artistic”
Philip Sayers (University of Toronto)
“Barthes’ Politics and the Yes-No Paradigm”
Tony Yanick (University of Glasgow) and Anne-Françoise Schmid (MINES ParisTech)
“Unseeing Delta No: The Insu Operator and the Contemporary Object”
No Alien
Curtin 939
Panel Chair: Peter Paik
Housten Donham (University of Arizona)
“The Mindless Void: The Antisociality of H. P. Lovecraft”
Anna Mirzayan (Western University)
“Curating the Clone: Unreadable Aesthetics in Sci-Fi Horror”
A.P. Pettinelli (University of Chicago)
“Towards an Alien Camera: Cephalopodic Aesthetics & the (Non)Human in Parreno’s Alien Seasons“
No Education
Curtin 108
Panel Chair: Nan Kim
Lisa Cerami (Nazareth College of Rochester)
“The Collegiate No: Teaching Resistance in an Election Year”
Xin Huang (UW-Milwaukee)
“Decolonizing Feminist Knowledge Production: Anglophone Privilege and the Gesture of Refusal”