Conference Program

Friday, April 3: 

Fear/Media/Mediation

2:00pm:  Introduction

Francesco Casetti (Yale, Film & Media Studies)

2:30pm: Panel

Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Fear, Mobility, Mediation

Michele Cometa (University of Palermo): Who’s Afraid of Anxiety? Mediation as Unburdening

Respondent: Jason Stanley (Yale, Philosophy)

Discussion

4:30pm: Break

4:45pm: Roundtable

Shawkat M. Toorawa (Yale, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)

Keller Easterling (Yale School of Architecture, MED Program)

Marta Kuzma (Yale School of Art)

Saturday, April 4: 

Medical/Body/Self

9:00am: Introduction 

Marta Figlerowicz (Yale, English and Comparative Literature)

9:30am: Panel

Rhae Lynn Barnes (Princeton University): Fear and Theft: Jim Crow, Blackface, and the Wartime Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans

Ari Heinrich (University of California- San Diego): Decolonial Melanin: Jes Fan’s Contagious Xenophoria (readings from a glossary on bio-art)

Respondent: Katie Trumpener (Yale, Comparative Literature, English, Film & Media Studies)

Discussion

11:15am: Break

11:30am: Roundtable

Nicholas Baer (University of Groningen)

Evren Savci (Yale, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies)

Katie Trumpener (Yale, Comparative Literature, English, Film & Media Studies)

1:00pm Lunch

Catastrophe/Catastrophizing

2:00pm: Introduction

Marijeta Bozovic (Yale, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Film & Media Studies, WGSS)

2:30pm: Panel

Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale, Music): On the Monstrous Note-heads of Fourteenth-Century Song

Joanna Warsza (Independent Curator, Warsaw/Berlin): Poland and Right-Wing Postcolonialism

Respondent: John Durham Peters (Yale English and Film & Media Studies)

Discussion

4:30pm: Break

4:45pm: Roundtable

Mitja Velikonja (University of Ljubljana, Yale European Studies Council)

Fatima Naqvi (Yale, Germanic Languages & Literatures and Film & Media Studies)

Paul North (Yale, Germanic Languages & Literatures)

Sunday, April 5: 

Politics/Memory/Remediation

9:00am: Introduction

Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies)

9:30am: Panel

Aanchal Malhotra (New Delhi): Title TBA

Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago): Fear and Foreboding in Syria

Respondent: Steven Wilkinson (Yale, Political Science, India and South Asian Studies, Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies)

Discussion

11:15am Break

11:30pm Roundtable

Rosie Bsheer (Harvard University)

Stephen Naron (Director, Fortunoff Archive)

Katie Lofton (Yale, Religious Studies, Dean of Humanities)

1:00pm Conclusions