Conference Schedule
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room
Thursday, March 5
4:30-4:45 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Tamar Mayer and Daniel Silva, Middlebury College
4:45-6:45 p.m.
Session 1: Borders and Narratives of Imperial Power
Chair: Amanda Rodriguez ‘21
Moderator: Trinh Tran
- Borders and Anxieties of Empire
Yumna Siddiqi, Middlebury College
- The Muslim Ban and the Imperial Anxieties of Colorblindness and Uneven Mobilities
Maryam Griffin, University of Washington, Bothell
- “Crime and the Border”: Locating imperial anxiety and narratives of crime
Molly Slavin, Georgia Institute of Technology
7:00 p.m. Dinner provided
Friday, March 6
10:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m.
Session 2: Epistemology and Imperial Reproduction
Chair: Benji Renton ‘21
Moderator: Raquel Albarran
- The Populist West: Critical subjectivity and the politics of counter-terrorism in Nigeria
Temitope Ogungbemi, McPherson University, Nigeria
- Examining the Co-production of the “Imperial” University in Lahore and New York City
Mariam Durrani, Hamilton College
- Empire’s Anxiety and Indigeneity: Recent American studies critiques of U.S. empire
Max Clayton, Yale University
12:00 p.m. Lunch provided
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Session 3: Subjects of Empire and Occupation
Chair: Lilly Cady ‘23
Moderator: Amit Prakash
- Gibraltar and the Making and Re-making of Europe
Jason Dittmer, University College London
- Imperial Crisis and Racialized Militarization: Reconceptualizing the invasion and occupation of Iraq
Yousef Baker, California State University, Long Beach
- The Power of Blank Spaces: A critical cartography of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Galen Murton ‘00, James Madison University
2:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Session 4: Staging Empire, Visualizing Otherness
Chair: Elijah Willig ‘21
Moderator: Guntram Herb
- Cinema’s Hegemony: Imperial and cinematic futures at the start of the Asian century
Maria Bose, Clemson University
- Race and Migrant Bodies in Contemporary African Poetry
Tosin Gbogi, Marquette University
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Session 5: Migration Divides: Race, religion, and othering
Chair: Isabella Mauceri ‘20.5
Moderator: William Poulin-Deltour
- The Prince and the Governors: The anxious locations of race and religion in South Asian American immigrant histories
Arun Chaudhuri, York University, Canada
- Islam, Anti-Racism, and the Anxieties of French Diversity Politics
Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College
Saturday, March 7
8:30 a.m. Breakfast provided
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Session 6: The Power to Police: Biopolitics and contemporary empire
Chair: Jack Carew ‘20
Moderator: Hemangini Gupta
- Resistance and the Info-sphere
Salah Khan, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Strangers in Their Own Flesh: An intimate story about Trump and Modi
Kristin Bright, Middlebury College
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Mechanisms of Empire’s Reproduction: An analysis of crisis pregnancy centers
Carly Thomsen, Middlebury College