Conference Schedule

October 19-21, 2018

All events at the John Evans Center unless otherwise specified.

  • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
    • 3:30 – 4:00 PM              Check-In
    • 4:00 – 5:30 PM              Film Screening: I Am Not a Witch
    • 5:30 – 6:00 PM              Film Discussion and Welcome
    • 6:15 – 7:15 PM              Melissa Wilcox Keynote Address: “Hierophanies of Resistance: A Meditation on Sovereignty and Strangeness in Three Movements”

 

  • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20
    • 9:00 – 9:30 AM               Breakfast
    • 9:30 – 11:30 AM            Panel One: Fallen Flesh, Sexual Sedition
      • Christopher Hunt, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, “Strange Flesh: James Baldwin and the Struggle Against Theological Race-Making in the Black Church”
      • Sher Afgan Tareen, Florida State University, “Negotiating Intimacy and Whiteness: Suburbia and the Invention of the Muslim Professional”
      • Aylon Cohen, University of Chicago, “The Sovereign Sodomite: Sodomy and the English Nation”
      • Jakob Zalman Breunig, Indiana University, “A History of S.S.inthomosexuality: Nazi Sexuality in American Holocaust Film”
    • 11:30 – 11: 45 AM           Break
    • 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM      Panel Two: (In)hospitable
      • Geoffrey Wildanger, Brown University, “Bear Life: Mérimée’s Lokis, Agamben’s Werewolf, and the Strange Things Found in Forests”
      • Ryne Beddard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “‘Refuge of our Renegades’: The Great Dismal Swamp and the Limits of Plantation Sovereignty”
      • Haley Iliff, Florida State University, “‘All is still wilderness there, you will not find your home till you make it’: Sovereignty and Dying in the West”
      • Timothy Burnside, Florida State University, “Necatur Americanus”
    • 1:45 – 3:00 PM                Lunch
    • 3:00 – 5:00 PM                Panel Three: Terror and Territory
      • Abtsam Saleh, Harvard Divinity School, “Gendered Bodies in Protest: Spatial Temporalities, Piety, and the Politics of Shame in Yemen’s Revolutionary Protests”
      • Mihee Kim-Kort, Indiana University, “Defending the Sacred?: Burning Church Doctrines and (Re)inscribing the Racialized Structures of U.S. American Sovereignty”
      • Claudia Garcia-Rojas, Northwestern University, “Decolonization and the Institution of a Black Radical Politic”
    • 5:00 – 5:30 PM              Break
    • 5:30 – 6:30 PM             Ashon Crawley Keynote Address: “A Sense of Strangeness: A Blackpentecostal Anepistemology of Mechanical Flesh”
    • 6:30 – 7:15 PM              Small reception

 

  • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21
    • 9:30 – 10:00 AM           Breakfast
    • 10:00 – 12:00 PM         Panel Four: The Uses of Illusions
      • Andrew McKee, Florida State University, “‘People are Uneasy If They Spill Salt’: Feeling Strange and Haunted in Your Religious Belief”
      • Lucie Robathan, McGill University, “A Strange Kind of Love Story”
      • Kimberly Berkey, Loyola University Chicago, “(White?) Messianism and Black Prometheus: Giorgio Agamben and Jared Hickman on Sovereignty”
      • Hannah Garvey, Indiana University, “The Presence of the Color Line: Du Boisian Charts, Antiabsorption, and the Experience of American Negroes”
    • 12:00 PM                      Closing Remarks