Witnessing Media Fields IX Conference, March 7-8
Friday, December 6, 2024 at 12:26AM
Witnessing
Media Fields IX Conference Schedule
March 7-8, 2025, Wallis Annenberg Conference Room, SSMS 4315
UC Santa Barbara
March 7
9:30-9:45
Coffee + Breakfast
9:45-10:00
Opening Remarks
10:00-11:15 | Witnessing Publics
Moderator: Rich Farrell
Makoto Hunter (UCSB): “No Privacy for Polygamy: Policing Sex, Coercing Speech, and the Spectacle of Plural Wives as Witnesses in Antipolygamy Prosecution, 1875–1900”
Carrie Jiang (UCSB): “Lights On: Infrastructural Policing of Queer Bodies in Urban China”
Celeste Navas (UC Davis): “Rethinking Logistic Parks: Public Art and the Refusal of Neoliberal Erasure in the Inland Empire”
11:30-1:00 | Witnessing Violence
Moderator: Soha Saghazadeh
Nina Mouawad (Northeastern): “Drawing the Past: Comics as Acts and Products of Witnessing in Lebanon’s Wars”
Khushboo Bhutani (Pittsburgh): “The Soundscape of Nakba”
Robin Gabriel (UCSC): “Epistemologies of Witness in Exile: Diasporic Palestinian Poetry in the Wake of Al-Aqsa Flood”
Kevin Echavarria (NYU): “Colonizing Visuality in the Capitalocene: The Ongoing Racialized Instrumentalization of Disappearance, Displacement, and Death Against Honduran Garifuna Communities”
1:00-2:15 | Lunch
2:15-3:45 | Witnessing through Alternative Archives
Moderator: Yiming Ma
Catalina Jeanneret (UCSC): “Intimate Frames: A Case for Home Movies in Constructing Alternative Histories in Santiago, Chile (1950’s to 1980’s)”
Nisarg P. (USC): “Witnessing the Work of Empire: Stereoscopes and Colonial Life-Worlds of 19th century British India”
Hala Al Shami (NYU): “Obscured Histories, Ongoing Resistance: The Struggle for Palestinian Archives”
Pamela Martinez (Stanford): “In the Quest of Effectively Documenting the Unimaginable”
4:00-5:30 | Keynote Address
Diana Flores Ruíz (University of Washington)
6:00-9:00 | Reception
March 8
9:30-9:45
Coffee + Breakfast
9:45-11:00 | Problematics of Witnessing
Moderator: Zach McLane
Brenda Wang (UCLA): “The Disabled Photograph”
Shaun Terry (UCSC): “Forget Critical Theory: A Critique of Modern Witnessing”
Dylan Tarleton (UCSC): “The Problem of the White Suburban Witness”
11:15-12:30 | Oppositional Witnessing
Moderator: Pujita Guha
Payal Saini (Yale): “Through Their Eyes: Witnessing and Resistance in the Photography of Sonagachi’s Children”
Marvin Veloso (SAIC): “Toxic fish in media streams”
Leonard Butingan (UCSC): “Small Screen Liberation: The Politics and Aesthetics of 1970s-1980s Black Television in Britain”
12:30-1:30 | Lunch
1:30-3:00 | Keynote Faculty Roundtable
Moderator (and participant): Bishnupriya Ghosh
Diana Flores Ruíz
Lisa Parks
Bhaskar Sarkar
Althea Wasow
3:00-3:15 | Concluding Remarks