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9-9:30am    Registration and Coffee (Bartlett Lobby)

• “Neo-Brechtian Critical Distancing in Contemporary Exhibition Practice” Tracy Zwick, (Columbia-Art History)
• Personal and Public Madness: (Re)Imagining Antonin Artaud” Robert Landvreugd (Columbia-Art History)
• “Counter-memory and the Emancipated Spectator: Fictive Archives and the (re)Distribution of the Sensible” Hollyamber Kennedy (Columbia-Art History)

Alternative Organizations of the Public
(Tobin 520), Chair: Kathleen Baldwin

• “Stateless Civil Societies: New and Old Ways of Thinking about Associational Life” Aaron Wenner (Harvard-Middle Eastern Studies)
• “The Magic Ring of the Society Column”: Newspapers and Desire in The Custom of the Country” Ruth A.H. Lahti (UMass Amherst-English)
• “Towards a Conception of Technopublics: The Limits of a Habermasian Public” Linh Dich (UMass Amherst-Rhetoric and Composition)

Materialist Socialities: Rethinking Capitalist ‘Publics’
(Tobin 307), Chair: Natasha Azank

• “Hospitality, Preindividual Relationality, and the (anti)Familial” Matt Applegate (Binghamton-Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture)
• “Technology and Cultural Production: Community in the age of Mechanical Reproduction” Erin Barrett (Binghamton-Comparative Literature)
• “Queer Nomadism: Reconsidering 'Public' Sex(es)” Hilary Malatino (Binghamton- Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture)

Negotiating Power in the State, the Law, and the Church
(Bartlett 316), Chair: Christiane Bauermann

• “Sentimentality, Platitudes, and Social Justice: Religion in Public Discourse” Liane F. Carlson (Columbia-Philosophy)
• “Conceptions of the Good and the Ubiquity of Power: John Stuart Mill Responding to John Rawls” Sean Johnston (SUNY Binghamton-Ethical and Legal Philosophy)
• “Knowing, Uncertainty and Law & Order ” John Yargo (UMass Amherst-English)

11am-12:15pm    ROUNDTABLE SESSION: The Future of Interdisciplinarity
(Bartlett 316)

12:15-1:15pm    LUNCH

Destabilizing Performances of the Public and Private Self
(Tobin 307), Chair: Emily Honey

• “(Un)Containable Bodies: The Public, the Private and Gendered Bodies in Modern Spaces in Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1932)” Lindsay Eufusia (NYU-Italian Studies)
• “The House on the Borderland: Pulp Novelist Valerie Taylor and the Lesbian Wife in Cold War America” Lauren J. Gutterman (NYU-History)
• “Violent Speech / Acts: Public Representation and Private Practices of Self” Barrak Alzaid (NYU-Performance Studies)
• “Todd Haynes: The Public, The Private, and The Performance” Laura Felschow (Buffalo-Media Studies)

Public Politics, Private Profit
(Tobin 304), Chair: Daniel Biegelson

• “Marriage and Public Policy: The Marriage Act of 1753” Lisa Rourke (Brandeis-English)
• “The ‘Forgotten Man’ as Body Politic:: the Cultural Origins of the New Deal, 1930-1933” Christopher E. Brick (Brown-History)
• “Behind the Scenes: An Exploration of the Presence of Typhoid and Water Purification in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country” Emma Howes (UMass Amherst-English)
• “Can Technology Speak? Film, Photography, and Public Politics in the 1920’s” Kristen Oehlrich (Brown-Art History)

CREATIVE PANEL (Bartlett 316; more details TBA)

3:15-4:30pm SESSION THREE

• “The Author as Pharmakos: The Ethics of Interpretation in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman” Anthony Chu (Stony Brook-English)
• “Public and Private Deaths: The Hidden Grave and Hestia” Philip Braunstein (Boston College-Philosophy)
• “Homecoming Verses: Sites of Victories and Celebrations in Pindar’s Epinikia” Maša ?ulumovi? (Harvard-Classics)

• "Conditions of Sociability: private faces, social bodies, and the early modern portrait medal" Carla Benzan (British Columbia-Art History)
• “The Home of Taste in Kant’s Third Critique” Jerome Veith (Boston College-Philosophy)
• "Of Dots, Data and Magic: Seurat, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty" Michael Gutierrez (Boston College-Philosophy)

• “Spaces of Possibility: Some Examples of Spatio-Temporalities in Contemporary North African Photography” Lucy Gallun (CUNY-Art History)
• “Behind the Scenes: Mayanization and the Caribbean Public Imaginary of Cancun” Carmen Munoz (Harvard and Tulane-Romance Languages)
• “The Dialectic of Community and Ostracism in Light in August” Joe Mason (UMass Amherst-English)

4:30-4:45pm    CLOSING REMARKS (Bartlett 316)

5-7pm    Reception at the UMass Faculty Club (on campus, 243 Stockbridge Rd Amherst, MA 01003)

Saturday Night Gathering