THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL PIC CONFERENCE
April 25-26, 2008
Downtown University Center
Knowledge, Violence Discipline: Rethinking Politics and the University:
PROGRAM
Friday, April 25
9 am - 10 am, room 2003: Breakfast, Coffee, Registration
10 am - 12 pm, room 220: Reconsidering Intellectual Labor
Ariel Sheen, South Broward High School - "Syndicalism, Pedagogy and the
Renewal of the Sublime: Reclaiming a Role for Non-Party Leftist
Politics"
Ariane Fisher, George Washington University - "Materialism and Intellectual Labor"
Tom Pieragastini, Binghamton University - "Burn It Down! Conceptions of
a Politics of Negation and the Building of an Anarchist Ontology"
Moderator: Hilary Malatino, Binghamton University
12 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, room 228: Against Neutrality: Neoliberalism and the University
Beatriz
Bustos, Syracuse University - "Privatization of Knowledge in a
Neoliberal Haven: What the Privatization of Universities in Chile Can
Tell Us about Current Topographies of Neoliberalism"
Arandjel Bojanovic, Philonous - "Transformations of the Higher Education System in Serbia: The Student's Perspective"
Daniele Cartini, University of Modena - "Creating Modern Youth: Planning and Implementing Higher Education in an Arab Country"
Jemimah Mwakisha, Binghamton University - "Colonial Inheritance and Disempowered Species: The Kenyan Election Crisis"
Moderator: Wesley Saavedra, Binghamton University
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, room 220: Engagement and Porosity: Beyond the Disciplined Subject
Pedro
Javier Di Pietro, Bingamton University - "Crawling back through the
Colonial Split: Bodily Dispositions in the Argentinean Andes"
Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Northeastern Illinois University - "Epistemic Shifts: Feminist Advocacy and the Coloniality of Knowledge"
Rebecca Pelan, University College, Dublin - :(Re)Thinking Feminist Politics and the University"
Moderator: Gabriela Veronelli, Binghamton University
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Saturday, April 26
9 am - 10 am, room 223: Breakfast, Coffee, Registration
10 am - 12 pm, room 220: Contagion, Entertainment and the Unassimilable
Scott Rubarth, Rollins College - No Dogs Allowed: Peter Sloterdijk and Cynics/Kynics in the Academy"
Jason Mohagegh, Northeastern Illinois University - "Contaminated Thought: Epistemologies of the Inconsumable"
Gulru Gozacan, Binghamton University - "Badiou's Reading of Deleuze and Political Ontology"
Moderator: Sahsa Shivers, Binghamton University
12 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm - 3 pm, room 228: Democratic Restitution: The Possibility of Protest
Joshua Synenko, York University - "Spacing the Humanities 'Foundation': Vari Hall and Its Discontents"
John Scott Gray, Ferris State University - "Finding the Peace for Civil Disobedience within John Dewey's Democratic Philosophy"
Moderator: Carol Tushabe, Binghamton University
3 pm - 5 pm, room 220: Resistance to Neocolnial Epistemologies
Yamuna Sangarsivam, Nazareth College - "Beyond Survival: Walking the Minefields of Militatant Anthropologies"
Gail Presby, University of Detroit Mercy - "Reflections on Charles
Mills' 'White Ignorance': Its Challenges to How We Teach Philosophy on
US Campuses"
Gabriela Veronelli, Bingamton University - "Language, Knowledge,
Violence: Making a Decolonial Turn in Linguistic Discrimination in the
Academy"
Moderator: Jen Feng Kuo, Binghamton University
5 pm - 6:30 pm, room 228: PIC Roundtable on 'Queer Research'
Presenters from Binghamton University: William Haver, James K. Stanescu, Hilary Malatino, Pedro Javier di Pietro
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