THURSDAY, MARCH 3
McCormick Hall 101
| 4:30–6:00 PM | Keynote |
| Johanna Drucker (UCLA) Other Others |
FRIDAY, MARCH 4
Aaron Burr 219
| 8:45–9:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
| Sarah Chihaya, Joshua Kotin, and Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton University) | |
| 9:00–10:45 AM | Panel 1 |
| Rachel Greenwald Smith (Saint Louis University) Authoritarianism and Contemporary Literary Form |
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| Theodore Martin (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Critical Distance and Contemporary Literature |
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| Sarah L. Wasserman (University of Delaware) We Have Never Been Post-Post Modern |
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| Respondent: Amy Hungerford (Yale University) | |
| 11:15 AM–1:00 PM | Panel 2 |
| Mitchum Huehls (UCLA) How Should a Person Be?: Genre and Generality in Contemporary “Memoir” |
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| Michael Robbins (Montclair State University) Equipment for Sinking |
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| Namwali Serpell (UC Berkeley) Word of the Year |
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| Respondent: Michael Clune (Case Western Reserve University) | |
| 2:15–4:00 PM | Panel 3 |
| Ed Finn (Arizona State University) The Black Box of the Present: Computational Time in the Age of the Algorithm |
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| Matthew Hart (Columbia University) Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Culture |
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| Avery Slater (University of Texas, Austin) The Metalyric: Contemporary Transits of the Archive |
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| Respondent: Alexander Galloway (New York University) | |
| 4:30–6:00 PM | Panel 4 |
| David Alworth (Harvard University) The Contemporary Art Novel |
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| Leigh Claire La Berge (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY) Wages Against Artwork: The Social Practice of Decommodification |
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| Genevieve Yue (The New School) Contemporary Art Is Hard to See: Visibility and the Phototechnical Image |
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| Respondent: Stephen Best (UC Berkeley) |
SATURDAY, MARCH 5
Aaron Burr 219
| 9:00–10:45 AM | Panel 5 |
| Emily Hyde (Rowan University) Photography, Fiction, and Seeing the Future |
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| Madeleine Monson-Rosen (Loyola University Maryland) “We’re Not Programmed, We’re People”: Posthuman Tech Meets Post-Racial Irony in Moon and Metropolis: Suite I |
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| Sunny Xiang (Yale University) The Chindian Imaginary: The Contemporary Self-Help Novels of Tash Aw and Mohsin Hamid |
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| Respondent: Kate Marshall (University of Notre Dame) | |
| 11:15 AM–1:00 PM | Panel 6 |
| Merve Emre (McGill University) Reading for Action |
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| Uri McMillan (UCLA) Sensing Grace Jones and Other Sensuous Acts of Knowing |
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| Damon Young (UC Berkeley) After the “Private Self”: Media, Sexuality and the Symptom in the Twenty-First Century |
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| Respondent: Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex) | |
| 2:15–4:00 PM | Roundtable |
| Tracy K. Smith (Princeton University) Richard Jean So (University of Chicago) Juliana Spahr & Stephanie Young (Mills College) More Thoughts on the Mainly White Room of Contemporary U.S. Literature |
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| 4:00–5:30 PM | Reception |