Registration for TGHC "Work in Progress" (Graduate Conference with Keynote from Professor Hil Malatino)
This form is to register your attendance for the Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference on Friday 20th October 2023. The details for the conference is below. Attendance is free. This form will help the organizers have a sense of numbers for the event.

Location:

106 Alumnae Lounge

40 Talbot Avenue (Aidekman Arts Complex)

Medford, MA 02155


Program:

8:00am WELCOME/BREAKFAST

9:00-10:25 Art-Works (Moderator: Nina Francisco)

  • Hannah Jew, “Working From Home: The Rembrandt Domestic”
  • Toni Armstrong, “Beautiful Labor: Art at Work in the Boston MFA’s Art of the Americas Wing”
  • Whitney Brady-Guzmán, “Labor and Leisure Sharing Breath: Protest and the Commodification of Heritage in Contemporary Oaxaca City
  • John Ott, “Which Side Are You On?: The Laboring of American Space in Union Films Sponsored Media, 1946-1953”

10:35- 12:00 Forms Of Work/Work of Form (Moderator: Spencer Lane)

  • Agam Balooni, “The Neoliberal Form of Old Horror”
  • Arush Pande, “The Beasts of Labor, the Ghosts of Nature: Environmental Justice in Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio”
  • Gianna Bacchetta, "'They Found—Nothing': The Eerie Work of Allegory in Yda Addis' "The Human Tigress""
  • Jordan Good & Andrew Ankersen, “Whistle While You Work(er’s Rights): Work As Imagined by Both Disney and the Labour Songs”

12:00-1:00pm LUNCH

1:00- 2:30 Keynote

  • “Bankrolling Enlightenment: Reed Erickson and the Weird History of Trans Philanthropy”
Hil Malatino, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy

2:40- 4:05 Working Bodies (Moderator: Daniel Waqar)

  • Anna Karthika, Unruly Bodies of “Prostitute”: A Citational Referent to the Discursive Subject of the Deviant Body in Colonial India
  • Tianyun Hua, “Working Body as a Vessel of Modernities: A Chinese Laborer’s Diary on the French Battlefield during the First World War”
  • Jordan Green, “‘The Indescribable Thing’: Nervous Bodies, Nervous Labor, and Personality in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie”
  • Gillian Wood, British Mercantilist Identity in Inkle and Yarico
4:05 - 4:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:30- 5:55  Anti-Work (Moderator: Casey O’Reilly)

  • Benjamin Papsun, “To Do the Work of the World”: Reimagining the Work Politics of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Ketan Jain, “Disobedient Dispossession: The Black Mother’s Queer Theory”
  • Molly Follette, Object Petit AI: Sex Work in the Uncanny Valley
  • Genesis Perez, Chronic Surveillance in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
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