FRIDAY Feb. 15

Registration (folder/name-tag pick-up), 11am-3:00pm on the 9th floor of Curtin Hall

If you arrive after the keynote begins, please wait until Saturday morning to register.

Brown bag lunch with Jack Halberstam, 11:45am-1pm

The Center for 21st Century Studies, Curtin Hall 939

We will be discussing “Unlearning” from Profession 2012, Published by The Modern Language Association of America, pg. 9-16. Reading available here.

Session 1, 1:30-3pm

A. Failed States, Curtin Hall 175

Chair: Peter Paik

• “Amnesty Versus Prosecutions in Uganda” Scott Ross, Yale University Council for African Studies
• “The Failure to Settle Past and Present: A Case Study of Moscow Urban Development”  Kateryna Malaia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Architecture)
• “Against the Failure of Political Philosophy and the Academy: Deleuze, Tiqqun and the Politics of Anarchization”  Derek Barnett, University of Western Ontario

Grad Student Responder: Chase Erwin

B. Critiquing Masculinity, Curtin Hall 118

Chair: Ted Martin

• “A Thing Made of Actual Holes: Simon Armitage’s Modern Masculinity” Rachel Hoag, John Carroll University
• “Masculinity, Performance, and Failure in the Work of Bas Jan Ader and William Pope.L” Andrew Salyer, UW-Madison (Art History)
• “Salvaging the Sissy: Power and Failed Masculinity”  Tyler Monson, Marquette University

Grad Student Responder: Andy Hartman

Coffee, 3-3:30pm

Keynote by Jack Halberstam, 3:30-5pm

Curtin Hall 175

No Church in the Wild: Anarchy, Failure and Chaos

Abstract:  “In this talk, I want to build ideas from THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE and begin to develop a theory of queer anarchism from a new companion project titled THE WILD: QUEER ANARCHY in order to weave a story about emergent forms of life through the glimpses we catch of it in popular culture and subcultural production. I start today with an example of the emergence of a startling song of anarchy and revolt that pops up in a mainstream venue – Jay Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild,” in order to point to a kind of emergent cultural idiom that speaks in the language of anarchistic revolt and takes issue with the logics of success and failure that have riddled every aspect of modern life. The idea I want to take from this song and its framing of new logics of power is the idea of a space of “wildness” that opens up within the institutionalized spaces of law and order and that holds open other possibilities for thinking and being – no church in the wild.” 

Session 2, 6:00-8:00pm

An Evening of Performances

The Gasthaus Pub on the lower level of the UWM Student Union

(with pizza/drinks for registered conference participants at 5:30pm)

Introduction by Brittany Cavallaro, UW-Milwaukee (Creative Writing)

• “Transition 2B” by Collette Stewart, UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts (Dance)
• “Act Natural!” by Toby Wiggins, York University (Gender, Feminist, & Women’s Studies)
• Currently untitled film, by Ben Balcom, UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts (Film, Video, Animation & New Genres)
• “Comedy Routine” by Andrew Salyer, UW-Madison (Art Theory and Practice)
• Poetry reading by Kara van de Graaf, UW-Milwaukee (Creative Writing)
• “Nostalgia” by Kiam Marcelo Junio, visual and performance artist
• “Emergent Economies, Queer Circulations” by Ching-In Chen, UW-Milwaukee (English, creative writing)

SATURDAY Feb. 16

Coffee and registration, 8:30-9:00am, Curtin Hall 181 (this room will be open all day so that you can pick up folders/name-tags)

Opening remarks 9:00-9:15am, Curtin Hall 175

Session 3, 9:15-10:30am

Disrupting Figures, Curtin Hall 175

Chair: Elena Gorfinkel

• “Affective Afflictions: Intervention’s Tainted Touch” Alex Fine, California College of the Arts (Visual and Critical Studies)
• “Queer Surrogate Identification as Failure: Romaine Brooks’s 1936 Portrait of Carl Van Vechten” Melanie Saeck, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Art History)
• “Here, or Anywhere But Up: The Politics of Queer Feminist Possibility in Michelle Tea’s The Chelsea Whistle” Emma McKenna, University of British Columbia (Women’s and Gender Studies)

 Grad Student Responder: Shawna Lipton

Session 4, 10:45-noon

A. Digital Accidents and Agency, Curtin Hall 175

Chair: Matt Russell 

• “Ghosting the Machine: Affect, Consciousness and Gaming Glitches” Heather Duncan, SUNY Buffalo (English)
• “What you saw is not necessarily what you get: Google Books, errors, and the agency of algorithms” Melissa Chalmers, University of Michigan School of Information
• “Organizational Rhetoric and the Construction of Ephemerality on Twitter” Nick Proferes, UW-Milwaukee (Information Studies)

Grad Student Responder: Rachael Sullivan

B. Violence Against Women, Interdisciplinary Approaches and Failure at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM):  Discussion Panel, Curtin Hall 108

Moderator: Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, UW-Milwaukee School of Public Health

• RaeAnn Anderson, UWM, Psychology
• Ching-In Chen, UWM, English Creative Writing
• Nelida Cortes, UWM, Urban Studies
• Jessica Milli, UWM, Economics
• Laura Voith, UWM, Social Work

Lunch, noon-1pm, Curtin Hall 118

Session 5, 1-2:15pm

A. The Power of Encounter, Curtin Hall 175

Grad Student Responder: Justin Schumaker

B. Systemic Failure, Curtin Hall 108

Chair: Andrew Kincaid

• “Systematic Failure: The Role of Familial Failure in Modern Irish Literature” Andrew Kleinke, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (English)
• Mike Sanders (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, English)
•  ”The Varieties of Modernist Failure” Jack Dudley, University of Wisconsin- Madison (English)

Grad Student Responder: Adam Ochonicky

Session 6, 2:30-4pm

Knowledge/Subject Production, Curtin Hall 175

Chair: Gerry Canavan (Marquette University)

• “The Politics of Wikipedia: Queering Knowledge Domains” Noopur Raval, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 
• “‘A Difficult Population’: The Politics of Failed Treatment for Eating Disorders” Abby Forster, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Anthropology)
• “Democratic Inequalities and Amateurism” Viola Lasmana, USC (English)
• “Flunking Justice: How Incarceration Exceeds the Logic of Recuperation”  Gray Fisher, USC

 Grad Student Responder: Nick Proferes

Coffee 4-4:15

Session 7, 4:15-5:30

Interdisciplinary Faculty Roundtable on Themes of Failure, Curtin Hall 175

Jack Halberstam (American Studies, USC), Distinguished Professor Jane Gallop (English and Comparative Literature, UWM), Kennan Ferguson (Political Science, UWM), Ted Martin (English, UWM), Mary Mullen (Phd, English, UW-Madison and Deputy Director of UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies). Moderated by Richard Grusin, Director of UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies. 

Cocktails at 8:30pm

Von Trier 2235 N Farwell Ave. Milwaukee