Institute Schedule
Futures 2024 Schedule
June 17th - June 23rd
Monday, June 17: Opening Session
7:00pm - 7:15pm: Welcome (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
7:15pm - 10:15pm: "What Should American Studies Want from AI?" (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Michele Elam: "Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: AI & 'Human’ Rights'"
- Lauren Goodlad: "The Lifecycle of Writing Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Look at Generative AI"
- James E. Dobson: “Memorization, Hypomnemata, and GenAI: On the New Industrialization of Knowledge"
Tuesday, June 18th
9:30am - 12:30pm: The Ongoingness of Settler Colonialism (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Heike Paul: "Lost Causism and Early America: The Case of Roanoke, ca. 1585"
- Donald E. Pease: "The Scarlet Letter: the Ends of Hawthorne’s Romance with Settler Liberalism"
1:45pm – 4:30pm: Participant Seminars
7:15pm - 10:15pm: "Crises in US Democratic Cultures (Room B03 Moore Hall)
- Liam Kennedy: “The End of the Irish American Dream”
- Russ Castronovo:” “Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End of the World”
Wednesday, June 19th
9:30am - 12:30pm: “Alternative African American Dramaturgies” (Room B03 Moore Hall)
- Shane Vogel: “Lorraine Hansberry and the Ordinary Absurd”
- Sandy Alexandre: “Who's Afraid of Everyday Use? Giving Props their Propers in The Piano Lesson”
- Alan Nadel: “August Wilson’s Time, Sylvester’s Stutter, and History’s Black Bottom”
Participant Seminars: 1:45 pm – 4:30 pm
4:45pm – 6:45pm: Institute Picnic
7:15pm - 10:15pm: "Queer Solidarities" (Room B03 Moore Hall)
- Eng-Beng Lim: "What’s Queer about Megastructures of Feeling?"
- Tim Dean: "Hatred of Sex: The Example of Claude McKay"
- Robyn Wiegman: "Who’s Not Afraid of Gender? And Other Questions We Could Ask If Gender Was Not a Fascist Tool"
Thursday, June 20th
9:30am - 12:30pm: "African American Melancholia, A Black Radical Politics of Resistance" (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Hortense Spillers: "Exploring Sorority: Mothers and Police Power"
- Kimberly Juanita Brown: “Black Grief in the Atmosphere"
- Sheldon George: "Knotting the Psyche: White Fantasy, Police Violence, and the Racialized Imago"
Participant Seminars: 1:45pm – 4:30pm
7:15pm - 10:15pm: Racial Capitalism and Rifts in Social and Sexual Reproduction (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Tony Bogues:” Racial Capitalism ( s ) / Plantations, Racial Slavery and an Alternative Genealogy- Syliva Wynter and the New World Group
- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon:” “Metabolic Rift: Barbados and Ground Zero of Racial Capitalism”
- Duncan Faherty: “Racial Capitalism & Transgressive Circulation in the Age of Revolutions”
Friday, June 21
9:30am - 12:30pm: "The Cultural Front of 21st Century Social Movements" (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Patricia Stuelke: "The Zombie Cultural Front and the TikTok Intifada"
- Winfried Fluck: “The Populist Promise: What Can We Learn from Changing Narratives about American Popular Culture?”
- RA Judy: “Black Study of Poetic Socialities: Africanité and Arabité, مسألة النَّحْو”
Participant Seminars: 1:45pm – 4:30pm
7:15pm - 10:15pm: “Re-Imagining Decoloniality” (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Josefina Saldaña-Portillo: "Imagining Decoloniality Otherwise: Equality with Difference"
- Israel Reyes: "The Boricua Gaze: Decolonialism in Puerto Rican Visual Culture"
Saturday June 22nd
9:30-12:30: North Atlantic Universals/Transnational Asian American Analytics (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Jodi Kim: "Asian American Studies and the Palestine Exception"
- Iyko Day: "Settler Colonialism and the Ends of Analogy"
- Dylan Rodriguez: "Asian Americanism as Liberal Reaction: Examining the Logic/Limits of Asian American Studies (and beyond)"
Participant Seminars: 1:45pm – 3:30pm
4:00pm - 6:00pm: Reimagining Indigenous Sovereignty: Refusal, Reconfiguration, Resurgence (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)
- Jodi Byrd: "Indigenous Relationality in the Grind of the Shitty Future"
- Manu Karuka: "Indigenous Futures at the 'End of History'"
Institute Banquet 6:15pm-10:00pm (Hayward Room, Hanover Inn)