The Center for the Study of Women and Society/CUNY

March 16–17, 2006

At the Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Room 9206–9207

Thursday, March 16

9:00 – 10:00 AM Breakfast

9:30 – 10:00 AM Welcome: Patricia Clough

10:00 - 11:30 AM Race, population and technologies
of control
Eugene Thacker, Georgia Institute of Technology

Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University

Moderator: Patricia Clough, The CUNY Graduate Center

11:30 - 1:00 PM Detention, death and documentation

Cagatay Topal, Queen’s University

Sora Han, UCLA School of Law

Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia

Moderator: Jeff Bussolini, College of Staten Island, CUNY

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch

2:30 - 4:00 PM Indebtedness, freedom and state
racism
Ann Anagnost, University of Washington

Richard Dienst, Rutgers University

Stefano Harney, University of Leicester

Fred Moten, University of Southern California

Moderator: Craig Willse, The CUNY Graduate Center

4:00 - 5:30 PM Commentary

Craig Willse, The CUNY Graduate Center

Anahid Kassabian, University of Liverpool

Randy Martin, New York University

Jackie Orr, Syracuse University

Joseph W. Schneider, Drake University

Friday, March 17

9:00 – 10:00 AM Breakfast

9:30 – 10:00 AM Welcome: Patricia Clough

10:00 – 11:30 AM Invested nature and the science of
death
Michael Dorsey, Dartmouth College

Richard Doyle, Pennsylvania State

Cori Hayden, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Ananya Mukerjea, College of Staten Island CUNY

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Eventuation, bodies and memories

Saidiya Hartman, UC Berkeley

Brian Massumi, Université de Montréal

Amit Rai, Florida State University

May Joseph, Pratt Institute

Moderator: Couze Venn, Nottingham Trent University

1:00 - 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 – 4:00 Commentary & discussion
Jamie
Bianco, Queens College, CUNY

Grace Mitchell, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Couze Venn, Nottingham Trent University

Peter Hitchcock, The CUNY Graduate Center

Patricia Clough, The CUNY Graduate Center