(B)orders of Empire: Colonial Pasts, Imperial Presents, and Implicate Futures of the Global Middle East
April 20th 2018
Location: University of California, Irvine – Humanities Gateway Building 1010
9:00 am Check-in, coffee
9:30 am Graduate Student Panel – (B)ordering Values: Time, Corporeality, Visuality, and Waste
11:30 am Keynote Address
“Palestine(s) in the Sky: Queer Visionary Aesthetics and the Frontiers of the Forever War”
Ronak Kapadia, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
12:45pm Lunch
2:00 pm Faculty Panel – (B)ordering Sites: Bodies, Materialities, and Virtual Realities
4:15 pm Film Screening and Discussion: Human Flow (dir: Ai Weiwei, 2017, 2 hrs 20 mins) Location: McCormick Screening Room, HG 1070
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