Schedule

Saturday, March 18

10:00 ET: Opening Remarks

10:15 ET: Sensing Everyday Feelings

Laçin Tutalar (TED University)
A Paternal Rhythm of 2023 Turkish Elections: Using Sentiment, Fantasy of Wealth & Heroic Kitsch

Zeina Tarraf (American University of Beirut)
The Politics of Public Feeling During Lebanon’s 2019 Uprisings

Candace Lukasik (Mississippi State University)
The Ordinary Affects of U.S. Empire

Max Johnson Dugan (University of Pennsylvania)
Feeling “Suss” or “Intimacy”: Formations of difference in two feelings about the smell of a Halal Butcher

12:00: Coffee & Tea Break

12:15: Translating Asymmetric Affects

Davy Knittle (University of Delaware)
Queer Affects of Infrastructural Precarity: from Urban Redevelopment to Climate Emergency

Penelope Lusk (University of Pennsylvania)
One Person’s Shame is Another Person’s Schooling: Comparing Shame in Institutional Life

Renata Prati (University of Buenos Aires)
Affective Comparison and Idioms of Distress: Legibility, Translation, Power

1:45: Lunch

2:45: Approaches to Digital Mediation, Extraction, and Relation

Ganaele Langlois (York University)
Image and Affect

Lucila Rozas Urrunaga (University of Pensylvania)
The Affective Object as an Approximation to the Feminist Affect of the Ni Una Menos Tide: A Multimodal Analysis of the Performance “Un Violador En Tu Camino”

Amrita De (Pennsylvania State University)
Translating Global South Inc. Masculinity : Marking Networked Affect in White Tiger and Congo Inc.

4:15: Closing Reflections

Sunday, March 19

10:00: Opening Remarks

10:15: Feeling Across Affective Temporalities

Giang Nguyen (University of Queensland)
Commensurating Memory: Searching for the Socialist “Bad Life” in Aspirational Vietnam

Jake Nussbaum (University of Pennsylvania)
Comparing Timecraft at the Penn Museum: Sun Ra, Abolition, and the Possession of Human Remains

Rawad Wehbe (University of Pennsylvania)
Primary Motives: Negotiating Poetic Forms during Epochal Transformations

11:45: Coffee & Tea Break

12:00: Identifying Attachment and Difference

Abeera Khan (SOAS, University of London)
On Affect and Attachment in Anti-Racist & Queer Politics

Chen Fan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Penn Tsz Ting Ip (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
When Showing Hanfu to Foreigners, I Feel Very Proud

Lauren Horn Griffin (Louisiana State University)
TikTok and Affective Publics

1:30: Lunch

2:30: Interpreting Spectacles, Performances, and Digital Texts

Samira Rajabi (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Feeling Loss: Mediations of Pregnancy Loss & the Affective Marking of Bodies

Yena Kang (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
From Kung Flu to Squid Game Man: Asian Diasporic Audiences’ Playing with Minor Feelings in the White Imagination

Heather Jaber (Northwestern University in Qatar)
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