Schedule-at-a-Glance

(all times are local PDT, Saturday April 30)

 

 

08:30-08:45

Introduction, Welcome, Icebreaker (Katie Nuss)

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08:45-10:00

Session 1: Multispecies Companions

• Susan Haris - “Work’s Love and Love’s Work: The Curious Heart of Animal Rights Activism”

• Heather Frigiola - “Canine Ministries: A Multispecies Religious Practice”

• Brianna Meyer - “Ride or Die: Care & Companionship in American Saddlebred Horse Showing”

• Gustav Steinhardt - “Companionship as Object and Method in Primatology”

Discussant: Katharine Creagh

 

10:00-11:15

Session 2: Sociopolitical, Historical, and Colonial Companions

• April Reber - “When Middle-Class Talk Goes Underground: Conspiracy Talk, Authoritarian Specters, and Speech Rights”

• Lydia Barrett - "Not a March, This is a Dance": Gender, Community, and Transformation in Benin's National Anthem”

• Shahana Munazir - “Daughters of Destiny: Politics of 'Gharelu' Muslim Women in India”

• Kenzell Huggins - “Mascots Mediating the Nation in Singapore”

Discussant: Cindy Carcamo

 

11:15-11:30

Break

 

11:30-12:30

Keynote Luncheon ~ Daena Funahashi - “In the Place of Constitutions: Authority as an Unsayable Event”

 

12:30-13:30

Session 3: Biological, Gendered, and Medical Companions

• Gerpha Gerlin - “"Oh, Honey, I'm so Tired”: Reflecting on Chronic Dis-ease, Crisis, and a Quest for Intimate Connection”

• Rain Ramirez - “The Missionization of Violence: A Mirror of Toxic Masculinity in Indigenous Communities”

• Malorie Albee - “The Foot and Shoe as Reciprocal Companions: Two Osteological Examples”

Discussant: S. Chava Contreras

 

13:30-13:45

Break

 

13:45-15:15

Session 4: Various and Sundry Companions

• Kassandra Sparks - “The Erotic Companionship of Fantasy Personas”

• Hanna Pickwell - “A Flavor of Human Feeling: Affective Entanglements with Outmoded Things in Beijing”

• Lachlan Summers - “Measuring Endlessness in Mexico City”

• Nicole Mabry - “Tracing Distributed Metabolisms: 'gutness' and Marshy Grounds in the Mississippi River Delta”

• Janelle Levy - “My Grandmother, The Old Bat in the Ceiling Corner: Imperfect Ancestral Companions in the Field”

Discussant: Brian Walter

 

15:15-15:45

(In)Constant Companions Social Club (join a panel discussion room)

 

15:45-16:00

Awards Presentation & Closing Remarks (Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht)

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