(Unless noted otherwise, all events will be held in Louis Hall 119)
Friday, November 11
3:30 – 4:45 Welcome; Keynote 1
Lucas Hilderbrand, UC-Irvine
“A Suitcase Full of Vaseline, or Mapping Gay Travel in the 1970s”
5:00 – 6:15 Keynote 2
Shane Vogel, IU-Bloomington
"Madam Zajj and US Steel: Bioperformance, Calypso Theatre, and Duke Ellington's Philosophy of the History of Jazz"
6:30 – 7:00 Reception
Louis Hall 118
Saturday, November 12
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 – 10:45 Panel 1: Recovery and Representation
Leigh Goldstein (NU): “The Obstinate Hymen and Other Rigidities: Penetration and Generation in Postwar Media"
Don James McLaughlin (Penn): “Is the Rectum a Cenotaph?”
Meenasarani Linde Murugan (NU): “Getting to Know You: Sajid Khan and Reframing the Exotic”
Sarah Withers (IU-Bloomington): "The Stork and the Reaper: Inheritance, History, and American Drama"
11:00 – 12:15 Keynote 3
Heather Love, Penn
"Absolute Zero: The Scandal of Love Outside the Family"
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
Louis Hall 118
1:45 – 2:45 Panel 2: Technology and Genealogy
Zach Campbell (NU), “Before Enchantment: A Public Face for Early Videotape”
Luke Stadel (NU), “HDTV and the Problem of Television’s Ontology”
Alexis Lothian (USC), “Life After Television: Fan Video Remix and the Reconfiguration of Media Time”
3:00 – 4:00 Panel 3: Uses of History
Beth Corzo-Duchardt (NU), “Primitivism and Popular Media Historiography: The Case of the Panicking Spectator”
Mabel Rosenheck (NU), “Beyond the Ruby Slippers: Media History and Technological Citizenship at the National Museum of American History”
Kristen Galvin (UC-Irvine), “Seeing a Scene: Documenting Downtown New York”
4:15 – 5:30 Keynote 4
Jack Halberstam, USC
“Queer Betrayals”
5:45 – 6:30 Reception
Louis Hall 118