Subaltern-Popular Workshop (original) (raw)

Re-Assembly: Popular Politics, Mediation, and the Grammar of Repair

Friday, December 6 – 9:00am-5:30pm

9:00 – Welcome and Introduction

9:10-11:00 – Session I: Access
Moderator: Amy Buono
Joshua Neves, “Vivisect and Reassemble: Popular Politics in the Age of Overdevelopment”
George Flaherty, “Imperfecto Assembly: Harry Gamboa Jr. and Public Access TV”
Camila Pastor, “‘_Hye mish mabsuta_’: Diagnosing Affect in a Vulva, Resolving Birth and Postpartum Afflictions through New Theologies of Birthing”

11:00-11:10 – Break

11:10-1:00 – Session II: Participation
Moderator: Bhaskar Sarkar
Rahul Mukherjee, “Phishing as Dhanda: Reassembling Mobile Money Networks in Digital India”
Althea Wasow, “The Subaltern, the Popular, the Carceral”
Dard Neuman, “Hindustani, Heterodoxy and the Politics of Creativity”

1:00-2:10 – Lunch

2:10-3:30 – Session III: Location
Moderator: Cristina Venegas
Nidhi Mahajan, “Moorings and Voyages: The View from The Dhow”
J. T. Roane, “On Sabotage: Anarchy and Black Youth Subalternity in Mid-twentieth Century Philadelphia”

3:30-3:40 – Break

3:40-5:30 – Roundtable I: Palestine after Civil Society
Moderator: Nuha Khoury
Richard Falk, David Lloyd, Anjali Arondekar, Horacio Legras, Paul Amar

Saturday, December 7 – 9:30am-3:00pm

9:30-11:20 – Session IV: Grammar
Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Rachel Niehuus, “’We are creating a world we have never seen:’ Repair and Worldmaking in eastern Congo”
Ricado Jacobs, “A Permanent Social Crisis and the Remaking of Insurgent Emancipatory and Reactionary Possibilities from below in Post-Colonial Southern Africa”
Utathya Chattopadhyaya, “Can the Monstrous Reassemble?”

11:20-11:30 – Break

11:30-1:00 – Roundtable II: Living On
Moderator: Elisabeth Weber
Gyanendra Pandey, Sudipta Sen, Adriana Johnson

1:00-2:10 – Lunch

2:10-3:00 – Concluding Discussion
Moderator: Swati Chattopadhyay