Friday, September 27th

8.00-9.00am – Breakfast + Check-in (SCA 218)

9.15-11.00am – Panel 1: (Un)worlding (SCA 204)

Respondent: Dr. Allison R. G. Ross
Nam Do (University of Southern California)
“I know he’s gone… but he’s not forgotten, or The Haunting of El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz: The End
of Man in Leon Thomas’ ‘Malcolm’s Gone’”
Eugene Hu (University of Southern California)
“Towards a Less Abrasive Side of Animation: Nature and Tech in the Silly Symphonies”
Janine Sun (University of Southern California)
“Flexible Fantasies, Power Play: Reassessing East Asia’s Creative Industries through A-1 Pictures’
Solo Leveling”

11.00-11.15am – Break

11.15am-1.00pm – Panel 2: Landscape/Place/Geography (SCA 204)

Respondent: Dr. Burç Köstem
Zach McLane (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Gentrified Landscapes and the Pastoral OS”
Yifei Li (University of Southern California)
“Echoes of the Victoria Hotel: The Architectural Memory of Northeast China”
Nayla Ramalho (University of Southern California)
“Unearthing the Invisible: Indigenous Memory, Territory, and Responsibility in the Art of Sallisa Rosa
and the Cinema of ASCURI”
Samuel Fox (Columbia University)
“Princely Power and Its Interstices: How the King Manufactured Britain’s Perception of Post-War
Urban Planning”

1.15-2.45pm – Lunch (Spike TV Balcony)

3.00-4.45pm – Panel 3: Mediating the Aesthetic (SCA 204)

Respondent: Dr. Akira Mizuta Lippit
Max Oginz (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Surface Expressions: Toward an Aesthetics of Ground-Penetrating Radar”
Tianren Lou (Brown University)
“Fractured Vision: The Politics of Visual Abstraction Between Sensing and Sovereignty”
Suiyi Tang (University of Southern California)
“Woven Bodies: Kay Sekimachi and the Aesthetics of Asian/American Abstraction”
qingyang “karl” zong (independent scholar)
“a cloud in my room: From Infrastructural Light to Xeno-poetic Machine”

4.45-5.00pm – Break

5.00-6.30pm – Roundtable (SCB 104)

Moderator: Riley Gold
Participants: Dr. Nitin Govil (University of Southern California), Dr. Kara Keeling (University of Southern California), Dr. Shannon Mattern (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Thomas Patrick Pringle (University of Southern California), and Dr. Nicole Starosielski (University of California, Berkeley)

Saturday, September 28th

12.30-1.45pm – Lunch + Check-in (Spike TV Balcony)

2.00-3.45pm – Panel 4: Logistics and Flow (SCA 204)

Respondent: Dr. Jennifer Hessler
Haiying Li (University of Toronto)
“Is the Mother a Logistics Ark? Queer Logistics and Maternal Horizons in Ling Ma and Larissa Lai”
Amaru Tejeda (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“EV Charging into the Future: Abstraction, Infrastructure, and California’s Green Transition”
Joshua Baldelomar (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“When Bananas Defi(n)ed Modernity: The 1936 Pittsburgh Banana Company Explosion”
Riley Gold (University of Southern California)
“Carbon Security: Firetech and Speculative Forest Management in California”

3.45-4.00pm – Break

4.00-5.45pm – Panel 5: Matter and Meaning (SCA 209)

Respondent: Dr. Tara McPherson
Hui Wong (McGill University)
“Materialist Meaning/Abstract Affects: Reclaimed Wastewater and the Materialist Abstract Binary
in Thinking Infrastructure as Political”
Henry Neim Osman (Brown University)
“The Poverty of the Mushroom”
Hugo Ljungbäck (University of Chicago)
“Sonospheric Ecologies: Listening to ‘The Cloud’ Through Matt Parker’s Video Art”
Waris Sandhu (University of Southern California)
“Fabric and Fabrication: Digital Fashion Through Gaming Cosmetics”

5.45-6.00pm – Break

6.00-7.30pm – Keynote (SCA 112)

8.00pm – Afterparty (Angel City Brewery, 216 South Alameda Street)