Participants

Schedule

All events held in the Levis Faculty Center, room 407

Friday, March 10

10:00-10:30 am Coffee

10:25 Welcome: Michael Rothberg, Unit for Criticism

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Panel 1: (Chair: Hina Nazar)

• David Lloyd, USC, “Normalization/Criminalization: Prison Protest  and the ‘Welfare State’”
• Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins, “The News Now: Information and Choice”

12:00-2:00 pm Break

2:00-3:30 Panel 2: (Chair: Stephanie Foote)

• Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia, “Schoolmistresses and Freedmen: Representing Reconstruction”
• Mark Christian Thompson, UIUC, “Black Fascisms”

3:30-4:00 Coffee

4:00-5:30 Keynote Address: (Introduction: Lauren Goodlad)

• Bruce Robbins, Columbia, "The Health Visitor: Identity, Injustice, and the Welfare State"
  Background Reading: Carolyn Kay Steedman, Landscapes for a Good Woman
  (available on e-reserves, Unit/Rothberg, or at 100 English Bldg, the Unit office)
• Respondent: Cary Nelson, UIUC

Saturday, March 11

9:30-10:00 am Coffee

10:00-11:30 am Panel 3 (Chair: Ellen Moodie)

• James Ferguson, Stanford, “Formalities of Poverty: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa”
• Esra Özyürek, UCSD, “Nostalgic Kemalists and Privatization of Politics in Turkey”

11:45-1:15 Panel 4 (Chair: Zsuzsa Gille)

• Leslie Reagan, UIUC, "Reproductive Rights and the State: When Abortion Was a Crime in the U.S."
• James Vernon, UC, Berkeley, “Hunger, the Social, and States of Welfare in Imperial Britain”

1:15-2:30 pm Lunch for participants and audience (Music Room)

2:30-4:00 pm Panel 5 (Chair: Siobhan Somerville)

• Anna Marie Smith, Cornell, "Neo-Eugenics: The Sexual Regulation of the Welfare Mother"
• France Winddance Twine, UCSB, “Rethinking the Meaning of Welfare: Some Lessons from Transracial Parents in Britain”

4:15-5:45 pm : Closing Roundtable (Chair: Jed Esty)

• Matt Hart, English, UIUC
• Amelia Lyons, History, UIUC
• Junaid Rana, Asian American Studies, UIUC
• Hairong Yan, Anthropology, UIUC