Bordered Life and the Right to Move
Maude Fife room
Friday 12 - 5pm, Saturday 10 - 5:30pm
FRIDAY
12:00-12:15 Opening remarks
Debarati Sanyal, Professor of French, Zaffaroni Family Chair of Undergraduate Education, and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, UC Berkeley
Rhiannon Noel Welch, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair of Italian Literature, UC Berkeley
12:15 - 3:00 PM | Panel 1: Writing Rights: Intersections of Law, Literature, and Policy
Border Touch
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
Fashioning Imaginaries for a Better World, from Treaty Law Negotiations to Repurposed Railway Tracks
Robert Barsky
Professor of French, European Studies, and Jewish Studies; Professor of Law; Director of the W.T. Bandy Center, Vanderbilt University
Signs of Bordered Life
Leti Volpp
Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
3 - 3:30 pm COFFEE BREAK
3:30 - 5 pm UC Berkeley Faculty Keywords Roundtable
Stephanie Canizales (Futures)
Assistant Professor of Sociology; Director, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
Deniz Göktürk (Transit)
Professor of German
Courtney Desiree Morris (Utopia)
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
Iggy Cortez (Atmosphere)
Assistant Professor of Film & Media
Moderator:
Shannon Jackson
Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of the Arts & Humanities; Department Chair of History of Art
SATURDAY
10 - 12 pm PANEL 1: Body as Flow
Sperm-Smuggling and the Labor of Life in Palestine (joining remotely)
Layal Ftouni
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory, Utrecht University
Expanded Autochthony
Christina Varvia
Lecturer of Forensic Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London
12:00 - 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 - 2:45 pm PANEL 2: Poetry and Insurgency
Opacity in the Age of Fascism: Poetry and Notes
Cathy Park Hong
Professor and Class of 1936 First Chair, Department of English, UC Berkeley
Borders as Counterinsurgency: Anti-Migration Politics and the Arts of Liberation
T.J. Demos
Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture; Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz
2:45 - 3:15 pm COFFEE BREAK
3:15 - 5:25 pm PANEL 3: Moving/Mobilizing Images
Waiting
Dagmawi Yimer, 2020
Film Screening
Bordered Life in Suspense
Artist talk by Dagmawi Yimer
Graduate Student Panel/ Closed Q&A
João Pedro Rangel Gomes da Silva (Italian Studies), Ari Gizzi (Italian Studies)
Qu’Ils Reposent en révolte (May They Rest in Revolt)
Sylvain George, 2010
Film Screening
Night Shapes: Fugitivity and Capture
Artist Talk by Sylvain George
Graduate Student Panel/ Closed Q&A
Ben Beitler (French), Jonathan Makriss (Film and Media)
General discussion with artists and panelists