THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Find Chicago at the 2024 AAA meeting
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. • Person-indexing Registers
Constantine Nakassis: “Person-indexing registers: Notes from the Cinema”
Location: Marriott Water Street, Grand Salon A-B
4:15 - 5:45 p.m. • Translation Practices and Social Construction(s)
Roberto Young: “Translation as Praxis: From Linguistic Structure to Social Structure”
Location: Marriott Water Street, Grand Salon A-B
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. • Demarcation: the Making of Property’s Subjects and Objects
LaShandra Sullivan (Northwestern University): Organizer\Chair
Meghan L. Morris (Temple University, Beasley School of Law): “Surveying the Best Corner of America: The Boundaries of Protection in Post-Conflict Colombia”
Michael Ralph (Howard University): “Police Liability Insurance and the Problem of Property”
Gregory Duff Morton (City University of New York): “Demarcation Now! The Marking of Land and the Pragmatics of Advocacy for Brazil’s Quilombo Boca do Rio”
Ali Feser (Clarkson University): “‘It’s After the End of the World (Don’t you know that yet?)’”
Jackson Smith (University of Oregon): “Civil Forfeiture, Financial Inequality, and the Demarcation of Dirty Money in North Philadelphia”
Anand Vaidya (Reed College): “The Problem of Property in the Forest”
Location: Tampa Convention Center, 114
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. • Social Feelings and Platformed Bodies
Jiarui Sun: “In Your Words I Feel: Amateur Voice Acting and Calibrated Care”
Ayumi Miyazaki (Japan Women’s University, International Christian University): “The Affect of Kawaii (cute) Images through Josō Cross-dressing in Japan”
Spencer C. Chen (Hamilton College): “Parameterization of Affect-Encoded Voices in Taiwan’s Dubbing Performance”
Chia-Ling Lee (National Chengchi University): “The Relationship Between Bodies and Images in Social Media: From Merleau-Ponty’s Perspective”
Shunsuke Nozawa (Hokkaido University): Discussant
Location: Tampa Convention Center, 116
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. • Race, Indigeneity, Caste, and Health Futures in the Global South I: Knowledge, Power, State
Sanghamitra Das: “‘We must make Bharat Sickle Cell Free!’: Tribal Sickle Cell Screening in India and the Rise of Asia’s Bio-Surveillance States”
Location: Tampa Convention Center, 112
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. • The productivity of laments: Professional rhetoric, status talk, and industrial identity
Emily Kuret: “Levels of Media: (Inter)scaling Globalization and Community on the Margins of International Industry”
Kenzell Huggins: “Who Can Make Good Media?: Negotiating Narratives of Singapore’s Failures of Media Industrial Development”
Jianghong An: “Comedy as a Matter of Urgency: Lamenting and Salvaging Chinese Popular Laughter”
Eléonore Rimbault: “The vulgarity of virtuosic acts: laments and techniques of the body in the Indian circus arts”
Shubham Shivang: “Visionaries, cranks, and menials – Or, how to be a Bhojpuri media professional”
Location: Marriott Water Street, Room 1
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. • Suggestibility in Theory and Praxis
Nida Paracha: “Suggestibility as Energy Praxis”
Location: Marriott Water Street, Room 6
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. • (Dis)empowerment and (De)politicization, Feminism vs Consumerism: Behind the Surge of China’s Sheconomy
Hanqi Yang: “Labor, Desire, and Consumption through the Screen: Chinese Fan Culture on Digital Platforms”
Location: Tampa Convention Center, 107-108
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. • The Metaphysics of Presence and the Event of Semiosis
Constantine Nakassis: Roundtable participant
Location: Marriott Water Street, Grand Salon A-B
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. • Roy A. Rappaport Student Prize Competition Panel
Emma Pask: “A Million Bats and Not-So Public Health at a Texas Prison”
Location: Tampa Convention Center, 112
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. • Flash presentations
Daniel Qicheng Yao: “From collecting to playing: The gallery and casino chronotope in the Chinese NFT market, 2022-2023”
Location: Tampa Convention Center, 107-108
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. • Aspiring Alterities: Practices and Politics of Alternative Lives in Contemporary China
Jiyea Hong: “Aspiring Subjectivity in Ethnic China: Teaching Filmmaking as ‘Non-Chinese Auto-Historiography’”
Yukun Zeng (University of Michigan): “The Economy of Alterity: Alternative Education and the Investment of Life in Contemporary China”
Hanna Pickwell: “Picking up junk and swapping ‘idle’ things: Positing alternative values in Covid-era Beijing”
Min Lee (University of California, Berkeley): “Alternative Life in a Village under Zero-COVID Governance: The Case of Urban-to-rural Migrants in Southwest China”
Yuting Yin (University of California, Davis): “Curating Ecological Skills: Attempts for Sustainable Life in Rural Villages near Hangzhou, China”
Mayfair Yang (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Are Daoist Teachings Borne out in Practice? A Theoretical Exploration of Alterities in Discursive Imaginaries vs. Social Practices”
Location: Tampa Convention Center, 112
8:00 p.m. - midnight • Books, food, drink, music, vibes
Ryan Cecil Jobson: The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
Chloe Ahmann (Cornell University): Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore
Christien Philmarc Tompkins (Rutgers University, New Brunswick): A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús (Princeton University): Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence and the Invention of a Disease
Karl Swinehart (University of Louisville): Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia: Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti
Location: earth & bone studio, 108 N. 11th Street