Conference Program

Time (MST) Presenter Affiliation Topic
9:30am - 11:00am Francesca Sobande Cardiff University Racial Capitalism, Digital Culture, and Marketing Social Justice
Roopika Risam Dartmouth College Data Empire: Excavating Colonial Data Cultures
Diana Flores Ruíz University of Washington, Seattle “Held in memory”: ICE Surveillance Video and the Strategic Violence of Digital Retention Practices
11:15am - 12:45pm Kareem Estefan University of Cambridge Palestinian World-Making After the End of Countless Worlds
Viviane Saglier University of St. Andrews Palestine, Dignity, and Film Infrastructures under Racial Capitalism
Morgan Adamson Macalester College Real Estate Media and the Spectacle of Dispossession
3pm - 4:30pm Andrew Brooks University of New South Wales Mediating Refusal: The Noise of the Long Crisis
Isaac Rivera University of Colorado Boulder Insurgent Spatial Medias
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social Studio Portraiture and Racial Montage in Indigenous Michoacán, Mexico
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9:30am - 11:00am Lyndsey Beutin McMaster University Racial Capitalism and Rhetoric: Campaigns to End ‘Modern-Day Slavery
Patrick Teed York University The Ruse of Love: Intimacy, Captivity, and Racial Slavery in Netflix’s Bridgerton
Patrick Nickleson University of Alberta Island Record and the Expropriation of Jamaican Music
11:15am - 12:45pm Christina Aushana University of California, Santa Barbara Affective Economies of Violent Improv: Scripting Anti-Black Visions on the Police Training Stage.
Roopali Mukherjee University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Labour of Seeing and Being Seen: What’s Racial Capitalism Got to do with it?
Christopher J. Lee University of California, Merced H-Mart Realism and Strip Mall Sentimentalism
3pm - 4:30pm Adrien Sebro University of Texas at Austin The Queen of Comedy: LaWanda Page
Tracy Zhang York University Gender, Race, and the Production of Occupational Space on Film Sets in Canada
Eva Hageman University of Maryland at College Park shiplap
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9:30am - 11:00am Richard Purcell University of Mississippi Cedric Robinson and the Political Economy of Racialized Mass Media
Anamik Saha University of Leeds Racial Capitalism and the Study of Media
Nataleah Hunter-Young Western University Mediating the Art(s) of Rebellion: Refusing the Brutal Aesthetics of Imperial Violence
11:15am - 12:45pm Rachel Kuo University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Technological Capture of Radical Politics
Ezekiel Roman-Dixon Columbia University Recursivity and the Haunting Forces of Racial Capitalism
Seb Franklin King’s College, London Mechanical Slavery
4:30pm - 6:00pm Dhanashree Thorat Mississippi State University Infra-colonialism and the Afterlives of Slavery in the Atlantic
J.D. Schnepf University of Groningen Staged Encounters with Stratospheric Infrastructure
Jonathan Beller Pratt Institute Economic Media and Post-Capitalist Grammars