Final Conference Program

Conference Schedule

Thursday, November 2nd

HG 1030

Breakfast

8:00am

Introduction

8:30am

Conditions of Professional Control

9:00am - 10:40am

Yao Pei (UC Irvine)

“Continuation of an Old Topic -- Autonomy or State Control?”

Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby (UMCE Chile)

“Universidad en la medida de lo posible”

Annie McClanahan (UC Irvine)

“Serious Crises: Rethinking the Neoliberal Subject”

Respondent: Ana Baginski

Violence | Misinterpretation

10:50am - 12:30pm

Rachel Corbman (Stonybrook)

“The Specter of San Diego Will Haunt Us All: West Coast Women’s Studies, Academic Feminism, and the Public University.”

Jacques Lezra (UC Riverside)

“Ultima Ratio”

Alicia Cox (UC Irvine)

“‘Twins Twisted into One’: Decolonizing Representations of Don C. Talayesva’s Self-Conception in Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian”

Respondent: Herschel Farbman

Lunch

12:40pm - 1:40pm

Presentations and Populisms

1:50pm - 3:30pm

John McCumber (UCLA)

“Even if it claims to be private”

David Pan (UC Irvine)

“Populist Politics and the Conservative University: Hitler and Trump against the State”

Erin Graff Zivin (USC)

“The Politics of Truth in the Age of Trump”

Respondent: Michael Berlin

Problematizing Racial Liberalism and Multiculturalism

3:40pm - 5:20pm

Sarah Fong (USC)

“‘The Head, the Hand, and the Heart’: Disciplining Black and Indigenous Subjects in Late-19th Century Industrial-Normal Schools”

Nic Ramos (Brown)

“Is Drew Medical School a ‘Black’ School?”: The Creation of Academic Medical Centers and the Rise of Multiculturalism in Medical Education

Respondent: Alicia Cox

Figuring the Administration of Power

5:30pm - 7:10pm

Willy Thayer (UMCE Chile)

“Universidad: escrituras de la violencia”

Erin Trapp (Minnesota)

“Limninalia: On Academic Work”

Dylan Rodriguez (UC Riverside)

“‘Mass Incarceration’ as Misnomer: Domestic Warfare and the Renovations of the Racist State”

Respondent: Willie Chase

Dinner

7:20pm - 9:00pm

HG 1010

Friday, November 3rd

HG 1030

Breakfast

8:30am

Introduction

9:00am

Ideology, Incorporation, Imperfection

9:30am - 11:10am

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (UC Irvine)

“From Robinson's Terms of Order to Carnegie's Poor Whites”

Jaime Rodriguez Matos (CSU Fresno)

“The Ideology of University Reason”

Chris Finley (USC)

“Building Maroon Intellectual Communities”

Respondent: Liron Mor

Genres of Administration

11:20am - 1:00pm

Joan Lubin (U Penn)

“The Oregon Experiment: Master Plan for Campus Security”

Chris Malcolm (UC Irvine)

“University Admissions”

Jennifer Doyle (UC Riverside)

“Anti-Harrassment Theory”

Respondent: Rei Terada

Lunch

1:10pm - 2:10 pm

Management and Movement

2:20pm - 4:00pm

Vineeta Singh (UC San Diego)

“‘A College for All the People’: The Urban Frontier and the Promise of the Community College”

Pankhuri Dasgupta (JNU New Delhi)

“University and Politics: Analyzing University Space through the Lens of Students Movements”

Nick Mitchell (UC Santa Cruz)

“Unwaged War: Black Studies, Women's Studies, and the Birth of the Adjunct”

Respondent: Adriana Johnson

Horizons of Higher Yield Education

4:10pm - 5:50pm

Curtis Marez (UC San Diego)

“Brown Universities: Tómas Rivera, The Chicanix Academy, and the Question of Administration."

Aaron Alfonso Guerrero (UC Irvine)

Respondent: Eyal Amiran

Closing Reception

6:00pm - 9:00pm

42 Frost, University Hills, Irvine