UC IRVINE
UNDERGRADUATE CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE
MAY 23, 2019 I HG 1010
Sponsored by Critical Theory
The Undergraduate Critical Theory Conference reflects work that tends to traditions of thinking with rigor and irreverence.
SCHEDULE
Coffee I 9-9:30
Salvage I 9:30-11
“A Discussion on the Role of Fiction in the Dissemination of Information Concerning Climate Change” I Emily Romero
“Recurrence of Neorealism in Different Landscapes” I Yanit Mehta
“A Subsistence View on Waste” I Akif Ullah Khan
“The Un-Anthropocentric Approach to Gleaning in Agnes Varda’s The Gleaners and I” I Lesly Vallejo L.
Respondent: R. Radhakrishnan
Envelop I 11:15-12:45
“Develop the Wall: How Developers are Pushing Blacks and Latinos out of Their Homes” I Daniela Velazco
“The Potential of Community Archives as a Liberatory Tool for Prison Abolitionists” I Rayne Pothong
“The Courage to Leap: Fatima Meer’s Community of Activism” I Kyrra Thiel
“Code Switch: Analyzing the Peculiar Life of the Colonized Intellectual and the Necessity of Domestic Communication” I Kamerahn Shaun Francisco-Laititi
“Finding Home: The Liberatory Power of Black Resilience, Vulnerability, and Imagination” I Taariq Elmahadi
Respondent: Frank B. Wilderson III
Lunch 1-1:45 I Humanities Commons
Split I 1:45-3:15
“Cultural Difference as a Site of Domination: Writing Against the ‘Clash of Cultures’ Trope” I K Persinger
“The Road to Mecca and Athol Fugard’s Construction of Race, Gender, and Disability” I Gordon Wong
“Helon Habila’s Holy Water and Occult Oil: Religious Violence in the Literary Environment” I Oliver Patterson
Respondent: Eyal Amiran
Condition I 3:30-5
“(STEM)ming on What Children Need to Learn from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to Cyberchase” I Yvette Corina Vargas
“Imbedded Ideology: Reproducing and Challenging Its Curricular Manifestations” I Nicole McCarthy
“Poetry as a Bridge to Understanding” I Jacob Alarcon
“Conatus and Phronesis: How to be Moved” I Arthur Gabriel Tapia
“How the Speech of Madness Transgresses Existing Boundaries and Enables a Thinking Beyond” I Lea Hedeskov
Respondent: Rei Terada
Reception 5-7 I Humanities Commons
INFO
Humanities Gateway, 4100
Irvine, CA 92697
