Program

Friday, February 8th 

Whitney Humanities Center 208

1:00- 1:45pm Registration and Welcome

1:45-2pm Opening Remarks

2-3:00pm Panel I: Programmed Labor

  • Johan Fredrikzon (University of Stockholm), “Data Exhaust in 1970s Biopolitics”
  • Myrna Moretti (Northwestern), “What Cuts Across the Human and the Machine: Questions of Memory in Dollhouse and Westworld”

Respondent: John Durham Peters, Professor of English & Film and Media Studies, Yale University

3:00-4pm Break

4-5:30pm Keynote Address by Dr. Elena Gorfinkel, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College London: “Somnolent Spaces, Exhaustion Dreams”

Whitney Humanities Center 108

5:30pm Dinner Reception

Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium

7-9pm Conference Screening: On The Edge/ Sur La Planche (2011); dir. Leila Kilani (DCP, French with English Subtitles)

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Saturday, February 9th

Whitney Humanities Center 208

10:15am Breakfast

11:00 – 12:30pm Panel 2: Exhausted Bodies

  • Emma Ben Ayoun (USC), “The body ill at ease: autobiography, sickness, and exhaustion in Silverlake Life (1993) and Unrest (2017)”
  • RL Goldberg (Princeton), “‘I feel like a Child Who is Beginning to do Things, to Learn’: Feeling Trans, Feeling Exhausted”
  • Patricia Gomes (UC Berkeley), “and still I…” craft: poetic and fibrous interruptions of black feminist living

Respondent: Faye Wang, PhD candidate in American Studies, Yale University

12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch

1:30 – 3:00pm Panel 3: Corrosive Media

  • Ankita Deb (Stanford), “Exhausted Memories: Gupt Gyan and sensorial loss”
  • Tinghao Zhou (Columbia), “Washed-Out Images, Washed-Out Bodies: The Poetics and Politics of Light Pollution”
  • Pujan Karambeigi (Columbia), “Against all possible surprise attacks: Astrid Klein’s phantasmagoric care [1981-1984]”

Respondent: Hsin-Yuan Peng, PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies & Comparative Literature, Yale University

3:00 – 3:30pm Break

3:30 – 5 pm Panel 4: Alternative Sensorium

  • Kelly Coyne (Northwestern), “‘Every Day She Squanders Hours’: Discursive Exhaustion in “The Prairie Wife””
  • Hyemin Kim (Brooklyn College/CUNY), “Night, refuge of the derelict: Chantal Akerman’s J’ai faim, J’ai froid (1984) and Nuit et jour (1991)”
  • Alex Zhang (UChicago), “An Attempt at Exhausting a Railway in Norway: Slow Television and the Therapeutic Everyday”

Respondent: Oksana Chefranova, Associate Research Scholar in Film and Media Studies, Yale University

5:00 – 5:15pm Concluding Remarks

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