APRIL 16, 2016
Stevenson Fireside Lounge, UCSC
9:00 AM Registration
9:25 AM Welcoming Remarks
Jon Nyquist on behalf of conference committee
9:30 AM Introductory Remarks
Megan Moodie, Anthropology, UCSC
9:45 AM Panel 1: COLORS
9:45-10:05 Drawing Lines in the Water: Borderwaters and Marine Routes in the Northern Dominican Republic. Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, UC Irvine
10:05-10:25 Unsettling Frequencies: Coloring Big Data in the Neoliberal Observatory. Christopher Santo Domingo Chan University of Washington
10:25- 10:45 Rust: Ferruginous Stories of Progress and Decay in Argentine Railway Landscapes. Stephanie McCallum, UC Santa Cruz
10:45- 11:00 Discussant Comments by Emily Cohen-Ibanez, UCSC Sociology
11:15- 11:30 Q&A
11:30 AM BREAK
11:45 AM Panel 2: CONTOURS
11:45- 12:05 Inventing Two-Dimensional Reality: The Archaeology of Angularity. Scott W. Schwartz, CUNY Graduate Center
12:05- 12:25 Traces of Modernity. Justin Skye Malachowski, University of California Davis
12:25- 12:45 Sacred Design: Islamic Ethics and Remaking Natural Spaces through Permaculture. Sarah Kelman, UC Santa Cruz
12:45- 1:00- Discussant Comments by Mayanthi Fernando, UCSC Anthropology
1:00- 1:15 Q&A
1:15 PM LUNCH
2:00 PM Panel 3 SHAPES
2:00- 2:20 Tegu Trouble: Corporate Landscape Ecology and the Unravelling of a Chelonian World. Zac Caple, UCSC Anthropology
2:20- 2:40 Connoisseur of Disorder: Reading Polysomnogram as Shapes in a Sleep Laboratory. David Tong. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2:40- 3:00 Vital Fruits: The Shape of Silviculture in Tajikistan. Igor Rubinov, Princeton University
3:00- 3:15 Discussant Comments by Jennifer Gonzalez, UCSC History of Visual Arts and Culture
3:15- 3:30 Q & A
3:30 BREAK
3:45-4:30 PM KEYNOTE: What is an Aesthetic Encounter? Laurie Palmer, Art Department UCSC
