Keynote Speakers

Rich Blint (The New School), "The Fiction(s) of Whiteness"
Alexandra Ganser (University of Vienna, Austria), “Sentimental Journeys: Female Astronauts on the Final Frontier”
DaMaris Hill (University of Kentucky), “A Blood Bible Tells It Like It Is”
Carol Mason (University of Kentucky), “Opposing Abortion to Protect Men”
Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky), "Revenge as a Faith-Based Initiative, or What That Snake Is Doing in Mel Gibson's Kilt?"
Diane Negra (UC Dublin), "Affect, Authority, Antagonism: The New Cultures of Customer Service"
Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), “A Colony, Lost and Found: American Beginnings Revisited”
Donald Pease (Dartmouth), “Critical Fabulations and Other Ways of Re-telling the Cultural Narrative of the State”
Judith Roof (Rice University, retired), "The Perpetuated Lore of Cultural Inheritance"
Katja Sarkowsky (Augsburg University), “Tragic Narratives of the State? Modern Antigones and Contemporary Democratic Critique”
Martha Schoolman (Florida International University), “What’s So Abolitionist About Sitting in the Woods?”
Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University, Emerita), “Mothers and Sons: Surviving Police Logic in the Contemporary U.S.”