27th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum - "Insurgent Research: Practice and Theory"

Event Date: 
March 11, 2023
Event Time: 
9:30am
Location: 
Rackham
Event Tags: 
cosponsored event

Mark your calendars for the 27th Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) conference. The conference will take place in person on campus, on Friday and Saturday, March 10-11th.

There will be speakers from across the U.S., including graduate students, recent grads, undergraduate students, faculty, as well as activists and independent researchers.

We’re excited to host 6 panels on “Insurgent Research: Practice and Theory.” Join us to learn about scholarship that takes the leap from theory to practice, from discourse to action, from critique to insurgency. 

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Joy James, scholar, author and activist, and the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Their work addresses police and prison abolitionism, political imprisonment, radical feminism, and diasporic anti-Black racism. Saturday, March 11th at Rackham Graduate School.

The event is open to the public and no registration is required. You can add it to your calendar through the Michigan Happenings page, where you will also find updates and a link to our full program.

See the Saturday schedule below:

Saturday, March 11th
Location: Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor
9:30 - 10 am Breakfast
10 am - 11:15 am Keynote address by Joy James.
11:15 am - 11:25 am Coffee Break
11:25 am - 12:45 pm Panel 4: Writing the revolution: theses and rhymes
Respondent: Amitai Ben-Abba
Presenters:

  • Tom Nomad (Researcher, Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare)
  • Cheryl Emerson (SUNY at Buffalo)

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm Panel 5: Part I Fugitive pedagogies: human and nonhuman bodies
Presenters:

  • Raechel Ann Jolli (Researcher, Cleveland Sex Workers Alliance)
  • Sue McRae (Grad student, University of North Texas)

2:45 pm - 2:55 pm Coffee Break
2:55 pm - 4 pm Panel 5: Part II Fugitive pedagogies: practices from the Undercommons
Presenters:

  • Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos (Alumn, University of Michigan)
  • Parker Miles (Grad student, University of Michigan)

4 pm - 5 pm Closing remarks and reception