Schedule
Friday, August 23
9:00 - 12:00 p.m. Welcome and registration. Coffee and light snacks provided. Library conference room.
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Studying, Understanding, and Researching the Radical Right
Devin Thomas O’Shea, journalist and historian. “Ku-Klux Culture”
Jess Maginity, University of Delaware. “Prophesy or Propaganda: Jean Raspail’s Long Shadow Over American Political Culture”
Noel Adams, Marquette University. “Abraham, Jonah, and … Jordan Peterson: Using Biblical Stories to Commend Political Stances”
Ryan Prewitt, Saint Louis University. “The NPC and Right-Wing Radicalization”
Moderated by Ryan Prewitt
1:45 - 3:00 p.m. Political Performance
Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University. “Dominating Domination: The Sysop as Political Allegory”
Ahlam Jaber, Saint Louis University. “Martyrdom, Antifascist Art, and the Aesthetics of Death Worlds”
Emily Kohring, Colin McLaughlin, and others, Bread and Roses Missouri. “The Workers Opera: Rehearsing the Revolution”
Moderated by Simone Sparks
3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Local and Regional Radicalisms
Meredith Kelling, Washington University in St. Louis. “Means of Reproduction: Tracing Meridel Le Sueur’s Literary-Activist Praxis, in Writing and on Tape”
Jeremy Al-Haj, Missouri Workers Center. “Surveillance and Amazon Labor Organizing”
Marc Blanc, Washington University in St. Louis. “Revolt in the Village: St. Louis’ Anvil Magazine and Radical Regionalism in the 1930s”
Moderated by Marc Blanc
4:45 - 6 p.m. Break
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Opening keynote, Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid Ave.)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Poetry and complimentary beverages (Doors at 6, Poetry at 6:30)
With readings from
Jacqui Germain
Kyle Brandt-Lubart
Simone Sparks
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Opening keynote: Maxi Glamour, St. Louis multidisciplinary artist and activist. “Sociolinguistic Phenomenology and Justice: Exploring Temporal Progress and Power Dynamics in Advocacy Discourse.”
Saturday, August 24
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. Welcome - Coffee and light breakfast provided. Library conference room.
9:45 - 11:15 a.m. Strategies of Protest, Past and Present
Kyria Brown, Washington University in St. Louis. “Birth Stories as Abolitionist Methods and Dreams”
Michael Henderson, Washington University in St. Louis. “The Affirmative Practice of Resistance: Resistance as the Space for Ethics in Arendt, Honneth, and Camus”
Kyle Proehl, Washington University in St. Louis. “Crisis and Graffiti”
Moderated by Marc Blanc
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Musical Radicalisms
G’Ra Asim, Washington University in St. Louis. On Afropunk
Varun Chandrasekhar, Washington University in St Louis. “The Angry Man of Jazz: Jazz, Coolness, and the Cultural Politics of Emotion”
Bret Schneider, composer, poet, and essayist. “Politicizing Aesthetics”
Moderated by Simone Sparks
12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch break
1:45 - 3:00p.m. Radicalism in Visual Arts Production
Maxwell Dunbar, Washington University in St. Louis. “Philip Guston, Artistic Labor, and Contradictions in the New Deal Art Projects”
Nathaniel Rivers, Saint Louis University. “The Space in Which We Scream”
Noah Jodice, Civic illustrator. “The Vector, the Hand in the Machine”
Troy Sherman, Editor in Chief of Midwest Arts Quarterly and Curator at University Galleries of Illinois State University, “Great Planes: On Surface, Historicity, and the Relative Value of Two Recent St. Louis Artworks”
Moderated by Ryan Prewitt
3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Gallery talk with Artists
Featuring
Samuel Horgan
Chicago Puppet Theatre Collective
E. Elhoffer
Moderated by Ousmane Gaye
4:45 - 6:00 p.m. Break
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Closing keynote, Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid Ave.)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Changeling: A Queer Reading Series (Doors at 6, Poetry at 6:30)
Featured writer: Mona Kareem
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Closing keynote: Prince Shakur, author and activist. “How Radicalism and Writing Can Save Us: Meditations on Resistance”