[Crwt-undergrad-info] Fwd: Today! Grad HHDJ/English Conference: NEW WORK ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES

Allison Hedge Coke allisonh at ucr.edu
Fri May 30 09:19:44 PDT 2025


A bit of conference today celebrating student work in Medical Humanities
and Disability Justice, for anyone interested.


   - *Friday, May 30 (hybrid):  **One Day English and HHDJ
   interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference  For the full program,
   physical location, and ZOOM link, please click here.
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-qb4IBpfDMyRLeqiBmuQ2-tAze2QrqjeHOPHQ-V5J48/edit?usp=sharing>*


(HHDJ) present DIS/JUNCTIONS: New Work Across the Disciplines

Friday, May 30

Humanities and Social Sciences 1500 Conference Room

& Zoom: https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94754647361

Book of Abstracts:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H0YdqTBIs5trWUMO3Pbl4c-_BbYAvCw891oDLppL6jY/edit?tab=t.0

9:30AM - 9:45AM – Opening, coffee, and breakfast

9:45AM - 10:45AM – Fictionalizing Boundaries


   1.

   Palimpsests and Algorithms: Spanish Literature and Theoretical
   Computation in “The Turing Machines of Babel”
   Mia Clapp
   2.

   Performing Impropriety and Criminality in Hardcore Punk and Literary
   Asian Spaces
   Danny Bonitz
   3.

   Fugitivity in Percival Everett's James and Dawoud Bey's Night Coming
   Tenderly, Black
   Jaye Johnson


11AM - 12PM – Unruly Bodies


   1.

   Hybridity against Hindutva in Indra Das’ The Devourers
   Arjun Chopra
   2.

   Archaeology and Genealogy of Borderline Personality Disorder in Colombia

Ana Camargo

   3.

   Quantifying infant everyday unrestrained experience at home
   Hanzhi Wang


12PM - 12:45PM – Lunch break


12:45PM - 1:45PM – Deinstitutionalizing Disability



   1.

   Joseph Conrad’s “The Idiots”, Maternity, and the Intellectual Uncanny
   Joshua Prindle
   2.

   Troubling Images of the Medical Model of Disability in Hiromu Arakawa's
   Fullmetal Alchemist
   Arthur Maturo
   3.

   Screwballs in the Audience
   Amelia Cruz


2PM - 3PM - Knowing Bodies



   1.

   Do LLMs Understand?
   Ashley Ding
   2.

   Ethnographic research with a permanent disability: reflections on
   fieldwork, research and pain
   Fernando David Márquez Duarte
   3.

   Race and The Body: South Asian Opium Cultivation and the American
   Rhetoric of Abolition
   Adrita Mukherjee


3-15PM - 4:15PM - Narratives of Otherness



   1.

   The Unsung Subject: AAPI Gang Formations and the Refusal to Racialization
   Sung Kim
   2.

   Feral Affects That Build Intimate Sovereignty: Animacy, Legal Fictions,
   and Opening Up the Fences
   Sylvie Hansen
   3.

   Amordidas: Deported Recipes for Ontological Regeneration
   Jenni Martinez
   4.

   Performance art as a way to establish multidisciplinary dialogues: an
   experience.
   Rodrigo Arenas


Hope to see many of you here!

Carla Mazzio <https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/carlam>
Associate Professor, Department of English
Co-Director, Medical and Health Humanities Minor
<https://english.ucr.edu/mhhs>
Co-Director, Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Lab
<https://hhdj.ucr.edu/>
University of California, Riverside
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