The 2025 Anthropology Graduate Student Conference at The New School for Social Research is centered on the theme "Flow/Rupture." It invites us to think of flow and rupture, two seemingly contrasting states, is to reimagine how we understand the world, and how we, along with other beings, inhabit it.
AGENDA
Welcome, registration, and coffee 9:30 - 10:00 am
Introduction 10:00 am - 10:15 am
Panel One: 10:15 a.m. - 11:15.am “Landscape, Symbols, and Spirituality”
Maria Klara Ventura Izidoro (NSSR) “Cultism in Drug Trafficking (TBC)”
Nguyễn Huy Hoàng (Fulbright University Vietnam) “‘Mơ mơ màng màng’ - An Encounter with Thought, Otherness and the Figure of Cá Ông in Quy Nhơn”
Carol Montealegre (Independent) “Deep Beyond the Visible”
Q&A
Interactive Lab 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Chimera Singer (NSSR) “Drawing Flesh as Queering Practice”
Coffee break 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel Two 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m “Resistance where Borders Bleed”
Stephanie Rodriguez Ugolotti (NSSR) “Perversion of Law and the Criminalization of Protest in Peru”
Irem Aydemir (UC Davis) “Rebellious Flows: The Orontes River and Material Memory in Antioch”
Suma Cheru (Columbia University) “Counterspaces of and with Acompañamiento for Unaccompanied Im/Migrant Youth: Countering Restriction Through Humanizing Pedagogies in Office of Refugee and Resettlement (ORR)”
Q&A (15 min)
Lunch break 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
David Hughes (Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University) “Ambush Oil! Direct Action, Climate Politics, and Hopeful Ethnography”
Coffee break 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Panel Three 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. “Between Bodies, Species, and Sensations”
Mike Marciano (NSSR) “Tripping with Companion Species; Cross-species Interdependence.”
Hunter Andrew Dodrill (NSSR) ““Is That an Intimate Technology or Are You Just Happy to See Me?”: Use of Sex Toys and Prosthetics by Transmasculine Individuals for Affirming Sexual Intimacy Experiences”
Trishita Shandilya (University of Virginia) “Reimagining “Invasive” Plants: Flow, Rupture and Multispecies Futures in Northeast India”
Q&A
Cocktail break 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Discussion Panel 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
“Laid back Writing”
Discussants: Minsu Yoo (NSSR), Dana Burton (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, NSSR), Columba González-Duarte (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, NSSR).
On Exhibition: Artwork from Bowen Li (NSSR), Lethe
Presented by the Department of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research.
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