Conference Schedule
May 13th
- 8:30-8:45 -
Welcome and Land Acknowledgment by Conference Organizers
Professors James McMaster, LiLi Johnson, Annie Menzel, Michael Peterson and Christine Garlough, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 8:45-9:00 -
Remarks by Dean Eric Wilcots, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 9:00-10:15 -
Aspen Meeting Room - (Re)Constructing Communities and Identities Through Care
“Creating the Crossroads of the World: African American Women and Social Networks, 1918-1930”
Assistant Professor Jessica Klanderud, African and African American Studies, Berea College.
“Radical Hospitality and Queer Utopian Potential: A Critical Examination of Toni Morrison’s Paradise”
Emerald Rutledge, Ph.D. Student, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Black Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Colonial Relations of Care”
Jalessa Bryant, Ph.D. Student, Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Creating, Re-creating, Negotiating and Displaying Åland Identity with Care”
Dr. Scott Mellor, Department of German, Nordic and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“How Journalists Might Care: Identity Work in Engagement Practices for a Failing Industry”
Professor Sue Robinson, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Orion Risk, MA Student, Interdisciplinary Theater Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Birch Meeting Room - Artistic Approaches to the Question of Care
“Violence and Art Auctions”
Jennifer Bastian, MAS/MFA University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Director and Arts Manager of Communication Madison.
Kayla Kuo, MA in Urban Studies and Women's & Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Black & Pink-Milwaukee.
LaNia Sproles, BFA, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Artist in Residence Lynden Sculpture Gardens.
“Gilding Care: Anticipatory Grief in Family Caregiving”
Assistant Professor LiLi Johnson, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brianna L. Hernández Baurichter, Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator and Educator.
“‘Come to the Table’: Spatula&Barcode Taking Care of Participants”
Professor Laurie Beth Clark and Professor Michael Peterson, Art Department and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The Ghetto as Protection from Jews: Poetry from ‘Notices from Parnasses’”
Briana Bacon Gotham, Doctoral Candidate, Fellow in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas, Dallas.
“Care and Endurance Performances”
Praveen Maripelly, MA Student, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderators: Cyra Polizzi, M.A Candidate Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Fatima Esengeldievna Sartbay, Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Maple Meeting Room - Global Caring Activisms
“Queer futurities of care: following the temporal lines of care in activist practice”
Amy Clark, Ph.D. Student, School of European Cultures and Languages, University of Kent.
“Confronting the ‘Care-less’: Speaking of IMELDA and the campaign for women’s reproductive rights in Ireland”
Dr. Ayeshah Emon, Dr. Lynne McCarthy and Marian Larragy, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Ireland.
“Rhetorical Analysis of Uganda’s Feminist Organizations’ Caring Practices: The Case of Akina Mama wa Afrika, Freedom and Roam Uganda & Femme Forte”
Agnes Phoebe Muyanga, Ph.D. Student, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kansas.
“Activism on a Pie Plate: Cultivating Care in Sweet Potato Comfort Pie”
Chrissy Widmayer, Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Visual Politics and Feminist Ethics of Care: Examining Rhetoric in Abortion Memes on Twitter”
Shreenita Ghosh Ph.D. Candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kruthika Kamath, Ph.D. Student, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Erica Dick, Undergraduate Major, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Isabel Garlough-Shah, Undergraduate Major, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Elaine Brittany Simoes Almeida, Ph.D. Student, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin Madison.
- 10:45 -
Keynote Dialogue, “Care for Death”
Professor Stuart Murray, Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric & Ethics in the Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University.
Professor Jill Casid, Professor of Visual Studies and Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Jalessa Bryant, Ph.D. Student, Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 12:15 -
Aspen Meeting Room - Carework, Institutions, and UW System
“Caregiving and COVID-19: The Complexity of Care Work and Institutional Support Across the UW System”
Dr. Stephanie Rytilahti, Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Associate Professor Dong Isbister, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Dr. Vaishali Bakshi, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Jennifer Schuttlefield Christus, UW System Women and Science Program and University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Dr. Jillian Jacklin, Visiting Lecturer in Democracy and Justice Studies, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Moderator: Dan Van Note, M.A. Student, Interdisciplinary Theater Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Birch Meeting Room - Rewriting the Self of Self-Care
“Care of the Self’ and Ethico-Political Horizons for the Pluriverse: Considerations for Diffractive and Divergent Multiplicities”
Assistant Professor Maggie Fitzgerald, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.
“The Fun Starts Now”
Associate Professor La Marr Bruce, American Studies, University of Maryland.
“Unsettling Care: An Autoethnographic Exploration of White Feminine Caring”
Katherine Lamb, MAATC Candidate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Masters in Art Therapy and Counseling Program.
“The Home, the Field and the Researcher: The Many Registers of Care”
Sayan Bhattacharya, Ph.D. Candidate, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota.
“Bull Snakes and Scary Night Creatures: Breaking Through Barriers to Healing, Mindfulness and Self-Care”
Associate Professor Peggy Choy, Department of Dance and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Elinor Hayden, Ph.D. Student, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Maple Meeting Room - Revisiting Gender’s Place in Care Theory
“Care and Relation: Disentangling Two Feminist Frameworks”
Elizabeth Mercer Gary, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University.
“Caring to Know/Knowing to Care? Embodied Epistemologies of Caring Men at the “Center”
Riika Prattes, Postdoctoral Associate, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University.
“Caring for Freedom: Negative Liberty and Gender-based Violence”
Professor Daniel Engster, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston.
“The Radical Power of Care”
Associate Professor Sarah Clark Miller, Department of Philosophy, Penn State University.
“This is a Work for the Mothers: Motherhood in the political thought of Victoria Woodhull”
Assistant Professor Lorna Bracewell, Political Science Department, Flagler College.
Moderator: Agnes Phoebe Muyanga, Ph.D. Student, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kansas.
- 1:45 -
Keynote Dialogue: Poetry, Care, and Disability Justice
Kay Ulanday Barrett, internationally acclaimed poet, performer, educator, food blogger, cultural worker, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and disability advocate based in New York and New Jersey.
Ti Banks, Madison-based poet and activist, author of Call Me III and creator of the art collective Loud 'N Unchained Theater Co.
Ellen Samuels, Poet and Professor, Poet and faculty in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Esaí Ortiz-Rivera, MA Candidate, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 3:45 -
Aspen Meeting Room - Public Policy and Caring Publics
“ The Challenge and Politics of Care: A Role-Playing Game on Informal Caregiving for Undergraduate Classrooms"
Associate Professor Traci Levy, Department of Political Science, Gender Studies Program Director, Adelphi University.
“Effects of Population Aging on Care Systems of Selected OECD Countries”
Emine Ayhan, Ph.D. Candidate Social Policy, Kocaeli University, Turkey.
“An inquiry into ‘complete care’: A regulative ideal for the care work by and for U.S. public school teachers”
Yibing Quek, Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy and Education Teachers College, Columbia University.
“Addressing Women through Childcare: A Study on Integrated Child Development Services in India,”
Aysel Öztürk, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Koç University, Turkey.
“Not Hidden: Instagram as a Site of Digital Care for Asian American Male Survivors of Interpersonal Violence”
Elaine Brittany Sinoes Almeida, Ph.D. Student, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin Madison.
“Family Caregiving in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Professor Emerita Emily Abel, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA.
Moderator: Kathleen Cawley, Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Birch Meeting Room - Crip Approaches to Care Studies
“Caring for Identity: Disability and Representation”
T.J. Buttgereit, Ph.D. Student, Philosophy, Binghamton University.
“Nourishing Theatre”
Cyra Polizzi, MA Candidate, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The Body’s Alternative Schemas and the Art of Illness”
Vabianna Santos, Ph.D. Student, Department of Performance Studies, UCLA.
“Crip Reimaginings of care, crisis, coalition through HIV hospice care”
Associate Professor Ally Day, Disability Studies Program, University of Toledo.
Moderator: Katka Showers-Curtis, MA Candidate, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Ph.D. Student in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Maple Meeting Room - How to Study Care: New Directions
“An Ethos of Care”
Professor Maurice Hamington, Department of Philosophy, Portland State University.
“The Inability to Talk About Care: Normativity Infractions and Worldmaking”
Alan Lynn, Ph.D. Researcher, Faculty of Arts, Design & Social Sciences Northumbria University/Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
Elle Docx, PhD Researcher , Faculty of Arts, Design & Social Sciences, Northumbria University/Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
“After-care, for language?”
Professor Erik Doxtader, Professor of Rhetoric at University of South Carolina and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town.
“Rhetorics of Care and Associative Acknowledgment: Ways of Wondering in Political Conversation”
Professor Christine Garlough, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Forms of Care: Toward a Minoritarian Care Theory”
Assistant Professor James McMaster, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Taylore Woodhouse, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 6:00 -
Keynote Dialogue: Ethics, Politics, and the Work of Care
Associate Professor Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Sociology Department, San Francisco State University.
Professor Joan Tronto, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota.
Professor Nancy Fraser, the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research.
Moderator: Shreenita Ghosh, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 7:00 -
Virtual Reception
May 14
- 10:45 -
Aspen Meeting Room – Healthcare Ethics Under Colonization and Capitalism
“Bringing Empathy at the Core of Technology and Data Centered Health Communication: Re-Centering Ethics of Care in Social and Behavioral Change Communication (SBCC)”
Professor Manisha Shelat, Communications Studies, MICA, Ahmedabad, India.
“Indigenous Health Care Provision in Canada”
Assistant Professor Eva Boodman, Philosophy Department, Rowan University.
“NIH, Biocapitalism and Care”
Rachel Bailey, Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication Studies, University of Georgia.
“Ethical considerations for message design in recruitment in clinical trials”
Assistant Professor Soroya Julian McFarlane, Department of Communication Studies, University of Georgia.
“Listening to the Voices of Those Who Have Overdosed: The Epistemic Authority of Addicts”
Professor Peg O’Connor, Philosophy Department, Gustavus Adolphus College.
Moderator: Hanna Barton, Ph.D. Student, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Birch Meeting Room - Cultural Work as Care Work
“Making Music with Young Refugees: Fostering Cultures of Care at the Simrishamn Kulturskola in Sweden”
Carrie Danielson, Ph.D. Candidate, Musicology (Ethnomusicology), College of Music, Florida State University.
“Care and Memory in Colombia”
Professor Beatriz Botero, Integrated Liberal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Cultural Revivalism and Collaboration in Times of Pandemic Amongst Indigenous Peoples of Russia and Central Asia”
Fatima Sartbay, Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Ethics and Politics of Care After the Empire: Militaristic Paternalism and the Performances of Turkey’s Army of Robust Children”
Dr. Rustem Ertug Altnay, Visual Communication Design Department, Kadir Has University.
“Affect Abroad: The New York Reception of 'James X' and a Dramaturgy of Audience Complicity”
Kathleen Cawley, Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Theater Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Rae Moors, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication and Media, University of Michigan.
Maple Meeting Room - Ecologies of More Than Human Care
“EarthCare: Gendered Exposure and An Ecology of Avowal”
Assistant Professor Ruth Goldstein, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Making Stories, Weaving Histories, Mending Local Ecosystems”
Dr. Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Ph.D. Researcher, Transition Design, Carnegie Mellon University.
“Filmic encounters: Multispecies Care and Sacrifice on Island Timor”
Associate Professor Lisa Palmer, School of Geography, University of Melbourne.
“The Caring Tree”
Assistant Professor Joshua Barrnett, Communication Arts & Sciences, Penn State University.
“The Ripple Effect of Fieldwork: How Teaching Ethnographic Skills Strengthens Attention and Community”
Dr. Anna Rue, Department of German, Nordic and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Brianna Meyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 12:15 -
Keynote Dialogue: Multispecies Kinship and Care
Professor Kim TallBear, (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Dakota) Professor at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Native Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment.
Assistant Professor JT Roane, Africana Studies in the School for Social Transformation at Arizona State University.
Professor Melissa K Nelson, (Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian,Turtle Mountain Chippewa) Professor of Indigenous Sustainability, Arizona State University.
Assistant Professor Elspeth Iralu, (Angami Naga), Indigenous planning concentration of the School of Architecture at the University of New Mexico.
Moderator: Jimmy Camacho, (Chamoru) Ph.D. Candidate, Land Policy and Indigenous Methodologies, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 1:45 -
Aspen Meeting Room - Toward a More Caring Educational System
“Caring in the Context of School Discipline Reform: A Critical Feminist Framework for Researchers and Policymakers”
Abby Beneke, Ph.D. Candidate Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Ethics of Care as a Framework for Free Expression on Campuses”
Professor Katy Culver, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Staying with the Trouble of Collegiality, Professionalism and Care”
Emily Kaufman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.
“Care and Exploitation in Precarious Academic Employment”
Professor Christine Wieseler, Department of Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
“Traveling with Care: Ethics of Care, Study Abroad, and Higher Education”
Professor Kate Parsons, Department of Philosophy, Webster University.
Professor Danielle MacCartney, Behavioral and Social Sciences Department, Webster University.
Moderator: Kathleen Cawley, Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Birch Meeting Room - Digital Sites, Slow Scholarship, and Archival Innovations as a Means of Care
“Not Hidden: Instagram as a Site of Digital Care for Asian American Male Survivors of Interpersonal Violence”
Elaine Brittany Simoes Almeida, Ph.D. Student, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The Industrialization of Care (and its Consequences) in the Platform era”
Rae Moors, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication and Media, University of Michigan.
“Dear feminist collective: How does one take up slow scholarship (in the midst of crises)?”
Associate Professor Jenna M. Loyd, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stepha Velednitsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ileana I. Diaz, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Sameera Ibrahim, MS Student, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Carla Giddings, OT Reg. (Ont.), Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Kela Caldwell, MS Student, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Associate Professor Anne Bonds, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Associate Professor Roberta Hawkins, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Professor Alison Mountz, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canad
“Sweet/Sick: Yami-Kawaii and Asian Feminine Injury”
Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, Ph.D. Candidate, English Literary Studies in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Caring For Collections: Representation and Collaboration within the General Library System's Special Collections Division”
Dr. Nate Gibson, Audio-Visual Preservation Archivist, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moderator: Kruthika Kamath, Ph.D. Student, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Maple Meeting Room - Mutual Aid and Radical Care
“Against paradise: rejecting the spectacular vision of care in crisis”
Simi Kang, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara.
“Tactics for the Unthinkable: Shipwreck ethics of radical care at the crossroads of the “European “migration “crisis”
Melora Koepke, Doctoral Candidate, Geography. Simon Fraser University.
“Who Cares? (Whores Care) Sex Workers & Models of Mutual Aid”
Molly Simmons, Independent Writer and Activist, Founding member of SWOP Brooklyn.
“The Radical Potential of Care in the Classroom: Unpacking Pedagogy as an Approach to Community and Solidarity”
c nelson, Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Carescapes: Notes and Queries”
Dr. Jason Alley, University of Washington Press, Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow.
Moderator: Chrissy Widmayer, Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 3:45 -
Aspen Meeting Room - Care in the Time of COVID
“Unsettled Care: From Inter-Continental Collectivity to Institutional Governance, or How might we suffer well?"
Dr. Malin Palani, Interdependent Artist and Scholar
Professor Sozita Goudouna, CUNY John Jay College.
Adham Hafez, Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies Department, New York University.
Assistant Professor Eero Laine, Department of Theater and Dance, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Dr. Sarah Lucie, Baruch College, Theater and Speech Departments at CUNY and Drew University.
Professor Juliana Moraes, Dance Department, Campinas State University, São Paulo State.
Rumen Rachev, Ph.D. Candidate, Auckland University of Technology.
Dr. Leah Sidi, University, Health Humanities, College London.
Shawn Chua, MA in Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and Researcher at The Necessary Stage.
"Notes to a Past Self: Exploration of Time, Care, and Organizational Communication"
Nicole Rudisill, Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota.
“Kinship and Care in a Pandemic: Home and Staying in Place for Displaced People”
Associate Professor Mary Lenzi, Philosophy, Humanities Department, University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
“By the Pain We See in Others: Migrant Images of COVID-19 in India”
Assistant Professor Darshana Mini, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Assistant Professor Anirban Baishya, Department of Communications and Media Studies, Fordham University.
“Reclaiming Death Care”
Cynthia O’Neill, Ph.D. Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Dallas.
Moderator: Stepha Velednitsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Birch Meeting Room - Trans Care
“Transing Care in Denmark”
Molly Occhino, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social Science, Roskilde University, Demark.
“GenderTalks: Performing and Documenting Care on Zoom”
Orion Risk, MA Candidate, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“From Surviving to Thriving: Recognizing Radical Empathy Among and Calling for Affective Solidarity with Trans Youth in Wisconsin and Beyond"
Katka Showers-Curtis, MA Candidate, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Ph.D. Student in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Paradoxes of Care: Abandonment, Patient Activism, and Regimes of HIV Care in Turkey”
Tnkut Atuk, Ph.D. Student, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Minnesota.
“The Special Collection”
Assistant Professor Joy Brooks Fairfield, Performance Practice and Gender/Sexuality Studies, Rhodes College.
Leigh Hendrix, Theatre Maker and founding member of The Syndicate.
Moderator: Emma Joy Jampole, Ph.D. Candidate, Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Maple Meeting Room - Paradoxes of Care: Coloniality/Carcerality/White Supremacy
“Wages for Housework = Defund the Police: Revisiting the Radical Feminism of Wilmette Brown”
Assistant Professor Emily Callaci, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
““[The Future] is composed of Nows”
Assistant Professor Natali Valdez, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College.
“Race, Class and the Caring Capacities of Kin in Sentencing Hearings”
Associate Professor Sameena A. Mulla, Department of Anthropology, Marquette University.
“Structural Racism” Goes Mainstream: The New Racial Health Disparities Discourse in the Afterlife of Mastery
Assistant Professor Annie Menzel, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The Reciprocal Politics of Bed Space Activism: From Confinement to Radical Care”
Associate Professor Ronak K. Kapadia, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Assistant Professor Akemi Nishida, Disability & Human Development and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Associate Professor Patrisia Macías-Rojas, Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Moderator: Emerald Rutledge, Ph.D. Student, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 6:00 -
Keynote Dialogue: Abolition and Care
Assistant Professor Jasmine Syedullah, Africana Studies, Vassar College.
M Adams, Community Organizer and Co-Executive Director of Freedom Inc. in Madison, WI.
Mia Mingus, Disability Justice activist, writer, public speaker, and political organizer who focuses on disability justice and transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse.
Moderator: Ceci Moffett, Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 7:30 -
Closing Remarks by Conference Organizers
Professors James McMaster, LiLi Johnson, Annie Menzel, Michael Peterson and Christine Garlough, University of Wisconsin-Madison.