April 2-3, 2026 | HIB 135
Keynote: Samiha Khalil (UC Berkeley), Rizvana Bradley (UC Berkeley)
Schedule
Thursday 4/2
9:30 - 10:00: Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15: Opening Remarks
10:30 - 12:15: Panel 1–Waterways, moderated by Prof. Adriana Johnson
Irene Ross (UCB): “When is Home? Tracing the Anachronisms of Diasporic Place”
Rose Padilla (UT Austin): “Barangay Ethos: Archipelagic Kinship Formation and Homemaking in Precolonial Philippines”
Malenia Friday (UCI): “Swamp Sense-Ability”
12:15 - 1:30: Lunch
1:30 - 3:15: Panel 2–Poetics of Homemaking, moderated by Prof. David Colmenares:
Fer de la Cruz (UCI): “The Mayan House in Literature and Practice”
Angel Carrasco (USC): “Tío Yim: Reimagining Indigenous Representations in Documentary Film”
euridice morris (UCB) & Stephani Rodríguez Perez (UIowa): “TBA”
3:30 - 5:15: Panel 3–Astray and Estranged, moderated by Prof. Gabriele Schwab:
Borui Liu (UCD): “Unhoming the Family: From the Meiji Ie System to Postwar Domestic Space in Sōseki and Ozu”
Hardik Yadav (Fordham): “Lonely Hearts and the Work of Queer Home”
Himika Chakraborty (UCD): “‘A strange feeling’: Indian Street Dogs and the Negotiation of a Stray Sense of Home”
5:30 - 7:30: Reception Dinner
Friday 4/3
9:00 - 9:30: Breakfast
9:30 - 11:15: Panel 4–Envisioning Exile, moderated by Prof. Margaux Fitoussi
Uroosa Khan (USD): “Half the Word That Was My Village: Unhoming, Aftermath, and Lyric Survival in Agha Shahid Ali”
Nicole Prucha (UCLA): “Closer to Home: Safia Elhillo’s (Re)creation of a Lost Sudan”
Bilal Hisam (UCB): “Building Life after a Defeated Revolution: Istiqrar, Mobility, and Making of Home among Egyptian Exiles in Istanbul”
11:30 - 1:15: Panel 5–Objects of Memory, moderator TBA
Arón Montenegro (UCI): “Entre Flor y Fusil: Caribbean and Central American Cultural Memory amidst Perpetual States of War”
Jun Rendich (USC): “‘The Spirit in Things’: Fantasy, Analogy, and the Black Body as Object in Theaster Gates’ Afro Mingei (2024)”
Edil Hassan (UCB): “The Shed as Black Rehearsal”
Lunch: 1:15 - 2:00
2:00 - 3:20: Keynote by Prof. Samiha Khalil, with an introduction by Prof. Catherine Malabou
3:30 - 4:50: Keynote by Prof. Rizvana Bradley, with an introduction by Prof. Sandra Harvey
5:00 - 5:45: Co-Discussion
6:00: Closing Remarks
7:00: Dinner Social
