THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 8AM-5PM in HG 1010
8AM – 8:45AM—REGISTRATION & LIGHT BREAKFAST
8:45AM – 9AM—WELCOME & OPENING ADDRESS (ZINA GIANNOPOULOU, UC IRVINE)
9AM-10AM—JESSICA ZIEGENFUSS (TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY)
“BODIES IN EXPANDED FIELDS: DISABILITY AESTHETICS IN THE ART OF SALLY BOOTH, PARK MCARTHUR, AND MARI KATAYAMA”
RESPONDENT: JAMIE NISBET (UC IRVINE)
10AM-11AM—AMANDA KUBIC (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM/UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN)
“STAGING THE EURIPIDEAN CHORUS THROUGH A D/dEAF AND DISABILITY ARTS PERSPECTIVE IN KAITE O’REIILLY’S peeling”
RESPONDENT: RIA SINGH THAKUR (UC IRVINE)
11AM-12PM—MARIO TELÒ (UC BERKELEY)
“AWKWARD LAUGH: COMEDY AS NEURODIVERSITY IN PLAUTUS AND WES ANDERSON”
RESPONDENT: MARTIN HARRIES (UC IRVINE)
12PM-12:30PM—LUNCH (OPEN TO PANELISTS)
12:30PM-1:30PM—ZINA GIANNOPOULOU (UC IRVINE)
“SONIC HORROR AND D/dEAF POETICS IN JOHN KRASINSKI’S A QUIET PLACE (2018)”
RESPONDENT: MAXIME BEY-ROZET (UC IRVINE)
1:30PM-2:30PM—EDUARDO LEDESMA (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)
“THE EMBODIED CINEMA: TRANSLATING BLIND SUBJECTIVITY WITH AI-GENERATED VIDEO IN THE BLIND CANVAS PROJECT (2023)”
RESPONDENT: EYAL AMIRAN (UC IRVINE)
2:30PM-3PM—BREAK
3PM-4PM—RICKY D’ANDREA CRANO (UC IRVINE)
“THE NORMATE MACHINE: FACIAL RECOGNITION, PROSOPAGNOSIA, AND THE POLITICS OF MISRECOGNITION”
RESPONDENT: MERYEM KAMIL (UC IRVINE)
4PM-5PM—JUNTING HUANG (BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY)
“STABLE MODELS, UNSTABLE BODIES: A DISABILITY CRITIQUE OF AI-GENERATED MOVEMENT"
RESPONDENT: RICKY D'ANDREA CRANO (UC IRVINE)
6:30PM—DINNER (OPEN TO PANELISTS)
OCEAN 48 (THE OCEAN ROOM), 151 NEWPORT CENTER DR., NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660