CSPT 2024 Conference Schedule and Registration

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All events will be held in-person. Registration is free and open to all, and is required to attend the conference and to obtain the papers. Registration links can be found below (TBA) and, once registered, you can access the papers here (TBA). Conference attendees are encouraged to become members of CSPT: please find membership details here.

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The conference will take place at the Riverside Church on Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue, between West 120th and 122nd Street in New York City. 

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Wednesday May 22, 2024

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Location: Riverside Church room TBA

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9:45 – 10:00         Welcome

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10:00 – 12:00         Constituting the People's Voice

 

Chair: Jason Frank (Cornell)

Kevin Duong (Virginia) – “The Revolution of the Poets”

Rohit De (Yale) and Ornit Shani (Haifa) – “The Archive of Constitutional Expectations: Assembling India’s Constitution (1946-1950)”

Discussants: Tejas Parasher (UCLA), Melissa Schwartzberg (NYU)

 

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

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1:00 – 3:00         Genres of Political Expression

 

Chair: Leila Ben Abdallah (Cornell)

Lawrie Balfour (Virginia) – “Love Songs as Archives as Reparations”

Isabelle A. Laurenzi (Yale) – “The Personal Essay as Political Phenomenology: Feminism in The Village Voice”

Discussants: Lori Marso (Union), Lisa Gilson (Bates)

 

3:00 – 3:30 Coffee

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3:30 – 5:30         Genre, Authorship, and the Archives of Anticolonialism

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Chair: Ayten Gündoğdu (Barnard)

Musab Younis (QMUL/Oxford) – “The Limitation of Genre: Political Writing and Colonial Administration”

Inder S. Marwah (McMaster) – “On Archives and the History of Political Thought”

Discussants:  Begüm Adalet (Cornell), Emma Hunter (Edinburgh)

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5.30 – 7.00 Reception

 

Thursday May 23, 2024

 

Location: Riverside Church room TBA

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10:00 – 12:00         Archives of Political Contestation

 

Chair: Murad Idris (Michigan)

Katrina Forrester (Harvard) – “In and Against the Local State”

Anurag Sinha (Minnesota) – “The Commodity Boycott as Political Protest: India, Britain, and the Lineages of a Global Practice”

Discussants: Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard), Camille Robcis (Columbia)

 

12:00 – 1.15 Lunch

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1:15 – 3:00         Plenary Session

 

Chair: Karuna Mantena (Columbia)

David Bromwich (Yale)

Discussants: Uday Singh Mehta (CUNY), Sophia Rosenfeld (UPenn)

 

3:00 – 3:30 Coffee

 

3:30 – 5:30         Oratory and Action

 

Chair: Shalini Satkunanandan (UC Davis)

Adom Getachew (Chicago) – “The Garveyite Arts of Eloquence”

Alexander Livingston (Cornell) – “Parables of Uncivil Obedience: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Critique of Idolatry”

Discussants: Jared Anthony Loggins (Amherst), Mie Inouye (Bard)