9:30 AM—10:00 AM BREAKFAST
10:00 AM—10:15 AM WELCOME
10:15 AM—11:45 AM PANEL 1: HISTORY
Moderator: Meagan Wierda
Death and Display: The Moral Boundaries of Exhibiting Death in “Body Worlds”
Jessica Poling
Distortion, Meaning, and Morphology in 19th Century Craniology
Paul Wolff Mitchell
Physics, According to Mussolini: The Illegitimation of Einstein’s Relativity in Italy
Andrew Robbins
11:45 PM—12:45 PM LUNCH
12:45 PM—2:30 PM PANEL 2: BODIES AND THE ARCHIVE
Moderator: Jennifer Ernie-Steighner
Towards a Queer Sasquatch
Ariel Kline
The Menstrual Cup as a Cyborg Technology: Some Reflections about Feminist Science Studies
Lisette Varon Carvajal
Ill(egitimate) Records: Queercrip Engagements with Medical Archives
Sarah Orsak
Bigfoot, Neanderthal, and Fictions of Alternative Humanities
Katya Jylkka
2:30 PM—2:45 PM BREAK
2:45 PM—4:30 PM PANEL 3: ESTABLISHED VS EMERGING
Moderator: Sam Hege
Mathematics and Conspiracy in Amitav Ghosh
Moyang Li
Disagreements during Collaborative Argumentation
Na’ama Y. Av-Shalom and Randi M. Zimmerman
Seeing is Believing: Index, Authority, and Faith in a Recent Intelligent Design Textbook
Kimiko Matsumura
Roots, Rock, Reggae: Alter Epistemologies and Activism in Accra
Osei Alleyne
4:30 PM—4:45 PM BREAK
4:45 PM—6:00 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator: Johan Mathew (History, Rutgers University)
Avatars for Forgotten Dreams: Tales from (An)Other Enlightenment
Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)