Panels

Panel 1 | Language as Inclusion and Exclusion

Moderator: Carol Lo

• Erin Morrison - "AvianLexiconAtlas: A database of descriptive categories of English-language bird names around the world"

• Eugene Ostashevsky - "Editing and Publishing Translingual Poetry: The Example of Dinara Rasuleva, Who Works Between Tatar, Russian, English, and German."

• Ida Chavoshan - "Examining Global Linguistic Identities & Landscapes in the United States"

• Sean Eve - "Memes, Movies and Metonymy: Using visual text and multi-semiotic translation to manage anxiety around taboo and politically sensitive subjects and to navigate linguistic challenges for international student communities."

• Suzanne Menghraj - "Precarity on the Page: Liminality and the Student Essay"

Panel 2 | Nationalism and Globalism Reconsidered

Moderator: Dina Siddiqi

• Vivek Bhatt - "Recentering Global Governance in an Era of Disengagement"

• Patricio Navia - "Understanding migration beyond the global north: Chile as a destination for Latin American migrants"

• Bob Squillace - "We Have Always Been Precarious: Lessons from the UNESCO World Heritage Program"

• James McBride - "The Re-opening of Guantanamo, the Right of Habeas Corpus, and the Legal Precarity of Global Asylum Seekers in the United States"

Panel 3 | Modes of Cultural Resistance

Moderator: Garnet Kindervater

• Susanna Horng - "Erasure Poetry: Narratives of Resistance in an Age of Global Precarity"

• Ifeona Fulani - "Caribbean Cultures: Resistance and Creativity as Strategies for Surviving Persistent Precarity"

• Ethan Fortuna - "Collective Task: Collaborative Poiesis and Political Resistance"

• Kevin Bonney - "Plague Monuments as Representations of Resistance and Resilience"

• Sabyn Javeri - "Narratives of Resistance through Literary Translation"

Panel 4 | Pedagogy: Emergent Frameworks and Approaches

Moderator: Ian Jones

• Timothy Tomlinson - "Ruthless Efficiencies: The Utility of the Multivalent Text"

• Mitra Rastegar - "De-essentializing Cultures as Antiracist Pedagogy"

• Peter Valenti - "Discovering and Teaching Narratives of Resistance during a Lifetime of Precarity: Nutrition and Food Culture as a Dialectic of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

• Michael Datcher - "Re-imagining the Canon During Times of Unimaginable Precarity"

• Regina Gramer - "Violence Beyond the Local and the Global: Rousseau, Kant, and the Global Underground"

Panel 5 | The Ephemeral Past 

Moderator: Ifeona Fulani

• Carley Moore - "The Queer Archive in Berlin: Precarity and Abundance"

• Robin Nagle - "Place, Space, and Waste in Bohemia"

• Montana Ray - "Mapping Motherhood"

• Mahnaz Yousefzadeh - "Urban Development as  Futurescape: Saadiyat Cultural District as Faustian Project"

• Minu Tharoor - "War’s Pitiless Precarity: Bertolt Brecht’s 'Mother Courage and her Children' in the Battlefields of the Thirty Years War."

Panel 6 | Comparative Precarities

Moderator: Cristina Dragomir

• Garnet Kindervater - "Precarity and the Politics of Abandonment"

• Eduardo Matos-Martin - "From Franco to Vox: The Rise of the Far-Right in Contemporary Spain"

• Heidi White - "The Struggle for Meaning in Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'"

• Ian Jones - "Precarity, Crisis, and Creativity: Notes from Three Non-Consecutive Centuries"

Panel 7 |Pedagogical Engagements

Moderator: Afrodesia McCannon

• Genia Naro-Maciel - "Reconceptualizing 'the Global' in Tumultuous Times: An Ecocentric Approach to Learning"

• Statia Cook - "Exploring the Power of Science in Times of Global Crisis"

• Jeannine Chandler - "Lines and Labels: Using Pop Culture in the Classroom to Teach East Asian Conflict"

• Jared Simard - "Wielding Digital Fire: A Promethean Protocol for Ai-Enhanced Literary Inquiry"

• Cammie Kim Lin - "Fostering Responsible Global Citizenship Through the Liberal Studies Service Ambassadors Program"

Panel 8 |Unsettling Borders

Moderator: Robin Nagle

• Cristina-Ioana Dragomir - "Environmental Justice from the Margins: Addressing Vulnerability and Precarity in Romanian Roma Communities"

• Dina Siddiqi - "Shadowed by Precarity: Supplies Chains and Labor Subjectivities in the Global South"

• Emily Bauman - "USAID and the 'Hidden' Global Network University"

• Adedamola Osinulu - "A World Remade: 'Global' Pentecostalism in Nigeria and the Precarious State"

Panel 9 | Promises and Perils of Technology

Moderator: Statia Cook

• Carol Lo - "Virtual Kissing and Transnational Family Making: A Longitudinal Study on the Socialization of Affection in Family Video Calls"

• Farzad Mahootian - "Social Robotics for Social Justice: Embodied AI in Fact and Fiction"

• Heather Masri - "Liberator or Monster: Precursors of AI in literature and legend"

• Linnea Hussein - "Social Media Footage of the Sacred Fig: New Challenges to Archiving Resistance in the Age of Instagram"

• Afrodesia McCannon - "Pedagogy and the Precarity of the Text"

Global Roundtable

Moderator: Emily Bauman

• Nick Okai - NYU Accra

• Anna Kazumi-Stahl - NYU Buenos Aires

• Kari Miller - NYU DC

• Nicolleta Peluffo - NYU Florence

• Amy Rowe - NYU London

• Farah Dih - NYU Madrid

• Beth Eptstein - NYU Paris

Multimedia Workshop | Creating Assignments for Engaging Community Across Borders in a Time of Global Precarity

• Led by Philip Kain and Timothy Schaffer