East Room, Scott-Bates Commons, 3301 N Charles St, Baltimore

Refreshments provided

Program:

Introduction | 9:15-9:20am

Techno-Fixes: Politics, Labor, and Imaged Futures | 9:20-10:20am

• Jacob Bruggeman, “Avatars of the Information Age: Computer Hackers and Transgressive Politics, 1971-2016”
• Elaine Yang, “Lab Rat: Characterizing Invisible Communities in Scientific Laboratories”
• Alaa Amr Saad, “Looking onto the Future Through the Pasts: When Ancient Egypt Meets Its Present”

Literary Forms: Science, Modernity, and Nature through Narrative | 10:30-11:30am

• Siyu Xie, “Pu 譜 of flowers as an Epistemic/Literary Genre in Early Modern China”
• Mengqi Mercy An, “Panax Ginseng or the Root of Life? A Study of Manchurian Nature, Literature, and Modernity “
• Tobi Park: “Speculative Ecology: Teaching & Connecting in the Cthulucene”

Ecologies of Violence: The Consequences of Colonialism and Consumption | 11:40am-12:40pm

• Sheharyar Imran, “Capital’s Abjections: Race, Nature, and Planetary Disposability”
• Ruoyu Li, The Politics of Experimentation in U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands and Pacific Antinuclear Movements
• Noah Trudeau, “The White Coats of Empire: Medicine and La Mission Civilisatrice in Pre-Protectorate Morocco”

Bodies of Knowledge, Bodies in Motion: Race, Place, Health, and Identity | 1:30-2:30pm

• Natalie Wang, “Homesick: Diaspora, Migration, and Illness”
• Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, “Bound by the Womb: Reproduction, Kinship, and Freedom in Barbados”
• Leigh Alon, “Bone Deep: The Role of Bone Marrow Registries in Jewish Identity Formation and Israeli Citizenship”
• Assiya Drisi, “Legitimizing Folk Medicines in Morocco: A Glimpse through Narrative Fiction”

Devices and Disparities: The Structures of Modern Medicine and Health  | 2:40-3:40pm

• Luccia Yacoub, “Ma-Emton No-Oo (Give Them Health): A Project on Healthcare Disparities in Egypt”
• Sam Suh, “The Evolution of Holism in Medical School Requirements and its Impact on the U.S. Medical Education System: a 70 Year Study”
• Katherine Wang, “Acupuncture for Addiction Treatment in Baltimore”
• Josh McGrew: “Mistrust and Misinformation: A History of Vaccine Hesitancy among African Americans”

Reception | 3:45-5:00pm

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