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3:30pm
5:00pm
Coffee and Breakfast
Panel I: War Stories
Nadia Abu El-haj, Columbia University - “Knowing (the) War: On soldiers, Civilians, and Militarism
Kathleen Belew, University of Chicago- Conspiracy and Cross-pollination: Radical Fringe Alliances
Darryl Li, University of Chicago- Evidencing Conspiracy: Hearsay and Narrating the Forever War
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Lunch Break
Panel II: State Programs
John Jackson, University of Pennsylvania - Conspiracies and Demonic Identities in Contemporary Hip-hop Culture: Ten Short Stories of Racial Paranoia
Lochlann Jain, Stanford University - Tastes Reasonable
Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago - Authoritarian Apprehensions
Coffee Break
Panel III: Speech Acts
Rosalind Morris, Columbia University - Wagering Translation in the Underground: Gold, Money, and the Task of Communication in Deindustrializing South Africa
Robin Derby, University of California, Los Angeles - Stealing the Citadelle: Icons of Nationhood and Memories of Theft in Haitian Accounts of Kout Kouto