The following ASPECT doctoral students gave presentations at the annual ASPECT Conference:

  • Samuel Beckenhauer, “On Conspiracy Theory as a Genre of Speculative Relationality in the Scripted Political”
  • Jack Bernardi, “‘This Paper is False’: Paradoxes of Self-Reference in Algorithmic Society”
  • Allie Briggs, “Of Rhyme and Reasonableness: Affective Methodologies for Analysis of Liberal Democratic Principles of Accountability”
  • Casey Anne Brimmer, “Nonbinary Navigation of the Binaries of Institutions,” with Quincy Meyers
  • Reed Byg, “Disoriented Perception, Aerial Performance and Spaces of Possibility”
  • Linea Cutter, “An Architecture of Artificially Sweetened Advertisements: Examining Liberal and Neoliberal Eating Regimes through Hupomnēsic Discourses in the United States”
  • Jordan Fallon, “‘Me and Idi Amin’: Nova Scotian Realism and Archipelagic Formation”
  • Sabrina Harris, “Developing Appropriate Statehood: UN Capacity-Building Efforts as Neoliberal Imperialism”
  • Robert Hodges, “Thick and Thin World Societies: An Examination and Comparison of Contemporary Social Movements with Calls for Unity by Islamic Non-State Actors”
  • June Jones, “1862: The USDA, Settler Colonialism, and the Birth of the US Capitalist Farmer”
  • Andreza Jorge, “Black Favela Feminism: The Struggle for Survival as a Transformative Praxis”
  • Luther McPherson, “The Will to Immanence: A Reading of Nietzsche’s Politico-Spiritual Project”
  • Vasilije Mesarovic, “An Analysis of the Political Theology of War of the Serbian Orthodox Church during the Yugoslav Wars”
  • Sarah Plummer, “Ritual, Class, and Inclusion: Bread and Puppet Theater’s Bread Breaking Tradition”
  • Leah Ramnath, “Technique over Strength: An Analysis of the Gendered Politics of Performance in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu”
  • Shah Shajahan, “Production of ‘Religion’ in Indian Historiography: Rethinking ‘Hindu-Muslim’ as a Narrative Thread”
  • Aline de Souza, “Sensorial Interrogation and Analysis of Three Sound Cultural Products”
  • Maddie Tepper, “Acting Straight: Normative Regimes of Transnational Capitalist Spatio-temporal Performativity”
  • Molly Todd, “The Frontera Project and the Many-Storied Border/Landscape of Tijuana”
  • Sara Wenger, “Fem(inist) Bots: Reimagining the Patriarchal Science of SexTech”
  • Zachariah Wheeler, “An Inconvenient Coalition: New Politics Liberalism and Democratic Climate Narratives”
  • Chayne Wild, “When the Living Dead Burn: Self-Immolation as Non-Violent Protest”
  • Sengül Yildiz-Alanbay, “Towards a Pluralist Methodological Approach: A More-than-Representational Style of Thinking and Affect”

The conference was held virtually on April 22.