The ASPECT 2023 Graduate Conference titled “Cultivating Entangled Imaginaries” took place April 20–21 on campus and virtually. The following ASPECT doctoral students gave presentations:

  • Sam Beckenhauer, “Tracing Cybernetic Control and the Politics of Conspiracy Theory”
  • Jack Bernardi, “Vico, Foucault, Wynter: Transdisciplinarity and Sociogenesis”
  • Casey Anne Brimmer, “Queer, Crip, and Feminist Methodologies to Community Theorizing a Pedagogy of the Full Self”
  • Reed Byg, “Pawpaws, Temporal Embeddedness, and Unruly Ecologies”
  • Ana Maria Camargo Palomino, “Latinx Migrant Workers in the New River Valley: Evaluating Health and Safety in the Workplace From an Intersectionality Standpoint”
  • Marie-Lys Chambraud, “Virtual Documentary Exploration Carlisle and Building the Future on the Past ‘Home From School,’ an Illustration of Resilience and Activism Working Alongside Allyship”
  • Linea Cutter, “Fragmented Diet Genealogies: Tracing Nutritional Technologies of the Self in the United States”
  • Jordan Fallon, “Beyond Culinary Man: Archipelagic Resistance to Hegemony”
  • Hannah Gignoux, “Impossibility, Knowledge, and the Colonial Imperatives of Teaching”
  • Hannah Glasson, “Seeing the World as System: Intellectual Debates in Early Cybernetics”
  • Elhom Gosink and Kiana Avlon, “No Seed Left Behind: A Critique of Neoliberal Education and Food Systems”
  • Sabrina Harris, “Developing Gender: A Critical Exploration of the UN's Capacity-Building Agenda”
  • Cory Higgs, “Visual Folklore and TikTok: Visual Rhetorical Analysis of TikTok and the Identification of Identity and Power Therein”
  • Robert Hodges, “Islamic International Society and Islamic World Society: An English School Approach”
  • June Ann Jones, “Good Farmer, Bad Farmer, Other: A Critical Discourse Analysis of USDA Farmers’ Bulletins”
  • Andreza Jorge, “Amefrican Carnival: A Geographical, Gendered, and Racialized Analysis of Cultural-artistic Practices”
  • Luther McPherson, “On the Promise of Genealogy in Critical Security Studies”
  • Vasilije Mesarovic, “Seeing in Color: Racial Epistemology and Perception in The Intuitionist”
  • Rebekah Mui Pei Ern, “Imperial Masculine Ideology in American Evangelicalism: A Critique Through Postcolonial Anabaptist Lens”
  • Shreya Hari Nurani, “Decolonization in Goa: Past, Process, and Present”
  • Sarah Plummer, “A Material Feminist’s Guide to Performing Objects at Bread and Puppet Theater”
  • Leah Ramnath, “Cynical Geographies: A Black Feminist Mapping Methodology”
  • Michael Senters, “Weaponizing Banality: How the Far-Right Gave Purpose to the Vapid Consumer Culture of the 80s and 90s”
  • Muhammed Shah Shajahan, “Brahmanism and Genealogies of Poverty in the Princely State of Travancore”
  • Aline de Souza, “Producing and Unsettling Meaning Around Immigration Through the Physical Theater Performance Can We Talk About This?”
  • Hannah Steinhauer, ”Restriction of Abortion Related Content on Meta Platforms Post-Dobbs”
  • Maddie Tepper, “Synthetic Solidarities: Queer Affectivity and Transnational/Temporal Emulsification”
  • Sara Wenger, “Sex, Robots, and Questions of Science Fact”
  • Chayne Wild, “Toward a Sadean Phenomenology: Flesh Unfolding and the Ambiguity of Humanism in Erotic Domination”

In addition, the following graduate students in other units in the College gave presentations:

  • Candy Beers and Aran Garnett-Deakin, Human Development and Family Science, “Appalachia: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Place and Oppression”
  • Lyndon Frommer, Science, Technology, and Society, “The Gender-Affirming Surgery Market”
  • Ocqua Murrell, Sociology, “Toward an Inclusive Sex Education Curriculum”
  • Aisling O'Leary, Philosophy, “The Wrong of Women’s Adaptive Preferences on an Agency-Maintaining View”
  • Kulyash Zhumadilova, Science, Technology, and Society, “Carbs, Fats, and Proteins: How Misappropriation of Biochemistry Distorts Our Relations With Food”