{"id":22,"date":"2017-02-23T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:14:40","slug":"panel-abstracts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/panel-abstracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Abstracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Breakout Session 1<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"#p1\">No Bodies<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p2\">No Society<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p3\">No End<\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>Breakout Session 2<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"#p4\">No Connections<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p5\">No Space<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p6\">No States<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Breakout Session 3<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"#p7\">No Copy<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p8\">No Law<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p9\">No Truth<\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>Breakout Session 4<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"#p10\">No Object<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p11\">No Alien<\/a><br \/><a href=\"#p12\">No Education<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a id=\"p1\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Bodies.pdf\">No Bodies<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 939<br \/>Panel Chair: William Bristow<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Nicholas Anthony Eppert<\/strong> (New York University)<br \/>&#8220;Against Conscious Experience: Towards an Immanent Praxis of the Mind-Body Gap&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Joseph Giardini<\/strong> (Johns Hopkins University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/giardini.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Separation and Withdrawal: Refusal in Diane di Prima and Phyllis Webb&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Cameron Kunzelman<\/strong> (Georgia State University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/kunzelman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;No Further Interaction: Video Games That Refuse&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p2\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Society-1.pdf\">No Society<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 118<br \/>Panel Chair: Andrew Kincaid<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Theodore Martin<\/strong> (UC-Irvine)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/martin_theodore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Antisocial: A Literary History&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Tero Karppi<\/strong> (SUNY Buffalo)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/karppi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Disconnect. Contesting Social Media&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Kieran Aarons<\/strong> (DePaul University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/aarons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;The Destituent Pledge&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p3\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-End-1.pdf\">No End<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 108<br \/>Panel Chair: Ann Mattis<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>William Paris<\/strong> (Penn State University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/paris.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Refusing the Progress of Time: Black Grief and Critical Consciousness&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Sam Law<\/strong> (University of Chicago)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Narco-State\u2019s Scandalous Secret: Ayotzinapa and the Refusal of Death&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p4\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Connections.pdf\">No Connections<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 118<br \/>Panel Chair: Jennifer Johung<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Derek Maus<\/strong> (SUNY Postsdam)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/maus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Percival Everett&#8217;s <em>I Am Not Sidney Poitier<\/em> and the Pitfalls of Racial Representation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Andrew Culp<\/strong> (University of Texas, Dallas)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/culp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Between Non-Standard Philosophy and Afro-Pessimism: A Survey&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Jeremy R. Smith<\/strong> (New York University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/smith.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Red Stars in the Black Universe: A Non-Philosophical Lesson in Democracy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p5\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Space-1.pdf\">No Space<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 939<br \/>Panel Chair: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Kai Parker<\/strong> (University of Chicago) and <strong>Ray Noll<\/strong> (University of Chicago)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/parker_noll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Freedom as Non-Movement: Race, Religious History, and Carceral Ethnography in Chicago&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Hannah Hopewell<\/strong> (Aukland University of Technology)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/hopewell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Refusal, Minimum Procedures and Creative Powerlessness in Writing the Everyday Urban&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Kris Klotz<\/strong> (Penn State University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/klotz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Construction of Political Subjects: Disidentification in Honneth and Ranci\u00e8re&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p6\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-States-1.pdf\">No States<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 108<br \/>Panel Chair: Erica Bornstein<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Sophia Goodfriend<\/strong> (University of Chicago)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/goodfriend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Anxious Itineraries: Affect, Negation, and Belonging on Birthright Israel&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Jenny Kehl<\/strong> (UW-Milwaukee)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/kehl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;The Disruptive Power of <em>No<\/em> in Water Privatization: A Study of Resistance, Refusal, and Post-Capitalist Remunicipalization&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Calina Ciobanu<\/strong> (United States Naval Academy)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/ciobanu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Julian Barnes and the Function of Dystopian Literature in Dystopian Times&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p7\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Copy-1.pdf\">No Copy<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 108<br \/>Panel Chair: Tasha Oren<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Andrew Lison<\/strong> (University of Kansas)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/lison.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Post-Historical Media: Negation and Digital Convergence&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Sparkles Stanford<\/strong> (Boston College)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/stanford.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Rethinking Copyright as a Space of Refusal&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Joyce Latham<\/strong> (UW-Milwaukee)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/latham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;#roguerangers and the Right of Public Employees to Speak&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p8\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Law-1.pdf\">No Law<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 118<br \/>Panel Chair: Nadine Kozak<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Marcus Paul Bullock<\/strong> (UW-Milwaukee)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/bullock.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Justice Antonin Scalia Says <em>No<\/em> to Poetry and Philosophy: How the Law Has Been Changed by the Obergefell versus Hodges Decision on Marriage Equality of June 2015&#8243;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Marcus Filippello<\/strong> (UW-Milwaukee)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/filippello.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Seeking a Normal Administrative Life? How a Subtle Refusal Impacted Dahomean Prisoners and Exposed the Banality of French Colonial Rule&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Supriya Karudapuram<\/strong> (American University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/karudapuram.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;From AmeriCAN 2 AmeriCAN\u2019T: From the Myth of the Free Market to Freeing the Market as Trump\u2019s&#8212;OH NOOOOO!&#8212;Ill-Begotten Legacy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p9\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Truth-1.pdf\">No Truth<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 939<br \/>Panel Chair: Ivan Ascher<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Bill Martin<\/strong> (DePaul University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/martin_bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Making a &#8220;non-&#8221; of Christianity, Marxism, and Buddhism: Engaging Badiou and Laruelle&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>David L. Seim<\/strong> (UW-Stout)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/seim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Refusing To Be Thwarted: Mad Science and the Denial of Validity of Failure&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p10\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Object-1.pdf\">No Object<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 118<br \/>Panel Chair: Nathaniel Stern<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Andrew Strombeck<\/strong> (Wright State University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/strombeck.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Gary Indiana, Richard Serra, and the Creative Economy of 1980s New York&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Prayas Abhinav<\/strong> (Indus University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/abhinav.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Refusing to Make Art, But Not to Being Artistic&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Philip Sayers<\/strong> (University of Toronto)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/sayers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Barthes\u2019 Politics and the Yes-No Paradigm&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Tony Yanick<\/strong> (University of Glasgow) and <strong>Anne-Fran\u00e7oise Schmid<\/strong> (MINES ParisTech)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/yanick_schmid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Unseeing Delta No: The\u00a0<em>Insu<\/em>\u00a0Operator and the Contemporary Object&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p11\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Alien.pdf\">No Alien<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 939<br \/>Panel Chair: Peter Paik<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Housten Donham<\/strong> (University of Arizona)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/donham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;The Mindless Void: The Antisociality of H. P. Lovecraft&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Anna Mirzayan<\/strong> (Western University)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/mirzayan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Curating the Clone: Unreadable Aesthetics in Sci-Fi Horror&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A.P. Pettinelli<\/strong> (University of Chicago)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/pettinelli.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Towards an Alien Camera: Cephalopodic Aesthetics &amp; the (Non)Human in Parreno\u2019s <em>Alien Seasons<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p12\"><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-Education-1.pdf\">No Education<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Curtin 108<br \/>Panel Chair: Nan Kim<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Lisa Cerami<\/strong> (Nazareth College of Rochester)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/cerami.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;The Collegiate <em>No<\/em>: Teaching Resistance in an Election Year&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Xin Huang<\/strong> (UW-Milwaukee)<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/c21\/pages\/events\/bignoabstracts\/huang.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a>&#8220;Decolonizing Feminist Knowledge Production: Anglophone Privilege and the Gesture of Refusal&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakout Session 1No BodiesNo SocietyNo End Breakout Session 2No ConnectionsNo SpaceNo States Breakout Session 3No CopyNo LawNo Truth Breakout Session 4No ObjectNo AlienNo Education No BodiesCurtin 939Panel Chair: William Bristow Nicholas Anthony Eppert (New York University)&#8220;Against Conscious Experience: Towards an Immanent Praxis of the Mind-Body Gap&#8221; Joseph Giardini (Johns Hopkins University)&#8220;Separation and Withdrawal: Refusal in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/panel-abstracts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Panel Abstracts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8pr2T-m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":0},"title":"Schedule","author":"c21@uwm.edu","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday, April 27 2:30 pm Curtin 175 Registration 3:30 - 4:00 pm Curtin 175 Welcome Johannes Britz Provost, UWM Introduction Kennan Ferguson Director, Center for 21st Century Studies Recorded video 4:00 - 5:30 pm Curtin 175 Frank B. 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