PROGRAM & PANELS

 I.          Lifecycles of the Urban, 9:00 am – 10:30 am

Discussant: Benita Menezes
Moderator: Siwon Lee

Title	Name	Affiliation
Be-waqt (Before/Outside/Against Its Time): Arboreal Nature amidst a Spontaneous Spring	Tayeba Batool	University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology, Year 5
Ambiguities of Counterinsurgency: Urban Decay and Slow Violence in Bağlar	Ronay Bakan	Johns Hopkins University, Political Science
Anticipating and the Anticipated Heritage: Entropic Hauntings and Temporal Politics of Preservation in Shanghai	Ben Weilun Zhang	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, Year 1

  II.         Time in Crisis, 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Discussant: Nat Adams
Moderator: Julia Alves da Costa

Title	Name	Affiliation
Promises and Regrets: Negotiating Repair after Toxic Exposure in Japan	Shoko Yamada	Yale University, combined program in the Department of Anthropology and the School of the Environment, Year 5
Remediating the Plantation: Superfund Legacies and Gullah Geechee Heritage in Southeastern North Carolina	Ayluonne Txai Tereszkiewicz	Princeton University, Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Humanities, Year 4
The Limits of “Self-Sufficiency”: Indigenous and State Agricultural Temporalities in a Precarious Taiwan	Aaron Su	Princeton University, Anthropology, Year 5
The Presence of an Absent Peace: Temporal Imaginaries of the Coca Economy in Sierra de la Macarena, Colombia	Keren Marin-Gonzalez	University of Michigan, Anthropology, Year 2

III.         On the Clock: Temporalities of Labor, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm 

Discussant: Kunal Joshi
Moderator: Omotayo Adekunle Adenugba

Title	Name	Affiliation
To What Shall We Return? On Egypt’s Labor Movement Against Privatization	Alaa Saad	Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology, Year 3
Real-Time Governance: Rhythms of Data and Work in Public Transportation in the U.S.	Raha Peyravi	MIT, HASTS, Year 5
Making Time: The Materialization of Time’s Conception as an Act of Oppression	Mya Rose Bailey	Bard Graduate Center, Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Year 1
Rockets and Revolt – Competing Futures in the American Space Industry	Renny Hahamovitch	University of Michigan, History, Year 5

IV.         Embodied Time, 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm

Discussant: Marios Falaris
Moderator: Rini Barman

Title	Name	Affiliation
Temporal Contact Zones: Practicing Crisis De-escalation at The Sanctuary	Jake Nussbaum	University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology, Year 6
Embodied Temporalities and Casteized Labor: Narratives from “Wombless Villages” of Beed, India	Samhita Das	Rice University, Anthropology, Year 2
Waiting for Disability Certification: Cripping Experiences of Bureaucratic Time	Kim Fernandes	University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology & Education, Year 7
Secular Transcendent: The Case of the Hypothetical Child	Jack Jiang	New School for Social Research, Anthropology, 1st year PhD