DAY 1

Panel 1. Educational Perspectives on Colonial Heritage (Presiders Hance and Stingl)

Friday, March 18, 8.30-10.00

a. The Malaysian Nationalism Machine: How the State, Education, and Culture Develop Persons

Ashley Hance, London School of Economics

b. Notes from the Field; Decolonizing the 'Spanish' Major

Sara Castro-Klaren

c. Latin American Descolonial Critical Pedagogy

Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon Ph.D. Assistant Instructor Curriculum & Instruction Department The University of Texas at Austin

d. A Tale of Two Sites of Memory: Constructing Colonial Past and National Present in Woking and Nogent-sur-Marne.

Meghan Tinsley, Boston University

e. How I Learned to be an Activist: The Pedagogy of Social Media.

Aubrey Hall, University of South Florida

f. The historical development of color-blind racism in U.S. educational policy: The Phelps Stokes Fund in the U.S. and Africa, 1920-1925,

Julia Bates, Boston College

Panel 2. 'Is it possible to think of science absent the 'Western' referent? (Presider: Prasad)

Friday March 18, 10.15-11.45

a. Human, Faster Human: Speed, social acceleration and alienation

William Kramer, SUNY Binghamton

b. Post-Western Universalism or a Para-science? The Case of Ayurgenomics

Projit Mukharji, Dept. of History & Sociology, UPenn,

c. The “Caribbean Revolution” and the History of Knowledge Production during the Early Modern Era,

Pablo Gomez, Dept. of Medical History & Bioethics, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison,

d. Multiple knowledges, micro strategies: Innovative practices of marginal farmers

Leena Abraham,

e. Pre-modern medicine and post- modern social science Time, space and reference in the study of traditional medicine in India

V. Sujatha Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, New Delhi,

f. Burdens of Western Science

Amit Prasad, Dept. of Sociology, University of Missouri,

Panel 3. Social Movements, Insurgencies, and Epistemic Disobedience (Presider: Stingl)

Friday, March 18, 12.00 – 1.30

a. Economies of Relevance and the Ignorance towards Ecology: Rethinking Care, Precarity, and Attention.

Alexander Stingl, IAM, University Clinic FAU Erlangen – Nuernberg,

b. Reassembling the Social in Ponte City

Denise L. Lim, Yale University

c. Intended Consequences of Escuelitas: Chicana/o Movement Indigeneity and Pedagogy

Marcelle Maese Cohen, University of San Diego, University of San Diego Assistant Professor of English Department of Ethnic Studies, Affiliated Faculty Latin American Studies Program, Affiliated Faculty Women's and Gender Studies Program, Affiliated Faculty,

d. Understanding Post-Colonial Racial Regimes in Latin America and Beyond: Toward a Conceptualization of 'Hierarchical Inclusion'"

Wesley Hiers, Oberlin College

e. The Art of Youth Rebellion

Nathalia Jaramillo, Deputy Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Diputada de Diversidad Academica y Profesora de Estudios Interdisciplinarios Office of Diversity and Inclusion Kennesaw State University

Panel 4. Sovereignty and Empire (Presider: Reyes)

Friday March 18, 1.45 – 3.15

a. Establishing Sovereignty: Dispossession, Slavery and Plantation labor in the Americas

Ricarda Hammer, Brown University Michael Murphy, Brown University

b. Egypt, Turkey, Britain and the Struggle Over the Cairo-Alexandria Railway

Jonathan Endelman, Yale University

c. Jihad, Empire and the Interwar Making of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University

d. The Forms and Meanings of Sovereignty: U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines Victoria Reyes, Bryn Mawr College

e. Coloniality of U.S. Foreign Policy: Building a Decolonial Understanding of Human Rights Norms,

Angela E. Fillingim, Univ. California-Irvine

Panel 5. The Global South in the North, the capillaries of the North in the South and the Generation of (In)Justice: Race, Ethnicity, Class, Sex, Gender (Presiders: Lewis and Jane Gordon)

Friday March 18, 3.30 – 5.00

a. A Black Existential Critique of Disciplinary Decadence in the Social Sciences

Lewis R. Gordon, Philosophy and Africana Studies, UCONN,

b. Settler Memory, the Race-Ethnicity Paradigm in US Politics, and the Fear of an Indigenous Futurity

Kevin Bruyneel Professor of Politics History & Society Division Babson College, Wellesley MA

c. Repairing (and Exploiting) the Underclass Image

Michelle Phillips, Berkeley,

d. "That Coffee the Gordons Gave Me, Has Me Dancing All Day and It Makes Me Think of Fanon"

Rosario Torres-Guevara Academic Literacy and Linguistics, BMCC-CUNY, Exports and Offerings of the Northern South

Jane Anna Gordon, Political Science and Africana Studies, UCONN,

DAY 2

Panel 6. Beyond the merely “Human” (Presiders: Weiss and Stingl)

Saturday March 19, 10.15 – 11.45

a. The Myth of the Spotted Sun and the Blemished Moon: A Biosocial Ethnohistory of Syphilis and related Diseases

César Enrique Giraldo Herrera, University of Oxford

b. ‘Other Worldly Tales’: The Phantasmagoric Lives of Naturecultures

Banu Subramaniam Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst,

c. Modest Cyborgs, Unruly Cheeses, Technologies of Appetites, and Green Precariousness.

Sabrina Weiss, STS Dept. Rochester Institute of Technology, , and Alexander Stingl, IAM, University Clinic FAU Erlangen – Nuernberg,

d. Epistemic Dominance and the More Than Human World within Environmental Justice Research

Abigail Perez Aguilera, Arizona State University; Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Westminster College

e. Malarial Entanglements: British Colonialism, Jewish State-Formation and the Politics of Antimalarial Statistics in Mandatory Palestine, 1922-1940,

Omri Tubi, Northwestern Univeristy

Panel 7. Postcolonial Sociology (including critical discussions of Southern Theories, Critical Realism, and Ethnographic Theory) (Presiders: Go/ Boatcă)

Saturday March 19, 12.00-1.30

a. Postcolonial Epistemes and Embodiments

Claire Decoteau, U-Illinois Chicago

b. Practicing Liberal Imperialism in Algeria: Bureaucratic State Formation and the Possibilities of Connected Sociologies

Ricarda Hammer, Brown University

c. The Empire’s Old Clothes: Debunking the “newness” of the New Racism

Zine Magubane, Boston College

d. Labor, Agency, and State-building: Toward a Postcolonial Sociological Approach to Development

Zophia Edwards, Providence College

e. Postcolonial Sociologies

Julian Go, Boston University

Panel 8. Empirical and Historical Comparative Methods for Studying Global Inequalities through Post/Decolonial lenses (Presiders: Go/ Boatcă)

Satruday March 19, 1.45 – 3.15

a. ‘Linking and De-linking: A Feminist take on Decoloniality and Postcolonialism ‘

Jyoti Puri, Simmons College

b. Towards an Afrocentric development paradigm

Richard Moloi, Department of Developments Studies Unisa

c. Imperial Anxieties, Colonial Concerns: Contrasting Responses to Bubonic Plague and Smallpox in 1901 Capetown

Alexandre White, Boston University, Department of Sociology

d. Silence, silencing and voice: rape and the global imaginaries of gender violence,

Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut, Vrushali Patil, Florida International University

e. The Twin Fallacies of Occidentalism

Manuela Boatcă, Sociology/Global Studies, University of Freiburg,

Panel 9. Concepts and Relations of States (and similar actors and actor-networks) (Presiders: Rowland and Stingl)

a. De - Colonizing [OUR] Language:Reflections on Standardized Sociological Writing as a System of Domination

Elexis Ellis, graduate student in sociology, Yale University

b. “Post-Colonial and De-colonial Processes in Asian Film Industries”

John Clarry, Bloomfield

c. "Rethinking Revolution, State, and the Middle East: Reflections on the Rojava Revolution

Huseyin Rasit, Yale University

d. Voices from the Congo Free State: Congolese Testimonies of Belgian Colonialism

Jenny Folsom, Sociology, UMass

e. Walking, eating, sleeping: an attempt at rhythm analysis of intimate human/animal relations.

Tora Holmberg Professor in Sociology Department of Sociology & Researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research Uppsala University