2022 World Picture Conference

Dates:22-23 April, 2022

Locations:Colorado College

Friday 22 April, 2022

10:00-11:30 - Opening Keynote

Cornerstone 131

Domietta Torlasco (Northwestern University)

More Life

11:45-1:15 - Dissonances

Cornerstone 131

Lauren McLeod Cramer (University of Toronto

“The Echo Comes Back”

Alessandra Raengo (Georgia State University)

“More Touches: Rebirth is Necessary’s Rewinding of the Given”

Ruochen Bo (University of Toronto)

“Every Disaster Made Us Wish for More”: Perception, Desire and Uncertainty in Don DeLillo’s White Noise”

2:30-4:00 - Life

Cornerstone 301

Bishnupriya Ghosh (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Hyperendemicity: A Politics of Abundance”

Meghan Sutherland (University of Toronto)

“Viral Universalisms”

Sonakshi Srivastava (Indraprastha University)

“Consuming Distances: Imaginings of Food Futures,
and Biopolitics in ‘The Windup Girl’”