I will be presenting (Re) Worlding Imaginary Futures on a panel, Salvaging the Past, (Re)creating Futurities, at Indiana University’s 19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, May 13 - 14, 2022.
The conference theme seeks to address questions surrounding how stories are crafted, shared, remembered, and revised. Why do the stories we tell ourselves – and others – matter? This conference will attempt to theorize the spaces between a story told about oneself and a story told about another, and how these stories could help or hinder us as we try to make sense of the so-called unprecedented times in which we live. How do certain types of narratives both reflect and shape certain realities? And in the classroom, how might questions of narrative be addressed through antiracist and anticolonial pedagogies? Papers may choose to investigate how storytellers of various kinds respond to the crucial political and social challenges of our time through histories, accounts, and recitations – spoken, written, embodied, or otherwise expressed.
Proposals might also consider how the virtual sphere has changed the ways in which we have told/retold, recorded, and distributed our individual and collective stories over the past two years. We seek proposals that wrestle with these (or related) questions about what it means to impose a narrative, establish a record, or compose a history. Papers that bring together critical and creative elements are also encouraged.
Salvaging the Past, (Re)creating Futurities
Friday, May 13th 4:15pm – 5:45pm
“Jewish Memory and Second Temple Ossuary Burial," Brady W Schuh, Harvard Divinity School
“Ruining and Retelling: Myth-Breaking and -Making in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011),” Samantha English, Northwestern University
“(Re)worlding Imaginary Futures," Elyse Longair, Queen’s University