Haptic Bodies: Perception, Touch, and the Ethics of Being

Event Oval, The Diana Center

How are we, as global citizens, accountable to each other? This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference explores the haptic— the perception and manipulation of objects using the sense of touch—as an ethics of being in the world. Feminist scholars, artists, and activists come together in this utterly unique two-day conference to examine the many ways in which touch helps us better understand the politics and aesthetics of embodiment, situatedness, and performance. Through a series of panels and artistic “happenings,” we consider how our senses—not only touch, but taste, sight, and sound—situate us as bodies in political and economic contexts (such as labor), as well as in personal and sensory ones.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, March 3rd

4 PM – 5 PM: Weaving Gender/Quilting Race: The Politics of Digital Labor

Artist talkback with Vera P. Hall and Martha Friedman

Moderated by Tina Campt

5 PM – 6 PM: Reception

6 PM – 8 PM: Dance and Spoken Word Performances

Dance conduction – student/faculty performance led by Gabri Christa with live music by Burnt Sugar Arkestra

Spoken word performance by Ramya Ramana

Artist talkback moderated by Sarah Nooter

Saturday, March 4th

10 AM: Welcome by Tina Campt and Nancy Worman

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM: Art and the Senses: Panel 1

Josely Carvalho in conversation with Alicia Imperiale and Alex Purves

11:30 AM – 1 PM: The Haptics of Race

Rizvana Bradley, Ashon Crawley, Samantha Sheppard and Mila Zuo

Moderated by Tina Campt

1 PM – 2 PMLunch

2:30 PM – 4 PM    Haptic Animalities

Joshua Bennett, Patricia Clough and Jasbir Puar

Moderated by Carla Freccero

4:3o PM – 5:30 PM: Art and the Senses: Panel 2

Grisha Coleman Erin Manning in conversation with Victoria Wohl

Moderated by Nancy Worman











When: Fri., Mar. 3, 2017 at 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Barnard College
3009 Broadway
212-854-4689
Price: Free
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Event Oval, The Diana Center

How are we, as global citizens, accountable to each other? This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference explores the haptic— the perception and manipulation of objects using the sense of touch—as an ethics of being in the world. Feminist scholars, artists, and activists come together in this utterly unique two-day conference to examine the many ways in which touch helps us better understand the politics and aesthetics of embodiment, situatedness, and performance. Through a series of panels and artistic “happenings,” we consider how our senses—not only touch, but taste, sight, and sound—situate us as bodies in political and economic contexts (such as labor), as well as in personal and sensory ones.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, March 3rd

4 PM – 5 PM: Weaving Gender/Quilting Race: The Politics of Digital Labor

Artist talkback with Vera P. Hall and Martha Friedman

Moderated by Tina Campt

5 PM – 6 PM: Reception

6 PM – 8 PM: Dance and Spoken Word Performances

Dance conduction – student/faculty performance led by Gabri Christa with live music by Burnt Sugar Arkestra

Spoken word performance by Ramya Ramana

Artist talkback moderated by Sarah Nooter

Saturday, March 4th

10 AM: Welcome by Tina Campt and Nancy Worman

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM: Art and the Senses: Panel 1

Josely Carvalho in conversation with Alicia Imperiale and Alex Purves

11:30 AM – 1 PM: The Haptics of Race

Rizvana Bradley, Ashon Crawley, Samantha Sheppard and Mila Zuo

Moderated by Tina Campt

1 PM – 2 PMLunch

2:30 PM – 4 PM    Haptic Animalities

Joshua Bennett, Patricia Clough and Jasbir Puar

Moderated by Carla Freccero

4:3o PM – 5:30 PM: Art and the Senses: Panel 2

Grisha Coleman Erin Manning in conversation with Victoria Wohl

Moderated by Nancy Worman

Buy tickets/get more info now