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 **Atmospheres of Violence**

 Harvard Film & Visual Studies Graduate Conference

 May 3–5, 2023

 [Full conference program here](/file_url/1345)

 The graduate program in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce Atmospheres of Violence, a conference that asks: in a world teeming with images of brutality and destruction, how can we look away from spectacular violence and toward the atmospheres that produce its representations?

 **Schedule**

 **Wednesday, May 3, 2023**

 6:00–8:00 PM | **Colectivo Los Ingrávidos Artist Keynote + Film Program**

 8:00–10:00 PM | **AFVS End of Year Reception**

 **Thursday, May 4, 2023**

 10:30 AM–12:15 PM | **Panel 1: Mediating Trauma and Materializing Abolition in the US Carceral State**

- Panel Chair: Valerie Werder, PhD Candidate, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University

 “Abolition and Faith: Embodying the Sacred in Migrant Liberation Narratives”

- Dr. Itzel Corona Aguilar, PhD in Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University

 “Seeing Just Another Girl About to Set It Off: Witnessing as a Catalyst for State Resistance”

- Dominique Young, PhD Candidate, English, University of Maryland

 “Traumatic Media: Fanon, Milieus, and Carceral Technology”

- Haden Smiley, PhD Student, Anthropology, Harvard University

 1:30–3:15 PM | **Panel 2: Negative Forensics and Climate Media**

- Panel Chair: Max Bowens, PhD Candidate, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University

 “Burning Aesthetics: Dissidence and the Pyrocene in present-day Iran”

- Yohana Ansari-Thomas + Hermine Demaël, Masters of Architecture Students, Princeton University

 “Machinic Genres of Seeing: Clarity and Deception in Post-Lens Techno-Atmospheres (Or, On the Perversity of Enhancement)”

- Andrea Avidad, PhD Candidate, Cinema Studies, New York University

 “Towards an Abolitional Meteorology”

- Dr. Harshavardhan Bhat, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University

 “Forensic Dust and Its Counters”

- Julia Huggins, PhD Candidate, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

 4:00–5:30 PM | **Keynote Lecture: “Listening in Refusal of Counterforensic Violence,” Pooja Rangan**

 **Friday, May 5, 2023**

 10:00–11:30 AM | **Panel 3: Colonial Legacies in East and Southeast Asia**

- Panel Chair: Shaowen Zhang, PhD Candidate, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University

 “A Study on the Origins of “Ear Training” in the Modernization Period of Korea: Japanese Music Education and Military Training”

- YoungEun Kim, PhD Candidate, Film & Digital Media, University of California Santa Cruz

 “Fighting the Invisible Enemy: The Production of China’s Gas Warfare Defense Knowledge and Technologies (1927-45)”

- Jiayi Li, Master’s Student, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University

 “Flight’s Frictions: Surfacing Airport Ecologies in the British Empire”

- Marcus Yee, PhD Candidate, History, Yale University

 11:45 AM–1:10 PM | **Panel 4: Contending with Opacity**

- Panel Chair: Julia Sharpe, PhD Candidate, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University

 “Verberations from the Foley Stage”

- Dr. Emilija Talijan, Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Oxford University

 “La tierra habla”

- Anaís Córdova-Páez & Daniela Delgado Viteri, Artist Collective

 “Rhetoric of War: Ekphrasis as Imaginary Documentary in Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain”

- Michelle Chow, PhD Student, English, Yale University

 2:30-3:50 PM | **Panel 5: Thresholds of Regulation in Media Environments**

- Panel Chair: Mahan Moalemi, PhD Candidate, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University

 “‘It is only a piece of paper, sir!’”

- Shikhar Goel, PhD Student, Media, Culture & Communication, New York University

 “‘Insecure Atmospheres’: A Psychosocial Approach to Art Museum Securitization in the United States”

- Sila Ulug, PhD Candidate, Art History + Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago

 “From ‘Landscape’ to ‘Streets’: Nakahira Takuma in the Ryūkyū Islands, 1973-1977”

- Lucy Fleming-Brown, Master’s Student, Arts Studies & Curatorial Practices, Tokyo University of the Arts

 4:15–5:45 PM | **Keynote Lecture: “Classifying Clouds: Atlases of Atmospheric Violence in the Pacific,” Yuriko Furuhata**

 All keynotes and screenings will take place in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Theatre; panels will take place in room B-04.

 Atmospheres of Violence is sponsored by the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University with support from the Harvard University Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities.