Description: Speakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and economics.

Speakers

Sukanya Banerjee, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Stephen Best, U of California, Berkeley

Michaela Bronstein, Stanford U

Melanie Micir, Washington U in St. Louis

Paul Nadal, Princeton U

Presider

Jonathan Grossman, U of California, Los Angeles