Just Feelings: Citizenship, Justice, and the Emotions
Original Just Feelings Conference Program
April 27 – 28, 2001
Friday, April 27
Welcome: Kristie Hamilton
Arenas of Justice
Ann Cvetkovich
“An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures”
Jane Gallop
“Living with His Camera: Emotional Detachment, Sontag, and Domestic Argument”
Conference Speaker Bios
Moderator: Joan Wolf
Emotional History
William Reddy
“Emotional Rights: Superfluous or Fundamental?”
Kevin Rozario
“Feeling Good: Delicious Horror and the Origins of American Humanitarianism”
Moderator: Mark Bradley
Eduardo Kac
“Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art”
Introduction: Lane Hall
Saturday, April 28
Just Aesthetics
Lisa Saltzman
“On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Holocaust Art”
Patrice Petro
“World Weariness and Weimar Women: Theorizing Aesthetic and Cultural Moods”
Moderator: Alice Gillam
Feeling and the Citizen-Subject
José Esteban Muñoz
“Freakery and Feeling: The Case of Latinidad”
Gregory Jay
“Other People’s Holocausts: Justice, Empathy, and Accountability in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith”
Leerom Medovi
“Downsizing as a Structure of Feeling: The Emergent Politics of Disenfranchisement”
Moderator: Dick Blau
Controlling Emotions
Jennifer Travis / Milette Shamir
“Emotional Rescue? Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.”
Jane Caputi
“‘Take Back What Does Not Belong to Me’: The Transmission of Affect and Secual Violence”
Moderator: Anne Hansen
Patterns and Practice
Susan Bandes
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”
Kristin Ruggiero
“Passional Crimes”
John P. Jackson
“The Political Uses of Race Hatred: The ‘New’ Scientific Racism in the Postwar United States”
Moderator: Bernard Gendron
Discussants: Carrie Yang Costello, Ingrid Jordt,
Gwynne Kennedy, William Vélez, Yuan Yuan