The world today, if there is "a" world to speak of, has been deeply shaken by the vortex of political transformations and returns of mass violence. How can attention to psychic life register sites and moments of rupture, sustenance, and transformation? Through what modes might we sound out the untimeliness of the "now"? Shaken Grounds is a graduate workshop where students from anthropology and beyond will share and discuss ongoing work, building toward a collective conversation on the politics of psychic life.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

10:00–10:30am: Breakfast and Opening Remarks

10:30am–12:00pm: Session One: Unwriting History

12:00–1:00pm: Lunch

1:00–2:00pm: Keynote: Stefania Pandolfo — "The Disappeared"

2:00–2:15pm: Coffee Break

2:15–3:45pm: Session Two: Psychic Landscapes

3:45–4:00pm: Coffee Break

4:00–5:30pm: Session 3: Tending and Speculation

5:30–6:30pm: Closing & Reception

Welcome and Opening Remarks (10:00-10:30)

Opening Remarks: Emily Ng

Session One: Unwriting History (10:30-12:00)

Discussant: Emily Ng

• Montita Sowapark (Anthropology) – “Spyglass Self: Reflections on Autoethnography and Psychoanalysis”
• Sohyoon Lee (Comparative Literature) – “Inheritance of Memory, Betrayal of Memory: Narratives of Manchukuo/Manchuria and Its Afterlives”
• Sofie Sogaard (Anthropology) – “Tupilak Transformations: Semantic Expansion and the Politics of Meaning in Kalaallit Nunaat”
  
  

Lunch (12:00-1:00)

Available for presenters and registered attendees

KEYNOTE: Stefania Pandolfo – “The Disappeared” (1:00-2:00)

Session Two: Psychic Landscapes (2:15-3:45)

Discussant: Stefania Pandolfo

• Chloe Rong (Anthropology, Haverford) – “Psychic Equilibrium at Its Limits”
• Kaylani Hocog Manglona (Anthropology) – “Nuclear Lullabies from a Militarized Pacific Marianas”
• Jerry Lucius Pyrtuh (History & Sociology of Science) – “Matters of the Heart: Psychic Ruptures and the Politics of Care in the Lives of Khasi Elderly Women”
  
  

Coffee Break (3:45-4:00)

Session Three: Tending and Speculation (4:00-5:30)

Discussant: Michael D’Arcy

• Ross Perfetti (Anthropology) – “Recovering: Opening the Closed Circuit of Traumatic Histories”
• Sooah Kwak (Anthropology) – “Betting Against Your World: Radical Uncertainty, Magical Futurity, and Other Thoughts on Speculative Markets Amid War”
• Jenny (Zhuoli) Gao (Anthropology) – “Robot Care: Personhood and Attachment in Human-Machine Interaction”

Closing Remarks (5:30-5:45)

Stefania Pandolfo and Michael D’Arcy

Reception (5:45-6:30)