Conference schedule

Thursday, October 9

5pm Opening Keynote by Jack Halberstam

Welcome dinner

7pm Evening conversation Ashley Hunt & Kean O’Brien with screening of Ashley Hunt, dir., And Water Brings Tomorrow (2025)

Friday, October 10

10am Tour Kinship | Abolition | Freedom exhibition at the Hood Museum

11:30am Lunch

1pm Gina Dent on Zoom

3:00pm Exhibition Symposium (Kimberly Juanita Brown, Ikyo Day, Thy Phy, and Alisa Swindell)

5:00pm Dinner

7:00pm Evening conversation & screening of Minou Norouzi film

Saturday, October 11

10am Keynote by David Marriott

11:30am Book talk by Eray Cayli

12:30pm Lunch

2:00pm Collective panel (Amanda Wallace, Nabiha Mansoor, Eve Meltzer & Jemma Desai)

5:00pm Closing conversation (with some conference organizer leads)

7:00pm Closing dinner