Agora continues this fall with talks and panels from visiting and Pitt-affiliated scholars.
Sept 4, 3:00–4:30 PM, CL 602: "And I Would Always Choose the Bear": The Man vs. Bear Consent Debate in Post-Digital Folk Music and Romantic Literature
— with Dr. Laura Niebling, Managing Director of DIMAS, University of Regensburg.
Oct 30, 3:00–4:30 PM, CL 242: The Sprawl: Archival Methods for Environmental Disability
— with Dr. Emerson Cram (they/them), Associate Professor, Communication Studies & American Studies, University of Iowa; writer/narrator, The Disability Ecologies Podcast; author, Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West.
Nov 13, 3:00–4:30 PM, CL 1414 — Graduate Student Panel:
- Seth Davis — "I Can Feel Everything Crystalizing into a Cohesive Whole": Eliezer Yudkowsky and the End of Movement
- Kennedy Carda — Thunderstruck: Cruel Optimism, Affective Labor, and the Rewriting of Resistance in America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
- Berna Görgülü — Platform Logics and Feminist Visibility: How Digital Infrastructure Shapes Which Feminist Discourses Get Heard
- Eva Burklund — Understanding the Impacts of Libs of TikTok's Doxxing on LGBTQA+ People and Allies
- Nikki Fernandes — Circulating Stories of Moving Blackness: Moving Between Experience and Abstraction