Schedule

October 27, 2017

Time	Session Information
12pm – 2pm	Commemoration of Barbara Harlow Library Lincoln, Texas The late Barbara Harlow donated her rich archives to the Arab American Educational Foundation in October 2016. The foundation established a one-full-wall library with those donated materials and additional resources to honor Barbara Harlow. We eventually hope to develop the library into a resource center for a researcher-in-residence program. The Library is located in the ranch house of Aziz and Arwa Shaibani in Lincoln, Texas (45 minutes southeast of Austin). The Library will host a reception and lunch for those who RSVP for it. Exact address and further details will be circulated before the event to those who sign up to attend the luncheon.
5:30pm – 6:30pm	Barbara Harlow at UT Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center Chair Elizabeth Cullingford Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair in English Literature and Chair, Department of English The University of Texas at Austin Roundtable Participants Kamran Ali Associate Professor of Anthropology The University of Texas at Austin Mia Carter Associate Professor of English The University of Texas at Austin Ann Cvetkovich Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English The University of Texas at Austin Tarek El-Ariss Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Dartmouth College Karen Engle Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law & Co-director and Founder, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice The University of Texas School of Law Toyin Falola Professor and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, Department of History The University of Texas at Austin Meghan Gorman-Darif Graduate Student, Department of English The University of Texas at Austin Jeanette Herman Assistant Dean for Academic Initiatives & Director, Bridging Disciplines Programs, School of Undergraduate Studies The University of Texas at Austin Neville Hoad Associate Professor of English The University of Texas at Austin Ben Lindfors Professor Emeritus of English and African Literature The University of Texas at Austin
6:30pm – 7:25pm	Open Forum Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center Audience members will be invited to share their histories with Barbara.
7:25pm – 7:30pm	Closing Remarks Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center Karen Kelleher Barbara Harlow's sister
7:30pm – 9:30pm	Reception Atrium, Harry Ransom Center

October 28, 2017

Time	Session Information
9:00am – 10:30am	After Lives of Colonialism Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center Chair Brian Doherty Senior Lecturer, Department of English The University of Texas at Austin Panelists Hosam Aboul-Ela — “Where was Aden?” Associate Professor of English The University of Houston Purnima Bose — "The Canine Rescue Narrative: Afghanistan and Post-Humanist Humanitarianism" Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International Studies Indiana University Bloomington Jennifer Wenzel — “Environmental Justice, Instead” Associate Professor in the Department English and Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Columbia University
10:30am – 11:00am	Coffee break
11:00am – 12:15pm	After Lives of E3W Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center Chair Karen Engle Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law & Co-director and Founder, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice The University of Texas School of Law Panelists Eve Dunbar — "Monstrous Work: Resistance, Literature, and the Power of Black Possibilities" Associate Professor of English Vassar College Joseph Slaughter — "Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World” Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
12:15pm – 1:45pm	Lunch
2:00pm – 3:15pm	After Lives of Prison Writing Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center Chair Neville Hoad Associate Professor of English The University of Texas at Austin Panelists Fran Buntman — “Prison and Resistance” Associate Professor of Sociology George Washington University Avery Gordon — “The Subversive Pencil: A Methodology of Imprisonment” Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Coffee break
3:45pm – 5:30pm	Roundtable: Futures of Resistance Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center This forum, with the participation of local activists and conference attendees, will take up Barbara’s imperative to resist, especially under the exigencies of the present. Moderator Snehal Shingavi Associate Professor of English The University of Texas at Austin