Friday, April 22
1:30-2:00 Introduction
2:00-5:00 Panel I 

Chair: Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara)

Ban Wang (East Asian Languages and Comparative Literature, Stanford
University) *Popular Democracy and Mao's Little Red Books*
Danny Hoffman (Anthropology, University of Washington)
*Inhabiting Ruin: Global Urban Form and the Limits of Popular Politics*
Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University)
*Crowds, Riots, and the Politics of Disorder*

Saturday, April 23
10:00-12:00 Panel II
Chair: Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
Joshua Neves (Film Studies, Concordia University)
*Southern Effects: Kaiju, Cultural Intimacy, and the Production of Distribution?
Neepa Majumdar (English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh) "Disco Dancer and Idioms of the Global Popular*
2:00-4:00 Panel III
Chair: Paul Amar (Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
John Brenkman (English, CUNY Graduate Center) *The *Popular* and the Ordeal of Universalism*
Davide Panagia (Political Science, UCLA) *The Hyphen Means Ubiquity: #datapolitik and the Problem of Critique*
4:30-6:00  Roundtable