We are pleased to announce the full program of Accelerated Academy 7: Prospecting: Extraction, Speculation, and Liberation in the Accelerated Academy at Michigan State University November 22-23. The Symposium will utilize the concept of “prospecting” to think through the different economic interests, technical assemblages, and affective regimes that shape academic life, labor, and outcomes today. The two-day symposium will feature panels, workshops, and artistic projects from more than 20 scholars. dr. sava saheli singh will deliver the keynote, “Love in the Time of Surveillance Capitalism: How Algorithms Are Reshaping Our Intimate Online Spaces.” ****Registration is required via Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accelerated-academy-7-prospecting-tickets-74230335933>**** Remote participation is possible via Zoom. SCHEDULE OVERVIEW Day 1 // Friday, Nov. 22 9 am Welcome remarks, land acknowledgment 9:15am Panel 1 // Platforms. Data. Speed. Now. - Riyad A Shahjahan - Geopolitics of being and datafication of higher education: Towards embracing un/certainty - Mark Carrigan - Can platformised scholarship be collective? [R] - Matthew Applegate - Digital Tools as Critical Theory: Edu-Factory to Digital Humanities - Justin Clark - Seeking Faster Minds in the American University [R] 11am // Break 11:15am WORKSHOP // Filip Vostal: Technologies of Time 12:00 Noon // Lunch (catered) 1:15pm Panel 2 // Questioning Institutions, Questioning Identity - Matt Rosen - Three Questions about Education [R] - Jessica Butler - Gilding the ivory: Ideal masculinity, academic identity, self-promotion, and experiences of belonging/impostorhood from the ‘golden age’ to neoliberalised English higher education [R] - Steven Weiland - Time and Texts: Questions of Reading in the Accelerated Academy 3pm // Break 3:15pm Panel 3 // “On” and “Off” Campus: Community and the University - Rubén Martinez - Labor Concerns on the Modern Dairy Farm - Sarah Schönbauer - From bench to stage - How life scientists’ participation in leisure groups creates caring relationships - Ian Butcher - Expropriated Campuses and Community-Directed Higher Ed [R] - Dafne Calvo - Collective, Collaborative and Free: Lessons from Studying the Commons 5pm // Break 5:15pm // Keynote address by dr. sava saheli singh: “Love in the Time of Surveillance Capitalism: How Algorithms Are Reshaping Our Intimate Online Spaces” 6:15 // Musical Performance: The Two-Body Problem, followed by Dinner and Drinks at Beggar’s Banquet ALL DAY: artwork by Anicca Cox Day 2 // Saturday, Nov. 23 10am WORKSHOP – Sarah Ng and Noopur Raval: Global South’s Knowledge Production and Delinking from Inequality 11am Panel 4 // Staying with the Trouble by Cultivating Your Path to Intellectual Leadership - A conversation with: Dean Chris Long, Associate Deans Sonja Fritzsche, Bill Hart-Davidson, and Cara Cilano 12:45pm // Lunch 2 pm WORKSHOP // Ellie Louson and Kathleen Fitzpatrick: The Future is Generous 3 pm WORKSHOP // Kimine Mayuzumi: Reclaiming Our Body and Implementing Rituals 4 pm Salutations 4:15pm Drinks and goodbyes! — [R] = remote presentation -- Erin Rose Glass, Ph.D. Digital Scholarship Librarian UC San Diego Library www.erinroseglass.com | @erinroseglass (858) 534-0827