Our conference #Petrocultures2024 got a nice writeup in #ArtForum:
https://www.artforum.com/columns/melissa-ragain-petrocultures-2024-559597/
#oil #energy#LosAngeles #energyHumanities#Petrocultures #arts#Climate
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However: "The conference took place the week after graduation on the campus of the University of Southern California, organized by local faculty & graduate students who scrambled to respond in real time to the unfolding Gaza solidarity protests leading up to the end of the semester. Of the approximately three hundred participants scheduled to attend, about 20% dropped out, with at least half of those describing their withdrawal as a response to the actions of the university administration"
And that's why I'm never organizing a conference again.
Eighteen months of planning went up in smoke when administrators called the cops on students, locked down the campus, and made the conference attendees who did come feel very unwelcome in numerous ways from racially profiling them, searching their bags, making the whole campus unnavigable because of fences and gate closures, etc.
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