John F. Kennedy Institute/

Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS)

Conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Graduate School of North American Studies

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Image Credit: (C) Heilmeyer und Sernau

The Fault Lines of Democracy
Conversations, Contestations and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Leibnizsaal

The conference is free of charge. Please register by sending an email with your affiliation to registration@gsnas.fu-berlin.de

Conference Program

Friday, October 20^th

noon	Registration
12:30pm	Opening remarks Klaus Hoffmann-Holland (Vice-President Freie Universität Berlin) H.E. Stéphane Dion (Ambassador of Canada to Germany) The Honorable Kent Logsdon (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Embassy of the United States to Germany) Ulla Haselstein (GSNAS, Freie Universität Berlin) Winfried Fluck (GSNAS, Freie Universität Berlin)
1:30pm	Keynote I Robert Warrior (President ASA/University of Kansas) "Away from Home: Indigeneity in Global American Studies" Introduction: Mare Pit (GSNAS)
2:45pm	Coffee Break
3:15pm	Workshop I “Drifting Apart? Democracy and its Discontents” (Chair: Christian Lammert) Winfried Fluck (JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin/ International Advisory Board GSNAS) Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich (JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin) Hans-Jürgen Puhle (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/ International Advisory Board GSNAS) Tobias Jochum (GSNAS) Sophie Spieler (GSNAS)
4:30pm	Coffee Break
5:00pm	Keynote II Paul Gilroy (King‘s College London) “Anti-racism in the Era of the Alt-right” Introduction: Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington)
6:15pm	Workshop II “ ‘We the People’? Nation/State/Community” (Chair: Ulla Haselstein) Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College/ International Advisory Board GSNAS) Talja Blokland (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) Sebastian Conrad (FMI, Freie Universität Berlin) Helen Gibson (GSNAS) Santino Regilme (Universiteit Leiden)
7:30pm	Reception

Saturday, October 21^st

10:00am	Workshop with Percival Everett "Fictive Distance and the Myth of Propositional Content" (separate registration needed)
noon	Lunch Break with Poster Session
1:30pm	Opening Statement John Kornblum (Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany/ International Advisory Board GSNAS)
2:00pm	Keynote III Amy Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania) “Our American Israel: the Paradox of Exceptionalism” Introduction: Maren Freudenberg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
3:15pm	Coffee Break
3:45pm	Workshop III “Only connect? Conflicting Narratives of Globalization” (Chair: Harald Wenzel) Julika Griem (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) Marianne Braig (LAI, Freie Universität Berlin) Boris Vormann (Bard College Berlin) Julia Püschel (JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin)
5:00pm	Coffee Break
5:30pm	Concluding Remarks Frank Kelleter (GSNAS, Freie Universität Berlin)
6:00pm	Reading Percival Everett (University of Southern California) Introduction: Johannes Kohrs (GSNAS)