Program
Fourth International Graduate Conference
American Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modes of Power
May 27-28, 2011
Friday May 27 2011
9:00 - 9:30 am
Registration and coffee
9:30 - 10:00 am
Conference opening by members of the Conference Committee and Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein (Director GSNAS) (room 340)
10:00 - 11:30 am
Session 1
Panel I (room 340)
“Bodies at Borders: Histories of Citizenship, Immigration and Belonging.”
Chair: Prof. Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University/English and American Studies)
Maria John: “Unhealthy Bodies on the Reservation: The Medicalization of ‘the Indian Problem’ in the Early 20th Century”
Robert Júlio Decker: “Biopolitics at the Border: The Immigration Restriction League (IRL) and Immigrant Inspection.”
Kerrin-Sina Arfsten: “Visualizing the ‘Illegal Other’: Power, Surveillance and Citizenship in the American Borderlands.”
Panel II (room 319)
“Bodies (Re-)Constructed: Interpretations of Gender Identities.”
Chair: Andrew Steven Gross, PhD (JFK Institute/Literature)
Melanie Eis: The “Mad Ones:” The Construction of White US-American Bodies in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.”
Ben Robbins: “‘The silver dream’: The Female Body and Film in William Faulkner’s Modernist Aesthetic.”
Dr. Antje Dallmann: “Medicine in Crisis / Masculinity in Crisis: S. Weir Mitchell and Re-Negotiations of Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch break
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Session 2
Panel III (room 340)
“Bodies Transcending Boundaries 1: Configurations of Technology and the Self.”
Chair: Dr. phil. Frank Mehring (JFK Institute/Culture)
Christoph Raetzsch: “Images of the Body in Cybernetic Space.”
Luisa Sehlleier: “The Sexy Disabled Body: Innovative Treatment of Disabled Sexuality in David Cronenberg’s Crash.”
Dr. phil. Frank Mehring: “Silhouette Bodies: Synaesthetic Spaces Beyond the Literary Harlem Renaissance.”
Panel IV (room 319)
“Bodies of a Nation: Constructing Ideas of America.”
Chair: Dr. Andreas Etges (JFK Institute/History)
Sandra Perot: “Bodies of Revolution: Late Eighteenth Century American Actresses, Playwrights and Audiences and Embodiment of the American Ideal.”
Kate C. Lemay: “Bodies of the Fallen, Emblems of Power: The American Military Cemeteries in France.”
Jennifer Moos: “‘Wake up, America!’: Sleeping Bodies and the Nation in Washington Irving and Walt Whitman.”
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Coffee break (hallway)
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Session 3
Panel V (room 340)
“Bodies Transcending Boundaries II: Metamorphoses of Anatomy and the Self.”
Chair: Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel (JFK Institute/Sociology)
K. Heintzman: “Marks of Gender: The Verbal/Visual Significations of Gender Identities in American Political Pomo-Porno.”
Heike Steinhoff: ‘’I just want to be perfect’: Body Projects in Contemporary American Culture.”
Martin Radermacher: “Devotional Fitness in US Evangelicalism: ‘Secular’ Body Ideals in Contemporary Religious Currents.”
Panel VI (room 319)
“Bodies on Display: Meanings of Visibility.”
Chair: Prof. Dr. Michaela Hampf (JFK Institute/History)
Anne Scheer: “Disciplining the Student Body – Disciplinary Practices at an Inner-City School.”
Shenila S. Khoja-Moolji: “Muslim Chaplaincy on University Campuses: A New Form of Religious Leadership in America.”
Margarita Aragon: “‘This Ruinous Element’: the Construction of Blackness and the Fact of Unfreedom in 20th-Century America.”
4:30 – 5:00 pm Coffee break (hallway)
5:30 - 7:00 pm Keynote Address Prof. Robert D. Putnam
Introduction Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel (JFK Institute/Sociology) (Ethnological Museum, Dahlem)
7:00 pm
Reception (Museum)
Saturday May 28 2011
9:00 – 9:30 am
Registration (lobby)
9:30 – 11:00 am
Keynote Address Prof. Wai Chee Dimock
Introduction Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein (Director GSNAS) (room 340)
11:00 – 11:30 am
Coffee break (hallway)
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Session 4
Panel VII (room 340)
“Bodies in the Media: (In-)Security, Exposure, and Transgression.”
Chair: Prof. Lance Bennett (University of Washington/Department of Communication)
Emma Baumhofer: “Outsourcing Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market.”
Seth Hulse: “Authentic Broadcast News Bodies and their Inauthentic Brethren.”
Adam Christian von Wald: “Bodies as Ideologically Contested Sites: Negotiating Homosexuality, Individualism and the Repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' in the U.S. Armed Forces.”
Panel VIII (room 319)
“Bodies of Power and Regulation.”
Chair: Prof. Dr. Lora Anne Viola (JFK Institute/Politics)
Julian Arndts: “The Power of Regulatory Bodies in the United States: Trade and Currency Wars with China, Financial Markets and Savings Incentives.”
Michael Weinman: “Bodies of Regulation, Bodies for Regulation: The Costs of Unchecked Corporate Agency.”
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Lunch break
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Session 5
Panel IX (room 340)
“Bodies of Resistance: Conceptions of Gender, Race, and Identity.”
Chair: Dr. Gudrun Löhrer (JFK Institute/History)
Jane Preuß: “The Body, Style, and Hygiene in the National Association of Colored Women, 1896-1917."
Richard A. Grijalva: “Negotiating Identity, Culture, and History in the Body of the Pachuco.”
Jana Drešerová: “Representation of Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Visual Culture.”
Panel X (room 319)
“Bodies and Shapes: Visualizations of Corporeality.”
Chair: Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JFK Institute/Literature)
Meng Xianping: “Empowered Sites, Isolated Man: Natural Experience and Landscape Representation in 19th-Century American Art.”
Simon Schleusener: “Body Politics: FDR, Obama, and the Neoliberalization of Corporeality.“
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Coffee break (hallway)
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Session 6
Panel XI (room 340)
“Bodies in Urban Spaces.”
Chair: Lina L. Tegtmeyer, M.A. (GSNAS)
Mark Tardi: “Falling Into View: Representations of the September 11, 2001 "jumpers" as seen in Don DeLillo's novel, Mad Men & elsewhere.”
Margaux Portron: “The Politics of Space in The Wire.”
Sarah Wasserman: “A Mary That Matters: Embodied Faith and Urban Apparitions.”
Panel XII (room 319)
“Bodies in Pain: Portrayals of Suffering and Violence.”
Chair: Dr. Catrin Gersdorf (JFK Institute/Literature)
Marta Alice Gabriel Soares: “’I Know it Hurts to Burn’: Adrienne Rich’s Body in Pain.”
Caroline Marquette: “Literary Blows and Bruises or How Joyce Carol Oates Tries to Make Sense of America’s Bloody Body.”
Tina Weber: “Roll Over And Play Dead! Representations of Dead Bodies in American TV Shows of the 21st Century”
6:00 – 6:15 pm
Closing remarks (room 340)
6:15 pm
Reception (hallway)
