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US Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis
Marta Neüff
The Rhetorical Framing of 9/11 or how President Bush turned a Terrorist Attack into a War on Terror
Salvador Santino F. Jr. Regilme
Age of Terror: Post 9/11 US Foreign Policy and the Crisis of Human Rights in the Philippines
Götz Kaufmann
Benevolent Imperialism － Imperialism beyond Benevolence. Civil Societies' Uprising and Cultural Diplomacy in Light of Successful US Foreign Politics in the Past
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Chair:
Prof. Christian Lammert, Freie Universität Berlin |
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Aesthetic Responses to Crisis I: Literature and Cinema
Andrea Carosso
Spaces In-Between: Post-9/11 Arab-American and Muslim American Narratives and the Post-Colonial Imaginary
Marius Henderson
Juggling with Uncertainties and Impasses: How Experimental Poetry Manages to Generate Spaces of Dissent and Retreat amidst Contemporary Scenarios of Crisis
Eric Erbacher
Re-Framing the Crises of Capitalist Spaces: Staking Claims in Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
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Chair:
Prof. Martin Lüthe, Freie Universität Berlin
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Aesthetic Responses to Crisis II: Art and Architecture
Dustin Breitenwischer
“This is going green 1949 style”: The Eames' Case Study House #8 between Networking Environment and Spatial Play
Friederike Schäfer
Art and Spatial Production: On the Artistic Strategy of Claiming Spaces in the Works of Gordon Matta-Clark and Theaster Gates
Tazalika te Reh
Building in the Dark
Kai Horstmannshof
In the Loop: Baroque Form in the Millennium Park Chicago
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Chair:
Prof. Frank Kelleter, Freie Universität Berlin
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Property, Poverty, and American Identity
Moritz Hagemann
Hegel's Theory of Recognition and its Implications for the Discourse of Distribution Justice
Izabella Kimak
Of Property Lost and Taken Over: A Reading of Spaces in Paul Auster's Sunset Park
Richard Martin
'You can't sleep here': The Housing Crisis and Contemporary US Cinema
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Chair:
Prof. Sedlmeier, Freie Universität Berlin
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Urban Spaces: Macro and Micro Perspectives
Boris Vormann
Crises and the Rise of Urban Networked Mobility Spaces
Paige Glotzer
Today's Crisis, Yesterday's Real Estate: The Effects of Suburban Development's Trajectory in the United States
Zofia Lapniewska
Urban Commons as a Side of the Double Movement
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Chair:
Stefan Hoehne, Technische Universität Berlin
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Claiming Space in Literature
Silvia Chirila
Spaces of Memory and Belonging in Toni Morrison's Home
Katharina Christ
Walking and Writing in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Chair:
Prof. Laura Bieger, Freie Universität Berlin
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The Individual in Crisis: Narrating Lives
Julia Nikiel
“You might as well all be living inside a [global] photocopier” - the “New Normal” and the Crisis of Storyliving in Douglas Coupland’s Generation A and Player One – What Is to Become of Us
Alexandra Wagner
Narratives of Crisis - The Contested Spaces of Life Writing
Mieke Woelky
Telling the Story of Loss: Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking and the Silence of Grief
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Chair:
Prof. Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität Berlin
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Contested spaces: Occupy and the New Social Movements
Maarten Paulusse
Sacred Tents and Endless Drums: Space for Spirituality and Religion at Occupy
Jasper Verlinden
“I would prefer not to be a little reasonable”: Occupy Wall Street and the Affective Investment in Melville's Bartleby
Thomas Wagenknecht
Spatial Narratives of the U.S. Campus in a Time of Crisis
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Chair:
Prof. Margit Mayer, Freie Universität Berlin
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Neoliberalism: Aesthetics and Representation
Simon Schleusener
From ‘Ethical’ to ‘Cool’ Capitalism: Ayn Rand, The Social Network, and the Aesthetics of Neoliberalism
Lura Limani
Pessimism Porn in the Cosmopolis: Financial Crises in DeLillo's and Cronenberg's Cosmopolis(es)
Courtney Fullilove
The New York City Flour Riot and the Paradox of Capitalist World Food Systems
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Chair:
Prof. Donald Pease, Dartmouth
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