Program
Friday, May 24, 2013
| 8:30 | 9:00 | Registration / Coffee |
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| 9:00 | 9:30 |
Opening remarks
Members of the Conference Committee; Director of the Graduate School of North American Studies Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein |
| 9:30 | 11:00 |
Panel 1: US Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis
Panel 2: Aesthetic Responses to Crisis I: Literature and Cinema |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Coffee Break / Breakfast Reception |
| 11:15 | 12:45 | Panel 3: Aesthetic Responses to Crisis II: Art and Architecture |
| 12:45 | 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | 15:30 | Panel 4: Property, Poverty, and American Identity |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 | 17:15 |
Panel 5: Urban Spaces: Macro and Micro Perspectives
Panel 6: Claiming Space in Literature |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 | 19:00 |
Keynote
Prof. Richard Sennett － "The Open City" |
| 19:00 | Reception |
Saturday, May 25, 2013
| 9:15 | 9:45 | Registration / Coffee |
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| 9:45 | 11:15 |
Keynote
Prof. Ansgar Nünning － "Weapons of Mass Destruction": Narratives of Crisis as Ways of Conflict-, Space- and World-Making" |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | 13:00 |
Panel 7: The Individual in Crisis: Narrating Lives
Panel 8: Contested spaces: Occupy and the New Social Movements |
| 13:00 | 14:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 | 15:45 | Panel 9: Neoliberalism: Aesthetics and Representation |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Closing remarks |
| 16:30 |
Film Screening and Reception
"Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Facts of Art and Conspiracy" (the film maker Mareike Wegener will be present) |
