International Graduate Conference 2014
Trust Issues: Community, Contingency, and Security in North America
Keynote lectures will be held by
- Prof. Martin Hartmann (Philosophy, University of Luzern, CH),
author of The Practice of Trust (2011), and - Prof. Susan Castillo (American Studies, King’s College London, UK).
The conference will also include a showing of “Hawk & Dove”, a video work by British artist Isabella Streffen with a talk and Q&A. John B. Emerson, Ambassador of the United States of America to the Federal Republic of Germany, will deliver an opening address.
Registration
We encourage you to register as early as possible. In order to do so, please send an email to gsnas.conference2014@gsnas.fu-berlin.de stating your full name, contact information and institutional affiliation.
Unfortunately, the Graduate School of North American Studies cannot provide any grants to cover your participation fee and travel expenses.
If you have any questions concerning the registration process, please contact us at gsnas.conference2014@gsnas.fu-berlin.de
Program
You can download the full schedule here [Flyer, 1 MB, pdf].| Friday 9th May | |
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| 9.00 am | Registration opens |
| 9.30 am | Opening Remarks and Address by H.E. John B. Emerson, U.S. Ambassador to Germany |
| 10.30 am | Coffee Break |
| Friday 9th May 11.00 am | Panel I & II |
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Episodes of Pervasive Distrust: American Institutions and the Effects of Paranoia and Anxiety Panel Chair: Sebastian Jobs |
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Auréliane Narvaez |
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Katharina Thalmann |
“An Idée Fixe Whose Time Has Come”: Paranoia and the Watergate Scandal |
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Simon Schleusener |
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Tricksters and Con Men: Untrustworthy Figures in American Cultural Expression Panel Chair: Kathleen Loock |
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Dennis Mischke |
Confidence Games and Global Communities: Herman Melville and Imperial Cosmopolitanism |
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Sonja Schillings |
Unreliable Characters and Coded Messages in Flannery O‟Connor‟s “Revelation” |
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Wieland Schwanebeck |
Gotta Know Your Audience: Argo and the Cinematic Confidence Game |
| 12.30 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1.45 pm | Artist Presentation: Isabella Streffen, Hawk & Dove |
| 2.45 pm | Coffee Break |
| Friday 9th May 3.00 pm | Panel III & IV |
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“The Most Trusted Name in News?”: Television from Political Commentary to Parody Panel Chair: Alexander Starre |
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Sarah Archino |
Performing Stephen Colbert: Parafiction, Truthiness, and Super PACs |
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Jasmin Humburg |
In Gold We Trust? Peniaphobia and the (In)security of Wealth in U.S. Television Shows |
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Curd Knüpfer |
Trustworthy Sources? News Media Bias and Trust in American Politics |
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American Borders: The Ethnic Other’s Relation to Security and Trust Panel Chair: Martin Lüthe |
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Ina Batzke |
(De)Stabilized TRUST in the Nation? The Difficulty of Including „Other‟ People |
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Aleksandra Holubowicz |
Border Security as the Solution to Complex Borderlands Problems |
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Sara Swerdlyk |
The 'Securitization' of Romani Migration: New Insights from the Canadian Case |
| 4.30 pm | Refreshments |
| 5.00 pm | Keynote: Martin Hartmann, The Decline of Trust: Myth or Fact? |
| 6.30 pm | Reception |
| Saturday 10th May | |
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| 9.00 am | Coffee and Registration |
| 9.30 am | Keynote: Susan Castillo, Trust, Civility, and the Shadow of Jamestown |
| 11.00 am | Breakfast Reception |
| Saturday 10th May 11.30 am | Panel V & VI |
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Faltering Communities: Sociological Perspectives on Trust and Fear in American Society Panel Chair: Markus Kienscherf |
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Emanuela Burini |
Urban Fear and Social Insecurity: The Phenomenon of Gated Communities in North America |
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Nathan Vanderpool |
The Interfaith Anchor: A Trust-Building Tool for Achieving Religious Pluralism |
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Branko Woischwill |
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Visibility, Surveillance, and Control: Mediation and the Power of the Image in American Culture Panel Chair: Simon Schleusener |
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Ilka Brasch |
Negotiating Trust and Surveillance in the Film Serial The Exploits of Elaine (1915) |
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Daniela Agostinho |
Aesthetics of Distrust: Transparency, Opacity and War in Brian de Palma‟s Redacted (2007) |
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Wiebke Kartheus |
Can We Trust Our Eyes? Edward Snowden and the Image of the Empty Seat |
| 1.00 pm | Lunch Break |
| Saturday 10th May 2.15 pm | Panel I & II |
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Between Soft Power and Warfare: Trust and Security in North American Intelligence and Foreign Policy Panel Chair: Christian Lammert |
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Sarah Earnshaw |
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Eva Jobs |
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Mark Neufeld |
Trust and Distrust in the Canadian Polity: Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications |
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Uncertain Times: Trust and Trauma in American Literature after 2000 Panel Chair: Thomas Dikant |
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Florian Gross |
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Julian Henneberg |
In Search of the “Third Culture”: Technoscience, Truth, and Trust in the Work of Richard Powers |
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Birte Wege |
“Weapons of Mass Displacement”: In the Shadow of No Towers and the War of Images |
| 3.45m | Coffee Break |
| 4 pm | Concluding Panel Panel Chairs: Talel Ben Jemia and Nikolas Keßels |
| 5.30 pm | Farewell Reception |
