Schedule

Thursday, November 13, 2014

9:25-9:40h	Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre: Introduction
9:40-11:25h	SESSION 1: Literary Institutions and Literary History Chair: Jessica Gienow-Hecht Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg): "Uses of Literature in the Age of Academic Literary Studies" Mark McGurl (Stanford): "The Posthuman Comedy: Imagining the End of Literary History"
11:25-11.45h	Coffee Break
11:45-13:30h	SESSION 2: Networks and Practices Chair: Martin Klepper Rita Felski (Virginia): "Critical and Postcritical Reading" Frank Kelleter (FU Berlin), Daniel Stein (Siegen): "Popular Seriality: Aesthetics and Practice"
13:30-14:45h	Lunch
14:45-16:30h	SESSION 3: Knowledge I Chair: Sarah Wasserman Heike Paul (Erlangen): "Presence and Tacit Knowledge" Sabine Sielke (Bonn): "Knowledge Ecologies North America: Changing Patterns in a Global Dynamics"
16:30-17:00h	Coffee Break
17:00-18:45h	SESSION 4: Knowledge II Chair: Talel Ben Jemia Florian Sedlmeier (FU Berlin): "Archives, Field, Positions: Howells and Realism" Ruth Mayer (Hannover): "Short and Concise: Narration and Knowledge in Film, 1900/2000"
19:00h	Reception

9:30-11:15h	SESSION 5: The Economics and Aesthetics of Security Chair: Markus Kienscherf Boris Vormann (FU Berlin): "Market Failure and Patterns of State Intervention" Johannes Voelz (Frankfurt): "Security and the Uncertain Worlds of Fiction"
11:15-11:45h	Coffee Break
11:45-13:30h	SESSION 6: Alterity, Materiality, and the Literary Chair: Simon Schleusener Philipp Schweighauser (Basel): "Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead" Babette B. Tischleder (Göttingen): "American Studies and the New Materialisms: Vibrant Matter at Work in the American Literary Imagination"
13:30-14:45h	Lunch
14:45-16:30h	SESSION 7: Space and Diaspora Chair: Lora Anne Viola Robert Reid-Pharr (CUNY), Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin): "Looking For(ward) and Beyond the Black Atlantic: Contemporary African Immigration in the US and Germany" Barbara Buchenau (Duisburg-Essen), Jens Gurr (Duisburg-Essen), Julia Sattler (TU Dortmund): "Spaces - Communities - Representations: Urban Transformations in the USA"
16:30-17:00h	Coffee Break
17:00-18:45h	SESSION 8: Cultural Emplacement Chair: Ulla Haselstein Klaus Benesch (LMU München): "Cultural Immobility: The Tradition of Antimodern Modernism and the Role of Intellectuals" Laura Bieger (Freiburg): "No Place Like Home: A Narrative Theory of Belonging"
19:00h	Conference Dinner: Alter Krug

9:00-10:45h	SESSION 9: Memory and Cognition Chair: Ahu Tanrisever Udo Hebel (Regensburg): "New England Anniversary Orations" Peter Schneck (Osnabrück): '"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never': American Studies and the Question of Cognition"
10:45-11:00h	Coffee Break
11:00-12:45h	SESSION 10: Forces of Narrative Chair: Maria Sulimma James Dorson (FU Berlin): "The Art of Mastery (and Drift): Managerialism and American Literary Naturalism” Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg): "The Ethnic Fantastic: Ambiguous Encounters with the Supernatural in Contemporary American Minority Literatures"
12:45-13:45h	Lunch
13:45-15:30h	SESSION 11: Masculinities and Sports Chair: Michaela Hampf Simon Wendt (Frankfurt): "Marginalized Masculinities and the American Nation: African American and Native American Military Heroism, 1941-1978" Christoph Ribbat (Paderborn): "Basketball: A Cultural History"
15:30-16:00h	Winfried Fluck (FU Berlin): Concluding Remarks
afterwards	Frank Kelleter , Alexander Starre: Farewell