Konferenzprogramm
Vorläufiger Ablaufplan
Friday, June 27th / 16.00 - 18.00
Panel 1 - African American Identity (Villa)
Chair: Silke Hackenesch (Free University Berlin)
| Martin Lüthe | University of Giessen | I’m Tied to Your Apron String”: Motown and Inclusive Black Men |
| Frank Wilker | Free University Berlin | Cultural Memory of the Middle Passage: Reconfiguration through Imagery |
| Carmen Mitchell | University of California Berkeley | African American Exceptionalism in Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic |
| Tony McGowan | US Military Academy Westpoint | ‘Color-blindness’ and Insight into the Inclusion Debate within the US Military |
Panel 2 - Literature and Identity (Room 203)
Chair: Claudio Cattaneo (University of Rome – La Sapienza)
| Henrike Demuth | Technical University Dresden | Collective Memory in contemporary (Jewish) American Holocaust Drama: Contesting shared and divided Identities |
| Pia Masiero | University of Venice Ca' Foscari | Jewish-American Counterlives |
| Claire Gresle-Favier | University of Dortmund | Sexual abstinence education and the good American sexual citizen |
| Michael Boyden | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Pioneer of Pluralism: The Sequential Bilingualism of Carl Schurz |
Panel 3 - Gender: Action, Representation and Performance (Room 319)
Chair: Laura Bieger (Free University Berlin)
| Michaela Bank | University of Frankfurt/Main | Contesting Nativism in the 19th-century US Women’s Rights Movement |
| Barbara Antoniazzi | University of Venice Ca' Foscari | The Gender of Things: sexed machines and the segregation of female workers at the turn of the century. |
| Regis Mann | University of California Riverside | Racial and Gender Performativity in Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep |
| Eva Rus | University of Birmingham | Mary Kelly: the looping space of Love Songs (2005, 2007) |
Panel 4 - Militarism and Empire (Room 340)
Chair: Donald Pease (Dartmouth College)
| Ryan O'Kane | University of Birmingham | Synthesising Liberty: The cybernetic reconstruction of American political culture, 1941-47 |
| Kienscherf Markus | Free University Berlin | A (Permanent) State of Exception? Anti-globalization Protests, the State and the War Machine |
| Jennie Sutton | Washington University, St.Louis | Re-Zoning American Empire: Forced Civilian Relocation and Inter-imperial Connections |
| Fabian Lindner | Free University Berlin | Financial Markets, National Debt and American Hegemony |
Saturday, June 28th / 9.00 - 11.00
Panel 5 - Enforcing Consensus and Producing Dissent in American History (Room 201)
Chair: Juliane Graf (Free University Berlin)
| Michael Lenz | University of Cologne | The Specter of Disunity: Enforcing Unity in Revolutionary and Early National America |
| Jasper Trautsch | Free University Berlin | Inclusionary and Exclusionary Practices of Early American Nationalism. |
| Simone Pelizza | University of Torino | From Secession to Loyalty: Edward A. Pollard and the Parable of Southern Exceptionalism in mid-19th Century America |
| Richard Wall | University of Birmingham | Woodrow Wilson and the Unified Nation |
Panel 6 - Representation of and after 9/11 (Room 203)
Chair: Devin Zuber (University of Osnabrück)
| Nausica Zaballos | University of Paris Sorbonne | Dramatization of 11/09 in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: blurring boundaries between image and reality, community and self. |
| Henrike Lehnguth | University of Maryland | Extraordinarily Unified, Exceptionally Heroic: American Resilience and Courage in Paul Greengrass’s United 93 |
| Mahshid Mayar | University of Teheran | American Literary Turn at the Turn of the Century: How 9/11 creeps into US literature |
| Christiane Streubel | University of Münster | Intergenerational Armageddon? Pictures of the Elderly in US-Print Media and the Impact of 9/11 |
Panel 7 - Literature: Forms and Politics (Room 319)
Chair: Sebastian Horn (Free University Berlin)
| Florian Sedlmeier | University of Konstanz | The How Is the What: Dave Eggers and Form as Politics |
| Hannes Schaser | Free University Berlin | From Reform to Resistance: Emerson’s Essays and the Problem of Critique |
| Anneka Esch-van Kan | University of Giessen | Who counts as an American? - Patriotism and Dissent |
| Hanna Bingel | University of Giessen | “A Nation Haunted and Wanted by God. (De)constructing National Identity and Religion in the Contemporary American Novel.” |
Panel 8 - Corporate Media, Corporeal Movies (Room 340)
Chair: Julian Hanich and Tobias Scholz (Free University Berlin)
| Alan Taylor | Free University Berlin | Your Space is our Space: U.S. Corporate Media’s Representation of Self |
| Malgorzata Gajda-Laszewska | University of Warsaw | UNITED AGAINST UNITY: Public Movement Opposing Media Consolidation in the USA |
| Mark Straw | University of Birmingham | Male fighting machines: Masochism, performance, and technology in contemporary Hollywood war films |
| Wendy Ward | University College Dublin | Photography as Public Works Project: Framing for Exclusion in Lars von Trier’s Dogville |
Saturday, June 28th / 14.30 - 16.00
Panel 9 - Migration, Exile and Transnational Connections (Room 201)
Chair: Birte Adam (Humbolt Universtity Berlin)
| Chris Emery | University of Birmingham | The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the Iranian-American Community 1979-2008 |
| Jayson Sae-Saue | Stanford University | ‘Southwest Asia’: Mapping Asia in the Borderlands |
Panel 10 - Representation of Blackness (Room 203)
Chair: Bärbel Tischleder (Free University Berlin)
| Michael Basseler | University of Giessen | "Daddy issues": (African) American Identity and the Literature of the Post-Soul Generation |
| Silke Hackenesch | Free University Berlin | Constructing Blackness: Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in historical and Cultural Perspective |
| Kristina Graaff | Technical University Berlin | “Dope Dealer, Preacher Figure, 12th Floor Corporate Yes Man Wigger” – Strategies of African-American Self-Construction in the Genre of Street Literature |
Panel 11 - Antipastorals, Counternostalgias, and Intergenerational Control (Room 319)
Chair: Pia Masiero (University of Venice – Ca’ Foscari)
| Mauro Carassai | Brown University | ‘Why Are Things the Way They Are?’ The Limits of National Dissent in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Henry Bean’s The Believer |
| James Dorson | Free University Berlin | “Some Apparition Out of the vanished Past”: Counternostalgia in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy |
| Jörg Richter | Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung | Including/Excluding Inheritance: Generational Interfaces in Recent Family Novels |
Panel 12 - Negotiations of (Middle) Class Identity (Room 340)
Chair: Johannes Schaser (Free University Berlin)
| Konstantin Butz | University of Bremen | Divided We Skate - United We Fall”: Intersectional Privilege and the “Coolonial” Habits of Skateboarding |
| Daniel Geary | University of Nottingham | Debating Middle-Class Identity: The Lonely Crowd, White Collar, and Postwar American Culture |
| Michael Harley | Liverpool John Moores University | Navigating Exclusion in "Beggars of Life" by Jim Tully [1924] |
Saturday, June 28th / 16.30 - 18.00
Panel 13 - Narratives of Hybridity (Room 201)
Chair: Barbara Antoniazzi (University of Venice – Ca’ Foscari)
| Manlio Della Marca | University of Rome Sapienza | US in the Eyes of the Other(s): William Apess, Leslie Marmon Silko, and the Problem of Belonging to America |
| Kuan-Hui Liao | National Taiwan University | Beyond the Inclusion/Exclusion Binarism? Mapping the Mixed Race Identity in Rebecca Walker |
| Sally Michael | University of Cairo | Arab American Nationalism as Perversion and Border Crossing in Naomi Shihab Nye´s 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East |
Panel 14 - Native American and the Land(scape) (Room 203)
Chair: Johannes Völz (Free University Berlin)
| Thomas Dikant | Free University Berlin | Emerson and the Politics of the Land |
| Philipp Kneis | Uni of Potsdam / Humboldt University Berlin | The Reservation Writes Back: Contemporary (Native) Americans in Sherman Alexie’s Writings |
| Devin Zuber | University of Osnabrück | “An Uncertainty of Image”: Native Americans and the (trans)national Landscape |
Panel 15 - Living on the Border (Room 319)
Chair: Michael Duszat (Humbolt University Berlin)
| Bidlingmaier & Kozicka | University of Bochum | (Ex)clusion/(In)clusion and the Third Space: Representing Chinatowns in the USA |
| Martina Benz | Free University Berlin | Illegalized immigration in the U.S.: beyond the dichotomy of inclusion and exclusion |
| Marc Rodriguez | University of Notre Dame | Inclusion and Mexican Americanism: High School Acculturation, Ethnic Politics, and Revolt in South Texas, 1955-1963 |
Panel 16 - Urban Spaces: Orders and Disorders (Room 340)
Chair: Mary Ann Snyder-Körber (Free University Berlin)
| Paul Farber | University of Michigan | Rapping Ground Zero: Post-9/11 Hip Hop and the Racial-Spatial U.S. Urban Landscape |
| Cotner & Fitch | City University New York | Sweet Liberty: Shopping on the Margins |
| Madeleine Lyes | University College Dublin | Plurality as Chaos? Urban Disorder and the Lewis Mumford - Jane Jacobs Debate |
Das Programm (vorläufig)
Freitag
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11:00-13:00 |
Check-In Ort: Graduate School of North American Studies, Villa |
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13:00-13:30 (Museum) |
Willkommensrede (GSNAS and Donald Pease) Ort: Ethnologisches Museum, Filmvorführraum. |
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13:30-15:30 (Museum) |
Eröffnungvortrag Hortense Spillers Ort: Etnhologisches Museum, Filmvorführraum. |
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15:30-16:00 |
Kaffeepause |
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16:00-18:00 |
Panel 1 |
Panel 2 |
Panel 3 |
Panel 4 |
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18:00-19:00 |
Leichtes Abendessen |
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19:00-21:00 |
Vortrag Walter Benn Michaels Ort: Raum 340, John F. Kennedy Institut |
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Ab 21:00 |
Get Together |
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Samstag
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9:00-11:00 |
Panel 5 |
Panel 6 |
Panel 7 |
Panel 8 |
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11:00-11:30 |
Kaffeepause |
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11:30-13:00 |
Vortrag Saskia Sassen Ort: Raum 340, John F. Kennedy Institut |
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13:00-14:30 |
Mittagessen |
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14:30-16:00 |
Panel 9 |
Panel 10 |
Panel 11 |
Panel 12 |
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16:00-16:30 |
Kaffeepause |
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16:30-18:00 |
Panel 13 |
Panel 14 |
Panel 15 |
Panel 16 |
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18:00-18:30 |
Kaffeepause |
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18:30-20:00 |
Resümee von Donald Pease Podiumsdiskussion mit Walter Benn Michaels, Donald Pease und Hortense Spillers Ort: Raum 340, John F. Kennedy Institut |
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Ab 20:00 |
Grillveranstaltung |
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