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Cli-fi academic conference in ROMANIA: April 2016


European Association for American Studies Conference

Ovidius University,

Constanta, Romania

 

April 22-25, 2016

 

Sessions

 

Session 1: Gender Construction in Film Studies

Part I

Chair:     Rubén Cenamor, University of Barcelona, Spain

 

Krystyna Mazur, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Queer Anarchy: Resistance to the Normativization of Genders, Sexual Identities and the Neoliberal Economy in Silas Howard’s and Harry Dodge’s By Hook or by Crook

 

Dragoș Manea, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Leonardo’s Straightwashing; Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz, 2013--) and the Struggle for a Queer Cultural Memory”

 

Rubén Cenamor, University of Barcelona, Spain: “Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities in Tea and Sympathy (1953)”

 

Nikolas Dickerson, University of Lincoln, USA: “Ricky and Stick Icky: Marijuana, Sport, and the Queering of Black Masculinity

 

 

Session 2: Gender Construction in Film Studies

Part II

Chair:     Katherine Hoffman, St. Anselm College, Austria

 

Agnieszka Kotwasińska, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Gone Girls and Furious Feminists? Strong Female Characters in Mainstream Cinema”

 

Katherine Hoffman, St. Anselm College, Austria and Walter Hoebling, Retired Professor Karl Franzens University, Austria: “Women ‘Against the Grain’ in U.S. Film, 1945-2015”

 

Hilaria Loyo, University of Zaragoza, Spain: “Blinding Blondes and the Search for Authenticity in the Hollywood Cinema of the Sixties”

 

 

Session 3: Cinematic Investigations

Chair:      Jesus A. Gonzalez, University of Cantabria, Spain

 

Jesus A. Gonzalez, University of Cantabria, Spain: “Cardinal Points in Contemporary Transnational Post-Westerns”

 

Aleksandra Musial, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland: “An American Tragedy: Victimization in the American Literature and Cinema of the Vietnam War”

 

Ileana Jitaru, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Text into Image - the Semiotics of Literature and Film: Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup, 1853) /12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)”

 

 

Session 4: Past and Present in Science Fiction

Chair:      Christopher Leslie, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA

 

Kornelia Boczkowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland: “Spaceflight as the Transcendental and the Mundane Spectacle: Transforming the Technological Sublime in Early Imax Space Films”

 

Sorina Georgescu, Hyperion University, Bucharest, Romania: “Marketing the American Dream Through Science Fiction Movies: Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek and Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin’s Star Gate

 

Christopher Leslie, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA: “From Outer Space to Inner Space: Science Fiction of 1966”

 

Lucia Opreanu, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Intertextuality, Identity and Reception in the Big Bang Theory”

Stefan Rabitsch, University of Klagenfurt, Austria:  “‘Hornblower off the Starboard Bow’: 50 Years Star Trek

 

Session 5: The Politics of Cinema and Television

Chair:      Zuzanna Ladyga, University of Warsaw, Poland

 

Zuzanna Ladyga, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Experimental Cinema and Theatrical Politics: the Case of William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968)”

 

Barbara Nelson, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Furthering the D.W. Griffith Project: An Intervention into Romania”

 

Maria Katharina Wiedlack, University of Vienna, Austria; New York University, USA: “‘Though as Nails’— New Cold War Cultures and the Representations of Russian Characters in North American TV Series on the example of Galina Red and Reznikov from Orange is the New Black

 

 

Session 6: Synesthetic Experiences

Chair:     Andrea Mariani, University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy

 

Marta Koval, University of Gdansk, Poland: “The Sounds of Music in Richard Powers’ Novels”

 

Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany: “Decasia - The Matter Image”       

 

Ekaterina Yasko, The National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia: “Music and the Architecture of Memory: a Comparative Reading of Carson McCullers’s Sojourner and Vladimir Nabokov’s Music

 

Andrea Mariani, University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy: “Synesthetic Strategies and the Ecology of Sounds”

 

 

Session 7: Fiction and Cinema: Interactions

Chair:      Roberta Hofer, University of Innsbruck, Austria

 

Alessandro Clericuzio, University of Perugia, Italy: “From Pulp to Cult. A Case Study of Two Western Melodramas from the Page to the Screen”

 

Roberta Hofer, University of Innsbruck, Austria: “The Emancipation of the Puppet: Self-Determination and Human Marionettes in US Film”

 

Francesca De Lucia, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China: “‘Let the fires rage’: Filming post-September 11th New York in Spike Lee’s The Twenty-Fifth Hour

 

Mariana Neţ, Romanian Academy, Romania: “Thomas Edison’s Movies and American Urban Identities”

 

                                        

Session 8: Facets of Popular Culture 

Chair:      Tomasz Jacheć, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, American Studies Center in Warsaw, Poland

 

Luiza-Maria Filimon, National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania: “No Longer a ‘Bad Word’? Feminism’s Resurgence in Popular Culture”

 

Alina Ilief-Martinescu, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Postfeminism in Chick Lit Novels”

 

Elena Enciu, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Social Retrofuturism in The Difference Engine and Boneshaker

 

Tomasz Jacheć, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, American Studies Center in Warsaw, Poland:  “‘Candice, if there’s anything beautiful in this hellhole of a city, I would love to see it’: Binary Oppositions in The Aesthetic Narratives of Chicago’s Michael Jordan”

 

 

Session 9: Art and Popular Culture: Intersections  

Chair:      Mathilde Roza, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

 

Mathilde Roza, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands: “Educating the Nation: Dutch Artist Jo Spier and the Marshall Plan in the Netherlands”

 

Susan Livingston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

Justyna Włodarczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Transcending Animality/Performing Animality in Early US Dog Training Manuals, 1860-1900”

 

Klaus Rieser, University of Graz, Austria: “Contact Improvisation and Five Rhythms: On the Interconnection between Movement and Organization”

 

 

Session 10: Negotiating the Digitalized World

Chair:      John Dean, University of Versailles, France

 

Despoina Feleki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “Wikia Fandom Craze: Connecting, Participating, Creating, and Re-negotiating Boundaries”

 

Otilia Pacea, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “American Women in the Digital City: An Empirical Analysis”

 

John Dean, University of Versailles, France: “The Present Erased: The Dangers of US Culture and Technology Values Embedded in Our Digitalized World”

 

 

Session 11: Don De Lillo’s Fiction - Kaleidoscopic Approaches 

Chair:     Eduard Vlad, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania

 

Gabriela-Alexandra Banica, University of Bucharest, Romania: “The Transformative Power of the Arts in Don DeLilo’s Terrorist Novels”

 

Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, Dunărea de Jos University of Galaţi, Romania: “The Representation of the Falling American Self: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

 

Adriana Carolina Bulz, Military Technical Academy, Romania: “Hero-displacement in Don de Lillo’s Cosmopolis and White Noise

 

Irina Elena Grigore, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “The Hunter and the Pray in Don De Lillo’s Libra

 

Feldtfos Thomsen Morten, Karlstad University, Sweeden: “Scenes of Writing / Scenes of Looking: Don De Lillo and the Imagetext as Political and Perceptual Intervention”

 

 

Session 12: Dystopian Visions in Contemporary Fiction

Chair:     Nicholas Monk, University of Warwick, UK

 

Nina Moroz, Moscow State University, Russia: “Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’: ‘Word of God’ vs. ‘dead text’”

 

Alexandru Oltean-Cimpean, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania: “Cat’s Cradle as Kurt Vonnegut’s World of Monsters: How Character Creation Plays into a Reconsideration of the Role of Science in 1960’s American Society”

 

Nicholas Monk, University of Warwick, UK: “Desert Gothic: Paul Bowles, Cormac McCarthy, Don Waters”

 

Eduard Vlad, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Countercultural Coordinates of Discourse Change and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

 

 

Session 13: Aesthetics and Politics in the American Novel

Chair:  Stipe Grgas, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

 

Stipe Grgas, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia: “Pynchon and the Question of Capital”                                                                                                                

 

Maroš Buday, University of Prešov, Slovakia: “Reflection of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Discourse in Paul Auster’s and Stephen King’s Depiction of the Phenomenon of Writer’s Block”

 

Sophie Vallas, Aix-Marseille University, France: “The Æestheticization of Memory in Paul Auster’s Autobiographical Work”

 

 

Session 14: Modernism and the Canon

Chair:      Irina Arkhangelskaya, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

 

Anna Linzie, Karlstad University, Sweden: “True Stories of Literary Modernism: Ghostwriting, Gender Trouble, and Autobiographical Mockery”

 

Anastasia Seydlitz, University of Salamanca, Spain: “A Disillusioned Generation:  Hemingway, Orwell, and the Society that Made Them”

 

Natia Kvachakidze, Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “Symbolic Significance of Hemingway’s Titles (On the Material of the Nick Adams Stories)”

 

Irina Arkhangelskaya, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia: “Southern Literary Canon in M. Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind and W. Faulkner’s The Unvanquished

 

 

Session 15: Sites of Performance

Chair:     Kornelia Slavova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria

 

Kornelia Slavova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria: “Arthur Miller on the Bulgarian Stage: Politics against Poetics”

 

Johanna Hartmann, University of Augsburg, Germany: “Dimensions of Intermediality in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape [NOT CONFIRMED]

 

Ludmila Martanovschi, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “American Sites: Experiencing Spaces and Bodies in Three Plays by John Guare”

 

Diana Benea, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Performing Social Justice in the Recent Productions of Cornerstone Theater Company”

 

Catherine Casey, University College Dublin, Ireland: “‘What gives you the right:’ Misogyny, Patriarchy and Power in David Mamet’s Oleanna

 

 

Session 16: Countercultural Vistas

Chair:      Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria

 

Anna Warso, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Poland: “Palahniuk's Nightmare Box – Haunted: A Novel of Stories”

 

Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria: “When 100-Year Old People Climb Out the Window and Hit the Road: Reading Nursing Home Escape Stories as Road Narratives”

 

Nicoleta Stanca, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Irish-American Journeys in Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic

 

María Rocío Cobo Piñero, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain: “Virtual Americas: Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Transnational Americanah and the New Diasporas”

 

Patrycja Austin, University of Rzeszów, Poland: “Claire of the Sea Light – a View from Another Shore in Edwidge Danticat’s Latest Novel”

 

 

Session 17: (Post) 9/11 Perspectives

Chair:      Johanna C. Kardux, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

 

Teresa Botelho, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal: “‘It’s not a Neutral World Out There’: Writing the Post 9/11 America in John Updike’s Terrorist and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced

 

Johanna C. Kardux, University of Leiden, the Netherlands: “The Postcolonial Turn in 9/11 Fiction: Thinking Through and Beyond Terror in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and The Blind Man’s Garden

 

Dolores Resano, University of Barcelona, Spain: “Can we laugh? Satire as a Literary Solvent for Post-9/11 America: Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006) and Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012)”

 

 

Session 18: (Post-)Postmodern Preoccupations in American Fiction

Part I

Chair:      Jaroslav Kušnír, University of Prešov, Slovakia

María Ferrández San Miguel, University of Zaragoza, Spain: “The Ethical Impulse in E.L. Doctorow’s Early Fiction”

Anamaria Schwab, University of Bucharest, Romania: Already Posthumanism? E. L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley

Jaroslav Kušnír, University of Prešov, Slovakia: “Feelings, Emotions and Post-Postmodern Fiction (David Foster Wallace’s The Suffering Channel and Oblivion)”

 

 

Session 19: (Post-)Postmodern Preoccupations in American Fiction

Part II

Chair:  Juan Igniacio Oliva, University of La Laguna, Spain

 

Arnold E. Wayne, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan: “Never to Return: Aller Retour New York and Henry Miller’s Shelved Epistle”

 

Hristo Boev, Independent Researcher, Bulgaria: “An Asymmetrical Tiger in Jonathan Lethem Chronic City

 

Mariusz Marszalski, Wroclaw University, Poland: “Quod Vadis Homo Futuro? – Dan Simmons’ Trans/Post-Humanist Fiction on the Evolutionary Future of the Human Species”

 

Susana Rocha Teixeira, Heidelberg University, Germany: “World War I and the American Makeover Fiction”

 

 

Session 20: Interrogating Cyborgspaces

Chair:  Dana Mihăilescu, University of Bucharest, Romania  

 

Alina Ciobotaru, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Sex, Magic and Crime in Lyn Di Iorio’s Novel Outside the Bones (2011)”

 

Andrei Nae, University of Bucharest, Romania: “The Cyborg as an Instance of (In)human Hybridity in Rolland Emmerich’s Universal Soldier (1992)”

 

Dragoș Osoianu, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “The Ethics of the Machine: A Return to Nature in Isaac Asimov’s The Bicentennial Man

 

Miroslaw Miernik, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Between the Body and Dystopia: The interplay of Free Will and Authoritative Power William Gibson’s The Peripheral”

 

 

Session 21: Challenging (Mainstream) Perceptions of America

Chair:  Jelena Sesnic, University of Zagreb, Serbia

 

Jelena Sesnic, University of Zagreb, Serbia: “‘Uncanny Domesticity’ in Contemporary US Fiction”

 

Pierre-Louis Patoine, New Sorbonne University, France: “William S. Burroughs against Viral Biopower: A Textual Guerrilla”

 

Ekaterina Chernetsova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia: “Visualization of America in Norman Mailer’s Works”

 

Ömer Faruk Peksöz, Boğaziçi University, Turkey: “A Terrific Friend: J.D. Salinger” 

 

 

Session 22: Transcendentalist Insights

Chair:  Albena Bakratcheva, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

Albena Bakratcheva, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria: “1836: Nature’s Reign Begins”

 

Małgorzata Poks, University of Silesia, Poland: “To Err is Countercultural: Henry David Thoreau’s Saunter(r)ing and Jim Corbett’s Errantry”

 

Svetlana Makeyeva, TU Dortmund University, Germany: “No Affordable Housing for Young, Educated and Poor/ Henry D. Thoreau and Contemporary Digital Nomads Reflecting on Their Precarious Housing Situations”

 

Christa Vogelius, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: “Margaret Fuller and the Art of Revolution”

 

 

Session 23: Edgar Allan Poe and His Influence

Chair:  Octavian Roske, University of Bucharest, Romania

 

Francie Crebs, Paris Sorbonne University − Paris IV, France: “Grotesque Materialities: Framing the ‘Mathematical Sublime’ in Edgar Allan Poe”

 

Ana Cristina Baniceru, West University of Timișoara, Romania: “Writing the Story of Madness”

 

Tania Cristina Peptan, University of Craiova, Romania: “Deviant In-Betweenness in Edgar Allan Poe’s Detective Fiction. Considerations on (Counter)-Counter-Americanness”

 

 

Session 24: Revisiting the Classics

Chair:  Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio University, USA; Leiden University, the Netherlands

 

Ryan Crawford, Webster University Vienna, Austria: “Moby-Dick’s Ahab: The Story of a Name Misread”

 

Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio University, USA; Leiden University, the Netherlands: “Mark Twain and American Exceptionalism from King Kamehameha to King Leopold”

 

Dimitrie Andrei Borcan, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Colour Symbolism as Reversed Racism and Quest for the Self in Moby Dick and Heart of Darkness

 

 

Session 25: Nineteenth Century (Literary) Contexts

Chair:  Cécile Cottenet, Aix-Marseille University, France

 

Cécile Cottenet, Aix-Marseille University, France: “American Books Abroad: Books Agents and the Internationalization of American Publishing”

 

Magnus Ullén, Karlstad University, Sweeden: “The Ugly Smell of Nortoniensis: Hawthorne’s Septimius and the Civil War”

 

Sonoko Saito, Kitakyushu University, Japan: “Antagonistic Ancestry in The House of the Seven Gables and Owen Wingrave

 

Verena Laschinger, University of Erfurt, Germany: TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

 

Session 26: Visualities in American Culture

Chair:  Eva Zetterman, Karlstad University, Sweden

 

Eva Zetterman, Karlstad University, Sweden: “The Impact of Frida Kahlo in Contemporary Visual Art”

 

Marianne Berger Woods, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA: “Ladies on Ladders: A Skill Befitting Midwest Women Muralists”

 

 

Session 27: Visual Journeys

Chair: Jean Kempf, University of Lyon / Triangle CNRS, France

 

Marek Tomášik, Prešov University, Slovakia: “The Visual and the Verbal in Storytelling: the Playful Deployment of Narrative Dynamism in (Audrey Niffenegger’s) Semi-visual Novels and Shorts”

 

Jean Kempf, University of Lyon / Triangle CNRS, France: “Players and Models in American War Photography”

 

Malgorzata Olsza, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland: “Beyond the Written Word: Thirty Years of American Graphic Novels”

 

 

Session 28: Instances of Femininity

Part I

Chair:  Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw, Poland

 

Tatiana Prorokova, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany: “Women, Power, and Insanity in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle

 

Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Adam’s Rib (1949) – Taming (and Loving) the Teminist Shrew – Another Look at Adam’s Rib”

 

Sanchali Sarkar, Independent Researcher, India: “Not The Ideal Mother: Deviance Through The Act of Filicide in American Crime Fiction”

 

 

Session 29: Instances of Femininity

Part II

Chair:      Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest, Romania

 

Mercedes Albert-Llacer, University of the Basque Country, Spain: “Signifying Youth: Critical Regionalism in the New Literary West”

 

Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Post-Traumatic Friendship: Transnational Female Bonding in Domnica Radulescu’s Novel Country of Red Azaleas”

 

Anna Maguire, University of Sussex, UK: “Visualising the Landscape of Freedom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

 

 

Session 30 Poetic Traditions 

Chair:  Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming, USA

 

Guy Stevenson Stevenson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK: “Sacrifice and Expenditure: The Mad Sexual Economics of Georges Bataille and Ezra Pound”

 

Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming, USA: “Carl Sandburg and American Memory”

 

Siofra McSherry, Free University of Berlin, Germany: “‘To fulfil a private obligation’: Marianne Moore and her Patrons”

 

Ana González-Rivas Fernández, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain: “Poetry, Myths and the Classics: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the American Literary Community”

 

Justin Parks, University of Turku, Finland: “American Stuff: Melvin B. Tolson, Carl Rakosi, and the Invention of Multiculturalism”

 

 

Session 31: Innovation and Identity in Contemporary Poetry

Chair:  Sarah Daw, University of Exeter, UK

 

Vasilis Manousakis, Hellenic American College, Athens, Greece: “Contemporary American Poets in Translation”

 

Monica Manolachi, University of Bucharest, Romania: “‘Our Chef is Delicious’: Persona Poetry in Contemporary American Literature”

 

Leonor María Martínez Serrano, University of Cordoba, Spain: “The Audible Light of Words: Mark Strand on Poetry and the Self”

 

Roxana Elena Doncu, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest, Romania: “The Return of Form: Dana Gioia’s New Formalist Poetry”

 

Sarah Daw, University of Exeter, UK: “‘Nature’ in the Nuclear Age: The Nonhuman World in Cold War American Literature and Atomic Science”

 

 

Session 32: Coping with Trauma 

Chair:      Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest, Romania

 

Loredana Bercuci, West University of Timișoara, Romania: “Graphic Trauma: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoirs”

 

Daniela Cârstea, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Literary Testimonials to Banal Evil. Desubjectivisation in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Agamben, Arendt and Poe)”

 

Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest, Romania: “A Widow Shall: Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story (2011) and the Public Performance of Mourning”

 

Mirela Lapugean, West University of Timișoara, Romania: “The Silence of Trauma”

 

 

Session 33: American Studies Debates 

Chair:      Thomas Clark, University of Tübingen, Germany

 

Markha Valenta, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands: “Is a Comparative American Studies Possible? Global Politics beyond ’America’”

 

Thomas Clark, University of Tübingen, Germany: “O Say, Can You Smell! - American Studies as Olfactory Studies”

 

Irina-Ana Drobot, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania: “Methods in American Studies to Investigate the American Dream in Literature”

 

Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Salem State University, USA: TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

 

Session 34: Rewriting History

Chair:      Sara Prieto, San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia, Spain

 

Sara Prieto, San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia, Spain: “The White Flame of France: Maude Radford Warren’s Forgotten Voice on the Western Front”

 

Jan Pajor, University of Lodz, Poland: “The United States, the ‘Third Revolution’ in China and the Downfall of Yuan Shikai”

 

Neil Shumsky, Virginia Tech USA: “Dirt, Disease, Death, and Deity: Creating the ‘Dust Bowl’”

 

Costel Coroban, Valahia University of Târgovişte; Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “The Emergence of Nordic Studies in the USA in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century”

 

 

Session 35: Obama’s Foreign Policy

Chair:     David Jervis, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland      

 

András Lénárt, University of Szeged, Hungary: “Barack Obama and the Caribbean Region: New Strategies and the Policy of Rapprochement”

 

Andris Banka, University of Birmingham, UK: “American Drone Strike Practice and the Norm against Assassination” [NOT CONFIRMED]

 

David Jervis, Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland: “Trying to Understand America’s Nobel Prize-Winning and War Fighting President”

 

Denijal Jegic, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany: “Opportunist Orientalism? Barack Obama’s ‘Peace Process’ in Palestine”

 

 

Session 36: America in the World: Pre- and Post-World War Two

Chair:     Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University, USA; University of Salzburg, Austria

 

Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University, USA; University of Salzburg, Austria: “Transatlantic Conceptions of Security: Stefan Zweig, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Paul V. McNutt: 1933-1945

 

Charles J. D. Kupfer, Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA, USA: “How to Conscript Intellectuals: Archibald McLeish Makes the Case for Cultural Defense before Pearl Harbor”

 

Marcin Fatalski, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland: “Between Idealism and ‘Realpolitik’: Dilemmas of US Policy toward Developing Countries after the Second World War”

 

Jasper Trautsch, University of Regensburg, Germany: “American Exceptionalism and Western Civilization: Re-Imagining the Transatlantic Relationship after World War Two”

 

James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution, USA: “Learning from Ploieşti: The Cultural Significance of Operation Tidal Wave’s Failure in World War II”

 

 

Session 37: Women in US Politics

Part I

Chair:      Lotfi Bennour, University of Technology of Belfort-Monbeliard, France

 

Claire Sorin Delpuech, Aix-Marseille University, LERMA, France: “In the Name of the Defenceless: Animality, Femininity in late 19th Century America”

 

Cristina Ariton Gelan, National Naval Center for Studies and Initiatives in Education, Sport and Traditions, Constanţa, Romania: “Jeannette Rankin - the First Woman Elected to US Congress”

 

Lotfi Bennour, University of Technology of Belfort-Monbeliard, France: “The Plight of American Women in Office “

 

 

Session 38: Women in US Politics

Part II

Chair:      Lotfi Bennour, University of Technology of Belfort-Monbeliard, France

 

María Luz Arroyo Vázquez, National University of Distance Education, Spain: “Towards Reaching a Political Parity? Women in Leadership Roles in US Politics”

 

Antonia Sagredo, National University of Distance Education, Spain: “American Women in Motion: from the Right to Vote to the National Organization for Women”

 

Elisabeth Boulot, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France: “Fighting for Gender Equality in the 21st Century and Passing the Torch to the Younger Generation”

 

 

Session 39: Trends and Influences in American Politics

Chair:      Tatiana Poggi, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

 

Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark: “The (Ab)Use of Human Rights: Executive-Legislative Struggles over United States  Policy towards Nicaragua in the 1980s”

 

Diane Benedic, University of Strasbourg, France: “Republicans and Crime in Culture Wars: A Case Study of the Violent Crime Culture and Law Enforcement Act of 1994”

[NOT CONFIRMED]

 

Tatiana Poggi, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil: “Faces of the Extreme: Neo Fascism in the USA”

 

Maciej Turek, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland: “Big Money and the Big Mo: SuperPACs and Political Momentum in American Presidential Nominations”

 

Nadia Nava, University of Helsinki, Finland:  “The Presidential Race in Latino Media”

[NOT CONFIRMED]

 

 

Session 40: Slavery and the Civil War

Chair:      Boris Vejdovsky, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Octavian Roske, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Debating the Causes of the Civil War”

 

Roxana Oltean, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Empowerment and Protest in Frederick Douglass’s Life Narratives”

 

Pawel Hamera, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland: “The American Liberator on the Irish ‘Liberator’: Daniel O’Connell and William Lloyd Garrison’s Abolitionist Newspaper”

 

 

Session 41: Early US Political Development

Chair:     Sangjun Jeong, Seoul National University, South Korea

 

Sangjun Jeong, Seoul National University, South Korea: “Puritan Way of Democracy: John Winthrop and Roger Wiliams”

 

Sara Gray, Swansea University, Wales, UK: “America, a Settler Colony? The Difficulties of American Settler Colonial Theory”

 

Andrea Kökény, University of Szeged, Hungary: “Borderland Communities: A Comparative Study of the Colonization of Texas and Oregon”

 

 

Session 42: America in the World: The Early Experience

Chair:     Mary Anne Junqueira, University of São Paulo, Brazil

 

Zsolt Palotás, University of Szeged, Hungary: “US Diplomatic and Consular Representatives in Ottoman Mahgreb, with special emphasis on the Agents in the Regency of Tunis, 1783-1865”

 

Tobias Auböck, University of Innsbruck, Austria: “Two Versions of the Truth: Class and Perspective in Early Modern Captivity Narratives from North Africa”

 

Mary Anne Junqueira, University of São Paulo, Brazil: “The Objectives of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-1842), First American Scientific Circumnavigation

 

Przemysław Piotr Damski, Vistula University, Poland: “The Changing Paradigms of American Foreign Policy. Involvement in European Questions: the Question of the Algeciras Conference of 1906”

 

 

Session 43: Journalism and US Society: Case Studies since the 1960s

Chair:     Alexandre Guilherme Cruz Alves Junior, Federal University of Amapá, Brazil

 

Kostadin Grozev, University of Sofia, Bulgaria: “Walter Cronkite: Journalist, Anchor and Symbol of Middle America of the 1960s”

 

Alexandre Guilherme Cruz Alves Junior, Federal University of Amapá, Brazil: “America’s Freedom on Trial”

 

Marta Twardowska, TU Dortmund University, Germany: “Breaking the Code of Silence: Sexual Violence and Harassment against Women Journalists, Female Agency and Feminist Perspectives on the Body”

 

Timo Weidner, TU Dortmund University, Germany: “‘Picking Up the Pieces’: Local Online News Outlets in the United States”

 

 

Session 44: Americanization, Race, Immigration and Ethnicity in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Chair:     David Nichols, Indiana State University, USA

 

Elise Kammerer, University of Cologne, Germany: “Laying the Groundwork for Philadelphia’s Burgeoning Free Black Community: Anthony Benezet’s School”

 

David Nichols, Indiana State University, USA: “Acceptable Indians: Exoticism at Plainfield Academy, 1848-52”

 

Anca-Luminița Iancu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania: “Becoming American: Sponsors of Immigrant Literacy and Americanization (1880-1920)”

 

Abigail Fagan, University of Connecticut, USA: “Transnational Temperance: the American Temperance Society and European Anti-Alcohol Reform in the Nineteenth Century”

 

 

Session 45: Politics, Policies and Politicians in the 1960s

Chair:     Mark Newman, University of Edinburgh, UK

 

Mark Newman, University of Edinburgh, UK: “Catholics and Race: The Southern Field Service, 1961-69”

 

Kasper Grotle Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark: “Groupfeel: Kennedy’s National Security Council Staff as Emotional Community”

 

Frank Gerits, New York University; University of Leuven, Belgium: “The American Politics of Pity: American NGOs in Africa (1960s-1970s)”

 

Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde, UK: “Social Psychiatry or Socialist Psychiatry? The Politics of Preventive Mental Health Care in the USA”

 

 

Session 46: Ethnic Identification and Characterization

Chair:     Fred Gardaphe, Queens College, City University of New York, USA

 

Aleksandra Glavanakova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria: “Cultural Translation: Transcultural Identities post 9/11”

 

Fred Gardaphe, Queens College, City University of New York, USA: “Taboo or Not To Boo: Humor and the Trauma of Being Italian American”

 

Raluca Rogoveanu, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Expressive Enactments of Membership in Romanian Ethnic Associations from California”

 

Onoriu Colăcel, University of Suceava, Romania: “Romanians and Romania in the Memoirs of W.W. I American Diplomats and Servicemen”

 

 

Session 47: Creating and Exporting Images and Models of America

Chair:     Elzbieta Rokosz-Piejko, University of Rzeszow, Poland

 

Elzbieta Rokosz-Piejko, University of Rzeszow, Poland: “Celebrating the Past, Exploiting the Future: Selected American World Fairs and Their Vision of the United States ‘On Display’”

 

Emily Trafford, University of Liverpool, England: “Race at the 1916 San Diego World’s Fair: The Southwest and the Pacific ‘Turn’”

 

Grzegorz Welizarowicz, University of Gdansk, Poland:  “Camino Real Roadside Markers: Articulations of White Spatial Imaginary”

 

 

Session 48: Music, Drugs, Subcultures and Politics

Chair:     Michael Foley, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

 

Ulrich Adelt, University of Wyoming, USA: “Black, White and Blue: Blues, ‘Race’ and the Civil Rights Movement”

 

Michael Foley, University of Groningen, the Netherlands: TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

Eve Cobain, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: “Berryman’s Blues”

 

Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Bath Spa University, UK: “After Springsteen: A Meditation on Pragmatism and the Uses of Art”

 

 

Session 49: Sites of Resistance in African American Literature

Chair:      Isabel Caldeira, University of Coimbra, Portugal  

 

Isabel Caldeira, University of Coimbra, Portugal: “Cultures of Resistance: Voicing Silence in the African Diaspora”

 

Elizaveta Maslova, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia: “Toni Morrison’s Books of the 2010s – The End of Magical Realism?”     

 

Sima Jalal Kamali, University of Sussex, UK: “Maya Angelou’s Political Voice in The Heart of a Woman, All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes and A Song Flung up to Heaven

 

Şerban Dan Blidariu, Independent Researcher, Romania: “Release from Entrapment through Death: A Form of Forced or Willing Escape in Morrison’s Beloved and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

 

 

Session 50: Representations of the African American Experience

Chair:     Carol Bunch Davis, Texas A&M University at Galveston, USA

 

Carol Bunch Davis, Texas A&M University at Galveston, USA: “Preaching Freedom in the Cottonpatch: Purlie Victorious, Satire and the Politics of Respectability”

 

Johannes Fehrle, Mannheim University, Germany: “Adapting Uncle Tom”

 

Raluca Andreescu, University of Bucharest, Romania: “‘That Which Is Unspeakable by the White Enemy Is Speakable by Us’: Examining Racial Tensions and the Failures of Law Enforcement in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Sacrifice

 

 

Session 51: African American Affirmation through Various Media

Chair:     Maureen Daly Goggin, Arizona State University, USA

 

Maureen Daly Goggin, Arizona State University, USA: “Going Around the Bend: The Inventiveness of Gee’s Bend Quilters”

 

Maja Milatovic, Southern Cros University, Australia: “Afrofuturist Networks: Black Feminism and Social Media in African American Speculative Fiction”

 

Kristen Lee Over, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA; Fulbright Scholar at University of Bergen, Norway: “Race, Technology, and Power”

 

Hilary Mc Laughlin-Stonham, Ulster University, UK: “Streetcars and Segregation”

 

 

Session 52: Asian American Identities in the Age of Globalization

Chair:      Samir Dayal, Bentley University, Boston, USA

 

Samir Dayal, Bentley University, Boston, USA: “Towards a Transnational (Asian) American Literary Studies

 

Pi-Hua Ni, Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University, Taiwan: “Julie Wu’s The Third Son as the Cornerstone of Taiwanese-American Literature”

 

Judit Nagy, Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church, Hungary: “Family Relationships as Cultural Bridges and Divides in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker


 

Session 53: Asian American Gender and Ethnic Crossings

Chair: Chingyen Mayer, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, USA

 

Chingyen Mayer, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, USA: “Reappropriating Besieged Asian American Masculinity in the Work of Frank Chin and Shawn Wong” 

 

Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, ISTOM / Paris West University Nanterre, France  : “Yan Geling’s Fusang —“Fifth-Generation Immigrant” Writing as Transhistorical and Con-Temporal”   

 

Jiachen Zhang, University of Leeds, UK: “Inside the Chinatown: Food, Filth and Animal Dirt in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

 

Daniela Fargione, University of Torino, Italy: “What I know about you, little girl, would break you in two”: Food, Dirt, and Desire in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth

 

 

Session 54: From Japanese to Pan-Asian Visions of America

Chair: Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, ISTOM / Paris West University Nanterre, France

 

Yang-chieh Lin, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan       

Becoming a Global Neighborhood: Pan-Asia Narratives of New Chinatown in Karen Yamashita I Hotel

 

Iuliana Vizan, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Culture, Power and Society: A New Historicist Reading of I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita”

 

Amelia Precup, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania: “The Ethnic Implications of a Cybertopian Future in Karen Tei Yamashita’s “Anime Wong””

 

Monica Tamas, Osaka University, Japan: “Cultural Crossings and Isolation in Yoko Tawada’s America - The Cruel Continent

 

                                                                                                                         

Session 55: Ecocritical Approaches and Indigeneity

Chair:      Michaela Mudure, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 

Michaela Mudure, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania: “Cervicides: From Nicolae Labiş to Gloria Anzaldúa”

 

Gabriela Jeleńska, Institute of English Studies, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Antelope (Wo)man: (Fe)male-Animal Transformations in Native American Fiction”

 

Agnieszka Gondor-Wiercioch, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland: “Rediscovering Homing Novels through Eco-Feminist Perspectives – Linda Hogan”

 

Cornelia Vlaicu, Member of the Romanian Association for American Studies, Romania: “Reinhabiting Indian Land and the World”

 

 

Session 56: (De)Constructions of Native American Stereotypes

Chair:      Aitol Ibarrola-Armendariz, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

 

Aitol Ibarrola-Armendariz, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain: “Why Are Young Adult Readers So Momentous? Sherman Alexie’s The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian as a Case Study”

 

Jana Ščigulinská, Institute of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, Slovakia: “Depiction of Native Americans in the Mainstream Media”

 

Weronika Łaszkiewicz, University of Białystok, Poland: “Warriors of Our Imagination: the Portrayal of Native Americans in 20th-Century Polish Literature”

 

 

Session 57: Ethnographic Explorations

Chair:      Michal Peprník, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

 

Michal Peprník, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic: “James Fenimore Cooper’s Variations on the Vanishing Indians: Identity in Place”

 

Michele Russo, University of Pescara, Italy: “Exploring the Native Americans’ Tales and Legends: a Cross-Border Analysis of Witchcraft and the Occult in John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina

 

A. Elisabeth Reichel, University of Basel, Switzerland: “The Word Unnerving the Us: Appolonian and Diyonisian Others in the Ethnography and Poetry of Ruth Benedict”

 

 

Session 58: Latino/a Subjectivities and (Literary) Negotiations

Chair: Veronica Popescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania

 

Veronica Popescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania: “The Dialectic of Diaspora and Return in Three of Cristina García’s Novels”

 

Monica Got, University of Bucharest, Romania: “Reading Chicana Feminisms through the Lens of Traumatic Experience: Violence, Madness, and Marginalization in Yxta Maya Murray’s Locas and Graciela Limón’s The Memories of Ana Calderón

 

Amanda Gerke, University of Salamanca, Spain: “Migrant’s Speech – A Case Study of Linguistic Space in American Literature”

 

Andrea Fernández-García, University of Oviedo, Spain: “Daily Migrations in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman (1999): Continuities and Discontinuities between Home and School”

       

 

Session 59: Investigations of Jewish Americanness

Chair: Cristina Chevereşan, West University of Timișoara, Romania

 

Cristina Chevereşan, West University of Timișoara, Romania: “Philip Roth and the Opening of the American Mind”

 

Felix Nicolau, The Technical University of Civil Engineering, Romania: “The Schlemiel and the ‘Jewish Blues’ in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, The Dying Animal, and Nemesis

 

Anca Popa, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu: “Confronting the Mirrored Self in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock

 

Eniko Maior, Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania: “The Question of Identity in Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure

 

Agnese Marino, Heidelberg University, Germany: “Postethnicity and Ethnic Performance in Black, White and Jewish – Autobiography of A Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker”

 

 

Session 60: The Portuguese American Diaspora Revisited

Chair:      Teresa Cid, University of Lisbon, Portugal

 

Teresa Cid, University of Lisbon, Portugal: “Brian Sousa’s Almost Gone and the Lingering Presence of Loss and Pain”

 

Ana Cristina Aguilar Franco, University of Lisbon, Portugal: “Miguéis in Wonderland? American Multiculturalism through the Eyes of a Portuguese-American Writer”

 

Margarita Vale de Gato, University of Lisbon, Portugal: “Trauma and Bereavement in the Work of Erika de Vasconcelos”

 

Isabel Oliveira Martins, New University of Lisbon, Portugal: “Women’s Diasporic Trajectories in Katherine Vaz’s Collection of Portuguese American Stories”

 

 

Session 61: Transnational Readings

Chair:      Kathryn Quinn Sanchez, Georgian Court University Lakewood, NJ, USA

 

Kathryn Quinn Sanchez, Georgian Court University Lakewood, NJ, USA: “Redefining Knowledge to Change (the) US”

 

Maria José Canelo, Faculty of Arts/Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal: “Transnational America: Jose Martin and Randolph Bourne” [NOT CONFIRMED]

 

Irina Toma, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti, Romania: “Let America Be America Again!”

 

Rehab Hassan, Egypt: “Homi Bhabha’s Hybridity Theory as Illustrated in the Novels of Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

 

 

Session 62: Digitextualities – Spatialities, Fluidities, Hybridities

Chair:      Tatiani Rapatzikou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Tatiani Rapatzikou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece:Digital Visuality – Poetic Transformations”

 

Philip Leonard, Nottingham Trent University, UK: “Writing the Ultramundane: Digital Poetry in Orbit”

 

Thomas Mantzaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “Hybrid Textualities – Heteroglossic Narratives”

 

Paweł Frelik, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland:  Southland’s Dark Rapture: California, Apocalypse, and Digital Technologies”

 

 

Session 63: Hosting the Other: Hospitality in America

Chair:      Ana Maria Manzanas-Calvo, University of Salamanca, Spain

 

Jesús Benito Sánchez, University of Valladolid, Spain: “Hospitality In and Out of Place”

 

Ana Maria Manzanas-Calvo, University of Salamanca, Spain: “From Guests to Hostages in Junot Díaz’s ‘Invierno’”

 

Cristina Garrigós, University of León, Spain: “Hospitality and Gender: Anzaldúa’s Nepantleras and Spiritual Activism”

 

 

Session 64: American Icons

Chair:      Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore

 

Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore: “Superman: An American Icon”

 

Bryant Simon, Temple University, USA: “The Star Spangled Statue of Liberty: Icon Making in 1960s America”

 

Dana Mihăilescu, University of Bucharest, Romania: “You ain’t heard nothing yet: The Jazz Singer as A Malleable Icon of American Cinematic Culture”

 

Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest, Romania: respondent to papers

 

 

Session 65: Reading Ruth Ozeki in the New Millennium: Two Views and an Interview

Chair:      Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta, USA

 

Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta, USA: “Interdisciplinarity in Ozekiland”

 

Mojca Krevel, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: “Everything that is possible will happen or perhaps already has: Quantum Mechanics and Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being

 

Ruth Ozeki, USA (SKYPE INTERVIEW)

 

 

Session 66: Tolstoy Studies in North America: 19th-21st Centuries

Chair:      Galina Alekseeva, State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, Russia

 

Galina Alekseeva, State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, Russia: “American Dialogues of Leo Tolstoy”

 

Maya Petrukhina, Diplomatic Academy, Moscow, Russia: “Moral issue in John Gardner’s Book of Essays on Art”

 

Andrew Kotchoubey, New York, USA: “Humanitariam Mission of the Tolstoy Foundation in the USA organized by Alexandra Tolstoy in 1939”

 

 

Session 67: American Studies in Europe; Past, Present and in the Future

Chairs:     Yuri Stulov, Minsk State Linguistics University, Belarus

Marek Wilczynski, University of Gdansk, Poland

 

Yuri Stulov, Minsk State Lingusitics University, Belarus: “Prospects for Belarusian Americanists: Lessons of the Past”

 

Marek Wilczynski, University of Gdansk, Poland: “Poland: From American Literary History to American Studies”

 

Elvira Osipova, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: “American Studies in Russia: Significance, Challenges, Goals”

 

Natalia Vysotska, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine: American Literary Studies in Ukraine: Academic Discipline or a Mover towards Social Changes?

 

 

Session 68: Money Wealth and Excess in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Chair:      Gert Buelens, Ghent University, Belgium

 

Gert Buelens, Ghent University, Belgium: “Wealth in Trollope, James, Wharton, and Dreiser”

 

Leland S. Person, University of Cincinnati, USA: “The Color of Money: Racial Violence and Economic Power in The Garies and Their Friends and The Marrow of Tradition”

 

Myrtou Drizou, Valdosta State University, USA: “Phantasms of Excess: The Transatlantic Gothic of Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country

 

Jude Davies, University of Winchester, United Kingdom: “From Civic to National to Transatlantic: Scaling Finance in Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire”

 

 

Session 69: Utopia, Dystopia: Historical Events and Literary Response

Chair:      Ana-Karina Schneider, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

 

Ana-Karina Schneider, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania: “Re-defining the Contemporary”

 

MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, John F. Kennedy-Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany: “International Themes and Americanizing Modernity”

 

Sämi Ludwig, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France: “From Image to Action: Realism vs. Naturalism and the Anti-determinist Arguments of William James”

 

Begoña Simal-González, University of Coruña, Spain: “New Las Vegas: American Metamorphoses of the Post-Apocalyptic Genre”

 

 

Session 70: Imaginaries of Movement: Romania and North America

Chair:      Richard Kidder, University of Calabria, Italy

 

Gisèle Vanhese, University of Calabria, Italy: “The Fantastic at the Crossroads of Romanian and American Indian Culture in Conspiraţia sufletelor indienilor by Ioan Petru Culianu”

 

Richard Kidder, University of Calabria, Italy: “The Imaginary of the Open Road in the English Language Works of Andrei Codrescu”

 

Yannick Preumont, University of Calabria, Italy: “Translating Cioran in America”

 

Valentina Sirangelo, University of Calabria, Italy: “The Cyclical-Initiatory Iter and Ioan Petru Culianu’s ‘Emerald Goddess’”

 

 

Session 71: Violence as a Spectacle in Contemporary Theatre and Cinema

Chair:      Dimitra Gkotosopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Fjoralba Miraka, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “‘Torture the Women’: Violence, New Hollywood and Body Genres”

 

Penny Koutsi,   Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “The Performativity of Violence in the Theatrical Adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)”

 

Dimitra Gkotosopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “Panem et Circenses: Violence as a Spectacle in The Hunger Games”

 

 

Session 72: Gender and “Quality” in American Television

Chair:      Maria Sulimma, Free University of Berlin, Germany

 

Maria Sulimma, Free University of Berlin, Germany: “Not That Kind of Girl: Television’s Troubled Relationship with Academia and TV Criticism”

 

Jennifer S. Clark, Fordham University, USA: “‘Mary Tyler Moore Can Sell Pantyhose, but How Can Mary Hartman Sell Anything?’: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as a Quality Soap Opera”

 

Hannah Mueller, Cornell University, USA: “The Inside of a Vagina: The Exploration of Female Sexuality in Masters of Sex”

 

Julia Leyda, Free University of Berlin, Germany: “Quality Cuteness: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

 

 

Session 73: Borders of the Nation: Open Wounds

Chair:      Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

 

Meldan Tanrisal, Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey: “Creating Art Through Facts: Luis Alberto Urrea’s Works and the US-Mexican Border”

 

Bilge Mutluay Cetintas, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey: “Borders of the Mind, the Body, and the Frame: Isis Rodriguez and the Masked Woman Series”

 

Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, University of New Mexico, USA: “Sounds Across the Rio Grande: Imagining Border Music”

 

 

Session 74: American Poetry and its External Influences and Engagements

Part I: The Aesthetic Externalities

Chair:      Kacper Bartczak, University of Lodz, Poland

 

Paulina Ambroży, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland: ““The Third Image”: The Pleasures of Intermedial Influence in Charles Simic’s Poetry”

 

Małgorzata Myk, University of Lodz, Poland: “Word/Image and Hierarchy in Leslie Scalapino’s Avant-Garde Poetics”

 

Dr. Kacper Bartczak, University of Lodz, Poland: “Evolution, Aesthetics, and Irony in Rae Armantrout’s Poetry”

 

 

Session 75: American Poetry and its External Influences and Engagements

Part II: The Political Engagements of Poetry and its Public Space

Chair:      Kacper Bartczak, University of Lodz, Poland

 

Jerzy Kamionowski, University of Bialystok, Poland:  “[K]eep the fever in / fondle the fever ...The light is black”!: the Wall of Respect as a Multimedia Poem of the People”

 

Grzegorz Kosc, University of Lodz, Poland: “From Elizabeth Hardwick’s Eleusian Speech to a New Poetics of Bimetallism: Robert Lowell’s Critique of Usury”

 

Jacek Partyka, University of Białystok, Poland: “Palimpsest and the Ethics of Perambulation in Charles Reznikoff’s Archival Verse”

 

 

Session 76: Performing and Trading (on) Myth; or, America’s New Mythopoeias

Chair:      John Howard, King’s College London, UK

 

Elena Delliou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “America in a Bed of Ancient Ruins: Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0”

 

Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “Caridad Svich’s Raving Iphigenia: A Mythical Celebrity”

 

Maria Tzouni, Independent Researcher, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: “De/Mythologizing the Las Vegas Topos: Digesting the Burlesque Lotus”

 

Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: “‘Elvis is my Daddy, Marilyn’s my Mother’: Lana Del Rey’s Camp Melodrama and the Mythopoiea of Hollywood Sadcore”

 

 

Session 77: Mad Men: Remembering and Revisiting the 1960s in America through Contemporary Television

Chair:      Simon Grivet, EHESS, Paris, France

Debarchana Baruah, University of Heidelberg, Germany

 

Simon Grivet, EHESS, Paris, France: “History as a Narrative Tool Box for Mad Men”

 

Debarchana Baruah, University of Heidelberg, Germany: “The 1960s of Mad Men”

 

Marjolaine Boutet, University of Picardie, France: “The Eomen of Mad Men”

 

Maarteen Paulusee, EHESS, Paris, France: “The Commodification of Spirituality in Mad Men”

 

 

Session 78: Adventure, War and Masculinity in Pop Culture

Chair:      Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausanne, France

 

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausanne, France: “Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War”

 

Johan Höglund, Linnaeus University, Sweden: “War, Adventure and the Spectacle of Masculine Whiteness in Call of Duty”

 

Hans Staats, Stony Brook University, USA: “In the War - Torn land of Ooo: Adventure Time and the Poetics of Boyhood

 

 

Session 79: New Translations / New Readings of Hilda Doolitle

Chair:      Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos, University of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

 

Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos, University of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada: “The Feminist, Palingenetic Mythos in H.D.’s Hirslanden Notebooks and Vale Ave”

 

Anna Fyta, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece: “H.D.’s Translation of the Euripidean “Bird Choros from Hecuba” (1931): The Female War Ode and the Dialectics of Loss”

 

Lisa Banks, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: “‘The poems were comforting and beautiful, but do I identify myself too intimately with him?’: Lionel Durand and Dying in H.D's Late Writing”

 

Sara Dunton, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada: “Exploring H.D.’s Ekphrastic Practice in Trilogy: The Poet’s Slide Show of Rossetti’s Women”

 

 

Session 80: Intersections of Miscegenation and the Medical in Literature by African American Women

Chair:      Maria Holmgren Troy, Karlstad University, Sweden

 

 

Carmen Birkle, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany: “‘The Taint of Blood’: Miscegenation and the Medical Discourse in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892)”

 

Željka Švrljuga, University of Bergen, Norway: “Cultural Miscegenation: Black Bodies, White Science, and the Sarah Baartman Industry”

 

Maria Holmgren Troy, Karlstad University, Sweden: “‘What will she give us all? Fur? Tails?’: Miscegenation and Medical Conditions in Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction

 

 

Session 81: Memory of the Present

Part I

Chairs: Isabelle Alfandary, New Sorbonne University, France

Marc Amfreville, Paris Sorbonne University, France

 

Samuli Björninen, University of Tampere, Finland: “Textual Enactment of Narrative Memory in Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Thomas Pynchon”

 

Emeline Jouve, Champollion University/University of Toulouse − Jean-Jaurès, France: “The Haunted Stage: Gertrude Stein’s Historic Dramas (1930)”

 

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, University of Poitiers, France: “’the actual voices of the dead’ in Thomas Pynchon’s Historical Fiction”

 

Stefanie Schäfer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany: “L’auteur explosé: Cinematic Memory in Quentin Tarantino’s Films”

 

 

Session 82: Memory of the Present

Part II

Chairs: Isabelle Alfandary, New Sorbonne University, France

Marc Amfreville, Paris Sorbonne, France

 

Viorica Patea, University of Salamanca, Spain: “‘The End which is Always Present’: Modernist Notions of the Past as Declensions of the Present”

 

Claire Fabre, Université-Paris-Est-Créteil, France: “Re-membering the Present: Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Short Fiction”

 

Angeliki Tseti, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: “Telling the Story through Others: Photo-textual Life Writing and Trauma Memory in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project”

 

Tomasz Basiuk, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Edmund White’s Life Writing and the Mode of Reprise”

 

 

Session 83: What’s in a Name?’: Debating Cli-Fi

Chairs: Susanne Leikam, University of Regensburg, Germany

Julia Leyda, Free University of Berlin, Germany

 

Nassim Balestrini, Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria: “Cli-Fi Drama and Performance”

 

Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan; University of Würzburg, Germany: “Cli-Fi and Petrocriticism: Re-framing Literature for the Anthropocene”

 

Paweł Frelik, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland: “On Not Calling a Spade a Spade: Climate Fiction as Science Fiction”

 

Joy Fuqua, Queens College, City University of New York, USA: “The Role of the Rural: Examining Place in Cli-Fi”

 

Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria: “Troubling Futures: Cli-Fi and the Perception of Risk”

 

 

Session 84: Transnational Politics of Visuality: Picturing Political Women

Chairs: Ingrid Gessner, University of Regensburg, Germany

Katharina Fackler, University of Graz, Austria

 

Simona Čupić, University of Belgrade, Serbia: “Kerouac, Mona Lisa & Camelot: Jacqueline Kennedy as the New Image of Politics 1960-1963”

 

Liam Kennedy, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland: “Witnessing US Foreign Policy: Susan Meiselas in Central America”

 

Katharina Fackler, University of Graz, Austria: “Sick and Tired of Being Invisible: Black Women Protesters from Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer to Blacklivesmatter”

 

Tomáš Pospíšil, Masaryk University in Brno, Poland: “Women in Crime, Politics, and the Law in HBO’s The Wire”

 

Ingrid Gessner, University of Regensburg, Germany: “Gendered Dis/Appearances: Staged Authenticity and the Politics of Affect in Transnational Visual Culture”

 

 

Session 85: Southern Specificities of Literary Genres, Southern Studies Forum Panel

Part I

Chair: Marcel Arbeit, Palacky University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

 

Valeria Gennaro Lerda, University of Genoa, Italy: “Rebecca Latimer Felton and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin: Memoirs of Southern Ladies in the Transition from the Old South to the New”

 

Constante González Groba, University of Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain: “When You Disappear in Mississippi, You’re Dead: The Reverberations of the Emmett Till Case in Southern Autobiography”

 

Iulia Andreea Milica, University of Iaşi, Romania: “If a Good Man Is Hard to Find, What about a Good Woman? Gothic and Grotesque Representations of Women in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories”

 

Carmen Rueda, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain: “Appalachian Women’s Autobiographies from the Margins: Crossing the Boundaries of the Genre”

 

 

Session 86: Southern Specificities of Literary Genres, Southern Studies Forum Panel

Part II

Chair:      Gerald Préher, Lille Catholic University, France

 

Roman Trušník, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic: “Jim Grimsley at the Crossroads: From Literary Fiction through High Fantasy to Science Fantasy”

 

Candela Delgado Marín, University of Seville, Spain: “Southern Ecoliterature: A Silent Sensory Topography”

 

Irina Kudriavtseva, Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus: “From Anecdote to Epiphany: The Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Peter Taylor”

 

 

Session 87: (Re) Locating Violence in the American Imagination

Chair:      Juliana Nalerio, University of Valladolid, Spain

 

Juliana Nalerio, University of Valladolid, Spain: “Bringing it Back Home: America and the (Re) Location of Violence”

 

Noelia Gregorio Fernández, University of Alcalá, Spain: “Robert Rodríguez’s Hyperreal Aesthetic of Violence: Exploitation and the U.S.-Mexican Border in Machete”

 

Eva Schörgenhuber, University of Vienna, Austria and Eugenie Theuer, University of Barcelona, Spain: “From Domestic Violence to Violent Dominatrices: Deconstructing the Dominatrix Figure in Female Artist’s Music Videos”

 

Nicla Pasquini, University of Valladolid, Spain: “Helena Maria Viramontes and the Encounter with the ‘Other’ in the Urban Barrio”

 

 

Session 88: Contexts and Networks

(sponsored by The Eccles Center for American Studies)

Chair:      Jean Petrovic, The Eccles Centre for American Studies, London, UK

 

Sarah Churchwell, University of East Anglia, England: “Reading Gatsby in the Context of Magazines and Original Publication”

 

Katharina Donn, Augsburg University, Germany: “Trauma Literature Re-visited: Practices of Knowledge in Pynchon’s The Bleeding Edge

 

Alexandra Urakova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia: “Rereading Antebellum Gift Books: Hawthorne’s ‘A Simple Black Veil’ in The Token”

 

 

Session 89: Utopia, Dystopia and Global Order of the Image

Chairs: Adriana Neagu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Marek Paryz, Warsaw University, Poland

 

Adriana Neagu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania: “Post-Apocalypse Now: Globalism, Americanism and the Imagination of Disaster”

 

Marek Paryz, Warsaw University, Poland: “Utopian Underpinnings of Contemporary Transnational Film Westerns”

 

David Brian Howard, NSCAD University, Nova Scotia, Canada: “War Machines: Utopia and Allegorical Poetics in the 21st Century”

 

Andrew S. Gross, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany: “Black Box: Covert Literary Humanism in the Age of Digital Surveillance”

 

 

Session 90: Writing Lives: American (Auto)Biography in Transition

Part I: The Challenges of Biography

Chairs: Hans Bak, American Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Thomas Austenfeld, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

 

Marian Janssen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands: “The Writer behind the Writer: The Making of an American Biography”

 

John F. Moe, Ohio State University, USA: “The Haunting Melody of Time Past: Oral Narrative, Literary Text, and Material Culture in African American Biography”

 

K. Kevyne Baar, Independent Scholar, USA: “The Personal was Always Political: The Letters of John and Sarah Cunningham Randolph, 1941-1945”

 

Ina Batzke, University of Münster, Germany: “Documenting the Undocumented: Online Life Stories of Undocumented Youth in the United States”

 

 

Session 91: Writing Lives: American (Auto)Biography in Transition

Part II: (Auto)biographical Ambivalences

Chairs:     Hans Bak, American Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Thomas Austenfeld, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

 

Babs Boter and Lonneke Geerlings, VU University Amsterdam, Holland: “Writing a (Wo)Man’s Life, Or the Autobiographical Self in Female Portraits of Men”

 

Anne Ollivier-Mellios, University of Lyon 2, France: “Militants’ Autobiographies: Between Writing the Self and Writing History”

 

Lyuba Pervushina, Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus: “Going Beyond the Boundaries: Erica Jong’s Autobiographical Writing”

 

Marta J. Lysik, University of Wroclaw, Poland: “The Power of Vulnerability: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl

 

 

Session 92: Excavating Women from the Archives: Feminist Research in the United States, Turkey, and Italy (An EAAS Women’s Network Panel)

Chair:      Tanfer Emin Tunc, Hacettepe University, Turkey

 

Tanfer Emin Tunc, Hacettepe University, Turkey: “Giving the Voiceless a Voice: The Impact of American Women’s Archives on Turkish Feminist Research”

 

Annessa Ann Babic, New York Institute of Technology, USA: “Show Me your Archive and I Will Tell You Who Is in Power: The Development of Women’s Archives in the United States”

 

Elisabetta Marino, University of Rome-Tor Vergata, Italy: “Italian Women’s Archives: Their Origin, Development, and American Connections”

 

 

Session 93: EAAS’s European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Literature 10th Anniversary Panel

Chairs: Verena Laschinger, University of Erfurt, Germany

Ralph J. Poole, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria

 

Stéphanie Durrans, Michel de Montaigne University, Bordeaux 3, France: “Redefining the Home: A Phenomenological Approach to Harriet Prescott Spofford's Detective Fiction”

 

Aušra Paulauskiene, LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania: “Queering of Femininity in American Fiction 19th into 20th Century”

 

Mariana Neţ, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania: “Identikits of the Criminal in the Woman Authored Detective Story”

 

 

Session 94: Transatlantic Explorations and Relations in Performance and Literary Culture

(sponsored by The Eccles Center for American Studies)

Chair:     Theresa Saxon, University of Central Lancashire, England (The Eccles Centre for American Studies, London, UK)

 

Christine Bold, University of Guelph, Canada: “Did Indians Read Dime Novels? A Transatlantic Exploration”

 

Alessadra Magrin, Strathclyde University, Scotland: “The Enduring Legacy of Buffalo Bill in Italian Cinema: from Silver Screen to Spaghetti Western”

 

Theresa Saxon, University of Central Lancashire, England: “Transatlantic Theatre from 1776 to 1917: Responses to ‘English’ theatricals in America”

 

Pia Wiegmink, Strathclyde University, Scotland: “A View from Abroad: Slavery, Transatlantic Relations and European Revolutions in African American Women’s Writing”

 

 

Session 95: Liaisons, Families, Texts: Henry James and the Fictionalization of Lives

Chair:      Madeleine Danova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria

 

Madeleine Danova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria: “American Literature in the Deep Time of History:  Liebmann-Smith’s The James Boys: A Novel Account of Four Desperate Brothers and the Postmodern Biofiction”

 

Adina Ciugureanu, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “‘The Picture out of Frame’: Henry James’s Use of ‘Realism’ in Fiction”

 

Marija Krsteva, Goce Delcev University, Štip, Macedonia: “Artists, Lovers, Wives: Postmodern Re-Writings of Henry James’s and Ernest Hemingway’s Lives”

 

Andrea Gencheva, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria: “Skeletons in the Cupboard: Subverting Patriarchy in Emma Tennat’s Felony and Walter Jon Williams’s Wall, Stone, Craf”

 

 

Session 96: The Great Society Program: A 50 Year Reassessment

Chair:      Philip Davies, The Eccles Center for American Studies, London, UK

 

Alex Waddan, University of Leicester, UK: “The Great Society and American Social Policy”

 

Marie Bolton, Blaise Pascal University, France: “The Great Society and the Environment”

 

Mary Claire Heffron, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, USA: “The Great Society and Child Welfare”

 

Bill Issel, San Francisco State University, USA: “The Great Society and Racial Justice”

 

Jonathan Sudholt, Brandeis University, USA: “‘Why Does One-third of the World Hate Us?’: South Park’s Response to America’s Nationalistic Fervor After 11 September 2001”

 

 

Session 97: The Local and the National in Twentieth Century United States

Chair:      Bruce Schulman, Boston University, USA

 

Gareth Davies, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, UK: “Road to Disaster: The Failure of Federal Efforts to Regulate Local Land Use Since the 1960s”

 

Suleiman Osman, George Washington University, USA: “The DIY City: Localism and Anti-Statism in Urban America”

 

Bruce Schulman, Boston University, USA: “‘Are We A Nation or an Aggregation of Localities?’: Nation-Building in The Early Twentieth-Century US”

 

 

Session 98: Transatlantic Experiences of Empire

(sponsored by The Eccles Center for American Studies)

Chair: Katherine Joslin, West Michigan University, USA

 

Catherine Bateson, University of Edinburgh, UK: “‘For America’s Bright Starry Banner’: Expressions of Dual Loyalty, Identity and Nationalism in Irish American Songs from the American Civil War”

 

Katherine Joslin, West Michigan University, USA: “Roosevelt and Trevelyan: From Khartoum to London, 1910”

 

Nicola Martin, University of Stirling, UK: “Army, Assimilation and Empire: the ’45 and British Imperialism in North America"

 

 

Session 99: Medical Subjects: Competing Narratives of Race, Health and Medical Activism from Slavery to Civil Rights

Chair:      Martin Summers, Boston College, USA

 

Martin Summers, Boston College, USA: “Melancholy and the ‘Madness of Fanaticism’: The Multiple Narratives of Black Insanity in Antebellum America”

 

Stephen Kenny, University of Liverpool, UK: “The Visual Display of Slave Sufferers, Their Diseases, and Injuries in 19th Century Medical Publications”

 

Laurie Green, University of Texas at Austin, USA: “The Politics of Race, Hunger and Malnutrition from a Relational Perspective: From the Mississippi Delta to San Antonio and Back in the 1960s”

 

 

Session 100: Towards a Transatlantic Global History: American-European Cooperation and Competition to Save the World in the Twentieth Century

Chairs: Hans Krabbendam, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands

Jaap Verheul, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

 

Jaap Verheul, Utrecht University, the Netherlands: “Literature, History and National Identity in Antebellum America: John Lothrop Motley as a Literary Writer”

 

Matthew Chambers, University of Lodz, Poland: “Cultural Receivership: International Institutions and Postwar America”

 

Damian S. Pyrkosz, University of Rzeszów, Poland: “Crisis of Economy or Values? The Ethical Roots of the America’s Economic Crisis”

 

 

Session 101: Mobility in Twentieth Century America

(sponsored by the Historians of Twentieth Century United States - HOTCUS)

Chair:      John Kirk, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

 

John Kirk, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA: “Housing − The Forgotten Civil Right: Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Failure of the 1966 Civil Rights Bill”

 

Rosemary Pearce, University of Nottingham, UK: “Mobilising Emotions: How the Emotional Experience of Segregated Travel Helped to Shape the Civil Rights Movement”                

 

Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State University, USA: “The Black American Experience as a Lens for Europe: Prospects and Challenges”

 

 

Session 102: Obama’s Challenge: Rights, Liberties and the Pursuit of Progress

(sponsored by the American Politics Group)

Chair:      Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University, UK

 

Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University, UK: “The Power of Lunch: Healthy Kids, Vested Interests and the Nanny State”

 

Alf Tomas Tønnessen, Volda University, Norway: “Resistance to Paid Parental Leave in the United States”

 

Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, University of Southern Denmark: “Unloading the Gun: President Obama, Executive Power, and the Legacies of the Bush Administration’s ‘War on Terror’”

 

Lea Stephan, University of Toulouse − Jean-Jaurès, France: “Half a Century of Health Care from a Racial Perspective”

 

 

Session 103: Post-Black Aesthetics versus Black Lives Matter: Debating “Race” in Contemporary American Society and Culture

Chair:      Marlon Lieber, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Nicole Hirschfelder, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany: “‘No Justice, No Peace’: On New Forms and Challenges of (Understanding) Black Protest”

 

Luvena Kopp, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany: “‘Nation Building’: On the Ritualistic Production of Blackness in a Post-Black Era”

 

Stephan Kuhl,        Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany: “‘Bigger Thomas was not black all the time; he was white, too’: References to Richard Wright in Contemporary American Literature”

 

Jiří Šalamoun, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic: “Not Profound, but Purposeful: On Ishmael Reed’s Voluntary Restriction by Race in Post-Black America”

 

 

Session 104: Slave Identities and Resistance in Antebellum America

Chair: Damian Alan Pargas, Leiden University, the Netherlands

 

Damian Alan Pargas, Leiden University, the Netherlands: “Seeking Freedom in the Midst of Slavery: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum South”

 

David Doddington, University of Cardiff, Wales, UK: “‘The best amongst them was picked for that job’: Masculinity, Resistance, and Survival in Slavery”

 

Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware, USA: “California Bound: African American Slavery and the Struggle for Freedom in the American West”

 

 

Session 105: Advocating “Wisdom’s Bill of Fare”: Culture, Religion, Politics and American Diets

Chairs: Antje Dallmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Katja Schmieder, Germany

 

Katja Schmieder, Germany:

 

Marcel Hartwig, Siegen University, Germany:Keeping ‘the Wheel of Prayer in Continual Motion’: Fasting in Puritan Communities”

 

Sophie Bennetzen, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany: “Articulating Cultural Identity Through Recipe Sharing in Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor’s Vibration Cooking

 

Christiane Vogel, Martin Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany: “A New Eden Tried and Failed – The Utopian Commune Fruitlands (1843). ‘The hunger of an age is alike a presentiment and pledge of its own supply’” 

 

Session 106: Culture, Religion, Politics and American Diets

Chairs: Antje Dallmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Katja Schmieder, Germany

 

Antje Dallmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany:

 

Małgorzata Martynuska, University of Rzeszow, Poland: “Cultural Hybridity in the USA Exemplified by Tex-Mex Cuisine”

 

Sarah Phillips, Boston University, USA: “The Price of Plenty: From Farm to Food Politics in Postwar America”

 

 

Session 107: Times, Roles and Places of American Public Diplomacy

Chair:      Diana Stelowska, University of Warsaw, Poland; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

 

Juanjo Bermúdez De Castro, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain: “US ‘Coercive’ Diplomacy in Films: State-Sponsored Terrorism in the Guise of Entertaining Cinema”

 

François Doppler-Speranza, University of Strasbourg, France: “US Cultural Diplomacy in France, From the Failure of a European Army to the Success of the GI Basketball All Star Game (1954-1957)”

 

Diana Stelowska, University of Warsaw, Poland; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA: “Art as a Tool of US Public Diplomacy towards Europe”

                    

Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel, Jagiellonian University in Krakow,      Poland: “Towards the Co-Creation of Cultural Diplomacy. The Case of ‘American Dream’ Exhibition – Poland 2009”

 

 

Session 108: African American History: Aspects of Racism and Violence

Part I

Chair: Konstantinos Karatzas, University of Zaragoza, Spain

 

Konstantinos Karatzas, University of Zaragoza, Spain: “Racial Violence in the United States: the Story of the 1921 Tulsa Riot”

 

Ivan Tsvetkov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: “Racial Problems in the U.S. as an Object of Soviet/Russian Criticism”

 

Alexander Sergunin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: “Congressional Black Caucus and the Problem of Police Violence: Past and Present”

 

Tatiana Anisimova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: “Poverty and Violence within the African American Community: Impact on American Architecture”

 

 

Session 109: African American History: Aspects of Racism and Violence

Part II

Chair: Konstantinos Karatzas, University of Zaragoza, Spain

 

Alexander Kubyshkin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: “African Americans and Higher Education in the United States”

Natalya Tsvetkova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: “Dark Continent in American Public Diplomacy, 1950s-1970s”

 

Valery Konyshev, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: “Congressional Black Caucus and the U.S. Foreign Policy under Barak Obama”

 

Derrais Carter, Portland State University, USA; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: “Dark Suspicions: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Policing of Black Women in Washington D.C.”

 

Valeriya Bryzgalova: “African-American Links with the Soviet Union as a Component of the Harlem Renaissance”

 

 

Session 110: The Politics of the Memory of “Victory in Europe” World War II

Part I

Chair: Gyorgy Toth, University of Stirling, UK

 

Frank Mehring, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands: “Performative Diplomacy and the Transnational Imaginary of Music”

 

Allison Wanger, University of Iowa, USA: The U.S. Postwar National Cemetery System and the Transnational Containment of Worl War II Memory

 

Gyorgy Toth, University of Stirling, UK: “Commemorating World War Two as U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in Europe after the Cold War”

 

 

Session 111: The Politics of the Memory of “Victory in Europe” World War II

Part II

Chair: Frank Mehring, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

 

László Munteán, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands: “Palimpsests of Memory: Re- photographing World War II”

 

Kryštof Kozák        , Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: “The Struggle to Shape the Collective Memory of the U.S. in the Czech Republic”

 

James J. Kimble, Seton Hall University, USA; University of Rijeka, Croatia: “Who Was Rosie the Riveter? Investigating the Lost Identity of an American Icon”

 

 

Session 112: Thomas Jefferson and Europe: A Complex Legacy

Chair: Csaba Lévai, University of Debrecen, Hungary

 

Malte Hinrichsen, University of Hamburg, Germany: “‘Studies of That Kind’: European Roots of Jefferson’s Racial Thought”

 

Annie Lechenet, University of Lyon 1, France: “Old World New World: Jefferson’s Historical Thinking from His Residence in Paris”

 

Csaba Lévai, University of Debrecen, Hungary: “‘Let Our Work-Shops Remain in Europe’: Thomas Jefferson on the Economic Division of Labor between Europe and North America”

 

Katarzyna Stelmasiak, Kochanowski University of Kielce, Branch in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland: “‘The Vaunted Scenes of Europe’: Thomas Jefferson’s Thoughts on European Entertainment and Culture”

 

Zoltán Vajda, University of Szeged, Hungary: “Thomas Jefferson on Class and the European Perspective”

 

Maurizio Valsania, University of Torino, Italy: “Thomas Jefferson and 19th-Century Corporeality”

 

 

Session 113: Negotiating the Seen and the Felt: Where American Art Meets American Writing

Part I

Chairs: Catherine Gander and Philip McGowan, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland

 

Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK: “American Photographs Part Two: Walker Evans’ 1974 Polaroids”

 

Catherine Gander, Queen’s University Belfast, UK: “SAMOesthetics? Basquiat, the integrated body, and the extended mind”

 

Philip McGowan, Queen’s University Belfast, UK: “Theories of Life and Art in Mark Doty’s Poetry”

 

Justyna Wierzchowska, University of Warsaw, Poland:  “Embodied Aesthetics in the Public Space: the Visual and the Discursive in Krzysztof Wodiczko’s War Projections Post-9/11”

 

 

Session 114: Negotiating the Seen and the Felt: Where American Art Meets American Writing

Part II

Chairs: Catherine Gander and Philip McGowan, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland

 

Sarah Garland, University of East Anglia, UK: “Packaging and Unpackaging Experience in Aspen: The Magazine in a Box”

 

Robert Jones, University of Leicester, UK: “‘You think as much with your big toe as you do with your brain’: William S. Burroughs, Alfred Korzybski and Somaesthetics”

 

Kathy-Ann Tan, University of Tübingen

 

Ali Fitzgerald: ‘The Aesthetics of Encounter: Queer Affect and Visual Perception in American Art and Writing”

 

 

Session 115: Transnational America: U.S. and Hybridization in South Korean Mass Culture

Chair: Min Kyung Yoo, Free University of Berlin, Germany

 

Hye Won Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea: “Reconstructing American Broadway Musical Theatre South Korea in the Form of Hybridity

 

Jung Gyung Song, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea: “Cultural Hybridization with the U.S. Reflected in the Reception of M. Butterfly in South Korea”

 

Ka-eul Yoo, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea: “Traumatic Hybridization: Remembering Sex Labor Women and American Military Camp Town in South Korea in the Address Unknown and Tour of Duty”

 

 

Session 116: Polish-American Encounters: Social and Anthropological Insights 

Chair:      Agnieszka Pantuchowicz, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

 

Piotr Skurowski, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland: “Poland’s Post- WWII Borderlands and the Aesthetics of the American Western in Polish Film: Prawo i pięść (The Law and the Fist, 1964), Wilcze echa (Wolves’ Echoes, 1968), Róża (Rose, 2011)

 

Paweł Pyrka, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland: “A Modernist’s (Mis)Adventure in Poe’s Maze: Patterns of Obsession and Investigation in the Weird Fictions of Stefan Grabiński and H. P. Lovecraft”

 

Aleksandra Hołubowicz, University of Gdańsk, Poland: “Complicated Religious Heritage: A Comparative Study of Selected U.S. Latina and Polish Young Female Writers”

 

 

Session 117: Eugenic Discourse of Progress and Eugenic Propaganda in the years 1914-1939

Chair:      Ewa Barbara Luczak, University of Warsaw, Poland

 

Sue Currell, University of Sussex, UK: “‘Capitalism Sterilizes’: Communism and Eugenics in America in the 1930s’

 

Mark Galt, Oxford Brookes University, UK: “The Pedigree of Genius: Roswell H. Johnson and the Exceptionally Able Youth Program, 1916-1974” 

 

Ewa Barbara Luczak, University of Warsaw, Poland: “Warning against a ‘Prophylactic Dame’: Eugenics and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Princeton Years”

 

Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, UK:

 

 

Session 118: Fiction and Non-fiction in American Literature: Fictionalization of Facts

Chairs: Olga Nesmelova, Kazan Federal University, Russia

Olga Karasik, Associate Professor, Kazan Federal University, Russia

 

Olga Karasik, Kazan Federal University, Russia: “Anne Frank in Mass Culture: Fictionalization of the Image in Literature and Visual Arts”

 

Stanislav Kolář, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic: “Fictionalizing the Holocaust: The 2nd and 3rd Generation Responses to the Genocide”

 

Olga Antsyferova, Ivanovo State University, Russia: “Correlation of Fact and Fiction in Henry James’s Biographies: Moral and Aesthetic Vision”

 

Agnieszka Salska, Teacher’s Training College, Poland: “Galway Kinnell as a Public Poet: History, Tradition and the Individual Talent”

 

 

Session 119: The Space of Communities - Representing U.S. Communities in Cinematic and TV Spaces

Chair: Boris Vejdovsky, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Isabel Durán, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

 

Carmen Díaz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

 

Thomas Byers, University of Louisville, USA

 

 

Session 120: Knowledge Surrounded by Water: Islands in the American Imagination 

Chairs: Kirsten Twelbeck, Leibniz-University Hanover, Germany

Dominika Ferens, University of Wroclaw, Poland

 

Kirsten Twelbeck, Leibniz-University Hanover, Germany: “Surfing on Words. Jack London’s Pacific Islands”

 

Dominika Ferens, University of Wroclaw, Poland: “How Can Islands Know Themselves? The Relationality ofCaribbean Islands in the Writings of Sui Sin Far (1896) and Jamaica Kincaid (1988)”

 

Dorothea Löbbermann, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany: “Fantasy Islands and Islands of Fantasy”

 

Angela Kölling, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: “Black Sails, Green Sails: Pacific Island Utopias”

 

 

Sesssion 121: Hauntings in American Culture

Chairs:     Barbara Ladd, Emory University, USA

Susan Castillo, UK

 

Barbara Ladd, Emory University, USA: “Haunting the American Estate: Specters of Degeneration in Ellen Glasgow’s Gothic Tales”

 

Susan Castillo, UK: “Haunting and Intergenerational Trauma in George W. Cable”

 

Florian Andrei Vlad, Ovidius University, Constanţa, Romania: “Guillermo Del Toro, Gothic Re-Animator”

 

 

Session 122: Digital Archiving in the Context of Early American Studies

Chair:  Michael Streif, University of Salzburg, Austria

 

Verena Holztrattner, University of Salzburg, Austria TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

Leopold Lippert, University of Salzburg, Austria TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

 

Session 123: Transnational Feminism and American Studies

Chair: Silvia Schultermandl, University of Graz, Austria

 

Silvia Schultermandl, University of Graz, Austria TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

Katharina Gerund, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

 

Session 124: Film Screening

Curtis Chin, New York University, USA

 

 

 

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