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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