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Participants & Abstracts

Participants and Submissions so far:

Karin Ackermann, Potsdam University:
Confronting Stereotypes of Native American Women* (with Lena Thiel)

Andrea Bähr, Universität Würzburg:
The Time-Traveling Mr. Pip. Trans-Cultural Modes of Intertextuality in a New Postcolonial Literature

Alexandra von Barsewisch, European University Viadrina:
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Subaltern's Discarded Resource or Cosmopolitan Currency?

Prof. Eva Boesenberg, HU Berlin (organizer)

Prof. Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota

Annie Cottier, University of Bern:
The Poetics and Politics of Cosmopolitanism in English Literatures of South Asian Background (with Nora Escherle, Melanie Mettler)

Allison Davis-White Eyes, Oregon State University (organizer):
A Critique of Pure Cosmopolitanism: Subalternity and the Rise of the Rest

Idil Efe, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Subaltern Writing: Emine Sevgi Özdama

Nora Escherle, University of Bern:
The Poetics and Politics of Cosmopolitanism in English Literatures of South Asian Background (with Annie Cottier, Melanie Mettler)

Matthias Haber, Potsdam University:
Stereotypes of American Indians in the Media* (with René Stein)

Karina Janowska, Potsdam University:
Representations of Contemporary Native Americans*

Philipp Kneis, Humboldt-Universität / Potsdam University (organizer):
Introduction: The Subaltern and Cosmopolitanism
The French Lakota: James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk as a Cosmopolitan Text
Color TV in Black and White: Depictions of Diversity on The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street (with Manuela Mangold)

Anna Kollmann, Free University Berlin:
Stereotypes of the Subaltern in Graphic Novels

Milosz Lietz, Potsdam University:
Representations of Contemporary Native Americans*

Manuela Mangold, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (organizer),
Color TV in Black and White: Depictions of Diversity on The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street (with Philipp Kneis)

Melanie Mettler, University of Bern:
The Poetics and Politics of Cosmopolitanism in English Literatures of South Asian Background (with Annie Cottier, Nora Escherle)

Tom Michelchen, Potsdam University:
Representations of Contemporary Native Americans*

Sebastian Schöbel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Give Me Bacon or Give Me Death: The Fight for Autonomy of Trentino-South Tyrol in a Cosmopolitan Context

Daniela Simon, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (organizer):
The Depiction of Minorities in Video Games

René Stein, Potsdam University:
Stereotypes of American Indians in the Media* (with Matthias Haber)

Geneviève Susemihl, Universität Rostock:
Altering the Ways of Seeing? Female Power and the Gaze in Fashion Advertising

Lena Thiel, Potsdam University:
Confronting Stereotypes of Native American Women* (with Karin Ackermann)

Timo Tonassi, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Framing the Subaltern: How the American Media Depicts "Illegal Aliens"

Chance White Eyes, Oregon State University:
Obama Redux: Cosmopolitanism and Race in America