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Haunted Dreams. Nightmares in American Culture


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Bert Bobock
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

I was born on December 19th 1978 in Cottbus (GDR) and am a student of History, Linguistics and of the American Studies program at Humboldt University since October 1999. Having lived the first 11 years of my life in Cottbus, Magdeburg and Börnicke (near Bernau), I escaped to West Germany over former Czechoslovakia on November 6th 1989 starting an entirely new life. Following my high school graduation at Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Dortmund in 1998 I completed my community service on nursing patients in private homes around Wandlitz and moved back to a historic park estate, formerly owned by the family of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, seat to Wilhelm Pieck and the first school for disabled children in Brandenburg in the times of the German Democratic Republic. The reason to return to the Berlin area was my interest in the United States and therefore the American Studies program at Humboldt as well as the multiple language school opportunities in Berlin for my former Floridian girlfriend. My interests next to extensive travelling are my side job as a powder coating systems developer, a free artist and gallerist as well as in American social and cultural issues and American foreign policy.

Paper: Conspiracy Theories After 9/11 - An Emerging Subculture Undermining Authority as a Result of the New Media Age: Facts or Fiction? (Session VI)

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