Annual Students Conferences at Humboldt: Conferences
 
Haunted Dreams. Nightmares in American Culture


Program

Thursday · Friday · Saturday

Thursday, May 23, 2002

16:00 c.t. - 18:00: Opening of the Conference
UL 6, R 2103

Reception

UL 6, R 2004a

Philipp Kneis
Opening Address: Nightmares in American Culture

Simon Strick
Keynote Address

18:30 - 21:00: Film Screening
UL 6, R 2103


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Friday, May 24, 2002
UL 6, R 2103

10:00 - 12:00: Session I

Chair: Philipp Kneis

Jennifer Evans
"Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace":
Revisiting the Bondage of Slavery in Harriet Jacobs'
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Helen Holtom
Doing Away With Weak Western Forms:
The Search for a Black Cultural Identity in Amiri Baraka's 'The Dutchman'.

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:30: Session II

Chair: Manuela Thiel

Jasper Nicolaisen
'One Book To Rule Them All Out':
The Popular Reception of J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and the Nightmare of Normalization

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00: Session III

Chair: Carsten Junker

Michael Funk
Vampires and Crackheads:
Drug Demons in American History and Culture

Moritz Ege et al.
White Trash

18:30 - 21:00: Film Screening
UL 6, R 1064a (Demoraum RZ)


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Saturday, May 25, 2002
UL 6, R 2103

10:00 - 12:00: Session IV

Chair: Susann Neuenfeldt

Kathrin Stoffregen
Blue Velvet - a Love Story or a Story of Love and Violence?

Philipp Kneis
The Wilderness Masters the Colonist.
Nature, Culture, and the Truth Out There

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:30: Session V

Chair: Anna Katharina Otzen

Chris Flor
"You Are Seeing Demons When There Is Only Life":
Symptoms of Collective Paranoid Schizophrenia in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Claudia Schwarz, Mira Blumhagen
"Requiem for a Dream" - Deconstruction of the American Dream in recent American cinema productions.

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00: Session VI

Chair: Matthias Oppermann

Bert Bobock
Conspiracy Theories After 9/11 - An Emerging Subculture Undermining Authority as a Result of the New Media Age: Facts or Fiction?

Concluding Discussion