Program
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Thursday, May 23, 2002
16:00 c.t. - 18:00: Opening of the ConferenceUL 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 ScreeningUL 6, R 2103
Friday, May 24, 2002UL 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 ScreeningUL 6, R 1064a (Demoraum RZ)
Saturday, May 25, 2002UL 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
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