Annual Students Conferences at Humboldt: Conferences
 
Multiple Cultures - Multiple Perspectives. Questions of Identity and Urbanity in a Transnational Context


Abstracts of Papers


Alexandra von Barsewisch
Bordering on Images: Reflections on the Film The Garden of Eden by Maria Novaro (Session V)

Sladja Blazan
Gender and Migration in Contemporary Slavic American Literature (Session IV)

Bert Bobock
Identity Formation and the Internet (Session I)

Eddie Bruce
Afro-German Identity: A Diasporic Literature (Session II)

Steven Corcoran
Multiculturalism and Universality (Session V)

Laimas Fergizas
Refugee Migration as Founding Basis of Multiculturalism (Session IV)

Kim Förster
Reading New York City and Other Cities in Novel Ways. The Construction of New Meanings of Urban Spaces in and through Paul Auster's New York Trilogy (Session VI)

Michael Funk
Searching for Room at the Inn: Minority Conservatism and the Critique of Multiculturalism (Session V)

Carsten Junker
On the Difficulty of Being White and Not Racist (Session II)

Philipp Kneis
"Friends of Ours". Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion and Self-Definition on The Sopranos (Session III)

Ben Letzler
"A sliced tomato you have maybe": Jewish-American Literature and the Question of Food (Session III)

Beatrice Michaelis, Elahe Haschemi Yekani
"Where are the Lesbians?" - The Topography of Lesbian Desire in 1950s and 1960s America in the Pulp Novels of Ann Bannon (Session III)

Matthias Oppermann
Keynote Address: Story, Archive, Apparatus. American Studies Decentered (Opening)

Christoph Raetzsch
Cultural Hybridity (Session I)

Simon Strick
Emulation-Dialogics-Diaspora: Strategies of Intercultural Translation in German Minority Rap (Session II)

Claudia Schwarz
"A Nuyorican State of Mind." On Nuyorican Poetry and the Refusal to be Colonized (Session VI)

Manuela Thiel
American Indians and U.S. Higher Education: Between Cultural Assimilation and Self-Determination (Session VI)