Program
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Thursday, May 15, 2003
16:00 c.t. - 18:00: Opening of the ConferenceUL 6, R 3119
Philipp Kneis, Simon Strick
Opening Addresses
Matthias Oppermann
Keynote Address:
Story, Archive, Apparatus. American Studies Decentered
Reception UL 6, R 3119
18:00 - 20:00: Guest Lecture:UL 6, R 2097
Prof. Bob Boyer, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, Regina, Canada
The History of Aboriginal Art and How it Affects Bob Boyer
(part of the lecture series "Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Canada.
Cultural Difference and Identity Construction")
Friday, May 16, 2003UL 6, R 3119
10:00 - 12:00: Session I
Chair: Philipp Kneis
Christoph Raetzsch
Cultural Hybridity
Bert Bobock
Identity Formation and the Internet
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch Break
13:30 - 16:00: Session II
Chair: Jennifer Evans
Eddie Bruce
Afro-German Identity: A Diasporic Literature
Simon Strick
Emulation-Dialogics-Diaspora: Strategies of Intercultural Translation in German Minority Rap
Carsten Junker
On the Difficulty of Being White and Not Racist
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 19:00: Session III
Chair: Matthias Oppermann
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
Philipp Kneis
"Friends of Ours". Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion
and Self-Definition on The Sopranos
Ben Letzler
"A sliced tomato you have maybe": Jewish-American Literature and the Question of Food
Round-Up Discussion
Saturday, May 17, 2003UL 6, R 3119
10:00 - 12:00: Session IV
Chair: Simon Strick
Sladja Blazan
Gender and Migration in Contemporary Slavic American Literature
Laimas Fergizas
Refugee Migration as Founding Basis of Multiculturalism
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch Break
13:30 - 16:00: Session V
Chair: Hannes Schaser
Alexandra von Barsewisch
Bordering on Images: Reflections on the Film The Garden of Eden by Maria Novaro
Steven Corcoran
Multiculturalism and Universality
Michael Funk
Searching for Room at the Inn: Minority Conservatism and the Critique of Multiculturalism
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 20:00: Session VI & Concluding Discussion
Chair: Anson Koch-Rein
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
Manuela Thiel
American Indians and U.S. Higher Education: Between Cultural Assimilation and Self-Determination
Claudia Schwarz
"A Nuyorican State of Mind." On Nuyorican Poetry and the Refusal to be Colonized
Closing of the Conference
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