Program
(see also: print version: program flyer)
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Saturday
We thank our sponsors and supporters for their generous assistance of this conference:
Embassy of Canada
Embassy of the United States of America
American Studies Program, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
15:00 - 16:00: Opening
Philipp Kneis, Manuela Mangold
Opening of the Conference
Dr. Peter Bolz, Curator of Native North American Collections, Ethnological Museum Berlin
Introduction to the History of the North America Collection of the Museum
16:00 - 18:00: Visit of the Exhibition "North American Indians. From Myth to Modernity"
18:00 - 18:30: Welcome Addresses
Prof. Eva Boesenberg, American Studies Program, Berlin
Welcome Address
18:30 - 20:00: Keynote Address
Allison Davis-White Eyes
Sin-Wit-Ki (All Life on Earth).
The Good Life: Globalization Challenges and Opportunities for Native America
20:00 - 21:00: Reception
Thursday, May 4, 2006UL 6, R 2103
Moderator: Manuela Mangold
10:00 - 12:30: Session I: Literature & Culture 1
Florian Stenschke
Charles Eastman and Indian American Autobiography
Timo Tonassi
Stereotypes in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
13:30 - 15:30: Session II: Literature & Culture 2
Levin Arnsperger
The Wild West Show in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Philipp Kneis
Indian Nation(s). American Indians Between Stereotype and Reality
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30: Session III: Workshop
Allison Davis-White Eyes
Native American Education in the US
17:30 - 18:00: Coffee Break
18:00 - 20:30: Film: Skins (2003, Dir. Chris Eyre)
Friday, May 5, 2006UL 6, R 2103
Moderator: Manuela Mangold
10:00 - 12:30: Session IV: Culture & Media
Christina Judith Hein
Appropriating the Look: Media and the White Man in Sherman Alexie's Dear John Wayne (2000)
Philipp Kneis
Germans and Indians. Representations of Indians and the Tribal Unconscious
(cancelled talk: Dr. Geneviève Susemihl: Marketing the Imaginary Indian - Native Americans in German Advertisement)
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
13:30 - 15:30: Session V: Canada 1
Prof. Claude Denis
Beyond the Rez? Trends in the Recognition of Indigenous Rights in Canada
John Chenoweth
Community Development Through Aboriginal leadership
Dr. Byron Robbie
Recognition in Multicultural Societies:The Politics of Difference and the Education of Aboriginal Children
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30: Session VI: Canada 2 / Workshop
John Chenoweth, Dr. Byron Robbie
Native American Education in Canada
17:30 - 18:00: Relocation to the Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17
18:00 - 18:30: Soft Drinks
18:30 - 18:40: Welcome Address
Erica Claus, Counsellor, Culture, Public Affairs and Academic Relations
18:40 - 22:00: Film: Atanarjuat (2001, Dir. Zacharias Kunuk)
(at Auditorium)
Saturday, May 6, 2006UL 6, R 2103
Moderator: Manuela Mangold
10:00 - 12:30: Session VII: Mexico 1
Kabria Baumgartner
Cashing in on Native Otherness: The Royal Academy of Arts Aztecs Exhibition in London
Amina Grunewald
Mexican Border Lives - Mexico's Native American Communities' Political Reawakening
and Reassertion of the Indigenous Heritage and Homeland
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
13:30 - 15:30: Session VIII: Mexico 2
Hendrikje Grossmann
Chicano/as in American Culture
Allison Davis-White Eyes, John Chenoweth
Issues of Native Language Preservation in the US and Canada
(cancelled talk: Alexandra von Barsewisch: Learning Kumeyaay: Native Language Revitalization at the California Border)
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00: Session IX: Politics
Rainer Paetzke
Indian Gaming
17:00 - 17:15: Coffee Break
17:15 - 18:00: Concluding Discussion
19:00: Joint Dinner
Closing of the Conference
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