Annual Students Conferences at Humboldt: Conferences
 
Picturing America. Domestic and Global Aspects of US Media Culture


Program

(see also: print version: program flyer)

Thursday · Friday · Saturday



Thursday, May 19, 2005

20:00: Joint Dinner at the Via Nova II


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Friday, May 20, 2005
UL 6, R 2103

11:00 - 12:30: Session I

Moderator: Antje Dallmann

Antje Dallmann, Philipp Kneis
Opening of the Conference

Heike Toewe
The Use of Spectatorship in Spike Lee's Bamboozled

Michael Lattek
Abduction & Adoption: Searching for the "Western Contamination" of The Big Lebowski

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 16:00: Session II

Moderator: Simon Strick

Screening Nip/Tuck Episode + Discussion

Manuela Mangold
From Imagination to Image. The Dissection of the Body in CSI and Nip/Tuck

Dominik Bertram
Big Brother is All Around

16:30 - 18:30: Session III

Moderator: N.N.

Florian Stenschke
USS Media: Enter/tainment - Enter/America?

Screening West Wing Episode + Discussion

Philipp Kneis
Communicating Democracy: Entering the American Republic Through The West Wing

19:00 - 20:30: Reception, Art Presentation, Poetry Reading


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Saturday, May 21, 2005
UL 6, R 2103

11:00 - 12:30: Session IV

Moderator: Florian Stenschke

Mara Dettmann, Susan Eckelmann
American Exceptionalism - Holocaust Exceptionalism?
An Analysis of the Public Response to the Exhibition "Mirroring Evil"

Eddie Bruce
Surviving September 11th or Snapshots in the Dark?
A Critical Consideration of two Professional Photographs as Portraits of Denial

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 16:00: Session V

Moderator: Philipp Kneis

Screening X-Files Episode + Discussion

Danijela Djordjevic
The X-Files and Paranoia

Richard Martin
Fictional Representations of the American Criminal Justice System

Concluding Discussion

Closing of the Conference