Program
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
20:00: Joint Dinner at the Via Nova II
Friday, May 20, 2005UL 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
Saturday, May 21, 2005UL 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
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