General Interviews and Documents Program Staff Venue
January 30, 2008
19:00 Conference Warming in a Restaurant
January 31, 2008
08:30 Opening: Welcoming addresses by Vice President of Univ. of Bayreuth, the US Consulate General, Prof. Michael Zöller
09:15 Bolter, Jay D. (Wesley Chair in New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology): "The Scopic Regimes of American Media Culture"
10:00 Müller-Jacquier, Bernd (Intercultural German Studies, Univ. Bayreuth): "Performing Culturality in Initial Contact Situations"
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Bargatzky, Thomas (Ethnology, Univ. Bayreuth): "Americanisms, Hispanisms, Nationalisms: Becoming Aztlan in the República del Norte?"
11:30 Depkat, Volker (History, Univ. Regensburg): "Democracy American or European Style? Talking about Democracy in Europe, 1945-1960"
12:00 Fendler, Ute (Romance and Comparative Literature, Univ. Bayreuth): "Migrants in Canada: Between Americanism and Américanité"
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Pisarz-Ramírez, Gabriele (American Studies, Univ. Leipzig, currently Univ. Bayreuth): "African-Canadian Literature and the Americas"
14:30 Fröhlich, Hellmut (Cultural Geography, RWTH Aachen): "Urbanism and Americanism: Stadtentwicklung in Nordamerika zwischen Ideologie, Dystopie und der 'Amerikanisierung' europäischer Städte"
15:00 Kamphausen, Georg (Political Sociology, Univ. Bayreuth): "Die Europäisierung des Amerikanismus: Die Amerikakritik im Spiegel des europäischen Selbstzweifels"
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Lepsius, Oliver (Law, Univ. Bayreuth): "Americanism in Law"
16:30 Linhardt, Marion (Music Theater, Univ. Bayreuth): "Transatlantic Discourses: 'American' Musical Theater and Entertainment"
17:00 Refreshment break (if desired)
17:15 Maher, Thomas M. (Communication Studies, Univ. of Louisiana): "American environmentalism on the defensive: The Conservative Attack and its Effects"
18:00 Matuschewski, Anke (Urban and Regional Planning, Univ. Bayreuth): "Americanism in der deutschen Stadtplanung zwischen Ablehnung und selektiver Kopie - Die Adaption von Public Private Partnerships und BIDS in Deutschland"
From 19:00 Dinner
Program Documents
08:30 Miller, James A. (American Studies, George Washington Univ.): "The Diasporic Turn: Shifting Paradigms in African American Studies"
09:15 Mühleisen, Susanne (English Linguistics, Univ. Bayreuth): "American Adaptations: Language Ideology and the Language Divide in Cross-Atlantic Translations"
09:45 Sumner, David T. (American Studies, Linfield College, Oregon): "Location and Landscape in Literary Americanisms: A Brief Look at H. L. Davis and F. Scott Fitzgerald"
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar (American Studies, Univ. Wien): "Dixie Unlimited: Amerikanische Identität und südstaatliches Selbstverständnis"
11:45 Müller, Jürgen E. (Media Studies, Univ. Bayreuth): "In Search of Otherness or Sameness: Traces of Americanism in the Cinéma Québecquois"
12:15 Dannenberg, Hilary (English Literature and Anglophone Literatures, Univ. Bayreuth): "Invasion Narratives and American Identities in the Science-Fiction Film"
12:45-14:15 Lunch break
14:15 Mungen, Anno (Music Theater, Univ. Bayreuth): "'Amerikanismus' in German Music Theater of the 1920s"
14:45 Murschhauser, Marc (Ethnology, LMU München): "Africa in America: An Ethnological Perspective on Black Identity in the Americas"
15:15 Coffee break
15:45 Fitz, Karsten (American Studies, Univ. Passau): "Between the Old Testament, the Declaration of Independence, and American Exceptionalism: Conservative Christian Colleges in the U.S."
16:15 Steiert, Thomas (Music Theater, Univ. Bayreuth): "Interrupted Circulation: 'Exil' and 'Besatzung'"
(Last Update: 14 February 2008)