AAAS – Conference 2007

AMERICAN STUDIES IN AUSTRIA

Conference Committee:

Dorothea Steiner and Hanna Wallinger (Salzburg)

Conference Dates: 2 - 3 November 2007

Conference Venue: Exerzitienhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern, Graz, Mariengasse 6

bhsexerzitien@aon.at, tel. (0316) 71 60 20

President: DOROTHEA STEINER Universität Salzburg FB Anglistik Akademiestrasse 24 5020 SALZBURG Austria dorothea.steiner@sbg.ac.at

Vice-President: ASTRID FELLNER Universität Wien Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 1090 WIEN, Austria astrid.fellner@univie.ac.at

Secretary: HANNA WALLINGER Universität Salzburg FB Anglistik Akademiestrasse 24 5020 SALZBURG Austria hanna.wallinger@sbg.ac.at

Treasurer: EUGEN BANAUCH Universität Wien Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 1090 WIEN, Austria eugen.banauch@univie.ac.at

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, 2 November 2007

12:00                         Board meets for lunch

13:00-14:00              Board Meeting

14:00-15:00              Awarding of the FULBRIGHT PRIZE 2007

15:00-16:00              PANEL I.1.

Teaching American Studies in the Framework of Amerikanistik (English and

American Studies Departments and Centers)

Chair: Dorothea Steiner, Salzburg (dorothea.steiner@sbg.ac.at)

Astrid Fellner, Wien (astrid.fellner@univie.ac.at) and Klaus Heissenberger, Wien (klaus.heissenberger@univie.ac.at): Teaching American Studies as Cultural Studies

Silvia Schultermandl, Graz (silvia.schultermandl@uni-graz.at): Reading Kingston's 'No Name Woman' as Primer to Critical Multiculturalism

Dorothea Steiner, Salzburg: Teaching North American Civilization

16:00-16:30              Coffee break

16:30-17:30              PANEL I.2.

Doing American Studies in the Framework of Other Disciplines:

Chair: Thomas Fröschl, Wien (thomas.froeschl@univie.ac.at)

Thomas Fröschl, Wien, and Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Wien (birgitta.bader-zaar@univie.ac.at): American History and the History of the Atlantic World at the University of Vienna

Alan Scott, Innsbruck (alan.scott@uibk.ac.at): Habit of the head: institutional and cognitive barriers to interdisciplinarity

Reinhold Wagnleitner, Salzburg: US-History in Salzburg (written report)

17:45-18:45              PANEL I.3.

Teaching Language and Culture (American) in Austrian Highschools and at the University

Chair: Gabriele Pötscher, Graz (gabriele.poetscher@uni-graz.at)

Frank Newman, Graz (fpn73088@yahoo.com): Sprache und Kultur

Tanja Greil, Salzburg (tanja.greil@sbg.ac.at): The Role of Varieties of Languages (American English) in the Common European Framework of Reference and Austrian Secondary School Curricula

Jennifer Schumm (j.schumm@utanet.at): Socio-Cultural Competence

Heidi Petermichl, Linz (h.petermichl@eduhi.at): American English at AHS

19:00-20:30              Dinner at a nearby restaurant

20:30-21:45              GENERAL MEETING, followed by socializing

Saturday, 3 November 2007

9:00-10:30                PANEL II.1.

Amerikanistik and Curricular Developments

Chair: Hanna Wallinger, Salzburg (hanna.wallinger@sbg.ac.at)

Hanna Wallinger, Salzburg: BA/MA Studies in Austria

Roberta Maierhofer, Graz (roberta.maierhofer@uni-graz.at): A Process of Opportunity: American Studies and the New Structures in Higher Education

Barbara Weitgruber, Wien (Barbara.Weitgruber@bmwf.gv.at): The European Higher Education Area - Challenges and Opportunities for American Studies in Austria

Christian Quendler, GSCS, Justus-Liebig Universiät Gießen (christian.quendler@uibk.ac.at): Multidisciplinary Studies at Innsbruck: Medical Humanities, Law and the Humanities, and Business/Management and the Humanities

10:30-11:00              Coffee break

11:00-12:30              PANEL II.2.

"New" American Studies? Perspectives and Research Areas

Chair: Walter Hölbling, Graz (walter.hoelbling@uni-graz.at) and Carmen Birkle, Mainz (birkle@uni-mainz.de)

a. American Studies and / as / vs. Cultural Studies:

    Petra Eckhard, Graz (petra.eckhard@uni-graz.at): Restless Goth/am: On Transients
    and the Modern Unhomely

b. American Studies and / as Media Studies:
    Klaus Rieser, Graz (klaus.rieser@uni-graz.at): A Perfect Match? American-Cultural-Film
    Studies

c. American Studies as / and Postcolonial Studies:
    Astrid Fellner, Wien (astrid.fellner@univie.ac.at): América Aquí: Transhemispheric
    Visions, Border Studies and the Literatures of the Americas

d. A Study of The Americas:
    Carmen Birkle, Mainz: Atlantic Studies

12:45-14:00              Lunch at a nearby restaurant

14:00-16:00              PANEL II.3.

American Studies Projects by Junior Scholars

Chair: Silvia Schultermandl, Graz (silvia.schultermandl@uni-graz.at)

a. The Austrian POSTGRADUATE NETWORK (an AAAS-EAAS initiative)
     Progress Report

b. The Graduate Student Forum (GSF) (Masters and Doctoral Projects):

Ulla Kriebernegg, Graz (ulla.kriebernegg@uni-graz.at): The Role of Higher Education for the Transatlantic Dialogue: Narratives and Rationales

Johanna Fally, Wien (johannafally@yahoo.com): American Horror and Eric Kripke's / Supernatural/

Astrid Brunner, Wien (astrid_brunner@yahoo.com): Grrrl Power for Sale? Ambivalent Resistance in Feminist Subcultures

Susanne Hamscha, Wien (0109067@unet.univie.ac.at): "The Body-in Pieces": The Dismemberment and Fragmentation of the Body in the Fiction of Djuna Barnes, Rebecca Brown and Jeanette Winterson

16:00                         Farewell coffee (with presentation of "Goodbye Schmidgasse 14")

16:30-17:15              Meeting of the New Board