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2002 Conference
Vienna, Nov. 8-10
Conference Program
Conference
venue:
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
UniCampus AAKH, Hof 8
1090 Wien
Friday, November 8, 2002
14:00 – Registration (Institut für Anglistik und
Amerikanistik, 1st floor)
16:00 AAAS
Board Meeting (room 1)
17:00 Conference
Opening (Unterrichtsraum)
Arthur Mettinger (Vicepresident
of the University of Vienna); Nikolaus Ritt (Chair of the Dept. of
English and American Studies; Wolfgang Schmale (Dept. of History); Astrid M. Fellner (Secretary of AAAS)
18:00-19.30
Keynote lectures (Unterrichtsraum)
Chair: Michael Draxlbauer
18:00-18:45 Oliver
RATHKOLB (U of Vienna)
“Pre-1945 Roots of
Anti-Americanism in Post World War II Austria”
18:45-19:30 Paul
LAUTER (Trinity College, USA)
"Is American Studies Anti-American?"
20:00
Reception at Amerika Haus, hosted by John A. Quintus (American
Embassy)
Saturday, November 9, 2002
9:00-10.30
Keynote Lectures (Unterrichtsraum)
Chair: Astrid M. Fellner
9:00-9:45
Timothy CONLEY (Bradley U, USA)
"Ante-Americanisms:
Friendly
Critiques of the Emerging Nation"
9:45-10:30 Vincent
KLING
(La Salle U, USA)
“American Empire: The
United States and Austrian Writers of the Twentieth Century”
10:30-11:00 Coffee
Break
11:00-12.30
Keynote Lectures (Unterrichtsraum)
Chair: Fritz Fellner
11:00-11:45 Thomas
FRÖSCHL (U of Vienna):
“Historical Dimensions of
European Anti-Americanism: the 18th and 19th
Centuries”
11:45-12:30 Günter
BISCHOF (U of New Orleans, USA)
“Is There a Specific
Austrian Anti-Americanism after World War II?”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Graduate
Student Forum
16:00-16:15 Coffee
Break
16:15-17:45 Parallel
Workshop Sessions – I, II, III
18:00-19:30 PANEL
DISCUSSION “Anti-Americanism in Austria”
Chair: John A. Quintus
Participants: Eugen Freund
(ORF), Livia Klingl (Kurier)
20:00
Heuriger
Sunday, November 10, 2002
9:00-10:30
Parallel Workshop Sessions – IV, V, VI
10:30-10:45 Coffee
Break
10:45-12:30 AAAS
General Meeting
12:30-12:45
Conference Closing
13:00 Board
Meeting and Lunch
WORKSHOPS
Workshop
I: (Anti-)Americanisms in Literature
Paul Crumbley, Utah State University
“The ‘Purple Democrat’:
Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Consent”
Verena Klein, University of Innsbruck
“Anti-Americanisms in Contemporary Canadian Fiction”
Workshop II:
(Anti-)Americanisms and History
Christoph
Schmetterer, University of Vienna
“Monarchy and Republic - Austria and the United States, 19th
Century”
Roman
Puff, University of Vienna
“‘Again and Ever I Thank Heaven for the Atlantic Ocean’:
Anti-Americanism in Austria-Hungary during World War I ”
Franz Mathis,
University of Innsbruck
“Poverty and Wealth: Reasons for Anti-Americanism in the Third World”
Workshop III:
(Anti-)Americanisms and the Body
Greta Olson, University of Freiburg
“Inarticulate, Violent,
White, American Men”
Louis Kern,
Hofstra University
“‘The
Biologic Aspects of Immigration,’ ‘Racial Crime‚’ and the Looming Threat
of Cacocracy: Eugenics, Imigration Restriction, and the Reconstruction
of Americanism in the 1920s”
Carmen Birkle, University of Mainz and
Vienna
“Barbie's American Success Story”
Workshop IV:
(Anti-)Americanisms and Ethnicity
Sylvia Schiefer, University of Vienna
“Americanisms Under the
Critical Eye of African-American Poet, Writer, Singer and Musician Gil
Scott-Heron: the ‘Movie’ Poems”
Markus Heide, University of Munich
”Ambivalent Vistas: Jose Martí's "Our America"
(1891) and Contemporary Hemispheric American Studies”
Workshop V:
(Anti-)Americanisms and Popular Culture
Duco van Oostrum, University of Sheffield
“The
Black Athlete’s Battle Royal of the 1960s: Anti-American Protests in
American Sport”
Monika Messner, University of Innsbruck
“‘On Behalf of a Proud,
Determined, and Grateful Nation, ...’Americanism in Sports”
William Tate,
James Madison University
“‘this is not US’: Notes
on Why McDonald’s is Anti-American”
Workshop VI:
(Anti-)Americanisms and Media
Andreas Weissenbäck,
University of Vienna
“Americanisms in European
Car Advertisements”
Claudia Schwarz,
University of Innsbruck
“Spin-ning Wheel America Americanism and Anti-Americanism Constructed by
the Media”
Markus Rheindorf, University of Vienna
“Civilization(s):
Rewriting History in Interactive Media”
Graduate Student
Forum
Holger
Benz, University of Vienna
"I do not
invent my literary ancestors. If anything, they invented me." Gore
Vidal's American Chronicles
Gerwin
Gallob, University of Klagenfurt
traveling at
the speed of thought. on the concepts and sonic fictions of the black
electronic
Alexandra
Ganser, University of Vienna
Haunting Hi/Stories:
Memory, Identity, and the Construction of Heritage in Ken Kesey’s Last
Go Round and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Susanne
Mettauer, University of Innsbruck
The Artist in
the Folk Storehouse: African-American Folklore in the Writings of
Langston Hughes
Eva Semmler,
University of Vienna
Screening
Lesbians: Representations of Lesbian Desire
Peter Unger, University of Vienna
"I tried to keep it real, never
to sell the truth, but always to tell the truth."
Cultural Authenticity and Voices of Urban Reality
in the Hip Hop Community
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