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Program

Fourth International Graduate Conference

American Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modes of Power

May 27-28, 2011

 

Friday May 27 2011

9:00 - 9:30 am
Registration  and coffee

9:30 - 10:00 am
Conference opening by members of the Conference Committee and Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein (Director GSNAS) (room 340)

 

10:00 - 11:30 am
Session 1

Panel I (room 340)

“Bodies at Borders: Histories of Citizenship, Immigration and Belonging.”

Chair: Prof. Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University/English and American Studies)

Maria John: “Unhealthy Bodies on the Reservation: The Medicalization of ‘the Indian Problem’ in the Early 20th Century”

Robert Júlio Decker: “Biopolitics at the Border: The Immigration Restriction League (IRL) and Immigrant Inspection.”

Kerrin-Sina Arfsten: “Visualizing the ‘Illegal Other’: Power, Surveillance and Citizenship in the American Borderlands.”

 

Panel II (room 319)

“Bodies (Re-)Constructed: Interpretations of Gender Identities.”

Chair: Andrew Steven Gross, PhD (JFK Institute/Literature)

 

Melanie Eis: The “Mad Ones:” The Construction of White US-American Bodies in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.”

Ben Robbins: “‘The silver dream’: The Female Body and Film in William Faulkner’s Modernist Aesthetic.”

Dr. Antje Dallmann: “Medicine in Crisis / Masculinity in Crisis: S. Weir Mitchell and Re-Negotiations of Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”

11:30 am – 1:00 pm         Lunch break

 

1:00 – 2:30 pm
Session 2

 

Panel III (room 340)

“Bodies Transcending Boundaries 1: Configurations of Technology and the Self.”

Chair: Dr. phil. Frank Mehring (JFK Institute/Culture)

 

Christoph Raetzsch: “Images of the Body in Cybernetic Space.”

Luisa Sehlleier: “The Sexy Disabled Body: Innovative Treatment of Disabled Sexuality in David Cronenberg’s Crash.”

Dr. phil. Frank Mehring: “Silhouette Bodies: Synaesthetic Spaces Beyond the Literary Harlem Renaissance.”

 

Panel IV (room 319)       

“Bodies of a Nation: Constructing Ideas of America.”

Chair: Dr. Andreas Etges (JFK Institute/History)

 

Sandra Perot: “Bodies of Revolution: Late Eighteenth Century American Actresses, Playwrights and Audiences and Embodiment of the American Ideal.”

Kate C. Lemay: “Bodies of the Fallen, Emblems of Power: The American Military Cemeteries in France.”

Jennifer Moos: “‘Wake up, America!’: Sleeping Bodies and the Nation in Washington Irving and Walt Whitman.”

 

2:30 – 3:00 pm
Coffee break (hallway)

 

3:00 – 4:30 pm
Session 3

 

Panel V (room 340)

“Bodies Transcending Boundaries II: Metamorphoses of Anatomy and the Self.”

Chair: Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel (JFK Institute/Sociology)

 

K. Heintzman: “Marks of Gender: The Verbal/Visual Significations of Gender Identities in American Political Pomo-Porno.”

Heike Steinhoff: ‘’I just want to be perfect’: Body Projects in Contemporary American Culture.”

Martin Radermacher: “Devotional Fitness in US Evangelicalism: ‘Secular’ Body Ideals in Contemporary Religious Currents.”

 

Panel VI (room 319)

“Bodies on Display: Meanings of Visibility.”

Chair: Prof. Dr. Michaela Hampf (JFK Institute/History)

 

Anne Scheer: “Disciplining the Student Body – Disciplinary Practices at an Inner-City School.”

Shenila S. Khoja-Moolji: “Muslim Chaplaincy on University Campuses: A New Form of Religious Leadership in America.”

Margarita Aragon: “‘This Ruinous Element’: the Construction of Blackness and the Fact of Unfreedom in 20th-Century America.”

 

4:30 – 5:00 pm                 Coffee break (hallway)

 

5:30 - 7:00 pm       Keynote Address Prof. Robert D. Putnam

  Introduction Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel (JFK Institute/Sociology) (Ethnological Museum, Dahlem)

7:00 pm
Reception (Museum)

 

Saturday May 28 2011

9:00 – 9:30 am
Registration (lobby)

 

9:30 – 11:00 am
Keynote Address Prof. Wai Chee Dimock

Introduction Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein (Director GSNAS) (room 340)

 

11:00 – 11:30 am
Coffee break (hallway)

 

11:30 am - 1:00 pm Session 4

 

Panel VII (room 340)

“Bodies in the Media: (In-)Security, Exposure, and Transgression.”

Chair: Prof. Lance Bennett (University of Washington/Department of Communication)

 

Emma Baumhofer: “Outsourcing Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market.”

Seth Hulse: “Authentic Broadcast News Bodies and their Inauthentic Brethren.”

Adam Christian von Wald: “Bodies as Ideologically Contested Sites: Negotiating Homosexuality, Individualism and the Repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' in the U.S. Armed Forces.”

 

Panel VIII (room 319)

“Bodies of Power and Regulation.”

Chair: Prof. Dr. Lora Anne Viola (JFK Institute/Politics)

 

Julian Arndts: “The Power of Regulatory Bodies in the United States: Trade and Currency Wars with China, Financial Markets and Savings Incentives.”

Michael Weinman: “Bodies of Regulation, Bodies for Regulation: The Costs of Unchecked Corporate Agency.”

 

 

1:00 - 2:30 pm
Lunch break

 

 

2:30 - 4:00 pm
Session 5

 

Panel IX (room 340)

“Bodies of Resistance: Conceptions of Gender, Race, and Identity.”

Chair: Dr. Gudrun Löhrer (JFK Institute/History)

 

Jane Preuß: “The Body, Style, and Hygiene in the National Association of Colored Women, 1896-1917."

Richard A. Grijalva: “Negotiating Identity, Culture, and History in the Body of the Pachuco.”

Jana Drešerová: “Representation of Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Visual Culture.”

 

Panel X (room 319)

“Bodies and Shapes: Visualizations of Corporeality.”

Chair: Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JFK Institute/Literature)

 

Meng Xianping: “Empowered Sites, Isolated Man: Natural Experience and Landscape Representation in 19th-Century American Art.”

Simon Schleusener: “Body Politics: FDR, Obama, and the Neoliberalization of Corporeality.“

 

 

4:00 – 4:30 pm
Coffee break (hallway)

 

 

4:30 - 6:00 pm
Session 6

 

Panel XI (room 340)

“Bodies in Urban Spaces.”

Chair: Lina L. Tegtmeyer, M.A. (GSNAS)

 

Mark Tardi: “Falling Into View: Representations of the September 11, 2001 "jumpers" as seen in Don DeLillo's novel, Mad Men & elsewhere.”

Margaux Portron: “The Politics of Space in The Wire.”

Sarah Wasserman: “A Mary That Matters: Embodied Faith and Urban Apparitions.”

 

Panel XII (room 319)

“Bodies in Pain: Portrayals of Suffering and Violence.”

Chair: Dr. Catrin Gersdorf (JFK Institute/Literature)

 

Marta Alice Gabriel Soares: “’I Know it Hurts to Burn’: Adrienne Rich’s Body in Pain.”

Caroline Marquette: “Literary Blows and Bruises or How Joyce Carol Oates Tries to Make Sense of America’s Bloody Body.”

Tina Weber: “Roll Over And Play Dead! Representations of Dead Bodies in American               TV Shows of the 21st Century”

 

6:00 – 6:15 pm
Closing remarks 
(room 340)

 

6:15 pm
Reception (hallway)

 

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