International Graduate Conference 2015
Alliances: Un/Common Causes and the Politics of Participation
Keynote lectures will be held by
- José David Saldívar (Literature, Stanford University),
- Wil Verhoeven (Culture, University of Groningen), and
- Andrei Markovits (Sociology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor).
The conference will be concluded with closing remarks delivered by Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (Brandeis University / FU Berlin).
Registration
We encourage you to register as early as possible. In order to do so, please send an email to alliances@gsnas.fu-berlin.de stating your full name, contact information and institutional affiliation.
Unfortunately, the Graduate School of North American Studies cannot provide any grants to cover your participation fee and travel expenses.
If you have any questions concerning the registration process, please contact us at alliances@gsnas.fu-berlin.de.
Panel Structure and Conference Program
| Thursday 7th May | |
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| 3.30 pm | Registration |
| 4.00 pm | Opening Address by Ulla Haselstein (Director of the GSNAS, Freie Universität Berlin) |
| 4.30 pm | Coffee Break |
| Thursday 7th May, 4.45 pm | Panel I |
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The State(s) and its Others: Institutions and the Politics of Representation Panel Chair: Jasper Verlinden (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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| Alexia Schemien (University of Duisburg-Essen) |
Of Librotraficantes and MAS Races: Alliance Building in the Aftermath of Arizona’s Book Ban |
| Jiann-Chyng Tu (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) |
An Alliance with the “other America”: East German Solidarity with the African American Civil Rights Struggle |
| 5.45 pm | Coffee Break |
| 6.00 pm | Keynote Address: José David Saldívar (Stanford University) |
| Friday 8th May | |
|---|---|
| 9.30 am | Registration |
| 10.00 am | Keynote Address: Wil Verhoeven (University of Groningen) |
| 11.00 am | Coffee Break |
| Friday 8th May, 11.15 am | Panel II |
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The Limits of Subversion: Cooperation and Cooptation in the Neoliberal Age Panel Chair: Mathias Großklaus (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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| Blair Taylor (New School of Social Research) |
Social Movements and the New Spirit of Capitalism: The Strange Bedfellows of Neoanarchism and Neoliberalism |
| Funda Çoban (Aksaray University) |
Electronic Faces of Counter-Public Spaces |
| Cord-Heinrich Plinke (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Equality–But for Whom? |
| 12.45 pm | Lunch Break |
| Friday 8th May, 2.00 pm | Panel III & IV |
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Mobilizing Across Borders: Transnational Alliances Panel Chair: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (Brandeis University / Freie Universität Berlin) |
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| Denijal Jegić (Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz) |
#FromFergusonToGaza - The (Re)Emergence of Afro-Arab Solidarity through Social Media |
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Maurits Meijers |
Transnational Far Right Alliances: The Case of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party |
| Imke Brust (Haverford College) |
Alliances Beyond Borders: Transnational Activists |
| David Jünger (ZJS – Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg) |
Legacies of an (Un)common Past: German-Jewish Refugees and the Civil Rights Movement in Postwar America |
| 4.00 pm | Coffee Break |
| Friday 8th May, 4.30 pm | Panel V |
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Stories of Change: Narrating Movements, Moving Narratives Panel Chair: Simon Schleusener (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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| Talel Ben Jemia (Freie Universität Berlin) |
It Gets Better (?!) - Cross-generational Alliances in the LGBTQ-Community |
| Carmen Séra (University of Vienna) |
Participation and Cultural Production Regarding Responses to Well-Known clandestine Alliances |
| 5.45 pm | Coffee Break |
| 6.00 pm | Keynote Address: Andrei S. Markovits (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
| 7.00 pm | Reception |
| Saturday 9th May, 9.30 am | Panel VI |
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Getting Together: The Aesthetics of Collaboration Panel Chair: Birte Wege (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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| Sonja Longolius (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Double Game: Paul Auster’s and Sophie Calle’s Authorial Collaboration |
| Rieke Jordan (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Imagined Alliances and Fandom in Beck Hansen's Song Reader |
| Katharina Metz (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Knitting Together: Woman Reform in the Late 19th Century |
| 11.00 am | Coffee Break |
| Saturday 9th May, 11.30 am | Panel VII |
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Whose City? Claiming Space in the (Sub-)Urban Environment Panel Chair: Marius Dahmen (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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| Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich (University of Kiel) |
The Right to New York City? Democratic Politics and the Trouble with La Police |
| Jeremy Williams (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Revolt from the Suburbs: Populist Conservative Coalitions in North American Cities |
| Simone Knewitz (University of Bonn) |
"Nobody’s Home Is Safe": Eminent Domain and the Cultural Work of the Property Rights Movement |
| 1.00 pm | Closing Remarks: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (Brandeis University / Freie Universität Berlin) |
