International Graduate Conference 2018
Follow the Yellow-Brick Road? Challenging Approaches to Progress in North America
Graduate Conference at the Graduate School of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin – June 7-8, 2018
The conference was held at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstr. 7- 9, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem.
Thursday, June 7
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11.30 am |
Introduction by Frank Kelleter, Director of GSNAS, and the Graduate Conference Organizing Committee |
| 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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Poetics of Dis/Reconnection Chair: Betsy Leimbigler, Freie Universität Berlin (Political Science) |
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| Sally Xing, Columbia University: | Madman and Sage: A New Evaluation of the Unfinished American Revolution through the Paradox of the “Two Toms”, Paine and Jefferson |
| Andy Gawthorpe, Leiden University: | Trade liberalization, Progress and Populism (1968–2001) |
| Verena Reiter, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: |
Legislation With(out) Representation: Judicial Activism as Driving Force Behind Sociocultural Progress |
| 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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WORKSHOP II – Bodies of Resistance: Sex, Drugs and Gender Roles Chair: Tobias Jochum, Freie Universität Berlin (Literature) |
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| Edward Belleville, Freie Universität Berlin: | The Other Little Blue Pill: PrEP on the Road to Sodom and Gomorrah |
| Kate Meakin, University of Sussex: | The Indeterminate Future of Reproductive Rights: Challenges to Narratives of Progress in The Handmaid‘s Tale |
| Carly Crane, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: | (Un)Doing the Privatized Self in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets |
| 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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KEYNOTE I – Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Trans*: Histories, Bodies and the Unbuilding of Worlds |
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| 6.00 pm | Dinner at the John F. Kennedy Institute for all participants |
Friday, June 8
| 8.30 am | Early Bird Breakfast |
| 11.00 am – 12.30 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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WORKSHOP III – The Perils of Enhancement: Visions of Betterment and their Regressive Potential Chair: Jonathan Fox, Freie Universität Berlin (Literature) |
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| Lee Flamand, Freie Universität Berlin: | Opening Pandora’s Cable Box: Rethinking the “New Golden Age of Television” |
| Matthew Blackwell, University of Iowa/ Technische Universität Dortmund: | Technological Progress and the “End of Editing”: Definitive vs. Digital Eds. of American Authors |
| Marius Dahmen, Freie Universität Berlin: | The Progress of Regression – Delineating Emancipatory Potential in Contemporary Self- Help(Lessness) |
| 11.00 pm – 1.00 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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KEYNOTE II – Jason Scott Smith, The University of New Mexico, Professor of History American Capitalism and Postwar Development: The Perils of Economic Optimism in the Long Twentieth Century |
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| 1.00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1.30 pm – 3.30 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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WORKSHOP IV – Engineering Progress: Perspectives on Capital, Consumption, and Crisis Chair: Christian-Caspar Güse, Freie Universität Berlin (Political Science) |
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| Lasse Thiele, Freie Universität Berlin: | Ceteris Paribus Progress? The Green Economy, Technology, and the Future of Work |
| Molly Laas, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: |
Meat for the Masses in America and Germany: Dietary Progress in Transnational Perspective |
| Marc Adam, Freie Universität Berlin: | Liquidating Bankers’ Acceptances: International Crisis, Personal Conflict and American Exceptionalism in the Federal Reserve, 1914–1932 |
| 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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WORKSHOP V – Selves of the Future, Futures of the Self: Speculations on Humanness, Solidarity, and Emancipation Chair: Nadja Klopprogge, Freie Universität Berlin (History) |
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| Maxi Albrecht, Freie Universität Berlin: | Negotiating Humanness in a Zombie World – The Walking Dead’s Politics of Intelligences and Challenging Progress |
| Verena Baier, Universität Regensburg: | Negotiating Utopia in Autobiographies of the USNicaragua Solidarity Movement |
| Sara Dasouki, Freie Universität Berlin: | A Woman’s Voice is a Revolution |
| 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm | John F. Kennedy Institute |
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KEYNOTE III – John Collins, London School of Economics, Executive Director of the International Drug Policy Unit Progress in U.S. Drug Policy? Cycles in Government Drug Policy Intervention |
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