Interdisciplinary Conference at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies

 

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Friday, Feb 15, 06.00 pm

Introduction

• M. Michaela Hampf (JFKI, Berlin)
• MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JKFI, Berlin)

Keynote Lecture

• Johnny Golding and Steve Kennedy (University of Greenwich, London): All‘s Fair in Love and War: The Thinking Robot‘s Guide to the Universe Reception

 

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Saturday, Feb 16, 09.00 am

Frameworks

Chair: Alissa Burmeister (JFKI, Berlin)

• Sabrina Gödde (JFKI, Berlin): Woman a Machine - How John Cleland‘s Fanny Hill Represents La Mettrie‘s Ideal Character of a Materialist
• Kerri Mullen (JFKI, Berlin): Cyborgs are Absurd - How Donna Haraway Can Be Serious in Paradox
• Norbert Finzsch (Universität zu Köln): Masculinities - The Million Men March

Responses

• Todd Cesaratto (Indiana University)
• Mieke Woelky (JFKI, Berlin)

 

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Saturday, Feb 16, 11.00 am

Manning/Unmanning the Machine

Chair: Martin Domke (JFKI, Berlin)

• Barbara Antoniazzi (Università Cá Foscuri, Venice): From Mother and/or Wife to Worker and/or Prostitute - Female Immigrants and New American Womanhood in the Progressive Era
• Heide Volkening (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Love, Gender and the Typewriter - Reading the Working Girl Writing
• Cátia Secretário (JFKI, Berlin): Mechanical Brides and Stepford Wives - Technology and Gender Ideals in Post-War American Suburbia

Response

• Michael Lattek (JFKI, Berlin)

 

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Saturday, Feb 16, 02.30 pm

Body Mechanics

Chair: Julia Koehler (JFKI, Berlin)

• Joyce Verlinden (JFKI, Berlin): Transgender Bodies and Male Pregnancy - The Ethics of Radical Self-Refashioning
• Evelyn Saunière (JFKI, Berlin): Mission Eternity - Self, Technology and the Pursuit of  Immortality
• Erin Rieser (JFKI, Berlin): Virtual Words and Cyberbody - Morality in Kathy Acker‘s Empire of the Senseless

Response

• Ruth Mayer (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

 

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Saturday, Feb 16, 04.30 pm

Frames/Fractures

Chair: Johnny Golding (University of Greenwich, London)

• Martin Fischer (JFKI, Berlin): Man-made Landscapes. A Treatment of Wounds in 19th Century American Landscape Painting and Photography
• Luis Longarela (JFKI, Berlin): Screen, Dreams, and Body - Masculinity and Male Spectatorship in Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.
• Hannah Rauscher-Spiess (JFKI, Berlin): Fractured Bodies - The Subversive Potential of the Art of Louis Bourgeois

Response

• Sinje Schuck (JFKI, Berlin)