Chairs: Isabelle ALFANDARY, Dept. of English, Univ. Paris X, 200 Avenue de la République, F-92000 Nanterre, France. Tel: +33 1 4923 9493. Fax: +33 1 4338 7099; Philip COLEMAN, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 874 8647.

Antoine Cazé, University of Orléans, France: "Raymond Roussel/Harry Mathews: Transpoetics."
C. Jon Delogu, University of Toulouse, France: "How Shall We Talk About Muriel Rukeyser?"
Cristanne Miller, Oxford University, UK : "Blue Artichokes, der blaue Jaguar, and the Blaue Reiter: Intersections in the Poetry of Marianne Moore and Else Lasker-Schüler."
Katarzyna Spiechlanin, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland: "'Zaddik, you showed me the way': Jewish motifs in contemporary American Poetry."

Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley: "The Idea of Polish Poetry in the US during the 1970's."
Jiri Flajsar, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic: "The American and Czech Poetries: Poetic Exchanges in the Second Half of the 20th Century."
Justin Quinn, Charles University, Prague: "Resident Aliens, Two Traditions: British & Irish Poets in America."

2. The Resurgence of Right-Wing Extremism in Europe and the United States

Chair: Mokhtar BEN BARKA, University of Valenciennes, 78, rue Henri Durre, F-59590 Raismes, France. Tel. +33 3 2736 7795. Fax: +33 3 2751 1600.

Yonka Krasteva, The University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria: "Cultural Theorists on the Right: Julia Kristeva's Crisis of the European Subject."
Axel Shaefer, Keele University, UK: "Immigration, Welfare, and Right-Wing Politics in the US since the 1920s."
Matthew Guillen, University of Nantes, France: "The Emergence of the American New Right."
Berndt Ostendorf, University of Munich, Germany: "Right-Wing Anti-Americanism: The Renaissance of Anti-Liberalism in the Age of Globalization."
Mokhtar Ben Barka, University of Valenciennes, France: "The Radical Right in Europe and the United States."

3. Engendering Sport and the Nation

Chairs: Linda J. BORISH, Dept. of History, Western Michigan Univ., 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, Ml 49008-5334, USA. Tel: 001 616 387 4631. Fax: 001 616 387 4651; Claude CHASTAGNER, Dept. of English, Univ. Paul Valery, Montpellier III, France. Tel: +33 4 6714 25 23; home: +33 4 6760 3860.

Session 1 (Chair L. Borish)
Duco van Oostrum, University of Sheffield, UK : "Flying the American Flag: Basketball and African-American men."
Susan Tananbaum, Dept of History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, US : "Training future generations: girls, clubs, and sports in London's Jewish Community."
Andrew Cutcher, University of Marne-la-Vallée, France : "Sport and Identity: The Role of Juvenile Sports Literature in American Education."

Session 2 (Chair C. Chastagner)
Charles S. Adams, Whittier College Whittier, California, USA : "Baseball, Gender, and American Self-Invention."
Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, University of Gdansk, Poland : "Going for the Knock Out: Boxing, Whiteness, and Masculinity in Gus Lee's China Boy."
Béatrice Alzas, Collège Louis Armand, St Doulchard, France : "Swinging Partners on Golf Links in Josephine Humphreys' The Fireman's Fair."

4. Shifting and Borderline Identities in Chicano Culture: U.S. and European Perspectives in the 21St Century

Chairs: MICHELE BOTTALICO, Univ. of Salerno, Depto. di Studi Linguistici e Letterari, Via Ponte don Melillo, 1-84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy. Tel. +39 80 521 3488. Fax: +39 089 962079; Salah EL MONCEF (Univ. of Nantes), 4, rue du Général Meusnier, F-44000 Nantes, France. Tel. +33 2 4014 1287. Fax: +33 2 40 14 1294.

Session 1
Michel Feith, University of Nantes, France: "Balancing on the Bridge: Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands."
Ana Manzanas Calvo, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain: "Border Transgressions and Hybrid Identities: Histories from the South."
Astrid M. Fellner, University of Vienna, Austria: "Other Places: Borderlands in Chicana Literature."
Maria Ruth Noriega Sanchez, University of London, UK: "Mestizo Cuisine: Cooking and the Experience of Mestizaje in Chicano Culture."
Angelika Koehler, Technical University of Dresden, Germany: "Determined to Indeterminacy: Pan-American and European Dimensions of the 'mestizaje' concept in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia."

Session 2
Yves-Charles Grandjeat, University of Bordeaux 3, France: "Across and Beyond Boundaries: Ana Castillo's literary nomadism or the un-mapping of Chicana/o literature."
Sophia Emmanouilidou, University of Thessaloniki, Greece: "Objectifying the Subject in Miguel Mendez's Autobiography From Labour to Letters."
Carmen Flys-Junquera, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain: "Trangressive Appropriations in Lucha Corpi's Detective Fiction."
David Harding, Aarhus University, Denmark: "The Dissolution of the Mexican-American Border and Redefinition of Chicano Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead."
Mary Pat Brady, Cornell University, USA: "The Scale and Scope of Chicana, No, LATINA Fiction Or, Towards a NAFTA Theory of Literature."

5. The Trans-Atlantic Transfer of Domestic Policy, Politics and Political Strategies

Chair: Philip John DAVIES , Fac. of Humanities & Social Sciences, De Montfort Univ., Leicester LEI 9BH, England. Tel: +44 116 257 7398, Fax: +44 116 257 7199.

Alex Waddan, University of Sunderland, UK: "The Welfare Reform Experience in the USA: A New Paradigm?"
Philip John Davies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK: "Political Parties - Realignments, New Orders and/or Third Ways on the Anglo-American Scene?"
Philip G. Eidelberg, University of South Africa: "South Africa's Third Way 1997-2001."

Robert Busby, Hope University, Liverpool, UK: "Political Scandal and Damage Limitation: A Transatlantic Perspective."
Tomasz Pludowski, University of Lodz, Poland: "Political Communication and the Americanization of Politics: The Polish Experience."
Kostadin Grozev, University of Sofia, Bulgaria: "Successes and Failures in the Americanisation of Bulgarian Politics."
Jaap Kooijman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: "The Third Way in Cultural Policy: The Case of the Dutch National Cinema."

6. Locating Ethnicity: Europe and Americas

Chairs: Rocio G. DAVIS , Mod. Lang. Dept., Univ. of Navarre, Pamplona 31080, Spain, Tel: +34 948 425600. Fax:+34 958 425636; Dorothea FISCHER-HORNUNG , Anglistisches Seminar, Univ. of Heidelberg, Kettengasse 12, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany. Tel: +49 6221542 851. Fax: +49 6221 54 2877.

Session 1:
Saemi Ludwig, University of Berne, Switzerland: "'...but he speaks Swiss German!' Is Ethnic Identity in the Body or in the Mind?"
Gonul Pultar, Bilkent University,Turkey: "Ethnic Rites as Sites of Transnational Identity: The Representation of Birth and Death in Fakir Baykurt and Amy Tan."
William R. Handley, University of Southern California, USA: "Reimagining the American Road Narrative: Ethnicity and Destination."
Alison Goeller, University of Maryland in Europe, Germany: "Persephone Goes Home: Italian American Women in Italy."

Session 2:
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, University Paris 7, France: "Wright and Sartre: How Wright took the African American problem to Paris."
Ludmila Martanovschi, Ovidius University, Romania: "'We Are the Land': Locating the Contemporary Poetic Self in Its Native Ground."
Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, USA: "Beyond Race and Ethnicity: Citizenship Rights for African Americans and Asian Americans."
Maggie Ann Bowers, University of Antwerp/UIA, Belgium: "Comparative Allegiances: Cultural Analysis and Critical Traditions of South Asian American and British Asian Scholarship."

7. Cinematic Crossings: American Cinema and/in Europe

Chairs: Celestine DELEYTO , Depto. de Filologia Inglesa y Alemana, Ciudad Universitaria, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain. Tel: +34 976 7615 32, Fax: +34 976 761519; Dominique SIPIÈRE , Univ. du Littoral, rue Henri Dunant, F-80730, Dreuil lès Amiens, France.

Robert C. Allen, University of North Carolina, USA: "The Effects of the 'Post-Hollywood' Era Change on Europe or European Cinema."
Alain J. J. Cohen, University of California, San Diego, USA: "The French New Wave, Hollywood and today's 'Independents.'"
Christof Decker, Free University Berlin, Germany: "The Ambiguous Critique of 'Lynch Law': Fritz Lang and Hollywood's Representation of Injustice."
Pere Gallardo-Torrano, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain: "Cosmic Danger Hollywood-Style: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the USA."

Carmen Indurain, University of Pamplona, Spain: "Riding Along Different Roads: The European Experience of the American Road Movie."
Katja Kanzler, University of Leipzig, Germany: "Of Captains and Villains: Englishness in Star Trek."
Monika Seidl, University of Vienna, Austria: "From Traffik to Traffic."
Melvyn Stokes, University College London, UK: "European Responses to D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation."

8. Models of Multiculturalism? Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective

Chairs: Patrick B. MILLER , Dept. of History, Northeastern Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL 60625, USA; Elisabeth SCHAFER-WUNSCHE , Social Sciences, Univ. of Dusseldorf, Germany.

Patrick B. Miller, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA: "Introduction: Race, Ethnicity and the Construction of New Nationalisms."
Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, University of Bonn, Germany: "Shifting Definitions: Race, Migration and the Boundaries of Citizenship in the U.S. and Germany."
Taoufik Djebali, University of Caen, France: "Arabs in the USA and France: A Study in Ethnicity and Citizenship."
Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara: "The Multicultural Fact in America and Europe."
Jochen Achilles, University of Würzburg, Germany: "Models of Multicultural Coexistence and Contemporary Drama: A Transatlantic Assessment."
Jesus Benito Sanchez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: "Multiculturalism and Europe: New Contexts for the Study of American Literature."

Boris Vejdovsky, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: "Your Myths Shall Be My Myths: Narratives of Border, Translation, and Immigration."
Klaus Benesch, University of Bayreuth, Germany: "Black Jacks: Race and Class in 19th Century Maritime Life."
Sandra Oh, University of California, Santa Barbara: "East Goes West: Young Hill Kang's Immigrant Journey."
Cristina Sanchez-Carretero, University of Alcala, Spain: "Dominican Migration to the United States and Spain: Documental Identities and the Construction of the Self in the Diaspora."
Stepanka Korytova-Magstadt, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic: "From Immigrants to Ethnics: Czech Immigration to America and the Fate of Cross-Atlantic Bonds."

9.Transatlantic Slavery and Its Abolition: American and African American Writing, the Black Atlantic and Transatlantic Anti Slavery Campaigns

Chairs: R. J. ELLIS , Dept. of English and Media Studies, Nottingham Trent Univ., Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK Tel: +44 115 941 8418. Fax: +44 115 9486632; Giulia FABI (no attachments please), Dipto. di Scienze Umane, Univ. Di Ferrara, Via Savonarola 27, 1 44100 Ferrara, Italy. Fax: +39 051 229167.

Session 1 (Chair: J. Ellis) :
John Ernest, University of New Hampshire, USA: "The Circum-Atlantic and the Black Liberation Aesthetic."
Celeste Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham, UK: "'A Fine Young Negro': Frederick Douglass's Speeches on the Creole Revolt in Britain and America."
Gesa Mackenthum, University of Greifswald, Germany: "'Restless Billows': The Atlantic Ocean as a Site of Slavery and Freedom in Early American Fiction."
Shirley Foster, Sheffield University, UK: "A British view of American slavery: Fanny Trollope's Jonathan Jefferson Whitelaw."
Bozenna Chylinska, University of Warsaw, Poland : "Black Womanhood Assaulted : Slave Women Narratives, Autobiographies, and Oral Testimonies in Antebellum America."

Session 2 (Chair: M. G. Fabi) :
Paola Boi, University of Cagliari, Italy: "French Rationalism and the Abolitionist Debate: Mme De Stael and George Sand."
Christopher Mulvey, King Alfred's College, UK: "Escapist Fiction: Early African American Narrative and Story-Telling."
John David Smith, North Carolina State University, USA: "Gallantry, Loyalty, and Caste: William Wells Brown's 'The Negro in the American Rebellion'."
Hannah Wallinger, University of Salzburg, Austria: "A Royal Slave and His Descendants in Aphra Behn and Clara Mundt."
Jim and Lois Horton, George Washington University, USA: "Avoiding History: The Uncomfortable Public Conversation on Slavery."

10. Violence and Human Dignity

Chairs: Winfried FLUCK , John F. Kennedy-Inst., Lansstr. 5-9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; Werner SOLLORS , Harvard Univ., History of American Civilization, 225 Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138-3879 USA.

Mary Lawlor, Muhlenberg College, USA: "Indigenous groups and the United Nations."
Lucy Maddox, Georgetown University, USA: "American Indians, Civilized Performance, and the Question of Rights."
Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Harvard University, USA : "MOBY-DICK and Native American Genocide."
Katalin Orban, National University of Singapore: "The Transatlantic Rewriting of Natural Law, Rights and Violence in Three Post-War American Texts."

Elvira Osipova, St. Petersburg University, Russia: "The Changing Concept of Violence in Jack London."
Tobe Levin, University of Maryland in Europe and J.W.-Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany:
"Female Genital Mutilation as a Human Rights Issue."
Gordon Taylor, University of Tulsa, USA: "'The Only Thing That Matters - (In)Humanity': Images of Sarajevo."

11. Representing 'the People': Populism considered in a cultural studies and transatlantic perspective

Chairs: Otto HEIM, Dept. of English, Univ. of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, Tel: +852 2859 2749. Fax: +852 2559 7139; Inger H. DALSGAARD , Dept. of English, Univ. of Aarhus, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel: +45 8942 6539, Fax:+45 8942 6540.

Stewart Winger, American University in Cairo, Egypt: "The Conservative Origins of Populist Rhetoric or 'Moral Man: Immoral Demos."'
Dudley M. Marchi, North Carolina State University, USA: "Baudelaire's America / Emerson's France --Transatlantic Affinities."
Elke van Cassel, Roosevelt Study Center, The Netherlands: "Reaching and Representing the American People: Max Ascoli and his Reporter Magazine."
David Nye, University of Odense, Denmark: "The Mill: Narrative and Counter-Narrative."

Daria Frezza, University of Siena, Italy: "Who are 'the People'? The Racial Discourse about 'the People' in American Social Sciences at the Turn of the 20th Century."
Lindon Barrett, University of California at Irvine, USA: "The 'I' of the Beholder: The European Subject of the African Diaspora."
Saul Cornell, Ohio State University, USA: "'The Right of the People?' The Changing Historical Meaning of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in American Culture."
Erik Åsard, Uppsala University, Sweden: "Culture of Conspiracy: The Assassinations of John Kennedy and Olof Palme."

12. Yankee Doodle Dandyisme: The Dandy as a Transatlantic Messenger

Chairs: Michael HINDS , Mater Dei Inst., Clonliffe Road, Dublin 3, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 837 6027 227; Joao Paul MOREIRA , Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal.

Beata Williamson, University of Gdansk, Poland: "Rascals, Weaklings, and Saviors: Fashionable Men in 19th Century Domestic Fiction "
Stephen Wilson, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: "The Flaneur at the End of History: Bertie on Broadway and other Woodehousian Mid-Atlantic Men."
Jan Nordby Gretlund, University of Southern Denmark: "Mark Twain's Europe : From Ridiculous Romanticism to Cruel Colonialism."
Ed Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland: "Descending from the Mansard to the Street: Wallace Stevens' Extravagant Reading of Baudelaire and Poe"

13. Transatlantic Gazes: Cinematic Constructions and Receptions between the US and Europe

Chair: Clara JUNCKER , Center for American Studies, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark, Fax: +45 6593 0490.

Helle Porsdam, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark: "The 'International Theme' Globalized: Henry James's Global Travellers in Literature and Film."
David Ellwood, University of Bologna, Italy: "The Satire of Americanization in European Cinema 1949-59."
Russell Duncan, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: "A Taste for Loss Redux: Vietnam in Contemporary Film."
Carol Smith, King Alfred's College, UK: "Troping Europe and the Atlantic to Reconstruct Race in Contemporary Hollywood Film."

Marcus Bruce, Bates College, USA: "Ismail Merchant, The Proprietor, and the Multicultural Society."
Alena Smieskova, Constantine the Philosopher University, Slovakia: "Do Americans Dream of Fairy Tales?: The Reception of the Other from Eastern Europe by American Audiences."
Yuri V. Stulov, European Humanities University, Belarus: "Bela/Russian Cinematography Today and the Effects of 'Americanization'."
Carl Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark : "The Birth of Two Nations : Eisenstein, Griffith, and the Individual and Collective Histories."
Marianne B. Brøgger and Fredrik Chr. Brøgger, University of Tromsø, Norway: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Old World Myths (Re)Constructed in Postmodern America."

14. U.S. Narratives of European National Identity after the Cold War

CANCELLED

15. Transatlantic Urbanism: The City in Representation

Chair: Liam KENNEDY, Dept. of American and Canadian Studies, Univ. of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England B15 2TT UK. Tel. +44 1214145509. Fax. +44 121 4146866.

Session 1
Mick Gidley, University of Leeds, UK: "Representing the City: Emil Otto Hoppe's Photographic Meditations in the 1920s."
Inger H. Dalsgaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark: "Reel Terror: De/Con/struction of Cityscapes from WW II to WTC."
Christophe Den Tandt, Free University of Brussels, Belgium: "Brussels' Manhattan Project: The International Style and the Americanization of European Urban Space."
Liam Kennedy, University of Birmingham, UK: "City Images: Urban Regeneration and Visual Culture."

Session 2
Bart Eeckhout, Ghent University, Belgium: "No Sex, Please, We're Shoppers: Roland Barthes, Samuel Delaney, and the New Times Square."
Jaroslav Kusnir, University of Presov, Slovakia: "Representing the City in Robert Coover's Fiction."
Stipe Grgas, Univeristy of Zadar, Croatia: "Joseph McElroy's New York: Readable/Unreadable City."

16. Straddling Borders: Explorations of Transnational Citizenship

Chair: Rob KROES , Univ. of Amsterdam, American Studies, Spuistraat 134, NL-1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 20 525 4371. Fax: +3120 525 4625.

Heiner Bus, University of Bamberg: TBA
Kate Delaney, Berlin, Germany: "Us and Them - Children of US Citizens Born Abroad."
Günther Lenz, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany : "Multicultural Identities and Citizenship: Some Transatlantic Reflections."
Richard Pells, University of Texas, USA: "Are American Movies 'American' ?"
Jerzy Kutnik, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland: " Uses of the American Flag as an Icon by Non-Americans."

Maureen Montgomery, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: "The Case of Kiwi Nationalism."
Robert W. Rydell, Montana State University, USA: "Collaborationist or Transnationalist: John Tevi's Tour of the World and the Representation of Africa in the United States."
Robert Silberman, University of Minnesota, USA: "Nationalism, Internationalism, Citizenship: A Photographic Perspective."
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, USA: "Sound Affinities - Universalism, Emotions, and Politics in Transnational Relations."

17. American Nation, Race, Gender, Class - Ideology or Art?

Chair: Jaroslav KUSNIR , English Dept., Univ. of Presov, 17. novembra 1, 081 16 Presav, Slovakia.

Anton Pokrivcak, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia: " The Meaning of Meaning in Postmodern Theories. "
Cristina Garrigos, University of Leon, Spain: "Otherness, Politics and the Question of Multiculturalism in Postmodernist Fiction."
Obbododima Oha, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria: "One Being, Being Won: John Steinbeck, Language, and the Interrogation Ethnic/Racial Difference in America."
Pi-Hua Ni, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan: "Pen(is) in John Barth s Fiction: From Patriarchal to Androgynous Narrative Paradigm."

Daniela Danielle, University of Udine, Italy: "Domestic Poetics: Art as Vocation and Instruction in Louisa May Alcott's Novels."
Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain: "Ideology and Art in Hispanic American Autobiography."
Michal Peprnik, Palacky University at Olomouc, Czech Republic: "The Art and Politics of Justified Revenge: the Lasting of the Mohicans."
Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece: "American National Identity and the Politics of Marginalization: Republicanism vs. Gender Ideology in Early Women's Drama."
Wojciech Kallas, University of Torun, Poland: "Public enemy: Radical Rap."

18. Geographies of the Self: A Comparative Perspective on American and European Immigrant Autobiographies

Chairs: Francoise LIONNET , Dept. of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles USA. Tel: +1 310 206 6096. Fax: +1 310 825 9754; Ada SAVIN , American Studies, Univ. of Versailles, 50 rue Corvisart, Paris 75013, France. Tel: +33 1 4707 5845.

Nicole Ollier, University of Bordeaux 3, France: "The Greek-American Autobiography."
Alfred Hornung, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany: "The Geographical History of Euro-American Lives: Riis, Antin, James, Stein."
Françoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles, USA: "Grieving Subjects? Race, Loss and Hybridity."
Ada Savin, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France: "Shifting Locations, Switching Languages."
Bella Brodzki, Sarah Lawrence College, USA: "Translation at the Borders: Meena Alexander's Multiple Migrations."
Radhouan Ben Amara, University of Cagliari, Italy: "The Violence of the Letter in Assia Djebar's 'autobiography' L'amour, la fantasia."

19. Beyond the American Century: The Futures of Trans-Atlantic Studies

Chair: Scott LUCAS , Univ. of Birmingham, 16 Forest Rd., Moseley, Birmingham B13 9DH, UK. Tel: +44 121414 5763. Fax: +44 121414 3656.

Sabine Sielke, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany: "From Jeans to Genes? American Studies and Biology."
Clive Bush, King's College London, UK: "Exile without return: Dwight Macdonald's and Victor Serge's Transatlantic Dialogue."
Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham, UK: "Beyond the American Century, Beyond 11 September 2001: The State, Culture, and Ideology."
Heike Paul, University of Leipzig, Germany: "From the Imagological to the Dialogical: German-American Studies in a Transatlantic Framework."

20. The EuroAtlantic Community: Changing Values and Concepts of Security in the Post-Cold War Era

CANCELLED

21. Transatlantic Hybridities: American Popular Music in Europe

Chairs: Kurt Albert MAYER , Dept. of English and American Studies, Univ. of Vienna, Universitäts-Campus, Hof 8, Spitalgasse 2-4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43 1 4277 424 12, Fax: +43 1 4277 424 97.

J.M Mancini, University of Cork, Ireland: "Hybridity and Authenticity: Reading the American 'Folk'Anthologies atter Globalization."
Kurt Albert Mayer, University of Vienna, Austria: "Austrian Nostrifications of Bob Dylan."
Klaus Heissenberger, University of Vienna, Austria: "Ostbahn Kurti's Trans(p)la(n)tions of Rock and Roll Authenticity."

Jude Davies, University of Winchester, UK: "'I'm not American-Don't Call Me Thurston- I like my accent': The Influence and Anti-lnfluence of American Music on Punk Rock in Contemporary Europe."
Tomas Pospisil, University of Brno, Czech Republic: "Listening to Music as a Political Act: The Role of America (and Czech American) Music in the Czech Culture since World War II."

22. Creating/Preserving Identity: Forces of Integration and Disintegration in America and Europe

Chair: John ROPER , American Studies Program, Univ. of Wales, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, UK Fax: +44 1792 295719.

Jon Roper, University of Wales, Swansea, UK: "The Political and Economic Foundations of Union: Contextualising Debates in 18th century America and 21 st century Europe."
Jean-Marie Ruiz, University of Lille 3, France: "Is the European Union on its Way to Philadelphia?"
Phil Melling, University of Wales, Swansea, UK: "The Fundamentalist Perspective: Globalisation and the Issue of European Integration."
Bill Lazenbatt, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Nothern Ireland: "Identity and History: Placing the South in the United States and Ulster in Europe."

23. Early American History in Europe: Which trends, which specificities?

Chairs: Marie-Jeanne ROSSIGNOL , Univ. Paris 7-Denis Diderot, Inst. Charles V, 10 rue Charles V, F-75004 Paris, France. Fax: +33 1 44 78 3428; Zbigniew MAZUR , Inst. of English Studies, Maria Curie Sklodowska Univ., Pl. Maria Curie Sklodowskiej 4, PL-20-031 Lublin, Poland. Tel: +48 81 537 5389. Fax: +48 81 537 5279.

Simon P. Newman, University of Glasgow, Scotland; Michael McDonnell, University of Swansea, Wales; Peter Thompson, St. Cross College, Oxford, England: "Making Sense of the American Revolution: The British Perspective."
Michael Wala, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany: "From Across the Atlantic: Early American History in Germany."
Csaba Levai, University of Debrecen, Hungary: "Early American History from an East-European Perspective."
Nathalie Caron, University of Paris X-Nanterre; Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, University Paris 7-Denis Diderot; Naomi Wulf, University of Paris 12-Val de Marne, France: "Early American History in Paris: the CRHEU, Center for Research in the History of the United States."

Greg Nobles, Georgia Tech, USA/Amsterdam Univ, The Netherlands: "From the Middle Ground to the Metropole: Toward a 'New Diplomatic History' of Early America."
Irmina Wawrzyczek, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland : "Colonial Societies of 17th-Century America and Poland: The Benefits of Early American Historiography for a Polish Historian."
Ronald M. Johnson and Abby A. Johnson, Georgetown University, USA : "Death, Mourning, and National Identity: The Origins of the American State Funeral."
R. C. Nash, University of Manchester, UK: "Atlantic History or Imperial-Mercantilist History?"

24. Rhetorical Construction of Subjectivity in American and European Cultural and Literary Texts

Chair: Agata PREIS-SMITH , American Literature Section, Inst. of English Studies, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland.

Tatiana Venediktova, Moscow University, Russia: "Turncoat Letters: American Literary Culture in Mid-19th Century."
Marietta Messmer, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany: "Silk's Choice, or the (De)Construction of Ethnic Subjectivity."
Julia Fiedorczuk, University of Warsaw, Poland: "'One Self, One Manyness:' the Evolution of the Concept of Self in Laura (Riding) Jackson's Poetry and Prose."

Agata Preis-Smith, University of Warsaw, Poland: "Subjectivity as Performance: American Poetry of the 1950s and 1960s."
Victoria Lipina, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey: "An Intercultural Perspective: The Crisis of Subjectivity in American and Russian Postmodernist Literature."
Holli Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA: "Cynthia Ozick's Crisis: The Absence Of An Addressable Other."

25. The War of Words: Gender and the American Narrative of 20th Century European Wars

Chair: Aránzazu USANDIZAGA , Depto. Filolgía, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Edificio B, E 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. Fax: +34 93 5812001.

Katerina Prajznerova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: "American Women's Writing of World War I."
Stéphanie Durrans, University of Bordeaux, France: "'The Poetry of War': Willa Cather's New Vision of the American Hero in One of Ours."
Isabel Fernandes Alves, University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal : "To Fight in Order to Survive : Willa Cather, War and Desire."
William Blazek, Liverpool Hope University College, UK: "'Like a Mythical Monster': Edith Wharton's Terms of Engagement in The Marne and A Son at the Front."

Arancha Usandizaga Sainz, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain: "American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War."
Maria Felisa López Liquete, University of País Vasco, Spain : "Prisoners in Our Own Land : A Basque (American) Vision of World War II."
Ekaterina Stetsenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow : "Women Versus War: E. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls."
Walter Hölbling, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria: "Women and American War Fiction: From Miss Ravenel's Conversion to Going After Cacciato."

26. A Backward Glance? Americans writing Europe, Europe writing Americans

Chair: Theresa SAXON , Fac. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept. of English, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., Geoffrey Manton Bldg, Rosamond Street West, Manchester M15 6LL, UK.

Session 1 (Nineteenth Century)
Anne-Marie Ford, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK: "Traveller in a Land of Letters."
Adrianne Kalfopoulou, University of LaVerne, Athens, Greece: "Luxuriant Weeds: Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Visions of the Foreign."
Peter Messent, University of Nottingham, UK: "A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain and European Travel."
Theresa Saxon, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK: "Transatlantic Journeys and Constructions of Place: Henry James's Roderick Hudson."

Session 2 (Twentieth Century)
Aaron Smith, University of Pau, France: "Representations of Europe in the Novels of Don DeLillo."
Irina Golovacheva, St. Petersburg State University, Russia: "Transatlantic Anxiety: Aldous Huxley Writing America."
Margaret Smith, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK: "The Surrogate Legacy of European Jewishness in the Fiction of Philip Roth."
Anne-Laure Tissut, Tours University, France: "Seeking the Music of Origins: Paul West's European and American Heritages."

27. National, Communal and Personal Voices in Asian America and the Asian Diaspora

Chairs: Elisabetta MARINO , Centro Linguistico D'ateneo, Fac. di Lettere e Filosofia, Via Arrigo Cavaglieri, I 00173 Rome, Italy. Tel./Fax: +39 06 94298024; Begoña SIMAL-GONZALEZ , Depto de Filoxía Inglesa, Fac. de Filoloxía, Campus de Elvina s/n, E-15071, La Coruna, Galicia, Spain. Tel: +34 981 337400 3348 or +34 981 167100 1889. Fax: +34 981 337430.

Lina Unali, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy: "Considerations on the recent literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan."
Robert Lee, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan: "Reconfiguring China: Max Yeh's The Beginning of the East and Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife."
Eulalia Piñero Gil, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain: "The Possibility of Poetry in Post-WTC Asian Diaspora."
So-hee Lee, ASAK, Korea: "The Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making in Comfort Woman."

Heather Gardner, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy: "Jhumpa Lahiri as the Interpreter of Maladies".
Sai Kin Lee, Burgos University, Spain: "Comparative survey of Chinese American writers and Ha Jin, Chinese immigrant in the 80s."
Samir Dayal, Bentley College, Waltham, USA: "The New Cosmopolitanism and Immigrant Identities in Film."
Teresa Botelho, New University of Lisbon, Portugal: "Thinking of a Way Among the Ghosts: the Lonely Process of Self-Reinvention of Young Chinese Immigrants in America and in Portugal."
Patrycja Kurjatto-Renard, France: "Metaphors of hunger and satiety in Patricia Chao's Monkey King and Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger."

28. Southern Culture(s): The American South and/in Europe

Chair: Waldemar ZACHARASIEWICZ , Inst. f. Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Univ. of Vienna, Universitätscampus Hof 8, Spitalgasse 2-6, A-1090 Wien, Austria. Tel: +43 1 4277 42410. Fax: +43 1 4277 42497.

S. Beatty, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA: "American Women Writers as Tourists in Europe From 1814-1914."
Montserrat Gines, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain: "Intellectual Affinities: A Comparison of the Fugitives and the Agrarians of the American South and Spain's Generation of '98."
Claus Daufenbach, University of Bonn, Germany: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Tourist: William Faulkner in Europe, 1925."
Paula Mesquita, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal: "The Persistence of Memory: Reading Faulkner in a Post-Colonial Portugese Context."

Ineke Bockting, University of Orléans, France: "Images of Blackness and the Role of Music: A Comparison Between France and the American South."
Piotr Skurowski, University of Warsaw, Poland: "Who Was the Man Farthest Down? Booker T. Washington and the Uses of European Poverty."
David Rio, University of Pais Vasco, Spain: ''The American South and Southern Europe in Robert Penn Warren's Fiction."
John Lowe, LSU, Baton Rouge, USA: "Southern Writers in Europe: Richard Wright & Elizabeth Spencer."

Shoptalks (Sunday, March 24)

The three following shoptalk sessions will take place from 2.00 thru 3.00 PM.

The American Studies Shoptalk will be directed by Jaap Verheul (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Eric Sandeen (University of Wyoming, USA).

The Literary Historians' Shoptalk will be directed by Paul Lauter (Hartford College, CT, USA) and Justine Tally (University of La Laguna, Spain).

The Historians' Shoptalk will be directed by Kees van Minnen (Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, NL), and Ole Moen (University of Oslo, Norway).

The American Studies Journals Editors' Shoptalk will take place at 3.30 PM. It will be moderated by Marc Chénetier (University Paris 7, France) , and Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (University of Venice, Italy).

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