(Organizers: Prof. Rüdiger Kunow, Beate Eisner)
09:00-10:45
Timothy A Brennan, University of Minnesota:
The Illusions of Virtual Space: Why We Are Talking About Cosmopolitanism
Rüdiger Kunow, Potsdam University:
Grey Cosmopolitanism? Age & Civil Society in a Global Framework
11:15-12:45
Heike Hartung, Potsdam University:
Portraits of Self and Other in the World:
Reading Configurations of Cosmopolitanism in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Alfred Hornung, Mainz University:
Language and Migration: The Need for a Mother Tongue
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30
Günther Lenz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Toward a Politics of American Transcultural Studies? Discourses of Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism
Mita Banerjee, Siegen University:
The Burqa as Indo Chic?
The Limits of Cultural Mobility and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
16:00-17:30
Beate Eisner, Potsdam University:
Fundamentally (Un)Cosmopolitan: The Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Left Behind Series
Roy Goldblatt, Joensuu University:
Mobilitas Pecuniae Gratia
To go to Potsdam from Berlin: S7 or RE1 to Potsdam Hbf, then RB 20 to Henningsdorf or RB 21 to Wustermark
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Unter den Linden 6, R 2103
10:00-12:00: Session IV
Daniela Simon, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
The Depiction of Minorities in Video Games
Timo Tonassi, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Framing the Subaltern: How the American Media Depicts "Illegal Aliens"
Idil Efe, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Subaltern Writing: Emine Sevgi Özdama
12:00-13:30: Lunch Break
13:30-15:30: Session V
Karina Janowska, Tom Michelchen, Milosz Lietz, Potsdam University:
Representations of Contemporary Native Americans*
Karin Ackermann, Lena Thiel, Potsdam University:
Confronting Stereotypes of Native American Women*
Matthias Haber, René Stein, Potsdam University:
Stereotypes of American Indians in the Media*
15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-18:00: Session VI
Anna Kollmann, Free University Berlin:
Stereotypes of the Subaltern in Graphic Novels
Alexandra von Barsewisch, European University Viadrina:
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Subaltern's Discarded Resource or Cosmopolitan Currency?
Philipp Kneis, Humboldt-Universität / Potsdam University:
The French Lakota: James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk as a Cosmopolitan Text
Concluding Discussion: Subalternity and Cosmopolitanism
Joint Dinner
* tentative title
Sponsors
We thank our sponsors and supporters for their generous assistance of this conference:
American Studies Program, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Embassy of the United States of America
American Indian Initiatives, Oregon State University
American Studies Program, Potsdam University
International Office, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
