Activities
10 November 2017
08:30 - 17:00
Boothstraat 7; Zaalverhuur7
Conference: Constructing America | Defining Europe. Perceptions of the Transatlantic Other, 1900- 2000
Coffee/tea 08.30- 09.00
Session 1 09.00- 11.00 | Plenary session: A Transatlantic Culture? | Chair: Adelheid von Saldern | Room: Kerkzaal
- Edward Ross Dickinson | Modern Dance, Militant Americanism, and Teutonic Intensity: Martha Graham’s “Absolute Dance”
- Jonathan Dentler | Fashioning the World Picture: German Responses to Wire Service Photography, 1925-1936
- Rachel Gillett | Hip-Hop in Europe – a lieu-de-memoire or site of change?
- Vanessa Schwartz | Arrivals and Departures: The Jet Set as Image of The Jet Age
Coffee/tea 11.00- 11.30
Session 2 11.30- 13.00
Panel 7 | Europe and America as Concepts | Chair: Joris van Eijnatten | Room: Grote Zolder
- Peter Rietbergen | A library, a librarian and the USA’s monumental vision of the cultures of Eurasia
- Ruth Hatlapa | Negotiating national identity in changing political landscapes. “Europe” and “America” as contested symbols in British and German media discourse 1992-2000
- Maria Fritsche | “This complex continent”. The Marshall Plan propaganda campaign and the American visions of Europe
Panel 8 | American Culture in Europe | Chair: Jochen Hung | Room: Kerkzaal
- Egbert Klautke | America on the Danube: Austrian perceptions of American culture, 1900–1940
- Darina Volf | Traces of “Americanization”: American Popular Culture in Socialist Czechoslovakia
- Benjamin Poole | Constructing Americanness and Frenchness through Fast Food
Lunch 13.00- 13.30
Keynote 3 13.30- 15.00 | Kiran Klaus Patel: Reinventing America – Remapping Europe: The Interwar Years | Room: Kerkzaal
Coffee/tea 15.00- 15.30
Roundtable 15.30-17.00 | (De)constructing America? The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship | Room: Kerkzaal
- Mary Nolan
- Kiran Klaus Patel
- Jill Adler (Director, East-West Parliamentary Practice Project)
- Representative of the US Embassy (tbc)