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The Joint 32Nd European Association for American Studies & 63Rd British Association for American Studies Conference The Joint 32nd European Association for American Studies & 63rd British Association for American Studies Conference 4-7 April 2018 Conference Programme Tuesday 3 April 2018 09:00-15:00 EAAS AGM (Senate House) Location information All panel sessions on 4-7 April will take place at King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH. Individual panel locations will be added to the programme. Changes will be noted in red Wednesday 4 April 09:30-11:00 Registration and coffee 11:00-12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A Panel A1 Registration vs. Representation: New Approaches to American Culture and Capital Chair: TBC Late-Transcendentalism: Literature, Lines of Sight, and Cultural Registration Benjamin Pickford, Université Lausanne Call and Response: Transatlantic Emancipatory Politics in Chris Abani’s GraceLand Amy Rushton, Nottingham Trent University Resisting Liberalism: The Paradigm Problem of early ‘National’ US-based Writing Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick Panel A2 William Gibson's The Peripheral and Alternate Constructions of Reality Chair: TBC Post-Temporal, Post-Geographic Cartography in Gibson’s The Peripheral Katherine E. Bishop, Miyazaki International College Alternate History, Alternative Fact: Detective, Historian, Reader Glyn Morgan, University of Liverpool ‘Something so deeply earned’: Metaphor, Morals, and Meat in Gibson’s The Peripheral Wednesday Keren Omry, University of Haifa Panel A3 ‘We will all fight’: Modes and Narratives of Environmental Protest Chair: TBC ‘Botanizing on the Asphalt’: Urban Foraging and/as Environmental Resistance in Rebecca Lerner’s Dandelion Hunter Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Academia Sinica Revisiting ‘the Wild’: Transatlantic Visions of Environmental Protest Michaela Keck, University of Oldenburg Resisting Climate Change Apocalypticism: Jetnil-Kijiner’s Activist Climate Change Poetry Hanna Straß-Senol, University of Oldenburg 2 Panel A4 The Art of Protest: Critical Art and Beyond Chair: TBC Transnational Protest (Inter)actions: Performances, Guerrilla Girls and the New Media in American and Polish Artivism Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak, University of Wrocław The Disquieting Charm of Renée Cox: Transforming Dispossession into Self-Possession Anna Pochmara, University of Warsaw Justyna Wierzchowska, University of Warsaw Are We Still Contemporaries of the Communist Hypothesis of the 1968? Artistic Responses to 1968 and Its Reception After the Financial Crisis of 2008 Magdalena Radomska, Adam Mickiewicz University Panel A5 AIDS, Activism, and Memorialization Chair: TBC Get (Sur)Real!: Surrealism as Tactic in the Art and Activism of Ronnie Burk Victoria Carroll, King's College London From Grove to Pier: Memorializing the AIDS Crisis Wayde Brown, University of Georgia A Porous City: Reading a Queer New York in the 1970s in Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls (1994) and Edmund White’s City Boy (2009) Vincenzo Bavaro, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale,’ Italy Panel A6 Imperial Entanglements in a Vast Early America Chair: Peter Thompson, University of Oxford Wednesday Swamping Guns and Stabbing Irons – The Austrian Netherlands and the American Revolution Marion Huibrechts, KU Leuven Empires on the Edge – The Habsburg Monarchy and the American Revolution Jonathan Singerton, University of Edinburgh Congress and the Drift towards a Republican Empire, 1774-1783 Trent Taylor, University of Oxford 3 Panel A7 Constructing Antebellum Race and Gender Chair: TBC The Hanging of Pauline, a Bad Slave Lawrence McDonnell, Iowa State University Between Womanhood and Citizenship: A Conceptual-Historicist Approach to Antebellum Women's Literature of Protest Iulian Cananau, University of Gävle A Crossdresser and Con Artist in Antebellum New York Shane White, University of Sydney Panel A8 Facing Disaster: The American Novel at the End of the World Chair: TBC Time After the End: Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Diletta De Cristofaro, University of Birmingham Archiving Post-Apocalyptic Anxieties in Bats of the Republic Danuta Fjellestad, Uppsala University, Sweden The Disaster of the End: Writing the World in Contemporary North American Fiction Phil Leonard, Nottingham Trent University Panel A9 People, Places, and Predators of (Dubious) Acclaim: Environmental Celebrity, Status, and Speech in Human and Non-Human North American History Chair: TBC Wednesday Embodying Hostility: Robert Redford, Celebrity Environmental Elitism, and the Four Corners Power Complex Nicholas Blower, University of Kent ‘The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee’: The Celebrity Atatus of the Upper Great Lakes Colin Elder, University of Kent The Call of the Wild: Yellowstone’s Wolves, Environmental Celebrity and the Shifting Terrain of Wilderness Mythology in Modern America Karen Jones, University of Kent 4 Panel A10 Place, Protest, Possibility, and Pedagogy: A Roundtable on Teaching (Roundtable) Chair: Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello Ingrid Gessner, University of Education Vorarlberg Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Salem State University Bela Gligorova, NOVA International Schools & Center for Culture and Cultural Studies Claire M. Massey, Saarland University Despoina N. Feleki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Panel A11 Visual Representations of American Protest Chair: TBC From the Eastern European Communist Regime to the America of the 1970s: the European Auteur in Hollywood Agnieszka Gadomska, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw F*society and Rise of the Robot. Traumatized Technophiles as Subversive Subjects. Pawel Pyrka, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw Hollywood, Red-Baiting and the Second Life of the ‘Commie’ Piotr Skurowski, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw Panel A12 Contemporary American Poetry and Public Space (Roundtable) Chair: Paulina Ambrozy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań The Cultural Commons and the Poet(h)ics of Appropriation Paulina Ambrozy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Wednesday Patricia Lockwood's Poetics of Attention Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University Protest at the Border: Steve Collis and the Poetics of Environmental Space David Herd, University of Kent Wanda Coleman's Retro Rouge Anthology as Protest Poems Jerzy Kamionowski, University of Białystok ’I’M A POLLINATOR! I’M A POLLINATOR!!’: Anarchism, Gesture and the Ecology of ‘Extreme Present’ in CA Conrad's ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Małgorzata Myk, University of Lodz 12:30-13:45 Lunch 12:30-13:45: EAAS president’s lunch, location TBC 5 13:45-15:15 PARALLEL SESSION B Panel B1 New Voices in Jewish-American Literature (Roundtable) Chair: TBC David Brauner, University of Reading Michael Kalisch, University of Cambridge Joshua Leavitt, Ohio State University Dan O'Brien, University College Dublin Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University Eva von Loenen, University of Southampton Mike Witcombe, Bath Spa University Panel B2 The (Historical) American City in Video Games Chair: TBC ‘Documenting’ History in Mafia III: Playing with America’s Difficult Pasts Adam Chapman, University of Gothenburg Esther Wright, University of Warwick Bioshock: Infinite’s Columbia: Heaven in the Cloud Emily Marlow, University of Sheffield The American City Under Attack: Atari’s Missile Command (1980) John Wills, University of Kent Panel B3 Literary Ecologies Chair: TBC Wednesday Lynne Tillman, Literary Ecologist: Environmental Sensitivities and Ecological Thinking in American Genius, A Comedy Eric Dean Rasmussen, University of Stavanger Crafting a New Anti-Ecological Space Inside a Transcendentalist Tradition? Felix Nicolau, Lund University From the Deep Woods… Trees as Home in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Four Souls Gabriela Jeleńska, University of Warsaw 6 Panel B4 American Literary Naturalism and Social Protest (Roundtable) Chair: Steven Bembridge, Independent Scholar Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University Steven Bembridge, Independent Scholar Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College Steve Frye, California State University Bakersfield Eric Carl Link, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Lauren Navarro, LaGuardia Community College Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington Adam H. Wood, Salisbury University Panel B5 The History of Financial Advice Chair: TBC Dreams of Avarice: Popular Investment Advice Before and After the Great Crash of 1929 Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh Gilded Age Investment Advice Manuals Peter Knight, University of Manchester Financial Advice and the Great Compression Nicky Marsh, University of Southampton Panel B6 Anti-Slavery Networks Chair: TBC Conditional Freedom: US Fugitive Slaves in Mexican Texas, 1821-1836 Wednesday Thomas Mareite, Leiden University ‘Heroic Souls’: The Memory of Tubman, Truth and black female abolitionists Charlotte James, University of Nottingham Panel B7 Beyond the Spectacle: Native North Americans in Britain in the Twentieth Century Chair: TBC An uneven surface; British heritage contact zones Jack Davy, University of East Anglia Beyond Buffalo Bill: Mass Mobilization and the Native Warrior Jacqueline Fear-Segal, University of East Anglia David Stirrup, University of Kent ‘A Struggle for the Land’: Environment, Place, and the Transnational Networks of American Indian Activists and Welsh Nationalists Kate Rennard, University of Kent 7 Panel B8 Indigenous Resistance: From Place-Based Politics to Protest Chair: TBC Place-Based Body Politics: Reproductive Justice and Indigenous Women Elizabeth
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