Conference Program
Thursday, 30 June 2016
14.30 Registration
15.00 Panel I: The Intellectual Construction of the Americas
Chair: Volker Depkat, University of Regensburg
- Susanne Lachenicht, University of Bayreuth: How the Americas Became "the Americas"
- Markus Heide, Uppsala University/University of Erfurt: The "Hemispheric Frame" and Travel Writing of the Early United States
18.00 Welcome and Opening
- Welcome Addresses
- Barbara Hahn, Bavarian American Academy
- Anthony Miranda, U.S. Consulate General Munich
- Christoph Parchmann, Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts
- Award Ceremony: Best Dissertation and Honorary Member of the BAA
- Keynote Address: Caroline Levander, Rice University
Revisiting Hemispheric and Transnational American Studies in a Warming World
Friday, 1 July 2016
9.00 Panel II: Slavery and Emancipation in the Americas
Chair: Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, German Historical Institute Washington DC
- Christian Pinnen, Mississippi College
Cultural Transfer of Racial and Legal Traditions: Natchez Mississippi During the Age of Revolution - Ursula Prutsch, University of Munich
Slave Emancipation in Brazil and the Role of the USA in the Abolition Process
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Panel III: The Political Conundrum of the Americas: Multiple Political Cultures and the Diversity of Political Regimes
Chair: Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Alan Russell Siaroff, University of Lethbridge
The Political Systems of the Americas, 2000 to 2016 - Rainer Schmidt, University of Dresden
Latin American Constitutions: Poisoned Presents or Façades for Dictators?
12.30 Lunch Break
14.30 Panel VI: Settlement Studies and Border Thinking in the Americas
Chair: Heike Paul, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia // Unfortunately Anna Brickhouse cannot attend the conference but her paper will be presented and discussed by Caroline Levander
Mistranslation and Beyond - Barbara Buchenau, University of Duisburg-Essen
Colonies of the Mind or the Arts of Typological Thinking
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Panel V: "The Pan-American Literary Imagination is Up for Debate": Contest and Convergency in Hemispheric Literary Relations
Chair: Kerstin Schmidt, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
- Stephen M. Park, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
NAFTA and the Literary Imagination - Jobst Welge, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
The Boundaries of Reason: The Legacy of E. A. Poe in Latin America
Saturday, 2 July 2016
10.00 Panel VI: African Heritage in Latin America: Contemporary Rural and Urban Live-Worlds of Afro-Colombian and Afro-Brazilian Identities
Chair: Barbara Hahn, University of Wuerzburg
- Eberhard Rothfuß, University of Bayreuth
Collectivism in the Afro-Brazilian Favela: Locality, Self-Organisation and the Fight for Recognition - Ángela María Franco Calderón, University of Valle
Collectivism on the Colombian Pacific Coast: Property Rights, Urban Patterns and Traditional Housing
12.00 End of Conference
The 16th academy conference was jointly organized by the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) and the German Historical Institute Washington DC (GHI)
and supported by the DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Amerikahaus.
Photo: ©Amerikahaus München
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