Friday, Feb. 22
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Today all events in 1228 Cathedral of Learning |
9:00-9:20am |
Breakfast |
9:20-9:30 |
Welcome
Prof. Alberta Sbragia,
Jean Monnet Chair
Director of European Union Center of Excellence |
9:30-11:00 |
Symbolic Spaces of Europe: Guilt, Excision, Anxiety
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Giuseppina Mecchia
The Sins of the Fathers: Atoning for Europe in Michael Haneke's "Hidden."
Lucien Nouis
Derrida and Europe
Randall Halle
From Exhabitant to Inhabitant: Considerations of Ethnos and Demos in the New European Order |
11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:30-1:00 |
Literature of Migration/Migration of Literature I |
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Susan Andrade
Publishing in a Postcolonial World: The Case of Heinemann African Writers Series
Venkat Mani
"To: Europe. From: Hotel Asia." A Reading of Orhan Pamuk's Snow (2003) |
1:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
2:00-3:30pm |
Deniz Göktürk
Migration as Project: The Archive in Transit |
3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee Break |
4:00-5:30pm |
Literature of Migration/Migration of Literature II |
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Patrice Nganang
The Invisible Republic:
Conversations between African Writers at Home at in the Diaspora
Phil Watts
Migration and Modern Tragedy |
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Reception |
6:30pm |
Dinner |
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Saturday, Feb. 23
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Today events are in 232 and 501 Cathedral of Learning |
9:00-9:30am |
Breakfast Cathedral of Learning 501 |
9:30-11:00 |
The East Within
Cathedral of Learning 232
Mod. Helena Goscillo |
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Irina Livezeanu
From the Shtetl to Zurich and Paris: Trajectories of the Avant-Garde
Boryana Dobreva
Why is the West the Best? On the Losses and Gains of Identity in German-Balkan Migrant Writings |
11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break CL 501 |
11:30-1:00 |
Positionality and Transnationalism in the Context of Migration.
Cathedral of Learning 232
Mod. Stephen Brockman |
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Katrin Sieg
Black Virgins and the Discourse of Muslim Sexuality in Germany
Sabine von Dirke
Of Pride and Prejudice: German Prose Under the Sign of the Halfmoon |
1:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
2:00-3:30pm |
Hamid Naficy
Accented Cinema and Multiplexity.
Mod. Lucy Fischer |
3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee Break CL 501 |
4:00-5:30pm |
Mental Maps and Physical Borders
CL 501
Mod. Pinar Emiralioglu |
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Gregor Thum
After Ethnic Cleansing: Recreating the Hybrids of the Polish-German Borderland
Lina Insana
Dire Straits: The Bridge of Messina and the Italian South between 'thought' and 'question'. |
6:30pm |
Dinner |