Program
Friday, November 16 | ||
Time | Place | Event |
1:30 – 3:00 | Café Engländer | JAAAS editorial meeting |
4:00 – 6:00 | Foyer (Herbert Hunger Haus ÖAW) | Registration |
3:00 – 4:30 | Alte Burse (Herbert Hunger Haus ÖAW) | Board Meeting |
4:30 – 5:15 | Theatersaal (Herbert Hunger Haus ÖAW) | Conference Opening • Welcome Addresses • Fulbright Prize 2018 , • Honorary Membership Awards |
5:15 – 6:00 | Theatersaal (Herbert Hunger Haus ÖAW) | Reception |
6:00 – 7:30 | Theatersaal (Herbert Hunger Haus ÖAW) | Opening Keynote by Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg): Chair: Alexandra Ganser |
Saturday, November 17 | ||
8:00 – 4:00 | Department Ground Floor | Registration |
9:00 – 10:30 | Department | Panel Session 1 |
10:30 – 11:00 | Department Ground Floor | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 12:30 | Department | Panel Session 2 |
12:30 – 2:30 |
| Lunch |
12:30 – 2:30 | Küche 18 | Austria's Young Americanists (AYA) Lunch for Early Career Researchers |
2:30 – 4:30 | Department | Panel Session 3 |
4:30 – 5:00 | Department Ground Floor | Coffee Break |
5:00 – 6:30 | Department UR | AAAS General Meeting |
7:00 – 8:30 | Venue t.b.a. | Keynote Address by Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University): “Arctic Dead Letters: Polar Circulation and Ecomedia“ Chair: Leopold Lippert |
8:30 – 10:30 | Venue t.b.a. | Reception and Party Dance Performance “POLARIZE” (MUK Vienna) |
Sunday, November 18 | ||
8:00 – 11:00 | Department Ground Floor | Registration |
9:00 – 10:30 | Department UR | Keynote Address by Mimi Sheller (Drexel University): “American Im/Mobilities and Movements of Mobility Justice“ Chair: Roman Kabelik |
10:30 – 11:00 | Department Ground Floor | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 1:00 | Department | Panel Session 4 |
1:00 – 2:00 | Venue t.b.d. | Meeting of the New Board |
Session 1: Sat, 9-10:30
Panel 1: Angry. Crazy. Sad. Smileyface: Aesthetic Mediation, Political Mobilization, and the Im/Mobilities of Gender
Seminar Room 1
Chairs: Sophie Spieler (University of Leipzig), Florian Sedlmeier (University of Hamburg)
Elisabeth Krieber (University of Salzburg): From Panel to Stage – Transmedial Mobilization of Queer Identities
Ralph J. Poole (University of Salzburg): Full Disclosure: Gender*Mobilization and Affective Trans Male Publics
Katja Kanzler (University of Leipzig): #NastyWoman: Vernacular Feminism and the Poetics of Resignification in 21st Century US Popular Culture
Panel 2: Im/Mobilities and Performance
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Ingrid Gessner (PH Vorarlberg)
Martina Koegeler-Abdi (University of Copenhagen): Anna Ascends (1920) – Syrian Immigrants between Social Ascent and Racial Immobility
Hannah Murray (King’s College London): “Almost a citizen”: Performance and Social Mobility in Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Adventures of Robin Day (1839)
Veronika Keller (Independent Scholar): “Here I am in my Mecca” – The Transatlantic Migration of Music Students between 1843 and 1918
Panel 3: Legacies of Cold War Im/Mobilities
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Christian Stenico (University of Innsbruck)
Klaus Rieser (University of Graz): “Going Native” in Bulgaria: Valeska Griesebach’s Film Western
Katharina Wiedlack (University of Flensburg): “Arrested Development:” Trapped in the “Time Loop” of American Cold War Cultures
Barbara Maly-Bowie (University of Vienna): Making connections: Netflix, Cuba and Mobilization
Panel 4: Im/Mobilities and Empire
Unterreichtsraum
Chair: Kevin Potter (University of Vienna)
Steffi Wiggins (University of Vienna): Herman Melville’s Work and the Sea: The Experience of Mobility and the Literary Construction of a Place
Mark Rice (St. John Fisher College): The Curious Case of Louis Menage: Science, Law, and Imperialism in American Im/mobilities
Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University): American Circumnavigation; Or, Failure as Foreign Policy
Session 2: Sat, 11-12.30
Seminar Panel 5: African American Im/Mobilities I
Room 1
Chair: Sigrid Thomsen (University of Vienna)
Sunčica Klaas (Potsdam University): The “Incommensurable Distance” between Freedom and Slavery: Displacement and Disenfranchisement in Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave
François d’Assise Khéyane Tine (University of Liège/University Paul Valéry, Montpellier III): Forced Displacement and Its Traumatic Effects in Toni Morrison’s Home and A Mercy
Karin Hoepker (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): „Black Cargo“: Narratives of Im/Mobility in Barracoon and The Underground Railroad
Panel 6: Im/Mobilities and the Environment
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Steffi Wiggins (University of Vienna)
Timo Müller (University of Konstanz): Natural Automobility? American Road Narratives and the Environment
Tatiana Prorokova (University of Vienna): Mobility, Car Culture, and the Environment in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
Leonardo Nolé (CUNY Graduate Center): Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses: A Chronicle of Im/mobilities
Panel 7: Disability and Im/Mobility
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Judith Kohlenberger (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Susanne Hamscha (Fulbright Austria): Not Going Anywhere: Disability, Civil Rights, and Cultures of Im/mobility
Dorothee Schneider (Kiel University): “But I’m not even in a wheelchair”: Dis/ability, Im/mobility and Social Class in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (2015)
Juliane Strätz (Mannheim University): Disabling Mobility – Cultures of Work and Ableism in Joshua Ferris’ The Unnamed
Panel 8: Homes on the Move
Seminar Room 5
Chair: Elisabeth Lechner (University of Vienna)
Sarah Heinz (University of Vienna): Mobilizing Homes: Representing Home Spaces in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Alina Stocklöv (University of Konstanz): Urban Mobility in Post 9/11 Manhattan – The City as Liminal Space in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and Teju Cole’s Open City
Joshua Parker (University of Salzburg): Austrian Refugees in New York
Panel 9: Interrogations of the American West
Seminar Room 6
Chair: Michael Fuchs (University of Graz)
Burak Sezer (University of Cologne): Slowing Down West: Diminishing Mobility in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon
Stefan Rabitsch (University of Graz): “I Wear My Hat as I Please, Indoors or Out”: Western Hats: Wearable, Signifying, Mobile Shapes of Americanness
Session 3: Sat, 14.30-16.30
Panel 10: African American Im/Mobilities II
Seminar Room 1
Chair: Hanna Wallinger (University of Salzburg)
Julia Velten (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): Illusions of Mobility: Reading George Dawson’s Life Is so Good! Against the Grain
Jiann-Chyng Tu (Humboldt University Berlin): “Arise! All who refuse to be slaves!”: W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson in China
Isabel Kalous (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Navigating Hostile Terrain with the Green Book: Race, Mobility and a Travel Guide for African Americans in the Era of Segregation
Marian Ofori-Amoafo (University of Bayreuth): Coffles, Swamps, Plantations: Im/Mobility and Identity Formation in I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Blonde Roots
Panel 11: Where No (Wo)Man Has Gone Before: Space, Gender, and Mobility in American Science Fiction
Seminar Room 2
Chairs: Stefan L. Brandt (University of Graz), Manuela Neuwirth (University of Graz)
Imola Bülgözdi (University of Debrecen): Distorting Mirror? Gendered Segregation in Le Guin’s “The Matter of Seggri”
Rocío Carrasco Carrasco (University of Huelva): Becoming Digital: Posthuman Subjectivities in American Virtual Reality Films
Elisabeth Schneider (University of Graz): “You Know I Can Take Whatever I want”: Toxic Masculinity, Star Wars, and the (Im-)Possibility of Change
Manuela Neuwirth (University of Graz): Gender-Coding the Extraterrestrial: Asexual Aliens and Hypersexual Hybrids in Star Trek and The X-Files
Panel 12: Maritime Crossings
Seminar Room 3
Chairs: Nadja Gernalzick (University of Vienna)
David Fontanals (University of Barcelona): Pandora and Patagonia: Exploring Domesticity and Mobility in the Short Fiction of Henry James
Arturo Corujo-Hernández (University of Barcelona): A Man-of-War in Labour: The Heterotopic Gestation of the Disorientated Self in Herman Melville’s White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War
Panel 13: Moving Images: Intersectional Approaches to Im/Mobilities on Screen
Unterrichtsraum
Chair: Alexandra Hauke (University of Passau)
Judith Rauscher (University of Bamberg): Interrogating Imperial Feminism: Border Crossing and the Politics of Race and Gender in Star Trek: Discovery
Alexandra Hauke (University of Passau): Horrors of the Sunken Place: Critical Race Theory, Black Mobilization, and Jordan Peele’s Get Out
Panel 14: Gendered Im/Mobilities
Seminar Room 5
Chair: Stefanie Schäfer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem (Ege University): Ripley: A Woman’s Journey
Katharina Gerund (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): The Im/Mobilities of Military Spouses in Post-9/11 America
Grazia Micheli (University of Nottingham): Im/mobility and In-betweenness in Contemporary Migrant Literature
Ranthild Salzer (University of Vienna): Superheroes as Fantasies of Mobility
Panel 15: Minor Mobilities
Seminar Room 6
Chair: Alexandra Ganser (University of Vienna)
Astrid Fellner (Saarland University): Running the Medicine Line: Minor Mobilities on the Canada/US Border
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (Leipzig University): “Following the Path of Stanley”: Mobilities and Immobilities in US Gulf Coast Tourism
Steffen Wöll (Leipzig University): Inertia and Movement: The Spatialization of the Native Northland in Jack London’s Short Stories
Marietta Messmer (University of Groningen): Detained, Deported, Deterred: The Current Challenges Faced by Under-Age Migrants and Refugees in the U.S.
Session 4: Sun, 11-13
Panel 16: Versifying Im/Mobility: Poetry as Dance
Seminar Room 1
Chair: Nassim Balestrini (University of Graz)
Nassim Balestrini (University of Graz): The Delicate pas de deux of Dual Citizenship: Language as History’s Violent Choreography in Layli Long Soldier’s Poetry
Margit Peterfy (Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg): “Dancing Out of Rhythm”: Juan Felipe Herrera’s Anthropoetry as Expressive Commentary
Philipp Reisner (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Trinity as Dance: Li-Young Lee’s Poetry Cycle The Undressing (2018)
Jennifer A. Reimer (University of Graz): Towards a Transa-national Poetics: Mobilities within Difference and the Ethnic Avant-Garde
Panel 17: Intersectional Im/Mobilities of Gender and Race
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Martina Koegeler-Abdi (University of Copenhagen)
Silvia Schultermandl (University of Graz): Precarious Intimacies and the Im/Mobility of Transnational Care
Nasrin Babakhani (Goettingen University): Mobility and the Re-imaginings of Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine
Isabel Treviño (University of Zaragoza): Unlicensed Drivers: Gendered and Racialised Im/Mobilities in Learning to Drive
Panel 18: Moving in/across/through America in Video Games (and Digital Culture)
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Stefan Rabitsch (University of Graz)
Emir Bektić (University of Klagenfurt): A Virtual Walk on the American Frontier: Mapping a Native American Tribe’s Experience through Assassin’s Creed III
Michael Fuchs (University of Graz): You, Too, Can Become a Star: Upward Mobility in Sports Video Games
William Tate (James Madison University): The Garage Phenomenon: The Start-up Revolution: A New Mobility
Panel 19: Queer Im/Mobilities
Unterrichtsraum
Chair: Susanne Hamscha (Fulbright Austria)
Simon Whybrew (University of Graz): Disappearing into the Future? Reclaiming Transgender Experiences in Contemporary US Science Fiction
Ben Robbins (University of Innsbruck): Queer Exile and the Mobility of Narratives across the Modernist Writing of Djuna Barnes and Robert McAlmon
Rodrigo Andrés (University of Barcelona): Coming out as a Threat to the Immobilities and Chrononormativities of Domestic Life in Herman Melville’s “The Apple-Tree Table”
Panel 20: Deportation and Detainment
Seminar Room 5
Chair: Barbara Maly-Bowie (University of Vienna)
Louis J. Kern (Hofstra University): “The Remnant of Barbarism…[in] the Civil Code of the Country”: “Freemmagemmed in Queer Street” – Imprisonment for Debt in the United States
Julia Lange (University of Hamburg): “We Were Victims, too”: German American Internment Autobiographies and the (Re-) Construction of Citizenship
Baltasar Jesús López Ruiz (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia): Enemy Aliens: Contributions of Refugees and Displaced Persons to Canada
Panel 21: Modern-Day Pilgrimages in the US and Beyond
Seminar Room 6
Chair: Sabrina Mittermeier (Independet Scholar)
Mareike Spychala (University of Bamberg): Honor Flights, Veterans, and Military Pilgrimages in American Popular Culture
Jennifer Volkmer (LMU Munich): A Man Went Looking for America and Couldn’t Find It Anywhere – Motorcycle Riding as Modern-Day Pilgrimage
Sabrina Mittermeier Independet Scholar): (Un)Conventional Voyages: Fan Tourism as Pilgrimage?
Clara Reiring (Cologne University): Blue Highways and Emersonian Circles – American Mobility from Transcendentalism to Travel Literature