NAAS 2009 Programme

Friday 29 May - second day of the conference

9.00-10.15 Plenary - in lecture hall 23.0.50 

Swedish Association for American Studies plenary speaker:
Introduction: Erik Åsard (Uppsala University, Sweden) 

• Anders Olsson (Mid-Sweden University): "Travel Matters"

10.15-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-12.15 Panel Session #3

11. Cosmopolitan Contemplations in Post-9/11 Film (room 27.0.47)

Chair: Clara Juncker (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)

• Benita Heiskanen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense): "Crash/ing Cosmopolitanism"
• Nathan Abrams (University of Bangor, Wales): "The U.S. and the World after 9/11: Munich and Hostel"
• Emily Bakola (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece): "Heroic Badmen? Reconceptualizing the Superhero after 9/11: Batman Begins and The Dark Knight"

12. The Patriotic and the Cosmopolitan (room 27.0.49)

Chair: Dale Carter (University of Aarhus, Denmark) 

• Charles Kupfer (Penn State Harrisburg, United States): "Cosmopolitanism as Patriotism: The 1940 Call for Transatlantic Democratic Unity"
• Michael Barton (Penn State Harrisburg, United States): "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism Around the World"
• Charles Lock (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "Randolph Bourne and Transnational America"
  

13. Virtual and Mediated:  The U.S. in the World (room 27.1.47)

Chair: Bent Sørensen (Aalborg University, Denmark) 

• Amanda Lagerkvist (University of Uppsala, Sweden): "In the New 'New world'?: American voices and virtual spaces in New Shanghai"
• Julie Galloway (University College Dublin, Ireland): "The Cosmopolitan Internet?: American Web Corporations and the Globalisation of Internet Culture"
• Kristina Riegert, Bo Petersson, Lucas Pettersson (Södertörn University College, Sweden): "'Why Do They Hate Us So Much?': National or Regional European Media Discourse on the U.S. Role in the World"

14. The United States, Scandinavia, and the Black Atlantic

The panel has been CANCELLED

15. Transnational Travel Narratives (room 22.0.47)

Chair: Anne Dvinge (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 

• Cansu Özge Özmen (Jacobs University, Germany): "American Travel Narratives of the Orient in the 19^th century (1830-1880)"
• Cathryn Halverson (Kobe University, Japan/University of Bergen): "Little Houses in a Big World: the Domestic Narratives of Juanita Harrison and MFK Fisher"
• Gavin James Campbell (Doshisha University, Japan): "Cosmopolitanism on Vacation: Contemporary American Travelers in Japan"

12.15-1.15 Lunch break

1.15-2.45 Panel Session #4

16. Rethinking U.S. Racial Categories in Transnational Contexts(room 27.0.47)

Chair: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 

• Sylvie Coulibaly (Kenyon College, United States): "Kelly Miller and Black Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Booker T. Washington"
• Tunda Adeleke (Iowa State University, United States): "Situating the Du Boisean Duality within Post-Colonial Discourse on African-American Identity"
• Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis, United States): "Cosmopolitanism and Its Others: Observing Segregation"

17. Literature, Dystopia, & Environmental Imagination (room 27.0.49)

Chair:

• Thomas Ærvold Bjerre (University of Southern Denmark, Odense): "From Superman to Falling Man: Masculinities in post-9/11 American Literature"
• Øyunn Hestetun (Bergen University, Norway): "The 'Toxic Discourse' of Cormac McCarthy's The Road"
• Erik Kielland-Lund (University of Oslo, Norway): "Cormac McCarthy's The Road"

18. Transnational Literatures of the United States (room 27.1.47)

Chair: Anna Hellen (Lund University, Sweden) 

• Elina Valovirta (University of Turku, Finland): "Differentiating Shame in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory and Opal Palmer Adisa's It Begins with Tears"
• Clara Juncker (University of Southern Denmark, Odense): "Pledge of Allegiance?:  Ha Jin's Immigration Narratives"
• Manuel Brito (University of La Laguna, Spain): "Networking Globalization Through Little Magazines of American Poetry"

19. Terror and Violence from the Cold War to the War on Terror (room 27.1.49)

Chair: Eddie Ashbee (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) 

• Robert A. Jacobs (Hiroshima Peace Institute / Hiroshima City University, Japan): "Neighbors As Enemies: Narratives of Community Violence In Fallout Shelters and During Nuclear War in Early Cold War America"
• John Drabble (Kadir Has University, Turkey): "From White Supremacy to White Power: The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE and the Nazification of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s"
• Anthony Kolenic (Michigan State University, United States): "State of Disaster: Terrorism and Rethinking the Globe"

20. American Cultural Geographies (room 22.0.47)

Chair: John Fagg (University of Nottingham, England) 

• Jane Weiss (Kingsborough Community College of CUNY, United States): "'Flowers Gorgeously Magnificent': Industry, Colonialism, and Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America"
• Anthony Harkins (Western Kentucky University, United States): "The Emergence of ‘Flyover Country': Pictorial Maps and the Reimagining of American Cultural Geography"
• Joe Goddard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "Virginia Lee Burton and Environmentalism"

2.45-3.15 Coffee break

3.15-4.45 Panel Session #5

21. Cosmopolitanism and Roots Music (room 27.0.47)

Chair: Søren Hattesen Balle (Aalborg University, Denmark)

• Dale Carter (University of Aarhus, Denmark): "'What's Real and What Is Not': Authenticity, Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-American Folk Revival, 1955-1965"
• Bent Sørensen (University of Aalborg, Denmark): "Cosmopolitan Folk?: A Fake Indian and a Playboy Bunny Turned Singer: The Story of Peter LaFarge and Inger Nielsen"
• Mark Shackleton (University of Helsinki, Finland): "The (self) invented Indian?: The Cosmopolitan Life and Times of Buffy Sainte-Marie"

22. Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth Century American Literature (room 27.0.49)

Chair: Cathryn Halverson (Kobe University, Japan/University of Bergen, Norway) 

• Erik Simpson (Grinnell College, United States): "Mercenary Transnationalism: James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo and the Nightmare of American Cosmopolitanism"
• Danny Robinson (Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, United States): "'When a dog runs at you, whistle for him': Provincial Cosmopolitanism in Hawthorne and Thoreau"
• Rasmus Simonsen (University of Western Ontario, Canada): "'Being-in-the-woods': Relating Heidegger's Conception of Aufenthalt to the Thoreauvian Project"

23. American Exceptionalisms #2 (room 27.1.47)

Chair: Ole O. Moen (University of Oslo, Norway) 

• David Goldfield (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, United States): "Abraham Lincoln and American Exceptionalism"
• Janet M. Davis (University of Texas, Austin, United States): "Animal Humanitarians and the Making of Modern American Exceptionalism: 1860-1940"
• Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark): "'Channeling Fulbright': J. William Fulbright's Answer to American Exceptionalism"

24. Borderlands and In-Between Spaces: Chicano/a and Latino/a Encounters with Cosmopolitan America (room 27.1.49)

Chair: Benita Heiskanen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) 

• Asta Kuusinen (University of Joensuu, Finland): "After Anzaldúa's Borderlands: Chicana Images of Pain, Anger, and Profanity"
• Ingrid Agostoni (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "Chicano literature and identity: The space of in-between"
• Isabel Durán (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain): "Latino/a life-Writing in/and Cosmopolitan America"

25. (Anti-) Cosmopolitan Experts: Cultural Critics, Eugenicists, Social Scientists (room 22.0.47)

Chair: Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, Wales) 

• Thomas Clark (University of Kassel, Germany): "From 'Fights of Nations' to 'Trans-National America': Multi-Ethnicity, Stereotyping and Nation-Building in the Early 20th-Century U.S."
• Sue Currell (University of Sussex, England): "The Breeding Metropolis as Interwar Ideal: Eugenic Anti-Cosmopolitan Transnationalism in the 1920s"

4.45-6.00 Plenary - in lecture hall 23.0.50

Finnish American Studies Association plenary speaker:
Introduction: Jopi Nyman (University of Joensuu, Finland)

• Ari Helo (Renvall Institute, North American Studies, University of Helsinki): "Looking Forward with Obama - But How Far? Progress, History, and American Politics"