10:00 – 11:00 Tom Byers, the key-note speaker from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA:
”Tinseltown Goes Pomo: Popular Movies in the Late Capitalist Era.”

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

12:15 – 13:45 Reception for American Studies Colloquium participants hosted by Ms. Evelyn A. Early,
Director, American Center, U.S. Embassy Prague

14:00 – 14:45 Laurie Finke, Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio, USA:
"Packaging the Postmodern: The Norton Anthology and the Institutionalization of Theory."

14:45 – 15:15 Discussion

16:00 – 17:30 Tour of Olomouc with Prof. Jaroslav Peprník

TUESDAY 4

10:00 – 11:00 Jim Grove, Mount Mercy College, Iowa, USA:
”Thin Gray Lines: The Quicksilver Mix of Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism in the Fiction of Philip Roth.”

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

14:00 – 14:45 Alena Smiešková, The University of Nitra, Slovakia:
”Postmodernist Features in Recent Jewish-American Fiction”

14:45 – 15:30 Libor Práger, Palacký Univerzity, Olomouc, Czech Republic:
"Who is the author? What is s/he? A few remarks on the post-modern narrative.”

16:00 – 16:30 Discussion

16:30 – 17:15 Jaroslav Kušnír, The University of Prešov, Slovakia:
”What is and What is Not (Post)Modernism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Barthelme's Novel Paradise.”

17:15 – 17:45 Discussion

WEDNESDAY 5

10:00 – 11:00 Inger Hunnerup Dalsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark:
”(Mis)understanding Pynchon: Different Readings of Thomas Pynchon's Experiments with Text and History in ‘Gravity's Rainbow’.”

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

14:00 – 14:45 Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain:
”The Postmodern Self in Recent American Autobiography.”

14:45 – 15:15 Discussion

15:45 – 16:30 Pi-hua Ni, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan:
”Game, Reality and History in Postmodern Fiction: "On the Contribution of Postmodern Fiction.”

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion

19:30 – 21:00 Public reading by Georgia Scott and Jordan Kosturkov

THURSDAY 6

10:00 – 11:00 Boris Vejdovsky, The University of Lausanne, Switzerland:
”We Hold These Truths for Self-Evident: Postmodernism, The Right to Read and Reading it Right.”

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

14:00 – 14:45 Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, The University of Gdansk, Poland:
”What are Groucho Marx and Blanche Dubois doing in a play about God?; Woody Allen and Postmodernism.”

14:45 – 15:15 Discussion

15:45 – 16:30 Alan Velie, Oklahoma University, USA:
”Chippewa Postmodernism of Gerald Vizenor’s Novels.”

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion

FRIDAY 7

10:00 – 11:00 Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA:
”Postmodernism, The Sacred, and the Materialisms of Science: Towards an American Post-Enlightenment Intellectual Tradition.”

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

14:00 – 14:45 Bernd Herzogenrath, Aachen University, Germany:
”The Prefix Rules: American Psycho and the Poetics of (Mis).”

14:45 - 15:30 closing lecture by Walter Hölbling, Secretary of the European Association for American Studies; Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria: ”Chronology and Its Discontent: History and Fiction in U. S. Postmodern Writing.”

16:00 – 17:00 Discussion

19:00 – Closing Dinner

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