| SUNDAY 1st |
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| 19:30 |
Opening Reception at Krizkovskeho 12 |
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| MONDAY 2nd |
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| 8:30 - 9:30 |
Registration at Krizkovskeho 12 |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Opening Address by Prof. Josef
Jarab, President of European Association for American Studies,
Palacky University, Olomouc |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Emory
Elliott, University of California, Riverside, USA:
"National Dreams and Rude Awakenings: The Global Warnings
of American Fiction" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Discussion
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| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Boris
Vejdovsky, Lausanne University, Switzerland:
"Nine-Eleven: The Morning after and the Melancholy Streets
of New York" |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Discussion
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| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Tour of Olomouc with Prof. Jaroslav
Peprník |
| 19:00 - 22:00 |
Videoprojection |
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| TUESDAY 3rd |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Walter
Hoelbling, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria:
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Plots of U. S. Foreign
Policy" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Discussion
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| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Pi-hua Ni, National University
of Kaohsiung, Taiwan:
"Politics of John Barth and John Barth of Politics: The
Political Part of the 'Apolitical' Barth"
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| 14:45 - 15:30 |
Justine
Tally, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain:
"The Politics of Discourse in Toni Morrison's Trilogy" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Discussion |
| 16:30 - 17:15 |
Tatiana
Venediktova, Moscow University, Russia:
"'New Man' as New Writer and New Reader: Essays in Russian
and American Radicalism" |
| 17:15 - 17:45 |
Discussion |
| 19:00 - 22:00 |
Videoprojection |
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| WEDNESDAY 4th |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Russell Reising, University
of Toledo, USA:
"Iron Curtains and Satin Sheets: Anger and Eros in Cold
War Popular Music"
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Bernd Herzogenrath,
University of Cologne, Germany:
"Brundlefly For President: Cronenberg, Kafka, and the Fiction
of Insect Politics" |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Discussion |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Coffee break |
| 15:45 - 16:30 |
Norbert Gyuris, University of
Pecs, Hungary:
"The Simulated Representation of Politics: The Fictionality
of Truth in the Media" |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Discussion |
| 19:30 - 21:00 |
Poetry reading by Walter Hoelbling,
Charles Gannon, Matthew Sweney and Bob Hysek |
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| THURSDAY 5th |
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| 10:00 - 11:30 |
Panel Discussion directed by Josef
Jarab, President of European Association for American Studies,
Palacky University, Olomouc |
| 13:30 - 22:00 |
Field trip to UNESCO site Kromeriz |
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| FRIDAY 6th |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Charles
Gannon, St. Bonaventure University, USA:
" ‚I Have No Knowledge of Any Such Activities': Half a Century
of American ‚Democracy Noir' Narratives" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Ronald Schleifer, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, USA:
"Politics, Political Economy, and Modernist Fiction" |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Discussion |
