Sunday, August 31

19:30 - 22:00 Opening reception

Monday, September 1

10:00 - 11:00 Introduction by Professor Josef Jařab, President of the EAAS

14:30 - 15:30 Jim Grove, Mount Mercy College, Iowa, USA:
"Thinking about Evil in America"
16:00 - 16:30 Discussion

16:30 - 18:00 City Tour with Professor Jaroslav Peprnik

20:00 - 22:00 Film projection

Tuesday, September 2

10:00 - 11:00 Charles Gannon, St. Bonaventure University, USA:
"Down and Out(ré) in the ´Cultural Ghettos´: America´s Underprivileged Arts"
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion

14:30 - 15:00 Alena Smiešková, the University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra, Slovakia:
"The Centeredness of the Peripheral, the Periphery of the Center"
15:00 - 15:30 Discussion

16:00 - 16:30 Michal Peprník, Palacky University, Olomouc, CR:
"Democratic Ideals in Popular Culture"
16:30 - 17:00 Discussion

17:00 - 17:30 Marcel Arbeit, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic:
"High Western, High Fantasy"
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion

20:00 - 22:00 Film projection

Wednesday, September 3

10:00 - 11:30 "American Popular Culture and Our Democracies"
- open forum moderated by Professor Jařab

14:30 - 15:00 Norbert Gyuris, University of Pecs, Hungary:
"Images and Words in Popular Culture - Identity Formation of the Musical Icons"
15:00 - 15:30 Discussion

16:00 - 16:30 Andrzej Dorobek, Plock University, Poland:
"Psychedelia - Opium for Masses"
16:30 - 17:00 Discussion

17:00 - 17:30 Jaroslav Kušnír, Presov University, Slovakia:
"Popular Culture? - Art? - Democracy? (Robert Coover´s Shootouts at Gentry´s Junction)"
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion

20:00 - 22:00 Poetry Reading

Thursday, September 4

10:00 - 11:00 John Stauffer, Harvard University, USA:
"Frederick Douglass and the Aesthetics of Freedom."

13:30 - 23:00 Field trip to Kromeriz

Friday, September 5

10:00 - 11:00 Tom Clark, University of Kassel, Germany:
"No Masters, No Masses: The American Dream of a Republican (Political) Culture"
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion

14:30 - 15:00 Bernd Herzogenrath, University of Cologne, Germany:
"Tod Browning´s Freaks: Democracy of the Dismembered"
15:00 - 15:30 Discussion

16:00 - 16:30 Pi-hua Ni, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan:
"Violence, Death, and Redemption: Paradox in Cinematic (Re)Presentation of the Burgeoisie in ´American Beauty´ and ´A One and A Two´"
16:30 - 17:00 Discussion

17:00 - 17:30 Anton Pokrivčiak, the University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra, Slovakia:
"Democratic literature?"
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion

19:30 Closing Reception / Garden Party

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