Monday (September 4)

9:30 - 10:00
Introduction and Opening by Professor Josef Jarab and by a representative of the US Embassy in Prague

10:00 - 11:00
Kristiaan Versluys, Ghent University, Belgium:
9/11: The Discursive Responses

11.30-12.30
discussion

14:30 - 15:30
Marcel Arbeit, Palacky University, Czech Republic:
Southerners in New York: Rednecks in the Big City

16:00 - 18:00
Exhibition by Nancy Crampton, author of Writers: Photographs
(with her commentary on her recently published book of photographs of famous American and other writers)

20:00 - 21:30
Film projection - Documentaries on NY

Tuesday (September 5)

9:00 - 10:30 Bernd Herzogenrath, University of Cologne, Germany:
"The tallest letters in the world" - The Architexture of New York|Babel and Paul Auster's City of Glass

11:00 - 11:45 Julia Meier, University of Hanover, Germany:
"This Is the Song of the Vertical Field" - New York City as an Abstraction of the Body

14:00 - 14:45 Mariana Neţ, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania:
Urban Identities in Turn of 19th Century New York

15:00 - 15:45 Michal Peprnik, Palacky University, Czech Republic

16:00 - 16:45 Alena Smieskova, University of Nitra, Slovakia:
Genius Loci and New York

20:00 - 21:30
Film projection - Documentaries on NY

Wednesday (September 6)

9:00 - 10:30
Robert Lewis, University of Birmingham, England:
New York Vaudeville: Celebrating the City in the Songs of Betty Comden and Adoph Green

11:00 - 11:45
Petra Eckhard, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria:
Haunted Harlem: The Urban Uncanny in Contemporary African American Fiction

14:00 - 14:45
Stanislav Kolar, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic:
Lower East Side - A Literary Topos of Immigrant Jewish American Fiction

15.00 - 15:45
Sladja Blazan, Humboldt University, Berlin:
Wild East or Wild West

19:00 - 22:00
Poetry and fiction reading (Howard Hunt, Iva Pekarkova and others)

Thursday (September 7)

9:00 - 10:30
Jaroslav Kusnir, University of Presov, Slovakia:
New York in E. L. Doctorow´s (City of God) and Michael Chabon's Fiction (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)

11:00 - 11:45
Marta Miquel Baldellou, University of Lleida, Spain:
The City Where "Everything Wears an Aspect of Intense Life": Edgar Allan Poe Imagining New York in "Doings of Gotham"

14:00 - 14:45
Roman Trusnik, Palacky University, Czech Republic:
Escape from New York in Andrew Holleran's Novels

15:00 - 15:45
Andrzej Dorobek, Plock University, Poland:
Lou Reed - New York School of Rock

16:00 - 17:00
Richard Benesevich, PWSZ Walbrzych, Poland:
Bleeker and MacDougal Revisited: Everything (was) Happening All the Time

20:00
Closing dinner