08.00-08.45

registration, Křížkovského 12, 1^st floor, room 224

09.00-09:15

opening: Professor Josef Jařab

09.30-10.45

M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, USA: Southern Writers and the Art of the Paperback Novel: Faulkner, Caldwell, Styron, and James S. Avati.

10.45-11.00

coffee break

11.00-11.45

Marcel Arbeit, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic: Southern film-makers: David Gordon Green and others.

11.45-12.15

discussion

14.00-14.45

Kateřina Prajznerová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Learning to Live-in-Place: A Literary History of Hill and Valley Farming in Southern Appalachia

14.45-15.30

Josef Jařab, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic: Uncle Tom’s Children Misbehaving.

15.30-16.00

discussion

16.00-16.30 

coffee break

16.30-17.15 

Jim Grove, Mount Mercy College, Iowa, USA: Teaching Southern Literature at a Southern University.

17.15-17.45

discussion

20.00

film screening, Křížkovského 12, 1^st floor, room 224

09.00-09.45

Jan Nordby Gretlund, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark: What Happened to Southern Humor after Mark Twain?

09.45-10.15

discussion

10.15-10.30

coffee break

10.30-11.15

Bernd Herzogenrath, University of Cologne, Germany: Tod Browning and The South: Heimisch and Uncanny.

11.15-11.45

discussion

11.45-12.30

Jaroslav Kušnír, The University of Prešov, Slovakia: Post-Apocalyptic American South in Cormack McCarthy's The Road (2006).

14.00-14.30

Eva Kalivodová, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: What did Uncle Tom strive for among Czechs in mid-19th century?

14.30-15.00

Constante González Groba, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Race, sexuality and the culture of segregation in the writing of Carson McCullers and Lillian Smith.

15.00-15.30

discussion

15.30-16.00

coffee break

16.00-16.30

Biljana Oklopčić, University of Osijek, Croatia: Tennessee Williams’ South.

16.30-17.00

Brigitte Zaugg, Paul Verlaine University, Metz, France: Invisible Woman, or from Belle to matron: a case study of two characters in Ellen Glasgow’s fiction.

17.00-17.30

discussion

19.00

poetry reading, Restaurant Kaldera, Kosinova 7

09.00-09.45

Kevern Verney, Edge Hill University, England: To Hope Till Hope Creates: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Alabama, 1913-1945.

09.45-10.15

discussion

10.15-10.30

coffee break

10.30-11.15

Fred Arthur Bailey, Abilene Christian University, Texas, USA: The Cultural Consequences of Southern History: E. Merton Coulter, John Hope Franklin and the Civil Rights Crusade.

11.15-11.45

discussion

14.00-14.30

Štěpánka Magstadt, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: The making of a race is our mission: American Baptist Home Missions Educational efforts in the South during the post-Civil War period.

14.30-15.00 

Roman Trušník, Tomáš Baťa University, Zlín, Czech Republic: Child Abuse in Jim Grimsley’s Novels.

15.00-15.30

discussion

15.30-16.00

coffee break

16.00-16.30

Beata Zawadka, University of Szczecin, Poland: The Contemporary Southern White Elite Matronhood as Presented by Peter Taylor.

16.30-17.00

Julia Sattler, University of Dortmund, Germany: Family Secrets: Memory, roots. and the South's biracial heritage in contemporary American literature.

17.00-17.30

discussion

19:00

closing session and farewell dinner (place TBA)