15th International Colloquium of American Studies
Olomouc, September 7-10, 2008
Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic

 
Programme  
 
 
 
Home
Intro
Programme
Venue
Contacts
 
 
 
 

 

Sunday, September 7

19.00 welcome reception and registration, Restaurace Konvikt, Univerzitní st. 3, opposite the hotel Arigone

Monday, September 8                 

08.00-08.45

registration, Křížkovského 12, 1st floor, room 220

09.00-09:15

opening: Professor Josef Jařab

09.15-10.15

Heinz Ickstadt (Free University of Berlin, Germany): Motion, Mobility and American Modernism

10.15-10.45

coffee break

10.45-11.45

Tom Clark (University of Kassel, Germany): Stop-Motion: The Dialectic of Movement and Inertia in American Political Thought

Marcel Arbeit (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): Every Mile a Nightmare: Travelling Through the South

11.45-12.15

discussion

 

lunch break

 

Chair: Michal Peprník

14.00-15.30

David Jones, Joanna Waluk (University of Warsaw, Poland): Why Is America a Dynamic Country?

James Deutsch (Smithsonian Institution, USA): NASA's Fifty Years of Ups and Downs

15.30-16.00

coffee break

16.00-17.00

Brigitte Zaugg (Paul-Verlaine University in Metz, France): The Grand Canyon’s the Limit: Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise and Richard Ford’s Abyss

Jakub Guziur (University of Ostrava, Czech Rep.):  McLuhan, Pound & Dylan - Popular Music as Counter-environment

19.30

Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): Hippies, Yippies, Preppies, Yuppies, Buppies, Guppies, Scuppies ...- An Upward Mobility?

Křížkovského 10, 2nd floor, English Department, Room 15

   Tuesday, September 9

 

Chair: Matthew Sweney

08.30-10.00

Alena Smieskova (UKF Nitra, Slovakia): American Urban Landscape – The Progress that Does not Move

Michal Peprník (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): The Superhuman Speed and Pace in Early American Literature

Mel Kenne (Kadir Has University, Turkey): The Existential Cul-de-Sac in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

10.00-10.30

coffee break

10.30-12.00

Erik S. Roraback (Charles Univeristy in Prague, Czech Rep.): Forms and Structures of Silence and Movement of Terrence Malick’s Badlands (1974)

Bernd Herzogenrath ('Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany): Material Culture goes to The Movies – Bill Morrison's Decasia and Movement|Time

Petr Kopecký (University of Ostrava, Czech Rep.): The Frontier in Motion: Where Does it Lead US?

 

lunch break

 

Chair: Libor Práger

14.00-15.30

Urzsula Flis (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): Bonding and Moving on: Southern Female Buddies in Motion (Pictures)

Roman Trušník (Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Rep.): Coming Back Home: Motion in American Gay Fiction

Gerald Preher (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France): A Timeless Journey: Shirley Ann Grau’s Stories in Motion

15.30-16.00

coffee break

16.00-17.00

Beata Zawadka (University of Szczecin, Poland): Halfway Through: The Porch as a Metaphor for the Contemporary Southerner’s (Trans)Cultural Identity on the Basis of Selected Southern Literary Works.

Irena Přibylová (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Rep.): On the Lost Highway: Songs of American Hoboes, Cowboys and Indians

19.30

Film screening: Decasia (Bill Morrison, 2002)

Křížkovského 10, 2nd floor, English Department, Room 15

 Wednesday, September 10

 

Chair: Marcel Arbeit

08.30-10.00

Juraj Horváth (University of Prešov, Slovakia): America on the Move

Anna Regina Helal (University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep.): US-Canada Relationship Under Stress: Are Two Close Neighbors Growing Apart?

Constante Groba (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain): Domesticity as Agent of American Imperialistic Expansion in Elizabeth Madox Roberts

10.00-10.30

coffee break

10.30-12.00

Jaroslav Marcin (P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia): Traveling in the Name of God

Radka Sedláčková (Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Rep.): Native Americans - off Reservations

Miroslav Valeš (Technical University in Liberec, Czech Rep.): The Times are Changing for the Lakhota

 

lunch break

 

Chair: Bob Hýsek

14.00-15.30

Ján Bajánek (University of Žilina, Slovakia): Edison's and Griffith's Contribution to the American Motion Pictures Poetics

Christopher Koy (University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep.): “Stan’ in wid de Angry-Saxon race” – Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Railroad Motif

Jaroslav Kušnír (University of Prešov): Motion, Speed and Artificiality in Don De Lillo's Cosmopolis (2000)

15.30-16.00

coffee break

16.00-17.00

Hadrian Lankiewicz (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Pataphysical Farce of Philip K. Dick – Motion of Mind

Marek Tomášik (University of Prešov, Slovakia): Fiction in Motion: Philip K. Dick’s Trips to a Near Future America Adapted to Film

17.00-17.30

discussion

19:00

closing session and farewell dinner (TBA)

 

  Last update: September 7