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15th International
Colloquium of American Studies
Olomouc,
September 7-10, 2008
Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic |
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Sunday, September 7
19.00 welcome reception and registration, Restaurace Konvikt, Univerzitní st. 3, opposite the hotel Arigone
Monday, September 8
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08.00-08.45 |
registration, Křížkovského 12, 1st floor, room 220 |
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09.00-09:15 |
opening: Professor Josef Jařab |
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09.15-10.15 |
Heinz Ickstadt (Free University of Berlin, Germany): Motion, Mobility and American Modernism |
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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 |
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lunch break |
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Chair: Michal Peprník |
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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 |
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15.30-16.00 |
coffee break |
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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 |
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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
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Chair: Matthew Sweney |
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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 |
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10.00-10.30 |
coffee break |
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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? |
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lunch break |
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Chair: Libor Práger |
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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 |
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15.30-16.00 |
coffee break |
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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 |
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19.30 |
Film screening: Decasia (Bill Morrison, 2002) Křížkovského 10, 2nd floor, English Department, Room 15 |
Wednesday, September 10
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Chair: Marcel Arbeit |
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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 |
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10.00-10.30 |
coffee break |
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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 |
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lunch break |
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Chair: Bob Hýsek |
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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) |
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15.30-16.00 |
coffee break |
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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 |
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17.00-17.30 |
discussion |
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19:00 |
closing session and farewell dinner (TBA) |