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International
Colloquium of American Studies
November
12 - 14, 2009
Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Thursday, November 12, Philosophical Faculty, Room 18, Køížkovského 12
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16.00-18.30 |
registration (Philosophical Faculty, Køížkovského 12, English and American Department, 3rd floor) |
| 17:00-18:00 | James Deutsch talks about the Smithsonian Institution, students welcome, Room 15 |
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18.30-19:30 |
Symposium opening: Josef Jaøab (Palacký University, Olomouc) David Gainer (Cultural Attaché, US Embassy in Prague) Key-note lecture: Leon F. Litwack (University of California Berkeley, USA) |
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19.30-??? |
reception (Meeting room at the university's recotrate) |
Friday, November 13, Philosophical Faculty, Room 203, Køížkovského 14
| Chair: Michal Peprník (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.) | |
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09.00-10.00 |
Plenary: Josef Jaøab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.) |
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10.00-10.30 |
coffee break and registration |
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10.30-11.30 |
Robert Lewis (University of Birmingham, UK): Dramas of Miscegenation, 1924-1936 Barbara Seidman (Linfield College, USA): Piercing the Post-Racial Dream: Whiteness, Black Studies, and a small college curriculum in the Age of Obama |
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11.30-12.15 |
discussion |
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lunch break |
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14.00-15.00 |
Panel discussion: African American Studies and/in Humanist Education Chair - Josef Jaøab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.) Speakers: Leon F. Litwack (University of California Berkeley, USA) James Deutsch (Smithsonian Institution, USA) Barbara Seidman (Linfield College, USA) |
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15.00-15.30 |
coffee break |
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15.30-17.00 |
James Deutsch (Smithsonian Institution, USA): “The Sun Do Move”: John Jasper’s Black Odyssey Šárka Bubíková (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic): Growing up Black in US Lisbeth Saab (Uppsala University, Sweden): Lorraine Hansberry and W. E. B. DuBois |
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19.30-21.00 |
Film screening, discussion, Room 15? |
Saturday, November 14, November 13, Philosophical Faculty, Room 203, Køížkovského 14
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Chair: Marcel Arbeit (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.) |
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09.00-10.00 |
Axel Bohmann (University of Freiburg, Germany): Origins of the American Short Story – “The Desperate Negroe” Christopher Koy (University of South Bohemia in Èeské Budìjovice): Applying Strategies of the Snobographer: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Use of Thackeray in His “Blue Vein Society” Stories |
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10.00-10.30 |
coffee break |
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10.30-12.00 |
Erik Roraback (Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.): The Dialectics of Existence & Creation; or, The Real of Invisible Man Randall Roorda (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA): Ecocriticism’s Color Lines: Diversity Issues in Environmental Literature Larry Mobley (Boston College Law School, USA): Martin Luther King and the East European Experience with Communism |
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lunch break |
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Chair: Matthew Sweney (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.) |
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14.00-15.00 |
Gerald Preher (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France): Travels into History: Ernest J. Gaines’s African-American Odyssey in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Charles Sabatos (Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey) A Long Way from Prague: The Harlem Renaissance and Czechoslovakia |
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15.00-15.30 |
coffee break |
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15.30-17.00 |
Jaroslav Kušnír (University of Prešov, Slovakia): Crossing the Boundaries in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada Marek Tomášik (University of Prešov, Slovakia): Voices on paper, voices on film: The narrators/characters of The Color Purple, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Beloved Jaroslav Marcín (P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia): Music of Hope |
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17.00-17.30 |
discussion |
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19:00 |
closing session and farewell dinner (TBA) |
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