16.00-18.30

Registration (Philosophical Faculty, Křížkovského 14, Room 203, 2nd floor)

18.30-19:30

Symposium opening:

David J. Gainer (Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the U.S.A. in Prague)

19.30-21.30

Welcome Reception (Meeting room at the university's rectorate)

Chair: Matthew Sweney (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech. Rep.)

09.00-10.30

Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc):

John Sumser: (Fulbright Scholar, Charles University Prague): High and Low, and Left and Right: Competing Narratives in U.S. Culture

10.30-11.00

coffee break and registration

 11.00-12.30

Michal Peprník (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): James Fenimore Cooper  as the Good Bad American Democrat

Šárka Bubíková (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic): The Idea(l) of Multiculturalism and the Bildungsroman

Brad Vice (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Rep.): “Porch Talkers” and the Elitism of Dialect: Teaching Zora Neale Huston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God to Non-native Speakers of English

Lunch break

Chair: Libor Práger (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.)

14.00-15.00

Hana Waisserová (Masaryk University, Brno and Anglo-American University,
Prague): Unaccustomed Earth of Reluctant Fundamentalists: Asian-American Belonging Revised

Constante Groba (University of Santiago, Spain): Lillian Smith, Racial Segregation, Civil Rights and American Democracy

15.00-15.30

coffee break

15.30-17.00

Tomáš Kačer (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Rep.): Constituents of Historical and Political Identities in August Wilson's 20th Century Cycle

Martina Kepková (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.): The American Civil War and its Reflection in the Czech environment

18.30-21.00

Restaurant Konvikt, Univerzitní 5, "Bílá nora" Club

Poetry Reading: Jason Mashak & Alena Slepičková & Brad Vice

(part of the 2010 Ostrovy bez hranic/Islands Without Borders Festival)

Chair: Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.)

09.00-10.00

Key-note lecture: Paul Lauter (Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut)

10.00-10.30

coffee break

Chair: Šárka Bubíková (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)

10.15-11.45

John Matthews (Boston University, USA): Look Away, Look Awry: The Problem of the South in American Literature

Jaroslav Marcin (Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia): Word Power: Labeling and
Enabling

Norbert Gyuris (University of Pécs, Hungary): The Count - Fight Club and the Subculture of Resistance

lunch break

14.00-15.30

Panel discussion: Plurality of Culture and Democracy

Chair - Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.)

Panelists: Paul Lauter (Trinity College, Hartford, USA)

                 John Matthews (Boston University, USA)

              Marcel Arbeit (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Rep.)

15.30-15.45

coffee break

Chair: Marcel Arbeit (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

15.45-16.15

Karolina Majkowska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): Cuban Diaspora According to Dexter

16.15-17.00

Discussion

19:00

Closing session and farewell dinner (TBA)