Venue: The Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum, Václavské nám. 3
8:30–9:00
Registration
9.00–10.30
Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc): Opening lecture
Jaroslav Peprník (Palacký University, Olomouc): The Image of the U.S.A. in the Czech Regional Press around 1900
— coffee break
10.50–11.45
Chair: Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc)
Jaap Verheul (Utrecht University, Utrecht): America as Controversial Reference Culture: The Emergence of the United States in Public Discourse in the Netherlands, 1890–1990: Digital Humanities Approaches
Matthew Sweney (Palacký University, Olomouc): Representations of the USA in the Czech humor magazine Dikobraz
— lunch break
14.00–15.00
Chair: Alena Smiešková (The University of Constantine the Philospher, Nitra)
Petr Kopecký (University of Ostrava, Ostrava): Literary America under Review: The Cold War of Words Between 1948 and 1968
Brad Vice (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen): The Hard Boiled, Inhuman and Undead of Paris and Mississippi: Noir and Horror Motifs in the Works of Barry Hannah
— coffee break
15.20–17.00
Chair: Alena Smiešková (The University of Constantine the Philospher, Nitra)
Melvin Wevers (Utrecht University, Utrecht): Smoking like an American: The Emerge of the United States in Public Discourse in the Netherlands, 1890–1990
Jadranka Zlomislic and Tanja Gradecak-Erdeljic (University of Osijek, Osijek): Linguistic Landscape in the City of Osijek
Jan Beneš (Masaryk University, Brno): Flattening Tebowmania: Czech Newspapers on Tim Tebow
