Region, Nation, Globalization: Place in American Culture
2nd Center for Transnational American Studies (CTAS) Symposium.
Thursday, April 23
9:00 Welcome and introduction
- Prof. Ulf Hedetoft (Dean of Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen)
- Karl Stoltz (Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy of Denmark)
- Martyn Bone (coordinator, Center for Transnational American Studies)
9:10 - 10:40 (KUA1, 27.0.49) Panel session #1
Location, self-representation, and transnational America(ns)
Moderator: Christa Holm Vogelius (University of Copenhagen)
- ‘Randolph Bourne and Raphael Hawaweeny’: the observing of dis-placed Americans in the early years of the twentieth century
Charles Lock (University of Copenhagen) - ‘An Expansionist at Heart’: Cuba and U.S. Imperialism in the Autobiography of W. C. Handy
Ryan Charlton (University of Mississippi) - Imagining Arab America from Detroit to Beirut: Miss Lebanon America’s self-representation in 1955
Martina Koegeler-Abdi (University of Copenhagen)
10:40 - 11:00: Coffee break (NB: Please note next session moves from KUA1 to KUA2)
11:00 - 12:15 (KUA2, 14.1.67) Keynote #1
From the Local to the Global: Transnational Lives and the Work of Celebrity
- Matthew Pratt Guterl (Brown University)
Moderator: David Brown (University of Manchester)
12.15 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30 (KUA1, 27.0.49) Panel session #2
Transnational Activism
Moderator: Martina Koegeler-Abdi (University of Copenhagen)
- Spaces of Affinity: Community, Resistance, and Place in the Borderlands, 1913-1917
Dave Struthers (Copenhagen Business School) - The ‘free voice of the South’: Cuba’s Revolutionary Radio and Hemispheric Activism
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder (University of Mississippi/University of Copenhagen) - The Viennese ‘Regenbogenparade’ as a Performance of America Abroad
Leopold Lippert (University of Graz/University of Salzburg)
14:30 - 14:40 Break
14:40 - 16:10 (KUA, 27.0.49) Panel session #3
Visual Representations of Places (and Anti-Places)
Moderator: Rune Graulund (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
- ‘A jungle for strangeness’: Jacob Epstein’s Hester Street
Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen) - Captivating the Imagination: Place in Caldecott Award-Winning Children’s Picture Books, 1938-1970
Joe Goddard, University of Copenhagen - A Dead End on Lærkevej: American Suburbia as Transnational Anti-place
Michael Madsen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00 (KUA1, 27.0.49) Panel session #4
Atlantic Studies, Latino/a studies, and The Atlantic Monthly
Moderator: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen)
- “Territorial Waters: The Placing of Early Modern Atlantic Studies
Laura M. Stevens (University of Tulsa) - The Atlantic Monthly, Gertrude Stein, and ‘Faraway Women
Cathryn Halverson (University of Copenhagen) - Latin@ Studies Abroad: Making the Transnational International
Jennifer A. Reimer (Bilkent University)
Friday, April 24
9:00-10:15 (KUA1, 27.0.09) Keynote #2
Women’s Liberation and Southern Migration: Bertha Harris, June Arnold, and the Southern Lesbian-Feminist Avant-Garde
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Jaime Harker (Sarah Isom Center for Gender Studies, University of Mississippi)
Moderator: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen)
10:15-10:35: Coffee break
10:35-12:05 (KUA1, 27.0.09) Panel session #5
The South outside the South
Moderator: Cathryn Halverson (University of Copenhagen)
- “Consuming the South Across Borders: Race, Transnational Nostalgia, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Stage in Canada, 1890-1920
Felicia Bevel (Brown University) - “From rural Sussex folk to rural Southern folk: transatlantic geographies of race and class in Nella Larsen’s ‘Sanctuary’
Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen) - The Red Rooster in Harlem: The Contours of Contemporary Southern and Soul Foodways
Virginia Thomas (Brown University)
12:05 - 13:00: Lunch break
13:00 - 14:50 (KUA1, 27.0.09) Panel session #6
Literary Geographies from Whitman to the Beats
Moderator: Maria Damkjær (University of Copenhagen)
- ‘A perpetual journey’: The Metaphysics of Place and Destination in Whitman’s Poetry
Kasper Rueskov Guldberg (Aalborg University) - Margaret Fuller’s Transatlantic Imagination
Christa Holm Vogelius (University of Copenhagen) - Everything Connects: Mapping Interpretation and Representation in the Literature and Culture of 20th Century Los Angeles
Joseph Morton (University of Manchester) - Who needs religion when you have the desert?
Bent Sørensen (Aalborg University)
14:50 - 15:30 Reception to celebrate the “American Cultures of Work” special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia and CTAS publications since the first symposium (April 2013)
15:30 - 17:00 Keynote #3
Projections of America: Transatlantic Filmmakers and the Dismantling of World War II Propaganda
- Dr. Ian Scott (University of Manchester)
Ian Scott’s keynote will be preceded by exclusive excerpts from Projections of America, a documentary for which Ian Scott was the historical adviser and script editor. First screened in its German version in September 2014 on ARTE in Europe, a new English language version - narrated by John Lithgow - is to be shown in the UK and USA during 2015-16 under the auspices of PBS America.
Moderator: Joe Goddard (University of Copenhagen)
The organizers would like to express their gratitude to Carlsbergfondet, the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, and the PhD School at the Faculty of the Humanities for generous financial support of this second CTAS symposium. Special thanks too to our research partners at Brown University, the University of Manchester, and the University of Mississippi.