IAAS POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM 2008
American Critical Perspectives:
Reconfiguring American Studies
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30 – 11:00 Panel 1 Writing the State: Space and the Citizen
Madeleine Lyes UCD, Clinton Institute of American Studies
Old Guard Vs Enfant Terrible? Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and the Crux of Urban Disorder
Michael Collins University of Nottingham
Title: “He was more a man of preferences than assumptions”- Melville’s Bartleby and the Roman Law Tradition.
Stephen Joyce University of Bielefeld
Title: The Vanguard of America: Camptown as Contact Zone in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of my Ghost Brother
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 Panel 2 Rearticulating Race
Louise Walsh UCD, Clinton Inst.
Vindication of Vernacular: Representations of Dialect in Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes' Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life and J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World.
Francesca de Lucia Oxford University
Title: Contesting the Old, Articulating Visions of a New America.
Barry Shanahan. UCD, Clinton Institute for American Studies
Title: Tell It Like It Is: The Role and Representation of Hip-Hop in Musical and Extra-Musical Forms
12:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel 3 Masculinity, Religion, and Sexuality
Sarah May O’ Sullivan University College Cork
Title: 'The Hollow Men ':A comparison of middle-phase masculinities in Alejandro Gonzalez Iňárritu's Amores perros (2000) and Atom Egoyan's Exotica (1994)
Patrick Staerke University of Bonn
Title: Same-Sex Marriage – A Challenge to American Culture?
Dawn-Marie Gibson University of Ulster
Title: Internationalising the Movement: The Nation of Islam and its International Chapters
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:00 Panel 4: A Dozen Visions: Race, Class and the Visual Frame
Rebecca Cobby – University of Nottingham
Title: ‘I too am American’: commodification, charity and the aesthetics of poverty in the photojournalism of Gordon Parks
Wendy Ward UCD, Clinton Institute for American Studies
Title: “You Get the Picture”: Getting Out of the Photographic Periphery in E.L. Doctorow’s Fiction
Lisa McInerney DCU, School of Law and Government
Title: Critical Responses to Virtual Jihad: Revival of the Dozens?
5:00 Wine Reception