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Conference Program

This document provides the conference program for a two-day event taking place on April 10-11. On the first day, events are located at the Richard J. Daley Library and include check-in, opening remarks, a keynote speech, and dinner reception. The second day's events are in University Hall and consist of breakfast, seven panels of presentations on various topics from 9am-5:15pm, a keynote speech, and closing reception. The panels cover subjects such as visual arts/media, nationhood, representations of America, body/illness, transnational ties via music, exile/migration, and race/gender.

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Conference Program

This document provides the conference program for a two-day event taking place on April 10-11. On the first day, events are located at the Richard J. Daley Library and include check-in, opening remarks, a keynote speech, and dinner reception. The second day's events are in University Hall and consist of breakfast, seven panels of presentations on various topics from 9am-5:15pm, a keynote speech, and closing reception. The panels cover subjects such as visual arts/media, nationhood, representations of America, body/illness, transnational ties via music, exile/migration, and race/gender.

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Conference Program

Friday (April 10): All events take place at the Richard J. Daley Library (1-470).
3.00-3.45 pm: Check-in
3.45-4.00 pm: Opening Remarks by Prof. Imke Meyer (Director of LCSL) and Committee
4.00-5.30 pm: Keynote by Marzena Sowa with an introduction by Prof. Markowski
5.30-6.30 pm: Dinner Reception
Saturday (April 11): All events take place in University Hall (UH).
8.30-9.00 am: Breakfast (UH 1650)
9.00-10.15am: Panel 1 (UH 1501) and Panel 2 (UH 1750)
10.30-11.45 am: Panel 3 (UH 1501) and Panel 4 (UH 1750)
11.45-12.45 pm: Lunch (UH 1650)
12.45-2.15 pm: Keynote by Prof. John Kim (UH 1501)
2.30-3.45 pm: Panel 5 (UH 1501) and 6 (UH 1750)
4.00-5.15 pm: Panel 7 (UH 1501)
5.15-6.30 pm: Reception and Closing Remarks (UH 1650)

Panels
Panel 1: Visual Arts and the Media (9.00-10.15 am in UH 1501) ; Moderator: Anton
Svynarenko

1. Jessica Schook (University of Illinois at Chicago):

Reading Melancholy into la Movida: Counter-Culture Identity Loss in Alberto GarcaAlixs No Me Sigas... Estoy Perdido and Tres Videos Tristes
2. Catherine Kirchman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee):

Europeana and the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: EU Cultural Policy through Digital
Libraries

3. Steve Bartels (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs):


Sprachfest! Exploring Culture through Clich at High School Foreign Language
Competitions
Panel 2: Nationhood in a Globalized World (9.00-10.15 am in UH 1750); Moderator: Juan
David Cadena Botero
1. Elvira Godek-Kiryluk (University of Illinois at Chicago):
Platonovs The Foundation Pit: The Politics of Superfluity in the Soviet State

2. Amalia Cantisn Muoz (University of Illinois at Chicago):


Haunted by History: transatlantic first person narratives in Bolaos Nocturno de Chile
and Cercass Soldados de Salamina
3. Andrzej Brylak (University of Illinois at Chicago):
Jews and Poles on the Ukrainian Barricades? A Transnational Perspective on Maidan
Counterculture
Panel 3: Representations of America (10.30-11.45 am in UH 1501); Moderator: Derek
Schaefer
1. Szymon Zuberek (University of Illinois at Chicago):

Amerika, du hast es besser? - The image of America in the post-second world war
German poetry"
2. David Hullinger (Loyola University):

Every Man A King: Personal Responsibility in All the Kings Men


3. Max McKenna (University of Chicago):

Zigzagging in the Motor Age: Automobility and Errant Mobility in The Crying of Lot
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Panel 4: Body and Illness (10.30-11.45 am in UH 1750); Moderator: Sharon Weiner
1. Jenna Veren (University of Illinois at Chicago):

Punished or Chosen?: Freud's Castration Anxiety and Circumcision

2. Jonathan Tillotson (University of Illinois at Chicago):


Smallpox and the Narrative of Conversion in the Autobiographies of Giacomo Casanova
and Franz Xaver Bronner
3. Renata Fuchs (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):

Global Dis/Connections through Literal and Metaphorical Borders in Terzia Moras


Das Ungeheuer
Panel 5: Transnational Ties via Music (2.30-3.45 pm in UH 1501); Moderator: Olga
Johnson
1. Irina Yakubovskaya (Tufts University):

Devalued trophy of the Tsarist era: the return of Alexander Vertinsky to the Soviet land
2. Dylan Burns (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Bizet in Africa: The Localization of Narrative in Joseph Ga Ramakas Karmen Ge
3.

Daniel Bowman (University of Maryland):

This Poverty is Hurtin My Pride: British Post-Imperial Identity and Working Class
detachment in the Music of Ray Davies
Panel 6: Exile and Migration (2.30-3.45 pm in UH 1750); Moderator: Zachary
Fitzpatrick
1. Mark Moll (Indiana University):
"The Disillusionment of an Arbeiterdichter: The Two Lives of Maurice Reinhold von
Stern"
2. Priscilla Charrat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Words, Faces, Images: Giving the Nation's Mohammeds More Than a Voice
3. Christina Schultz (University of Illinois at Chicago):
Theres No Place Like Home: Globalization and Rootedness in Modern Society

Panel 7: Race and Gender (4.00-5.15 pm in UH 1501); Moderator: Maryann Piel


1. Serhii Tereshchenko (University of Illinois at Chicago):
Russian misogyny and Western homosexuality: What is to live around idiots?

2. Gokce Tekeli (University of Kentucky):


The Quest for the I in Alison Bechdels Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
3. Kristina Pilz (University of Washington):
BlackWhite Narratives: Reading Afro-German Configurations of Cultural Identity

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