Convention Program
Preliminary Program Berlin Annual Convention of the DGfA
(27.-30. May 2010)
REGISTRATION Office: Hauptgebäude, R.
2103
Opening Hours:
Thu, May 27th: 1PM to 5 PM
Fr, May 28th: 8 AM to 4 PM
Sa, May 29th: 8 AM to 4 PM
So, May 30th: 8:30 AM to 10 PM
>Thu, 27th >Fri, 28th >Sa, 29th >Su, 30th
Time/Day |
|
8:30 |
Editors'
Meeting "Amerikastudien" Gastraum, Cum Laude, HU
(Hauptgebäude), Unter den Linden 6 |
10:00 |
DGfA Board Meeting Gastraum, Cum Laude,
HU |
12:00 |
Lunch DGfA Board Hilton Berlin, Restaurant, Mohrenstr.30 |
13:30 |
DGfA Board Meeting Gastraum, Cum Laude,
HU |
15:00 |
PGF Young Scholars Forum Hauptgebäude HU, Room 3119 (Eingang Audimax) |
17:00 |
Conference Opening Peter Schneck (President DGfA) Christoph Markschies (President Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Philip D. Murphy (Ambassador of the United States of America to Germany)
Award Ceremony:
United States Ambassador's
Grant 2010-11 Audimax (Hauptgebäude,
Unter den Linden 6, Eingang vom Innenhof) |
18:00 |
Opening
Lecture: The
Great Crisis and the American Response James K. Galbraith (University of Texas, Austin) Audimax
(Hauptgebäude, Unter
den Linden 6, Eingang vom Innenhof) |
20:00 |
Reception of the DGfA Foyer Audimax |
Time/Day |
|
9:00 |
Keynote Lecture I: Gender, Metaphor and Economics Julie A. Nelson (University of Massachusetts) Senatssaal HU, Unter den Linden 6 |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 |
Keynote
Lecture II: The Economies of Misfortune: Explosion, Implosion
and the Meltdown of American Exceptionalism Patricia Williams (Columbia Law School) Senatssaal HU |
12:30 |
Lunch PGF Lunch: Restaurant Nolle, Georgenstraße 203 Roundtable: Teaching American Studies Cum Laude, HU (Hauptgebäude) |
14:00 |
Workshops: Series 1 Seminargebäude am Hegelplatz
Workshop 3: Privatization of Security: Patterns of State-Industry Relations in a Post-Heroic Society, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.607 Workshop 4: Property - Belonging - Autonomy: Economies in (Neo-) Slave Narratives and Fictions of Slavery, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.506 Workshop 8: Enterprise and Drama: Performing Capital on the American Stage, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.608 Workshop 9: Alternative American Economies: Gift, Theft, Gambling, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.605 Workshop 11: Economics and Narrative, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.601 Workshop 12: Economies of Health – Healthy Economies, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.505 |
15:30 -
16:30 |
Coffee Available |
17:00 |
Women's Caucus Senatssaal HU |
19:30 |
Roundtable: American Studies and the Economy With Georgiana Banita (Paderborn), Sabine Bröck (Bremen), Michael C. Burda (Berlin), Winfried Fluck (Berlin), Nadja Gernalzick (Karlsruhe) und Ulfried Reichardt (Mannheim). Hosted by Ruth
Mayer (Hannover). Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum (Universitätsbibliothek), Auditorium, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1/3 |
Time/Day |
|
9:00 |
Keynote Lecture III:Discourses of Value: Reading Literature through Economics and vice versa Eva Boesenberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Senatssaal HU |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 |
DGfA: Mitgliederversammlung / GAAS Business Meeting Senatssaal HU |
13:00 |
Lunch Break |
14:30 |
Workshop: Series 2 Seminargebäude am Hegelplatz
Workshop 1: "All the varied lands and all the growths and products": The Economy of Nature, the Nature of Economy, and America's Politics of Representation, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.605 Workshop 5: Moral Economy in the Age of the Market Revolution, 1815 - 1860, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.607 Workshop 6:Teaching American Economy in the EFL Classroom, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.608 Workshop 7: Commodifying Human Rights: American Economies of Life, Liberty, and Equality, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.606 Workshop 10: Utopian Economies, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.501 Workshop 13: PGF - PostGraduiertenForum, Dorotheenstr. 24, R.1.601 Workshop 14: Economic
Policies of the Obama Administration: Reform Agenda versus Crisis
Management, Dorotheenstr. 24, R. 1.505 |
15:30 - 16:30 |
Coffee Available |
17:30 - 18:30 |
Forum I: Information for Research Grant Applications at the German Research Foundation (DFG) Alfred Hornung
(Mainz) Senatssaal HU |
18:30 – 19:30 |
Forum II: Potentiale und Realisationen
neuer Publikationsformen in der deutschen Amerikanistik Senatssaal HU |
20:00 |
Reading Richard Price Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
4 |
21:30 |
Conference Party / Cash Bar Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
4 |
Time/Day |
|
9:30 |
Keynote
Lecture IV: Race,
Class, and Crime in the Redevelopment of American Cities Mary Pattillo (Northwestern University, Evanston) Senatssaal HU |
11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Screening HBO's The Wire Senatssaal HU |
12:30 |
Panel Discussion with Richard Price (writer for The Wire), Patricia Williams, Mary Pattillo, Frank Kelleter (Universität Göttingen) and Tavia Nyong'o (New York University) Hosted by Bärbel Tischleder (Universität Göttingen) Senatssaal HU |