Contact
Prof. Dr. Erik Redling
phone: +49 (345) 55-23520
erik.redling@amerikanistik....
Dachritzstraße 12
06108 Halle (Saale)
American Studies / Literary Studies,
Managing Director of the Muhlenberg Center for American Studies
Program
| Wednesday, April 16 | |
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| 19.00 | Informal meet-and-greet at Hallesches Brauhaus |
| Thursday, April 17 | |
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| 09.00- 09.15 | Opening Remarks (Erik Redling) |
| 1. The American Renaissance Revisited (Chair: Hubert Zapf, Augsburg) | |
| 09.15– 10.15 | Opening Keynote AESTHETICS Jonathan Arac (Pittsburgh) “Transatlantic Aesthetic Networks: E. A. Poe from Germany to Russia to Chicago” |
| 10.15– 11.00 | SERIALITY
Daniel Stein (Berlin) “Transatlantic Politics and Literary Practices in the German-American Mystery Novel, 1850-1855” |
| 11.00–11.30 Coffee Break | |
| 11.30 –12.15 | SOUND Christopher Hanlon (Eastern Illinois / Harlaxton College, UK) “Telegraphic Poetry and Transatlantic Noise” |
| 12.15– 13.00 | PRAGMATISM Ellen Redling (Heidelberg) “Genteel Pragmatism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America” |
| 13.00–14.30 Lunch at MoritzKunstCafé (Moritzburg) | |
| 2. Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics, Part I (Chair: Holger Kersten, Magdeburg) | |
| 14.30– 15.30 | Keynote REFORM Leslie Butler (Dartmouth) “Varieties of Transatlantic Reform Movements” |
| 15.30- 16.15 | ART Erik Redling (Halle) “Of Heroes and Mockingbirds: The Art of Translation in Nineteenth-Century America” |
| 16.15–16.45 Coffee Break | |
| 16.45–17.30 | CULTURAL AUTHORITY Julia Straub (Berne) “Translating Cultural Authority: Reflections on the Transatlantic Reception of Dante in the Nineteenth Century” |
| 17.30– 18.15 | KNOWLEDGE Maurice Lee (Boston) “Exporting Literary Expertise: Standardizing Knowledge in Britain and America” |
| ca. 19.30 | Dinner at the Tranquebar (next to the Franckeschen Stiftungen) |
| Friday, April 18 | |
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| 3. Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender (Chair: Stefan Brandt, Graz) | |
| 09.15–10.15 | Keynote IMAGINATION John Stauffer (Harvard) “Frederick Douglass’ Transatlantic Imagination” |
| 10.15–11.00 | SPIRITUAL WORLD / OTHER WORLD Werner Nell (Halle) “Romantic Folk Culture and The Souls of Black Folk: Framing the Beginnings of African-American Culture Studies in Cross-Atlantic Travelling Concepts” |
| 11.00–11.30 Coffee Break | |
| 11.30–12.15 | FEMINISM Sabine Sielke (Bonn) “Fuller, Foreign Correspondence, Feminism” |
| 12.15–13.00 | LIFE WRITING Julia Nitz (Halle) “Byronic Heroines and Darwinian Types: Southern Women’s (Post-)bellum Identity Construction” |
| 13.00–14.30 Lunch at MoritzKunstCafé (Moritzburg) | |
| 4. Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics, Part II (Chair: Gabriele Rippl, Berne) | |
| 14.30–15.30 | Keynote RELEVANCE Elisa Tamarkin (Berkeley) “’Red Herrings and Other Irrelevancies’” |
| 15.30–16.15 | AUTHORSHIP Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg) “The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective” |
| 16.15–16.45 Coffee Break | |
| 16.45–17.30 | Peter Riley (Oxford) “On the Death of the Author at the Transnational Turn” |
| 19.00 | Dinner at Ristorante Bella Italia |
| Saturday, April 19 | |
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| 5. The Medium is the Message: Transatlantic Media Networks (Chair: Martin Meyer, Halle) | |
| 09.15-10.15 | Keynote PICTURESQUE Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt) “Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque” |
| 10.15–11.00 | ALLEGORY Stefanie Schäfer (Jena) “Transatlantic Kinship Between Colony and Nation: John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton" |
| 11.00–11.45 | REALISM Winfried Fluck (Berlin / Warsaw) “American Realism in its Transatlantic Context” |
| 11.45 – 12.15 Concluding Discussion | |