Amerikanistendag 2017, 2 June, University of Amsterdam
On Friday 2 June 2017, the University of Amsterdam will host the 23rd Amerikanistendag, the annual student conference of the Netherlands American Studies Association. This conference is a forum for BA, MA, Research-MA, Ph.D. students, and recent graduates to present their research to fellow students and scholars in the Netherlands.
For more information and registration, please see https://www.amerikanistendag.nl/.
PROGRAM:
9.30 Coffee/Registration
10.00-10:15: Welcome
10:15-11.15: Keynote Lecture, Damian Pargas (Leiden University)
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012CN Amsterdam
N.B.: the remainder of the conference will take place in the Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis at the University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012CX Amsterdam
First Round of Parallel Sessions
11.45-13.00: Session 1
International Encounters and Projections; Or, the Sanctuary and the Mission
- Nawel Zbidi, “Trauma and Exile in Post- 9/11 Contemporary Arab-American Fiction by Women Writers: Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land as a Case in Point”
- Dejan Duric, “Liberating the Two Kingdoms: Church and State, Immigration, and Sanctuary Practices”
- Taran Draper, “Missionaries from the New World: LDS Borderlands, Missionaries, and the Challenge of Redefining a Religion”
- Hicham Mazouz, “The Shaping of African-American Racial Politics and the Algerian Encounters in France”
11.45-13.00: Session 2
Genres and their Habitats, Habitats and their Genres
- Mona Raeisian, “New York, New York; the City, the Serial Killer and the Liminality of Consumption in Jeffrey Deaver’s The Bone Collector and the Broken Window”
- Lisa van Kessel, “What is Justice? Legal Conflicts in Zones of Liminality in Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy”
- Meike Robaard, “Father Nature: Masculinization of Space and Space of Masculinization in the Alaskan Wilderness”
- Panpan Shi, “The Triadic Little People in American Disaster Movies
13.00-14.00: Lunch
Second Round of Parallel Sessions
14.00-15.15: Session 3
Power and Culture; Or, the Institutional and the Arbitrary
- Erik Olsen, “Congressional Regulation and Oversight on the White House – Intelligence Community Relationship, 1973-1980”
- Liesbeth Hameeteman, “The Clean Water Act in Theory and Practice”
- Floris Heidsma, “Cultural Consequences of U.S. Military Presence in Okinawa in Recent Decades”
- Miriam Johanna Laufer, “Cultural Memory and Identity Formation: The Internment of Japanese-Americans in the US during the Second World War”
14.00-15.15: Session 4
The Activist, the Radical, and the Performer
- Maroucha Veerman, “‘Ladies, Now Let’s Get in Formation’: Understanding Activism, Empowerment, and Feminism of Black Female Popular Artists”
- Stefan Ionescu Ambrosie, “‘This Shit is For Us’: Solange and the Evolution of Black Body Feminism”
- Megan Griffiths, “Radicals, Conservatives, and the Salem Witchcraft Crisis: Exploiting the Fragile Communities of Colonial New England”
- Charlotte Knoors, “Renaming the Racist: How White Anti-Racist Students Unconsciously Keep Racism Intact”
15.15-15.45: Coffee
Third Round of Parallel Sessions
15.45-17.00: Session 5
Discontents Then and Now: Politics, Class, Culture
- Emma van Toorn, “Strange Bedfellows: The Remarkable Coalition of Rural Socialists and Language Federations within the American Socialist Party, 1901-1914”
- Jasper Gerretsen, “Pushing Back Against the Tide: The American Working Class and Republican Presidential Candidates in Times of Unrest”
- Genesee Powell, “Gender and Media in the 2016 Elections”
- Hannah Kooy, “Culture Wars Revisited: The Texas Curriculum Controversy”
15.45-17.00: Session 6
Utopia, Dystopia, and the Screen
- Maarten Arnoldus, “‘I’m a bit torn between revolution and finishing the miniseries I’m halfway through on Netflix’: Narrative Excess and the Reception of Critique in Mr. Robot as Reflected in Online Comments”
- Anne Wester, “The Big Apple: Utopian Discourse in Apple Advertisements”
- Maria Rozhdestvenskaya, “Paul Verhoeven’s Sci-Fi Trilogy Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers: Screening American Identity in Science-Fiction Movies from a Dutch Point of View”
17.00: Borrel