Friday, November 5th, 2004

14:00-14:30
Welcome and Introductory Remarks

14:30-15:30
Dr. Barbara Buchenau, Stanford University, USA
Prof. Dr. Helmbrecht Breinig, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Emptied Grounds: Mutual Mappings in the Americas

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00
Prof. Allan Smith, University of British Columbia, Canada

The Fact That Matters: Power Asymmetry in the Canadian-American Relationship and How Canada Handles It

18:00 Dinner

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

09:00-10:00
PD Dr. Thomas Fischer, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Intervencionismo, seguridad y soberanía nacional en América Latina, siglo XX

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30
Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Binder, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Perception and Paranoia: The Case of Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico)

11.30-12:30
Prof. Dr. Juan G. Tokatlian, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina

Una mirada heterodoxa sobre la autonomía en política exterior: una perspectiva desde el Cono Sur

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00
PD Dr. Silke Hensel, Universität Köln

From the ‘Menace of the Mexican Race’ to the ‘Threats of Hispanics to US Culture’: Continuity and Change in the Discourse on Mexican-Americans during the 20th Century

15:00-16:00
PD Dr. Stefan Rinke, Universität Eichstätt

9/11 in Trans-American Perspective

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:45-17:45
Prof. Deborah Cohn, Indiana University, USA

A Tale of Two Translation Programs: Politics, the Market, and Rockefeller Funding for Latin American Literature in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s

Video Conference (Senatssaal, Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstr. 15)

17:45-18:15
Concluding Discussion

19:00 Dinner