Friday, 08.02.13
Arrival from 14:00h
16.00 – 17.00h Introduction
Visual Approaches to the History of the United States
Gudrun Löhrer (Berlin)/ Volker Depkat (Regensburg)/Andre Dechert (Münster)
17.00 -18.30 h Section I Visualizing the Nation (Chair: Manfred Berg)
Remembering the Revolution – Constructing the Nation. Visual Narratives of the American Revolution in the Early Republic
Karsten Fitz (Passau)
Personifying the Nation: The Visual Invention of the American Presidency, 1789-1865
Volker Depkat (Regensburg)
Retaking National Moments: Interpictoriality, and Iconic Photographs of U.S. American Presidents
Udo Hebel (Regensburg)
18.30-19.30 h Dinner
20.00 – 21.30 h Keynote I (Chair: Gudrun Löhrer)
The Political and Historical Iconicity of the American Landscape
Lisa Cartwright (San Diego)
Saturday, 09.02.13
09.00 – 10.30 h Section II Strategic Visualizations (Chair: Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson)
“The Sweet Taste of the Other?” Looking at Cocoa Advertisements around the Turn of the 20th Century
Silke Hackenesch (FU Berlin)
Cultural Adaptation of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Blacks in Civil War Discourse
Julia Nitz (Halle/Saale)
10.30 – 11.00 h Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 h Section III American History and Film (Chair: Olaf Stieglitz)
Film as Source for Writing and Teaching American History
Massimo Perinelli (Köln)
Engendering “Good Old Fashioned Horse Sense”? Motion Pictures as Educational Ideology
Gudrun Löhrer (FU Berlin)
Seeing Chinatown: The Visuality of Space and the Tourist Gaze in Motion Pictures, 1910s-1930s
Björn Schmidt (Köln)
12.30 – 14.00 h Lunch
14.30 – 16.45 h Young Academics Forum – Workshops
for program see below
17.00 – 18.30 h Keynote II (Chair: Andre Dechert)
History – Television – Audiences: The Uses of Historical Audience Reception Studies
Aniko Bodroghkozy (University of Virginia)
18.30 – 19.30 h Dinner
20.00 h Business Meeting
Sunday, 10.02.13
9.00 – 10.30 h Section IV Imperial Gazes and the Visuality of Space (Chair: Anke Ortlepp)
Order Upon the Land: Native American Reactions towards Maps and Survey Marks as Visual Symbols of Imperial Power in the Northwest Territory, 1782-1795
Hanno Scheerer (Trier)
Blurry Encounters: Photography, Violence and the Colonial Gaze in the Philippine-American War (1898-1902)
Silvan Niedermeier (Rostock)
10.30 – 11.00 h Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 h
Section V Visual Politics of the Cold War (Chair: Michael Wala)
The Image Distributor. The Picture Service of the United States Information Agency During the Cold War
Reinhild Kreis (Augsburg)
“I may be poor, but I am somebody”: The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign in Photographs by Jill Freedman
Katharina Fackler (Regensburg)
12.30 h Lunch and Departure
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Programm Young Academics Forum (9.2.2013)
Saturday, 09.02.13
14.30 – 15.30 h
Workshop I (Chair: Michael Hochgeschwender)
Augustus F. Sherman´s and Lewis W. Hine´s Ellis Island Portraits – or: The Making of Americans
Sarah Sander (Weimar)
Dad on TV: Family Values, US-American Sitcoms and Public Controversies, 1981-92
Andre Dechert (Münster)
Workshop II (Chair: Jürgen Martschukat)
Kleidung und Identitäten: Mokassins in den Great Plains, 1840-1900
Christoph Laugs (Köln)
Indianness Sells' – Indianische Stereotype in der US-amerikanischen Werbung Evelyn Huber (Augsburg)
15.30 – 15.45 h
Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.45 h
Workshop I (Chair: Michael Hochgeschwender)
American Art Abroad: The Visual Representation of the United States in Germany, 1910
Susanne Scharf (Frankfurt)
The Atlantik-Brücke and the American Council on Germany - Two German-American Sister Organisations? Anne Zetsche (Northumbria)
Workshop II (Chair: Jürgen Martschukat)
Looking at a New Industrial Order: Motion Pictures as Scientific Instruments in the Works of Frank B. Gilbreth, 1910-1920
Helena Körner (Köln)
Street View: Mapping Ruins in the South Bronx of the 1980s Pete L'Official (Harvard)