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2ND CENTER FOR TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES (CTAS) SYMPOSIUM
“Region, Nation, Globalization: Place in American Culture”
23-24 April 2015
The organizers would like to express their gratitude to Carlsbergfondet and the U.S. Embassy in
Copenhagen for generous financial support of this second CTAS symposium. Special thanks too to
our research partners at Brown University, the University of Manchester, and the University of
Mississippi.
DAY ONE: Thursday, April 23
9:00am: Welcome and introduction
Prof. Ulf Hedetoft (Dean of Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen)
Karl Stoltz (Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy)
Martyn Bone (coordinator, Center for Transnational American Studies)
9:10-10:40 (room 27.0.49)
Panel session #1: Location, self-representation, and transnational America(ns)
Moderator: Christa Holm Vogelius
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‘“Randolph Bourne and Raphael Hawaweeny: the observing of dis-placed Americans in the
early years of the twentieth century”
Charles Lock, University of Copenhagen
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“‘An Expansionist at Heart’: Cuba and U. S. Imperialism in the Autobiography of W. C.
Handy”
Ryan Charlton, University of Mississippi
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“Imagining Arab America from Detroit to Beirut: Miss Lebanon America’s selfrepresentation in 1955”
Martina Koegeler-Abdi, University of Copenhagen
10:40-11:00: Coffee break (NB: please note next session moves from KUA1 to KUA2)
11:00-12:15 (lecture hall 14.1.67)
Keynote #1: Matthew Pratt Guterl (Head of American Studies, Brown University)
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“From the Local to the Global: Transnational Lives and the Work of Celebrity”
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Moderator: David Brown (University of Manchester)
12.15 – 1:00: Lunch break
1:00-2:30 (room 27.0.49)
Panel session #2: Transnational Activism
Moderator: Martina Koegeler-Abdi
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“Spaces of Affinity: Community, Resistance, and Place in the Borderlands, 1913-1917”
Dave Struthers
Copenhagen Business School
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“The ‘free voice of the South’: Cuba’s Revolutionary Radio and Hemispheric Activism”
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
University of Mississippi/University of Copenhagen
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“The Viennese ‘Regenbogenparade’ as a Performance of America Abroad”
Leopold Lippert
University of Graz/University of Salzburg
2:30-2:40 Break
2:40-4:10 (room 27.0.49)
Panel session #3: Visual Representations of Places (and Anti-Places)
Moderator: Rune Graulund (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
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“‘A jungle for strangeness’: Jacob Epstein’s Hester Street”
Peter Leese, University of Copenhagen
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“Captivating the Imagination: Place in Caldecott Award-Winning Children’s Picture Books,
1938-1970”
Joe Goddard, University of Copenhagen
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“A Dead End on Lærkevej: American Suburbia as Transnational Anti-place”
Michael Madsen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
4:10-4:30: Coffee break
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4:30-6:00 (room 27.0.49)
Panel session #4: Atlantic Studies, Latino/a studies, and The Atlantic Monthly
Moderator: Martyn Bone
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“Territorial Waters: The Placing of Early Modern Atlantic Studies”
Laura M. Stevens, University of Tulsa
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“The Atlantic Monthly, Gertrude Stein, and ‘Faraway Women’”
Cathryn Halverson, University of Copenhagen
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“Latin@ Studies Abroad: Making the Transnational International”
Jennifer A. Reimer, Bilkent University
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DAY TWO: Friday, April 24
9:00-10:15 (room 27.0.09)
Keynote #2: Jaime Harker (Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Gender Studies, University
of Mississippi)
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“Women’s Liberation and Southern Migration: Bertha Harris, June Arnold, and the Southern
Lesbian-Feminist Avant-Garde”
Moderator: Martyn Bone
10:15-10:35: Coffee break
10:35-12:05 (room 27.0.09)
Panel session #5: The South outside the South
Moderator: Cathryn Halverson
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“Consuming the South Across Borders: Race, Transnational Nostalgia, and Uncle Tom’s
Cabin on Stage in Canada, 1890-1920”
Felicia Bevel, Brown University
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“ From rural Sussex folk to rural southern folk: transatlantic geographies of race and class in
Nella Larsen’s ‘Sanctuary’”
Martyn Bone, University of Copenhagen
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“The Red Rooster in Harlem: The Contours of Contemporary Southern and Soul Foodways
Virginia Thomas, Brown University
12:05-1:00: Lunch break
1:00-2:50 (room 27.0.09)
Panel session #6: Literary Geographies from Whitman to the Beats
Moderator: Maria Damkjær (University of Copenhagen)
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“‘A perpetual journey’: The Metaphysics of Place and Destination in Whitman’s Poetry”
Kasper Rueskov Guldberg, Aalborg University
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“Margaret Fuller’s Transatlantic Imagination”
Christa Holm Vogelius, University of Copenhagen
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“Everything Connects: Mapping Interpretation and Representation in the Literature and
Culture of 20th Century Los Angeles”
Joseph Morton, University of Manchester
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“Who needs religion when you have the desert?”
Bent Sørensen, Aalborg University
2:50-3:30: Reception to celebrate the “American Cultures of Work” special issue of American
Studies in Scandinavia and CTAS publications since the first symposium (April 2013)
3:30-5:00
Keynote #3: Ian Scott (Department of English and American Studies, University of
Manchester)
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“Projections of America: Transatlantic Filmmakers and the Dismantling of World War II
Propaganda”
Dr. Scott’s keynote will be preceded by exclusive excerpts from Projections of America,
a documentary for which Ian was the historical adviser and script editor. First screened in its
German version in September 2014 on ARTE in Europe, a new English language version-narrated by John Lithgow—is to be shown in the UK and USA during 2015-16 under the
auspices of PBS America.
Moderator: Joe Goddard