PROGRAM
PRELIMINARY Program
THE WORKSHOP TIME SLOTS HAVE NOW BEEN ALLOTTED (see table below).
Room allotment will be announced at a later date.
Wednesday, May 27 |
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| 16:30–18:30 | Amerikastudien Editorial Board Meeting |
Thursday, May 28 |
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| 09:30–14:00 | Board Meeting |
| 14:00–17:00 | Registration packages available |
| 15:00–16:00 | PGF Get-Together |
| 16:00–17:00 | BIPoC Get-Together |
| 17:30–18:00 | CONFERENCE OPENING and WELCOME |
| 18:00–19:30 | Keynote 1: The Kinship of Loss, Shannon Gibney |
| 19:30–20:30 | Reception |
Friday, May 29 |
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| 09:00–10:30 | Keynote 2: Military Spouses Making Kin: Families, Friends, and Foremothers, Katharina Gerund |
| 09:00–13:00 | Registration packages available |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–13:00 | Workshops 1-6 (see table below) |
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13:00–14:30 |
Diversity Round Table |
| 14:30–16:30 | Workshops 7-12 (see table below) |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00–18:00 | FLINTA Caucus for Gender Equity |
| 18:00–20:00 | Dinner Break (self-paid) |
| 20:00–21:30 | Current Events Panel: Navigating the New Normal? Book Bans and Challenges in the USA |
Saturday, May 30 |
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| 09:00–10:30 | Keynote 3: The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin |
| 09:00–11:00 | Registration packages available |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–13:00 | Workshops 13-17 (see table below) |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch Break (self-paid) PGF Meeting |
| 14:30–16:30 | DGfA/GAAS General Meeting & Award Ceremony |
| 16:30–17:00 | Mentoring Meeting |
| 17:00 | Conference Closing |
| 20:30 | Conference Party: Yolk |
WORKSHOPS |
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| Friday, 11:00–13:00 | Panel Organizers |
| Panel 1: Kinship and Civil War from 1861 to the Present | Julius Greve Sascha Pöhlmann |
| Panel 2: Children, Childhood, and Critical Modalities of Kinship | Layla Koch Mahshid Mayar |
| Panel 3: Migrant Mother and Her Kin: Picturing Displacement in U.S. Visual Culture | Karsten Fitz Nicole Maruo-Schröder |
| Panel 4: Sideways Kinships: Counter-Hierarchical Relations in American Studies | Phillip James Grider Andrew Wildermuth |
| Panel 5: Adoption, (Re-)Kinning the Politics of Family in American Studies | Silke Hackenesch |
| Panel 6: Masculinity and Kinship: Intersections of Care, Social Justice, and Privilege | Nathalie Aghoro, Peter Hintz, Stefan Schubert |
| Friday, 14:30–16:30 | Panel Organizers |
| Panel 7: Uncanny Kinship(s): Planetary Encounters in the USA | Dominik Steinhilber Florian Wagner |
| Panel 8: Kinship as Relationality, Relationality as Kinship: Inquiries into Contemporary Life Writing | Stefanie Müller Katja Sarkowsky |
| Panel 9: Queer Affective Kinships in Contemporary American Literature | Lukas Hellmuth Anne Stellberger |
| Panel 10: Formed Under Pressure: Kinship and the Planetary Technosphere | Maxine Broich Laura Cwalina |
| Panel 11: Interdisciplinarity as Political & Pedagogical Kinship: MAGA’s Targeting of the Sciences and the Humanities | Michael Aaron Mason |
| Panel 12: The Scales of Queer Kinship: Contestations over (Anti-)Normativity | Gero Bauer Cedric Essi |
| Saturday, 11:00–13:00 | Panel Organizers |
| Panel 13: Narratives of Human/Animal Kinship Relations on Turtle Island | Alisa Preusser Stefanie Schäfer |
| Panel 14: Autokinship: Mapping Kin-Like Relations within the Self in American Culture and History | Katie Jacques |
| Panel 15: Transatlantic Kinship and Subalternity | Elena Furlanetto Anthony Chukwudumebi Obute |
| Panel 16: Remaking Kin with the Machines: Conceptualizing Relationality in the Technological Age | Juliane Gamböck-Strätz Ruxandra Teodorescu |
| Panel 17: Kinship, Community, and Belonging in Language Education | Silke Braselmann Ricardo Römhild |
