Thursday, October 6, auditorium O100
8.00-9.00
Coffee in Udsigten outside auditorium O100.
9.00-10.00
Welcome: Prof. Jørn Brøndal, Center for American Studies, SDU.
Talk by Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes, Europa-Universität Flensburg: "mRNA fiction? COVID-19 in/and American Literature."
Chair: Associate Prof. Anita Wohlmann, Center for American Studies, SDU.
10.00-12.00
Two parallel panels of students and former students
Session #1, conference room O95: Presentation of two recently submitted MA theses—and a report from Columbia University
Christoffer Lindahl Conroy and Mikkel Knud Rosendahl: “Sportification of American Politics: How Partisan Media Treats Politics as Sport and Divides America.”
Gulsabah Palinko: “Filmic Representations of Autism: Lessons to Unlearn.”
Isak Hüllert: Report from Columbia University (via Zoom)
Chair: Prof. Jørn Brøndal, Center for American Studies, SDU.
Discussant: Associate Prof. Anne Magnussen, Center for American Studies, SDU.
Session #2, conference room O96: Communicating American Studies.
Alexander du Summer-Brason Welford: “A Challenge to Democracy: The Forced Exile and Incarceration of Minoru "Sam" Araki.”
Andreas Brunebjerg Jørgensen (via Zoom from Ohio): “The Untold Story of Route 66.”
Johnny Nazier Cannon III: “Elegant Racism: Redlining, the Great Migration, and North Lawndale.”
Sabine Ansbjerg: “To Europe and Back: How the American Word is Passed in Denmark”
Chair: Associate Prof. Clara Juncker, Center for American Studies, SDU.
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes, Europa-Universität Flensburg.
12.00-13.00
Lunch break (lunch not included).
13.00-15.00: The Honora Rankine-Galloway Address
Welcome: Associate Prof. Per Krogh Hansen, Chair of the Department for the Study of Culture, SDU.
Public Diplomacy Officer Phillip Assis of the US Embassy in Copenhagen: American Studies Student Award.
National Book Award winner Phil Klay: "Literature in a Time of Crisis."
Chair: Associate Prof. Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Center for American Studies, SDU.
15.00-15.30
Coffee break.
15.30-16.00
Presentation by Associate Prof. Anders Bo Rasmussen and Assistant Prof. Tina Langholm Larsen, Center for American Studies, SDU, of the research project, "Transplanting Socialism: Women, Wages, and Whiteness among Danes in Chicago, 1865-1895."
Chair: Prof. Jørn Brøndal, Center for American Studies, SDU.
16.00-17.00
Lecture by Associate Prof. Martyn Bone, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen: “Black Southern Life and Death in the Plantationocene: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing”
Chair: Associate Prof. and Director of Study Rune Graulund, Center for American Studies, SDU.
Friday, October 7,audiotorium 0111
9.00-10.00
Coffee in Udsigten outside auditorium O100.
10.00-11.00
Senior Researcher Vibeke Schou Tjalve, Danish Institute for International Studies: "After the Age of Federalism."
Chair: Research Assistant Anne Mørk, Center for American Studies, SDU.
11.00-12.00
Meet the labor market: Q & A session with the members of the American Studies Advisory Board.
Anna Will, publisher, Falco Publishing Company
Hannah Zuschke, Programme Coordinator, The Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark
Kristiana Balling Peterson Executive Office Support, Universal Robots
Marie Mønsted, Executive Director, Fulbright Denmark
Mikkel Linnemann Johansson, Communications Team Manager, the Faculty of Science, SDU
Sidse Ra Gerdrup-Skov, administrative officer, the Danish National Police
Vibeke Musgrave, Public Diplomacy Specialist, US Embassy Denmark
Chair: Associate Prof. and Director of Study Rune Graulund, Center for American Studies, SDU.
12.00-13.00
Lunch break (not included).
13.00-14.00
Professor Sidney Milkis, Miller Center, University of Virginia: “The Biden Administration at Midterm: Presidentialism and America’s “Cold Civil War’”
Chair: Associate Prof. Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Center for American Studies, SDU.
14.00-14.30
Coffee break.
14.30-15.30
Prof. and Fulbright Danish Distinguished Scholar in American Studies Laura Browder, University of Richmond: “Americanizing Communism: the 1936 Presidential Election and Beyond.”
Chair: Associate Prof. Clara Juncker, Center for American Studies, SDU.
15.30-17.00
Midterm election roundtable featuring
Prof. Sidney Milkis, the Miller Center, University of Virginia.
Fulbright Danish Distinguished Scholar in American Studies Laura Browder, University of Richmond.
Associate Prof. Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Center for American Studies, SDU.
Prof. Jørn Brøndal, Center for American Studies, SDU.
Vibeke Schou Tjalve, DIIS
Chair: Associate Prof. Kasper Grotle Rasmussen, Center for American Studies, SDU.
17.00-1800
Reception.
19.00—
Party.
Register here: https://event.sdu.dk/americanstudiesfestival22
Registration deadline: October 3
The American Studies Festival is graciously sponsored by the United States Embassy in Copenhagen
