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DEMOCRACY AND DIFFERENCEIN THE “PACIFIC CENTURY”
A Conference hosted by the Institute for American Studies and American Space Leipzig
German-American relations broadly defined are increasingly influenced by developments in the Pacific space. For many in Germany and Europe “the rise of the Pacific“ portends a new situating of their place in the global commons that can involve their increasingly being “pushed to the periphery.“ The unfolding of the “Pacific Century“ reflects generally a multitude of exchanges and interactions that center importantly on the negotiation of concepts of difference and democracy or the opening of new spaces for the expression and practice of diversity. The place of the Pacific in the German and European imagination thus offers the potential to contextualize, complicate, and connect “provincial“ politics with global themes centering on difference, diversity, and democracy.
This conference seeks to bring together diverse scholars and a variety of other voices exploring the meaning of the trans-pacific in the context of trans-atlantic interactions and transnational American Studies. The bridging theme will be dialogues on difference and democracy as explored in diverse forms of expression, including literature, culture, knowledge construction, politics, economics, and the narrating of history. By thus “globalizing“ the “Pacific Century“ thematically, we seek to encourage a transnational and transcultural exhange that will help enrich a global commons debating the nature and articulations of democracy and difference. More specifically and in relation to American Studies, we seek to strengthen and broaden the exploration of trans-pacific themes among German and European scholars and other interested publics, as well as encourage theoretical discussions of transpacific studies in connection with transatlantic and hemispheric studies.
9-11 July 2015
VENUEDeutsches Literaturinstitut LeipzigWächterstraße 3404107 Leipzig
Richard Mancke& Barbara Hobbie Fund
PRESENTERS
Phil Clart, Leipzig University
Crister S. Garrett, Leipzig University
Alfred Hornung, Johannes Gutenberg University
Yunte Huang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Ji-Song Ku, Binghamton State University of New York
Anne Koenen, Leipzig University
Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt, Technische Universität Dortmund
Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Leipzig University
Manfred Steger, University of Hawaii, Manoa
PARTICIPATION
Please rsvp at [email protected] until July 6.
CONFERENCE GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
Thursday, July 9
Conference Registration
Conference Opening
Welcoming Remarks Crister S. Garrett, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Anne Koenen
Keynote TalkViet Thanh Nguyen“Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field”
Discussion ModeratorAlfred Hornung
Reception
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
8:00 pm
Friday, July 10
Conference Registration
Pacific ConsiderationsAlfred Hornung“The Hawaiin Factor in American Studies“
Discussion ModeratorAnne Koenen
Coffee Break
Workshop IDemocracy and Difference in Daily Life: Food Cultures and Pacific Spaces
KeynoteRobert Ji-Song Ku“Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA”
Discussion ModeratorPhil Clart
Lunch
9:00 am
10:00 am
11:00 am
11:30 am
1:00 pm
Workshop IIDemocracy and Difference in Academic Disciplines: Constructing the Pacific
KeynoteYunte Huang“Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics“
Discussion ModeratorGabriele Pisarz-Ramirez
Coffee Break
Pacific ConsiderationsIris-Aya Laemmerhirt“Shifting Perspectives: American Representations of the Japanese on Screen since 1941“
Discussion Moderator Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez
Reading and Discussion Picador Professor Lauren K. Alleyne, Picador Professor Catherine Chung, Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy Smith read from their work.
Conference Dinner
2:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
6:00 pm
8:00 pm
Saturday, July 11
Workshop IIIDemocracy and Difference: The Global Imaginary, and the Politics of the Pacific
Keynote Manfred Steger“America‘s Pacific Century and the Global Imaginary”
Discussion ModeratorCrister S. Garrett
Coffee Break
Workshop III (continued)
Lunch Break
Concluding Plenary SessionDemocracy and Difference in the ”Pacific Century”
Closing Remarks
10:00 am
11:00 am
11:30 am
12:30 pm
1:30 pm
3:00 pm