Conference: Constructing America | Defining Europe. Perceptions of the Transatlantic Other, 1900- 2000

Coffee/tea          08.30- 09.00

Session 1        09.00- 11.00 | Plenary session: A Transatlantic Culture? | Chair: Adelheid von Saldern | Room: Kerkzaal

• Edward Ross Dickinson | Modern Dance, Militant Americanism, and Teutonic Intensity: Martha Graham’s “Absolute Dance”
• Jonathan Dentler | Fashioning the World Picture: German Responses to Wire Service Photography, 1925-1936
• Rachel Gillett | Hip-Hop in Europe – a lieu-de-memoire or site of change?
• Vanessa Schwartz | Arrivals and Departures: The Jet Set as Image of The Jet Age

Coffee/tea          11.00- 11.30 

Session 2        11.30- 13.00

Panel 7  | Europe and America as Concepts | Chair: Joris van Eijnatten | Room: Grote Zolder

•  Peter Rietbergen | A library, a librarian and the USA’s monumental vision of the cultures of Eurasia
•  Ruth Hatlapa | Negotiating national identity in changing political landscapes. “Europe” and “America” as contested symbols in British and German media discourse 1992-2000
• Maria Fritsche |  “This complex continent”. The Marshall Plan propaganda campaign and the American visions of Europe

Panel 8 | American Culture in Europe | Chair: Jochen Hung | Room: Kerkzaal

• Egbert Klautke | America on the Danube: Austrian perceptions of American culture, 1900–1940
• Darina Volf | Traces of “Americanization”: American Popular Culture in Socialist Czechoslovakia
• Benjamin Poole | Constructing Americanness and Frenchness through Fast Food

Lunch                13.00- 13.30

Keynote 3      13.30- 15.00 | Kiran Klaus Patel: Reinventing America – Remapping Europe: The Interwar Years | Room: Kerkzaal

Coffee/tea         15.00- 15.30

Roundtable    15.30-17.00 | (De)constructing America? The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship | Room: Kerkzaal

• Mary Nolan
• Kiran Klaus Patel
• Jill Adler (Director, East-West Parliamentary Practice Project)
• Representative of the US Embassy (tbc)