Paris Graduate Conference in American Studies

Conference organized by Nicolas Barreyre, Peter Marquis and Ixel Quesada.
April 18-20, 2008

The Paris Graduate Conference in American Studies will bring together an international group of doctoral students doing research on the United States from different disciplinary perspectives. This is the second time this group will be meeting, after last year's HCA Spring Academy in Heidelberg.

The goal of this conference is two-fold:

• to maintain and solidify an international network of young scholars talking across disciplinary boundaries on a common object: the United States
• to give the participants a forum, where they have the opportunity to present their doctoral research in progress and discuss it in depth with peers already familiar with it.

program

Friday April 18, 2008
EHESS (room 12, 105 bd Raspail)

• 2:00: Opening
• 2:30 – 3:30: Alexandra Ganser (U. of Erlangen), “Images of Piracy across the Atlantic: Transnationalism and Popular Culture, 1700-2000”
  Moderator: Izabella Kimak
• 3:30 – 4:30: Stefan Butter (U. of Tübingen), “Missing the ‘Evil Empire’: Cold War Nostalgia in 1990s America and Its Movies”
  Moderator: Stefanie Schäfer
• 4:30 – 5:00: coffee break
• 5:00 – 6:00: Peter Marquis (EHESS), “The Birth of a Ballpark, the Renaissance of a City: The Building of Ebbets Field and the Emergence of a Synergy between Brooklyn  and the Dodgers”
  Moderator: Lucas Richert

Saturday April 19, 2008 – Morning
EHESS (room 12, 105 bd Raspail)

• 9:00 – 10:00: Stefanie Schäfer (U. of Heidelberg), “‘I Was a Loose End’: The Return of the (Autobiographical) Subject in Contemporary American Literature”
  Moderator: Dana Mihailescu
• 10:00 – 11:00: Izabella Kimak (U. Maria Curie), “Behind the Bedroom Door: Conjugal Sexuality in South Asian American Literary Productions”
  Moderator: Ixel Quesada Vargas
• 11:00 – 11:30: coffee break
• 11:30 – 12:30: Dana Mihailescu (U. of Bucharest), “Performing the Gendered Self. The Stakes of Affect in Miriam Katin’s We Are on Our Own”
  Moderator: Alexandra Ganser
  

Saturday April 19, 2008 – Afternoon
ENS (48 bd Jourdan)

• 2:00 – 3:00: Nicolas Barreyre (EHESS), “Spatial Representations and Political Dynamics: The Case of Sections in the 19th-Century United States”
  Moderator: Eleanor Capper
• 3:00 – 4:00: Ann Marie Wilson (Harvard), “Gender, Rights, and Rescue: Americans and the Armenian Massacres of the 1890s”
  Moderator: Peter Marquis

Sunday, April 20, 2008
ENS (48 bd Jourdan)

• 9:30 – 10:30: Eleanor Capper (U. of Liverpool), “‘A New Frontier?’: Consumer and Women’s Activism under Kennedy and Johnson, 1960-1968”
  Moderator: Ann Marie Wilson
• 10:30 – 11:30: Lucas Richert (University of London), “Voluntary Compliance as Regulatory Policy: Inside the Food and Drug Administration in 1981-1982”
  Moderator: Nicolas Barreyre
• 11:30 – 12:00: coffee break
• 12:00 – 1:00: Ixel Quesada Vargas (EHESS), “‘Modernizing’ the Juvenile Experience? Culture and the Role of Youth in the United States’ Postwar Foreign Policy Making”
  Moderator: Stefan Butter
• 1:00: Concluding remarks