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65th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies
May 24—27
2018
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität BerlinDeutsche Gesellschaft President WELCOME—3
für Amerikastudien e.V. Prof. Dr. Philipp Gassert
Universität Mannheim
German Association
for American Studies Vice President
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Universität Passau President’s Welcome
Executive Director
Prof. Dr. Catrin Gersdorf With its 65th annual meeting, the German Association for Ameri-
Julius-Maximilians- can Studies returns to the question of how the idea of competing
Universität Würzburg public spheres within an open and competitive media environ-
ment has shaped and continues to shape American democracy
Conference Organization and society. As the organizers of this conference put it in the
John F. Kennedy Institute call for papers for the 2018 GAAS annual meeting, the “public
for North American Studies sphere” has rarely been understood as a single and unified
Freie Universität Berlin concept in an American context. This stands in marked contrast
Lansstraße 7–9 to the way many people in Europe still conceive of it. How we
14195 Berlin define and thereby create “publics” is a question of utmost impor-
tance in the contemporary world. At this point, we are living
www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/dgfa2018 through a“social media” revolution. It rivals earlier such media
revolutions that came with the rise of mass circulation dailies
during the nineteenth century, the introduction of broadcasting
in the 1920s, and the breakthrough of television during the 1950s
and 1960s. Yes, social media are now part of the daily routines
of billions of people. Yet, we need to remind ourselves that they
experienced their political breakthrough only about ten years
ago, with Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Its impact
on social ideas of “publics/counterpublics” has not yet been
thoroughly understood. We are faced with the question, for
example, of how a political environment, in which major decisions
are being announced “straight to the people” in unfiltered
#dgfa18 140-character text messages (“tweets”), will be shaped by a
continued competition of opinions, standpoints, as well as social,
political, and commercial interests. If history is any guide or if
the “Black Lives Matter” campaign and the present vociferous
resistance of young people against mass shootings give any
indication of a future to come, we should expect the rise of new
publics and counterpublics that will continue to challenge
“the powers that be.” While many (rightly) bemoan the rise of
“fake news” and “alternative facts,” the cool, detached, and
methodologically rigorous analysis of the dynamics of past and
present change is more warranted than ever. Such scholarly
pursuits are at the core of our mission at the GAAS. Therefore,
as president of the Association, I would like to thank the local
organizers at the John F. Kennedy Institute for putting together Philipp Gassert
Design: Studio Pandan
a highly intriguing program, for inviting many renowned key- Chair of Contemporary History
note speakers, and for providing a first-class venue for lively Universität Mannheim
scholarly debates. Moreover, I would like to thank the many
members of the Association who have answered the call for President of the German
papers for contributing to what I am sure will be a very stimulat- Association for American
ing 65th GAAS Annual Meeting. StudiesWELCOME—4 WELCOME—5
sphere is not a realm of unbiased exchange and unanimous
agreement. Rather, in the United States, the public sphere
becomes visible as a multi-agential, commercially embattled,
highly mediated, and eventually trans-nationalized aggregate of
publics and counterpublics. Numerous later discussions of
A Warm Welcome American counter/publics — from Nancy Fraser, Seyla Benhabib,
to Berlin and Michael Warner to Robert Darnton, Michael Hardt, Catherine
Squires and others — have further refined this self-conceptu
alization of democratic speech under the conditions of capitalist
mass media. Recent accounts frequently stress the deterritori
The “public sphere”— an idea with deep roots alized — though regularly Anglophone — nature of counter/public
in the European enlightenment — has always communication in global digital networks. In particular, the
been a contested concept in American culture communication of public trust — within political contexts naturally
and society. Almost by default, American inclined to distrust — has been a central topic in and for American
intellectuals, artists, politicians, and activists culture in the twenty-first century.
have stressed the non-unitary, diversified, and The Freie Universität Berlin, the John F. Kennedy Institute for
oppositional dynamics of all things public. North American Studies, and the Graduate School of North
While based on enlightened principles of free American Studies are proud to host this year’s Annual Meeting
debate and rational deliberation, the US of the German Association for American Studies. As the capital
Constitution in this manner already eschewed of Germany, with its vibrant public sphere, Berlin is the perfect
a philosophy of consensus building in favor of place to critically engage with the topic of this year’s conference.
a philosophy of multi-interested checks and We are all looking forward to fruitful and engaged debates that
balances. Not the expressiveness of Rousseau’s will continue the well-established tradition of open exchange
volonté générale but the procedurality of of ideas at our annual conferences. Welcome to Berlin! We hope
Madison’s extended republic stood at the begin- that all of you will have a wonderful time!
ning of American notions of democratic gov-
ernance. As a consequence, “public opinion” Irwin Collier
in the United States could never easily be (Dept. of Economics)
identified with some widely accepted “public Jessica Gienow-Hecht
good,” but has always been open to multiple (Dept. of History)
sub- and non-public (private, corporate, techno- Ulla Haselstein
logical, etc.) influences. (Dept. of Literature)
Thus, from the early days of the American Frank Kelleter
republic, competing interest groups and com- (Dept. of Culture)
Photo credits: Harald Wenzel (p. 4), Masha Conquest (p. 5)
mercial mass media (first newspapers, novels, Christian Lammert
and the theater, then radio, television, and the (Dept. of Political Science)
internet) have worked to pluralize public speech Harald Wenzel
and public action — and ultimately the notion of (Dept. of Sociology)
“publicness” itself. Numerous social, political,
and aesthetic developments throughout Ameri- John F. Kennedy Institute
can history can be (re)described against this for North American Studies
background as struggles for publicity, waged Freie Universität Berlin
against the power of elites to define or usurp the
national agenda. Despite their ideological dif- Planning Committee
ferences, two of the most important American David Bosold,
contributions to the theory of the public sphere— Thomas Dikant,
Walter Lippmann’s The Phantom Public (1925) Sophie Spieler,
and John Dewey’s rejoinder The Public and Alexander Starre,
Its Problems (1927) — concur that the public Birte WegeConference Program—6 Conference Program—7
WEDNESDAY FRIDAY
Teaching American Studies Lunch
• eßkultur @ Museum Europäischer Kulturen
5.00 – 7.00 p.m. • Henry Ford Bau
23 May 2018 25 May 2018
This is an informal meeting to discuss innovative
Conference Opening ideas on teaching, curriculum development
and cooperation with schools, teachers, and
Opening Remarks students. Everybody interested in teaching is
4.30 – 6.30 p.m. • Room 319 / JFKI Philipp Gassert 8.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. • Room 206/JFKI welcome.
Editorial Board Meeting President of the German Association Conference Office
of American Studies Reception by De Gruyter
• Room 319 / JFKI
MUSICAL INTERlude 9.00 –10.30 a.m. • Seminaris Presentation of the Handbooks of English and
Susie Asado Keynote Lecture American Studies and its newest volumes by
Catherine Squires (Minnesota) the series editor Gabriele Rippl (Bern) and the
Welcoming Addresses “Generating Creative Friction: Counter- volume editors. Light lunch provided.
Peter-André Alt Narratives & Ethical Imaginaries at Home
President of Freie Universität Berlin in Black Counterpublics” Buchpräsentation des Universitäts
Christian Lammert Chair: Boris Vormann (Bard College Berlin) verlags Winter • Room 340 / JFKI
Director of the John F. Kennedy Institute → p. 21 Werner Sollors, Die Versuchung, zu verzweifeln:
THURSDAY
Kent Logsdon Geschichten aus den 1940er-Jahren
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Ein Gespräch mit Werner Sollors, Andreas
10.30 –11.00 a.m.
24 May 2018
U.S. Embassy Berlin Barth (Verlagsleiter und Lektor), Frank Kelleter
Coffee Break (FU Berlin) und Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
MUSICAL INTERlude (Augsburg). Der Verlag stellt einen Mittagsim-
Susie Asado biss zur Verfügung.
8.30 a.m.– 4.30 p.m. • Room 319 / JFKI 11.00 a.m. –12.30 p.m. • Seminaris
DGfA/GAAS Board Meeting Award Ceremony Keynote Lecture
– U.S. Ambassador’s Grant for Young Andrew Gross (Göttingen) 2.00 – 5.00 p.m. • JFKI / GSNAS / SSC
Researchers in American Studies “Community and Contagion: Crises of Workshops 1–7
1.00 – 2.00 p.m. – Fulbright American Studies Award Liberalism in the Writing of Benjamin Franklin” → p. 10 et. seq.
Catered Lunch for – Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship Chair: Astrid Franke (Tübingen)
Board Meeting – John W. Kluge Center Fellowship at → p. 22
3.15 – 3.45 p.m.
the Library of Congress
– Best Article Award Amerikastudien/ Coffee Break
American Studies 12.30 – 2.00 p.m.
3.00 – 4.30 p.m. • SSC Lunch Break
PGF Get-Together MUSICAL INTERlude 5.15 – 6.15 p.m. • Room 340 / JFKI
The get-together aims to welcome new scholars Susie Asado PGF Lunch Meeting • SSC Women’s Caucus
to the Postgraduate Forum of the GAAS Early career scholars are invited to address
and to facilitate exchange between early career issues of their concern and to vote for the
scholars of American Studies. In a casual Keynote Lecture location of the 2019 PGF conference (free 6.30 – 7.30 p.m. • Room 340 / JFKI
setting, early career researchers of all qualifi- Michael Warner (Yale) pizza provided). Organized by the current PGF Diversity Roundtable
cation levels can learn about the PGF and “Fake Publics” team in Berlin (Helen Gibson, Anne Potjans,
meet other graduates and postgraduates before Chair: Susanne Rohr (Hamburg) Simon Rienäcker, Jiann-Chyng Tu).
the conference picks up pace. → p. 20
4.00 p.m. • Henry Ford Bau 7.00 p.m. • Henry Ford Bau
Registration Open ReceptionConference Program—8 Conference Program—9
SATURDAY 2.00 – 5.00 p.m. • JFKI / GSNAS / SSC
SUNDAY
26 May 2018 Workshops 8 –14
→ p. 14 et. seq.
27 May 2018
8.00 a.m.– 6.00 p.m. • Room 206/JFKI 8.00 a.m.–1.00 p.m. • Room 206/JFKI
Conference Office 3.15 – 3.45 p.m. Conference Office
Coffee Break
9.00 –10.30 a.m. • Seminaris 9.30 –11.00 a.m. • Seminaris
Keynote Lecture 5.15 – 6.15 p.m. • Room 340 / JFKI Keynote Lecture
Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt) PGF Meet the Speakers Todd Gitlin (Columbia)
“Thinking Publics: The History of a Promise The Postgraduate Forum invites early career “How the American Right Organized an
and a Problem” scholars to participate in a panel discussion Assault on the Others”
Chair: Olaf Stieglitz (Köln) with the keynote speakers of this year’s annual Chair: Katja Kanzler (Dresden)
→ p. 23 meeting. The event allows for open scholarly → p. 24
exchange between the speakers and early
career researchers and intensive discussion
10.30 –10.45 a.m. about the conference’s general topic as well as 11.00 –11.30 a.m.
Coffee Break the individual keynote lectures. Coffee Break
10.45 a.m.–1.00 p.m. • Seminaris 6.15 –7.45 p.m. • Seminaris 11.30 a.m.–1.00 p.m. • Seminaris
DGfA/GAAS Members’ Podiumsdiskussion: “Zwischen Concluding Lecture
Meeting Fake News und Fact Checking: Claudia Rankine
“The Racial Imaginary in Contemporary
Die Transformationen des American Art”
öffentlichen Raumes” Moderator: Sean Bonney (FU Berlin)
1.00 – 2.00 p.m. → p. 26 et. seq. Followed by a Book Signing
Lunch Break → p. 25
Info Session DFG funding and GAAS 8.00 p.m. • Domäne Dahlem
scholarships with Peter Schneck (Osna- Party
brück) — Brown Bag Lunch • Room 340 / JFKI
Brown Bag Lunch Digital Project Shorts
(DASI Forum) • Room 319 / JFKI
The Forum of the Digital American Studies
Initiative (DASI) will first provide an overview
of activities and developments since last year’s
annual meeting. Following this, scholars will
give short presentations on current digital
humanities projects in American Studies. At
the end, there will be the opportunity for an
exchange of ideas and further networking.WORKSHOPS—11
WORKSHOPS 1–7 5 WORKSHOPS 1–7
FRIDAY 2.00 – 5.00 p.m. The FRIDAY 2.00 – 5.00 p.m.
Ableist Public and Crip
Counterpublics • LIB
Simon Strick (FU
2
Organizers
1 3
Berlin), Olga Tarapata (Köln)
6
(Trans)National Counter/ When the Beacon Breaks:
Publics and the Politics of The End of Mass Media
Humor in US Culture and the Rise of the Niche Rumor, Gossip, and Reputa- • Room 203
• Room 201 • Room 319 tion in the American Counter/
Organizers Erik Redling (Halle), Organizers Torsten Kathke Public Sphere • SSC
Stefanie Schäfer (Erlangen) (Mainz), Sabrina Mittermeier Organizers Pierre-Héli Monot Early Mass Cultures
1
(München) (München), Florian Zappe as Counter/Publics
2
(Göttingen)
4 Organizers Aleksandra Boss, Kristina Graaff,
7
Early Mass Cultures as Martin Klepper, Simon Rienäcker (HU Berlin)
Counter/Publics • Room 203 Muckraking 2.0: Activist • Room 201
Organizers Aleksandra Boss, Modes and Media of Teaching Counter/Publics: Christina Meyer (Hamburg)
Kristina Graaff, Martin Documentary Revisited American Studies and Digital “Middlebrow Publics? Reading Gender in
Klepper, Simon Rienäcker • Room 340 Pedagogy • GSNAS (Trans)National Counter/ the Serial Press, 1910–1930”
(HU Berlin) Organizers Astrid Böger Organizers Ingrid Gessner Publics and the Politics of Mashid Mayar (Bielefeld)
(Hamburg), Christof Decker (Regensburg), Uwe Küchler “‘our work is done and now for some fun
(München) (Tübingen)
Humor in US Culture and play’: Personal Fictions of the World
Organizers Erik Redling (Halle), Stefanie Schäfer and (Counter) Publics of Childhood”
(Erlangen) Annabel Friedrichs (Hannover)
WORKSHOPS 8–14
“Drawing Appeals: Femininity and
Allison Stagg (Mainz) Feminism in Nell Brinkley’s Graphic Art”
8 SATURDAY 2.00 – 5.00 p.m.
“Political Humor in Early American Luvena Kopp (Frankfurt)
Caricature Prints” “Publics/Counter Publics: Billie Holiday and
American Studies as Mischa Honeck (HU Berlin) the Early War on Drugs”
10 13
Engaged Scholarship: Doing “The Senator and His Satirist: Carl Schurz, Carmen Dexl (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Public Humanities from Thomas Nast, and the Ethnicization of “Negotiating the Boundaries between
the Local to the Transnational Counter/Publics and the Electronic Agoras: Inter/ Political Humor” Consent and Dissent: Josephine Baker as a
• Room 201 Private Sphere • Room 319 Multimedial Dissensus and Antje Dallmann (HU Berlin) Cultural Icon, International Star, and Social
Organizers Regina Schober Organizers Karsten Fitz (Passau), the Public Discourse of “19th-Century Medical Humor, Professional Activist”
(Mannheim), Alexander Starre Johannes Voelz (Frankfurt), Islamophobia • SSC Authority and Lay Audiences in Narratives
(FU Berlin) Stefan Hippler (Würzburg), Organizers Elena Furlanetto by Henry Clay Lewis, Marcus Lafayette
Katrin Horn (Erlangen) (Duisburg-Essen), Frank Byrn, and Silas Weir Mitchell”
9
Mehring (Nijmegen) Guido Isekenmeier (Stuttgart)
11
“The (Counter)Public Burning: Cold War
14
Taverns, Salons, and Politics and Frontier Humor in Robert
Vaudeville Theaters: Space Public Feeling • Room 340 Coover’s Magnum Opus”
and Public Spheres in Organizer Heike Paul (Erlangen) The Prison as Counter/Public Carsten Schinko (Stuttgart)
Nineteenth-Century America • GSNAS “Fun Rides in Lethal Rush Hours?
12
• Room 203 Organizers Birte Christ (Gießen), Reflections on the Buddy Cop Movie”
Organizers Evangelia Kindinger Andrea Zittlau (Rostock) Carsten Junker (Leipzig)
(Bochum), Dietmar Meinel Transnational Periodical “Haunting the Monstrous President:
(Duisburg-Essen) Counter/Publics • LIB Reinstating High-Culture Notions of
Organizers Florian Freitag, Authorship in Contemporary Political
Tim Lanzendörfer (Mainz) Satire”5
WORKSHOPS—12 WORKSHOPS—13
4
Sebastian Jobs (FU Berlin)
“Just Rumors and Gossip? Uncertain
• LIB Knowledge from a Historian’s Point
of View”
• Room 340 Marek Pary ż (Warsaw)
The Ableist Public and Crip “The Social Dynamics of Rumor in Walter
Counterpublics Van Tilburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident”
Muckraking 2.0: Activist Maria Verena Peters (Hagen)
3
Modes and Media of Organizers Simon Strick (FU Berlin), “From the Whisper Network to #MeToo:
Olga Tarapata (Köln) Framing Gender, Gossip and (Sexual)
Documentary Revisited Violence against Women”
Organizers Astrid Böger (Hamburg), Sharif Bitar (Oldenburg)
• Room 319 Christof Decker (München) “Witches, Voodoo, and Down’s Syndrome:
Disability as Intersectional Feminism’s Blind
Ina Batzke (Münster) Spot in American Horror Story: Coven”
7
When the Beacon Breaks: “‘Define American’: Tatiana Prorokova (Marburg)
The End of Mass Media and Undocumented Activism 2.0” “Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing
Julia Faisst (Eichstätt) Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon’s Beebo
the Rise of the Niche “Homelessness 2.0: Brinker Chronicles”
Torsten Kathke (Mainz),
Organizers New Documentary Modes of Precarious René Dietrich (Mainz) • GSNAS
Sabrina Mittermeier (München) Habitats in Late Capitalism” “Assimilation as Debilitation: Incapacitated
Lee A. Flamand (FU Berlin) Sovereignty, Ableist Settler Publics, and
Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin) “The Intermedial Aspirations of Document- Bodily Refusal” Teaching Counter/Publics:
“When the Ticker Ticks: Telegraphic ing Dissent: Ava DuVernay’s 13th” Gesine Wegner (Dresden) American Studies and Digital
Fiction, Media Change, and Infatuating Anne Nassauer (FU Berlin) “Through Deaf Eyes“: Losing and Reclaiming
Communication” “Documenting Dissent — US Activists’ Public Space in Brian Selznick’s Wonder-
Pedagogy
John Munro (Saint Mary’s University, Capture and Representation of Protests” struck” Organizers Ingrid Gessner (Regensburg),
Halifax/Tübingen) Sarah Säckel (Stuttgart) Uwe Küchler (Tübingen)
“Fighting Fake News in the Age of “Bursting the Fashion Filter Bubble:
McCarthyism: A Counter-Public Sphere Activist Documentary Modes Presenting Alexander Dunst (Paderborn):
at the Heart of Empire” the Exploitation of Textile Workers and “Teaching Digital American Studies: Some
6
Sabrina Mittermeier (München) the Planet” Approaches, Tools, and Experiences”
“From The WELL, Actually”: How Partisan Babette B. Tischleder (Göttingen) Sebastian M. Herrmann (Leipzig):
Websites Flooded Public Discourse” “The Inconvenience of Loving Gaia: “Questioning the Authority of the Linear
Kay Losey (Grand Valley State University, MI) On the Style and Sentiment of Ecocritical Form? Leipzig’s Social Hypertext Reader
“Trump in the ‘Twitter-verse’: Using Documentaries” • SSC SHRIMP and the ‘Introduction to American
Personal Style for Mass Appeal and its Studies’”
Implications” Horst Tonn (Tübingen):
Stefanie Mueller (Frankfurt) Rumor, Gossip, and Reputation “New Formats for Digital Teacher Trainings”
“@AltNatParkSer and @RogueNASA: in the American Counter/Public Viola Huang (Passau):
Science, Nature, and Rogue Tweeting” “Teaching the Black Power Movement,
Sphere the Genre of Documentary Film and Critical
Organizers Pierre-Héli Monot (München), Media Literacy”
Florian Zappe (Göttingen) Joannis Kaliampos (Lüneburg) & Martina
Kohl (Berlin):
Katrin Horn (Erlangen-Nürnberg) “‘I Think They Are Irresponsible’: Teaching
“Creating a Public (from) Scandal: The Sustainability with (Counter)Narratives
Gossip Circles of Town Topics: The Journal in the EFL Classroom”
of Society (1887–1923)”10
WORKSHOPS—15
WORKSHOPS 8–14
SATURDAY 2.00 – 5.00 p.m. • Room 319
Counter/Publics and
8
the Private Sphere
Organizers Karsten Fitz (Passau), Johannes
Voelz (Frankfurt), Stefan Hippler (Würzburg),
11
• Room 201 Katrin Horn (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
9
Pia Wiegmink (Mainz)
American Studies as Engaged “Domestic Publicity in Antebellum African
Scholarship: Doing Public American Women’s Life Writing” • Room 340
Cedric Essi (Bremen)
Humanities from the Local to • Room 203 “Queer Memoirs on Interracial Adoption:
the Transnational Domestic Intimacies, Public Interventions, Public Feeling
Regina Schober (Mannheim),
Organizers and the Rise of Multiracialism” Organizer Heike Paul (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Alexander Starre (FU Berlin) Taverns, Salons, and Vaudeville Maria Sulimma (FU Berlin)
Theaters: Space and Public “‘Sir, she can hear you’: The Mute Woman Hannah Spahn (Potsdam)
Susan Smulyan (Brown University) in Popular Culture” “Public Feeling in Ida B. Wells’s Anti-
“What Can Public Art Teach the Public
Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Bärbel Harju (München) Lynching Campaign”
Humanities?” America “The Art of Privacy in the Age of Hyper- Dustin Breitenwischer (Freiburg)
Philipp Löffler (Heidelberg) Organizers Evangelia Kindinger (Bochum), Publicity” “Feeling Alone: Catherine Opie and
“Consequences of Academic Reading? Dietmar Meinel (Duisburg-Essen) Stephan Kuhl (Frankfurt) the Womanless Street”
Teachers Training, the German Public High “Private Language and American Literary Katharina Gerund (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
School System, and Tom Franklin” Laura Bieger (Groningen) Publics” “Public Feeling on the Home Front:
Gary T. Edwards (Arkansas State University) “Toward a Definition of Public Space” David Rosen (Trinity College, CT) and The ‘Waiting Wives’ of US Wars Abroad”
“Local Historic Knowledge Production and Jan D. Kucharzewski (Hamburg): Aaron Santesso (Georgia Tech) Elisabeth Bronfen (Zürich)
‘The Public’ in Jonesboro, Arkansas: An “‘A cannibal of a craft’: Ships as Liminal “Private in Public: The Fragment in Contem- “The Mimicry of Care: Representations
Academic’s Encounter with Contemporary Counter/Publics in the Works of Herman porary American Nonfiction” of Female Politicians in Homeland and
Community Theatre and a Historic Commu- Melville” House of Cards”
nity Lynching” Ferdinand Nyberg (Tübingen) Simon Dickel (Essen)
Katharina Motyl (Tübingen) “Spacing Out: Alcohol, Threat, and “ACT UP, Public Mourning, and Archival
“Engaged or Enraged? On the Disparate Antebellum Temperance” Activism”
Acceptance of the Scholar-Activist Mode Daniel Stein (Siegen) Suncica Klaas (Potsdam)
in U.S. and German American Studies” “Crime Scenes as Popular Public Spheres “Consumptive Economies of Public
Antje Kley (Erlangen-Nürnberg) in Antebellum City Mystery Novels” Commemoration: Mourning ‘Tiananmen’
“The Public Humanities and Literary Rieke Jordan (Frankfurt) in American Political Culture”
Knowledge” “With Eyes Closed and Ears Open:
Briann G. Greenfield (New Jersey Council The Phonograph and the Listening Public”
for the Humanities)
“‘Democracy Demands Wisdom’:
The Role of State Humanities Councils
in the American Model”14
WORKSHOPS—16 WORKSHOPS—17
12 • LIB
• GSNAS
The Prison as Counter/Public
Organizers Birte Christ (Gießen), Andrea Zittlau
Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich (Kiel)
“‘A counterproposal of unmanageability’:
Riots and the Carceral State”
Kristina Graaff (HU Berlin)
“Navigating the Counter/Publics of Prison:
Transnational Periodical (Rostock) An Intersectional Perspective”
13
Counter/Publics Jayne Thompson (Widener University, PA)
Aylwyn Walsh (Leeds, UK) “How to Listen: Collecting the Voices
Organizers Florian Freitag, Tim Lanzendörfer “Race, Space and Violence: US Prison of Incarcerated Women”
(Mainz) Cultures Doing Time between Prison and
• SSC Plantation”
Matthew Pethers (Nottingham) Katharina Fackler (Graz)
“‘An Executioner in the Civil State’: “Race and Criminalization in Austin Reed’s
Periodical Culture and the Reimagining of Electronic Agoras: Inter/ The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted
Social Authority in Jeffersonian America” Multimedial Dissensus and Convict”
Kate Lacson (Université Côte d’Azur)
“The Manileña Marked Woman”
the Public Discourse of
Philipp Reisner (Düsseldorf): Islamophobia
“Contemporary Christian Periodicals and Organizers Elena Furlanetto (Duisburg-Essen),
American Religious Culture: From The Frank Mehring (Nijmegen)
Christian Century (1884–) to First Things
(1990–)” Stefan Brandt (Graz):
Nina Weißer (München): “‘Fear of an Islamic Planet?’ Intermedial
“Radical America and Quaderni Piacentini: Exchange and the Rhetorics of Islamophobia”
Universitätsverlag
A Case Study of a Transnational Counter- Martina Pfeiler (Bochum): winter
public” “‘1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim’: Heidelberg
Michael Connors Jackman (Memorial Intermedia Interplay and Challenging
University of Newfoundland): Islamophobia in Anida Yoeu Ali’s Perfor-
“The Imagined Audience of The Body Politic: mance Poetry Clip”
Transnational Activism and the Horizons Brigitte Georgi-Findlay (Dresden):
of a Liberationist Counterpublic” “Inter/Multimedia Constructions of Islam
in Contemporary TV Series”
www.winter-verlag.de
Mahmoud Arghavan (Independent):
“Islamophobia without Islamophobes: sollors, werner
New Strategies of Representing Imperialist
versus Suicide-Bomber Necropolitics in Die Versuchung,
Syriana and Homeland” zu verzweifeln
Frank Mehring (Nijmegen):
“Holy Terror! Intermediality and Public Geschichten aus den 1940er-Jahren
Discourse of Islamophobia in the Graphic Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch
Novels of Frank Miller” übersetzt von sabine bayerl
Elena Furlanetto (Duisburg-Essen):
2017. x, 398 Seiten, 35 s/w Abbildungen.
“The Reluctant Islamophobics: Multimedia
Geb. € 24,–
Dissensus in Kingdom of Heaven (2005) isbn 978-3-8253-6650-6
and Agora (2009)”
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Claudia Rankine
campus.deKEYNOTES — 20 KEYNOTES—21
Catherine Squires
“Generating Creative
Friction: Counter-
Michael Warner Narratives & Ethical Catherine R. Squires is
Imaginaries at Home in
Professor of Communication
Studies at the University of
“Fake Publics” Black Counterpublics”
Minnesota. She is the author
of multiple books, including
Dispatches from the Color
Thursday 6.00 – 7.00 p.m. Friday 9.00 –10.30 a.m. Line (2007), African Americans
& the Media (2009), and The
This paper begins with a meditation on the “Rosa Parks House” Post-Racial Mystique (2014).
Michael Warner is Seymour H. The current political crisis in the US revolves around a media controversy. The house was saved from demolition in Detroit, Most recently she edited
Knox Professor of English at crisis: Twitter rivals official communiqués, bots plant invented reconstructed in Berlin, then returned to the US for a memorial the collection Dangerous
Yale University. He received news stories on social media to swing elections, television exhibition only to be suspended in a legal battle over its authen- Discourses: Feminism, Gun
his Ph.D. f rom Johns Hopkins networks brand themselves with rival versions of the truth, and ticity. Both sides in the battle over the house accused various Violence & Civic Life (2016)
and taught at Northwestern reporters who document lies are accused of peddling “fake constituencies in the US of “not loving Rosa Parks enough” which was a finalist for the
and Rutgers before going to news.” It has become clear in retrospect that the comparatively to do the right thing in her memory. I view the controversy as Tankard Award. Dr. Squires
Yale, where he served as chair stable public sphere of the twentieth century rested on the a means to incite what Hazel Carby terms “creative friction.” has published articles on
of the department of English. gatekeeping function of major newspapers and television news, I braid together stories of home linked to Harriet Tubman, Rosa media, race, gender, and
His books include Publics and a function they no longer play. Their model of broadcast-plus- Parks, and Erica Garner. I seek to illuminate and uplift counter- politics in many journals, includ-
Counterpublics (2002); The feedback has come to seem archaic. Social media, especially narratives of radical love and hospitality obscured in mainstream ing Communication Theory,
Trouble with Normal (1999); Facebook, have introduced new structuring principles in public narratives of these women’s contributions to Black counter American Quarterly, and the
and The Letters of the Republic: discourse, having to do with their own architecture and profit publics. I weave these stories with contemporary projects inspired International Journal of Press/
Publication and the Public model. The media infrastructure by which publics come into by these Black female icons to imagine means of repairing and Politics. Professor Squires
Sphere in Eighteenth-Century existence has fractured. In other respects, though, the combat rejuvenating traumatized Black selves and communities through is also engaged in a long-term
America (1990). With Craig of representation has been a condition of the public sphere ethics of radical love and care. partnership with Gordon Parks
Calhoun and Jonathan from its emergence in the early eighteenth century, the very High School and the Hallie
VanAntwerpen, he has edited notion of the public has always been an imaginary, and publics Q. Brown Community Center
Varieties of Secularism in a have always been more plural than anyone wanted to admit. in St. Paul, Minnesota. She
Secular Age (2010). He is also In this talk I will take a long view of media infrastructures as collaborates with teachers,
the editor of The Portable Walt grounds from which to project publics, to ask what might have students and elders to create
Whitman (2003); American changed as well as what features of the public sphere might publicly-oriented media that
Sermons (1999); The English simply be newly exposed. explore the history and future
Literatures of America (with development of the Rondo
Myra Jehlen); and Fear of a neighborhood. Professor
Queer Planet: Queer Politics Squires earned her PhD from
and Social Theory (1993). Northwestern University and
was Assistant Professor of
Communication Studies and
the Center for Afroamerican
and African Studies at the
University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, from 1999–2007.KEYNOTES—22 KEYNOTES — 23
Andrew Gross
“Community and
Contagion: Crises of
Liberalism in the Writing Sarah Igo
of Benjamin Franklin”
Friday 11.00 a.m.–12.30 p.m. “Thinking Publics:
In 1722, when Benjamin Franklin began publishing letters under The History of a Promise
and a Problem”
the pen-name Mrs. Silence Dogood in his brother’s newspaper, Sarah E. Igo is an Associate
The New-England Courant, Boston was in the midst of a small- Professor of History and
pox epidemic. The epidemic triggered a crisis of public health Director of American Studies
and a crisis of public debate. Over half the population of about Saturday 9.00 –10.30 a.m. at Vanderbilt University,
11,000 residents was infected with a disease that would kill with affiliate appointments in
fourteen percent of its victims; but for the first time on what would Can “the public” think rationally — or at all? The question, which law, political science, sociology,
become American soil, doctors began to inoculate — in the face has been posed insistently in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s and medicine, health and
of violent opposition. Silence Dogood mentions neither the election, has in fact surfaced periodically in the United States society. She teaches and writes
disease nor the inoculation debates. However, James Franklin’s from the early republic onward. But it especially preoccupied about modern American
paper played a key role in the controversy, backing the faction intellectuals and theorists in the twentieth century, when hopeful intellectual and cultural history.
that argued against inoculation. Those arguing in favor rallied prospects for popular thought and democratic deliberation Igo is the author of The Aver-
around Cotton Mather. seemed to clash with the imperatives of an increasingly special- aged American: Surveys,
My talk will analyze the arguments behind the positions, ized and ever more fragmented “mass society.” Even as opinion Citizens, and the Making of
exploring if perhaps the belief in the “invisible world,” so central surveyors, behavioral researchers, marketers, and focus a Mass Public, which was an
to the witchcraft cases, put Mather in a better position to under- Andrew S. Gross is a professor group conveners promised to reveal the mysteries of the public Editor’s Choice selection
stand the mechanics of contagion. I will also discuss Franklin’s of American literature at the mind once and for all, confidence in the people’s collective of the New York Times, and
evolving attitude towards disease, in particular after the death of University of Göttingen. His wisdom and intellectual autonomy plummeted. Indeed, as a host one of Slate’s Best Books
his four-year-old son Francis to smallpox in 1736. However, the latest book, The Pound Reac- of experts came to believe they knew the public more precisely of 2007. Her new book, out
main focus of my paper will be on the debates themselves, tion: Liberalism and Lyricism and scientifically, the less they thought of its capacities. This from Harvard University
and particularly on how opposing inoculation enabled a diverse in Midcentury American talk takes a wide-ranging, century-spanning view of what John Press in 2018, is The Known
group of publically concerned citizens to constitute themselves Literature, appeared in 2015. Dewey termed in 1927 “the public and its problems” not so Citizen: A History of Privacy
as a group by putting forth arguments about the body and its Other publications include the much in order to explore the purportedly problematic public as in Modern America.
maladies. As with contemporary “anti-vaxxers,” the anti-inoculators co-authored Comedy, Avant- the problem of how scholars as well as commentators have
may have been united more through their opposition to authority Garde, Scandal: Remembering envisioned and represented it. Reflecting on our technologies
than by any coherent political ideology. However, they began to the Holocaust after the End for knowing “the public”— as well as their recurring failures — it
understand themselves as a coalition and to articulate distinct of History; the co-edited Pathos will ask how we might better characterize the career of popular
visions of community, by opposing what they saw as sanctioned of Authenticity; and a guest- thought in the twentieth century, and in our own time.
attacks on the body and the body politic. This controversy over edited issue of Amerikastudien.
the benefits of inoculation and its meaning provides an oppor
tunity to explore the formation of publics and counterpublics at
the moment when the first daily newspapers began to appear.KEYNOTES—24 KEYNOTES—25
Claudia Rankine
“The Racial Imaginary in
Contemporary American Art”
Sunday 11.30 a.m.–1.00 p.m.
Todd Gitlin States Artists, and the National
Claudia Rankine is the author
“How the American Right
of five collections of poetry, Endowment of the Arts. She
including Citizen: An American is a Chancellor of the Academy
Organized an Assault
Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be of American Poets and teaches
Todd Gitlin, Professor of Lonely; two plays including at Yale University as the
on the Others”
Journalism and Sociology and Provenance of Beauty: Frederick Iseman Professor
Chair of the interdisciplinary A South Bronx Travelogue; of Poetry.
Ph.D. program in Communica- numerous video collaborations, In 2016, Rankine founded
tions at Columbia University, Sunday 9.30 –11.00 a.m. and is the editor of several the Racial Imaginary Institute,
is the author of seventeen anthologies including The which takes the form of
books, many of them touching The road to Trump has been in the making for decades. Since Racial Imaginary: Writers on a moving collaboration with
on political and cultural history the 1980s, the Republican right has been animated by revulsion Race in the Life of the Mind. other collectives, spaces,
(The Sixties: Years of Hope, against two social forces: nonwhite minorities and the knowl- For Citizen, Rankine won the artists, and organizations
Days of Rage; The Twilight of edge class. In the wake of the 1960s revolts, wealthy ideologues Forward Prize for Poetry, towards art exhibitions, read-
Common Dreams; The Intel- began to fund an ideological reaction capable of mobilizing a the National Book Critics Circle ings, dialogues, lectures,
lectuals and the Flag; The strong political arm. The counter-Establishment they engendered Award for Poetry (Citizen was performances, and screenings
Bulldozer and the Big Tent), as and brought to a focus identified a common enemy: the reforming also nominated in the criticism that engage the subject of
well as four novels, including the state. Over the ensuing decades, they aggrandized savage category, making it the first race. The name “racial imagi-
forthcoming The Opposition. capital; cultivated a revolt against science; demolished unions; book in the award’s history to nary” is meant to capture
demonized the press; and otherwise campaigned against the be a double nominee), the Los the enduring truth of race: it is
welfare state, the civil service, and independent thought. They Angeles Times Book Award, an invented concept that
refined the art of compressing their animus into rousing slogans: the PEN Open Book Award, nevertheless operates with
“Law and order,” “tax and spend,” “build the wall.” Meanwhile, and the NAACP Image Award. extraordinary force in our daily
the liberal-Social Democratic left failed to generate an alterna- A finalist for the National lives, limiting our movements
tive spirit. This was true for both the movement left and the Book Award, Citizen also holds and imaginations. Because
Democratic Party, both of which found it easier to identify with the distinction of being the no sphere of life is untouched
demographic segments than with a universalist or cosmopolitan only poetry book to be a New by race, the Institute gathers
alternative capable of generating a stable majority. The right’s York Times bestseller in the under its aegis an interdisci-
anti-democratic tendencies have become more pronounced and nonfiction category. Among plinary range of artists, writers,
more forcefully asserted. The right’s penchant for hierarchy her numerous awards and knowledge-producers, and
has out-organized the left’s penchant for decentralization and honors, Rankine is the recipi- activists. It convenes a cultural
anarchy. ent of the Bobbitt National laboratory in which the racial
Prize for Poetry, Poets & imaginaries of our time
Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and place are engaged, read,
and fellowships from the countered, contextualized and
Guggenheim Foundation, the demystified.
Lannan Foundation, the
MacArthur Foundation, UnitedPODIUMSDISKUSSION — 27
Podiumsdiskussion
„Zwischen Fake News und Fact
Checking: Die Transformationen
des öffentlichen Raumes“
SATURDAY 6.15 –7.45 p.m. • Seminaris Moderation Christian Lammert (FU Berlin)
Demokratien brauchen informierte Bürger und einen Raum, in dem Ideen ausgetauscht und
Politik kommuniziert wird. So wird Legitimität und Vertrauen in das politische System erzeugt.
Medien spielen hier eine ganz zentrale Rolle. Sie bieten zum einen die Arena für den Aus-
tausch von Ideen, sie agieren aber zugleich auch als quasi-vierte Gewalt, die die Regierung
kontrolliert, Regierungshandeln beschreibt und bewertet und so die Politik den Bürgern
vermittelt. Nur so können Transparenz und Vertrauen in die Politik erzeugt werden, die beide
zentrale Säulen demokratischer Gemeinwesen sind.
Im post-faktischen Zeitalter werden diese Fundamente in Frage gestellt. Fake news und
alternative facts sind zu Instrumenten der Delegitimierung konträrer Positionen und der
Medien insgesamt geworden. Fact checking wird als Gegenstrategie etabliert, um verloren-
gegangenes Vertrauen wiederaufzubauen, wird anderseits aber primär dazu benutzt, um
fake news und Lügen zu identifizieren. Das Vertrauen in die Medien und den öffentlichen poli-
tischen Diskurs wird so vielleicht noch weiter untergraben. Ein funktionierendes demokratisches
Gemeinwesen braucht einen legitimen politischen Diskurs. Kann ein solcher öffentlicher
Diskurs nicht wiederhergestellt werden, so ist dies eine grundlegende Bedrohung für die
Demokratie insgesamt. Im Rahmen dieses Panels sollen die Auswirkungen dieser Entwicklungen
auf die Qualität und Funktionsfähigkeit von Demokratien diskutiert werden. Expertinnen und
Experten aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen der Wissenschaft und der Praxis diskutieren
die Funktion von fake news und fact checking sowie mögliche Strategien zur Stärkung des
Vertrauens in Medien.
Diskussion in deutscher Sprache u.a. mit
Ingrid Gessner (Universität Regensburg)
Andreas Horchler (Redakteur, ehemals USA
Korrespondent des Hessischen Rundfunks)
Anke Ortlepp (Universität Kassel)
Alexandra Schuler (Stellv. Redaktionsleiterin
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