Preliminary Schedule for the
2018 GSNAS Graduate Conference
Thursday, June 7
11:30 – 12:00 pm
Introduction by Frank Kelleter,
Director of GSNAS, and the Graduate Conference Organizing Committee
12:00 – 2:00 pm
WORKSHOP I – We the People? Revisiting the Politics of Change
- Laura Kettel, Freie Universität Berlin:
From Public Space to Private Place: Exclusionary Urban Planning in the American City - Andy Gawthorpe, Leiden University:
Trade liberalization, Progress and Populism (1968-2001) - Verena Reiter, Goethe-University Frankfurt:
Legislation With(out) Representation: Judicial Activism as Driving Force Behind Sociocultural Progress
Coffee Break
2:00 – 4:00 pm
WORKSHOP II – Bodies of Resistance: Sex, Drugs and Gender Roles
- Edward Belleville, Freie Universität Berlin:
The Other Little Blue Pill: PrEP on the Road to Sodom and Gomorrah - Kate Meakin, University of Sussex:
The Indeterminate Future of Reproductive Rights: Challenges to Narratives of Progress in The Handmaid’s Tale - Carly Crane, Goethe-University Frankfurt:
(Un)Doing the Privatized Self in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
Coffee Break
4:00 – 6:00 pm
KEYNOTE I – Jack Halberstam, Columbia University
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Trans*: Histories, Bodies and the Unbuilding of Worlds
6:00 pm
Dinner at the John F. Kennedy Institute for all participants
Friday, June 8
8:30 – 09:00 am
Early Bird Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 am
WORKSHOP III – The Perils of Enhancement: Visions of Betterment and their Regressive Potential
- Lee Flamand, Freie Universität Berlin:
Opening Pandora’s Cable Box: Rethinking the “New Golden Age of Television” - Matthew Blackwell, University of Iowa/ Technische Universität Dortmund:
Technological Progress and the ‘End of Editing’: Definitive vs. Digital Eds. of American Authors - Marius Dahmen, Freie Universität Berlin:
The Progress of Regression – Delineating Emancipatory Potential in Contemporary Self-Help(Lessness)
11:00 – 12:30 pm
KEYNOTE II – Jason Scott Smith, The University of New Mexico
Professor of History
American Capitalism and Postwar Development: The Perils of Economic Optimism in the long Twentieth Century
Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:30 pm
WORKSHOP IV – Engineering Progress: Perspectives on Capital, Consumption, and Crisis
- Lasse Thiele, Freie Universität Berlin:
Ceteris Paribus Progress? The Green Economy, Technology, and the Future of Work - Molly Laas, University of Göttingen:
Meat for the Masses in America and Germany: Dietary Progress in Transnational Perspective - Marc Adam, Freie Universität Berlin:
Liquidating Bankers’ Acceptances: International Crisis, Personal Conflict and American Exceptionalism in the Federal Reserve, 1914-1932
Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 pm
WORKSHOP V – Selves of the Future, Futures of the Self: Speculations on Humanness, Solidarity, and Emancipation
- Maxi Albrecht, Freie Universität Berlin:
Negotiating Humanness in a Zombie World – The Walking Dead’s Politics of Intelligences and Challenging Progress - Verena Baier, University of Regensburg:
Negotiating Utopia in Autobiographies of the US-Nicaragua Solidarity Movement - Sara Dasouki, Freie Universität Berlin:
A Woman’s Voice is a Revolution
5:00 – 6:30 pm
KEYNOTE III – John Collins, London School of Economics
Executive Director of the International Drug Policy Unit
Progress in U.S. Drug Policy? Cycles in Government Drug Policy Intervention