Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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Prof. Dr. Erik Redling

phone: +49 (345) 55-23520

Dachritzstraße 12
06108 Halle (Saale)

American Studies / Literary Studies,
Managing Director of the Muhlenberg Center for American Studies

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Program

Wednesday, April 16
19.00Informal meet-and-greet at Hallesches Brauhaus
Thursday, April 17
09.00- 09.15Opening Remarks (Erik Redling)
1. The American Renaissance Revisited (Chair: Hubert Zapf, Augsburg)
09.15– 10.15Opening Keynote
AESTHETICS
Jonathan Arac (Pittsburgh)

“Transatlantic Aesthetic Networks: E. A. Poe from Germany
to Russia to Chicago”
10.15– 11.00SERIALITY

Daniel Stein (Berlin)
“Transatlantic Politics and Literary Practices in the
German-American Mystery Novel, 1850-1855”
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 –12.15SOUND
Christopher Hanlon (Eastern Illinois / Harlaxton College, UK)
“Telegraphic Poetry and Transatlantic Noise”
12.15– 13.00PRAGMATISM
Ellen Redling (Heidelberg)

“Genteel Pragmatism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America”
13.00–14.30 Lunch at MoritzKunstCafé (Moritzburg)
2. Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics, Part I (Chair: Holger Kersten, Magdeburg)
14.30– 15.30Keynote
REFORM
Leslie Butler (Dartmouth)

“Varieties of Transatlantic Reform Movements”
15.30- 16.15ART
Erik Redling (Halle)

“Of Heroes and Mockingbirds: The Art of Translation in Nineteenth-Century America”
16.15–16.45 Coffee Break
16.45–17.30CULTURAL AUTHORITY
Julia Straub (Berne)

“Translating Cultural Authority: Reflections on the
Transatlantic Reception of Dante in the Nineteenth Century”
17.30– 18.15KNOWLEDGE
Maurice Lee (Boston)

“Exporting Literary Expertise: Standardizing Knowledge in Britain and America”
ca. 19.30Dinner at the Tranquebar (next to the Franckeschen Stiftungen)
Friday, April 18
3. Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender (Chair: Stefan Brandt, Graz)
09.15–10.15Keynote
IMAGINATION
John Stauffer (Harvard)
“Frederick Douglass’ Transatlantic Imagination”
10.15–11.00SPIRITUAL WORLD / OTHER WORLD
Werner Nell (Halle)
“Romantic Folk Culture and The Souls of Black Folk: Framing
the Beginnings of African-American Culture Studies in Cross-Atlantic Travelling Concepts”
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.15FEMINISM
Sabine Sielke (Bonn)
“Fuller, Foreign Correspondence, Feminism”
12.15–13.00LIFE WRITING
Julia Nitz (Halle)
“Byronic Heroines and Darwinian Types: Southern Women’s (Post-)bellum Identity Construction”
13.00–14.30 Lunch at MoritzKunstCafé (Moritzburg)
4. Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics, Part II (Chair: Gabriele Rippl, Berne)
14.30–15.30Keynote
RELEVANCE
Elisa Tamarkin (Berkeley)
“’Red Herrings and Other Irrelevancies’”
15.30–16.15AUTHORSHIP
Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg)
“The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective”
16.15–16.45 Coffee Break
16.45–17.30Peter Riley (Oxford)
“On the Death of the Author at the Transnational Turn”
19.00Dinner at Ristorante Bella Italia
Saturday, April 19
5. The Medium is the Message: Transatlantic Media Networks (Chair: Martin Meyer, Halle)
09.15-10.15Keynote
PICTURESQUE
Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt)
“Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque”
10.15–11.00ALLEGORY
Stefanie Schäfer (Jena)
“Transatlantic Kinship Between Colony and Nation: John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton"
11.00–11.45REALISM
Winfried Fluck (Berlin / Warsaw)

“American Realism in its Transatlantic Context”
11.45 – 12.15 Concluding Discussion

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