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Hemispheric Encounters

The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective

International Symposium, University of Leipzig (Germany), April 26 and 27, 2012

Schedule

This is the final program of our symposium.

Wednesday, April 25th

April 25th, 2012 (Wednesday)

6:00 pm: Opening of the Symposium
Opening takes place at the restaurant Centralapotheke
(Thomaskirchhof 12, see how to get there)

Welcome by the Organizers

Dinner at the restaurant Centralapotheke (Thomaskirchhof 12)

Thursday, April 26th

April 26th, 2012 (Thursday)

The following events take place in room 204 of Neues Seminargebäude (NSG) at the University of Leipzig campus in Universitätsstraße 5.

9:15 am - 9:45 am: Registration
(in room 205 of Neues Seminargebäude (NSG))

9:45 am: Welcome

10:00 am - 10:45 am: Vera M. Kutzinski: Against Exceptionalism:
Alexander von Humboldt's Hemispheric View of the United States of America

10:45 am - 11:30 am: Kirsten Silva Gruesz: The Politics of Practical Grammar:
Learning Spanish in the Early Republic

11:30 am - 11:50 am: Coffee Break

11:50 am - 12:35 pm: Raúl Coronado: Seduced by Papers:
Print Culture and Revolution in Early Nineteenth-century Texas

12:35 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm: Astrid Fellner: "Border Imaginaries":
Redrawing the Boundaries of the Early United States

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm: Markus Heide: The Hemispheric Frame and
"American" Travel Writing of the Early United States

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm: Coffee Break

3:50 pm - 4:35 pm: Astrid Haas: Mexican Travelers
and the "Texas Question," 1820-1850

4:35 pm - 5:20 pm: Gesa Mackenthun: Yucatan, Deep Time, and
America's Traveling Empire

5:20 pm - 5:40 pm: Coffee Break

5:40 pm - 6:25 pm: Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez: Temporal Discourses
about Latin America in U.S. American Texts of the 1820s and 1830s

7:15 pm: Dinner (self-pay) at the restaurant Café Madrid (Klostergasse 3-5)

Friday, April 27th

April 27th, 2012 (Friday)

The following events take place in room 204 of Neues Seminargebäude (NSG) at the University of Leipzig campus in Universitätsstraße 5.

9:30 am - 10:15 am: Wil M. Verhoeven: Trouble on the Western Frontier:
Sedition and Secessionism in the Ohio Valley, 1783-1806

10:15 am - 11:00 am: Barbara Buchenau: From Imperial Buffer Zone to National Fringe:
Rhetorical Battles over the Ohio Valley, 1760 – 1810

11:00 am - 11:20 am: Coffee Break

11:20 am - 12:05 pm: Stefan Brandt: The Algerine Dilemma: How North Africa became
a Focal Point of Post-Revolutionary Self-Fashioning in the U.S. during the 1780s and 90s

12:05 pm - 12:50 pm: Dietmar Schloss: Joel Barlow in Algiers:
A Case Study in Eighteenth-Century Orientalism

12:50 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm: Gretchen J. Woertendyke: Geography and Genre

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm: Hannah Spahn: Questions of Character:
The Biographical War and the Haitian Revolution

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm: Coffee Break

3:50 pm - 4:35 pm: Michael J. Drexler: West Indian Rhythm in
Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

4:35 pm - 5:00 pm: Coffee Break

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Final Discussion

6:30pm: Dinner (self-pay) at the Osteria Don Camillo & Peppone (Barfußgäßchen 11)

You can also view, download, or print the final program as a PDF file.

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