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Workshop 2018 in Saarbrücken

Workshop 2018 in Saarbrücken

During the UdS American Studies Graduate Forum 2018 "Cultural Borderlands: Literatures, Film, and Aesthetic Practices" participants in the DAAD Eastpartnership project "The Bio-Politics of Borders in Times of Crisis" presented their research and gave the following talks (in alphabetical order of the presenters' name):

  • Astrid Fellner (Saarland University), "Bordertext(ure)s, Minor Mobilities, and Trans-Americanity" [keynote lecture]
  • Oleksandra Filonenko (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University), "Constructing a Border Identity: Art of Vladimir and Tatiana Bakhtov"
  • Svitlana Kot (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University), "Dismantling Reservation/City Binary Opposition in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God"
  • Alina Mozolevska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University), "Political Discourse and Borders: Shaping the Border in Speeches of Presidential Candidates of the USA and France in 2015-2018"
  • Eva Nossem (Saarland University), "Weaving a Lexicographic Bordertexture"
  • Tetiana Ostapchuk (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University), "Rebirth of The Snake and Debates on The New Colossus: Maintaining a Large-Group Identity through Poems and Immigrants"
  • Oleksandr Pronkevich (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University), "Border and Frontier in the Film La Ley de la Frontera (1995) by Adolfo Aristarain"
  • Bärbel Schlimbach (Saarland University), "The American West as Borderland: Border Discourses in HBO’s Westworld"
  • Lena Schneider (Saarland University), "'Boundaries Do Not Sit Still': Transcultural Border Crossings in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist's Tale"
  • Oksana Starshova (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University), "The Borderlands of New York: Transformations of Migrating Consciousness"
  • Yuliya Stodolinska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University), "Border Crossings in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Books: The Interrelation of Metaphorical and Physical Borders."

The ASGF2018 ended with a roundtable discussion in which the project participants from Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv (Ukraine) and Saarland University, Saarbrücken (Germany) summed up their current research activities and gave an outlook for the upcoming joint activities in 2019.

During the following days of their stay at Saarland University, the project participants from Mykolaiv and Saarbrücken met for focused group discussions and fixed the timeline for the next project activities in Mykolaiv in 2019.