Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium

The Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium (RMESC) 4th Annual Conference on “Europe’s Diversity” School of International Letters and Cultures Arizona State University Registration BA 359 Friday, October 19, 2007 Morning Sessions
Business Administration BA 353 8:15-8:30 Conference Wide Assembly I Greetings and Welcome Joe Cutter, Director of School of International Letters & Cultures Deborah N. Losse, Dean of the Division of Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
8:30-9:00 Sander E. van der Leeuw, Chair School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
BA 353		BA 365
9:00 - 10:30	Session A–Slavdom’s Language/Literature & Identity – 20 minute sessions	Panel/Session B–French Cultural Myths & National Identity. 20-minute sessions	9:00 - 10:30
9:00-9:20	Fielder, Grace. University of Arizona. [Russian] Discourse Markers in the Balkans.	Frederick, Patricia E. Northern Arizona University. National Identity and French Cultural Myth in Film.	9:00-9:20
9:20-9:40	Farbishel, Tatiana. Arizona State University. National Folklore: Reflection of Russian National Identity.	Hess, Erika. Northern Arizona University. Re-reading French Medieval Literature: Parallels with French Contemporary Identity.	9:20-9:40
9:40-10:00	Šipka, Danko. Arizona State University. New Words and Old Identities: Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian Lexical Changes of the 1990s.	Mouaya, Joseph. Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy. Mythic France: An African Perspective.	9:40-10:00
10:00-10:20	Wright, William W. Looking to and from the West in Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia	Bauge, Nicole. Northern Arizona University. Study Abroad. Myth vs. Reality	10:00-10:20
Chair and Moderator: Lee Croft, ASU		Moderator: Patricia E. Frederick, NAU
Pause - 10:30-10:45 - Break
10:45-12:15	Session C–Who are the Germans?	Session D–Definitions of Identity	10:45-12:15
10:45-11:15	Keller-Lally, Ann. University of Northern Colorado. German Reunification in Film: Dismantling the Psychological Wall.	Feinstein, Wiley I. Loyola University, Chicago. Strong Jewish Identity in Contemporary Italy.	10:45-11:15
11:15-11:45	Rundell, Richard. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. Learning Lessons. Germans as Good Neighbors: Liedermacher Songs and Promoting Tolerance.	Leahy, Elise. C. Southern Utah University. Shame and National Identity in Works by Magyd Cherfi.	11:15-11:45
11:45-12:15	Steckel, Gerd. University of Idaho. “Leitkultur” or “Islam Conference” Questions on Immigration into Germany.	Stoenescu, Stefan. Independent Scholar. Sibiu’s Long-Standing Cultural Diversity as Topic of Lyrical Sequence by Contemporary Romanian Poet Dumitru Chioaru.	11:45-12:15
Moderator: Volker Benkert, ASU		Moderator: Mark Von Hagen, ASU
12:15-1:15 Friday Box Lunch MU 219 Navajo & MU 221 Apache
Friday, October 19, 2007 Afternoon Sessions
BA 353		BA 365
1:15-2:45	Panel/Session E–Asia Anglicized, Europe Asianized: The Case of Contemporary Britain	Session F–Conflicts in Identity	1:15-2:45
1:15-1:45	Castle, Gregory. Arizona State University. “Mehr Licht”: Bildung and Enlightenment in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia	Bebber, Brett. University of Arizona. The Panopticon Manifest: The Early History of Closed-Circuit Television and English Football Violence.	1:15-1:45
1:45-2:15	Codell, Julie. Arizona State University. Re-writing Diversity across Generations: South Asian Film and the South Asian Diaspora in Britain	Hejduk, Renata. Arizona State University. Violence as A Metaphor: Transgression and the Production of Space.	1:45-2:15
2:15-2:45	Solis, Ted, Solis. Arizona State University. “We’re British:” Deracinated Gamelan in Britain.		2:15-2:45
Moderator: Julie Codell, ASU		Moderator: Victoria Thompson, ASU
Pause - 2:45-3:00 - Break
3:15-3:45	Session G–Identity in Emigration	Session H–Clash of Identities: Catholicism Ayers, Rachel. University of Arizona.	3:15-3:45
3:00-3:30	Elstob, Kevin. California State University, Sacramento. A Decade after Hate: Representations of Immigrant Culture in French Cinema.	Ayers, Rachel. University of Arizona. Defending the Rebellion: Cardinal Goma y Tomas, the Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War.	3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00	Reuther, Jessica. University of Arizona. Neither Whores nor Doormats: Immigrants, Identity, and Social Activism in France.	Foster, David. Arizona State University. Madalena Schwartz: A Jewish-Brazilian Photographer	3:30-4:00
4:00-4:30	Weckström, Lotta. University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Going to school in Diaspora.		4:00-4:30
Moderator: Giuseppe Candela, ASU		Moderator: Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University
4:30 – 7:00 PM Dinner on your own―7:00-9:00 PM Film screening Social Sciences SS229