Moderator: Monika Kaup, University of Washington, USA

Winfried Siemerling, Sherbrooke University, Canada. "Figuring North (of) America: Multiculturalisms and Transculturalisms in Dialogue"
Lucía Aranda, University of Hawai'i, USA. "Translating America: A Question of Space over Matter"
Michael Barton, Pennsylvania State University, USA. "How Different is America from Here? The Evidence from Cross-National Psychosocial Studies"
Barry Laga, Mesa State College, Colorado, USA. "Weaving a Novel Nation: America as Transnational Community"

Chair: Juana Celia Djelal, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Theresa Saxon, Manchester Metropolitan University, England. "‘Barbarous Communities’: Herman Melville’s Typee and American Colonialism"

Felisa López Liquete, University of the Basque Country, Spain. "Herman Melville’s South America"
Catherine Toal, Cambridge University, England. "A Skeleton of Actual Reality": Fiction and History in 'Benito Cereno'’"
Christoph Keitel, "The Fidele's Journey into the Night: A Contestation of the (Foolish?) American Dream," Erlangen University, Germany

Session leader: Armin Paul Frank, University of Goettingen, Germany

Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine, USA. "Chicano Literature Between English-American Expectations and the Concerns of Contemporary Mexican Literature"
Kirsten Twelbeck, University of Hanover, Germany. "Ty Pak: Korean-American Literature as 'Guilt Payment'"
Armin Paul Frank, University of Goettingen, Germany. "'Borderline Cases': Internal Internationality in U.S.-American Literary Culture"

Moderator: Emory Elliott, University of California at Riverside, USA
Joseph Heathcott, St. Louis University, USA. "Global America: Moral Geographies and Metaphors of Scale in American Studies"

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College, USA. "Novus Ordo Seclorum: Cyberspace and the New World Order in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon"
Paul Ashdown, University of Tennesee, USA. "Letter from America: The Online Soapbox as a Forum for Public Intellectuals"

Moderator: Juan Francisco Maura, University of Vermont, USA

Juan Francisco Maura, University of Vermont, USA. "The Other Western Liberal Traditions of America: Not Everything Came on the Mayflower"

Amy Nathan, University of Texas, USA. "Finding America through 'Resurrection City': The Poor People's Campaign as a Communal Struggle for Economic Justice"

Matthew Wittmann, University of Michigan, USA. "Dreams in Paris, Troubles in America: May '68 and the American New Left"

Elizabeth Kolmer, Saint Louis University, USA. "The Influence of Religion on Culture: The Catholic Church's Participation in the 1930s Depression in the United States"

Chair: Anita Patterson, English, Boston University, USA

Patricia Hills, Boston University, USA. "African-American Artists and the Cubist Collage Aesthetic: Reappropriation and Transformation in the Art of Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Benny Andrews"

Allison Blakely, Boston University, USA. "Cultural-Political Exchanges between Europe and the African Diaspora in the Americas in the Early Twentieth Century"

Laurence Breiner, Boston University, USA. "Yeats and the Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean"

Chair: Juana Celia Djelal, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Cinzia Schiavini, University of Milan, Italy. "Is It Down in Any Map? Space and American Symbolism in Melville’s Typee and Omoo"

Gert Morreel, University of Antwerp, Belgium. "Objects of Contention: Memorabilia and Melville’s Critique of America in Redburn and Pierre, or The Ambiguities"

Leyla Ercan, University of Erlangen, Germany. "Becoming American: A Deleuzian Reading of Melville"

Christoph Ribbat, University of Bonn, Germany. "Hunting High and Low: Moby-Dick On and Off Campus"

Session leader: Armin Paul Frank, University of Goettingen, Germany

Hermann Wellenreuther, University of Goettingen, Germany. "'Enclave' and 'Exclave' on the North American Frontier: schonbrunn and whelik thuppek"

Carmen Birkle, University of Mainz, Germany, and University of Vienna, Austria. "Home away from Home: The Construction of Germany and America in Elsie Songmaster's 'The lese-majeste of Hans Heckendorn' (1905)"

Round table: Historical and literary approaches to non-English Enclaves/Exclaves

Moderator: Deborah Cohn, Indiana University, USA

Justin Read, University at Buffalo, USA. "Antropofagismo and the 'Cannibal Logic' of Inter-American Studies"

Sonia Torres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. "Passing Over: Diaspora, 'Terrorists' and Writers in Works by Philip Roth and Carlos Heitor Cony"

Pedro García-Caro, King's College, London, England. "Damnosa Hereditas: Sorting the National Will in Fuentes' La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49"

Moderator: Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Kathleen Haney, University of Houston Downtown, USA. "Is Truth Defunct?"
Bernd Klahn, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany, "True Ethics: American Morality in (Post)Modern Times"
Krista Vogelberg, University of Tartu, Estonia. "American Influence on the Dominant Value Systems in Post-Socialist Europe"
Andreas Hess, University College Dublin, Ireland. "'The Social' and 'the Political' Revisited: A Comparison of Hannah Arendt and Judith N. Shklar's Writings on America"

Chair: Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Denise Galarza Sepúlveda, Lafayette College, USA. "The Economics of Identity in the Villa Imperial de Potosí"

Steven Thomas, Pennsylvania State University, USA. "The Meaning of Liberty in Mercantilist Culture"

Mark Hanna, Harvard University, USA. "Captain Quelch’s Paradox: Piracy and the Colonial Currency Crisis, 1680-1740"

Comment: Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Session leader: Deborah Cohn, Indiana University, USA

Deborah Cohn, Indiana University, USA. "Retracing The Lost Steps: The Cuban Revolution, the Cold War and Publishing Alejo Carpentier in the U.S."

George Handley, Brigham Young University, USA. "Neruda's Whitman"

Jon Smith, Mississippi State University, USA. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the Canon of the Americas"

Martyn Bone, University of Nottingham, England. "Transnationalism and the Future of Southern Literary Studies"

Chair: Patricia Hills, Art History, Boston University, USA

Roy Grundmann, Boston University, USA. "Why Hollywood Went Pop: Midnight Cowboy, Warhol’s Factory, and the Late Sixties Challenges of Socially Progressive American Cinema"

Kim Sichel, Boston University, USA. "American Documentary Photography in the 1970s: Iconicity in Lee Friedlander’s The American Monument"

Session leader: Karen Young, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University, USA

Karen Young, New York University, USA.

Jill Lane, Ohio State University, USA.
Respondent: Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston, USA.

Moderator: Susan Castillo, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Robin Hanson, Saint Louis University, USA. "Withstanding America's Greatest Foreign Threat: At What Cost?"

Saloua Chérif, University of Tunis, Tunisia. "Arab Americans in Post 9/11: At Home and Far Away"

Session leader: Donald Pease, Dartmouth College, USA
Paul Giles, Oxford University, England

Donald Pease, Dartmouth College, USA

Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Chair, Peter W. Williams, Miami University, USA

Peter W. Williams, Miami University, USA. "Is the American Religious Experience Exceptional?"

William Sachs, The Episcopal Church Foundation, USA. "Can the Gap Be Bridged? The Culture War That May Split the Anglican Community"

Mary Kupiec Cayton, Miami University, USA. "Cosmopolitan Imperialism? Paradoxes of Contemporary Approaches to Spirituality in the United States"

Moderator: Cristina Giorcelli, University of Rome, Italy

Adam Miyashiro, Pennsylvania State University, USA. "Reading and Writing America before America: Critical Circumscriptions of the Medieval Norse Vinland Sagas"

Patricia Roylance, Stanford University, USA. "'Odds in the Blood': U.S. American Nationalism and Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic"

Henry Wasser and Solidelle Wasser, City University of New York, USA. "Veblen and The Great Gatsby"

Tatsushi Narita, Nagoya City University, Japan. "How Far is T.S. Eliot from Here?: The Would-Be Poet and His Imagined World of Polynesian Matahiva"

Moderator: George Handley, Brigham Young University, USA

Amporn Srisermbhok, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand. "Approaches to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman: An Exploration of the Female Protagonist's Search for Identity"

Liedeke Plate, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. "'Americans Are from Mars, Europeans Are from Venus': Gender, Culture and the Reception of Virginia Woolf"

Elana Gomel and Milette Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel. "Uncle Tom's Travels"

Moderator: Ileana Rodríguez, Ohio State University, USA

Eric L. Payseur, University of Wyoming, USA. "Gornicy and Other Poles' Search for Identities in Wyoming (1910-1930)"

Jennifer Gully, University of California at Los Angeles, USA. "The America of Other Languages: Multilingualism in New and Old Immigrant Societies"

Helen McClure, American University, USA. "How Far is the Canadian Border from America? A Case Study in Racial Profiling"

Moderator: Joao Ferreira Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Paul Giles, Oxford University, England. "Postmodernist Fiction and the Politics of Traversal"
Mithilesh K. Pandey, Purvanchal University, India, "Modern American Theatre and Tennessee Williams"
Olga Leontovich, Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, and Thomas Heed, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. "American and Russian Identities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective"

Moderator: Ramon Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego, USA
Gavin James Campbell, Doshisha University, Japan. "Buried Alive in the Blues: Janis Joplin and the Souls of White Folk"

Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. "'Feels like Goin' Home': African American Music on the Road"

Alex Seago, Richmond, The American International University, London. England. "The Kraftwerk-Effekt: Towards an Analysis of the Deterritorialization of Pop in the 21st Century"

Kristin Solli, University of Iowa, USA. "I Hear American Playing: Jazz, Country & Western, and the Politics of Genre in Norway"

Moderator: Manuel Broncano, University of León, Spain
Anita Patterson, Boston University, USA. "Hemispheric Modernism: T. S. Eliot, St.-John Perse, and the Whitmanian Poetics of the Frontier"
Bonnie Costello, Boston University, USA. "Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil: Questions of Identity, Questions of Travel"
John Matthews, Boston University, USA. "Faulkner’s New World Baroque"

Moderator: George Handley, Brigham Young University, USA

Helena Buescu, University of Lisbon, Portugal "How Far is Modernity from Here (Brazil, Portugal): Two Novels in Portuguese"

Jerry Varsava, University of Alberta, Canada. "The End of History? Contemporary World Fiction and American Ideologemes"

Amaryll Chanady, University of Montreal, Canada. "Ex-centric Positionalities: From Mimicry to Exile"

Moderator: Ileana Rodríguez, Ohio State University, USA

Keiko Sugiyama, Keisen University, Japan. "A Nurse in the 'Orient'"

Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware, USA. "Whiteness and the Working Class: The Chinese Roundups in California and the Contradictory Rhetorics of Labor"

Markha G. Valenta, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Re-Membering America: Preliminary Remarks on Exile and Method in Richard Wright, Américo Castro, and C.L.R. James"

Session leaders: Dorothea Löbbermann, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Germany; Iping Liang, Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Camilla Fojas, DePaul University, USA. "Schizopolis: Border Cinema and the Global City (of Angels)"

Iping Liang, Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. "The Latitude of the City: When Asian Americans Meet Latinos"

Marina Peterson, University of Chicago, USA. "All the World’s in L.A.: Public Concerts in the Global City"

Markku Salmela, University of Tampere, Finland. "New York City as America: Examples from Auster and DeLillo."

Dorothea Löbbermann, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, Germany. "Transient Figures in New York: Tourists and Street People"

Chair: Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Silvia Navia Méndez-Bonito, Webster University, USA. "Velasco’s Natural History: Differentiating the Kingdom of Quito"

Jerry M. Williams, West Chester University, USA. "Creole Identity in Eighteenth-Century Peru: Race and Ethnicity"

Susan Castillo, University of Glasgow, "Robert Rogers's Ponteach and the Negotiation of Creole Identity in New England"

Comment: Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Moderator: Georg Leidenberger, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Huron University College, Western Ontario, Canada. "Empathy for a Rogue State? A Canadian Perspective"
Georg Leidenberger, Universidad Aut—noma Metropolitana, Mexico. "Exploring the Past of the 'Other': The Practice of U.S. History in Mexico"
Respondents:
Maureen Flanagan, Michigan State University, USA
Jan Reiff, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Chairs: Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Gönül Pultar, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Bill Boelhower, University of Padua, Italy

Jerzy Durczak, University of Lublin, Poland

Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Alfred Hornung, University of Mainz, Germany

Maria Lauret, University of Sussex, England

Gönül Pultar, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Session leader: William A. Nericcio, San Diego State University, USA

P. Ryan Schneider, Purdue University, USA. "Sex and the Race Man: Interracial Relationships and Black Women in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater"
Michael Ryan, Northeastern University "Drawing the Color Line: Racial Abjection and the Making of a White Republic in D. W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation'"

William A. Nericcio, San Diego State University, USA. "Incestuous Progeny: Discreet Case Histories Documenting the Evolving Relationship of Word and Image in 20^th and 21^st Century American Literature, Film, Photography, and Art"

Chair, Steven Thomas, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Meg Pearson, University of Maryland, USA. "Renaissance Reading Practices and Un-commonplaces: Utopia and the Forms of America"

Antonis Balasopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus. "Incalculable Distance: Utopia, the 'New World,' and the Poetics of Deterritorialization"

Albena Bakratcheva, New Bulgarian University, Sofia. "Locating the American Voice: Space Relation as Self-Identification in H. D. Thoreau's Vision"

Djelal Kadir, President, IASA, "Defending America against Its Devotees"
Introduced by Sonia Torres, Vice President, IASA
Respondent: Amy Kaplan, President-elect, U.S. ASA

Moderator: Amaryll Chanady, University of Montreal, Canada

Carine Mardorossian, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. "Rewriting the Americas: Differentiated Aesthetics in Julia Alvarez's Yo! and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory"

Katka Prajznerová, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. "The Speaking Landscape of Haida Gwaii: 'Emotional Memory' and Personal Transformation in Amanda Hale's Sounding the Blood"

Session leader: Barbara Alfano, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Raymond Richards, University of Waikato, New Zealand. "Go to the Maoris"
Barbara Alfano, Pennsylvania State University, USA. "Back Home: The Space of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film"

Rodney Stephens, St. Louis University, USA. "Salman Rushdie’s America"

Annie Janeiro Randall, Bucknell University, USA. "Exotica Americana: Constructing the Other in Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West"

Moderator: Loes Nas, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Amy Spellacy, University of Iowa, USA. "Creating a Hemispheric Neighborhood in the Americas: The Metaphor of the Good Neighbor in U.S. Popular, Political and Literary Discourse, 1928-1948"

Yasemin Alptekin-Oguzertem, Bilkent University, Turkey. "How Far Is America from Turkey in War and Peace?"
J.P. Brits, University of South Africa, South Africa. "The U.S. State Department's Eyes and Ears in Apartheid South Africa, 1948-53"

Moderator: Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston, USA

Claudia Lucotti, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. "¿Dónde es aquí?: A Mexican Reading of Margaret Atwood´s Poetics of Place"

Rosario Faraudo, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. "Willa Cather's Deep Southwest"

Irene Artigas, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. "The In-Between Space: Ekphrasis and Translation in Octavio Paz and Elizabeth Bishop's 'Objects and Apparitions'"

Julia Constantino, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. "Spaces of Memory: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir."

Nair Anaya, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. "From Cricket Ground to Cathedral: Syncretism and Identity in Modern Caribbean and Mexican Thought"

Session leader: Susan Manning, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Maureen McLane, Harvard University, USA

Ann Rowland, Harvard University, USA

Penny Fielding, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Susan Manning, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Moderator: Sonia Torres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Sabine Haenni, Cornell University, USA. "Hollywood's Image of the(Immigrant) Nation during World War I"

Megan Feeney, University of Minnesota, USA. "Hollywood Goes to Havana: U.S. Cinema and Revolutionary Cuban Politics"

Kun Jong Lee, Korea University, Korea. "Images of Korean Americans in American Film"

Session leader: Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel Aviv University, Israel. "Pronouncing Difference: Accent in Jewish American Writing"

Martha Cutter, Kent State University, USA. "Malinche’s Legacy: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Chicano/a Literature"

Joshua Miller, University of Michigan, USA. "Radical Multilingual Narrative and the Refusal of Translation: Teresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s

Moderator: Virginia Dominguez, University of Iowa, USA
Carissa Turner, Pennsylvania State University, USA. "Transcendence and Transculturation in Hymns Used by Eighteenth-Century Missionaries among Native Americans"

Ana Maria Mauad, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. "America Is Here: A Study of the Cultural Influence of the U.S. on Brazilian Daily Life (1930-1960)"

Klaus Heissenberger, University of Vienna, Austria. "'America--if you only believed me how much we miss you,' or: The Disappearance of 'America' in Austrian Popular Culture"

Edouard Glissant, Martinique, "The Politics of Diversity and the Poetics of Mondialité"
Introduced by Theo D'haen, Executive Director, IASA

Moderator: Amaryll Chanady, University of Montreal, Canada

Leena Eilitta, Helsinki University, Finland. "Annie Dillard's Feminist Voice"

Helen M. Dennis, University of Warwick, England. "Homing In: The Critical/Creative Transformation of a Genre by Native American Writers"

Jaroslav Kusnír, University of Presov, Slovakia. "Ethnicity and (Post)modernism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and L.M. Silko's Ceremony"

Chair: Bart Eeckhout, Ghent University and Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium.

Jaap Kooijman, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "We don’t have violence and fat people here! Teaching American Studies in Amsterdam South-East"

Milena Katsarska, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria. "(America Is) NOT HERE: A Letter to/from America"

Duco van Oostrum, University of Sheffield, England "‘Not Here’: America’s Game and The Shot Not Heard Around the World"

Alex Seago, Richmond, the American International University, England. "‘aving it large: British Interpretations of the Music of Black Detroit, 1960-1990"

Jude Davies, King Alfred’s College, England. "Three Kings and Twenty-Two Students, or How Far Is Baghdad from Here?"

Moderator: Heinz Ickstadt, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Tom I. Romero, II, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. "Inter Arma Silent Leges?: Race, Law, and Citizenship in a Wartime American Metropolis"

Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham, England. "'A MoralHercules': The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Black Masculinity (1791) in Manuscripts by Frederick Douglass"

Chair: Karla Holloway, English and African and African American Studies, Duke University, USA

Janice Radway, Literature, Duke University, USA

Robyn Wiegman, Women’s Studies, Duke University, USA
Donald Pease, English, Dartmouth College, USA
Jane Desmond, American Studies, University of Iowa, USA

Moderator: Sonia Torres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Andrew Pepper, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. "The Internationalization of Hollywood and the Globalization of America"

Patrick Oray, University of Iowa, USA. "Encountering the Un/American Other: Political Power, Cultural Conjuncture and Arts of Resistance"

Moderator: Bill Boelhower, University of Padua, Italy

David Churchill, University of Manitoba, Canada

Maria Lauret, University of Sussex, England

Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado, USA

Alfred Hornung, University of Mainz, Germany

Bill Boelhower, University of Padua, Italy

Moderator: Amaryll Chanady, University of Montreal, Canada

David H. Evans, Dalhousie University, Canada, "The End of Garbage: Underworld and the Waning of American Identity"

Christine Levecq, Michigan State University, USA "The Politics of Sentiment in Beloved"

Michael Boyden, University of Leuven, Netherlands, "American Literature Scholarship: From Consensus to Dissensus (and Back Again)?"

Moderator: Juana Celia Djelal, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sergei Peshkoun, Polotsk State University, Belarus. "Signification of Masculinity in American Consumer Culture"

Tom Cohen, State University of New York, Albany, USA. "The Fate of the Image: Ground Zero"

Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College of the The City University of New York, USA. "The Visual Presentation of American Community: What Does the American Community Look Like?"

Anders Olsson, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden. "Innocents Abroad? The U.S. and the World in National Geographic"

Chair, Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston, USA

Michael Schuessler, Barnard College, USA. "From Tequitqui to Horror Vacuii: Baroque Art and Architecture in New Spain."

Monika Kaup, University of Washington, USA. "Neobaroque Deconstruction of the Marvelous Real in Severo Sarduy’s De donde son los cantantes"

Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Yale University, USA. "Cities in Ruins: The Recuperation of the Baroque in Eliot and Paz."

Rolando Romero, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. "Chicano Baroque"

Amanda Harris Fonseca, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. "Post-Movement, Chicana Allegory, and the Baroque"

Moderator: Heinz Ickstadt, Free University of Berlin, Germany
James Bloom, Muhlenberg College, USA. "Jesters, Noble Savages and Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture"

Charles Gentry, University of Michigan, USA. "All in the American Family: The Prison House of the Racial Melodrama"

Miglena Todorova, University of Minnesota, USA. "White Racial Formations Across National Borders: Eastern European Migrants in the United States"

Chair: Hans Bak, University of Nigmegen, the Netherlands

Tom Goyens, University of Leuven, Belgium. "‘Entirely without Idealism’: German Immigrant Anarchists’ View of America"

Matt Cohen, Duke University, USA. "Tarzan der Deutschenfresser: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Global Popular Culture"

Tim Barnard, College of William and Mary, USA. "Spain’s Modern Spectacle of Tradition: The Cultural Contradictions of Bullfighting and American Spectatorship Abroad."

Commentator: Hans Bak, University of Nigmegen, the Netherlands

Session leader: Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Khadija El Alaoui-Fritsch, Technical University of Dresden, Germany. "Locating Terrorism: Safe and Unsafe Space in 'The Siege' and 'The Other'"

Julia Leyda, Chiba University, Japan. "Geopolitics and Gender in Judith Ortiz Cofer's 'American History'"

Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo, Japan. "Here in 'Yokohama, California': Toshio Mori's Place in American Literature"
Christopher Klemek, University of Pennsylvania, USA. "Learning from Liberals: Transcendingthe Limits of Urban Renewal"

Moderator: Phillip Davies, De Montfort University and Eccles Centre, British Library, England

Jay Kleinberg, Journal of American Studies

Harry Bennett, European Journal of American Culture

Jane Desmond, Comparative American Studies
Cristina Giorcelli, Letterature d'America
Robert Mullin, Nicaraguan Academic Journal
Sonia Torres, Transit Circle: The Brazilian Journal of American Studies
Virginia R. Dominguez. American Ethnologist
David Ryan, Journal of Transatlantic Studies
Alfred Hornung, Amerikastudien/American Studies
Marita Sturken, American Quarterly