Thursday, May 31, 2007

Friday, June 1, 2007

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Sunday, June 3, 2007

10:00
Editorial Board Meeting
(Ebene 01/Seminarraum 2)
[not open to the public]

9:00
Featured Lecture
David D. Hall (Harvard Divinity School): “Can the Present Teach Us about the Past in American Religious History?"
(Ebene 04/Saal 2)

9:00
Featured Lecture
Lawrence Meredith (University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA): "Promises to Keep: Evangelical Vision, Pentecostal Fire, and the American Dream"
(Hörsaal 1)

9:30
Forum
Secularization and its Discontents
(Hörsaal 1)

10:45
Featured Lecture
Heather Hendershot (CUNY): "Christian Fundamentalist Radio and American Right-Wing Politics: An Examination of the Historical Linkages between the Old Christian Right and the New Christian Right."
(Ebene 04/Saal 2)

10:30
DGfA Business Meeting
(Hörsaal 1)

11:00
Featured Lecture
Michael Hochgeschwender (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): "A Religion of the Modern Man: 19th-Century American Spiritualism in a Transatlantic Perspective"
(Hörsaal 1)

12:00
DGfA/GAAS Lunch
(Restaurant Chianti)
[not open to the public]

12:30
Early Americanists Lunch with David Hall
(Restaurant Chianti)

12:45
End of Conference

13:00
DGfA/GAAS Board Meeting
(Ebene 01/ Seminarraum 2)
[not open to the public]

13:15
PGF Lunch
(Restaurant Wiewaldi)

15:00
Women’s Caucus Meeting
(Ebene 04/Saal 1)

14:00
Workshops

1. "Religiöse Erlebniswelten und gesellschaftliche Partizipation in der amerikanischen Religionsentwicklung nach 1945" (Manfred Berg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Universität Heidelberg)
(Ebene 04/Saal 3)

2. "Beyond the Mainstream: Religious Outsiders in the United States" (Heike Bungert, Universität zu Köln / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
(Ebene 04/Saal 2a)

3. "Dis/Enchanted? Religion and Ethnicity in American Culture" (Ingrid Gessner, Regensburg / Bärbel Höttges, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
(Ebene 04/Saal 2b)

4. “American Judaism" (Bettina Hofmann, Universität Wuppertal/ Cornelia Wilhelm, Rutgers - The State University New Jersey)
(Ebene 04/Saal 1)
   

15:00
Workshops

5. "Religious Discourse and 'Gendered' Voices in 19th-Century Literature"(Katja Kanzler, Universität Leipzig/ Birgit Spengler, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M., in cooperation with Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez, Universität Leipzig)
(R. 1.211)

6. "Teaching Religion as Part of American Culture in the EFL-Classroom" (Laurenz Volkmann, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena/ Jürgen Donnerstag, Universität zu Köln)
(R. 0.215, Medienzentrum)

1. "Religiöse Erlebniswelten …" (Manfred Berg) cont'd.
(R. 1.112)

PGF Workshop (Gunter Süß / Antje Tober, both TU Chemnitz)
(R. 2.112)

17:00
Conference Opening and Welcoming Addresses
(Ebene 04/Saal 2)

17:30
Information Session
"Online-Informationsressourcen für Amerikastudien" (Holger Kersten, Universität Magdeburg)
(Ebene 04/Saal 3)

Featured Lecture
Paul S. Boyer (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Evangelical Dogmas, Innovative Strategies, Activist Politics:  America's Post-1970 Religious Revival and Its Public-Policy Implications".
(Ebene 04/Saal 2)

afterwards:
Reception of the DGfA and the City of Bochum
(Ebene 01/Lounge)

18.30
Reception at the Universität Dortmund
(Experimentierhalle Maschinenbau, Campus Süd)

afterwards:
Conference Party
(Experimentierhalle Maschinenbau, Campus Süd)