Deutsch Intern
Amerikanistik

Workshop 7

61st Annual Convention of the GAAS

Würzburg, June 12-15, 2014

A World on the Move: The Environmental Politics of Migration

Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock)
Dead Buffaloes and Pleistocene Overkill: The Myth of the Un-Ecologial Indian

Alexandra Ganser (Wien)
From "wall-flower" to "Queen of the forest": Nature and Mobility in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home; Who'll Follow? (1839)

Judith Rauscher (Bamberg)
Dwelling in Diaspora: The Environmental Politics of Displacement in Arthur Sze’s The Ginkgo Light

René Dietrich (Mainz)
Reversing the Migration: Environmental Politics and Decolonization in Into America: The Ancestor's Land

Johannes Fehrle (Mannheim)
"Zombies Don't Recognize Borders": Framing Ecology through Popular Culture

Chairs

Christine Gerhardt
Universität Bamberg
An der Universität 9
D-96045 Bamberg
christine.gerhardt@uni-bamberg.de

Christa Grewe-Volpp
Universität Mannheim
Amerikanistik
Schloß EW 264
68131 Mannheim
chgrewe@rumms.uni-mannheim.de