Event Program
Program ASC 2017
| Thursday, November 23 | 15:00 | Arrival and Check in |
| 16:30 |
Welcome and IntroductionRepresentative of the Consulate General Leipzig |
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| 17:00 |
“Searching for the Truth: The New Social Media Environment in the USA”Jeremy D. Mayer (Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University) |
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| 19:00 | Dinner Buffet (Leucorea Library) | |
| 20:00 |
Reading: “Donkey Hotey Saving America—Maybe”Michael Lederer |
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| Friday, November 24 | 8:00 | Breakfast (Leucorea) |
| 9:00 |
Lecture: “Encountering the Other, in American Literature and in the Classroom: The Pedagogical Value of Travel Texts”Monica Cure (Biola University, CA) |
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| 10:00 |
Lecture: “Worker Rights, the Global Economy and the Politics of Development”Layna Mosley (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
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| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 | Conversation groups with lecturers | |
| 13:00 | Off time | |
| 15:00 |
Workshop I: “Kleindeutschland in New York City and Chinatown in San Francisco in the Late Nineteenth Century”Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson (German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven) |
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| 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 |
Workshop II: “American Stereotypes in the EFL-Classroom”Jana Honegger (University Jena) |
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| 19:00 | Thanksgiving Session at Best Western Stadtpalais Wittenberg “Discussion of Cultural Varieties of the Thanksgiving Tradition” Moderator: Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) |
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| Saturday, November 25 | 8:00 | Breakfast (Leucorea) |
| 9:00 | Welcoming Remarks by Martina Kohl (U.S. Embassy, Berlin)
Lecture: “Never the Oval Office? From Eleanor Roosevelt to Michelle Obama—First Ladies and Their Social and Feminist Agenda”Martina Kohl (HU Berlin) |
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| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 |
Workshop: “‘In English My Name Means Hope’: Contemporary Latin@ Immigration Fiction for the EFL-Classroom”Nele Rodiek (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) |
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| 12:30 | Feedback and Farewell | |
| 14:00 | Tour of Wittenberg |