At the site of Europe’s first American Studies Seminar (1947, now the Salzburg Global Seminar), 50 speakers and 4 invited lecturers will meet to discuss: new discoveries and directions in American studies, the spoils and merits of multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, transatlantic/pacific mobility, human or digital, America’s image in European culture, past, present, and/or future, writing about the Americas, scholarship and activism, the history of American studies and teaching-related activities in the field.
Keynote speakers:
Julia Leyda, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Philip McGowan, President of the European Association for American Studies Ralph J. Poole, Professor of American Studies, University of Salzburg Mark Reinhardt, Professor of American Civilization, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Special guests:
Daniel S. Mattern, U.S. Embassy, Vienna Lonnie R. Johnson, Fulbright Austria Marty Gecek, Salzburg Global Seminar
Organizers:
Hanna Wallinger, Joshua Parker, Elisabeth Krieber, Karin Wolhgemuth and Christoph Straub