2nd Seminar on American Studies
This one-day seminar is part of the PhD Program in North American Studies of the Franklin-UAH according to the following objectives:
- To strengthen the scientific community around the American Studies
- To deep the different lines of research that are being developed in this field of study
- To analyze new trends in American Studies and apply them to doctoral thesis in progress
Program
- 10:00h Welcome and presentation of the program, Dr. Julio Cañero, director Instituto Franklin-UAH
- 10:15h Lecture: Enrique Alonso Garcia “Global issues and American realism: It is the City on a Hill or the melting pot what energizes of the US? Can [should] the US be understood [only] by looking to its stance on global issues?”
- 10:45h Doctoral student presentations
- Jean-Paul Lerea: “Margaret Fuller a Woman in Nature”
- Sarah Mackin: “Opening Minds – towards a transnational education”
- Laura Trigo: “Don DeLillo’s media-generated reality: local, glocal and global perspectives”
- Artemio Revilla: “Another doctoral thesis on President John F. Kennedy?”
- 11:45h Coffee break
- 12:15h Lecture: Julio Cañero Serrano “The Latino vote or how the US electorate is being transformed”
- 12:45h Doctoral student presentations
- Marcos Todeschini: “Foreigners vs Locals in Hemingway fiction”
- Jose Ignacio Gallego: “Sunshine State: Speculation and Environment in Contemporary American films.”
- Jing Hu: The study of contemporary indigenous literature as a potential for “transformed environmental values”
- 13:30h General debate: Carmen Flys Junquera “Air, Water and Words know of No Borders”
- 14:00h Conclusion
