Conference

American Culture in Europe:

Americanisation & Anti-Americanism Since 1945

Thursday, September 25Friday's Schedule  ||  Saturday's Schedule

9:30 amIntroduction

10:00 am

France
Richard (Joe) Golsan (Texas A & M University, College Station, USA)

11:00 am

Germany
Alexander Stephan (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

12:00 am

Austria
Günter Bischof (University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA)

1- 2:30 pm Lunch

2:30 pm

Great Britian
Hugh Wilford (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Great Britain)

3:30 pm

Sweden
Dag Blanck (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)

4:30 pm Coffee Break

5:00 pm

Denmark
Klaus Petersen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
Nils Arne Sorensen (Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark)

6:30-8:00 pmDinner

8:30 pm

Comparative Observations
Rob Kroes (Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Friday, September 26Thursday 's Schedule  ||  Saturday's Schedule

10:00 am

Italy
David Ellwood (Bologna, Italy)

11:00 am

Spain
Dorothy Noyes (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

12:00 am

Greece
Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA)

1-2:30 pm Lunch

2:30 pm

Soviet Union/Russia
Marsha Siefert (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

3:30 pm

Poland
Andrzej Antoszek (Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland)
Kate Delaney (Berlin, Germany)

4:30 pm Coffee Break

5:00 pm

Southeastern Europe
Sorin Antohi (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

6:30-8:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm

General Discussion

Saturday, September 27Thursday's Schedule  ||  Friday's Schedule

Session One, 9:30 - 11:00 am

Sweden, Austria and Denmark - small seminar room

Chair:

:

Dr Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford

• Dag Blanck, Uppsala University, "Not Just McDonald´s: Perspectives on Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Sweden"
• Gunter Bischof, University of New Orleans "Is there a Specific Austrian Anti-Americanism after World War II?"
• Klaus Petersen, University of Southern Denmark & Nils Arne Sørensen, Syddansk University, "Americanization by Proxy: The Case of Denmark, 1945-65"

Lecture - large seminar room

Chair:

Alexander Stephan, Mershon Center for the Study of International Security, the Ohio State University

Rob Kroes, Amsterdam University, "American Images in Europe's Public Space"

Discussant:

Alan Rice, director of AMATAS project, University of Central Lancashire

11:00-11:30 amTea & coffee

SESSION TWO, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Poland, Russia & SE Europe - small seminar room

Chair:

:

Richard J. Crampton, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

• Andrzej Antoszek, Catholic University of Lublin & Kate Delaney, Independent scholar, Berlin, "Da Boyz in the Osiedle: American Cultural Influence in Poland"
• Marsha Siefert, Central European University, "Amerika: Cold War, Race and Russia."
• Sorin Antohi, Central European University, Budapest, "Americanizing the Balkans: Great Expectations, Ideological Clashes, Cultural Wars"

Britain, Germany & France - large seminar room

Chair:

:

Bill Durodié, New College, Oxford and Kings College, London

• Hugh Wilford, University of Sheffield, "Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Cold War Britain"
• Alexander Stephan, The Ohio State University, "Sonderweg. The Americanization of German Culture Since 1945."
• Richard (Joe) Golsan, Texas A&M University "We are not all Americans: French anti-American Sentiment in the Wake of Kosovo, 9/11, and Iraq."

1:00 - 2:00 pmLunch

SESSION THREE, 2:00 - 3:30 pm

Roundtable Discussion: "Anti-Americanism in Europe, Before & After September 11, 2001"

Chair:

:

Cheryl Hudson, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford

• Ziauddin Sardar, writer and cultural critic
• Mick Hume, columnist at The Times and editor of spiked online magazine
• Robert McGeehan, Institute of U.S. Studies, University of London
• Polly Toynbee, columnist at The Guardian

3:30 - 4:00 pm Tea & Coffee

SESSION FOUR, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Spain, Greece & Italy - small seminar room

Chair:

:

Frances Lannon. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

• Dorothy Noyes, The Ohio State University "Is Spain Different? Spanish Americas in European Spain"
• Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos, University of Pittsburgh "Anti-Americanism and Americanization in Greece: A History of Intervention and Betrayal"
• David Ellwood, University of Bologna and Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center "Containing Modernity: the Italianization of America"

Lecture - large seminar room

Chair:

Trevor McCrisken, University of Warwick and the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

Richard Crockatt, University of East Anglia, "Anti-Americanism and the Clash of Civilizations"

Discussant:

:

Godfrey Hodgson, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

5:30pm CONFERENCE CLOSES