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January 30-31,2014

Student Conference on InterAmerican Studies

Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky Filozofick fakulta UK Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava E-mail: interamericanconference@yahoo.com www.interamericanconference.com

Gondova 2 Faculty of Arts Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

16.30-17.00

Marin Kabt Magical Realism and its Cross-Cultural Versions

14.30-15.00

Alessandra Medici The Brazilian National Truth Commission between Memory and Minority rights

Thursday, January 30
Gondova 2
9.00-10.00 Room G127 10.00-10.15 10.15-10.45 10.45-11.15 Opening Ivan Lacko Keynote Lecture Magdalena Lisiska United States Policy towards the 1976 Argentine Coup DEtat 11.15-11.45 Magdalena Kruszewska & Lukas Staduan A Train of Misunderstandings: American Stereotypes 11.45-12.00 Heidrun Mrtl International Association for InterAmerican Studies 12.15-12.30 Jana Hulov Young Canadianists 12.30-14.00 Room G 20 14.00-14.30 Eszter Szenczi Writing, a Battle Against Racial and Sexual Marginalisation 14.30-15.00 Gonalo Cholant Frida Kahlo Borderlands: Hybridism and North/South Borders 15.00-15.30 Ivan Polek Between Britain and North America: The Author Stephen Leacock 15.30-16.00 Eva oltsov Absent Family Members in Atom Egoyans Next of Kin and Ararat 16.00-16.30 Coffee break 14.00-14.30 12.00-13.30 13.30-14.00 Lunch break 11.00-11.30 10.00-10.30 Room G 20 10.30-11.00 18.30-21.00 Registration 17.00-17.30

Sanja Matkovi Movie Representations of Native Americans in the 1950s and 1990s

15.00-15.15

Closing

17.30-18.00

Laura Possegger The Representation of Traditional Oral Narratives in Contemporary Literature by Okanagan First Nation Authors Reception

Friday, January 31
Gondova 2
Room G 127 9.00-10.00 Heidrun Mrtl Indigeneity and the Americas Coffee break Hicham El Haddad & Vanessa Rubenser & Hemma Jarnig Stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples: The Perception Austrian Students Obtain from the Media Elisabeth Klug & Vanja Lipovac & Ericka Pamela Zea & Lukas Schneider Perception of Indigenous People Today 11.30-12.00 Kelsi Vik & Angelika Gomsi & Katharina Wurm & Pilgram Johanna & Strimitzer Iris A Case Study of Differences in How NonIndigenous People Perceive Native Americans Lunch break Dorota Czyyk The Mapuche Conflict in Chile: A Current Overview Katarzyna Cholewiska Mechanisms of Excluding the Majority: The Experience of Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala