American Antiquities: First Workshop (17-18 June, 2016)
Program Venue: Schwaansche Strasse 5, seminar room SRT (ground floor: a few steps up and then left)
Friday, 17 June
15:00 Welcome, Introductions
15:30 Astrid Windus, Hamburg Spatial dimensions of religious knowledge
16:15 Alexander Knirim, Bayreuth Addressing the “German Nation” in British North America? German-language newspapers and almanacs in the British colonies
17:00 Stefan Weiß, Bayreuth Colonial Crisis and Imperial Identity. The Sepoy ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 and the Reflections on the American Revolution in Britain c.
18:00 Stroll through Rostock and transfer to dinner place: Restaurant Borwin, Am Strande 2.
Saturday, 18 June
10:00 Gunlög Fur, Linnaeus University, Växjö Bremer, Unonius and a New Scandinavia on Indigenous land
10:45 Linda Andersson Burnett, Linnaeus University, Växjö (skype) American Enlightenment Constructions of Native American Humanity and Antiquity
11:45 Gesa Mackenthun, Rostock Constructions of American Antiquity
12:30 Presentation of American Antiquities Website
13-15 lunch
15:00 Stefan Krause, Rostock Archives of Land-related Knowledges in the Pacific Northwest. The Bridge of the Gods
15:45 Alexander Bräuer, Rostock Black Swans in the Avon River Valley: Creative Misunderstandings, Aboriginal People and White Settlers in Western Australia, 1835-1855
16:30 Susanne Lachenicht, Bayreuth European versus Indigenous Knowledge? “Third Space” Knowledge in the “French” Atlantic World
17:15 Final Discussion
c. 18:00 End of official part. Transfer to Warnemünde in search of food. Stroll by the seashore.