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The United States: A common enemy or the saviour of the Americas?

Photo: Katarína Koreňová (by courtesy of Perspectives)

Ivan Lacko, PhD.

is an assistant professor at the Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. He teaches courses in American studies and literature with particular interest in the correlation between our inner, personal world and the outer, social and political one.

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TBA

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Minority perspectives

Mag. phil. Heidrun Moertl 

is a faculty member at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria , teaching courses in American Literature and Cultural Studies as well as Inter-American Studies. Her research fields include Indigenous Studies, Aging Studies and Inter-American Studies. She has conducted numerous research stays in the USA, most recently a year at the University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, for which she had received a scholarship from Austrian government. She currently serves on the Executive Board of both the International Association of Inter-American Studies and the European Network in Aging Studies. In 2011 she received that Tomorrow’s Leadership award from the Latino Center on Aging in New York. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Comparative American Studies: An International Journal titled "Hemispheric Approaches to Native American Studies" (Maney, 2013).

Title of the keynote address:

IndiVisibility. The Americas and Its Indigenous Population