Schedule for Friday and Saturday

25.01.2013 09:09

FRIDAY

11.00-11.30

REGISTRATION + OPENING

11.45-12.30

Keynote

Lucia Otrísalová

“The Largest Country in the World that Doesn’t Exist”: Canada and the Inter-American Discourse

12.30-13.00

Mária Hudáková

The Role of Education in the Fight for Environmental Justice in Canada

13.00-13.30

Dominika Lopašovská

2012 Quebec Election and Its Implications for Minority Groups

13.30-13.45

Young Canadianists

13.45-14.15

Coffee break

14.15-14.45

Keynote

Peter Rusinák

Center for North American Studies

14.45-15.15

Kristýna Onderková

“Special Relationship” between Quebec and France in the 1950s and 1960s

15.15-15.45

Jana Černičková

Success and Failure of Selected Reservations in the US and Canada

15.45-16.00

Coffee break

 

16.00-16.30

Marianne Lévesque

Canada – US Relations After 9/11

16.30-17.00

Camille Gilissen

Civil Society’s Achievements: Victories in Canada in 2012

17.00-17.30

Iulia-Teodora Gabor

The Peaceable Kingdom

SATURDAY

8.45-9.30

Keynote

Georg Schendl

Nuestra América: (Re)approaching the Americas from a European Perspective

9.30-10.00

 

Zuzana Jakubková

 

 

Comparative Study in Contemporary Mass Media across the Americas

 

10.00-10.30

Sophie Welling

The Chevy, the Virgin, and the Dream: Hybridity, Heritage, and Homeland in A Better Life and La Misma Luna

10.30-10.50

Coffee break

 

10.50-11.20

 

Matteo Scotto

 

The Torch under the Bushel: Cold War, Nicaragua and the Iran-Contra Affair

11.20-11.50

 

Guillaume Malingri de Bagnolo 

 

Power in International Relations between 1815 and 1914: the French Perception of the United States before 1914

11.50-12.20

Armando Garcia Teixeira/ Blaž Spruk

Sendero-Luminoso in the Andean Region and Its Political and Economic Practices

12.20-13.20

LUNCH

13.20-13.50

Florina Harb

Drug Dealing in Latin American States: Consequences, Implications and Representation in Literature and Visual Art

13.50-14.20

 

Magdaléna Lišuchová

 

Engagement of US Companies and Banks in Latin America and the Background of Their Activities

14.20-14.50

Rixt Van Dongera

American Indian Isolation: Indigenous Collaboration and Cultural Perserverance of Native American Tribes

14.50-15.20

Martina Bednáriková

Dances With The Damned: The One Who Dared

15.20-15.40

Coffee break

15.40-16.10

Darinka Markovic

Indian or American or Both? National Identity in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven  

16.10-16.40

Tatyana Goncharova

The Division of Fantastic and Magic Real in Poe’s and Latin American Writings

16.40-17.10

Mirna Maric 

The Great Gatsby and Its Connection to the American Dream

17.10-17.15

 

CLOSING