Conferences

2012 BIENNIAL EAAS CONFERENCE

The Health of the Nation

Date: 30 March - 2 April 2012
Location: Izmir, Turkey

"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning." (Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790.)

Over the past two years, President Obamaâ's proposed health care reforms initiated an often bitter and sometimes divisive debate which, while focused on health provision, also asked fundamental questions (and exposed tenaciously held positions) about the state of the nation, its history and ideology. Our conference theme, the Health of the Nation, addresses these issues, where health can be both literal and metaphorical, personal and public, human and environmental.

Here is the list of all workshop titles and their organizers:

Workshop 1: The Cinematic Eye: War, Post-War Trauma, and States of National Health in American Film
Chairs: Katherine Hoffman, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, USA (kathy.hoffman@gmail.com) and Walter Hãlbling, Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria
(walter.hoebling@uni-graz.at)
Workshop 2: From Bodybuilding to Nation Building: Health and Disease in the Nineteenth Century
Chairs: Gregory Tomso, University of West Florida, USA (gtomso@uwf.edu) and Ingrid Gessner, University of Regensburg, Germany (Ingrid.gessner@sprachlit.uni-r.de)
Workshop 3: Environmental Crisis and Human Costs: Homage to Rachel Carson in the 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring
Chairs: Ufuk Őzdăg, Hacettepe University, Turkey (ozdag@hacettepe.edu.tr) and Carmen Flys Junquera, University of Alcalá¡, Spain (Carmen.flys@uah.es)
Workshop 4: Mobilizing for the Health of the Nation: Social Movements and Health Care
Chair: Guillaume Marche, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France (gmaqche@u-pec.fr)
Workshop 5: The Changing Intellectual Frameworks of Social Security in Post-Great-Depression America: Health Care Reform as a Case Study
Chairs: Marcus Graeser, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, USA (graeser@ghi-dc.org) and Maurizio Vaudagna, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy (Maurizio.vaudagna@lett.unipmn.it)
Workshop 6: The Arts and the Health of the Nation
Chairs: K. Kevyne Baar, Tamiment Library and New York University, USA (kevyne.baar@nyu.edu) and Kate Dossett,
University of Leeds, UK (k.m.dossett@leeds.ac.uk)
Workshop 7: Hollywood and the Health of the Nation
Chairs: Gilles Menegaldo, University of Poitiers, France (Gilles.Menegaldo@univ-poitiers.fr)
and Melvyn Stokes, University College London, UK (M.Stokes@ucl.ac.uk)
Workshop 8: Health, Food and Citizenship in the 19th Century
Chairs: Selma Bidlingmaier, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany (selma.bidlingmaier@rub.de) and Katharina Vester, American University, Washington, D.C., USA (vester@american.edu)
Workshop 9: The Ages of Life: Health, Life Expectancy, and the Ambiguities of Living and Aging
Chair: Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz, Austria(roberta.maierhofer@uni-graz.at)
Workshop 10: Artistic Representations of Madness in American Culture
Chairs: Susanne Rohr, University of Hamburg, Germany,
(Susanne.Rohr@uni-hamburg.de) and Marek Wilczyński, University of Gdańsk, Poland
(marek@amu.edu.pl)
Workshop 11: American (anti)Theatricality and Contagion: Staging the Health of the Nation
Chairs: Theresa Saxon, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
(TSaxon@uclan.ac.uk) and Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, USA (Lisa.Merrill@Hofstra.edu)
Workshop 13: Breeding the Nation: Eugenics, culture, and science in the United States, 1900-1940
Chairs: Bob Rydell, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA (rwrydell@montana.edu) and Jaap Verheul, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (J.Verheul@uu.nl)
Workshop 14: Health Care and American Constitutionalism
Chairs: Mehmet K. Konar-Steenberg, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
(Mehmet.konarsteenber@wmitchell.edu) and Helle Porsdam, SAXO Institute, Department of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (porsdam@hum.ku.dk)
Workshop 15: Physical Hygiene, Mental Health, and the Growth of a Nation: Literature in the Service of Advancing America
Chairs: Thomas Austenfeld, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, (thomas.austenfeld@unifr.ch) and Brigitte Zaugg, Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, France(brigitte.zaugg@orange.fr)
Workshop 16: 'A Banana Republic'? Economic Inequality and the Health of the Nation in the United States.
Chairs: Alf Tomas TÞnnessen, Volda University College, Norway (toenness@hivolda.no>  and Robert Mason, University of Edinburgh, UK
(rmason@staffmail.ed.ac.uk)
Workshop 17: Illness and its Metaphors: Challenging Medical Discourse from a Gendered Perspective
Chairs: Emma Domínguez-Rué, University of Lleida, Spain
(edominguez@dal.ucll.cat) and Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria (ulla.kriebernegg@uni-graz.at)
Workshop 18: A Breakdown of Self-Management: Cultural Constructions of Health and Illness in the Age of Neo-Liberalism
Chairs: Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (winfriedfluck@hotmail.com) and Theodora Tsimpouki, University of Athens, Greece (tsimpouki@enl.uoa.gr)
Workshop 19: From the Body Politic to the Body Poetic: American Poetry and the Language of the Body
Chairs: Éric Athenot, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France (eric.athenot@orange.fr and Valerio Massimo De Angelis, Università  di Macerata, Italy (vmdeangelis@vodafone.it)
Workshop 20: “I feel very badly…I don’t know why.” (Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda, when being taken to hospital with influenza. Pale Horse, Pale Rider) (Southern Studies Forum Workshop)
Chairs: Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Denmark
(th.bjerre@litcul.sdu.dk) and Beata Zawadka, Szczecin University, Poland (beatazaw@poczta.onet.pl)
Workshop 21: Caring and Curing: Nursing in American Culture
Chairs: Marcel Hartwig , English and American Studies Department, University of Siegen, Germany (hartwig@anglistik.uni-siegen.de)
and Hans Bak, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (j.bak@let.ru.nl)
Workshop 22: 9/11 as National and Worldwide Trauma: Healing Fictions, Artefacts, Projects
Chairs: Devrim Kýlýçer, Ankara University, Turkey (kilicer@humanity.ankara.edu) and Pamela Mansutti, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (pamelamansutti@yahoo.it)
Workshop 23: From Dr. Kildare to Greyâ's Anatomy: the health of a nation in medical series.
Chair: Pierre Floquet, IPB Bordeaux University, France (floquet@enseirb-matmeca.fr)
Workshop 24: First Person Narratives of Health, Disease and Death, 18th/21st Century: Exploring an American Specificity
Chair: Sophie Vallas, Université de Provence, France (Sophie.Vallas@univ.provence.fr)
Workshop 25: The Health and Wealth of US Capitalism: A Critical Condition?
Chair: Martine Azuelos, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France (martine.azuelos@univ-paris3.fr)
Workshop 26: For the Health of the Body (Politic): Pathologies and Potentialities of Hybridity from Fanon to Bhabha
Chair: Thomas Claviez, Univeristy of Berne, Switzerland (claviezt@zedat.fu-berlin.de)

Full details on all workshops are in the July 2011 EAAS newsletter, ASE 64,see
http://www.eaas.eu/publications/eaas-newsletter: see p. 12 ff. If you are interested in proposing a paper for a workshop, write to the organizers by October 1. Please note the Guidelines for Workshops on p. 22.