Program

LIN 4

Chair: Morrison, Spencer (University of Groningen) 

• Kooijman, Jaap (University of Amsterdam) — “Beyond the Streets of Minneapolis: An Audiovisual Exploration of Pop-Cultural Protest in Trump’s America” 

• Lefebvre, Manon & David, Caroline (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier) — “Blindspot (NBC, 2015-2020): The FBI as an Unlikely Safeguard Against Democratic Backsliding” 

• Haas, Astrid (University of Bergen) — “Drawing Resistance in the Borderlands: Fighting Trumpism in/with the Peso Hero Comic Series” 

• Guttridge, James (Université Paris Cité / Sorbonne Université) — “‘Satiractivism’ and Screened Resistance: Television in American Protest Culture” 

MM 00.120

Chair: Blommers, Heleen (Radboud University) 

• Zehelein, Eva-Sabine (Goethe University Frankfurt) — “Reproductive Justice and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: 1985 – 2017 - 2026” 

• Brennan, Paul (University College Roosevelt) — “Visa Politicization and Dissent: Cold War Precedents in Visa Policy, Suppression, and Protest” 

• Prakken, Beer (University of Groningen) — “Carnivalesque Fascism” 

• Wood, Catherine (Leiden University) — “‘To Be of Service’: Urban Volunteers in Service to America Volunteers during the Long, Hot Summer of 1967” 

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Chair: van Gaalen, Thomas (Radboud University) 

• Benko, Valeria (Freie Universität Berlin) — “Quiet Dissent: Ordinary Citizens, Planetary Interdependence, and the Architecture of American Global Order”

• Wöll, Steffen (Leipzig University) — “Archipelagic Dissent: Counter-Geographies of America’s Oceanic Empire” 

• Walsh, Owen (University of Aberdeen) — “Assimilating the Mexican Revolution: US Solidarity with Anti-Díaz Radicals, c. 1906-13” 

• Davis-Abraham, John (University of Western Ontario) — “‘The Only True Patriotism’: Opposition to the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902” 

E 9.14

Chair: De Vos, Laura M. (Radboud University)

• Karabiyik, Aybüke (Radboud University) 

• van Lankveld, Marije (Radboud University) 

• van Denderen, BoSoleil (Leiden University) 

E1.14

Chair: Roza, Mathilde (Radboud University) 

• Karsten, Tessa (University of Amsterdam) — “Making and Selling Jewelry as Craftivist Resistance in US Feminist Bookstores, 1976-1996” 

• Bühler, Caroline (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) — “Sisterhood and Union Solidarity: The Coalition of Labor Union Women’s Advocacy for a Collective Working-Class Identity” 

• Klein, Tatjana (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) — “Insiders in Protest: The National Women’s Political Caucus and the Contradictions of Bipartisan Feminist Reform” 

• McNutt, Chelsea D. (Cornell University) — “Interpreting the Movement: Black Women, Protest Culture, and Everyday Life” 

E1.17

Chair: Gillett, Rachel (Utrecht University) 

• de Vlugt, Debby Esmeé (Radboud University) — “Negotiating Blackness: Antiracist Protest between the United States and the Dutch Caribbean” 

• Jahgoo, Danalee (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus) — “From Black Power to Black Lives Matter: The Influence of U.S. Protest Movements on Decolonization in Trinidad and Tobago” 

• Lambert, Raphaël (Kansai University) — “Fred Moten’s Conundrum: Relationality and Separatism” 

• Rogińska, Julia (University of Białystok) — “Rage as Ritual Protest: Conjure, Ancestral Memory, and Black Female Anger in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Poetry” 

E2.66

Chair: Brennan, Paul (University College Roosevelt) 

• Turner, Nicolas (Leiden University) — “Saul Bellow and Protest at the University of Chicago: Rethinking Identity, the Canon, and Higher Education, 1962-1976” 

• Godillon, Lucas (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines / Paris-Saclay University) — “Racial and Intersectional Dynamics in Higher Education in Minnesota: The Struggles of African American Students at the University of Minnesota (1920–1970)” 

• Hauser, Jonathan (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès) — “Protest in Institutions: Social Studies Standards Reform versus the Culture Wars in Texas” 

• Fakkeldij, Femke (Roosevelt Institute for American Studies / Leiden University) — “Free Black Literary Societies and Abolitionist Activism in the Antebellum North” 

E 9.14

Until 18:45 (2 hr)

Facilitator: Armon Azoulay, Ellie (Durham University). Registration required - See conference booklet

EOS N 01.180

Chair: de Vlugt, Debby Esmeé (Radboud University) 

• Brand, Alexander (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences) — “Giving Up on the US, or Rather Not? American Protest Cultures and Transatlantic Perspectives from the German-Dutch Border Region” 

• Zwiers, Maarten (University of Groningen / Erfgoed in Groningen) — “Rural Radicalism: Leftwing Protest Cultures in the Countryside”

• Gligorova, Bela (NOVA International School Skopje) — “Laughing in Revolt: Feminist Protest Theatre from the US to Serbia” 

E 2.54

Chair: Roberts, Kathryn (University of Groningen) 

• Hopen, Kai (University of Groningen) — “Prestige Literature in the Protest Decade: Ben Lerner’s Autofiction and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 2010s” 

• Hull, Katy (University of Amsterdam) — “Add Civil Rights Activists and don’t Stir: Todd Gitlin and the Making of The Sixties” 

• Lörch, Michael (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) — “When the Structure Shows: Working-Class Memoirs as Protest Against Meritocracy” 

• Vlessing, Clara — “Bridging Memory and Intersectionality through Narrative: Audre Lorde’s Zami and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands” 

EOS N 01.320

Chair: Martinez, Anne (University of Groningen) 

• Wieczorek, Marcelina (University of Białystok) — “Complex Temporalities: Past, Present, and Future in A Wreath for Emmett Till”

• López Giménez, Sonia (University of Murcia) — “The Victim of Victimhood: The Liminality of the Immigrant-Settler and the Perpetuation of ‘Han’ in Franny Choi’s ‘Who Died and Made You American’ (2022)” 

• Petrović, Mila (Radboud University) — “The Activist Arena: Chain-Gang All-Stars as Reparative Memory and Literary Protest” 

• Lennartz, Catherine (Boston University) — “Voz Alta: Casting Light on State Violence at Tlatelolco” 

E9.14

Facilitator: Mykoff, Nancy (University College Roosevelt)