Conference Programme - European Association of Social ...

W119 Anthropologists from Abroad
Study Mainstream American Culture
(MAC Workshop I)
27 August
28 August
14:00-15:30
9:00-10:30
Room 03
Room 03
Convenors:
Dieter Haller, Ruhr Universität Bochum
Eveline Dürr, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität,
München
Basement
27 August, 14:00-15:30 Room 03
American Conservatism and the Status of
Political Belief
Erik Nilsson
Digestion as Cultural Critique: Mainstream
American Culture and US “Drop Out” Diets
Lucy Pickering, Liverpool John Moores University
Listening to the Sermon in Gay Congregations
Moshe Shokeid, Tel Aviv University
28 August, 9:00-10:30 Room 03
National Images of Countries: Russia, UK and Iran
in American Press Coverage
Svetlana Kobzeva, Moscow Institute for African
Studies
Ojibwe People and the American Discourse
of Diabetes: A Case Study in the Cultural
Anthropology of Native American Health
Cora Bender, University of Bremen
W120 “America” Abroad: The Good,
the Bad and the Ugly (MAC Workshop
II)
9:00-10:30 Room 03
27 August Basement
11:00-12:30 Room 03
Convenors:
Irene Stengs, Meertens Institute
Jackie Feldman, Ben Gurion University
27 August, 9:00-10:30 Room 03
Ambivalent Americanisation: Consumer Culture
and Supermarkets in Italy
Emanuela Scarpellini, University of Milan
Americanisation and the Dutch Meat Industry:
Rationalisation and Moral Economy
Alex Strating, University of Amsterdam
Americanisation and its Discontents: The Case of
Czech Budweiser
Milena Veenis, Technical University Eindhoven
American Emotions Meet with Polish Emotions
Pawel Krzyworzeka, University of Warsaw
27 August, 11:00-12:30 Room 03
Amway the Thai Way: Direct Sale and the
Businesses of Faith
Irene Stengs, Meertens Institute
Fire on the Mountain: Country Music and the
Politics of War
Eliza Darling, Goldsmiths College, University of
London
MacDavidification? Making the Holy Land Look
Right for American Protestant Pilgrims
Jackie Feldman, Ben Gurion University
Amos Ron, Kinneret College on the Sea of
Galilee
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