Student Conference: Culture within Culture
11th - 12th July 2019
About
our Speakers
Thursday, July 11th
Instagram and
Intersectionality: The Visual Potential of the Hashtag #Fatacceptance, by
Judith Schreier
Judith J. Schreier is a second-year MA student of
American Studies at the University of Leipzig. She received her BA in American
Studies and German as a Foreign Language in 2017. Judith studied abroad at
Stockholm University and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she focused
on women and queer studies. She is interested in the representation of
‘deviant’ bodies, such as fat and queer bodies, in American culture. Her
additional interests lie in feminist narratology, poetry, and social media. She
has been a member of the editorial team of peers 11 and has presented at
the 6th Weight Stigma Conference.
Latinx Queer Identities: A
Counter-Culture Within the LGBT+ Movement, by Corina Wieser-Cox
Born and raised in Brownsville Texas USA, Corina is a
graduate student at Bremen Universität. She received her undergrad degree from
Troy University in English Literature and Creative Writing. Corina now studies
in the English-Speaking Cultures M.A. program with a focus on postcolonial and
queer theory, and writes short stories and poetry. She has recently published
two poems in literary journals and is working on a collection of short stories
and poetry concerning the narratives of unauthorized immigrants in the United
States. Corina recently moved to Bremen with her German wife and two (very
American) dogs named Milo and Chica. She spends her free time helping produce
and manages staged readings with Cake and Conflict, reading every book she can
get her hands on, and hopelessly learning German
Fast
Fashion:The true cost and the dark side of Fast Fashion, by Ariola Kaziu
Ariola Kaziu is currently a student of Advanced
Anglophone Studies at Leibniz University Hannover. She has finished Bachelor in
English Teaching in Albania. Her research interests lie in the area of
(im)migrants and their integration into a new culture. She has collaborated
with researchers in several immigration services, particularly dealing with the
four stages of cultural adaptation. Ariola enjoys going out, exercising
regularly, and reading good books.
Marvel,
Multiculturalism, and Whiteness: The Cultural Significance of a Muslim
Superhero on the Example of Kamala Khan, by Fereshta Soysal
Fereshta Soysal is 28 years old and recently
moved to Leverkusen after getting married.
She was born and raised in Mayen
(Rheinland-Pfalz) and moved to Hannover when she was 12. After finishing high
school, she tried studying law but very soon realized it is the exact opposite
of what she wanted. Since she is passionate about languages and enjoys
teaching, she started studying English and Religious Studies to become a
teacher at the Leibniz University Hannover). She is about to finish her Masters
once she is back from abroad. She worked as a tutor for the past 14 years,
covering the entire scope from single private lessons to working at a tutoring
school. During her time at the university, she became interested in cultural
studies, especially race-related. She loves researching in this area and trying
to create a picture of human interaction in an increasingly globalized and
highly pluralistic world community.
She has spent the last five years being part of
Charity Week, a worldwide 100% non-profit project aiming at uniting people
through raising funds for orphans and needy children. She started as a local
volunteer and became head of the national marketing team, and this year she
became part of the international head of marketing (see www.charity week.com for further info). She also practiced “pastoral“ care for Muslim patients
at the MHH for about two years before moving from Hannover. In her free time,
she likes to do sports, read, and do any kind of artistic activity, such as
writing, drawing, or DIY projects.
Trekkies:
A fandom or a subculture, by Marina Kornelaki
Marina Kornelaki
is Greek-Dutch and moved to Germany in 2013 to pursue her studies.
She studied English Speaking Cultures and Germanistik as her BA degree at the University of Bremen. She graduated in 2018 and went on to her current MA degree in English Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media.
She has two languages as mother tongues (Greek, Dutch), speaks two languages fluently (English, German) and two languages in beginners level (Italian and French). Due to her dual nationality, her moving to a foreign country and her studies being on a different culture as well, she is fascinated by anything and everything culture related. Her goal is to successfully finish her MA and go on to a Doctor's degree, which will hopefully lead her to teach at a University one day. Parallel to her studies, she works in an Irish Pub in Bremen and as a Student assistant at the University. Her latest projects consisted of transcriptions and translations.
She studied English Speaking Cultures and Germanistik as her BA degree at the University of Bremen. She graduated in 2018 and went on to her current MA degree in English Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media.
She has two languages as mother tongues (Greek, Dutch), speaks two languages fluently (English, German) and two languages in beginners level (Italian and French). Due to her dual nationality, her moving to a foreign country and her studies being on a different culture as well, she is fascinated by anything and everything culture related. Her goal is to successfully finish her MA and go on to a Doctor's degree, which will hopefully lead her to teach at a University one day. Parallel to her studies, she works in an Irish Pub in Bremen and as a Student assistant at the University. Her latest projects consisted of transcriptions and translations.
Friday, July 12th
The Influence of Social Media on Contemporary Youth Subcultural Groups in
China, by Cathy Zhou Shi-Ting
University of Bremen
Right-Wing
Media and Propaganda: A Comparison of the Narratives
created
by Breitbart and Stormfront, by Sarai Zahn
Leibniz University Hannover
Soul
and Country Music and the (Re-)Making of Racial Ideology in the 1960s and 70s,
by Hendrik Burfeind
Hendrik completed his B.A. (in History and
Anglistik/Amerikanistik) at Kiel University in 2017 with a thesis called Authenticity
and Appropriation in the “White Blues Controversy”: Constructing the Blues
Through Race, in which he examined the critical debate on white blues
musicians (and their perceived inherent inferiority) that gained momentum in
the late 1960s. In his analysis, he argued that as those writers "set out
to document what the blues is [and, he might
add, is not], they actually invented their own image of the blues
tradition" which "resulted in a racially informed version of what
they saw as 'authentic blues,'" thus helping to reinforce the artificial
distinctions imposed by the American record industry since the 1920s. After
that, he continued his studies at Kiel University in a master course,
"English and American Literatures, Cultures, and Media." Generally
speaking, his research interests focus on the intersection of popular music,
ideology critique, and critical race studies.
