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Unsettling Wyoming:
Confronting Cultural Difference in the Cowboy State
Donnerstag, 28.04.2016, 16 Uhr
NK: 401
PROF. ERIC SANDEEN
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, LARAMIE
CURRENTLY VISITING SCHOLAR THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL
VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
This lecture examines how conflicting American values reverberate through public discourse. It
investigates public sites such as Ellis Island and the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, where
values of tolerance and multiculturalism are celebrated and unjust acts are remembered and
analyzed. It will address a very hotly contested debate in Wyoming, one which is played out in
public venues throughout the state: the possibility of establishing a refugee resettlement office in
the state government. This is an important debate but it is also revealing to see how the sites and
agencies of public culture help form and stage it. This controversy is taking place during an
economic recession that is causing large numbers of the newly unemployed to leave the state. The
boom and bust cycle is a part of Wyoming culture; the worry over admitting “the other” to compete
for jobs is a traditional concern when immigration is discussed. Wyoming is thus being unsettled in
two significant ways.
Über Ihren Besuch würden wir uns freuen.
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Amerikanistik
Diese Veranstaltung findet mit freundlicher Unterstützung
der Phil. Fakultät der Universität Passau statt.