3001 - American Studies 3: Neohumanism in America

This panel attempts to explore the interconnectedness between various media as they emerge in a post-postmodern America and try to offer a sense of new beginning at the dawn of a new century. We will explore literature and film, with different answers to a fundamental question: after the age of post-structuralism and deconstruction, after the fragmentation of the self in postmodern art and literature, after the end-of-the world obsessions of the 20th Century and the proliferation of apocalyptic discourse and conspiracy theories, is there anything left to ground the global individual? Each of our presenters will offer an answer, employing an interdisciplinary approach.