Prof. Martin Butler
Carl von Ossietzky Universität
Oldenburg
“Between (Local) Identity Politics and (Global) Commodity Culture: On the Mobility and Hybridity of US-American Tattooing”
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Dr Katarzyna Piątkowska
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Toruń
“Global and Local Interpretations of Culture, Competence and Intercultural Competence in Intercultural Discourse”
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Martin Butler is Professor of American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. His research focuses on popular culture, and he is specifically interested in forms and figures of cultural mobility as well as cultures of participation in new media environments. Apart from a broad range of articles in these fields, he published a monograph on Woody Guthrie (Voices of the Down and Out, 2007) and co-edited nine essay collections, including Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures (with Josef Raab, 2008); Sound Fabrics: Studies on the Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music (2009, with Patrick Burger and Arvi Sepp); EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas (with Jens Martin Gurr and Olaf Kaltmeier, 2011); a special issue of Popular Music and Society on musical autobiographies (2015, with Daniel Stein); Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media (with Albrecht Hausmann and Anton Kirchhofer) as well as a volume on Resistance: Subjects, Representations and Contexts (2017, with Paul Mecheril and Lea Brenningmeyer).
Katarzyna Piątkowska is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her research interests include intercultural communicative competence, intercultural discourse and English as a lingua franca. She has presented the results of her research at many international conferences and published numerous papers on intercultural competence in international journals including Language and Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Education, or Review of Cognitive Linguistics.
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