Ideology, Identity, and the US: Crossroads, Freeways, Collisions October 4-6, 2018 CONFERENCE PROGRAM Questions of cultural, racial, ethnic, civic identity and their attending ideological discourses have been tackled by anthropologists, historians, sociologists, writers, literary critics, media representatives for a long time now. This conference intends to provide a forum for the discussion of specific or general aspects of the dynamics of the paths, barriers, borderlines and channels connecting and dividing various groups and their cultures, the de- and re-mystification of social, individual, material and linguistic values of ethnic communities, the causes and effects of individual and group identity shifts, in…