Thursday April 30-Friday May 1
Karl Anatol Center
Thur. April 30th Panels @ 9:30 and 11:00, Screening @ 2pm
Fri. May 1st Art showcase and Spoken Word event @ 7pm
Milcho Manchevski is a Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In addition to an academy-award nomination, Before the Rain (1994) received over thirty awards including the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Manchevski’s other feature films are Dust (2001) and most recently Shadows (2007) as well as over 50 short forms (documentaries, music videos, and commercials).
Before the Rain is a beautiful film about an émigré journalist returning to his native village in Macedonia and getting involved in ethnic conflict between the Macedonian and Albanian population.
Thursday April 30, 2009
Paper Presentations
Panel 1: 9:30-10:45--Cultural Myths and Other Fictions
Chair: Dr. Cheryl Goldstein
"Bulgakov’s Bridges: The Master and Margarita and How it Bridges Russia’s Past with its Present."
“Why Cinderella Cries: Comparing Gypsy vs.’Classic’ Fairy Tale Narratives”
“Self-Referential Superheroes: Metafiction and Narrative Complexity in Watchmen”
“Identifying the Soldier, the Enemy, and the Battlefield before the Conquest”
Panel 2: 11:00-12:15--Central and Eastern European Reflections
Chair: Dr. Al Baum
“Edvard Kobcek: The Partitioning of Slovenian Identity in the 20th Century”
“Bridging the Generation Gap: Trauma and Memory in Contemporary Bosnian Film”
“Fascist/tsitrA: Günter Grass and Expressing Fascism”
“The Fifth Wall: Borders Between Media and Action in The Lives of Others”
Sponsored by:
The Center for European Studies
The European Studies Subcommittee
The Department of Journalism
The Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics
Associated Students of Comparative Literature
The College of Liberal Arts
