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44th Annual Comparative Literature Conference

Sponsored by ASCL

"Johnny Got His Pen: Artists' Involvement in Peace and War"

The Artist’s involvement in peace and war: A discussion of how literature and the arts depict, incite, criticize, and mitigate political conflicts throughout history or within contemporary societies.


A screening of Macedonian/American director Milcho Manchevski's Academy Award Nominated film Before the Rain with a question-and-answer period following the movie, with the director

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

  • Claire Dillon

"Bulgakov’s Bridges: The Master and Margarita and How it Bridges Russia’s Past with its Present."

  • Ivana Guarrasi

“Why Cinderella Cries: Comparing Gypsy vs.’Classic’ Fairy Tale Narratives”

  • Whitney Donaldson

“Self-Referential Superheroes: Metafiction and Narrative Complexity in Watchmen

  • Craig Carroll

“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

  • Paizha Stoothoff

“Edvard Kobcek: The Partitioning of Slovenian Identity in the 20th Century”

  • Sarah Babovic

“Bridging the Generation Gap: Trauma and Memory in Contemporary Bosnian Film”

  • Brian Addison

“Fascist/tsitrA: Günter Grass and Expressing Fascism”

  • Devin P. O’Neill

“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

 

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