A7: (Post)-Coloniality on the East and South-East Margins of Europe

Seminar Leader: Vlatka Velcic, California State University – Long Beach

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 2

Roxana Verona, Dartmouth University: “Conversations About an Old Empire: Loti and Romanain Orientalism”

Jennifer Gully, University of California – Los Angeles: “Imperial Ghosts: Nostalgia for the Habsburg Empire in Contemporary European Literature”

Ruxandra Mandoiu, Emory University: “‘Ich bin eine Papua’: Ingeborg Bachmann Between Europe and the Postcolony”

John Zilcosky, University of Toronto: “Uncanny Encounters: Familiar Foreignness, Exotic Europe”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 2

Tetyana Vorobyova, Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University: “Women’s Internal and External Spaces in Colonized World: The Case of Oksana Zabushko”

Mark Olague, California State University – Long Beach: “Danilo Kis Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism”

Marina Antic, University of Wisconsin – Madison: “Balkans and the Age of Globalization: Balkanism Revisited”

Vlatka Velcic, California State University – Long Beach: “Re-imaging the Balkans and Eastern Europe: Theoretical Conclusions”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 2

Thomas Garza, University of Texas – Austin: “Chechen Portraits: Russians Reinvent Chechnya in Recent Television and Film”

Kathleen Baum, California State University – Long Beach: “Trouble in the Garden: Alternative Performances of Gendered Subjectivity in Vera Chytilov’s Fruit of Paradise”

Julia Musha, University of Minnesota: “Looking into the Balkans: Cinema, Representations, and the Global Market”

Alwin Baum, California State University – Long Beach: “Doublecrossing No Man’s Land: Geo–politics in East European Film”