The 3rd Annual American Studies Workshop in Zagreb, “Quarter of a Century after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Perspectives and Directions in Croatian and Regional American Studies”, will take place on October 3, 2015. Here’s the preliminary program.
10:00 h Opening & welcome.
10:15 h-11:15 h Session 1
Tatjana Jukić, “Derrida’s America between Declarations of Independence and Specters of Marx”
Maša Kolanović, “Postsocialist America: Re-visiting USA in Literature of Post-Yugoslav Dissidents”
Jelena Šesnić, “A Diasporic American Mirror for Late Socialist and Early Democratic Croatia”
Hrvoje Tutek, “Croatian Neoconservatism in the Aftermath of the Great Recession”
11:15 h-11:45 h Discussion
11:45 h-12 h Coffee break
12 h-13:15 h Plenary talk
Stipe Grgas: “The Demise of ‘America’s Communist Ally’: An American Studies Perspective”
13:15 h-14 h Lunch break
14 h-15 h Session 2
Sven Cvek, “Fordism, socialism and the end of a workers’ state”
Gordan Matas, “Reflections on the breakup of former Yugoslavia in the works of Aleksandar Hemon”
Lovorka Gruić-Grmuša, “Thomas Pynchon’s Readings of Croatia”
Borislav Knežević, “(Mis)Learning from American Education: What Is American About Bologna?”
15 h-15:30 h Discussion
15:30 h-15:45 h Coffee break
15:45 h-16:45 h Session 3
Kalina Maleska, “Influence of American Movies on Reading Literature”
Zlatko Bukač & Marko Lukić, “The Marvel of Subverting the American Dream”
Sanja Runtić, “Contemporary Native American Realities: Reflections on Indigenous Sovereignty and the Washington Redskins Debate”
Tomislav Brlek, “Rock & Roll and the End of History”
16:45h-17:15h Discussion
17:15 h Workshop closing
The workshop will take place on Saturday, October 3, 2015, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Filozofski fakultet), Ivana Lučića 3, Zagreb.
Organizers: HUAmS, Chair for American Studies, Cultural History of Capitalism (project HRZZ-1543).
Abstracts (pdf) can be viewed here.
