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SUMMARY:Post-Yugoslav Spaces\, Yugoslav Reappearances - Professor Gordana 
 P. Crnković\, University of Washington\, Seattle
DTSTART:20110304T160000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Josip Glaurdic
DESCRIPTION:While political elites and new governments continue to assert 
 the mutual distinctiveness of the Yugoslav successor states and omit any c
 onnection with a shared Yugoslav past\, the art created in the region in t
 he last two decades seems to frequently make\, assume\, and even emphasize
  these connections.  This talk offers a brief discussion of such works and
  the ways in which they enact the above connections\, including references
  to the Yugoslav-era works (of the other independent states) in post-Yugos
 lav literary and cinematic production\, and the common inter-state connect
 ion in post-Yugoslav cinema production.  The talk also points at one featu
 re discernible in select contemporary literature and cinema—a certain 
 “Krleža-like” attitude toward the present transition period and the w
 orld of “progress” and “success”—that could be identified as an 
 aspect affected by the region’s connection with its Yugoslav past.  Disc
 ussion will likewise include some of the most literal instances of bringin
 g back\, retrieving and re-activating of the Yugoslav intellectual and art
 istic past in the present\, which take the form of reprinting or publishin
 g for the very first time not only the artistic works but also the most 
 “literal-level” words (as in interviews) of some of the central cultur
 al figures of the former Yugoslavia.\n\nGordana P. Crnković is an Associa
 te Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature and a member of Cinema S
 tudies\, Program for Theory and Criticism\, and Jackson School of Internat
 ional Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle.  Prof. Crnković 
 got her doctorate from Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought a
 nd Literature\, and is the author of _Imagined Dialogues: East European Li
 terature in Conversation with American and English Literature_ (Northweste
 rn UP 2000\, “Rethinking Theory” series)\, a co-editor with Sabrina P.
  Ramet of _Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof! American Influence on European Popular C
 ulture\, 1945 to Present_ (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2003)\, a guest co-edi
 tor with Aida Vidan of _In Contrast: Croatian Film Today_ (Kinokultura Feb
 ruary 2011)\, and the author of over thirty book chapters and articles on 
 literature\, film and cultural studies.  Her latest publications include 
 “The Poetry of Prose\, the Unyielding of Sound\,” in Marjorie Perloff 
 and Craig Dworkin\, editors\, _The Sound of Poetry\, the Poetry of Sound_ 
 (University of Chicago Press\, 2009)\, and “Milcho Manchevski’s Before
  the Rain and the Ethics of Listening” in _Slavic Review_ (Spring 2011).
   Prof. Crnković is also the writer and reader of the texts for _Zagreb E
 verywhere_ (2001)\, an experimental video done in collaboration with a vid
 eo artist Victor Ingrassia and musician David Hahn. 
LOCATION:Godwin Room\, Clare College\, Trinity Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1TL
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