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�