{"id":497,"date":"2016-05-16T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huams.hr\/?p=497"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T09:05:04","slug":"4th-annual-zagreb-amstud-workshop-the-unusable-pasts-in-american-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huams.hr\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"4th Annual Zagreb AmStud Workshop: The (Un)usable Pasts in American Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huams.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/reising2016_manja.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-498\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huams.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/reising2016_manja-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Zagreb Workshop 2016: Russel Reising\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> The 4th annual American Studies workshop of the Croatian Association for American Studies, entitled &#8220;The (Un)usable Pasts in\u00a0American Studies,&#8221; was held in Zagreb on May 14, 2016. This year, our keynote speaker was Russell Reising from the <a href=\"https:\/\/engl.utoledo.edu\/english\/?page_id=222\">University of Toledo<\/a> (Ohio, US), currently a visiting Fulbright professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?page_id=18857&amp;lang=en\">Department of English<\/a> in Zagreb. <!--more-->Apart from presenters from Zagreb (for whom this was part of their activities on the project <a href=\"ffzg.unizg.hr\/kulturnapovijestkapitalizma\">A Cultural History of Capitalism<\/a>), the workshop attracted guests from Kosovo, Poland, Serbia, the United States, as well as from Rijeka, Split and Zadar. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huams.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/program-2016-print.pdf\">full program<\/a>, with abstracts and brief participants&#8217; bios, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huams.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/program-2016-print.pdf\">here (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F143118627%40N06%2Fsets%2F72157668109435922%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F143118627%40N06%2Fsets%2F72157668109435922%2F&amp;set_id=72157668109435922&amp;jump_to=\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=261948265\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=261948265\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F143118627%40N06%2Fsets%2F72157668109435922%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F143118627%40N06%2Fsets%2F72157668109435922%2F&amp;set_id=72157668109435922&amp;jump_to=\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/143118627@N06\/sets\/72157668109435922\">photos of the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event was organized by the American Studies Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb, Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS), and co-sponsored by HRZZ (CSF) project grant 1543: <a href=\"ffzg.unizg.hr\/kulturnapovijestkapitalizma\">A Cultural History of Capitalism: Britain, America, Croatia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th annual American Studies workshop of the Croatian Association for American Studies, entitled &#8220;The (Un)usable Pasts in\u00a0American Studies,&#8221; was held in Zagreb on May 14, 2016. 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