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.<\/p>\n
10:00 h Opening & welcome.<\/p>\n
10:15 h-11:15 h Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Tatjana Juki\u0107, “Derrida’s America between Declarations of Independence and Specters of Marx”<\/p>\n Ma\u0161a Kolanovi\u0107, “Postsocialist America: Re-visiting USA in Literature of Post-Yugoslav Dissidents”<\/p>\n Jelena \u0160esni\u0107, “A Diasporic American Mirror for Late Socialist and Early Democratic Croatia”<\/p>\n Hrvoje Tutek, “Croatian Neoconservatism in the Aftermath of the Great Recession”<\/p>\n 11:15 h-11:45 h Discussion<\/p>\n 11:45 h-12 h Coffee break<\/p>\n 12 h-13:15 h Plenary talk<\/strong><\/p>\n Stipe Grgas: “The Demise of ‘America’s Communist Ally’: An American Studies Perspective”<\/p>\n 13:15 h-14 h Lunch break<\/p>\n 14 h-15 h Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Sven Cvek, “Fordism, socialism and the end of a workers\u2019 state”<\/p>\n Gordan Matas, “Reflections on the breakup of former Yugoslavia in the works of Aleksandar Hemon”<\/p>\n Lovorka Grui\u0107-Grmu\u0161a, “Thomas Pynchon’s Readings of Croatia”<\/p>\n Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107, “(Mis)Learning from American Education: What Is American About Bologna?”<\/p>\n 15 h-15:30 h Discussion<\/p>\n 15:30 h-15:45 h Coffee break<\/p>\n 15:45 h-16:45 h Session 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Kalina Maleska, “Influence of American Movies on Reading Literature”<\/p>\n Zlatko Buka\u010d & Marko Luki\u0107, “The Marvel of Subverting the American Dream”<\/p>\n Sanja Runti\u0107, “Contemporary Native American Realities: Reflections on Indigenous Sovereignty and the Washington Redskins Debate”<\/p>\n Tomislav Brlek, “Rock & Roll and the End of History”<\/p>\n 16:45h-17:15h Discussion<\/p>\n 17:15 h Workshop closing<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The workshop will take place on Saturday, October 3, 2015, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/strong> (Filozofski fakultet), Ivana Lu\u010di\u0107a 3, Zagreb.<\/p>\n Organizers<\/strong>: HUAmS, Chair for American Studies, Cultural History of Capitalism<\/a> (project HRZZ-1543).<\/p>\n