Panel I: 10:00am-12:00pm
Moderated by Elsa Amanatidou, Modern Greek Studies (Brown University)
Kostis Kornetis, European University Institute, Florence
Comparing visual representations of youth protest culture during the Colonels' dictatorship: The cases of "Aspro-Mavro" and "The Rehearsal"
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University
The Lion and the Jackal: Song as Protest during the Greek Dictatorship
George Syrimis, Yale University
Balkan Crossroads: Song, Dance and Masculinity in Crisis in Voulgaris' "Vietnam"
Panel II: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Moderated by Marinos Pourgouris, Comparative Literature (Brown University)
Tatjana Aleksic, Rutgers University
Dissenting Voices in Yugoslav Literature(s) 1945-1991
Dusan I. Bjelic, University of Southern Maine
Julia Kristeva and the voice of Balkan Conservative Radicalism
John Cox, Wheeling Jesuit University
Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Political Engagement of Ismail Kadare
Panel III: 3:15pm-5:15pm
Moderated by Keith Brown, The Watson Institute (Brown University)
Vangelis Calotychos, Columbia University
Born To Be Wild?: Repetition Compulsion, Agency, And ‘The Lessons Of History' In Three Balkan Films (Angelopoulos, Kusturica, Manchevski)
Vojislava Filipcevic, Columbia University
Reversing the Gaze: Western Perception and the Wars of the former Yugoslavia in Film
Angelina Ilieva, University of Chicago
The Circle is Not Round: National Myth and Narrative Form in Milcho Manchevski's "Before the Rain"
A Conversation with Milcho Manchevski: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Moderated by Deborah Scranton, director of The War Tapes and Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute (Brown University)
Location: Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Sponsors: Modern Greek Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, Watson Institute for International Studies, Cogut Humanities Center and C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund
