Central and Southeast European Studies (CSEES)

SCHEDULE

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 5pm
Buffett Center Conference Room, 1902 Sheridan Rd., Evanston
National Consciousness and Mobilization in Europe, 1815-1848: Conceptual Problems and Approaches
Dean Kostantaras, Northwestern University

Kostantaras' research interests lie in the comparative study of nationalism and imperialism with a special emphasis on the intellectual and social history of the Ottoman Balkans. Recent publications include "Idealisations of self and nation in the thought of diaspora intellectuals," which appeared in the October 2008 edition of the journal Nations and Nationalism, and the monograph Infamy and Revolt: The Rise of the National Problem in Early Modern Greek Thought (Boulder and New York: East European Monographs & Columbia University Press, 2006). Forthcoming from the Seminar Studies in History series of Longman Publishers, London is his Nationalism and Revolution in Europe, 1815-1848. Current projects continue on the lines of enquiry indicated above, with new work in progress on the social anatomy of national movements, modes of intellectual transfer and European decolonization.

For the preliminary reading material please click here.

Thursday, October 15, 2009, at 5:30pm
Twenty Years of Laughter and Forgetting:
Eastern/Central European Literature since 1989
   with authors
   Petra Hulova (Czech Republic)
   Ferenc Barnas (Hungary)
   Drago Jančar (Slovenia)
   moderator: Andrew Wachtel, Slavic Languages & Literatures
University Library, 2-South, 1970 Campus Dr., Evanston

Tuesday, October 14, 2008, at 6pm
“Balkan Mutuality”

The meeting will be moderated by Dina Iordanova, Professor of Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews. Professor Iordanova’s special expertise is in the cinema of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Europe in general. Her research approaches cinema on a meta-national level and focuses on the dynamics of transnational film; she has special interest in issues related to cinema at the periphery and in alternative historiography. She has published extensively on international and transnational film art and film industry, and convenes research networks on film festivals and on the dynamics of global cinema. She writes the blog DinaView on topics related to world cinema, culture, technology and money.

The pre-seminar reading and viewing materials are as follows:

Andrew Wachtel, The New Balkan “Other”, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University Press, (issue 131, pp. 264-73)

Richard Burns: In a Time of Drought

Adela Peeva, Whose Is This Song (2003)
50-minute documentary