"The New Europe: Reconfiguring Gender, Ethnicity and Culture."

Keynote Speaker: Renata Salecl.
Friday, March 3, 2000, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Session I: Cultural Modernisms and Postmodernisms

9:00-10:30 A.M, Biological Sciences Building, Douglass Campus, Room 205

Moderating: Bruce Robbins, English and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Daniel Just, Comparative Literature, New York University “Kafka: The Gesture of Minor Literature”

Panayiotis Bosnakis, Greek Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Missouri-St. Louis
“Greek Ethnicities in Surrealism: Borderless Identities, Cosmopolitan Passages”

Arthur Redding, English, Oklahoma State University at Norman
“East of the Sun and West of the Moon: The Balkans and Cultural Studies”

Session II: Feminisms in the New Europe

10:45 AM-12:15 PM, Biological Sciences Building, Douglass Campus, Room 205

Moderating: Iva Popovicova, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Adriana Bäbler, German, Rutgers University
“Text and Context in Christa Wolf’s _Was bleibt_: The Story and Controversy Ten Years After”

Dagmar Voith-Leemann, German, Rutgers University
“‘We Are Free and Chained At the Same Time’: Christa Wolf’s _Was bleibt_ as a Search for a Political Position from a Feminist Perspective”

Libora Indruchova, Cultural Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary
“The Subversive Potential of Femininity in Relation to the State-Socialist Ideology: A Case Study from Pre-1989 Czech Fiction”

Session III: The New East in the New Europe

1:30-3:00 PM, Biological Sciences Building, Douglass Campus, Room 205

Moderating: Janet Walker, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Karin Gosselink, English, Rutgers University
“Generations of Masculinity: Fathers, Sons, and Class in the Work of Hanif Kureishi”

Lily Chiu, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan “Alter/native: Figurations of the (Imaginary) Native in Ken Bugul’s _Le baobab fou_ and Kim Lefèvre’s _Métisse blanche_”

Judy Chen, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
“Narratives and (Dis)appearing Acts: Women in Chen Yingzhen's _Mountain Road_ and Mahasweta Devi's _Mother of 1084_

Keynote Speaker: Renata Salecl, “Cultural Aspects of Anxiety: Subjectivity in Today’s Arts and Wars.” 4:00 PM, Ruth Adams Building, Room 206, Douglass Campus.

Renata Salecl is a philosopher and sociologist. She holds positions as a Senior Researcher, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics. She is the author of _The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism After the Fall of Socialism_ (Routledge, 1994) and _(Per)versions of Love and Hate_ (Verso, 1998); co-editor (with Slavoj Zizek) of _Gaze and Voice as Love Objects_ (Duke UP, 1996); and editor of _Sexuation_ (Duke UP, 2000).

Moderating: Joanna Regulska, Women’s Studies, Rutgers University

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