Title: “Café Europa Revisited:
How to Survive Post-Communism”Join the department of Central\, Eastern\, and Northern Europ ean Studies (CENES) on November 3 at 11 am Pacific Time for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series\, featuring Slavenka Drakulić in conversation with Professor Emeritus Peter Stenberg\, moderated by Dr. Markus Hallensleben. This talk is co-organized by the UBC CMS Narratives Research Group.
There is limi ted seating available to attend this event in person. Please RSVP d irectly to cenes.events@ubc.ca to reserve your seat.
Title: “Café Europa Revisited:
How to Survive Post-Communism”
Abstract: Slavenka Dr akulić will be reading from her newly translated book\, Café Europa Rev isited: How to Survive Post-Communism (2021)\, followed by a discussio n of actual political events in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume is a n “evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of East ern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a par rot in Stockholm\, a photo of a girl in Lviv\, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje\, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Sovi et-led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution\, Drakulić takes a look at what has changed and what has remained the same in the region in h er daring new essay collection.” (https://sla venkadrakulic.com/bibliography/cafe-europa-revisited-how-to-survive-post-co mmunism/)
Bio: Slavenka Drakulić\, born in Croatia (fo rmer Yugoslavia) in 1949\, is a journalist and a writer whose books have be en translated into many languages. Her best-known book in the USA is Ho w We Survived Communism and Even Laughed. Her last collection of essay s\, Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism\, was pub lished by Penguin Random House.
Original event posting here.
Featured image: https://slavenkadrakulic.com/bibliography/cafe-europa-revisited-how-to- survive-post-communism/
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