International Association of Teachers of Czech (Boardroom 1)
Forum: "The state of the field thirty years after the 1990 conference" (Organized by the AATSEEL Executive Council) with AATSEEL's current leadership and former Presidents: Caryl Emerson, Mark Lipovetsky, Sibelan Forrester, Sarah Pratt, Benjamin Rifkin, Gabriella Safran, Barry Scherr, Thomas Seifrid, and Michael Wachtel (Gallery 2)
Graduate Student Reception with Mark Lipovetsky (Palm Terrace, 6th floor)
9:00pm-11:00pm
Narrative Feature: LISTOPAD: A Memory of the Velvet Revolution, plus Q&A with film producer Jeffrey Brown. (Gallery 2)
Petr, Jiri and Ondrej are an unlikely trio of friends. An artist, a hockey player and a music trader, the boys survive Communism by playing sports, drinking beer, chasing girls and listening to underground music. But they are bound together by their common desire for freedom and, on a cold, dark night in November, Petr, Jiri and Ondrej join the front lines of a student demonstration in the streets of Praha. Face-to-face with the riot police, the boys are forced into a momentous decision: stand up against the Communist regime or give in to a system that has silenced their families for generations.
Saturday, February 8, 2020
7:00am-5:00pm
Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration (Gallery Foyer)
Keynote Address by Alexander Zholkovsky (University of Southern California) "Linguistics and Poetics and Some Other Smoldering Issues of Literary Analysis. An (auto)heuristic study" (Gallery 2)
Feature Documentary: Vinyl Generation: A story of art, vinyl, and revolution, plus Q&A with film producer Jeffrey Brown. (Gallery 2)
In 1980s Communist Czechoslovakia an emerging generation took inspiration from alternative culture to create their own worldview, politics and eventually, a revolution. 25 years later, this unique generational perspective is explored for the first time.
9:30pm
Graduate Student Social with Serguei Oushakine (Off-site, meet at Pushkin Restaurant)