Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies: Slavenka Drakulic - film screening and reading (March 20 & 21, 2011)

[Katja Czarnecki]

*I.*_*Screening of award-winning film /As if I am not there/ at the 
Princess Twin Cinema*_

Irish writer and director Juanita Wilson and Croatian author and 
journalist Slavenka Drakulic' will be present for a q&a after the 
screening of Wilson's new film /As if I am not there/ (2010), based on 
Drakulic''s novel of the same title.

A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of 
the 1990s, /As if I am not There /is taken from true stories revealed 
during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.It focuses on a 
young woman from Sarajevo taken to a Serbian war camp.

For this film, Wilson has been named one of Variety's "Top Ten Directors 
to Watch," the only woman on the list.Screened at the 2010 Toronto 
International Film Festival, /As if I am not there /recently received 
three Irish Film and Television awards for Best Film, Director and Script.

*Sunday, March 20th - 4:00pm*

Admission is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Croatian Studies at the University of Waterloo.

*II._Reading by Slavenka Drakulic'_*

Born in Croatia in 1949, Slavenka Drakulic' is one of Europe's foremost 
women authors. She has published in /The New York Times, The New 
Republic, the New York Book Review, /and /The Nation. /Her writings 
include /How we Survived Communism and Even Laughed/(1991), /Cafe 
Europa: Life After Communism/ (1996), /As if I am not There/ (2001) 
/They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague/ 
(2005), and /Frida's Bed/ (2008).

She will be reading from her most recent work,/A Guided Tour Through the 
Museum of Communism./

/In a series of fables told from the perspective of various animals, //A 
Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism//"beautifully renders the 
dilemmas of life under Communism as sharp instances of moral tragedy. . 
. .Literature here is an aide-mémoire, not just of historical 
experience, but of why we choose to forget" (Timothy Snyder, author of 
//Bloodlands:Europe Between Hitler and Stalin//)./

//

*Monday, March 21st - 8:00pm*

Centre for Environmental and Information Technology - EIT 1015

Followed by book signing and reception.

Words Worth Books will be present with copies of/A Guided Tour Through 
the Museum of Communism //for sale/.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Croatian Studies at the University of Waterloo.


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