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The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at IUB will host a special lecture Monday (April 26) at 12:45 p.m., Morrison Hall 007. The lecturer will be Andrew Wachtel, and the topic is "How We Got in Way Above Our Heads in Kosovo: The Unfolding Tragedy in the Balkans."
Andrew Wachtel is the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in literature and chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. He is the author of a wide variety of books and articles on Russian and South Slavic literature and culture. His most recent book is Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia.
Wachtel is also a frequent commentator on WBEZ's WorldView, Channel 11's Chicago Tonight and WMAQ radio regarding U.S. policy in the Balkans.
Wachtel is a participant in "Russia/U.S.: Reflecting Cross-Culturally," a conference on interaction between Russian and American cultures, which began Thursday (April 22) on the Bloomington campus.
Related Link:
http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/russus.html
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