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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"><span
style="">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;
line-height: 115%;"><span style=""></span></span></b><u><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style=""> </span><span
lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>Screening of
award-winning film <i style="">As if I am not there</i> at
the Princess
Twin Cinema</span></span></b></u>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%;" lang="EN-US">Irish
writer and director Juanita Wilson and Croatian author and
journalist Slavenka
Drakulić will be present <span style=""> </span>for a q&a
after the screening of Wilson’s new film <i style="">As
if I am not there</i> (2010), based on Drakulić's novel of the
same title.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: none
repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51);" lang="EN-US">A harsh dose of cinematic realism
about a harsh time-the
Bosnian War of the 1990s, <i style="">As if I am not
There </i>is taken from true stories revealed during the
International Criminal
Tribunal in The Hague.<span style=""> </span>It focuses on a
young woman from Sarajevo taken to a Serbian war camp.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: none
repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51);" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>For this
film, Wilson
has been named one of Variety’s “Top Ten Directors to Watch,”
the only woman on
the list.<span style=""> </span>Screened at the 2010 Toronto
International Film Festival, <i style="">As if I am
not there </i>recently received three Irish Film and
Television awards for Best
Film, Director and Script.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: none
repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><b><big><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-US">Sunday, March 20th
- 4:00pm</span></big></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: none
repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-US">Admission is free and
open to the public.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 1pt; line-height:
normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Sponsored by Croatian
Studies at the University of
Waterloo.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 1pt; line-height:
normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 1pt 54pt; text-indent:
-36pt; line-height: normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
white;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span
style="">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span><u>Reading by Slavenka
Drakulić<span style=""> </span></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 1pt; line-height:
normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%;" lang="EN-US">Born in Croatia in 1949, Slavenka Drakulić
is one
of Europe’s foremost women authors. She has published in <i>The
New York Times,
The New Republic, the New York Book Review, </i>and <i>The
Nation. </i><span style=""> </span>Her writings include <i>How
we Survived
Communism and Even Laughed</i></span><span style="font-size:
12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"> (1991), <i>Cafe Europa:
Life After Communism</i> (1996), <i style="">As if I am not
There</i> (2001) <i>They
Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague</i>
(2005), and <i>Frida's
Bed</i> (2008).<span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%;" lang="EN-US">She
will be reading from her most recent work,<span style="">
</span><em><span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";">A Guided Tour
Through the Museum of Communism.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";
font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">In a series of fables told
from the perspective of various animals, </span></em><em><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">A
Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism</span></em><em><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:
normal;" lang="EN-US"> “beautifully renders the
dilemmas of life under Communism as sharp instances of moral
tragedy. . .
.<span style=""> </span>Literature here is an aide-mémoire,
not just of historical experience, but of why we choose to
forget” (Timothy Snyder,
author of </span></em><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;
line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Bloodlands:<span
style=""> </span>Europe Between Hitler and Stalin</span></em><em><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:
normal;" lang="EN-US">).</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Monday, March 21st -
8:00pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Centre for Environmental
and Information Technology - EIT 1015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Followed by book signing
and
reception.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Words Worth Books will be
present with copies of<em><span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";"> A
Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism </span></em><em><span
style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:
normal;">for sale</span></em>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">This event is free and
open to
the public.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; line-height: normal;
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Sponsored by Croatian
Studies
at the University of Waterloo.</span></p>
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