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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | Vampire Nation: Blood & Soil on the European Borders
Description: Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 4 β 5pm
A talk by Professor Emeritus Tomislav Z. LonginoviΔ (UW Madison) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A.
This lecture examines the cultural mechanisms through which the Gothic imaginary, constituted during the 19th century in English-language literature, has been transformed into a discursive lens for understanding the Balkans and its apparently endless violent political and military confrontations. The last decade of the twentieth century added one mor...