Sunday Scholar Series
November 18, 2007
4 - 5 pm (time approximate after performance)

COST: $10 ($5 for TimeLine subscribers)

• A one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on the themes and issues of the play

You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive at the theatre a few minutes before 4 pm, check in at the Box Office, and enter the theatre after the performance ends.

The Sunday Scholars panel on November 18 will be moderated by TimeLine Board Member Peter H. Kuntz (Managing Director, Programs and Production - Chicago Humanities Festival) and will feature panelists:

Igor Štiks

Igor Štiks was born in Sarajevo in 1977. His fiction, literary criticism, and essays have appeared widely in journals and reviews of the former Yugoslavia. His first novel A Castle in Romagna (2000) received the Award “Slavic” for Best First Book and was translated into German, Spanish, and English (published in the United States by Autumn Hill Books, 2005). His recently published second novel Elijah’s Chair (2006) received both the Award “Gjalski” and Award  “Kiklop” for the Best Fiction Book of the Year. Several foreign editions of this novel are forthcoming. He is a doctoral candidate at Institut d’Etudes Politique de Paris and Northwestern University.

Andrew Wachtel
Dean, The Graduate School; Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities; and Director, Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University

Andrew Wachtel is Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he serves as dean of The Graduate School and director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. His interests range from Russian literature and culture to East European and Balkan culture, history and politics. His most recent published books are Remaining Relevant After Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe (U. of Chicago Press, 2006), and Plays of Expectations: Intertextual Relations in Russian 20th-Century Drama (REECAS/U. of Washington Press, 2006). His book The Balkans in World History will be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.