Discover America: Watered Down with Šljivovica: Growing up Croatian-American in Kansas City, Kansas

Predavanje 18.04.2019. | četvrtak American Corner Zagreb Početak događanja: 18 sati Knjižnica Augusta Cesarca, Šubićeva 40/2 prof. dr. Jennifer Miskec

Dr. Jennifer M. Miskec, Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature and Fulbright Scholar, will give a talk on Strawberry Hill in Kansas City, Kansas. The talk entitled  Watered Down with Šljivovica: Growing up Croatian-American in Kansas City​ is part of Discover America, a series of monthly travel talks which takes place at the August Cesarec Library, the American Corner's partner library.


Strawberry Hill in Kansas City, Kansas, is a Croatian neighborhood in the middle of America, and it is where the family of Jennifer Miskec settled in the early 1900s. Although Jennifer didn't travel to Croatia for the first time until she was 30, weekly visits to Strawberry Hill established for her an accurate (albeit watered-down) context for her travels.  

Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center https://www.strawberryhillmuseum.org/

Dr. Jennifer Miskec  http://www.longwood.edu/staff/miskecjm/