{"id":4466,"date":"2018-05-26T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2018-05-27T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T14:19:50","slug":"politika-spotlights-updike-updike-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/05\/26\/politika-spotlights-updike-updike-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Politika spotlights Updike, Updike conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-frontpage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4467\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-frontpage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-frontpage.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-frontpage-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-frontpage-441x300.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Biljana Doj\u010dinovi\u0107<\/strong>, director of the upcoming June 1-5 Fifth Biennial John Updike Society Conference at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, reports that the May 26, 2018 <strong><em>Politika Daily<\/em><\/strong> announced the conference in a top-right, front-page teaser (pictured above), and also published two conference-related articles in the Cultural Section (pictured below). The first is an article by JUS president James Plath on &#8220;Updike and Politics&#8221; that promotes the June 5 closing panel at the National Library of the Republic of Serbia: &#8220;Updike and Politics: Does Rabbit Angstrom&#8217;s Political Evolution Help to Explain Trump Supporters?&#8221;; the second is the first installment of a reprint from an interview with Updike conducted in October 1978 on the <em>Politika<\/em> premises, and features a photo published for the first time. Part 2 will be published the following Saturday, on the second day of the conference. Here is the original English text of the &#8220;Updike and Politics&#8221; article that was translated into Serbian by Milica Abramovi\u0107, Marija Bulatovi\u0107, Jana \u017divanovi\u0107, Jelena Ne\u0161i\u0107, and Teodora Todori\u0107: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Updike-Politics.pdf\">Updike &amp; Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-Plath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4468\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-Plath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-Plath.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/Politika-Plath-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/PolitikaUpdike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4469\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/PolitikaUpdike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/PolitikaUpdike.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/05\/PolitikaUpdike-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Biljana Doj\u010dinovi\u0107, director of the upcoming June 1-5 Fifth Biennial John Updike Society Conference at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, reports that the May 26, 2018 Politika Daily announced the conference in a top-right, front-page teaser (pictured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/05\/26\/politika-spotlights-updike-updike-conference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5th-biennial-jus-conference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}