2014 Conference Program:

January 11, 2014, 8:00-10:00am

SAT-A-1 : Dostoevsky: Empire, Gender, Prison

Location:

Florentine

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon

Title:

“Crime and Punishment and the Russian Empire”

Panelist:

Greg Ormiston

Title:

Dostoevskii’s Provincial Prison and the Chronotopic Pattern of The Brothers Karamazov

Panelist:

Elena Shabliy, Tulane University

Title:

Dostoevsky's and Hardy's Feminist Impulse: Polina and Sue as the New Women in The Gambler and Jude the Obscure

Panelist:

Alina Wyman, New College of Florida

Title:

The Nameless Female Other in “The Kreutzer Sonata” and “The Meek One”: Personhood and Otherness in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Discussants:

Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University

SAT-A-2 : Chekhov

Location:

Georgian

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Amber Aulen, University of Toronto

Title:

“_Ia – aktrisa_”: The Figure of the Actress as a Key to Anton Chekhov’s Aesthetics

Panelist:

Nikita Nankov

Title:

Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”: An Inquiry into the Short Story Genre

Panelist:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

Title:

Shakespeare, Chekhov, and the Tragic Stage in Lev Shestov's Tragic Philosophy

Discussants:

Yuliya Ilchuk

SAT-A-3 : Silver Age Poetry

Location:

Parkside

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Title:

The “hubris topos” in Symbolist poetry

Panelist:

Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Emory University

Title:

The “Anarchical” Scientific-Intuitive: Inter-art strategies in works by Elena Guro and Varvara Stepanova

Panelist:

Hui Andy Zhang, Northwestern University

Title:

Recognition through Reinvention: The Myth of China in Russian Modernist Poets

Panelist:

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Title:

Khodasevich and the Choriamb

Panelist:

Joshua Neese-Todd, Central European University

Title:

Silver Age in the Black City: Literary Life in Baku, 1919-1924

SAT-A-4 Panel: The Book in Russian Life Writing:"Write and Record!"

Location:

Michigan

Organizer:

Renee Scherer, University of Michigan

Chair:

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Panelist:

Renee Scherer, University of Michigan

Title:

Conversations with the Wind: Literature in the Dubnov/Erlich Family Memoirs

Panelist:

Olga Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University

Title:

«Что-то с памятью моей стало...»: (Mis)Interpretation of Literary Sources in Children

Panelist:

Kathryn Duda, University Of Chicago

Title:

Conversations with the Wind: Literature in the Dubnov/Erlich Family Memoirs

Panelist:

Margarita Levantovskaya, University of California, San Diego

Title:

"Redrawing the Past: Grisha Bruskin's Autobiographies"

SAT-A-5 : Contemporary Russian Film and Culture

Location:

Venetian

Chair:

Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Mihaela-Andreea Pacurar, Harvard University

Title:

“Moskva kotoroi net” – chronicling the city and its losses

Panelist:

Olga Voronina, Bard College

Title:

Altar of the Muses: Post-Soviet Transformation of Russian Literary Museums

Panelist:

Olga Mesropova, Iowa State University

Title:

Reimagining the Soviet Experience: Melodramatic Historiography and Recent Russian Television Series.

Panelist:

Emily Ewers, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Title:

Museum, Archive and Historical Narrative in Russkii kovcheg and Gorod zero

Discussants:

Kiun Hwang, University of Pittsburgh

SAT-A-6 : Contemporary Polish Literature

Location:

Tudor

Chair:

Galina Siergiejczyk, University of Colorado-Boulder

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kinga Kosmala, Northwestern University

Title:

Justyna Bargielska’s “Little Foxes” and Sylwia Chutnik’s “Scallywags”: Subverting Warsaw’s Dominant Narrative

Panelist:

Helen Myers, The Ohio State University

Title:

Myth and synchronicity in Tokarczuk’s novel "Primeval and Other Times"

Panelist:

Jennifer Croft, Northwestern University

Title:

Women Writing the Grotesque in Today’s Poland

SAT-A-7 Panel: Semiotics of BCMS Hip Hop and Reggae

Location:

Astor

Organizer:

Marin Turk, University of Michigan

Chair:

Nada Petkovic, University of Chicago

Panelist:

Marin Turk, University of Michigan

Title:

Rapping In Ambiguous Buildings: "Real" Places in ex-Yu Rap Videos

Panelist:

Jana Zoric, CUNY Graduate Center

Title:

"Balkan" Reggae and its Musical and Textual Symbolism

Panelist:

Owen Kohl, University of Chicago

Title:

Shady Sincerity: Voicing, Footing, and Monikers in ex-YU Hip Hop

SAT-A-8 : How do we speak, Why do we speak that way, and What does it all mean?

Location:

Huron

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Yelena Belyaeva-Standen, St. Louis University

Title:

Culture- and gender-specific use of compliments by Russians and Americans.

Panelist:

Olena Hlazkova, University of Alberta

Title:

"Language problem" and identity in multilingual Slavic contexts

Panelist:

Lindy Comstock, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Metaphorical Extension of Russian Interjections “Aj” and "Oj” as a Representation of Peircean Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness

SAT-A-9 : Second Language Acquisition Research

Location:

Erie

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elisabeth M. Elliott, Northwestern University

Title:

Russian Visual Intercultural Dictionary: Planting Seeds in a Third Place?

Panelist:

Mark Baugher, American Councils for International Education

Title:

An Analysis of the Role of Deduction in the Acquisition of Russian Verbal Morphology

Panelist:

Beata Gallaher, Independent Scholar

Title:

Pragmatic Competence of L2 Learners of Russian based on the Speech Act of Request

Panelist:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Title:

Beginning Teachers, Teacher Talk, and Increasing Target Language Use in the Language Classroom

January 11, 2014, 1:15-3:00pm

SAT-B-1 Panel: The English Gothic Shadow on Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Location:

Florentine

Organizer:

Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia

Chair:

Denis Zhernokleyev, Vanderbilt University

Panelist:

Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

A Monk in Madrid: Matthew Lewis's Gothic Novel and Pushkin's Kamennyi Gost'

Panelist:

Mark Pettus, Princeton University

Title:

Kant's Mathematical Sublime and the Gothic Chronotope in Dostoevsky

Panelist:

Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia

Title:

The Curse of Otranto: Horace Walpole and the Fall of the Russian Family

Discussants:

Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

SAT-B-2 : Adaptations of Tolstoy

Location:

Astor

Chair:

Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Radha Balasubramanian, University of Nebraska

Title:

Katha Sagar: L. N. Tolstoy’s stories adapted for popular Indian television serial

Panelist:

Nina Bond, Franklin & Marshall

Title:

Cinematizing the Inner Life of Anna Karenina

Panelist:

Lioudmila Fedorova, Georgetown University

Title:

Anna through the Looking Glass: Wright’s and Stoppard’s Anna Karenina in Russia

Discussants:

Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton College

SAT-B-3 : Contemporary Russian Culture

Location:

Walton I/Walton South

Chair:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Viktoria Vutova, University of Virginia

Title:

Witchs Tears: Sadurs Moral Scary Fairy Tale of the Modern Day

Panelist:

Stephanie Porter, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Word for Word Translation: Lilianna Lungina's Podstrochnik and Les Saisons de Moscou

SAT-B-4 Panel: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema

Location:

Venetian

Organizer:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Panelist:

Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

Marlen Khutsiev

Panelist:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

Beloved, wife, friend: Women

Panelist:

Kirsten Rutsala, University of Oklahoma

Title:

Images (Holy and Otherwise): Dostoevskian Subtexts in Contemporary Russian Cinema

Discussants:

Nicole Monnier, University of Missouri

SAT-B-5 Panel: Religion Returns: Alternative Spiritualities in 21st-Century Russian Arts and Entertainment

Location:

Huron

Organizer:

David McVey, University of Kansas

Chair:

John Wright

Panelist:

Maria Hristova, Lewis & Clark College

Title:

The Re-Sacralization of the Everyday: Travel Writing and Religion in Contemporary Russian Literature

Panelist:

David McVey, University of Kansas

Title:

Pavel Lungin

Discussants:

Elena Clark, Wake Forest University

SAT-B-6 Panel: Myth, Folklore and Folk Beliefs in Russian and Ukrainian Literature and Culture

Location:

Georgian

Organizer:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Chair:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Panelist:

Anna Golash

Title:

Mythopoetic Imagination in Valerii Shevchuk

Panelist:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

Folkloric Elements and Folk Beliefs in Contemporary Ukrainian Women

Panelist:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Title:

Mythopoetics and Mythopolitics in Postemancipation Russia

SAT-B-7 : Czech Literature and Culture

Location:

Tudor

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ekaterina Turta, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Allusions to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina in Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Panelist:

Corine Tachtiris, Earlham College

Title:

Czech Lion, Vietnamese Dragon: Multiculturalism on the Czech Book Market

SAT-B-8 Panel: Interdisciplinarity: Anthropological Approaches to Slavic Literature and Culture

Location:

Michigan

Organizer:

Rebecca Stakun, University of Kansas

Chair:

Rebecca Stakun, University of Kansas

Panelist:

Tom Dolack, Wheaton College

Title:

Being Interdisciplinary in an Intradisciplinary World: Lessons from the Field

Panelist:

Michael Kunichika, Harvard University

Title:

Towards a Nonsynchronic Poetics: the Case of Boris Pil'niak's "Russia in Flight" (1926)

Panelist:

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

Title:

Kinship and Literature

Discussants:

Alaina Lemon

SAT-B-9 : Poetry Translation Workshop

Location:

Walton II/Walton North

Discussants:

Martha M. F. Kelly, University of Missouri

Margo Rosen

Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana University

SAT-B-10 Roundtable: Career Opportunities for Slavists Beyond the Academy

Location:

Ontario

Organizer:

Julia McAnallen, Michigan State University

Chair:

Julia McAnallen, Michigan State University

Discussants:

Irina Makoveeva, CIEE

Julie Draskoczy, Jewish Community High School of the Bay

SAT-B-11 : По пути к современному русскому языку: XVIII и XIX вв.

Location:

Erie

SAT-B-12 Roundtable: STARTALK: Best practices from the first hands

Location:

Parkside

Organizer:

Elena Farkas, Language Immersion K-12 Consulting

Chair:

Jane W. Shuffelton, Brighton High School, retired

Discussants:

Annalisa Czeczulin, Goucher College

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

SAT-B-13 : Poster Session: Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages

Location:

Superior

January 11, 2014, 3:15-5:00pm

SAT-C-1 : Russian Romanticism

Location:

Michigan

Chair:

Ekaterina Turta, University of Pittsburgh

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Emily Wang, University of Southern California

Title:

Ryleev's Dumy and the Decembrist Conception of Russian History

Panelist:

Catherine O'Neil, US Naval Academy

Title:

Monumental love: The posthumous romance of Alexander Griboedov and Nino Chavchavadze

Panelist:

Valleri Robinson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

The Caucasus and Russian Identity in BestuzhevMarlinskys Ammalatbek (1831)

Panelist:

Tim Langen, University of Missouri

Title:

Norm, Deviation, and Statistical Thinking in Gogol's Fiction

Discussants:

Timothy Portice, Princeton University

SAT-C-2 : North American Dostoevsky Society Panel: “Dostoevsky’s Ontology, Ethics, and Aesthetics”

Location:

Georgian

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Daniel Nolan, University of Minnesota Duluth

Title:

Dostoevskii, Nietzsche and the Criminal Type

Panelist:

Charles Arndt, Vassar College

Title:

Material in the Spiritual World: Dostoevsky’s Use of Everyday Objects in his Descriptions of the Supernatural

Panelist:

Denis Zhernokleyev, Vanderbilt University

Title:

“The Lust of the Eyes” in Augustine and Dostoevsky

SAT-C-3 : 1920s Russian Prose

Location:

Erie

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Christopher Pike, Northwestern University

Title:

Of Entropy and "Hairy Paws;" A Vision of Biocentric Freedom in Evgenii Zamiatin's We

Panelist:

Amanda Allan, Northwestern University

Title:

Romanticization of Orphanhood in Belykh and Panteleev’s Republic of Shkid

Panelist:

Barbara Henry, University of Washington

Title:

The descent to the underworld in Soviet literature of the 1920s

SAT-C-4 Panel: What is the Genre of the Ethnographic Memoir?

Location:

Florentine

Organizer:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Chair:

Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter

Panelist:

Matthew Mangold, Rutgers University

Title:

Chekhov's Sakhalin Island as Environmental Humanism

Panelist:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Title:

The Portrait Gallery as Ethnography: Khodasevich and Chukovsky's Memoirs of their Contemporaries

Panelist:

Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana University

Title:

Old Genres and New: Turgenev's Sportsman's Sketches as Creative Nonfiction

Discussants:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

SAT-C-5 Panel: Eastern Orthodox Aesthetics in Slavic Literature and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Location:

Astor

Organizer:

Diana Dukhanova, Brown University

Chair:

Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College

Panelist:

Diana Dukhanova, Brown University

Title:

Silver Age Iconosophical Thought and Western Renaissance Aesthetics: A Dialogue between Pavel Florensky and G.W. Hegel

Panelist:

Evan Freeman, Yale University

Title:

Leonid Ouspensky

Panelist:

Milutin Janjic, Graduate Theological Union

Title:

Faith and Culture in the Nonconformist Context of Leningrad in the 1970s: Challenges of Religious Conversion and Samizdat Journal #37

Discussants:

Michal Oklot, Brown University

SAT-C-6 Roundtable: Who is the Reader of Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature

Location:

Venetian

Organizer:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Discussants:

Kelly Herold, Grinnell College

Masha Boston, Lawrence University

Olga Voronina, Bard College

SAT-C-7 : Russian Language and Culture Abroad

Location:

Tudor

Chair:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina McKay, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language

Title:

Russian Language Press Published in the USA: History, Development, and Distinguishing Features

Panelist:

Elizabeth Ransome, Harvard University

Title:

A Historical Case Study of the Cultural Impact of Language Teaching: Rachele Gutman Polledro teaches Russian in Turin, 1905-1944

Panelist:

Brittany Pheiffer Noble, Columbia University

Title:

Visions of Rus’ in Paris: The Medieval in the Russian Émigré Imagination

SAT-C-8 : Russian-Ukrainian Cultural Intersections

Location:

Ontario

Chair:

Yuliya Ilchuk

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Pavlo Shopin, Taras Shevchenko National University of Luhansk

Title:

Reason in Disguise: Madness in Gogol and Kostenko

Panelist:

Polina Rikoun, University of Denver

Title:

Divine Providence and the Party Line: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in 16th and 20th century Historiography

SAT-C-9 : Russian Morphosyntax

Location:

Parkside

Chair:

Robert Channon, Purdue University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Julia Kuznetsova, University of Tromso

Title:

Russian nominative and instrumental: a diachronic shift driven by semantics

Panelist:

George Rubinstein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title:

Russian Multiple Aspectual Correlations Revisited

SAT-C-10 Forum: Mezhdu nami: A web-based, communicative, input-driven introductory textbook for first year Russian

Location:

Huron

Organizer:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Panelists:

Alla Smyslova, Columbia University

Lynne deBenedette, Brown University

William J. Comer, Portland State University

January 11, 2014, 5:00-7:00pm

SAT-D-1 : Advanced Seminar: Clare Cavanagh, Poetry and Biography

Location:

Parkside

SAT-D-2 : Presidential Panel III: Kathleen Parthe's A Herzen Reader

Location:

Venetian

SAT-D-3 : Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose

Location:

Georgian

Chair:

Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anna Berman, McGill University

Title:

A Plot of One’s Own: Brothers in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Panelist:

Matthew Sutton, Rhodes College

Title:

"The Wild Animal's Metamorphosis"

Panelist:

Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College

Title:

Tolstoy's Hermeneutics

Panelist:

Jaron Castilleja, University of Kansas

Title:

Purgatory and Spirituality in Saltykov-Schedrin’s The Golovlyov Family

January 11, 2014, 7:00-9:00pm

SAT-E-1 : Poetry Reading: Special Roundtable in Memory of Rafael Levchin

Location:

Parkside

SAT-E-2 Roundtable: Preparing for the Ever Changing World of Academia

Location:

Georgian

Organizer:

Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Discussants:

Charles Arndt, Vassar College

Elisabeth M. Elliott, Northwestern University

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee