2007 Conference - Preliminary ProgramVersion of December 26, 2007Notes: If a session currently lacks a chair, please feel free to volunteer to chair the session. Offers to chair sessions, corrections to program entries, and requests for changes in the preliminary schedule should be addressed to William J. Comer, Chair of AATSEEL Program Committee at wjcomer@ku.edu. Abstracts will be posted as they are edited. Equipment requests are noted in parentheses following the panelist’s paper title. CP=Computer projector OP=Overhead Projector CD=portable audio CD/tape player VCR or DVD includes a television) Non-Panel EventsDecember 27
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Pre-Conference WorkshopDecember 27 7:00pm-9:00pmThe Academic Job Search from Applications to InterviewsParticipants:Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio University Kirsten Rutsala, University of Oklahoma Shannon Spasova, Dalhousie University Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago Jason Galie, Defense Language Institute PanelsDecember 28 8:00am-10:00am28A-1 Panel: Interpreting DostoevskiiPanel Chair: Alexander Burry, The Ohio State UniversityPanelist: Jason Galie, Defense Language Institute Title: Griboedov and Dostoevsky Panelist: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth University Title: Learning How To Look: Nastasia Filippovna in The Idiot Panelist: Carol Flath, Duke University Title: New Russian Dostoevsky Criticism 28A-2 Panel: Literature of the 1920s and 1930s IPanel Chair: Nicholas Rzhevsky, State University of New YorkPanelist: Nina Wieda, Northwestern University Title: Wild Ride in Babel’s Red Cavalry: Genealogy of a Topos Panelist: Matvei Yankelevich, CUNY Graduate Center Title: The Ideology Of Reception And The Violence Of Domestication: The Case Of Daniil Kharms Panelist: Katie Holt, Columbia University Title: Metaphor and the Desert in Andrei Platonov's “Takyr” and “Dzhan” Panelist: Yulia Borisova, Northwestern University Title: “Нa оседлости коммунизм никак не состоится”: Movement As A Way To Build An Ideal Society In Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur Panel Discussant: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University 28A-3 Panel: History and FictionPanel Chair: Ilya Vinitsky, University of PennsylvaniaPanelist: Rad Borislavov, University of Chicago Title: Shklovsky Discovers the Eighteenth Century Panelist: Maksim Klymentiev, University of Southern California Title: Inside Stalin’s Wartime Mind: Narrative Structures and Soviet Power Hierarchies in Vladimir Bogomolov’s The Moment of Truth. Panelist: Kerry Sabbag, University of Kansas Title: History and Historiography in Grigorii Gorin’s Zabyt’ Gerostrata 28A-4 Panel: Intertextual Connections in Central European LiteraturePanel Chair: Michal Oklot, Brown UniversityPanelist: Piotr Wilczek, University of Silesia Title: Polish and Central European Literary Canon: A Comparative Perspective Panelist: Yelena Zotova, University of Illinois at Chicago Title:Souls without Bodies and Bodies without Souls: Re-contextualizing “Lenore.” Panelist: Natalia A. Vesselova, University of Ottawa Title: Sergei Dovlatov and Marek Hlasko: Life and Art in the Sotslager Panelist: Clarice A. Cloutier, New York University in Prague Title: Balto-Slavic Timescapes: Tomas Venclova, Josef Brodsky, Vladimír Holan and Jaroslav Seifert 28A-5 Panel: Grammatical Gender as a Source of Metaphorical ThinkingPanel Chair: Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio UniversityPanelist: Mariya Y. Boston, UC Davis Title: The “I” Lost and Found: Poetic Meaning of Pronouns in the Poems “She” and “You” by Zinaida Gippius Panelist: Marina Rojavin, Temple University Title: Why The Prince Was Happy Panelist: Yevgeny A. Slivkin, University of Oklahoma Title: The Poem Found In Saragossa: The Function Of Gramatical Gender In The Poetics Of V. Sosnora Panelist: Robert Orr, Ottawa University Title: Gender in Other Dimensions Panel Discussant: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College 28A-6 Panel: Agreement and CasePanel Chair: Natalia Kondrashova, University of MichiganPanelist: Christopher Becker, University of Michigan Title: Case Variation of Direct Objects Panelist: James Lavine, Bucknell University Title: Case Dependencies and Nominative First Panelist: Nicholas Fleisher, UC Berkeley Title: Russian Dative Subjects, Case, and Control 28A-7 Panel: Language Policy and Populations: Interactions of Language and IdentityPanel Chair: TBAPanelist: Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University Title: Linguistic Strategies of the Imperial Appropriation of the Colonized Panelist: Svitlana Malykhina, SUNY at Albany Title: Is Russian in retreat in Ukraine? Panelist: Victoria Malko, California State University, Fresno Title: Acculturation Strategies among Russian University Students in the United States Panelist: William Rivers, University of Maryland-College Park (CP) Title: A Propensity Model Evaluation of the Impact of Title VI on Slavic and Mid-Eastern LCTLs 28A-8 Round Table: Restructuring “The Structure of Russian”Roundtable Chair: Elisabeth Elliott, Northwestern UniversityRoundtable Discussants: E. Wayles Browne, Cornell University Patricia Chaput, Harvard University Jane Hacking, University of Utah David Hart, Brigham Young University Grant Lundberg, Brigham Young University December 28, 10:15am-12:15pm28B-1 Panel: New Interpretations of Pushkin’s Evgenii OneginPanel Chair: Douglas Clayton, University of OttawaPanelist: Milla Fedorova, Georgetown University Title: The Lover of Julie Wolmar Panelist: Anna Tumarkin, UW-Madison Title: The Death of Onegin: Reinterpreting the Finale of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin Panelist: Svetlana Soglasnova, Brock University Title: “Mel'kaiut mimo budki, baby”: Grammatical Iconicity in Eugene Onegin Discussant: Olga Meerson, Georgetown University 28B-2 Panel: Intertextual Approaches to TolstoiPanel Chair: Michael Kelly, Brigham Young UniversityPanelist: Nina Lee, Columbia University Title: Anna Karenina: Railroading Madame Bovary Panelist: Ani Kokobobo, Columbia University Title: “He did not speak to them without a parable” (Mk. 4:34) – The Metaphorical Truth About God in Tolstoy's Translation of the Gospels. Panelist: Nathan Klausner, Yale University Title: The Role of Homer in the Development of Tolstoy's Aesthetics Panelist: Emily Shaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Tolstoy’s Prince Nekhliudov and Schopenhauer: A Failed Marriage 28B-3 Panel: Alisa Rosenbaum/Ayn Rand and the State Institute of Cinematography: From Leningrad to HollywoodPanel Chair: Boris Wolfson, University of Southern California Panelist: Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University Title: Contextualizing Ayn Rand's Early Admiration of Hollywood Panelist: Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia Tech Title: The Movie Diary of Alisa Rozenbaum/Ayn Rand: Evaluations and Inspirations Panelist: Dina Schein Federman, The Ayn Rand Institute Title: The Russian Film Writings of Ayn Rand: Roots of a Romanticist Conviction 28B-4 Round Table: Happiness Soviet/Post-Soviet StyleRoundtable Chair: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State UniversityRoundtable Discussants: Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University Tatiana Mikhailova, University of Colorado-Boulder 28B-5 Panel: Escaping Transition. Narratives of Post-communism in Bulgaria and RomaniaPanel Chair: Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignPanelist: Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University Title: Looking For Answers in Post Socialist Bulgaria: Elena Aleksieva’s Who? Panelist: Miglena Ivanova, Coastal Carolina University (DVD) Title: “Wild, Young Cinema:” Zornitsa Sophia’s Mila from Mars Panelist: Oana Popescu-Sandu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (DVD) Title: “Was it, or was it not?” Memory and (tragic) Comedy in the Romanian Transition. 28B-6 Panel: Inter-relationship of Lexicon and GrammarPanel Chair: Steven Clancy, University of ChicagoPanelist: Alina Israeli, American University Title: Russian Impersonal Infinitival by and Tense Disambiguation Panelists: Alexey Shmelev, Moscow Pedagogical University; Irina Mikaelian, Pennsylvania State University; Anna Zalizniak, Russsan Academy of Sciences Title: : Imperfectivization in Russian: In Search of Functional Correlates Panelist: Alexander Lehrman, U of Delaware Title: The Interaction of Morphology and Lexicon in Russian Prepositions 28B-7 Panel: PhonologyPanel Chair: Keith Langston, University of GeorgiaPanelist: Frank Y. Gladney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (CP) Title: Polish Consonant Clusters Simplified Panelist: Keith Goeringer, Independent Scholar Title: Retroflex Neutralization in Dialectal Polish and Mandarin Panelist: Miriam Shrager, Indiana University Title: Russian Stress: The Interaction of Morphology and Phonetics 28B-8 Round Table: Standards-based lessons in Pre-college Teaching of RussianRoundtable Chair: Jane Shuffelton, Brighton HS, Rochester, NYRoundtable Discussants: Elena Farkas, University of Alaska Paavo Husen, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois Natasha Ushakova, Staten Island Tech, Staten Island, New York 28B-9 Round Table: New Trends in Study Abroad and Exchange ProgramsRoundtable Chair: Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma Roundtable Discussants: Lori Citti, Johns Hopkins University Jeanette Owen, American Councils David Prestel, Michigan State University Marina Dibrova, Nevsky Institute, St. Petersburg Irina Shevelenko, Smolny College, St. Petersburg December 28 1:30pm-3:30pm28C-1 Panel: North American Pushkin Society: Reconsiderations of Pushkin's Boris GodunovPanel Chair: Catherine O’Neil, United States Naval AcademyPanelist: Chester Dunning, Texas A&M University Title: Did Tsar Nicholas Personally Censor Pushkin's Boris Godunov? Panelist: Gerald Mikkelson, University of Kansas Title: Functions of Literacy in Pushkin's Boris Godunov Panelist: Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, University of Notre Dame Title: The Ethical Dimension of Pushkin's Boris Godunov Panel Discussant: Caryl Emerson, Princeton University 28C-2 Panel: Dostoevskii: Religion and EthicsPanel Chair: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityPanelist: Eric Schuck, University of Colorado at Boulder Title: Dostoevskii: Experiencing Ideology through Action Panelist: Susan Amert, University of Delaware Title: The Gospel According to Marmeladov Panelist: Kathryn Duda, University of Chicago Title: The Idiocy of Ethics or the Ethics of Idiocy? 28C-3 Panel: MayakovskyPanel Chair: Juliette Stapanian Apkarian, Emory UniversityPanelist: Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern University Title: The Influence of Italian Futurism and the Motif of War in the Early Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky Panelist: Kelly Knickmeier, University of Kansas Title: The Poet and the Propagandist: Mayakovsky’s Apprenticeship at ROSTA Panelist: Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine, Bucknell University Title: Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Letaiushchii proletarii: “Agitpoema” or a “Joke”? 28C-4 Panel: Modernist Theatre and Its InventionsPanel Chair: Carol Flath, Duke UniversityPanelist: Beata Waligorska-Olejniczak, Adam Mickiewicz University Title: Function of the theatrical gesture in the Chekhovian poetics of negation on the basis of the drama of A. P. Chekhov The Seagull Panelist: Galina Rylkova, University of Florida Title: “What We Need Are New Forms”: Chekhov and Meyerhold Panelist: Michael D. Johnson, University of Kansas Title: “My soul is on the threshold of great events”: Vera Komissarzhevskaia and Stanislaw Przybyszewski Panelist: Nicholas Rzhevsky, State University of New York Title: Regaining Modernism: The Taganka Theater 2003-2005 28C-5 Panel: Sites of Plotting in Russian Literature: From the Novel and the Thin Magazine to the InternetPanel Chair: Julie Cassiday, Williams CollegePanelist: Robert Belknap, Columbia University Title: Rarified and Popular Plots Panelist: Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University (Screen) Title: Worlds Collide: Plotting Interaction of Classes in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction and Illustrated Weeklies Panelist: Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College-Columbia University Title: A Congeries of Plots: Case Studies in Classics, Adaptations, and Chat 28C-6 Panel: Student Tasks in the Language ClassroomPanel Chair: Raissa Krivitsky, Cornell UniversityPanelist: Tony Brown, Brigham Young University (CP) Title: Argumentation and Debate in Foreign Language Instruction: A Case for the Traditional Classroom Facilitating Advanced Level Language Uptake Panelist: Teresa Gryminska and Irene Krasner, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (CP) Title: Effective Use of Task-Based Instruction in the Teaching of Russian Panelist: William J. Comer, University of Kansas Title: Taking Classes to Task: Issues in Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching 28C-7 Round Table: Teaching Polish Language and CultureRound Table Chair: Joanna Kot, Northern Illinois University Roundtable Discussants: Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski, University of Iowa Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, University of Illinois, Chicago George Gasyna, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ewa Malachowsak-Pasek, University of Michigan Joanna Kurowska-Mlynarczyk, University of Chicago Svetlana Petkova Vassileva-Karagyozova, University of Kansas 28C-8 Round Table: Connections and Community in Russian with Outreach, Exchanges, and More: Learning Continues Outside the Classroom.Roundtable Chair: Natasha Ushakova, Staten Island Tech, Staten Island, New YorkRoundtable Discussants: Elena Farkas, University of Alaska Paavo Husen, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois December 28, 3:45pm-5:45pm28D-1 Panel: Chekhov’s Drama: Texts and StagingsPanel Chair: Inna Caron, The Ohio State UniversityPanelist: Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa Title: Clair de lune … sur l’eau: Maupassant and Chekhov’s Seagull Panelist: Radik Lapushin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: Not to Moscow but to Charleston: Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Arthur Allan Seidelman’s Sisters Panelist: Mila Shevchenko, University of Michigan Title: The Melodramatic Appropriation of Katabatic Subtext in Chekhov’s On the High Road 28D-2 Panel: Modernism and the ArtsPanel Chair: Maria Shardakova, University of PennsylvaniaPanelist: Irina Shevelenko, Smolny College, St. Petersburg Title: Empire and Nation in the Imagination of Russian Modernism Panelist: Juliette Stapanian Apkarian, Emory University Title: The Other Futurist Woman: Guro’s sister Ekaterina Nizen Panelist: Suk-Young Kim, UC Santa Barbara Title: Make Me a Sarafan and Kokoshnik: Russian Costumes in the Early 20th Century American Social Performance Panelist: Anna Aydinyan, Yale University Title: Andrei Tarkovsky and Acmeism 28D-3 Panel: Author and Hero Revisited: Ethical and Aesthetic Activity in Russian ProsePanel Chair: Timothy J. Portice, Princeton UniversityPanelist: Alex Spektor, Harvard University Title: Polyphony as Narrative Violence in Dostoevsky’s “The Meek One.” Panelist: Maria Isabel Kisel, Northwestern University Title: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, and the Shame of a Hack Writer Panelist: Yuri Corrigan, Princeton University Title: Metadrama vs. Melodrama: Authors and Heroes in Chekhov’s Prose 28D-4 Panel: Afro-Russo-Soviet Race Politics, 1799-1940Panel Chair: Allison Blakely, Boston UniversityPanelist: Robert Coles, Hampshire College Title: Russian Racial Attitudes Before Pushkin Panelist: David Chioni Moore, Macalester College Title: Langston Hughes’s Soviet Writing: Betweenness and Proxy Politics Panelist: Romy Taylor, University of Arizona Title: But Is She Negro? Bare Life, Custodial Detention and J. Edgar Hoover’s Hunt for an African-American Communist Panel Discussant: Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College-Columbia University 28D-5 Panel: Polish LiteraturePanel Chair: George Gasyna, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignPanelist: Marta Napiorkowska, University of Chicago Title: Wokulski’s Muse: The Social, the Mind, and Reaching the Limit of What Can Happen in Prus’ Lalka. Panelist: Michal Oklot, Brown University Title: Nihilistic Fulfilling: Matter in the Poetic Cosmogony of Bruno Schulz Panelist: Joanna Kot, Northern Illinois University Title: Variety of Form and Critical Reception of Polish Inter-war “Women’s Drama” Panelist: Joanna Kurowska-Mlynarczyk, University of Chicago Title: Tymoteusz Karpowicz's Language Traps in Odwrócone Światło 28D-6 Panel: New Trends in RussianPanel Chair: Alexei Shmelev, Moscow Pedagogical UniversityPanelist: Vladimir Shmelev and Elena Shmeleva, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Political and Administrative Vocabulary of Modern Russian Panelist: Maxim A. Krongauz, Russian State University for Humanities and Maria M. Buras, Applied Communications Center Title: New Trends in Russian Business Communication Panelist: Irina Levontina, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: A Consumer Grammar: Advertising Discourse and Some Active Processes in the Syntax of Modern Russian 28D-7 Panel: Indefinites in SlavicPanel Chair: Hana Filip, University of FloridaPanelist: Elena Paducheva, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Definiteness, Indefiniteness and Non-referentiality of Russian NPs Panelist: Evguenia Malaia, Purdue University Title: Event Structure of Russian Verbs: Derivational Morphology and Nominal Arguments Panelist: George Bronnikov, University of Texas at Austin Title: Bare NPs in Russian Panelist: Tania Ionin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title: Specific Indefinites in Russian and the Use of 'odin' as an Indefinite Article Panelist: Olga Kagan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Title: Speaker Identifiability in Russian 28D-8 Panel: The Prototype AP® Russian Program: Online Assessment and ArticulationPanel Chair: Maria Lekic, Univ. of MarylandPanelist: Camelot Marshall, ACTR Title: The Prototype AP® Russian Score Report: Program Results and College-level Placement Panelist: Ken Petersen, ACTR Title: Online Language Assessment: Design and Administration Panel Discussant: Alla Smyslova, Columbia University 28D-9 Round Table: Microstrategies for Teaching Slavic LanguagesRoundtable Chair: Svitlana Rogovyk, University of MichiganRoundtable Discussants: Ewa Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan Piotr Westwalewicz, University of Michigan Marija Rosic, University of Michigan Nina Shkolnik, University of Michigan Laura Kline, Lecturer of Russian, Wayne State University December 29, 8:00am-10:00am29A-1 Panel: Writing and Literature in the Romantic PeriodPanel Chair: Victoria Thorstensson, University of Wisconsin-MadisonPanelist: Lena Lencek, Reed College Title: Desidero, ergo sum:The Subject of Empire and the Desiring Subject. Hume, Kant, and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time Panelist: Diana Koretsky, Bucknell University Title: Of Gods and Monsters: Byron, Idolatry and Literary Vampirism in the Poetry of Mikhail Lermontov Panelist: Kathleen Scollins, University of Wisconsin – Madison Title: Како сделан Акакий: Letter as Hero in Шинель Panelist: Michael Kelly, Brigham Young University Title: Deformation and Restoration of the Human Image in Gogol’s Art and Thought: Ascent through Descent, a Slap in the Face, and Moral Responsibility 29A-2 Panel: Chekhov’s ProsePanel Chair: Michael Finke, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPanelist: Sidney Dement, University of Kansas Title: Old Story, New Setting: Moscow in A. P. Chekhov’s “Pripadok” Panelist: Mark Swift, University of Auckland (OP) Title: Chekhov’s “Dushechka” as Dependent Love Junkie Panelist: Mark Purves, Brigham Young University Title: “Ward no. 6” as Ragin’s Muted Cri de Cœur Panelist: Nikita Dimitrov Nankov, Indiana University Title: The Depth Model And The Genre Of Confession in Chekhov’s Overlooked Masterpiece “On Ponial!” (“He Understood!”) 29A-3 Panel: International Vladimir Nabokov Society IPanel Chair: Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson CollegePanelist: Matthew Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Vladimir Nabokov and the Idea in Nikolai Gogol Panelist: Emma Lieber, Columbia University Title: Having Faith in Nabokov’s Pale Fire Panelist: Stanislav Shvabrin, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Cockney Ballad, Voronezh Lilt: Vladimir Nabokov’s “La belle dame sans merci” 29A-4 Panel: Post-Soviet FilmPanel Chair: Gerald McCausland, University of PittsburghPanelist: Volha Isakava, University of Alberta (DVD) Title: The Body In The Dark: Body Representations And Social Identities In Chernukha Art Panelist: Lena Doubivko, University of Washington and Dasha Prykhodko, University of British Columbia Title: Frigit Nymphomaniacs: Renata Litvinova’s Reinvention of the Femme Fatale Myth Panelist: Robert Efird, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Title: A Guided Tour: The Narrator of Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark 29A-5 Panel: Milan Kundera and the Art of Anti-NostalgiaPanel Chair: Lenka Pankova, University of PittsburghPanelist: Klara Lutsky, Centenary College of New Jersey Title: Kundera’s Reception in the West Panelist: Anna Zalizniak, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences and Irina Mikaelian, Pennsylvania State University Title: Milan Kundera’s Metalinguistic Technique and Conceptual Analysis Panel Discussant: Tomislav Z. Longinovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison 29A-6 Panel: Modality in SlavicPanel Chair: Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, University of New MexicoPanelist: Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University Title: Imperative in Evolution, Acquisition, and Certain Compounds Panelist: Anastasia Smirnova, The Ohio State University Title: Temporal Interpretation of Subjunctive Complements in Bulgarian Panelist: Olga Steriopolo, University of British Columbia Title: Syntax and Semantics of the Expressive Suffixes in Russian Panelist: Barbara Sonnenhauser, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Title: Aspect and Modality: The 'Potential' Reading 29A-7 Panel: Lexicon and SemanticsPanel Chair: E. Wayles Browne, Cornell UniversityPanelist: Irina Ivliyeva, The University of Missouri-Rolla Title: Рейтинг глагольных модификаций в группе орнитофонов (на примере однокомпонентных модификаторов) Panelist: Danko Sipka, Arizona State University Title: Polychronism vs. Monochronism as a Predictor of Lexical Anisomorphism Panelist: Olga Yoshizumi, Independent Scholar Title: Indirect Individuation: Discourse Effects of Borrowed Words in Russian 29A-8 Round Table: Culture in Language Class: Incorporating Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of CommunicationRoundtable Chair: Marina Rojavin, Temple UniversityRoundtable Discussants: Valentina Dunn, Bryn Mawr College (CP) Shannon Donnally Spasova, Dalhousie University Mara Sukholutskaya, East Central University (OP) Evgeny Dengub, Temple University (CP) 29A 9 Round Table: Serving the ProfessionRound Table Chair: Patricia L. Zody, Beloit CollegeRoundtable Discussants: Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr College Tony Brown, Brigham Young University Jane Shuffelton, Brighton HS, Rochester, NY Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College-Columbia University December 29, 1:00pm-3:00pm29C-1 Panel: Леpмонтов: незаконченное, неизданное, недосказанноеPanel Chair: Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern UniversityPanelist: Inna Caron, Ohio State University Title: Аpбенин без маски, или Жизнь поэта: Lermontov’s Unknown Tribute to Pushkin Panelist: David Powelstock, Brandeis University Title: The Lie That Tells the Truth: Lermontov’s Shtoss Between Text and Performance Panelist: Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania Title: Pechorin’s Last Journey: Literary Models and Historical Background Panel Discussant: Michael Wachtel, Princeton University 29C-2 Panel: Literature and Social Agendas: Tensions, Accommodations, SubversionsPanel Chair: Scott W. Palmer, Western Illinois UniversityPanelist: Michael Finke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title: The Agit-Flights of Viktor Shklovskii and Boris Pil’niak Panelist: Ronald LeBlanc, University of New Hampshire Title: A Red Jungle: Boris Pilnyak’s Miaso (1936) Panelist: Anne O. Fisher, Williams College Title: “Furmanov voodushevliaet i ukrepliaet, a Dvenadtsat’ stul’ev naoborot razvinchivaiut:” Reader Letters to Il’f and Petrov and the Persistence of Soviet Discourse Panelist: Alexander Dunkel, University of Arizona Title: “Multi-Storied” America: Il’f and Petrov in New York 29C-3 Panel: International Vladimir Nabokov Society II: Nabokov's Late Russian-Language FictionPanel Chair: Julian W. Connolly, University of VirginiaPanelist: Molly V. Peeney, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Life of Chernyshevsky: Nabokov’s Homage to Kiukhel’beker Panelist: Yuri Leving, Dalhousie University Title: Reading as Challenge: On Textological Problems and Literary Commentary to Nabokov's The Gift Panelist: Kirsten Rutsala, University of Oklahoma Title: A Cup of Tepid Chocolate: Nabokov’s Response to Tarasov-Rodionov Panelist: Irena Ronen, Independent Scholar Title: Pushkin’s Presence in Nabokov’s Unfinished Novel Solus Rex 29C-4 Panel: Russian Literature at the End of the Soviet Period and BeyondPanel Chair: Yevgeny A. Slivkin, University of OklahomaPanelist: Laura Little, Defense Language Institute Title: Sons of Silver?: On the Question of a “Bronze Age” of Russian Culture Panelist: Volodymyr Chumachenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title: “Pikuliada” of Our Time: “Pulp” Literature as an Aesthetic and Ideological Choice of the Last Soviet Generation Panelist: Kristin E. Reed, Indiana University (CP) Title: The Power of Babble: Moscow Conceptualism and Postmodern Language Critique Panelist: Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College Title: Sorokin’s Soteriology 29C-5 Panel: Czech Literature and CulturePanel Chair: Craig Cravens, University of Texas-AustinPanelist: Esther Peters, University of Chicago Title: Footsteps in the Snow: The Paradigm of the Svatováclavská Tradice Panelist: Christopher Harwood, Columbia University Title: Bohumil Hrabal’s Metaphysics of Recycling: Dítě’s Body and Haňťa’s Books Panelist: Daniel Pratt, University of Chicago Title: Resistance and Dissidence: Hrabal’s Velká cena Panelist: Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago (CP) Title: The Morning after of Cesky Sen 29C-6 Round Table: The Future Shape and Direction of Graduate Studies in SlavicRoundtable Chair: Maria Carlson, University of KansasRoundtable Participants: Marc L. Greenberg, University of Kansas Karen Evans-Romaine, The Russian School, Middlebury College Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh James D. West, University of Washington Séamas O'Driscoll, Northwestern University 29C-7 Panel: Anaphora in Slavic Languages IPanel Chair: Frank Y. Gladney, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPanelist: Oscar Swan, University of Pittsburgh Title: The Myth of the Russian Long-Distance Reflexive Panelist: Annalisa Czeczuli, University of Pittsburgh Title: Long Distance Binding Possibilities of Russian Reflexives Sebja and Svoj Panelist: John Bailyn, Stony Brook University, and Svitlana Yudina, Stony Brook University Title: A Binding-Theory Approach to Backward Pronominalization in Russian Panelist: Larisa Zlatic, University of Texas at Austin Title: Binding inside the Noun Phrase and the Notion of Subject 29C-8 Panel: Balkan LinguisticsPanel Chair: Catherine Rudin, Wayne State UniversityPanelist: Liljana Mitkovska, FON University, Macedonia Title: Possessive Locative Constructions in Macedonian Panelist: Victor Friedman, University of Chicago Title: Balkan Morphosyntax, Balkan Phonologies, and Eurology 29C-9 Round Table: Retention of the Russian Language by Heritage Speakers in the USARoundtable Chair: Alla Smyslova, Columbia UniversityRoundtable Discussants: Olga Kagan, UCLA (Screen) Marina Rojavin, Temple University Elena Vasyanina, Moscow State Linguistic University (OP) December 29, 4:00pm-6:00pm29D-1 Panel: Approaches to Pushkin and Romantic PoetryPanel Chair: Kerry Sabbag, University of KansasPanelist: Amanda F. Murphy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Genre Bending: Revisiting Pushkin’s Southern Heroines Panelist: Daria Solodkaia, Princeton University Title: The Mystery of Hermann’s Failure in “The Queen of Spades”: Cracking Pushkin’s Personal Code Panelist: Tatyana Alenkina, Moscow State University Title: Translating Drama: From John Wilson’s “The City of the Plague” to Alexander Pushkin’s “Pir vo Vremya Chumy”. Panelist: Polina Rikoun, Ohio State University Title: Defying Empire, Defying Fate: Narration as a Mode of Resistance in Ryleev’s “Voinarovsky” 29D-2 Panel: North American Dostoevsky Society "Inter-textual Approaches to Dostoevsky”Panel Chair: Susan McReynolds Oddo, Northwestern UniversityPanelist: Gary Rosenshield, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: The Miser Redone: The Transformation of Pushkin's The Covetous Knight in Dostoevsky's "Mr. Prokharchin" Panelist: Eugenia Amditis, University of Kansas Title: “The “Camellia” and the “Camel”: Dostoevsky’s Borrowings from the Courtesan Legend in The Idiot’s Nastas’ia Filippovna.” Panelist: Nina Familiant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: George Sand and Fedor Dostoevsky: Two Quests for the Ideal Panelist: Natalia Kazakova, Sarah Lawrence College Title: Ivan Karamazov as Prototype:Another Literary Reminiscence in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita 29D-3 Panel: Institutional Spaces in Soviet CulturePanel Chair: Ona Renner-Fahey, University of MontanaPanelist: James Frank Goodwin, University of Florida Title: Novyi mir in the Institutional Spaces of Early Soviet Literature Panelist: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California Title: Staging Paradise: The Spatial Logic of Puppet Theater and Early Soviet Culture Panelist: Frederick H. White, Memorial University Title: Asylums for Undesirables, Degenerates and Madmen: A Russian Institution of Social Control Panel Discussant: Yuri Leving, Dalhousie University 29D-4 Panel: Russian Poetry of the Twentieth CenturyPanel Chair: Nina Wieda, Northwestern UniversityPanelist: Viktor Finkel, Independent Scholar Title: Пересечение трех великих поэзий Panelist: Christine Dunbar, Princeton University Title: Active Heroes in Contemporary Russian Poetry: Free Will and Pushkin’s “Prorok” Panelist: Olga Livshin, Northwestern University Title: Passion and Irony Intertwined: Eroticism in the Perestroika-Era Poetry of Nina Iskrenko 29D-5 Panel: Hesychasts And Epicureans In Eighteenth-Century UkrainePanel Chair: Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami UniversityPanelist: Svitlana Krys, University of Alberta Title: Paisij Velychkovs'kyj’s Doctrine of Hesychasm as a Competing Model of Being in Early-Modern Ukrainian Culture Panelist: Natalia Pylypiuk, University of Alberta (OP) Title:Hryhorij Skovoroda in the Garden of Epicurus Panelist: Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, University of Alberta (CP) Title: Towards a Concordance of Hryhorij Skovoroda’s Works Discussant: Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami University 29D-6 Panel: DialectologyPanel Chair: Miriam Shrager, Indiana UniversityPanelist: Bora Kim, Indiana University Title: Distribution of Vowel Quantity in Czech Dialects Panelist: Irina Barclay, Appalachian State University Title: Finnish Roots in Kashin Place-names Panelist: Jeff Holdeman, University of Indiana Title: Uki, yusy, yery, yati (Уки, юсы, еры, яти): Church Slavonic or Russian? Scripts, Orthography, and Language in Russian Old Believer Cemeteries in the Eastern U.S., Poland, and Lithuania 29D-7 Panel: Anaphora in Slavic Languages IIPanel Consolidated with Anaphora I29D-8 Panel: Issues in Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural PragmaticsPanel Chair: Yelena Belyaeva-Standen, Saint Louis UniversityPanelist: Maria Shardakova, University of Pennsylvania (CP) Title: L2 Speech Acts in Cyber Communication Panelist: Lisa DeWaard Dykstra, Clemson University (CP) Title: The Role of Gender in Pragmatic Listening Panelist: Meghan Murphy-Lee, United States Military Academy at West Point Title: The Application of Speech Act Theory in the Russian Language Classroom Panel Discussant: Jane Hacking, University of Utah 29D-9 Panel: The Russian Language Flagship: Innovative Models for Developing Level 2 to Level 3 Proficiencies in the U. S. and Overseas (Screen)Panel Chair: Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr CollegePanelist: Cynthia Martin, University of Maryland Title: Achieving Advanced/Level 2 Competence in the Russian Stateside Flagship University Context: Diagnostic Tools, Curriculum Design for Individualized Instruction, and Web-based Learning Modules Panelist: Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio University Title: The Russian Flagship at the Middlebury Summer School Panelist: Olga Kagan, UCLA and Elena Boudovskaia, UCLA Title: Russian Flagship Program at UCLA: Instructional Goals and Curriculum Development Panelist: Maria Lekic, Univ. of Maryland Title: Testing for Level 3 Attainment and Beyond in the Overseas Russian Flagship Program: Comparing Interlanguage Speech Samples Elicited through the European Framework (“TORFL”) and the ILR/OPI Elicitation Techniques December 29, 7:00pm-9:00pmRussian Poetry ReadingChair:Polina BarskovaParticipants: Anton Tenser, Chicago, IL Anna Glazova, Northwestern University Dmitry V. Bobyshev, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Daniil Cherkasskiy Milla Fedorova, Washington, DC December 30, 8:00am-10:00am30A-1 Panel: Romantic Poetry and ProsePanel Chair: David Powelstock, Brandeis UniversityPanelist: Liza Ginzburg, DePaul,Chicago, IL Title: The Cadencial Function in Iambic Tetrameter Quatrains from Derzhavin to Pasternak Panelist: Georgii Moskvin, Moscow State University Title: Любовный конфликт в сказке «Ашик-Кериб» и в Герое нашего времени Panelist: N. N. Puriaeva, Moscow State University Title: Творчество М.Ю.Лермонтова в восприятии М.П.Погодина 30A-2 Panel: Tolstoi and His ViewsPanel Chair: Ronald LeBlanc, University of New HampshirePanelist: John Wright, Columbia University Title: Criticism of Doctrine through Cognitive and Linguistic Constructions in Tolstoy’s “Kholstomer” Panelist: Tom Roberts, Stanford University Title: The Structure and Immanence of Epiphany Scenes in War and Peace Panelist: Sarah Mohler, Truman State University Title: Bakhtin, Goethe, Tolstoy, and the Visualization of the Chronotope 30A-3 Panel: Experiencing Stalinist RussiaPanel Chair: Romy Taylor, University of Arizona Panelist: Jessica Sanders, University of Southern California Title: The Dynamics of the Sublime in Kanal imeni Stalina: Reforging the Soul in Stalin’s Image Panelist: Yuliya Minkova, New York University Title: Transcending the Body in Soviet Literature of WWII Panelist: Elizabeth R. Kaplan, Title: The Drama Metaphor in Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales 30A-4 Panel: Russian and East European Expatriate/Trans-National Film and Theatre (TV/VCR; TV-DVD, OP)Panel Chair: Lina Steiner, University of ChicagoPanelist: Robert Bird, University of Chicago Title: The End of Nostalgia: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Emigration Panelist: Steven P. Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Title: From Lwowska to Frau Lorre to Lovsky Panelist: Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Harvard University Title: Peculiar Persistence of Socialist Realism: the Case of One Dissident Expat Filmmaker 30A-5 Panel: Slavic Identity and Symbolic GeographyPanel Chair: Polina Rikoun, Ohio State UniversityPanelist: Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College Title: O. I. Senkovskii and Romantic Empire Panelist: Tatiana Kuzmic, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Title: August Šenoa, the Habsburg Monarchy, and the Southern Slav Question Panelist: Edith Clowes, University of Kansas Title: The Periphery and its Cultures: Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Imagined South 30A-6 Panel: Myths and Mythmaking: From Folklore to LiteraturePanel Chair: Jonathan Perkins, University of KansasPanelist: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts Title: The Psychology of Temptation as the Key to the Darker Side of Human Existence Panelist: Agnieszka Gutthy, Southeastern Louisiana University Title: Magic, Devils, and the Power of Darkness in Kashubian Tales and Beliefs Panelist: Karen Underhill, University of Chicago Title: Galician Mythmaking: Bruno Schulz, Nachman of Bratslav and the Hasidic Storytelling Tradition 30A-7 Panel: Morphology and MorphosyntaxPanel Chair: Irina Ivliyeva, The University of Missouri-RollaPanelist: Angela Shpolberg, University of Odessa Title: Проблема системной топографии русских союзов Panelist: Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, University of New Mexico Title: The Delimitative Prefix pro- in Russian Panelist: Elena Boudovskaia, Columbia University (CP) Title: An Innovative Ending in Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns in Transcarpathian Ukrainian Dialects 30A-8 Panel: From Words to Texts: Linguistics and Cultural Issues in Language TeachingPanel Chair: Meghan Murphy-Lee, United States Military Academy at West PointPanelist: Ginka Dimitrova, College of Tourism - Varna, Bulgaria (CP) Title: Lexicographic Description of Linguistic and Cultural Terms: Toward a Thesaurus-type Dictionary Panelist: Alexander Burak, University of Florida Title: Assessing Translation Quality at Word Level Panelist: Natalya V. Bogdanova, St. Petersburg State University Title: Образование слов без словообразования Panelist: Max Petrenko, Purdue University and Elena Grishanina OP Title: Toward the Study of Poetics of Anton Chekhov: The Case of Contextual Synonyms December 30, 10:15am-12:15pm30B-1 Panel: Aesthetics and the Rise of Russian RealismPanel Chair: Rolf Hellebust, University of NottinghamPanelist: Vadim Shkolnikov, Columbia University Title: Dilettantism and Realism: On the Aesthetico-Political Nexus of Herzen’s Early “Philosophical” Journalism Panelist: Svetlana Grenier, Georgetown University Title: Adultery by the Book: Who Is to Blame? in Natalie Herzen’s Affair Panelist: Victoria Thorstensson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Art as Life in the Nihilist Generation: Rereading Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons Panelist: Bella Grigoryan, Columbia University Title: The Prosaics of Housekeeping in Goncharov’s Novelistic Imagination 30B-2 Panel: Russian Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century: Symbolism and Other MovementsPanel Chair: Frederick H. White, Memorial UniversityPanelist: Jon Stone, University of California-Berkeley Title: Distilling Symbolism’s Essence: Ellis and the Return of Russkie simvolisty Panelist: Katherine Bowers, Northwestern University Title: “Он спал и Офелия снилась ему”: The Recurrence of the Ophelia Image in Blok’s Poetry Panelist: Dennis Ioffe, University of Amsterdam Title: Russian Modernist ‘Life-Creation’, its ‘Decadent’ Milieu and Cultural Roots. Self-fashioning Strategies in the Context of the Silver Age. Panelist: Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College Title: The Concept of the Jewish Antichrist and the rise of Anti-Semitism in Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 30B-3 Panel: Literature of the 1920s and -30s IIPanel Chair: Anne O. Fisher, Williams CollegePanelist: Irina Panchenko, Independent Scholar Title: Смысл и судьба малоизвестного рассказа Юрия Олеши «Ангел» Panelist: Daiva Litvinskaite, Title: About Utility Pipes, Streetcars, and Other Important Matters: Nostalgia and the Poetics of Estrangement in Vladimir Nabokov’s Guide to Berlin Panelist: Robert Chandler, Queen Mary, University of London Title: Platonov and the White Sea Canal 30B-4 Panel: Russian Writing on/in the WestPanel Chair: William J. Comer, University of KansasPanelist: Tatyana Malikova, Voronezh State University Title: Russian literature of the Third Wave and Hetero-images of the English-language Literary Field Panelist: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University Title: On Vasilii Aksenov's Translation of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime Panelist: Nyusya Milman-Miller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Title: Broccoli, Borsht and Heinz-57: Food and National Identity in the Prose of Lara Vapnyar. Panelist: Elena Koudinova, Independent Scholar Title: Facing Fear: Anna Fain and Terrorism in Israel 30B-5 Panel: Women and the Construction of SelfPanel Chair: Edith Clowes, University of KansasPanelist: Ona Renner-Fahey, University of Montana Title: Constructions of the Self in Nadezhda Durova’s Kavalerist-devitsa Panelist: Susan Larsen, University of Chicago Title: “From Sleeping Beauty to Citizen: The Dawn of the ‘Girl Question’ in 19th-Century Russian Journals for Girls” Panelist: Adrienne Harris Boggess, University of Kansas (CP) Title: Fighter Pilot to Folk Hero: Representations in the Memoirs of Soviet Women Warriors 30B-6 Panel: Literature of ExilePanel Chair: Agnieszka Gutthy, Southeastern Louisiana UniversityPanelist: Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: The Essence of Tragedy in Mostwin’s Novella Jocasta Panelist: Lee Hobbs, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (CP) Title: The “Stage Central/Eastern European” in American Travel and Expatriate Narrative Panelist: Tatjana Aleksić, University of Michigan Title: Exile in the Fiction of post-Yugoslav Emigrant Writers 30B-7 Panel: Productivity and DefectivenessPanel Chair: James E. Lavine, Bucknell UniversityPanelist: Andrea Sims, Northwestern Title: Defective Russian Verbs as a "Productive" Pattern Panelist: Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey Title: The Historic Roots of Russian Defective Verbs Panelist: Jane Hacking, University of Utah Title: Morphological Productivity and the Russian Abstract Nominal Suffixes -ost’, -stv- Panelist: Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University Title: Are There Inherent Weak Points in Paradigms? Evidence from Slavic Verbs 30B-8 Panel: Teaching Language Through CulturePanel Chair: Galina Rylkova, University of FloridaPanelist: Ekaterina Ites, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Title: The Genre of AZBUKA as a Multimodal Representation and Tool of Acquisition of Russian Language-Culture in the College Classroom. Panelist: Marya Zeigler, Department of Defense Title: Chekhov’s and Shenderovich’s Van’ka: Teaching Language and Culture at the Advanced Level through Kukly (VCR) Panelist: Raissa Krivitsky, Cornell University (CP) Title: From Pushkin to Cheburashka: Teaching Advanced Russian through Popular Culture December 30, 1:00pm-3:00pm30C-1 Panel: Dostoevsky and His LegacyPanel Chair: Inna F.I. Tigountsova, University of DenverPanelist: Zaur V. Agayev, Princeton University Title: Dostoevsky’s Petersburg—Space and Mythology of the City in the novel Crime and Punishment Panelist: Brian R. Johnson, University of Wisconsin – Madison Title: Epilepsy and “Mystic Horror”: Intersecting Nervous Disorders in Dostoevsky’s The Insulted and the Injured Panelist: Jesse R. Menefee, Princeton University Title: Spotting Dostoevsky in a “Dark Alley amongst Broken Fences and Chagall’s Cows”: Beat Author John Clellon Holmes Rewriting The Possessed 30C-2 Panel: Russian Poets and their ImagesPanel Chair: Eugenia Amditis, University of KansasPanelist: Jason Strudler, Princeton University Title: Two Poets and Three Firegods: Vyacheslav Ivanov's Place in Khlebnikov's Mythical Universe Panelist: Farida Tcherkassova, University of Chicago Title: On the Unity of Mikhail Kuzmin’s Poetry Panelist: Elena K. Murenina, East Carolina University Title: The Art of Understanding a Poet in the Age of Exile: Alfred Bem and Marina Tsvetaeva (1920s-1930s) Panelist: Matthew McGarry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: The Poet and the Leader: A Reappraisal of Pasternak’s «Мне по душе строптивый норов...» 30C-3 Panel: The City and Cityscapes at the Start of the 20th CenturyPanel Chair: Steven P. Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignPanelist: Megan Swift, University of Victoria Title: Deluge, Demise and Disappearance: Writing the End of St. Petersburg Panelist: Stiliana Milkova, University of California, Berkeley Title: Sightseeing (in) Petersburg: Tourist Guidebooks to the Late Imperial Capital Panelist: Brinton Tench Coxe, Columbia University (DVD) Title: Seeing Moscow: Lev Kuleshov’s Mister West and Aleksandr Medvedkin’s New Moscow Panelist: Lina Khawaldah, Indiana University, Bloomington (CP) Title: Visualizing the Unseen: Rodchenko’s Monocular Discourse with Urban Space 30C-4 Panel: The Verb in SlavicPanel Chair: George Fowler, Indiana UniversityPanelist: Christian Hilchey, University of Chicago Title: Perfective Doublets in Czech Panelist: Irina Mikaelian, Pennsylvania State University Title: Russian Aspectual System: Why Triplets Do Not Compromise Pairs? Panelist: Mark Nuckols, The Ohio State University Title: Transitivity in Czech and Russian: The Animacy Paradox 30C-5 Panel: Methods, Materials, and the Language ClassroomPanel Chair: Jeffrey D. Holdeman, Indiana UniversityPanelist: Katie Janicka, Bryn Mawr College Title: The New Generation of Polish Language Textbooks and the Classroom Panelist: Elena Selezneva, Michigan State University Title: Use of Technology in Language Learning: Students’ Perspective Panelist: Elisabeth Elliott, Northwestern University and Lisa Yountchi, Northwestern University (CP) Title: TPR and Mastering Russian Multi- and Unidirectional Verbs of Motion Last updated 12/26/2007.
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