Proposed Panels for 2009 AATSEEL ConferenceThis website is regularly updated with newly proposed panels. Literature and CultureRoundtable in honor of Anna Lisa Crone:Love and Creativity in Russian Literature and Philosophy Organizer: Lina Steiner (University of Chicago), Alina Wyman (University of Illinois/Chicago) Email: lsteiner@uchicago.edu, awyman@uic.edu Discussants: Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Lina Steiner, University of Chicago Alina Wyman, University of Illinois at Chicago Nina Perlina, Indiana University Catherine O'Neil, United States Naval Academy David Powelstock, Brandeis University Robert Bird, University of Chicago Liza Ginzburg, University of Chicago Description: Participants are invited to 1) explain how the subjects of love and creativity are reflected in their research and teaching; 2) if possible, link their work with Lisa’s scholarship; 3) reflect on the relevance of addressing the question of creativity and the mechanics of the creative process as we train future generations of American slavicists. The roundtable will also respond to the following questions: How can we combine scholastic objectivity with fostering love for the discipline? What assignments are best suited for recovering the elements of the creative process manifested in literary works? for fostering creative approaches to Russian literature and literary theory? How can we use pedagogical creativity and the study of creativity in the current climate of de-canonization of literary studies? We may have room for one or two more speakers. Priority will be given to the earliest responses. Workshop: Contemporary Russian Poetry Chair: Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University Telephone: 321-495-3956 Email: ssandler@fas.harvard.edu Panel: Translation Today: Theory, Practice, Professionalism Organizer: Timothy Sergay Address: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures HU-214 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Telephone: 518-442-4227 Email: tsergay@albany.edu Panel: Chekhov and Non-Prosaic Behaviors Chair: Svetlana Evdokimova, Brown University Discussant: Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University Organizer: Nina Wieda, Northwestern University Address: Northwestern University 4-130 Crowe Hall 1860 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208 Email: NinaWieda2008@u.northwestern.edu Panel: North American Dostoevsky Society Organizer/Chair: Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University Address: Slavic Languages and Literatures Northwestern University 1860 Campus Drive 4-113 Crowe Hall Evanston, Illinois 60208-2163 Telephone (847) 491-5636 Email: mcreynolds@northwestern.edu Panel: Soviet Science Fiction Organizer: Kevin Reese, University of North Carolina Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Address: Modern Languages Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390 Telephone: 610-328-8143/8679 Email: sforres1@swarthmore.edu Panel: Tolstoy Between Human and Natural Sciences Organizer: Lina Steiner, University of Chicago Address: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Chicago 1130 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637 Telephone: 773-702-5761 Email: lsteiner@uchicago.edu Abstracts: Nina Perlina, Indiana University, "Vico's Concept of the World of Nations and Its Reflections in Tolstoy" Inessa Medzhibovskaia, Eugene Lang College, The New School, "Tolstoy on Idealistic Reason, Human Understanding and the Discourse in the Humanities" Lina Steiner, University of Chicago, "Tolstoy and Humanism" Chair: Donna Orwin, University of Toronto Discussant: Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania Panel: Literature and the Sister Arts Organizer: Ruth Rischin, Independent Scholar Address: 350 Arballo Drive #9-J, San Francisco, CA 94132 Telephone: 415-585-2167 Email: ruthrischin@yahoo.com Equipment: carousel and slide projector; either computer + ethernet + power strip. Description: Submissions are encouraged that explore either: 1) visionary landscape (text, sound, image); ekphrasis as a form of homage; Berdiaev and art as theurgy. AATSEEL permits more than one submission. Translation Workshop Organizer: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Address: Modern Languages Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390 Telephone: 610-328-8143/8679 Email: sforres1@swarthmore.edu Description: Led by a few experienced translators, the group will discuss and work on a selection of podstrochniki. Anyone interested in translation from Russian, especially poetic translation, is welcome to attend and participate. Panel: Music and Literature Organizer: Alexander Burry, Ohio State University Address: 400 Hagerty Hall 1775 College Road Columbus OH 43210 Telephone: 614-247-7149 Email: burry.7@osu.edu Equipment: CD player Description: Abstracts may deal with any type of intersection between music and literature, including adaptations of literature into opera or song, rock music, musical structures in literary works, music as a topic in literature. Panel: Futurist Poets and Their Heirs Organizer: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Address: Modern Languages Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390 Telephone: 610-328-8143/8679 Email: sforres1@swarthmore.edu Roundtable: Teaching the Classics of Russian Literature Organizer: Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University Address: Slavic Languages and Literatures Northwestern University 1860 Campus Drive 4-113 Crowe Hall Evanston, Illinois 60208-2163 Telephone (847) 491-5636 Email: mcreynolds@northwestern.edu Panel: Utopianism vs. Anti-Utopianism in East/Central European and Russian Intellectual Histories Organizer: Alexei Lalo Address: 1620 W 6th st. Apt. L Austin, TX 78703 Telephone: 512-879-8428 Email: alalo@mail.utexas.edu Description: The proposed seminar will explore a long history of socio-cultural, philosophical and utopianism in literature and resistance to it characteristic of the Slavic countries of the borderland region of Eastern and Central Europe and Russia. The panel welcomes proposals from any of the East European traditions seeking to shed light upon the nature of utopian vs. anti-utopian writing and theorizing in multi- or single national tradition frameworks. Possible topics may include explorations of and reflections upon gender, sexual and erotic discourses in their relation to (anti)utopianism; postcolonialism and postimperialism; interrelations between utopianism and imperialism (e.g., in Russia); (anti)utopianism vs. globalism and anti-globalism; utopianism and nationalistic ideologies; (anti)utopian in the context of the EU expansion and new Russian imperialism, etc. Roundtable: Bohdan-Ihor Antonych: in Comparative Contexts on the 100-Year Anniversary of His Birth Chair: Leo Rudnytzky, LaSalle University Discussants: Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University Larysa Bobrova, Horlivka University Mykola Polyuha, University of Western Ontario Organizer: Michael Naydan Address: Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 404 Burrowes Bldg. The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: 814-865-1675 Email: mmn3@psu.edu Panel: Czech Literature Organizer: International Association of Teachers of Czech (Susan Kresin, UCLA) Address: Box 951502, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1502 Telephone: 310-453-3442 Email: Kresin@humnet.ucla.edu Panel description: Topics in Czech Literature Panel: Religion and Literature Organizer: Zinaida Vaganova Address: 9022 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA Telephone: 215-248-0495 Email: vaganova@voicenet.com Panel: Karel Capek, Then and Now Organizer: Stephanie K. Richards Address: 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608-320-5958 Email: skrichards@wisc.edu Panel: The Impact of Economics on Post-Socialist Polish Theater and Publishing Seeking organizer: please contact Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if interested. Panel: Studying or Appropriating Folklore in Contemporary Eastern Europe Seeking organizer: please contact Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if interested. Panel: Innovation and Tradition in the New Ukrainian Poetry Seeking organizer: please contact Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if interested. Panel: Slavic Folklore Seeking organizer: please contact Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if interested. Panel: Post-Modernist Prose Seeking organizer: please contact Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if interested. Panel: Central Asian Writers in the Soviet Union and Since Seeking organizer: please contact Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if interested. Panel: International, Intercultural: Connections Between East European Literatures Seeking organizer: please contact Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if interested. Pedagogy and Second Language AcquisitionRoundtable: The Russian AP ® Prototype Exam: Everything You Want to KnowOrganizer: Cynthia A. Ruder, University of Kentucky Address: MCL, 1055 Patterson, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 Telephone: 859-257-7026 Email address: cynthia.ruder@uky.edu Roundtable description: This roundtable will provide information about the design, implementation, and application of the Russian AP® Prototype exam. The information will be useful to high school teachers, graduate students, and college instructors who will be apprised of the status, results, and future of the exam, as well as its potential use as a placement tool in college-level language classes. Roundtable participants are those who design, offer, write, and use the test. Chair: Cynthia A. Ruder, University of Kentucky Discussants: Masha Lekic, University of Maryland/ACTR-ACCELS Camelot Marshall, ACTR-ACCELS Mary Nicholas, Lehigh University Betsy Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson Science & Technical High School Workshop: Intensity of Engagement (conducted by Benjamin Rifkin, Temple University) Organizer: Viktoria Driagina-Hasko, University of Georgia Address: Department of Language and Literacy Education 125 Aderhold Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 E-mail: driagina@uga.edu Equipment: LCD projector Description: In this workshop I will present the principles and demonstrate a new approach to making the learner more engaged in classroom learning; materials used in the demonstration will be drawn from Russian literature used in a language classroom so that workshop participants could see how this strategy could be deployed in language, literature or culture classes in Russian and literature and culture classes taught in English translation. Please contact Viktoria Driagina-Hasko if you would like to register. The workshop will be capped at 30 participants. Panel: Computer-assisted teaching and learning of Slavic languages Organizer: Victoria Driagina-Hasko, University of Georgia Address: 125 Aderhold, Department of Language and Literacy Education, UGA, Athens, GA 30602 Telephone: 706-424-1116 Email address: driagina@uga.edu Description: The panel focuses on research in the areas of computer-assisted teaching and learning of Slavic languages. Panel: Czech Pedagogy Organizer: International Association of Teachers of Czech (Susan Kresin, UCLA) Address: Box 951502, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1502 Telephone: 310-453-3442 Email: Kresin@humnet.ucla.edu Description: Topics in Czech Pedagogy Roundtable: Enrollment trends in Russian Organizer: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Address: Modern Languages Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390 Telephone: 610-328-8143/8679 Email: sforres1@swarthmore.edu Roundtable: Best Practices in the Language Classroom Organizer: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Address: Modern Languages Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390 Telephone: 610-328-8143/8679 Email: sforres1@swarthmore.edu Roundtable: Preparing Graduate Students for the Language Classroom: Current Practices in Training Programs Organizer/Chair: Chair: William J. Comer, University of Kansas Email: wjcomer@ku.edu Discussants: Alla Smyslova, Columbia University Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto Anna Kudyma, University of California, Los Angeles Jeffrey D. Holdeman, Indiana University Rationale: The idea of the roundtable is to share models for training, best practices, ideas, tips about effective procedures. The idea is to share and pool knowledge about what people are doing at different institutions to improve the initial and continuing teaching experience of graduate students. Roundtable: Second Life in the Russian Language Classroom Organizer/Chair: Benjamin Rifkin, The College of New Jersey Discussants: Richard Robin, George Washington University Edo Forsythe, National Cryptologic School Shannon Spasova, Dalhousie University Description: Roundtable participants will discuss the use of Second Life, a virtual interactive environment, in the teaching of Russian and other languages. LinguisticsPanel: Czech LinguisticsOrganizer: International Association of Teachers of Czech (Susan Kresin, UCLA) Address: UCLA Slavic Department Box 951502, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1502 Phone: 310-453-3442 Email: Kresin@humnet.ucla.edu Panel Description: Issues in Czech Linguistics
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