Conference ProgramAATSEEL National MeetingSan Francisco, CA, 27-30 December 1998Note: The transliteration system used in this on-line HTML version of the AATSEEL Conference Program is described here. Non-Panel ActivitiesTime: Sunday, 27 December 1998, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Time: Sunday, 27 December 1998, 4:00-8:00 p.m.
Time: Sunday, 27 December 1998, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Time: Sunday, 27 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Time: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Time: Monday, 28 December 1998, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Time: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Time: Monday, 28 December 1998, 5:15-7:15 p.m.
Time: Monday, 28 December 1998, 9:00 p.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 10:15-10:45 a.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
Time: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 9:00 p.m.
Time: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 7:00-10:00 a.m.
Time: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Time: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Time: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
PanelsSlot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: What Puts the
"Nauchnaja" in "Nauchnaja Fantastika"? Title: A Bat in Flight:
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskij's "Vozvrashchenie Mjunxgauzena" Title: From Paris with
Russian Addressivity: Sinjavskij's Scholarship as Spectacle Title: Conquest of the Irrational: Reading Gogol'
Along with Salvador Dali Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Poètika "kalambura" u Baratynskogo: poèma "Nalozhnica" i romanticheskij èpos Pushkina
Title: Osnovnoj mif Pushkina
Title: Avtoèpigramma v tvorchestve Pushkina
Title: Boris Godunov A. S. Pushkina v aspekte istoricheskoj poètiki
Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Sanin the "Morning After": Alternative
Endings to a Scandalous Novel Title: "What is Truth?": Sanin,
Nietzsche, and Jesus Title: Scandalous Sanin Revisited: A Literary
Reassessment Discussant: Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Evgenii Bershtein, University of California, Berkeley Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Spoken Word and Poetic Form in Holan,
Kolar, and Zabrana Title: One Small Man with a
Star: an Examination of Narration in Jiri Weil's Life with a Star
Title: In the Middle of the Holocaust and Not
Talking About It: Jiri Weil's Prose from the Mid-Forties Title: In Search of Identity: Milan Kundera
and His Personae Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Images of St. Petersburg
through the Prism of French Romanticism Title: The Journal Bygone
Years and the Concept of "Old Petersburg" Title: Petersburg in the Interlude: Space and
Time in the Literature of the Petrograd Blockade Title: The Birth of Chaos
from the Spirit of Harmony: The End of St. Petersburg by Vladimir Dukel'skij
Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Zamjatin's and Plato's
Caves: Imagery and Reflection Title: Revolutionary Ideology
Meets Popular Taste: The Image of the New Woman in Early Soviet Fiction
Title: A. K. Voronskij's
Political Evolution Title: Creating the best, most
talented poet at the 1940 Majakovskij Celebration Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Using Full-length Feature
Films in the Novice and Intermediate Russian Classroom Title: Teaching Proverbs
and Sayings at the Beginners' Level Title: Use of Portfolios in
Beginning-to-Intermediate Russian Title: Syntax in Early Russian
Foreign Language Learning: Observations and Implications Discussant: Lynne deBenedette, Brown University Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: En gavora
or En gavoryc': The Conjugation System of Belarusan Verbs in the 1920s
and 1930s Vilnia, Miensk, and Horadnia Language Variants Title: Diathesis Shift in Prefixal
Verb Derivation in CSR Title: The Role of Phonology
in the Analysis of Morphological Oddities: Nonce Words, Child Language, and
Folk Etymology Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Glass Consciousness: A
History of Glass in Eighteenth-Century Russian Culture Title: The Imperial Politics of Catherine the Great and English Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Art
Title: A Reconsideration of Parodic Function in Barkov's Odes
Discussant: Marcus C. Levitt, University of Southern California Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: The "Kino-Icon" in Dziga
Vertov's The Man with the Movie Camera Title: Towards a Weak Messianism:
Benjamin with Vertov Title: Alfred Schnittke as
Film Composer: The Case of Commissar Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Betraying K: The Unbearable Translation
of Milan Kundera Title: The Latest Defenestration
of Prague: Bohumil Hrabal's Art and Life Title: From Prague to New York
City: The Feminist Poetics of Ivá Pekarková Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Reading Heroines: Pushkin's Tat'jana
Title: In Search of Russia's
Madwoman Title: "Sivilla" and Felicia: Bodies in Search
of Self Discussant: Laurel Schultz, University of California, Los Angeles Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: The Poetics of Infernal
Circling in Blok's Vozmezdie, Echoes of Flaubert's L'éducation
sentimentale Title: The Self, the Saint, and the Moral Charm of Crickets
Title: Chexov and Twentieth-Century
American Drama Discussant: Catherine O'Neil, University of Colorado, Denver Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Memory Against Utopia
in Platonov's Kotlovan Title: Velemir Xlebnikov and
Andrej Platonov: from the "Self-Sustaining" to the "Dysfunctional" Word
Title: The Goalkeeper of the
Republic: Platonov and the Utopia of the Stadium Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Writing between Peers
in the Beginning Russian Classroom Title: Negotiation for Meaning:
Interactive Writing Revisited Title: "Process" and "Product"
in the Teaching of L2 Writing Discussant: Sandra Rosengrant, Portland State University Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panelist: Gerard L. Ervin, Ohio State University (Emeritus) Panelist: Sophia Lubensky, State University of New York, Albany Panelist: Larry McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Passive with and without
Passive Morphology: A Minimalist Approach to Russian and Hungarian Title: The Syntax of Feature-Checking,
Focus Structure, and Sentential Stress Title: Extraction from
Noun Phrases and the Determiner Phrase Analysis in Slavic: A Comparative Perspective
Discussant: John F. Bailyn, State University of New York, Stony Brook Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15-11:15 a.m.
Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: The Development and Format of the US Olympiada of Spoken Russian
Panelist: Halina Danchenko, Arlington Schools, New York Title: The National Russian Essay Contest: Past, Present and Future
Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Alexander Pushkin's The Stone Guest: A Monument to a Poet
Title: "I Had a Dream, Which Was Not All a Dream": Layers of Consciousness in Karamzin's "Ostrov Borngol'm"
Title: The Extraordinary and
the Ordinary in A. S. Pushkin's "Vystrel" Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Earth Mixed
with Water: "Painting" the Feminine in the Verbal Art of Elena Guro Title: Where Poetry and Art Intersect: A. Blok's
"This is Christ--in Chain and Roses" Title: "My Visual Diary": Sergej
Tret'jakov's Photographic Activity Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Chronotope and Metaphoric
Binding in The Brothers Karamazov Title: Metaphor and Myth in Russian
Culture: from Pushkin to Platonov Title: The Bird as Motif and Metaphor in Chexov's
"Steppe" Discussant: Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: The Double Voice Structuring
of Content and Form of Polish-Jewish Women's Autobiographies of the 1930s Title: Evoking the Past
to Define the Present: Marina Cvetaeva's Creative Autobiography and the Assertion
of the Poetic Self Title: Daniil and Vadim Andreev:
The Brothers Get Acquainted Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Fiction, Ethnography
and the Politics of Voice in Early Soviet Russia Title: Manufacturing Credibility:
the Interplay of Deception, Delusion and Diegesis in Isaak Babel''s Autobiographical
Fiction Title: Minor Character as Narrative
Strategy: the Case of Zoshchenko's "Strashnaja noch'" Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: A Lexical Approach to
Teaching Grammar Title: Movies as a Means of
Developing Conversational Skills in Advanced Russian Language Courses Title: Gazeta i novosti rossijskogo televidenija na uroke russkogo jazyka (srednii ètap obuchenija)
Title: L2 Performance Problems:
An Issue of Competence or Processing? Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: The "Gender Artifact":
The Gender Discrepancy in Speaking Proficiency of Russia-Bound College Students
Title: Female Speaking and
Listening Comprehension Gain during Study Abroad: The Effects of Behavior in
Homestays versus Dormstays Title: Gender Choice: The
Effects of Interlocutor Gender on Students' Spontaneous Russian Use Discussant: Richard D. Brecht, National Foreign Language Center Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Integrating The Russian Reference Grammar with Russian Face
to Face, Levels I and II, Russian Faces and Voices, and Mir russkikh Title: Enhancing Proficiency by Way of Language Learning Cards and Dry Boards
Title: Using Russian Face to Face, Level 1 with the Videoprogram Russian Faces: Language and People; Russian Faces and Voices with Heritage Learners
Title: Russian Face to Face, Levels 1 and 2 and Russian Faces and Voices at Sparta High School"
Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: The Accentuation of
ne in Balkan Slavic Title: Metrics and Optimality
Theory: The Case of Russian Verse Title: Comparative Notes on
Accentual Paradigms in Russian and Ukrainian Title: Phonology and Phonetics
of Palatality Contrasts Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Nadezhda Xvoshchinskaja and the Puzzle of Nineteenth-Century Russian Realism
Title: Militant or Military?: Re-reading Masquerade in the Memoirs of Nadezhda Durova
Title: An Old Portrait, a
New Original: Copyists in Gogol''s The Overcoat and Xvoshchinskaja's
The Boarding-School Girl Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Flaubert's Salambo
and the Historical Imagination of the Russian Symbolists Title: N. M. Karamzin, Ivan IV, and the Siege of Kazan
Title: Nestor Kukol'nik and History
Discussant: Kirill Postoutenko, University of Southern California Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: The Beautiful Lady Rebels:
Sexuality, Subjectivity, and the Woman Artist in Fin-de-Siècle Russia
Title: The Melo-ing of Zhiznetvorchestvo:
Verbickaja Plays Verbickaja Title: Disruptive Patterns:
Women's Fashion in Early Twentieth-Century Russia Title: The Fin-de-Siècle
New Woman as Dancer: Incarnation on the Stage Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Semiotika èrotiki: Sovetskoe kino 50-x godov
Title: Kino Glas-nost: Glasnost-Era Cinema and
Its Portrayal of Youth Culture Title: Color and Kieslowski Title: Psychoanalysis and Historicism
in Two Films from the Balkans: The Goat Horn (1972) and Before
the Rain Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: The Egyptian Stamp
as Screen Memory Title: A Deconstruction of
Mandel'shtam's Map in Journey to Armenia Title: V. Narbut and O. Mandel'shtam:
Personal and Poetic Intersections Title: Shklovskij and
Intertextuality Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: The Culturally Literate
Classroom Title: Using Allusions in Viktorija
Tokareva's "Pervaja Popytka" as a Means of Teaching Russian Culture Through
Language Title: Russian Culture: Engaging
the Students Title: One Day In Russian
School: A Learning Scenario Discussant: Nicholas Rzhevsky, State University of New York, Stony Brook Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Rich, Real, and (Self-)
Regulated: Maximizing the Value of Immersion Title: (Concrete) Pieces
of the Puzzle: Instruments and Procedures for the Evaluation of the Effects
of Immersion Learning Title: Reflective Teaching
in Action: Rethinking Language Instructor Evaluation Discussant: John Lett, Defense Language Institute Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Panelist: Marita Nummikoski, University of Texas, San Antonio Panelist: Emily Tall, State University of New York, Buffalo Panelist: Elena Lifschitz, University of Texas, Austin Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: A Revised View of
the Early Dialectalization of Western-South Slavic Title: The Identification
of Pannonian Slavic Loanwords in the Hungarian Lexicon Title: The Decomposition of Syllabic
r/l in Baltic and Slavic Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Non-Devices in a Non-Novel:
The Case of Goncharov's An Ordinary Story Title: Inventing Selves: Pechorin as Creator in Lermontov's Hero of Our Time
Title: The Tarnished Halo:
Moral Authority and Charismatic Influence in The Idiot Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Sexual Abuse in War and Peace
Title: Uneasy Laughter Through Tears: Sex, Violence, the Gaze and the Word in Chexov's "The Privy Councillor"
Title: (Self)Portrait of the
Artist as Misdiagnosed Patient: Vivisection versus Transfiguration in N.V. Gogol''s
The Portrait (1842) and Author's Confession Discussant: Ann Marsh-Flores, University of California, Berkeley Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Psychoanalytic Interpretations
of Stalin in Emigré Works Title: Imaging the West
from Behind the Iron Curtain: The Semiotics of the West in Stalinist and Thaw
Film Discussant: Elena Prokhorova, University of Pittsburgh Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Elsa, Marie, and "le
centre difficile": Strategies of Self-Representation in Triolet and Bashkirtseff
Title: Berberova's The Book
of Happiness (1936) and French Letters Discussant: Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Berlin on Belinskij Title: Berlin and the Tragic Tolstoj
Title: Isaiah Berlin and the Jewish Question
Discussant: Brian Horowitz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Slot: Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Exceptional Case Marking
in Czech Title: Unlocking the Mystery
of Adverbial-Impersonal-State Predicates in Russian? Title: Verbal Ellipsis
in Slavic: Taming the System Title: Why Polish Doesn't
Like Infinitives Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Reconsidering Adam Mickiewicz's Praise
of Aleksandr Pushkin Title: Good Physics vs. Brave
Poetry Title: Snow is Falling on
the Pages: Poets at Work Title: The Polish School of Formalism:
Theory and Practice Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: The Prison-House of Art: Gogol''s Panopticon
Title: Petrushka as an Underlying
Character of Gogol''s Nozdrev: the Moving Force of the Plot in Dead Souls
Title: Homer, Dante, Gogol'
Discussant: Ilya Vinitsky, New York University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Intertextuality Revisited:
Nabokov's Lolita and Poe's Biography Title: Not Guilty of Killing Quilty:
Justifiable Homicide in Lolita Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Novyj russkij ili staryj evrej? Ob odnoj
tendencii v rossijskoj kul'ture poslednix let Title: The "New Russians" in New Russian Literature
Discussant: Natalia Pervukhina, University of Tennessee Discussant: Viacheslav G. Vozdvizhenskii, Moscow State University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Anatole the Rake: Tolstoj and the Eighteenth-Century
Novel Title: The Convention of "Assumed
Identities" in A. N. Ostrovskij's Drama Title: Liturgical Prototypes in Pushkin and Blok
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Tabor and Baalbek:
The Motif of Transfiguration in Bunin's The Shadow of the Bird
Title: The Myth of Cultural Hero in Gumilev's Poetry
Title: Poetic Correspondences
in the Works of Anna Axmatova and Nikolaj Gumilev Title: "Mixing Memory and Desire":
Re-presenting the Russian Silver Age in the 1920s and 1930s Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Creating a "Hyperreader"
for Beginning and Intermediate Russian Language Students Using Authentic Material
Title: CALL Prereading Strategies
for First-Year Russian Students Title: Teaching Literature
on Line Title: The Glossed Reader:
Authentic Literary Text As "Comprehensible Input" Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Russian Faces and Voices on the Third-Year Level
Title: Adventures with Orlovsky in Third-Year Russian
Title: Mir russkikh and Russian Themes on the Third-Year Level
Title: Developing Supporting Materials for the Videoprogram Russian Themes (at the End of Second Year)
Title: Mir russkikh on the Third-Year College Level: One Size Fits All?
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Accusative in
-a as a Marker of Transitivity, Pragmatics and Discourse in Ukrainian
Title: "Proshu vashego velichestva..." - A Peculiar Occurrence of Genitive-Accusative in the History of Russian
Title: It's Alive! The Expansion
of the Category of Animacy in West Slavic Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Participant: Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California Participant: Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh Participant: Tony Anemone, College of William and Mary Participant: Harlow Robinson, Northeastern University Participant: Dubravka Juraga, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Participant: Thomas Lahusen, Duke University Participant: Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Odd Man Out: The Young Tolstoj
and the Image of the Raznochinec Title: A Reexamination of Details
in Tolstoj's War and Peace Title: Private Document as Public Address: The Tolstojs in 1910
Discussant: Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Avantjurnaja motivika v proze A. S. Pushkina
Title: Stixi i proza v Egipetskix nochax Pushkina
Title: Iz poètiki Istorii Pugacheva: èpigraf, primechanija, prilozhenija
Title: Pushkinskaja tradicija v romanax I. A. Goncharova
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Nabokov's Pnin:
A Creative "Revision" of Evgenij Onegin Title: "Abusive Fidelity" or Faithful
Abuse? Nabokov's Literal Translation and Western and Russian Translation Theories
Title: A Typology of Homogeneity:
Nabokov's Endings Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Gnostic Elements
in Sologub's Tvorimaja legenda Title: An Exhumation of Lilith,
Eve, and the Quiet Children: Western Sources for Sologub's A Legend in Creation
Title: The Victory of Life: Pobeda smerti
and Zalozhniki zhizni as Milestones in Sologub's Creative Life
Discussant: Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: The Anthologization of
Polish and Russian Women Writers, 1812-1900 Title: Elena Gan and the
Female Gothic in Russia Title: The Unhappy Woman Writer: Milica Mic'ic'
Dimovska on Milica Stojadinovic' Srpkinja Discussant: Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Stalinism as "Black Hole": Ivan Dyxovichnyj's Film Prorva
Title: Political Analysis
of Scarecrow Title: Fighting on Two Fronts:
Nikolaj Èkk's Putevka v zhizn' Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Further Problems in Teaching
Serbo-Croatian in the Nineties: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian Title: The Theory and Practice
of Developing Multimedia Programs for Ukrainian Language Instruction Title: Pooling Our Resources: Connecting LCTL Teachers Through the Web (On the Example of Czech)
Title: Teaching Ukrainian
Reading Strategies at the Lower-Intermediate Level Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Long-Term Patterns
of Language Use After Graduation: The Case of ACTR Study Abroad Alumni Title: Sound-Letter Correspondence
Acquisition in First Semester Russian Title: The Unbearable Slightness
of Being Foreign: How Does Foreign Language Anxiety Affect American Students
of Russian Studying Abroad? Title: Output-Focused Instruction
and the Acquisition of Relativization in Russian Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Panelist: Richard Robin, George Washington University Panelist: Dasha Nisula, Western Michigan University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 2:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Literature of the Judaizers
or Literature for the Judaizers? The Fifteenth-Century Ruthenian Translations
from Hebrew: By Whom, For Whom and Why? Title: Who Wrote Povest' vremennyx
let Nestera chernorizca Fedos'eva manastyr'a Pecherskago Title: "Checkerboard"
Menologies: Reassessing the Banica Gospel Calendar of Saints Title: Church Slavonisms in Old
Russian Textology Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Dostoevskij's The Gambler: Deconstructing the Beau Joueur
Title: Money/Words and Wealth/Sense: Semiotic Remarks on Mamin-Sibirjak's Privalov's Millions
Title: The Odor of Europe:
Western Smells in Russian Context Discussant: Irina Reyfman, Columbia University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Vico's Concept of Knowledge as an Underpinning of Dostoevskij's Aesthetic Historicism
Title: The Art of Meaning: Reading and Writing in Dostoevskij's Diary of a Writer
Title: The Anti-Romantic, Anti-Heroic Russian Musician in Dostoevskij's Netochka Nezvanova
Discussant: Lee Johnson, Yale University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Russian Emigré
Actor in the United States: Michael Chekhov as Teacher and Director in New York
and Los Angeles Title: "A Woman Should Know How to Do It All":
Views on Women's Domestic and Public Roles in Contemporary Ukraine Title: Wedded Strangers: Russian-American Marriages
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Who's Renting These Boys?
Wiktor Grodecki's Czech Hustler Documentaries Title: The Commerce with
Desire: The Question of Self-Determination in the New (East) German Gay Literature
Discussant: Yaroslav Mogutin, Writer Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Nivroko: Babel''s
False John Title: The Inverted Reflection of the Others'
Stereotypes in the Jewish Voice of Isaak Babel' Discussant: Ruth Rischin, Independent Scholar Discussant: Alla Efimova, Independent Scholar Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Refashioning the Discourse of Everyday
Life: The Futurists' Feast in a Time of Plague Title: Beyond the Sverxpovest':
Xlebnikov's Doski sud'by Title: "It Was Truly Modern
Poetry That Was Needed as Oxygen...": Moscow Conceptualists and Nikolaj Glazkov
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Russian History and
Russian Language: One Model of Implementing Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum
Title: Incorporating Task-Based
Instruction Into Russian Classrooms Title: Integrating Classroom
and the Community: Community Based Learning and Student Outcomes Discussant: Richard Robin, George Washington University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Panelist: Jeffrey D. Holdeman, Ohio State University Panelist: Mark Lauersdorf, University of Kansas Panelist: William Nickell, University of California, Berkeley Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
CD-ROM: Russian Stage One: Live from Moscow
CD-ROM: Izbushka: An Interactive Aid to Reading Russian Folklore
CD-ROM: Oxford Russian Dictionary
CD-ROM: START: An Introduction to the Sound and Writing Systems of Russian
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Diktumnye i modusnye narechija (K voprosu o semanticheskoj klassifikacii leksiki v prakticheskoj grammatike russkogo jazyka)
Title: Are You with Me? Ponimaete
in Colloquial Russian Speech Title: Pragmatics of
Russian Directives: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Title: Discourse vs Pragmatics:
The Hierarchical Organization of Possession Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Aelita as Princess and Comrade: Ambivalence
in Jakov Protazanov's Film (1924) of Alexej Tolstoj's Aelita Title: Concentric Behavior
or Walking in Circles: Èjzenshtejn, The General Line and Dynamic Psychology
Title: The Kiss of Mary Pickford and the Taint of Americanism
Title: Life into Art: Denuding the Theme in
Bed and Sofa Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Russian Fairy-Tales in the Written Tradition
Title: Tat'jana's New Life and Death: the Dream Interpreted Through the Symbolism of the Svjatki Folk Ritual
Title: The Philosophy of Folk Rhythms in Chexov's
"The Steppe" Title: Ukrainian Folklore in Nikolaj Gogol''s
Taras Bul'ba Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Russian Narrative
Folklore in Kazakhstan Title: Bipartiteness and the
Formulae in Russian and Serbian Proverbs Title: Tat'jana, or the Cultural
Logic of the Devushka Title: B. Nemcová's
Babichka: Novel and National Idyll Title: National Identity Through
Myth and Legend: Magical Realism in Ajtmatov's Early Fiction Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Erotic Ascent in
Kuzmin's Poetry Title: Homosexuality
and Reflections on Contemporary Homoerotic Literature in Two Plays of 1907-1908,
N. Faleev's Immortelles (Immorteli) and A. Kosorotov's On
the Hill (Na gore); unpublished Title: The Russian Psyche:
Cvetaeva's Asexual Ideal Title: Watching (In) "Pornography":
An Approach to Gombrowicz Discussant: Vitaly Chernetsky, Columbia University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Stavrogin and Rosseau's
Patrimony: The Sins of the Fathers in Dostoevskij's Besy Title: Konrad and Jacob: A
Hypothetical Kabbalistic Subtext in Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady, Czes'c'
III Title: Russian Literature in South
Africa: J. M. Coetzee's Reading/Writing of Dostoevskij Discussant: Leonard Orr, Washington State University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Poet: Gennady Barabtarlo, University of Missouri, Columbia Poet: Vladimir Gandelsman, Word/Slovo Journal, New York Poet: Andrej Gritsman, Russian Writers' Club, New York Poet: John High, Talisman House Publishing, San Francisco Poet: Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College Poet: Petr Vegin, Royal Magazine, Los Angeles Poet: Tomas Venclova, Yale University Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Presentation: K voprosu ob universal'nom uchebnike
Presentation: Polilogue as a Text and Device
Presentation: Grammatical System in V puti
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Establishing a Personal
Word List to Accompany the New Oxford Russian Dictionary on CD-ROM Title: Developing Listening
Comprehension Using Voice of America Broadcasts from the Internet and Russian
Language Satellite TV in the Classroom Title: A Model for Web-based
Language Instruction: Pedagogical Implications Discussant: Mark Kaiser, University of California, Berkeley Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Slot: Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: The Primordial Roots of
Czech "language nationalism" Title: Language Politics in
Yugoslavia Today: The Crisis over the Future of Serbian Title: Language Ideology and
Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Belarus Discussant: Victor Friedman, University of Chicago Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Lord Brother Aleksandr
and Lord Father John Damascene: A Fifteenth-Century Rus' Monk's Encounter with
the Art of Interpretation Title: The Ideology of the Slovo o polku Igoreve and the Political Realities of Twelfth-Century Rus'
Title: The Apocalyptic Symbolism of Rome and Jerusalem in Fifteenth-Seventeenth-Century Russian Literature
Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Jurij Zhivago and
Lara as "Logos" and "Sophia": Artistic Creation and Gender Roles Title: Pasternak's Poetics
and the Metonymy of Music Title: Boris Pasternak's
The Year 1905: Visual Arts in the Genre of Epic Poetry Discussant: Juliette Stapanian Apkarian, Emory University Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Exile and the Formation
of Biographical Legend Title: Creating a Useable
Past: Literature as Legitimizer during the 1930s "Days of Russian Culture"
Discussant: Rodney L. Patterson, State University of New York, Albany Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: The New Approach to
Russian History in Staroj's Continuation of War and Peace Title: Boris Sluckij's "Vo
buxarskom xalate" (1975) and the Romantic Culture of Xalat Title: Quotation and Allusion
in L. Dobychin's Gorod N Discussant: Cynthia Ruder, University of Kentucky Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: The Landscape After
Battle: a Sentimental Journey of the White Guard Title: A Reexamination
of The Master and Margarita Title: Between Rome and Jerusalem:
Messianic Cities in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita Discussant: Kevin Moss, Middlebury College Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Pronunciation of Grammatical
Inflections by American Learners of Russian: An Interlanguage-Specific Discourse
Strategy Title: Grammar vs.
Pronunciation Errors: Russians' Preferences in Foreign-Accented Speech Title: "Faux amis", ili "Lozhnye druz'ja perevodchika" v obuchenii russkomu jazyku studentov medicinskoj special'nosti.
Title: Positive and Negative
Politeness in Russian Business Communication Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Title: Texas Czech of Texas
Czechs: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective on Language Use in a Dying Language Community
Title: Language Variation in an
Immigrant Community: Language and Community Maintenance Title: Some Special Problems
of Imperfective Derivation in Czech Discussant: Mirjam Fried, University of California, Berkeley Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: "My Child, Spouse,
and God": Kljuev's Esenin Title: Sergej Klychkov and the
Peasant Writers School Discussant: Maria Pavlovszky, Indiana University/Purdue University Indiana Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Nikolaj Leskov: Death and Rebirth
Title: Caius and Ivan Il'ich: Between a Syllogism and Death
Title: Moral Bewilderment in a "Redemptionist" Narrative: Dostoevskij's Notes from the House of the Dead
Title: Death and Narrative in Tolstoj, Baxtin and Derrida
Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Twin Poems by Lermontov
Title: "Serdce, zhazhdushchee
bur'": v poiskax adresata stixotvorenija F. I. Tjutcheva Title: "Quoting" Moral Literary
Economy: Dmitrij Minaev's Evgenij Onegin nashego vremeni Title: Iosif Brodskij's "Osennij
krik jastreba": Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Anxiety of Influence Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Discord Over the
Abyss: Leonid Andreev's Reappropriation of Schopenhauer from Lev Tolstoj
Title: "In Vino Veritas": A Kierkegaardian
Reading of Blok's "Neznakomka" Title: Heideggerian Themes in
Boris Pilnjak's The Naked Year Title: Toys and Words: Transgression
as Indoctrination in Children's Literature Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Intertext in Trifonov's
The House on the Embankment Title: Sportivnaja Zhurnalistika Jurija Trifonova
Discussant: Michael Falchikov, University of Edinburg, Scotland Discussant: Galina A. Belaia, Russian State University of Humanities Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Comparing Language Gains
among Summer, Semester, and Academic Year Study Abroad Students of Russian:
Empirical Research Results through 1998 Title: Acquisition of Second Language
Pragmatic Competence during Study Abroad Title: The Psychometric Aspect
of Threshold: Speaking, Reading, and Listening Proficiency during Study Abroad
Title: Language Gains During Study
Abroad: A Reassessment of the "Predictors" Study and Prospects for Future Research
Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panelist: David Danaher, University of Wisconsin, Madison Panelist: Jason Pontius, University of Chicago Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Title: Gender-Based Assessments
of Russian and American-English Speakers: Data from Methodologically Identical
Subjective-Reaction Experiments Title: Language Attitudes and
Lexical and Grammatical Choice in Croatian Title: "Yuppie" and "Popcorn":
The New Russian Vocabulary of the 1990s Discussant: Nadia Stangé-Zhirovova, University of Brussels Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: The Impotent Demon and Prurient Tamara: Parodies on Lermontov's Demon in Dostoevskij's The Devils
Title: Playing With a Used
Deck: Echoes of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades in Lermontov's "Fatalist"
Title: Lermontov's Pechorin in Turgenev's Fathers and Children
Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: The Imagery
of Eurasianism: From Danilevskij to Dugin Title: Russian Ethnic Humor:
Sociological Conclusions Title: Post-National Social
Formations on Russian Web Sites Title: Little Citizens of a Big Country: Colonizing the Soviet Child
Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: "The Sedulous Providence
of Nature": Skovoroda's Theory of Nature in Valerij Shevchuk's The Moon
Cuckoo of the Swallow's Nest Title: Ukrainian Tales
"for them" or "for us": the Implied Audience in Gogol''s Evenings at the
Farm near Dikan'ka and Kvitka-Osnovjanenko's Little Russian Tales
Discussant: Halyna Hryn, Yale University Discussant: Hanna Chumachenko, Harriman Institute, Columbia University Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Meaning and Time
in Prawiek i Inne Czasy (The Long Ago and Other Times) by Olga Tokarczuk
Title: "Between Poetry
and Prose": Czeslaw Milosz's Latest Writing as a Metaphysical Statement
Discussant: Katia Mitova-Janowski, University of Chicago Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: Limonov Against Picaro:
Eddie's Heroic Defeat Title: Sergej Dovlatov's
Nevidimaja kniga and Zona Discussant: Alla Latynina, Literaturnaja Gazeta Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Panelist: Tatiana Akishina, University of Southern California Panelist: Natalie Kononenko, University of Virginia Panelist: Sophia Lubensky, State University of New York, Albany Panelist: Richard Robin, George Washington University Panelist: Jane W. Shuffelton, Brighton High School, Rochester, NY Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Panelist: Vassily Bessonoff, Science Applications International Corporation Panelist: Kimberly Fedchak, Bryn Mawr College Panelist: Cynthia Ruder, University of Kentucky Panelist: Julia V. Sagaidak, University of Pittsburgh Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Title: An Empirical Study
of the Aspectual Usage of Russian Verbs in the Past Tense Title: The Construction
of budem with l-participle in Serbo-Croatian: Tense or Modality
Title: The Origins of the Russian
Imperfective Future Construction budu + Infinitive Discussant: Grace Fielder, University of Arizona Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: "Demons" in the Service
of The Demons: An Analysis of Pushkin's Poem and Its Role in the Epigraph
to Dostoevskij's Novel Title: The Problem of "milosti"
in Pushkin's A Fairy Tale About the Tsar Sultan... Title: The Hibernation of Drama: Once Again
on the Theatrical Value of Pushkin's Boris Godunov Title: Poor Liza? Pushkin's
Polemic with Karamzin in "The Squire's Daughter" Discussant: Oleg Proskurin, Cornell University Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: A Horse is a Horse
unless He is a Talking Horse: A. I. Kuprin's "Emerald" in Debate with L. N.
Tolstoj's "Strider" Title: From "The Duel" to "At a Country House":
the Evolution of Chexov's Views Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: The Letters of K.
D. Bal'mont Title: >Russian Hermeneutic Theories: A Comparison
of M. M. Baxtin and V. I. Ivanov Discussant: Lena Szilárd, Università degli Studi di Sassari Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: God-Building or God-Seeking?
Maksim Gor'kij's Ispoved' Title: At the Beginning There
Was a Word: Aleksej Remizov's Rossija v pis'menax in the Light of Linguistic
Mysticism Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Andrej Bitov's Prose
as an Intersection of the Russian Metafictional Tradition and the Contemporary
Western Tradition of Metafiction Title: Unreality as Condition
of Life: A Postmodern View on Andrej Bitov's Pushkin House Title: Ljudmila Petrushevskaja:
Towards a Russian Postmodernist Prose Slot: Wednesday, 30 December 1998, 3:15-5:15 p.m.
Title: Indeclinable (Indigenous)
Adjectives in Russian Title: Object Reduplication in
Spoken Bulgarian Title: Variation in the Gender
Assignment of Inanimate Indeclinable Nouns in Russian: The Moscow Experiment
Discussant: Cynthia Vakareliyska, University of Oregon Maintained by David J. Birnbaum (djb@clover.slavic.pitt.edu) Last updated 11/25/1998.
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