AATSEEL Annual Meeting27-30 December 2005, Washington, D.C.Preliminary ProgramThe preliminary program published in the AATSEEL newsletter was current as of October 2, 2005. This web publication reflects ongoing changes to the program. In case of discrepancies, the web version of the program should be considered authoritative. If you are interested in chairing a panel which currently lacks one, please contact the Chair of the Program Committee, William J. Comer (wjcomer@ku.edu).
The AATSEEL Constitution restricts participation in the annual AATSEEL meeting to members in good standing. In conformity with this requirement, on 1 November all persons listed in the Preliminary Program who are not current members of AATSEEL (or who have not received a membership waiver) will be eliminated from the final program. All persons listed on the program must preregister for the conference by 30 September. The preregistration deadline for all other attendees of the conference is 30 November, although attendees may also register at the door. Preregistration information was mailed to all AATSEEL members in August. It is also available on the web at: http://www.aatseel.org. Please direct renewals, registrations, and inquiries to Kathleen Dillon, Executive Director, AATSEEL, P.O. BOX 7039, Berkeley, CA 94707-2306. Office phone/fax: 510-526-6614, email: aatseel@earthlink.net
Non-Panel Events
December 27 AATSEEL Program Committee (5-7 p.m.) AATSEEL Executive Council (7-10 p.m.) Conference Registration (5-7 p.m.)
December 28 Conference Registration (7:30 a.m.—7 p.m.) SEEJ Editorial Board Meeting (9:30-11:30am) Meeting of Language Program Coordinators (12:15-1:30p.m.) Conference panels Exhibits (9 a.m.—4:30 p.m.) ACTR Board Meeting (5-7
p.m.) Middlebury College Reception
(9 p.m.)
December 29 Slava/Olympiada Breakfast (8—10 a.m.) Conference Registration (7:30 a.m.—5 p.m.) Conference panels Exhibits (9 a.m.—4:30 p.m.) AATSEEL Business Meeting 10 a.m. Keynote Address: 11:00am ACTR General Membership Meeting (5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.) AATSEEL President's Reception/Awards held jointly with ACTR at Russian Embassy, 7pm
December 30 AATSEEL Executive Council (7-10 a.m.) Conference panels Exhibits (9 a.m.—noon) AATSEEL Program Committee (12-1 p.m.)
Panels
(The title of each paper links to the abstract.)
Note: Equipment requests are noted in parentheses following the panelist’s name. CP=Computer projector OP = Overhead Projector CD=portable audio cd/tape player VCR or DVD includes a television)
December 27 7:30PMSpecial Event: Theatrical Performance: Isaac Babel Performer: Andrei Malaev-Babel (Stanislavsky Theater Studio)
December 28 Session A: 8:00-10:0028A-1 Workshop: The Job Interview Workshop Presenters Arlene Forman, Oberlin College Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: The University of the South Joseph Peschio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Michael Gorham, University of Florida Seamas O’Driscoll, Northwestern University
28A-2 Panel: Nikolai Gogol Panel Chair: Paul A. Karpuk, Central Connecticut State University Panelist: Maksim Klymentiev, University of Southern California Title: The Dark Side of the Nose: The Olfactory in Nikolai Gogol’s Works Panelist: Elizabeth M. Sheynzon, Northwestern University Title: “The Nose”: Objectlessness in the Megapolis Panelist: Colleen McQuillen, Columbia University Title: The
Ukrainian Morality Play as Gogol's Didactic Compass in Dead Souls
28A-3 Panel: Illness in Literature and Culture Panel Chair: Catherine O’Neil, University of Denver Panelist: Tetyana Varenychenko, Holy Family University (OP) Title: Chekhov’s Story “Sleepy”: A Case Study of a Child Living in an Abusive Environment Panelist: Mary Delle LeBeau, University of Southern California Title: From Consumption To Tuberculosis In Late 19th Century Russian Letters Panelist: Frederick H. White, Memorial University Title: Diary of a Madman: Leonid Andreev’s Melancholic Moods Panelist: Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, Miami University Title: The Chronotope of the Alcoholic in Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva-Petushki
28A-4 Panel: Platonov and Early Soviet Literary Culture Panel Chair: Eric Laursen, University
of Utah Title: Evgenii Zamiatin and Andrei Platonov: The Benefactor and the Logos Panelist: Lenka Pankova, University of Pittsburgh Title: The New Woman That Was Not: Andrei Platonov’s Moskva Chestnova Panelist: Keith Blasing, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Platonov’s Sokrovennyi chelovek and the Road to Chevengur
28A-5 Panel: Historical
Developments in East Slavic Panelist: Matthew Feeney, University of Kansas Title: Slavic Ethnonyms in the Reconstruction of Proto-Slavic and the Process of Naming Panelist: Miriam Shrager, Indiana University (OP) Title: Reflexes of AP-D in Northwest Russian Dialects Panelist: Hakyung Jung, Harvard University Title: On the development of the Perfect Participial Constructions in Northwest Russian
28A-6 Panel: Particles
Panelist: Maya Bringe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen) Title: A Russian Particle on the Periphery: xot' Panelist: Eun-ji Song, Seoul National University Title: Topic-Marking Particle –TO and Scalar Implicature Panelist: Hyug Ahn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen) Title: Additional Information Introduced by -ся in Russian
28A-7 Panel: Issues in the Language Teaching Theory Panel Chair: Eloise Boyle, Independent Scholar Panelist: Nataliia Sinichkina, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language Title: Технология учебного диалога на занятиях по методике преподавания русского языка Panelist: Georgii Khruslov, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language Title: Teaching Russian among Other Languages of the Russian Federation Panelist: Richard Robin, George Washington University Title: Legitimizing Semi-Authenticity
28A-8 Forum: “Rossija v kontekste”: A Content-Based Coursepack and Web Materials for Teaching Advanced Russian (CP) Forum Presenters Jason A Merrill, Michigan State University Irina Agafonova, Michigan State University David Prestel, Michigan State University
December 28 SessionB: 10:15-12:1528B-1 Panel: Dostoevsky’s Later Fiction Panel Chair: Marina Balina, Illinois Weslyan University Panelist: Michael Katz, Middlebury College Title: Stepan Verkhovensky’s “Dangerous” Poem in Dostoevsky’s Devils Panelist: Guru Paran Gunaratnam, Independent Scholar Title: Double-endedness in Dostoevsky Panelist: Ioan Onujec, Independent Scholar Title: The Ontology of Nonbeing in The Brothers Karamazov Panelist: James L Rice, University of Oregon Title: Dostoevsky's Endgame: The Projected Sequel to The Brothers Karamazov
28B-2 Round Table: Babel’s Odessa Roundtable Chair: Janneke van de Stadt, Williams
College Rebecca J. Stanton, Barnard College Emma Lieber, Columbia University Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College Andrei Malaev-Babel, Stanislavsky Theater Studio
28B-3 Panel: Soviet Cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s Panel Chair: Yuri Leving, The George Washington University Panelist: Marina Madorskaya, University of Michigan (TV/DVD and VCR) Title: The End of the Typical Hero: Aleksei Batalov in the films of Iosif Kheifits. Panelist: Jason A Merrill, Michigan State University Title: Shepit’ko’s Voskhozhdenie: Christian Imagery and the Link with Dostoevsky Panelist: Robert Efird, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Title: Artists and Fools: Iurodstvo in Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev Panelist: Raisa V Solovyova, Brigham Young University (TV/DVD) Title: Tarkovsky’s (Un)Realized Films
28B-4 Panel: The Language of Early Slavic Manuscripts Panel Chair: David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh Panelist: Irina Barclay, Appalachian State University Title: Tver's Spiritual Testaments as a Linguistic Source of the Russian Language Panelist: Alexander Kulik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Title: Retroversion as a Tool of Interpretation Panelist: Natalia Fedorovskaya, Far-Eastern State Technical University, Vladivostok Title: A New Method for Analyzing Text-music Relationships in Russian Sacred Compositions
28B-5 Panel: Slavic Aspect
and Grammar in Context Panelist: Susan Kresin, University of California, Los Angeles and Stephen Dickey, University of Kansas Title: Aspect and Negation in Czech and Russian (in pdf format) Panelist: Laura Janda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen) Title: Constraints on the Formal Structure of Russian Verb Clusters Panelist: Nicholas LeBlanc, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen) Title: Another Look at Secondary Homogenizations in Russian Panelist: Masako Fidler, Brown University Title: Sound Symbolism and Grammar in Czech: A Cognitive Approach
28B-6 Round Table: Teaching Russian at the Pre-College Level Roundtable Chair: Todd Golding Roundtable Discussants Jane Shuffelton, Brighton HS, Rochester, NY Elizabeth Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson High
School of Science and Elena Farkas, Turnagain Elementary School, Alaska
28B-7 Forum: Pedagogical Considerations for Developing Online Listening Lessons for Russian Intermediate and Advanced Learners (CP) Forum Presenters Natalia Antokhin, Defense Language Institute Richard Mayer, Defense Language Institute
December 28 Session C:1:30-3:30PM28C-1 Round Table: Undergraduate Slavic Programs Roundtable Chair: Lena Lencek, Reed College Roundtable Discussants Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Marina Balina, Illinois Weslyan University William Comer, University
of Kansas
28C-2 Panel: North American Pushkin Society Panel Chair: Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University Panelist: Larissa Bondarchuk, Ohio State University Title: Anchar through the Prism of Structuralism Panelist: Zaur V Agayev, Princeton University Panelist: Joseph Peschio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Title: Once More about Rodzianko, Pushkin, and The Green Lamp Panelist: Luba Golburt, Stanford University Title: The Labyrinthine House of History: Pushkin’s Queen of Spades and Lazhechnikov’s House of Ice
28C-3 Panel: Tolstoy Panel Chair: Slava Yastremski, Bucknell University Panelist: Tatiana Kuzmic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Title: The Slavonic Question and the Dismembered Adulteress Panelist: Edgar L. Castillo, California State University, Fresno Title: Tolstoy’s Resurrection: Man as Individual Panelist: Nicholas K. Kupensky, Bucknell University
28C-4 Panel: Urban Text in Slavic Context Panel Chair: Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley Panelist: Julie A. Buckler, Harvard University Panelist: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California Title: Gods in the Streets: The Mystery Genre and Urban Space in Early Soviet Culture Panelist: Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley Title: Slums of Leningrad: Observing the Uneasy Outburst of the Genre (1924-1934) Panelist: Brinton Tench Coxe, Columbia University Title: Marketing Moscow: Vladimir Sorokin’s Ochered’ and Aleksandr Zel’dovich’s Moskva Panel Discussant: Alexander Mihailovic, Hofstra University
28C-5 Panel: Literary Projections of Jewish-Russian Relations Panel Chair: TBA Panelist: Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College Title: Revolution, Sex, and Jewish Masculinity in Eduard Bagritsky’s “February” Panelist: Marat Grinberg, University of Chicago
28C-6 Panel: Case Panel Chair: Wayles Browne, Cornell University Panelist: Steven Clancy, University of Chicago Title: From Jakobson's Cube to Semantics Maps: Multidimensional Scaling and Slavic Case Semantics Panelist: Valery Solovyev, Kazan State University Title: Combinability of Emotive Words with Case-Preposition Marks in Russian Language Panelist: Dana Akanova, University of Chicago Title: On translating Ethical Datives in Russian and Macedonian Panelist: Mirjam Fried, Princeton University Title: The Lithuanian dative of possession
28C-7 Panel: The Russian Advanced Placement (AP) Curriculum and Examination: Results of the 2004-5 Pilot Program and Prospects for 2006 and Beyond (Screen) Panel Chair: Richard Brecht, University of Maryland Panelist: Maria Lekić, University of Maryland Panelist: Camelot Marshall, American Councils Panelist: Ken Petersen, ACTR Title: Russnet: Online Resources for Teaching a Russian AP Course Panelist: Jane Shuffelton, Brighton HS, Rochester, NY (OH) Title: Performance Assessment Activities in the AP Russian Classroom Panel Discussant: Elizabeth Sandstrom,
Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and
28C-8 Round Table: Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian: Strategies for Expanding Offerings Roundtable Chair: Alexander Dunkel, University of Arizona Roundtable Discussants Susan Kresin, University of California, Los Angeles John Leafgren, University of Arizona Oksana Sachyk, Foreign Language Institute (Ottawa, Canada)
28C-9 Forum: Modern Russian Culture by Lauren G. Leighton (CP) Forum Presenter: Slava Paperno, Cornell University
December 28 Session D: 3:45-5:4528D-1 Round Table: New Paradigms in Literary and Cultural Theory Roundtable Chair: Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University Roundtable Discussants Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Mikhail Epstein, Emory University Svetlana Boym, Harvard University Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College-Columbia University
28D-2 Panel: Readings of Crime and Punishment Panel Chair: John Bartle, Hamilton College Title: Economic Gender in Crime and Punishment Panelist: Nina Familiant, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Crime in Absentia, Punishment in Praesentia: Raskol’nikov’s father Panelist: Lily Alexander, University of Toronto
28D-3 Panel: Polish Literature and Culture Panel Chair: Andrzej Karcz, University of Kansas Panelist: Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Columbia University Title: The Image of the Romantic Poet in the Making: Adam Mickiewicz and Walenty Wankowicz Panelist: Edward Manouelian, University of Texas, Austin Title: Jews in The Promised Land Panelist: Magdalena Kay, University of California, Berkeley Title: Questioning, Imagining, Mythologizing: “Lwów” in the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski Panelist: Kinga Maciejewska, University of Chicago Title: Epistemic Responsibility and Literary Journalism in Modern Poland
28D-4 Panel: From Soviet Satire to Socialist Realism: Literature of the 1920s and 30s Panel Chair: Yvonne Howell, University
of Richmond Title: The Smooth Operator Strikes Again: Ostap Bender as Bulgakov’s Woland Panelist: Eric Laursen, University of Utah Title: No Indecent Language Here!: Language and Control in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog Panelist: Viktoria Ivleva, Vassar College Title: Literary Theory in Practice: Rethinking Tynianov’s The Wax Figure Panelist: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Title: Putting the Truth to Work: The Socialist Literary Subtext in Lidija Chukovskaja’s Sof’ja Petrovna
28D-5 Panel: Russian and East European Expatriates in Film and Theatre (TV/VCR and DVD) Panel Chair: Klawa N. Thresher, Randolph-Macon Woman's College Panelist: Steven P. Hill, University of Illinois (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Title: “Not To Be Confused With”: Name and Title Difficulties in Emigre Cinema Panelist: Richard Stites, Georgetown University Title: Hungarian Cinema Expatriates Before and After Summer 1919 Panelist: Allison Comins-Richmond, Independent Scholar Title: Nazimova/Lewton: The Film Dynasty That Might Have Been Panel Discussant: John Rimberg, Narva-Joesuu Keskkool, Estonia
28D-6 Panel: Literature in Its Social and Political Dimensions Panel Chair: Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania Panelist: Vadim Shkolnikov, Columbia University Title: Reality and Sotsial’nost’: The Civilizing Mission of Belinsky’s Natural School Panelist: Rolf Hellebust, University of Calgary Title: Russian Anti-Literature and the Anti-Hero Panelist: Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester Title: Writers And Citizens In Russia: Whose Voice Is It? Panelist: Alexandra Kostina, Rhodes College Title: “In the Beginning Was the Word”: Logocentricity of the Russian Mentality
Panel Chair: Elena Shmeleva Panelist: Valentina Apresjan, Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia Panelist: Olga Yoshizumi, Brown University Title: Discourse-semantics of Borrowed Words in Russian after Perestroika Panelist: Jeff Holdeman, Indiana University Title: Lexical evidence of the homeland of the Russian Believers in Erie, Pennsylvania Panelist: Boris Iomdin, V.V.Vinogradov Russian Language Institute Title: The Notion of Understanding in Russian and English
28D-8 Panel: Linguistics and Pedagogy Panel Chair: Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Arizona Panelist: Victoria Driagina, Pennsylvania State University Panelist: Jeanette Owen, Arizona State University Title: Russian request speech acts and the art of persuasion Panelist: Maria Shardakova, Bryn Mawr College Title: Teaching Pragmatics to American Learners of Russian Panelist: Jane Hacking, University of Utah Title: Can Explicit Instruction Improve Socio-Pragmatic Competence?
28D-9 Forum: V puti: Second Edition Forum Presenters Frank Miller, Columbia University Anna Kudyma, University of California, Los Angeles (CP) David Gasperetti, University of Notre Dame Lynne deBenedette, Brown University
December 28 Session E: 7:00-9:00PM28E-1 Special Event: Russian Poetry Reading Chair: Andrey Gritsman, Independent Scholar Poets Polina Barskova, California Ina Bliznetsova, New York Dmitry Bobyshev, Illinois Vladimir Gandelsman, New York Bakhyt Kenzheev, Montreal, Canada Irina Mashinskaya, New Jersey Ian Probstein, New York Yevgeny Slivkin, California Grigory Starikovsky, New Jersey
28E-2 Special Event: Legacies of Robert Maguire Chair: Irina Reyfman, Columbia University Discussants Carol Ueland, Drew University William Mills Todd III, Harvard University Judith Kornblatt, University of Wisconsin-Madison Margo Rosen, Columbia University Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma Andrew Durkin, IndianaUniversity
26E-3 Panel: Elena Guro and St. Petersburg in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (OP) Panel Chair: Rolf Hellebust, University of Calgary Panelist: Adele Di Ruocco, University of Southern California Title: The Notion of “Impressionism” in Russian Aesthetic Criticism and in the Works of Elena Guro. Panelist: Milica Banjanin, Washington University Title: Urban Montage in Blok and Guro: From Baudelaire to Eisenstein Panelist: Juliette Stapanian Apkarian, Emory University (CP) Title: Eyeing the City: The Early Work of Elena Guro and Natal’ia Goncharova Panelist: Marina Alexandrova, University of Texas, Austin Title: Nature and the City in Elena Guro’s ‘Organic’ Futurism Panel Discussant: Inna Tigountsova, University of Victoria
December 29 Session A: 8:00-10:00AM29A-1 Panel: The Life and Death of the Hero Panel Chair: Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University Panelist: Inna Caron, Ohio State University Title: The Hero is Dead – Long Live the Hero: Boleslaw Prus’s Response to the Russian Realists Panelist: Justin Weir, Harvard University Title: Hadji Murad, Violence, and Narrative Panelist: William Nickell, University of California, Santa Cruz Title: Quietus of the Hero: Suicide as Rhetoric Panelist: Matthew P. McGarry, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: From Hero to Person: Narrative and the Development of Self in Andrej Bitov’s Pushkin House Discussant: Rolf Hellebust, University of Calgary
29A-2 Panel: The North American Chekhov Society Panel Chair: Robert Louis Jackson, Yale University Panelist: Radislav Lapushin, University of Chicago Title: The Poetry of Prose: The Motif of Clouds in Chekhov’s “Beauties” Panelist: Yanina Arnold, University of South Carolina Title: Space and Self in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters Panelist: Carol Flath, Duke University Title: How is More Better: Chekhov’s Letters in English Translation Panel Discussant: Michael Finke, Washington University
29A-3 Panel: Osip Mandelshtam Panel Chair: Elena Glazov-Corrigan, Emory University Panelist: Patrick Henry, University of California, Berkeley Title: The Church With Five Cupolas: The Lessons of Lowell’s Adaptations of Mandelstam Panelist: Tom Dolack, University of Oregon Title: Mandel'shtam's Nightingale and Literary Ventriloquism Panelist: Marilena Ruscica, Stanford University Title: Iazyk prostranstva: Dante and Mandelstam’s Geography of Exile Panelist: Victoria Thorstensson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Echoes of Pushkin’s Journey to Arzrum in Mandelstam’s Journey to Armenia
29A-4 Panel: Contemporary Russia and Its Reflections in Literature and Film Panel Chair: Thomas Garza, University
of Texas, Austin Title: Gratuitous Violence and Gratuitous Acts: Defining Bespredel Panelist: Gerald McCausland, University of Pittsburgh Title: Miniseries Realism: Aleksandr Chervinskii’s Cinemanovel’ “Shishkin les” Panelist: Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College Title: Senchin’s Satiric “I”
29A-5 Panel: Czech Literature, Film and Culture Panel Chair: Masako Fidler, Brown University Panelist: Holly Raynard, University of Florida (TV/VCR) Title: Living the Part: Heave Ho! We Want to Live! from Silver Screen to Social Sphere Panelist: Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago Title: Citizen Czech, or, the Dialectics of Genderlessness in Czech Surrealism Panelist: Christopher Harwood, Columbia University Title: The Troubled Ecology of Ivan Klíma’s Love and Garbage
29A-6 Panel: Lithuanian Syntax Panel Chair: Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland Panelist: James Lavine, Bucknell University Title: Repassivization in Lithuanian Panelist: Cori Anderson, Princeton University Title: Oblique Passivization in Lithuanian Panelist: Leonard Babby, Princeton University Title: Deriving Hybrid Verbal Categories: Evidence from the Comparison of Lithuanian and Russian Panelist: Steven Franks, Indiana University Title: The Curious Case of Lithuanian Adjuncts (in pdf format)
29A-7 Panel: Corpus and Database Approaches to Linguistics Panel Chair: Viktoriya
Dragina, Pennsylvania State University Title: Russian National Corpus (RNC): an Overview and Perspectives Panelist: V. R. Bayrasheva, Kazan State University Title: Baza dannyx po sochetaemosti emotivnoj leksiki v russkom jazyke Panelist: Olga
Nevzorova, Kazan State Pedagogical University
29A-8 Roundtable: Current
Trends in Spoken Russian
29 A-9 Forum: “Molodets!”: A Dynamic Application for Producing Language Exercises (CP) Forum Presenters David J. Galloway, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Kristin Peterson-Bidoshi, Union College Kristen Welsh, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
December 29 Session B 11:00Keynote: What's In a Name? The Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries of AATSEEL Keynote Lecturer: Alexander M. Schenker, Yale University
December 29 Session C 1:30-3:3029C-1 Round Table: Are We Post-Colonial? Roundtable Chair: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University Roundtable Discussants Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh Dragan Kujundzic, University of California, Irvine Serguei Oushakine, Columbia University Vitaly Chernetsky, Harvard University Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley
29C-2 Panel: Revisiting Nikolai Karamzin’s Letters of a Russian Traveler Panel Chair: Aaron Beaver, Indiana University Panelist: Stiliana Milkova, University of California, Berkeley Title: Ekphrastic Vision and Nikolai Karamzin’s Letters of a Russian Traveler Panelist: Michael Wachtel, Princeton University Title: Dichtung und Wahrheit in Karamzin’s Prose
29C-3 Panel: Russian Symbolism Panel Chair: Maria Carlson, University of Kansas Panelist: Jonathan Stone, University of California, Berkeley Title: The Literal Symbolist: Vladimir Solov’ev and the Initial Reception of Russian Symbolism Panelist: Daria O Solodkaia, Princeton Univeristy Title: Andrei Bely’s Silver Dove In Light Of Plato’s Idea Of the Winged Soul Panelist: Jacob Emery, Harvard University Title: The Language of Adam: Heredity and Metaphor in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg Panelist: David Borgmeyer, Independent Scholar (Slide Projector & screen) Title: Wisdom’s Voice, Wisdom’s Body: Women and the Sophian Feminine in the Silver Age
29C-4 Panel: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Art Panel Chair: Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio
University Title: Музыкальная Компонента Поэзии Цветаевой Panelist: Jessica Brandt, Montclair State University Title: In Defense of the Queen: Hamlet and Ophelia in the Work of Marina Tsvetaeva Panelist: Erik McDonald, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Nekrasov and Tsvetaeva’s The Ratcatcher Panelist: Irina Morenko-Riviere, University of Paris Sorbonne
29C-5 Panel: Russian Theatre and Film From Censorship to ... Panel Chair: Yana Hashamova, Ohio State
University Title: Censorship and Authorial Agency in Soviet Cinema of the 1960s-1970s Panelist: Nicholas Rzhevsky, State University of New York, Stony Brook Title: Beyond Postmodernism: Russian Literature and Theater in the 1990’s Panelist: Viktoriya Topalova, University of British Columbia (OP) Title: Mourning for an Ideal: Russian Literature and Film of the 1990s and early 2000s
29C-6 Panel: Polish Literature and Film in European Contexts Panel Chair: Inna Caron, Ohio State University Panelist: Marysia Dzieduszycka, Columbia University Title: Adam Mickiewicz: a naive or sentimental poet? Panelist: Rimma Garn, Defense Language Institute (DVD) Title: The Implied Author in Kieslowski's White
29C-7 Panel: Slavic Phonology Panel Chair: Robert Channon, Purdue University Panelist: Cecilia Odé, University of Amsterdam Title: Russian Pitch Accents Defined Panelist: Christina Bethin, State University of New York, Stony Brook Title: Word Prosody in the Vladimir-Volga Basin Dialects of Russian Panelist: Elena Boudovskaia, University of California, Los Angeles
29C-8 Panel: Examining L-2 Outcomes from Study Abroad at Level 3 and Above: A Report to the Field on the First National Flagship Overseas Program in Russian Panel Chair: Maria Lekić, University of Maryland Panelist: Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr College Panelist: Sharon Bain, Bryn Mawr College Panelist: Darya Shakhova, ACTR (CP) Title: Language Learning at the Professional Level: Participant Views of the Russian Flagship Experience Panel Discussant: Kira A Rogova, St. Petersburg University
29C-9 Round Table: Czech Studies in American Higher Education Roundtable Chair: Neil Bermel, University of Sheffield Roundtable Discussants Laura Janda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Masako Fidler, Brown University Susan Kresin, University of California, Los Angeles Craig Cravens, University of Texas Hana Filip, University of Florida Mirjam Fried, Princeton University Bronislava Volkova, Indiana University Vilma Anyzova, Embassy of the Czech Republic
December 29 Session D 3:45-5:4529D-1 Round Table: Russian Realism Reconsidered Roundtable Chair: William Mills Todd III, Harvard University Roundtable Discussants Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley Lina Steiner, University of Chicago Anastasia Kayiatos, University of California, Berkeley Victoria Somoff, University of California, Berkeley Molly Brunson, University of California, Berkeley
29D-2 Round Table: Slavic Linguistics and Slavic Cultures: Intersections and Interventions Roundtable Chair: Alexander M. Schenker, Yale University Roundtable Discussants Henryk Baran, State University of New York, Albany Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
29D-3 Panel: Russian-European Interchanges Across the Centuries Panel Chair: Joseph Peschio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Panelist: Francis Butler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Title: Pan-European Motifs in the Martyrdom of Boris and Gleb Panelist: Aaron Beaver, Indiana University Title: Derzhavin’s “Bessmertie Dushi” and Kant Panelist: Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa Title: The Marquis de Custine as Cultural Hero Panelist: Ruth Rischin, San Francisco State University Title: Once Upon the Oka-Amur: Gor’kii and Makine
29D-4 Panel: Source Texts and Cultural Constructs Panel Chair: Marat Grinberg, University of Chicago Panelist: Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania Title: Amor Hereos: Occult Sources of Russian Romanticism Panelist: Maria Carlson, University of Kansas Title: Velesova Kniga: Folklore? Faith? Fascism? or simply Faux? Panelist: Marina Aptekman, Wheaton College Panelist: Irene C McManman, University of Washington
29D-5 Panel: Women and Women’s Bodies in Recent Russian Writing and Film Panel Chair: Edith Clowes, University of Kansas Panelist: Jenny Kaminer, Northwestern University Title: The Ambiguity of Maternal Violence in Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s “Our Crowd” Panelist: Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: The University of the South Panelist: Yelena Furman, University of California, San Diego Title: Female Bodies in Post-Soviet Film: Natal'ia Andreichenko's Shamara
29D-6 Panel: New and Transformed Genres in Russia Since Perestroika Panel Chair: Valentina Apresjan, Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia Panelist: Elena Shmeleva, Moscow Title: Transformation of a Speech Genre: The Case of Russian Jokes Panelist: Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University and Anna Zaliznjak, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics Title: Email Correspondence in Russian as a Specific Communicative Genre Panelist: Michael Gorham, University of Florida Title: The Speech Genres of Vladimir Putin
29D-7 Panel: Psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Screen) Panel Chair: Irina A. Sekerina, City University of New York Panelist: Maggie Sikorska, University of Ottawa Title: The L2 Acquisition of Polish Quirky Subjects Panelist: Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva, U of South Carolina Title: Grammar at the Initial Stage of Acquisition: Evidence from English L1-Bulgarian L2 Panelist: Kira Gor, University of Maryland Title: Psycholinguistic Mechanisms in L2 Processing of Russian Verbal Morphology Panelist: Angela Shpolberg, University of Odessa Title: Psycholinguistic Investigations on the Role of Conjunctions in Sentence Processing Panelist: Natalia Romanova, University of Maryland, College ParkTitle: Interaction between Recasts and Task Planning
29D-8 Panel: Art and Film in the Language Classroom Panel Chair: Jane Hacking, University of Utah Panelist: Mara Sukholutskaya, East Central University (DVD) Title: Лучше один раз увидеть...: Film Clips in Teaching Russian Panelist: Valentina Zaitseva, University of Washington (VCR) Title: Discourse Grammar for First-Year Russian through Russian Films Panelist: Nataliya Getmanenko, Brigham Young University (CP) Title: Teaching Russian Language and Cultural History through Socialist Realist Art
December 30 Session A: 8:00-10:00AM30A-1 Round Table: How Has Our Field Changed? (A Dialogue Between 'Fathers' and ‘Children’) Roundtable Chair: Justin Weir, Harvard University Roundtable Discussants Mark Lipovetsky, University of Colorado, Boulder Eliot Borenstein, New York University Julie A. Buckler, Harvard University Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University
30A-2 Panel: Chekhov’s Art in Prose and Drama Panel Chair: Carol Flath, Duke University Panelist: Nikita Nankov, Indiana University, Bloomington Panelist: Marjorie Berger, Independent Scholar Title: "The Student” and the Reader Panelist: Vera Zubarev, University of Pennsylvania (DVD) Title: Three Sisters: Comedy or Drama?: Mystery of the Subtitle Panelist: Tatiana Alenkina, Columbia University Title: Translating the Subtext: Paul Schmidt’s 1997 Version of Chekhov’s The Seagull
30A-3 Panel: Transmittals in the Silver Age Panel Chair: Jason Merrill, Michigan State University Panelist: Timothy J Portice, Princeton University Title: Fyodor Sologub's three translations of Paul Verlaine’s „Il pleure dans mon coeur” Panelist: Jan Terence Peters, Northwestern University Title: Creation Ex Nihilo in the Works of Paul Celan and Lev Shestov Panelist: Maria Y. Khotimsky, Harvard University Title: “Govoriu nikomu, tak, v zakat…”: Implicit Poetic Dialogue in the Works of Vladislav Khodasevich and Sophia Parnok Panelist: Marijeta Bozovic, Columbia University Title: Timur Kibirov’s “Intoxicating Silver Age”: Stretching the Canon and the Legacy of Blok
30A-4 Panel: International Vladimir Nabokov Society Panel Chair: Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University Panelist: Gennady Denisenko, University of Virginia Title: Vladimir Solovyov's Syzygy in Vladimir Nabokov's Art Panelist: Elena Sommers, Rochester Institute of Technology Title: Nabokov and the Torture of Children: Shades of Pain in Bend Sinister and Pnin Panelist: Rachel Trousdale, Agnes Scott College Title: Illusory Exiles and The Texture of Time Panel Discussant: Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College
30A-5 Panel: The Trope of -topia Panel Chair: Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago Panelist: Nora Ryan, University of California, Los Angeles Title: No Place as Someplace: Foucault's Heterotopias in NEP Russia Panelist: Svitlana Kobets, University of Notre Dame Title: Dystopia Revisited: Valerii Shevchuk's The Eye of the Abyss
30A-6 Panel: Dimensions of New Russian Film Panel Chair: John Rim, Narva-Joesuu Keskkool, Estonia Panelist: B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Independent Scholar (TV/VCR and OP) Title: Eurasianism and the Works of Nikita Mikhalkov Panelist: Yana Hashamova, Ohio State University Title: Screening Male Images: Masculinity, Myth, and Meaning Panelist: Steven Shaklan, Columbia University (TV/DVD) Title: Alexander Sokurov’s “Confession”: A Chekhovian Narrative Strangely Suited to the Small Screen
30A-7 Panel: Language Use and Communities in Newly Independent States I Panel Chair: Joan Chevalier, Brandeis University Panelist: Tatiana Mlechko, Academy of Public Administration, Moldova Title: Языки социализации славян в Республике Молдова Panelist: Curt Woolhiser, Harvard University Panelist: N. Anthony Brown, Brigham Young University Title: Signage and Documentation of Language in Belarus: Theory or Practice
30A-8 Panel: Issues in Syntax Panel Chair: John Leafgren, University of ArizonaPanelist: Hana Filip, University of Florida Title: Negative Yes/No- Questions With The Positive Epistemic Implicature (in pdf format) Panelist: Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland Title: Selective Multiple Wh-fronting in Slavic Panelist: Elena Chernishenko, Princeton University Title: Quantified Phrases in Russian Panelist: Gary H. Toops, Wichita State University Title: On the distribution of infinitive and sentential complements in Russian and Upper Sorbian
30A-9 Panel: Challenging Instructional Contexts Panel Chair: Lynne deBenedette, Brown University Panelist: Rachel Taylor Stauffer, University of Virginia (OP) Title: Russian in Foreign Language Exploratory Curricula: Problems, Methods, Benefits Panelist: Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Arizona Title: A Pragmatic Approach to Declining Enrollments: Reinventing the General Education Course Panelist: Anna Geisherik, State University of New York- Stony Brook Title: Stages of Awareness in Heritage Language Learning: Pedagogical Strategies and Solutions Panelist: Larry McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara
December 30 Session B:10:15-12:1530B-1 Round Table: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries Roundtable Chair: Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University Roundtable Discussants: Elizabeth Beaujour, Hunter College Boris Gasparov, Columbia University Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley Scott Palmer, Western Illinois University
30B-2 Round Table: Translating Baj Ganjo Roundtable Chair: Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College Roundtable Discussants: Victor Friedman, University of Chicago Christina Kramer, University of Toronto Wayles Browne, Cornell University Daniela, Hristova, University of Chicago
30B-3 Panel: Dostoevsky: Satire, Morality, and Art Panel Chair: Michael Katz, Middlebury CollegePanelist: Sharon Lubkemann Allen, State University of New York, Brockport Title: Laughter in Dostoevsky’s Early Fictions: Social Satire, Spiritual (In)sight Panelist: Lonny Harrison, University of Toronto Title: The Moral Idea In Dostoevsky’s The Double Panelist: Eugenia Kapsomera Amditis, University of Kansas Title: Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Chernyshevsky’s What is to be Done?: Art Imitating Life Imitating Art Panelist: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth University Title: Reflections of Prevost’s Manon Lescaut in Dostoevsky’s The Gambler
30B-4 Panel: Culture of the Early Soviet Years Panelist: Irina Shilova, University of Alberta Title: Coverage of New Soviet Holidays in Bolshevik Newspapers in the Post-Revolutionary Period Panelist: James Goodwin, University of Florida Title: The Critique of ‘Peasant Russia’ in Boris Pil’niak’s Machines and Wolves Panelist: Irina Panchenko, Independent Scholar Title: Агитпьеса Юрия Олеши «Слово и дело». Архивная находка Panelist: Anne Fisher, University of Michigan
30B-5 Panel: City Myths and Anti-Myths Panel Chair: Luba Golburt, Stanford University Panelist: Lina Khawaldah, Indiana University, Bloomington (CP ) Title: The City Re-Framed: Revisiting Dobuzhinsky’s City Portraits Panelist: Jamilya Nazyrova, University of Southern California Title: The Goethean Image Of Helen’s Veil In Benjamin And Gabrichevskii Panelist: Melissa J. Sokol, Brown University Title: The Petersburg Myth Continued: Aleksei Uchitel’’s Progulka
30B-6 Panel: Nabokov: Language and Translation Panel Chair: Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College Panelist: Stanislav A. Shvabrin, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Revisiting Parnassian Affinities: Nabokov And Heine Panelist: Margarit Tadevosyan, Boston College Title: Zemblan: The Nitra and Indra of Vladimir Nabokov's Exilic Discourse Panelist: Julia Trubikhina, Montclair State University Title: The Translator’s Doubts: Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation Panel Discussant: Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University
30B-7 Panel: Language Use and Communities in Newly Independent States II (OP) Panel Chair: Laura Janda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Panelist: Yu.N Karaulov, Московский государственный лингвистический университет Title: Language Situation in Modern Russian Panelist: Joan Chevalier, Brandeis University Title: Bilingualism in the Tyvan Republic, Russian Fedaration Panelist: Eleonora Suleimenova and Dana Akanova, al Farabi Kazakh State National University Title: Language Identity in Kazkhstan Panelist: David Gotsiridze and Timur Kobahidze, Tbilisi State University Title: Konkurentsija mirovyx jazykov na territorii Gruzii
30B-8 Panel: The Noun Phrase Panel Chair: Gilbert Rappaport, University of Texas at Austin Panelist: Christopher Becker, University of Michigan Title: A Probe-Goal Account of Case and Feature Agreement in the Russian Determiner Phrase Panelist: Asya Pereltsvaig, Cornell University Title: Against Parameterizing the DP-Hypothesis Panelist: Alexei Shmelev Title: Parameters of quantification in Russian Panelist: Marina Rojavin, Swarthmore College Title: Семантическая катергория рода/пола в русском и украинском языках
30B-9 Panel: Focus on Learner Production Panel Chair: Jeanette Owen, Arizona State University Panelist: Francis McLellan, Princeton University Title: Intonation in the Elementary Russian Classroom Revisited Panelist: Julia Mikhailova, Emory University (OP) Title: SOPI: In Need of a Revision: Shortcomings of the Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview (SOPI)
30B-10 Forum: 2005 Update
from RAILS: The Russian Advanced Interactive Forum Presenters: Benjamin Rifkin, Temple University Dianna Murphy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Nina Familiant, University of Wisconsin, Madison
December 30 Session C: 1:00-3:00PM30C-1 Round Table: Policy Relevance and Humanities Grants in Slavic Studies Roundtable Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Roundtable Discussants Robert Huber, The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute Dan Davidson, American Council of Teachers of Russian
30C-2 Panel: Pushkin: Influences and Legacy Panel Chair: Victoria Sevastianova, Dartmouth College Panelist: Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University Title: Aleksandr Pushkin and Prosper Mérimée on the Populist Politics of the False Dimitrii Panelist: Molly Thomasy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Pushkin and Chekhov: Exploring the Onegin Myth in Chekhov’s “Ionych” Panelist: Olia Prokopenko, Ohio State University Discussant: Catherine O’Neil, University of Denver
30C-3 Round Table: Mapping Petersburg (1900 – 1920) CP Roundtable Chair: Julie A. Buckler, Harvard University Roundtable Discussants Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley Sharon Allen, State University of New York, Brockport Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley Mieka Erley, University of California, Berkeley Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma Alyson Tapp, University of California, Berkeley
30C-4 Panel: The Self-Reflecting Female Subject in Russian Culture Panel Chair: Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: The University of the SouthPanelist: Anna Gessen, Harvard University Panelist: Scarlet J. Marquette, Harvard University Title: What Does Woman Want?: The Narrative (de-)Construction of Feminine Psychosis Panelist: Jehanne Gheith, Duke University Title: Memory, Gender and the Gulag
30C-5 Panel: Russians on/in America Panelist: Anne Fisher, University of Michigan Title: Russian Tourists “Discover” Postbellum America Panelist: Shoshana Knapp, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Title: “Gollivud: Amerikanskii Kino-Gorod”(1926) by A. Rozenbaum (Ayn Rand): Preview of Coming Attractions Panelist: Sergei Sychov, University of Michigan Title: Construction of Individuality in Contemporary Russian Narratives about America
30C-6 Panel: Spiritualized Soil and the Imagings of Modern Poets Panel Chair: Jan Peters, Northwestern UniversityPanelist: Yevgeny Slivkin, Defense Language Institute Title: Mythologization as De-canonization: The Image of Velimir Khlebnikov in Boris Viktorov’s Chelokon’ Panelist: Joanna Madloch, Montclair State University (CP) Title: Joseph Brodsky's Predstavlenie: At the Crossroads of Poetry and Photography Panelist: Ian Probstein, Touro College Title: “Песен звонкая тщета”: Роальд Мандельштам, поэт из легенды
30C-7 Panel: Clitics Panel Chair: Steven Franks, Indiana University Panelist: Andrea Stiasny, University of Michigan Title: Do Croatian Clitics Have to Be Verb-Adjacent? Panelist: Jasmina Milicevic, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada Title: Linear Placement of Serbian Second-Position Clitics. A Dependency-Based Description Panelist: Mills Charles, Knox College Title: The Prosody of 2P: An OT Approach to Czech Clitics
30C-8 Round Table: The Speech and Language of Heritage Learners and their Parents: The Situation with Slavic Languages (OP) Roundtable Chair: Marina Rojavin, Swarthmore College Roundtable Discussants Joan Chevalier, Brandeis University Nila Friedberg, Portland State University Anna Geisherik, Stony Brook University Maria Polinsky, University of California, San Diego
30C-9 Forum: RUSSNET Forum Presenter: Ken Petersen, ACTR
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