AATSEEL Annual Meeting: 27-30 December 2006, Philadelphia, PAPreliminary Program
Room assignments can be found on the printed program booklet, available at the Conference Check-in desk. Non-Panel Events
December 27
AATSEEL Program Committee (5:00 –
7:00 p.m.) AATSEEL Executive Council (7:00 –
10:00 p.m.) Conference Registration (5:00 – 7:00
p.m.) December 28
Conference Registration (7:30 a.m. -
7:00 p.m.) Slava/Olympiada Breakfast (8:00 a.m.
– 10:00 a.m.) Exhibits (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) ACTR Board Meeting (5:00 p.m. - 7:00
p.m.) University of Southern California
Reception (5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. -- all are
invited) Columbus Ball Room Middlebury
Russian School Reception (5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.) AATSEEL President's Reception and
Awards Ceremony (7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) December 29
Conference Registration (7:30 a.m. –
5:00 p.m.) Exhibits (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) AATSEEL Business Meeting (10:00 a.m.
– 11:00 a.m.) Keynote Address: William Mills Todd, III, Harvard University On the Care and Development of “Home-Grown
Disciplines" (11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon) Meeting of Language Program
Coordinators (12:15-1:30 p.m.) Special
Event: Open House at Exhibit: "The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin,
and the Age of Enlightenment" hosted by Marcus Levitt (University of
Southern California) and Irina Dubinina (Bryn Mawr College) at the Museum of
the American Philosophical Society (104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.) More information:
http://www.amphilsoc.org/exhibitions/princess.html ACTR Membership Meeting (5:00 p.m. –
7:00 p.m.) International Association of
Teachers of Czech (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.) Special Event: Screening of Marina
Goldovskaia’s film Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story followed by
Question-Answer session with the Director (8:00 p.m. –
10:00 p.m.) — (DVD) Reception
for the Friends and Alumni of Indiana University (8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) — Riverview
A Room December 30
AATSEEL Executive Council (7:00 a.m.
- 10 a.m.) Exhibits (9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.) AATSEEL Program Committee (12:00
-1:00 p.m.) Panels
(As
abstracts are edited they will be posted. The title of each paper links to the
abstract.) Note: Equipment
requests are noted in parentheses following the panelist’s paper title. CP=Computer
projector OP =
Overhead Projector CD=portable
audio CD/tape player VCR or DVD
includes a television) Thursday, December 28, 8:00-10:00am
28A-1 Workshop: The
Job Interview Workshop Chair: Karen Evans-Romaine,
Ohio University Workshop
Participants: Kerry Sabbag, University of Kansas Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto 28A-2 Panel: Defining
Genres and Aesthetic Programs Panel Chair: Svetlana Evdokimova,
Brown University Panelist: Marina Rojavin, Temple
University Title: Русский исторический
анекдот в произведениях древней Руси и исторической литературе Panelist: Vadim Shkolnikov,
Columbia University Title: Imagining Community in
the Writings of the Natural School Panelist: Victoria Somoff, UC
Berkeley Title: No Need for Dogs or
Women: Ivan Turgenev’s Mumu and Interpretation of Silence 28A-3 Panel: Writing
the Soviet Reader, 1917-1941 Panel Chair: Jenny Kaminer, Oberlin
College Panelist: Elizabeth Papazian,
University of Maryland Title: “Fact Into Truth, Outlaw
Into Proletarian: Gorky, His Reader, And Realism” Panelist: Anne Fisher, College of
Wooster Title: Reading vs. Writing in
the Works of Il′f and Petrov Panelist: Maria Isabel Kisel,
Northwestern University Title: Feuilletons Don’t Burn:
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and the Imagined Soviet Reader Panel Discussant: Jeffrey Brooks, Johns
Hopkins University 28A-4 Panel:
Classical Connections in Russian Literature Panel Chair: Catherine O’Neil, United
States Naval Academy Panelist: Viktoria Ivleva, Vassar
College Title: On Ripping, Whipping and
the Importance of Underpants in Vasilii Maikov’s Elisei Or Bachus Infuriated Panelist: Michael Kelly, Brigham
Young University Title: Navigating a Landscape
of Dead Souls:
Gogol and the Odyssean Road Panelist: Rebecca Pyatkevich,
Columbia University Title: Building Authority:
Horace, Joseph Brodsky, and the Poetic Task Panelist: Sharon Lubkemann Allen,
State University of New York-Brockport Title: The Wandering Portico:
Classical Structures in Transnational Russian Fictions—Brodsky, Tarkovsky,
Makine, Ulitskaya (TV/DVD) 28A-5 Panel: Issues
in Slavic and East European Folklore Panel Chair: Todd Armstrong, Grinnell
College Panelist: Larissa Bondarchuk, The
Ohio State University Title: Epithalamic Traditions
in Slavic Folklore: Comparative Analyses of Wedding Songs of South and East
Slavic Peoples Panelist: George Mitrevski, Auburn
University Title: A Relational Database of
Macedonian Proverbs Panelist: Eugenia Kapsomera
Amditis, Dickinson College Title: Pseudo-Slavic
Aesthetics: Using Russian Folk Culture to Sell Fast Food (Screen) 28A-6 Panel:
Semantics and Discourse Panel Chair: Christina Kramer,
University of Toronto Panelist: Bert Beynen, Free
Library of Philadelphia Title: The Second Plural in
Georgian: A Semantic Analysis Panelist: Jeffrey D. Holdeman,
Indiana University Title: What do you want on your
tombstone?: The Correlation between Informational Weight and Language Choice in
Russian Old Believer Gravestone Inscriptions in the Eastern United States Panelist: Masako Ueda Fidler,
Brown University Title: Onomatopoeia and
inflection: Semantics and discourse functions of suffix-like formations in
Czech Panelist: Tatiana Yanko, Institute
of Linguistics, Moscow Title: Non-Standard Intonation
in Russian Public Discourse 28A-7 Panel:
Technology and Language Teaching Panel Chair: Jonathan Perkins,
University of Kansas Panelist: Miluse Saskova-Pierce,
University of Nebraska at Lincoln Title: Czech in a Distance
Delivery Format and Learners Natural Syllabus in Slavic languages (OP) Panelist: Natalia Antokhin,
Defense Language Institute Title: Online Language
Instruction Tool that Promotes Learners' Cultural and Communicative Competence
(CP)
Thursday, December 28, 10:15-12:15pm
28B-1 Panel: Tolstoy
and Dostoevsky: The Self, the Word, and Power Panel Chair: Liza Knapp, Columbia
University Panelist: Ani Kokobobo, Columbia
University Title: “Мёртвые пчёлы”? —
Prince Myshkin’s Anti-Logos Stance in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot Panelist: Emma Lieber, Columbia
University Title: «Я вот он. А я вот он»:
Megalomania and Homecoming in War and Peace Panelist: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia
Commonwealth University Title: Reading Dostoevsky in
the Shadow of the Holocaust Panel Discussant: Robin Feuer Miller,
Brandeis University 28B-2 Panel: Russian
Literature and Music Panel Chair: Molly Thomasy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Panelist: Tania Gordeev,
Willamette University Title: Revisionist
Interpretations of Tatiana’s Letter in Music and Literature Panelist: Janneke van de Stadt,
Williams College Title: Terrible Moments:
Tchaikovsky, Kuprin, and Narrative Panelist: Galina Rylkova,
University of Florida Title: “Konstantin has just
killed himself”: Chekhov and Wagner 28B-3 Panel: Russian
Symbolism: Ideas and Texts Panel Chair: Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College Panelist: Jonathan Stone,
University of California, Berkeley Title: Skorpion and the
Instantaneous Canonization of Russian Symbolism Panelist: Lada Panova, University
of Southern California Title: The Eternal Feminine in
Russian Poetry 28B-4 Panel:
International Vladimir Nabokov Society Panel Chair: Julian Connolly,
University of Virginia Panelist: Gennady Denisenko,
University of Virginia Title: Fedorov's Resurrection
of the Dead in Nabokov's “Mechtal ia o tebe…,” and Solovyov's Death Into Life
in “Blizko, daleko, ne zdes′ i ne tam…”: Comparative
Analysis of Two Poems (CP) Panelist: Kirsten Rutsala, University
of Oklahoma Title: Nabokov’s Dialogue with
Chekhov: Ladies with and without Dogs Panelist: Anastasia Lakhtikova,
Washington University in St. Louis Title: Khodasevich’s Legacy in
Nabokov’s Biographical Studies and in Scholarship on Onegin Panelist: Stanislav A. Shvabrin,
University of California, Los Angeles Title: “J’en sais d’immortelles
qui sont de purs sanglots”: Alfred de Musset in Nabokov’s Eulogy of Khodasevich 28B-5 Panel: “East”
European Literature and Culture Panel Chair: Craig Cravens, University
of Texas, Austin Panelist: Todd Miller, University
of Colorado Title: Reading Ocular Reading
Self-reflexively, or a Postcolonial Examination of Central and Eastern European
“Minor” Literature Panelist: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, Scientific Research Center, Slovene
Academy of Sciences and Arts Title: Metaphors, Models, and
Self-expression in Personal Literature Panelist: Elek Lehoczky,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Title: Effacing Ideology:
Politics, Sexuality, and Obscenity in Witkiewicz’s The Shoemakers Panelist: Sheila Skaff, University
of Texas at El Paso Title: Karol Irzykowski’s The
Tenth Muse:
Aesthetic Considerations of Cinema as a Work of Film and Literary Theory 28B-6 Panel: M. L.
Gasparov and the Poetics of Translation Panel Chair: Irina Reyfman, Columbia
University Panelist: Barry P. Scherr,
Dartmouth College Title: Mikhail Gasparov on the
Art of Translation Panelist: Michael Wachtel,
Princeton University Title: Mikhail Leonovich
Gasparov as “stikhoved” and “stikhotvorets” Panelist: Ruth Solomon Rischin,
Independent Scholar Title: Zhabotinskii and the
Hendecasyllabic Line Discussant: Joanna Trzeciak, Kent
University 28B-7 Panel:
Sociolinguistics Panel Chair: Joan Chevalier, US Naval
Academy Panelist: James Wilson, University
of Sheffield, UK Title: Moravians in Prague: The
Results of Dialect Contact in a Society with a Socially Stigmatized and
Primarily Non-spoken Standard CP Panelist: Irina Dubinina, Bryn
Mawr College Title: Communications and
Consequences of Negotiating a Language Choice for Interpersonal Communication
in the Republic of Moldova Panelist: N. Anthony Brown,
Brigham Young University Title: Interethnic and
Intraethnic Dynamics Influencing Language Maintenance and Shift among
Belarusian University-Age Students Panelist: Evgeny Dengub, Bryn Mawr
College Title: Ethnic
Self-Identification of Heritage Speakers of Russian in the United States 28B-8 Round Table:
Pre-College Roundtable: Meeting the 5th C - Communities! Roundtable Chair: Betsy Sandstrom, Thomas
Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia Roundtable
Discussants: Shannon Casey, Thomas Jefferson High School for
Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia Jane Shuffelton, Brighton High School,
Rochester, NY James Sweigert, Western High School, Baltimore,
Maryland 28B-9 Forum: New
Russian Textbooks from Yale University Press (CD, OP) Forum Presenters: Benjamin Rifkin, Temple University Marita Nummikoski, University of Texas-San
Antonio Sandra G. Freels, Portland State University Thursday, December 28, 1:30-3:30pm
28C-1 Panel: Poet,
Poetry and Poetics in the 19th Century Panel Chair: Kerry Sabbag, University
of Kansas Panelist: Olena Chervonik-Bearden,
University of Kansas Title: Muse or Anti-muse? The
Concept of the Creative Act in the Poetry of Karolina Pavlova Panelist: Viktoriya Kononova,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: “Death of the Citizen”
and Iambic Pentameter in Nekrasov’s Poetry Panelist: Molly Thomasy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Writing the Plastic
Arts: Ekphrasis in the Poetry of A. A. Fet 28C-2 Panel: Lev
Tolstoy: Revising and Revisiting the Critical Tradition Panel Chair: Susan McReynolds Oddo,
Northwestern University Panelist: Inessa Medzhibovskaya,
The New School Title: Vital Force or Deity?
The Philosophical Quandary in the Epilogues to War and Peace Panelist: Julie Buckler, Harvard
University Title: Better Together:
Tolstoevsky and Cultural Mythologies of the Great Author Panelist: Olga Voronina, Harvard
University Title: A Child by the Deathbed:
On Some Aspects of Tolstoy’s Psychological Method Panel Discussant: Vladimir Golstein, Brown
University 28C-3 Panel: Creative
Affinities: Poets in Dialogue Panel Chair: Robert Efird, Virginia
Tech Panelist: Katrine Lvovskaya,
Rutgers University Title: Self-creation as
Folklore: Akhmatova Read through Pushkin Panelist: Stuart Goldberg, Georgia
Institute of Technology Title: The Shade of Gumilev in
Osip Mandelstam's Stikhotvoreniia (1928) Panelist: Viktor Finkel, Independent
Scholar Title: Естественно–научная
Ветвь Поэзии Цветаевой 28C-4 Round Table:
Slavic Dialogues Roundtable Chair: Stephanie Sandler,
Harvard University Roundtable
Discussants: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College Alan Timberlake, University of California,
Berkeley Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern University 28C-5 Panel: Syntax Panel Chair: Robert Channon, Purdue
University Panelist: Olga S. Eremina,
Michigan State University Title: Reflexive Verbs in
Russian: Dative Subject Reflexives Panelist: Steven Franks, Indiana
University Title: Deriving Discontinuity Panelist: Sarah Turner, Oxford
University Title: Constituent Order in
Subordinate Clauses in Russian 28C-6 Round Table:
Teaching Methods and Materials for Heritage Learners Across Slavic Languages Roundtable Chair: Anna Geisherik, Stony
Brook University Roundtable
Discussants: Joan Chevalier, US Naval Academy Marina Rojavin, Temple University Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova, Rutgers University Nila Friedberg, Portland State University Svitlana Rogovyk, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor 28C-7 Roundtable: The
Academy and Russian-American Businesses: Outlooks, Experiences and
Opportunities Roundtable Co-Chairs: Val Kogan, President,
Mid-Atlantic Russian Business Council Paul Smith, Deputy Chief
of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Moscow (Retired) Benjamin Rifkin, Temple
University Roundtable
Discussants: John Gallagher, United States Industry Coalition Michael Curtis, American Councils for
International Education Victor Fet, Marshall University Igor Michalevich-Kaplan, Russian
International Literature and Art Magazine (Philadelphia) Valentina Sinkevich, Encounters, Russian
Poetry Almanac (Philadelphia) Thursday, December 28, 3:45-5:45pm
28D-1 Panel: North
American Chekhov Society Panel Chair: Inna Caron, Ohio State
University Panelist: Erica Siegel, Columbia
University Title: Chekhov and the Old
Testament: “Mire” Revisited Panelist: Mila Shevchenko, The
University of Michigan Title: Misplacement as Poetic
Strategem in Chekhov's Platonov and On the High Road Panelist: Tetyana Varenychenko,
Holy Family University Title: Reading Chekhov’s
Stories “Vanka” and “Varka” Panel Discussant: Cathy Popkin, Columbia
University 28D-2 Panel: The New
Soviet Man in a New Soviet World (abstracts)
Panel Chair: Edith Clowes, University
of Kansas Panelist: Eric R. Laursen,
University of Utah Title: Disorganizing the Human
Psyche: Literature and Transformation in Bogdanov’s Red Star and Zamiatin’s We Panelist: Irina Panchenko,
Independent Scholar Title: Идея «нового человека» и
судьба кинопьесы Юрия Олеши Строгий юноша Panelist: Keith Livers, The
University of Texas at Austin Title: Embodying the New Man:
Andrei Platonov as Literary Critic 28D-3 Panel: From the
Center Out: The Space of Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry Panel Chair: Sarah Pratt, University
of Southern California Panelist: Sarah Valentine,
Princeton University Title: City Outskirts and the
Moscow Avant-Garde Panelist: Dunja Popovic, Princeton
University Title: Poetry of the Periphery:
City Outskirts in Brodsky and Shvarts Panelist: Benjamin Paloff, Harvard
University Title: Modes of Lyric
Collision: The Urban Phantasms of Nikolai Zabolotskii Panelist: Maria Khotimsky, Harvard
University Title: The Poetics of Space in
Vladislav Khodasevich’s Evropeiskaia Noch′ 28D-4 Panel: Violence
and Texts Panel Chair: Elizabeth Skomp,
Sewanee: The University of the South Panelist: Scarlet Marquette,
Harvard University Title: Violence, Metaphor,
Recuperation: The Processing of Traumatic Experience in Two Russian Writers Panelist: Sibelan Forrester,
Swarthmore College Title: The Broken Body: Sex,
Martyrdom, and Poetry in Cvetaeva Panelist: Lena Doubivko,
University of Washington, Seattle Title: Representation of Rape
and Female Subjectivity in Elena Glinka's Kolyma Streetcar (OP) 28D-5 Panel: Czech
Literature and Culture Panel Chair: David Powelstock,
Brandeis University Panelist: Ellen Langer, University
of California, Berkeley Title: The Language of Karel
Havlíček Borovský Panelist: Malynne Sternstein,
University of Chicago Title: “Toyen Between Prague
and Paris” Panelist: Clarice Cloutier,
Univerzita Karlova, Praha Title: Crossing the River: The
Motif of Charles Bridge in Czech Literature 28D-6 Round Table:
The Field Since Victor Erlich’s Formalism Roundtable Chair: Catharine Nepomnyashchy,
Barnard-Columbia Roundtable
Discussants: Greta Slobin, Wesleyan University Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh Olga Hasty, Princeton University Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University 28D-7 Panel: The
Verb: Morphology and Morphosyntax Panel Chair: Elisabeth Elliott,
Northwestern University Panelist: Roksolana Mykhaylyk,
Stony Brook University Title: Ukrainian Imperfective
Future in the Theory of Grammaticalization Panelist: Nadezhda Frid,
Computational Linguistics Laboratory, Institute for Information Transmission
Problems, Moscow Title: Verb Tenses in Spoken
Russian (With Respect to Speech Verbs) Panelist: Gary H. Toops, Wichita
State University Title: The Communicative Status
of Previously Undescribed Morphosyntactic Peculiarities of Upper Sorbian Panelists: Irina Mikaelian, The
Pennsylvania State University; Alexei Shmelev, Moscow Pedagogical State
University; Anna Zalizniak, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of
Sciences Title: Imperfectivization in
Russian Viewed through Internet Data 28D-8 Panel: Studies
in Second Language Acquisition Panel Chair: Maria Alley, Ohio State
University Panelist: Valentina Dunn, Brigham
Young University Title: The Effect of Second
Language Instruction on Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language
(CP) Panelist: Kira Gor, University of
Maryland Title: Tykajut, Tychut, or Tychajut: The One-Stem Verb
System in Pedagogical Grammar Versus Internalized Learner Grammar (CP) Panelist: Meghan Murphy-Lee,
Military Academy at West Point Title: The Acquisition of the
Instrumental Case in Second Year Learners of Russian: A Balance between
Function and Form 28D-9 Forum: New
Approaches to Study Abroad: Bard-Smolny Study Abroad Program for North American
Students Forum Presenters Irina Shevelenko, Smolny College Elena Shchepina, Smolny College Bryan Billings, Bard College Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College Friday, December 29, 8:00-10:00am
29A-1 Panel: North
American Pushkin Society Panel Chair: Angela Brintlinger, Ohio
State University Panelist: Ana Rodriguez Navas,
Princeton University Title: Pushkin’s Joseph
Delorme: The Tales of Belkin as a Response to Sainte-Beuve’s Vie, Poésies
et Pensées de Joseph Delorme Panelist: Sang Hyun Kim,
University of Kansas Title: Interconnection of
Folkloristic Approach and Literary Criticism: Aleksandr Pushkin’s The Tales
of Belkin
Panelist: Igor Nemirovsky, Boston
College Title: Don Guan as a Libertine Panelist: Polina Rikoun, Ohio
State University Title: The Poet, the Citizen,
and the Traitor in Pushkin’s “Poltava” 29A-2 Panel: Gender
and Identity in Russian Literature Panel Chair: Eugenia Kapsomera
Amditis, Dickinson College Panelist: Tatiana Osipovich, Lewis
and Clark College Title: Intertextuality and
Gender in Zinaida Gippius’ Play Sacred Blood Panelist: Meghan Vicks, University
of Colorado, Boulder Title: The Lioness with a
Lion’s Mane: Boris Pasternak’s “Bisexual” Writing in “Detstvo Ljuvers” Panelist: Sarah Clovis Bishop,
Wellesley College Title: The Vision-Adventure of
Elena Shvarts's Lavinia 29A-3 Panel: The
Peripheral Genre in Soviet Culture (CD, CP) Panel Chair: Marina Madorskaya,
University of Michigan Panelist: Rossen Djagalov, Yale
University Title: Guitar Poetry and
Anekdot as Anti-Genres of Soviet Literature Panelist: Constantine Rusanov,
Yale University Title: Bashlachev, Mirzayan,
and the Limits of Melopoetic Genres Panelist: Seth Graham, University
College London Title: Generic Behavior: Mit’ki
and the Public Sphere 29A-4 Panel: Recent
Writing and Interpretations Panel Chair: TBA Panelist: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya,
Florida State University Title: The Turn from
Textuality: Changes in the Reception of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Panelist: Erika Haber, Syracuse
University Title: Postmodern Parody with a
Twist: Andrei Iakhontov’s Uchebnik zhizni dlia durakov Panelist: Adrian J. Wanner, Penn
State University Title: The New Nabokovs?
Shteyngart, Vapnyar, Bezmozgis, Grushin, and the Wave of “Russian Debutantes” 29A-5 Panel:
Literature of Exile Panel Chair: Agnieszka Gutthy,
Southeastern Louisiana University Panelist: Natalia Mikhailova,
State University of New York at Buffalo Title: Creation From the Void:
Dostoevsky’s Ontological Exile Panelist: Olga Zaslavsky,
Independent Scholar Title: Catcher in the Rye:
Georgy Efron's Tashkent Diaries Panelist: Klara Lutsky, Centenary
College Title: Living on the Margins
and Loving it: Gombrowicz and Exile 29A-6 Panel: Phonology
and Accentology Panel Chair: David Birnbaum,
University of Pittsburgh Panelist: Alan Timberlake,
University of California, Berkeley Title: Three Accentual Changes
in Lithuanian Panelist: Miriam Shrager, Indiana
University Title: Plural Accentuation of
Masculine Nouns in Pskov Dialects Panelist: Christina Y. Bethin,
Stony Brook University Title: Vowel Neutralization in
Belarusian and Russian Okan'e/Akan'e Dialects Panelist: Ronald F. Feldstein,
Indiana University Title: Polish trot Reflexes and the
Segmental Properties of Metathesis 29A-7 Panel: Language
Through Culture: Cultural and Linguistic Environment in Teaching Language Panel Chair: Olga Mesropova, Iowa
State University Panelist: Leonid Ivanov,
Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Lazan'ja s rukkoloj i
lobster ot Pinokkio": The Language of the New Russian Food Critics Panelist: Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia
University Title: Which Ukrainian? The
Normative Meltdown and the Challenge of Teaching Ukrainian as a Second Language
(OP) 29A-8 Round Table:
Fair Use, Intellectual Property, and What if Russia Joins the WTO Roundtable Chair: William J. Comer,
University of Kansas Roundtable
Discussants: Richard Robin, George Washington University Benjamin Rifkin, Temple University Masha Lekic, University of Maryland-College Park
George Fowler, Indiana University Janice Pilch, University of
Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Marita Nummikoski, University of Texas-San
Antonio Friday, December 29, 11:00am-12:00noon
29B-1 Keynote: On the
Care and Development of “Home-Grown Disciplines” Keynote Lecturer: William Mills Todd, III,
Harvard University Friday, December 29, 1:30-3:30pm
29C-1 Panel: Tolstoy
as Artist and Critic Panel Chair: Inessa Medzhibovskaya,
The New School Panelist: Karin Beck, Columbia
University Title: “L’Russe Besuhof”: Names
in War and Peace Panelist: Tim West, Princeton
University Title: Tolstoy’s Dialogue with
the Sources Panelist: Nicholas K. Kupensky,
Bucknell University Title: Denying Shakespeare:
Tolstoy’s Essay against Literary Imperialism 29C-2 Panel:
Religious and Philosophical Themes in Russian Literature (abstracts)
Panel Chair: Tetyana Varenychenko,
Holy Family University Panelist: Charles Arndt, Rhodes
College Title: At the Death Bed: Priests
Performing Civic Roles in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Devils Panelist: Yuri F. Corrigan,
Princeton University Title: Chekhov’s Divine Comedy:
Reinterpreting the ‘Little Trilogy’ Panelist: Nikita Dimitrov Nankov,
Indiana University Title: Chekhov’s Prose Fiction
on the Meaning of Life: Thematic and Temporal Problems Panelist: Michael Pesenson,
Swarthmore College Title: Changing Perceptions of
the Antichrist in Russian Literature and Culture 29C-3 Panel:
Self-Identity and Imagining the Other Panel Chair: Polina Barskova,
Hampshire College Panelist: Alina Orlov, Defense
Language Institute Title: Provincialism in Bunin’s
Village
(1910) Panelist: Anna Aydinyan, Yale
University Title: Orientalism in
Tynjanov’s Historical Novel Smert’ Vazir-Mukhtara Panelist: Charles Sabatos, Oberlin
College Title: The Slovak Opera Beg
Bajazid:
A Socialist-Era “Clash of Civilizations” 29C-4 Panel: Texts
and the Arts: The Broad Scope of the Soviet Cultural Agenda Panel Chair: Eric R. Laursen, University
of Utah Panelist: Anna Tumarkin,
UW-Madison Title: Techniques of Survival:
Artistic Devices in the Feuilletons of Ilia Il’f and Evgenii Petrov Panelist: Anna Dvigubski, Columbia
University Title: The Letter Meets the
Dog: Texts and the Suffering of Flesh in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog Panelist: Elena Boudovskaia, UCLA Title: Knowledge is Power:
Images of the Book in the Soviet Ideological Poster Panelist: Romy Taylor, University
of Arizona (TV/DVD/VCR) Title: Unexpected Voices of
Radio Moscow: Black American Radio Propagandists in the USSR 29C-5 Panel: Film
Directors and Their Creations Panel Chair: Anthony Anemone, The New
School University Panelist: Robert Efird, Virginia
Tech Title: Dreaming through the
Eyes of the Dead: The Epilogue of Ivan’s Childhood (DVD, CP) Panelist: Vadim Besprozvany,
University of Michigan Title: Brief Encounters:
‘Provincial Melodrama’ by Kira Muratova in the Context of Soviet Cinema of the
1930s – 1960s (DVD) Panelist: Gerald McCausland,
University of Pittsburgh Title: Political Violence in
the Films of Karen Shakhnazarov (DVD) Panelist: Angelina Ilieva,
Independent Scholar Title: Fathers and Sons in Some
Contemporary Russian Films (DVD) 29C-6 Round Table:
Slavists As Cultural Intermediaries Roundtable Chair: TBA Roundtable
Discussants: Carol Ueland, Drew University Julie Buckler, Harvard University Caryl Emerson, Princeton University 29C-7 Panel:
Particles and Clitics Panel Chair: Cindi Martin, University
of Maryland, College Park Panelist: Alexei Shmelev, Moscow
Pedagogical State University Title: Russian eshche as a Pragmatically
Obligatory Particle Panelist: Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova,
Rutgers University Title: Particle Combinations in
Colloquial Russian Panelist: Charles Mills, Knox
College Title: The Prosody of 2P: An OT
Approach to Czech Clitics 29C-8 Round Table:
Approaches to Presenting New Grammatical and Lexical Material in the Classroom:
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