2008 AATSEEL Conference Overview and Non-Panel EventsSaturday, December 27
Sunday, December 28
Monday, December 29
Tuesday, December 30
Conference PanelsNote: Confirmation of AV requests are noted in the program with the following abbreviations. LCD: LCD (computer) projector, cart, screen, power. Presenters needing an LCD projector pay a $50 surcharge to defray the cost to AATSEEL of renting this equipment from the hotel. OP: overhead transparency projector, cart, screen, power CD: CD player, power DVD/VCR: DVD/VCR player, monitor, power December 28, Session A: 8:00-10:00am28A-1 Panel: Religious Themes in Dostoevsky Chair: Nina Wieda, Northwestern University Panelist: Nicholas Rzhevsky, Stony Brook University Title: Dostoevsky and Filaret: The Anxiety of Dispute Panelist: Sara Orr, The Ohio State University Title: The Pale Rider: Myshkin as Knight of the Apocalypse Panelist: Olga Stuchebrukhov, University of California, Davis Title: The Meek One as an Icon 28A-2 Panel: Spaces and Travels in Eighteenth-Century Literature and its Descendants Chair: Megan Swift, University of Victoria Panelist: Victoria Ivleva, College of William and Mary Title: The Locus of the Fashion Shop and its Development in the Works of Vladimir Lukin, Alexander Matinskii and Ivan Krylov Panelist: Katherine Bowers, Northwestern University Title: A Sentimental Journey Through the Gothic Landscape: Karamzin’s Transitional Prose Panelist: Anna Aydinyan, Yale University Title: The “Journeys” as Original Texts in Tynianov’s Novel “The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar" Panelist: Djamilia Nazyrova, USC (LCD) Title: The Politics of Somov’s Pastoral 28A-3 Panel: Symbolist Poetry and Prose Chair: Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Emory University Panelist: Zaur Agayev, Princeton University Title: Dream and Reality: The Duality of Alexander Blok’s Consciousness in “Stikhi o Prekrasnoi Dame” Panelist: Virginia Bennett, University of Hawaii at Manoa Title: The Iconography of the Demonic in The Petty Demon Panelist: Daria Solodkaia, Princeton University Title: The Swan and the Chicken: The Emblematics of Cognition in Andrei Bely’s Kotik Letaev 28A-4 Panel: Humans, Animals, and Machines in Soviet Literature Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Panelist: Sara Stefani, Oberlin College Title: Andrei Platonov and the Chronotope of the Body Panelist: Maria Isabel Kisel, University of Victoria Title: Bourgeois Sentiment, Animal Reflex: Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Explorations of Emotion Panelist: Kevin Reese, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Title: The New Soviet Cyborg: Majakovskij’s “Protestuju!” and the Strugackijs’ Dalekaja raduga 28A-5 Panel: Nabokov’s English Prose Chair: Matthew Walker, University of Wisconsin, Madison Panelist: Jerome Katsell, Independent Scholar Title: Pnin: The Perils of Repetition Panelist: Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado, Boulder Title: Vladimir Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols,” or the Semiotics of Zero Panelist: Magda Stawkowski, University of Colorado, Boulder Title: Lolita as Homo Sacer: Violence and Sacrifice 28A-6 Panel: New Approaches to Hryhorii Skovoroda Chair: Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, University of Alberta Panelist: Serhiy Kozakov, University of Alberta Title: Building the Hryhorii Skovoroda Online Concordance: Challenges and Rewards Panelist: Roman Ivashkiv, University of Alberta Title: The Represnetation of Freedom and Free Will in Hryhorii Skovoroda Panelist: Natalia Pylypiuk, University of Alberta (LCD) Title: Skovoroda’s Emblematic World 28A-7 Roundtable: Where in the World is Russia: Defining Russia in the Contemporary Cultural Context Roundtable Chair: Marc A. Robinson, St. Olaf College (LCD) Roundtable Discussants: Irina Walter, St. Olaf College Peter John Thomas, Lawrence University Anna Kuxhausen, St. Olaf College 28A-8 Panel: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Chair: Meghan Murphy-Lee, U.S. Military Academy at West Point Panelist: Alexei Shmelev, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Parasitic Words as Discourse Markers: the Case of Russian Panelist: Elena Shmeleva and Alexei Shmelev, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Lexicographic Description of Russian Botanical Terms Panelist: Irina Levontina, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Are Russian Dialogue Particles Purely Pragmatic? 28A-9 Roundtable: Current Issues in Teaching Czech Roundtable Chair: Holly Raynard Roundtable Discussants: Neil Bermel, Sheffield University Craig Cravens, University of Texas, Austin David Danaher, University of Wisconsin, Madison Masako Fidler, Brown University Lida Holá, Accent International House (Prague) Laura Janda, University of Tromsǿ Susan Kresin, UCLA (LCD) Ellen Langer, University of California, Berkeley 28A-10 Panel: Issues in Teaching Heritage Speakers Chair: Joan F. Chevalier, United States Naval Academy Panelist: Evgeny Dengub, Temple University/Bryn Mawr College, Marina Rojavin, Swarthmore College Title: Acquisition of the Conjunctions И, А and Но by Heritage and Traditional Students of Russian Panelist: Kira Gor, University of Maryland (LCD) Title: Organization of the Mental Lexicon in Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers of Russian 28A-11 Workshop: Job Interviewing Workshop Chair: Boris Wolfson, Amherst College Participants: Julie Cassiday, Williams College Luba Golburt, University of California, Berkeley Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College December 28, Session B: 10:15am-12:15pm28B-1 Panel: North American Pushkin Society Chair: Inessa Medzhibovskaya, The New School for Liberal Arts Panelist: Svetlana Grenier, Georgetown University Title: Definition(s) of Freedom in Eugene Onegin and Russian Novel of Adultery Panelist: Alison Annunziata, Columbia University Title: Pushkin’s History in Portraits Panelist: Leslie O’Bell, University of Texas, Austin Title: The Burned Letter and the Broken Urn: Pushkin on Loss and Recovery 28B-2 Panel: Chekhov Chair: J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa Panelist: Emma Leiber, Columbia University Title: The Fiddler’s Tears: Exposure and Disclosure in Chekhov Panelist: Anne Lounsbery, NYU Title: Chekhov’s Money Panelist: Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University Title: Confessional Narrative as Weapon: A Boring Story Discussant: Seamas O’Driscoll, Northwestern University 28B-3 Panel: The Silver Age and the West Chair: Timothy Sergay, SUNY Albany Panelist: Jon Stone, University of California, Berkeley Title: The Symbolist, the Decadent, the Critic, and His Journal: Cross-cultural Importation in Early Russian Modernism Panelist: Ilja Gruen, Stanford University Title: Pasternak’s Zhivago and Rilke’s Malte: Two Poets’ Novels 28B-4 Panel: Polish Literature and Culture Panelist: Michael Johnson, University of Kansas (LCD) Title: Meierkhol'd’s Association of New Drama: Przybyszewski and early attempts to ‘break the shell’ of Naturalism Panelist: Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, University of Kansas Title: The Myth of Mother Poland and the Image of the Mother in post-1989 Polish Initiation Novels Panelist: My Svensson, Uppsala University Title: Writing the Other: Images from “the Projects” in Polish 21st Century Literature – The Peasant Past in Poland’s Present 28B-5 Panel: Music and Literature Chair: Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University Panelist: Tony Lin, University of California, Berkeley Title: A Novel to be Heard: Musicality in Sasha Sokolov’s Shkola dlia durakov Panelist: Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: The Tatra Music in Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer’s In the Rocky Podhale Panelist: Marya Zeigler, Department of Defense (CD) Title: Why This Epigraph?: V.F. Odoevsky’s “Poslednij kvartet Betxovena” and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Story of Krespel” 28B-6 Panel: Dancing in Intimate Spaces Chair: Katherine Bowers, Northwestern University Panelist: Mark Konecny, USC (speakers) Title: The Exquisite Pose- Dancing on the Cabaret Stage Panelist: Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Columbia University Title: The Photograph as Intimate Space: Late Imperial Russian Ballerina Postcards Panelist: Mel Gordon, University of California, Berkeley Title: Movement Training in the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre (Goset) [1919-1927] 28B-7 Translating Workshop: Russian Poetry Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Participants: TBD 28B-8 Panel: Morphology and Morphosyntax I Chair: Irina Ivliyeva, Missouri University of Science and Technology Panelist: Angela Shpolberg, Independent Scholar Title: Конструктивные союзы как элемент идиолектных клише Panelist: Evgeny Kuleshov, Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts Title: Frisco: San Francisco or Ivano-Frankovsk? Informal Toponyms in Post-Soviet Russian 28B-9 Panel: Curricular Design and Language Assessment Chair: Lynne deBenedette, Brown University Panelist: William J. Comer, University of Kansas Title: Planning for Assessment in Curriculum Construction: Issues at the Micro to Macro Levels Panelist: Rachel Stauffer, University of Virginia Title: Sociolinguistics and Culture: Changing our Courses in a Changing World Panelist: Mgr. Kateřina Vlasáková and Věra Hoffmannová, Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies, Charles University in Prague Title: European Standards and Certified Exams in Czech (LCD) December 28, Session C: 1:30-3:30pm28C-1 Panel: The Narrator in the Nineteenth-Century Short Story Chair: Donna Oliver, Beloit College Panelist: Yuliya Ilchuk, USC Title: Toward The Problem of Narrative Performance in Nikolai Gogol’s Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka) Panelist: Steven Brett Shaklan, Columbia University Title: Bumpkins, Bullshitters and Me: Character-Narrators and Narrator-Characters in the Short Fiction of Nikolai Gogol Panelist: Anna Dvigubski, Columbia University Title: From Mute Mare To Male Author: The Listener in Chekhov’s Frame Narratives 28C-2 Panel: Dostoevsky’s Mature Novels Chair: Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers University Panelist: Brian Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: The Thematic Significance of Epilepsy in Dostoevsky’s Demons Panelist: Charles Arndt, Independent Scholar Title: The Wandering Peasant Holds the Key: The Strannichestvo of Makar Dolgoruky in Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent Panelist: Nina Wieda, Northwestern University Title: Aesthetics and Ethics of Self-Emptying: Secular Kenosis in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov 28C-3 Panel: Literature of the 1920s and 30s (I) Chair: Jon Stone, University of California, Berkeley Panelist: Sara Pankenier, Dartmouth College Title: The Birth of Memory and the Memory of Birth: Daniil Kharms and Leo Tolstoy on Infantile Amnesia Panelist: Anna Yatsenko, Reed College Title: “The Münchhausen of the North”: The Literary Masks of Stepan Pisakhov Panelist: Anna Chukur, University of Toronto Title: Leonid Skrypnyk’s Cinematic Novel Inteligent: The Revolution in Arts 28C-4 Panel: Postmodern and Contemporary Literature and Theory Chair: Olga Livshin, University of Alaska, Anchorage Panelist: Sidney Dement, University of Kansas Title: Can There Be a Moscow Text of Russian Literature? A New Look at Theory and Praxis Panelist: Leila AbdelRahim, University of Montreal Title: Foucault's precursor: Nikolaj Nosov on questions of discipline and health in Neznajka's trilogy Panelist: Natalia Vesselova, University of Ottawa Title: Diseases, Doctors, and Medical Terms in the Poetry of Russian Postmodernism 28C-5 Panel: Czech Literature Chair: Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Panelist: Esther Peters, University of Chicago Title: “…proti své/svý vůli…” Code Switching in Hrabal’s Příliš hlučná samota Panelist: Marta Napiorkowska, University of Chicago Title: Who Do You Think You Are!?!: Revelations in Miroslav Holub’s Medical Poems 28C-6 Panel: The Bible and South Slavic Culture Chair: David Prestel, Michigan State University Panelist: Mikhail Nedeltchev and Maria Ogoiska, New Bulgarian University Title: Athos in a Sacred Geopolitics of the East European World Panelist: Andrew Corin, Defense Language Institute Title: Relevance of the Hebrew Original to the Assessment of Slavonic Translations of Isaiah Panelist: Irena Avsenik-Nabergoj, Scientific Research Center, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts Title: Intertextual Representations of Longing and Temptation 28C-7 Workshop: Collective Analysis of Contemporary Poetry Chair: Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University Participants: Polina Barskova, Hampshire College Catherine Ciepiela, Amherst College Sarah Pratt, USC Michael Wachtel, Princeton University Boris Wolfson, Amherst College 28C-8 Panel: Urban Communication Chair: Anna Geisherik, Stony Brook University Panelist: Anna Shur, Kommersant Title: Text of restaurant menus as a specific speech genre Panelist: Tatiana Yanko, Institute of linguistics, Moscow Title: Russian Vocatives 28C-9 Panel: Language Contact Chair: Grant Lundberg, Brigham Young University Panelist: Gary Toops, Wichita State University Title: The relationship between tense and aspect in Lower and Upper Sorbian and its implications Panelist: Cameron Rule, University of Washington Title: Restrictions in Morphological Integration of Foreign Elements in Russian: A Comparative Analysis of Russian Speakers in Lithuania and Estonia Panelist: Olga Yoshizumi, College of the Holy Cross Title: Russian Адвертайзмент Panelist: Elena Sedova- Hotaling and Valentina S. Soboleva, Defense Language Institute (LCD) Title: Barbarization of the Russian Language 28C-10 Panel: Issues in L2 Pragmatics and Language Policy Chair: Meghan Murphy-Lee, U.S. Military Academy at West Point Panelist: Maria Shardakova, University of Pennsylvania (LCD) Title: Pragmatics of L2 Humor Panelist: Mica Hall, Defence Language Institute Title: The Intersection of Genderlects and National Culture Communication in the American L1/Russian L2 Classroom Panelist: Svetlana Schuckert, College of Southern Idaho Title: The Study of Russian Language and Culture in a Small Community Panelist: Joan F. Chevalier, United States Naval Academy (OP) Title: Multilingual Education in the Russian Federation, A Case Study: Tuvan Language Education in the Republic of Tyva December 28, Session D: 3:45-5:45 pm28D-1 Panel: North American Dostoevsky Society: Border Crossings: Dostoevsky's Inter-generic and Cross-cultural Journeys Chair: Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University Panelist: Soelve Curdts, Princeton University Title: Semblances of Lyric Panelist: Nathan Klausner, Yale University Title: Ty chto za ptitsa? The English Translation and Reception of Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead Panelist: Jillian Porter, University of California, Berkeley Title: False Notes and Faux Pas: The Tone of Ambition in Dostoevsky’s Dvoinik Panelist: Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers University Title: Strakhov’s Article on the Polish Uprising of 1863 and the Closing of the Dostoevsky Brothers’ Vremia : A Reassessment 28D-2 Panel: Modernist Poetry and Poetics Chair: Sara Stefani, Oberlin College Panelist: Kristina Toland, Northwestern University Title: The Phenomenology of Kruchenykh’s Futurist Books Panelist: Irina Panchenko, Independent Scholar Title: Олеша и Бунин: Параллели Panelist: Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Emory University Title: Educational Reform and Modernist Aesthetics: Pedagogy and the Art of Elena Guro 28D-3 Panel: Nabokov and Platonism? Chair: Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Columbia University Panelist: Matthew Walker, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: The Bastard Sign, or, What is Plato Doing in Bend Sinister? Panelist: Peter Thomas, Lawrence University Title: Mne malo: Plato’s “due measure” in Nabokov’s The Gift Panelist: Michal Oklot, Brown University Title: Liza’s Bright Diaphanous Scarf: Nabokov’s Commentary on “Ineluctable Modality of the Visible” 28D-4 Panel: Balkan Cultural, National, and Political Identity Chair: Kevin Moss, Middlebury College Panelist: Masha Belyavski-Frank, DePauw University (LCD, CD) Title: Quince Blossoms and Gold-Thread Embroidery: Motifs in the Love-Songs and Oral Ballads of Bosnian Muslims Panelist: Ani Kokobobo, Columbia University Title: The Decadent Muse in Ismail Kadare’s “The Albanian Writers’ Union as Mirrored by a Woman” 28D-5 Roundtable: Czech Translation Roundtable Chair: Susan Kresin Roundtable Discussants: Craig Cravens, University of Texas, Austin Michael Heim, UCLA Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan Jindich Toman, University of Michigan Bronislava Volkova, Indiana University Jonathan Bolton, Harvard University Jiri Holy, Charles University, Prague Hana Pichova, University of Texas, Austin 28D-6 Panel: Petersburg in Peril: Artistic Subjects and Objects in the 20th Century Chair: Alexis Peri, University of California, Berkeley Panelist: Polina Barskova, Hampshire College Title: A Colorful View From Above: Defamiliarizing the Spectacle of the Siege Panelist: Julie Buckler, Harvard University Title: Cultural Properties in Petrograd/Leningrad: Imperial Architecture and Art Treasures Panelist: Megan Swift, University of Victoria Title: World on Fire: Alexander Benois and the Bronze Horseman Series (1903-1922) Discussant: Martha Hickey, Portland State University 28D-7 Panel: Feminine Subjects Chair: Virginia Bennett, University of Hawaii at Manoa Panelist: Adrienne Harris, Baylor University Title: Iuliia Drunina: The “Svetlokosyi Soldat” on the Soviet Poetic Front Panelist: Olga Livshin, University of Alaska, Anchorage Title: Rebel or Domestic Angel? Nina Iskrenko’s Female Lyrical Subject Panelist: Emily Schuckman, Montclair State University Title: The Writer as Prostitute and the Prostitute as Writer in I. Babel’s “My First Fee” and V. Erofeev’s Russian Beauty 28D-8 Panel: Morphology and Morphosyntax II Chair: Kira Gor, University of Maryland Panelist: Irina Ivliyeva, Missouri University of Science and Technology Title: O рейтинге глагольных модификаций в группе орнитофонов (на примере моно– и поликомпонентных модификаторов) Panelist: Christina Bethin, Stony Brook University Title: Ikan’e and Paradigm Effects in Russian Panelist: Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University Title: Russian Numeral Construction Revisited 28D-9 Panel: Approaches to Teaching Russian Chair: Elena Koudinova, Defense Language Institute Panelist: Ekaterina Ites, University of Massachusetts (VCR/TV, OP) Title: Teaching literary-cultural content and multiliteracies through an Azbuka approach in the collegiate Russian-I classroom Panelist: Maia Solovieva, University of South Carolina (OP) Title: Reading Chekhov in Russia 28D-10 Roundtable: Pre-College Chair: Elizabeth Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia Roundtable Discussants: Elena Farkas, University of Alaska and Turnagain Elementary, Anchorage, Alaska Natasha Ushakova, Staten Island Tech, Staten Island, New York Monday, December 29December 29, Session A: 8:00-10:00 am29A-1 Panel: The Literary Fates of the Alexandrine Man Chair: Polina Barskova, Hampshire College Panelist: Luba Golburt, University of California, Berkeley Title: Zhukovskii’s Swan Song Panelist: Anna Muza, University of California, Berkeley Title: Between Memory and Oblivion: Vladislav Ozerov as a Historical Reference Panelist: Patricia Carden, Cornell University Title: A Witness from the Alexandrine Era: Tolstoi and Ivan Liprandi Discussant: Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania 29A-2 Panel: New Approaches to Tolstoy’s Novels Chair: Nicholas Rzhevsky, Stony Brook University Panelist: Alish Kocz, Northwestern University Title: A Martial Poetics? New Approaches to War and Peace Panelist: Timothy Ormond, University of Toronto (LCD) Title: Illustrating and Adapting Tolstoy’s Novel: Oblonsky and the Drama of Anna Karenina 29A-3 Panel: Silver Age Criticism Chair: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University Panelist: Oleg Minin, USC Title: Strange Bedfellows: Maksim Gorky and the World of Art in 1905 Panelist: Tatiana Osipovich, Lewis & Clark College Title: Конструкты «мужского» и «женского» в литературной критике З. Гиппиус Panelist: Inessa Medzhibovskaya, The New School for Liberal Arts Title: Simon Frank on Pushkin, and the Problem of Ontology for Literature 29A-4 Panel: Literature of the 1920s and 30s (II) Panelist: Bora Chung, Indiana University Title: Chevengur: Andrei Platonov’s Utopian Humanism Panelist: Kathryn Schild, University of California, Berkeley Title: The Brotherhood of Nations at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers Panelist: Milla Fedorova, Georgetown University Title: Russian Henry Ford 29A-5 Panel: Nabokov: Translations and Subtexts Chair: Peter Thomas, Lawrence University Panelist: Julia Bekman Chadaga, Macalester College Title: Faith, Doubt, and Deception: Nabokov’s Translations of Slovo o polku Igoreve Panelist: Molly Peeney, University of Notre Dame Title: Ruslan and Liudmila's Next of Kin: Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading Panelist: Stanislav Shvabrin, Princeton University Title: “Il ne faut pas péter plus haute que son cul”? Nabokov’s Nikolka Persik as Colas Breugnon 29A-6 Panel: Writing in Emigration Chair: Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Middlebury College Panelist: Lisa Woodson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Learning to Sing in a Strange Land: Disillusionment and the Remapping of Memory in Gaito Gazdanov’s An Evening with Claire Panelist: Nyusya Milman-Miller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Title: Babel, Bezmosgis and a Theory of Cultural Interface Panelist: Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College Title: En/gendering the Muse Panelist: Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia, British Library Title: Prince Kropotkin and the Russian book Collection at the British Museum Panelist: Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan Title: Garros-Evdokimov and Russophone Novel in the Baltics 29A-7 Panel: The Russian Verb Chair: Frank Gladney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Panelist: Laura Janda, University of North Carolina Title: The role of motion verbs in the development of aspect in Russian Panelist: Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley (LCD) Title: Prefixation and the locative alternation in Russian contact verbs Panelist: Spencer Robinson, The Ohio State University Title: Word Order and Negated Verbs: How Inverted Direct Objects Influence the Selection of Case in Russian Discussant: Irina Ivliyeva, Missouri University of Science and Technology 29A-8 Roundtable: Heritage Russian speakers: the system of their language and its dynamics under formal instruction (LCD) Roundtable Discussants: Elena Schmitt, Connecticut State University Alla Smyslova, Columbia University Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College Susanna Nazarova, Temple University 29A-9 Panel: Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition Chair: William Comer, University of Kansas Panelist: Natalie Lovick and Marina Cobb, Defense Language Institute (LCD) Title: The Communicative Classroom and Issues in the Teaching of Grammar Panelist: Irene Krasner, Defense Language Institute (LCD) Title: Learning Styles and Skills Integration. Teaching to the Whole Class Panelist: Tatyana Vdovina, University of Maryland; Svetlana Cook, University of Maryland; and Kira Gor, University of Maryland (LCD) Title: Russian Verbs of Motion: Challenges in Advanced L2 Acquisition Panelist: Tony Brown, Jennifer Bown, Brigham Young University (LCD) Title: Making Rapid Gains in Second Language Writing: A Case Study 10:00-11:00 AATSEEL Business Meeting 11:00-12:00 Keynote Address December 29, Session C: 1:00-3:00pm29C-1 Panel: Dostoevsky and the French Literary TraditionChair: Matthew McGarry, University of Wisconsin at Madison Panelist: Nina Lee, Columbia University Title: Dostoevsky and Zola: Transiting at Different Speeds Panelist: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth University Title: Madame du Barry, Великая грешница : A Libertine Subtext in The Idiot Panelist: Eugenia Amditis, University of Kansas Title: Dostoevsky Rewriting Rousseau: The Egotistical Self-Abasement of Confession in The Idiot? Panelist: Ksana Blank, Princeton University Title: From the “Ideal of the Madonna" to the "Ideal of Sodom”: Dostoevsky and the Courtly Love Tradition Discussant: Caryl Emerson, Princeton University 29C-2 Panel: Russian Drama of the Late Nineteenth Century: Techniques and Stagings Chair: Anna Dvigubski, Columbia University Panelist: Mila Shevchenko, University of Michigan Title: The “Idyllic Myopia” of The Garden of Eden: Ippolit Shpazhinskii’s On a Forgotten Estate Panelist: J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa Title: The Breaking String Revisited: Chekhov’s Plays as Hypertext 29C-3 Panel: Translation Today: Theory, Practice, Professionalism Chair: Brian Baer, Kent State University Panelist: Timothy Sergay, SUNY Albany Title: What’s Fowler to Us? Russian-English Translators and the Heritage of English Usage Dictionaries Panelist: Alexander Burak, University of Florida, Gainesville Title: Translating Skaz as a Whole-Text Realium Panelist: John Kopper, Dartmouth College Title: Translating Boris Poplavsky’s Stylistic Transgressions: Differentiating between Surrealist Prose and the Prose of a Surrealist 29C-4 Panel: Contemporary Art and Media Chair: Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College Panelist: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University (LCD) Title: Viewer as Narratee in Ilya Kabakov's “Total Installations” Panelist: Yuliya Minkova, Virginia Tech Title: A Different Kind of Animal: The Image of Werewolf in Soviet and Contemporary Russian Media Discussant: Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Middlebury College 29C-5 Panel: Czech Culture, Identity, and Politics Chair: Neil Bermel, University of Sheffield Panelist: David Danaher, University of Wisconsin, Madison (LCD) Title: Rereading Havel’s Power of the Powerless Panelist: Andrei Rogatchevski, University of Glasgow Title: The Habima Theatre in Prague in 1928 and 1938 Panelist: Holly Raynard, University of Florida (VCR/TV) Title: Shifting Borders and Identities in the Post-Transition Czech Road Film 29C-6 Panel: Marketing and Posthumous Legacies (I) Chair: Frederick H. White, Memorial University Panelist: Dennis Ioffe, University of Amsterdam Title: From Al’vèk to Halbwachs: The posthumous legacies of Khlebnikov and Maiakovskii Panelist: Lada Panova, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) Title: The Contemporary Avant-garde Literary Market: A Co-opted or Nonco-opted Reading? Panelist: Galina Rylkova, University of Florida Title: “Biography as Pathography”: Anna Akhmatova in the 21st Century Discussant: Henryk Baran, SUNY Albany 29C-7 Panel: Historical Slavic Linguistics Chair: Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley Panelist: Matthew Feeney, University of Kansas Title: Archaeological Data in Recent Reconstructions of Proto-Slavic and a Linguistic Approach Panelist: Julia McAnallen, University of California, Berkeley Title: The History of Predicative Possession in Slavic: Internal Development vs. Language Contact Panelist: Elena Nelson, University of California, Berkeley Title: Past Tense Usage in the Russian Church Slavonic Menaion Panelist: Miriam Shrager, Indiana University, Bloomington Title: CSl Deverbatives and Their Origin 29C-8 Panel: Semantics Chair: Maria Shardakova, University of Pennsylvania Panelist: Yelena Belyaeva, Saint Louis University Title: Психосемантический анализ восприятия слов, обозначающих комплиментарные речевые акты (КРА) Panelist: Elena Koudinova, Defense Language Institute Title: Don’t get negative on me: When ne doesn’t mean no Panelist: Tore Nesset, University of Tromsǿ (LCD) Title: Metonymy of Aspect/Aspects of Metonymy 29C-9 Forum: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Language: Using Two Cultures, Online Instructions, and SLA Research in the Classroom Chair: Rachel Stauffer, University of Virginia Panelist: Tatiana Ivushkina, Volgograd State Pedagogical University Title: Co-teaching as interaction of two cultures Panelist: Anna Geisherik, Stony Brook University (LCD) Title: Benefits of Online Instruction at an Advanced Level of Russian Panelist: Meghan Murphy-Lee, U.S. Military Academy at West Point (LCD) Title: Instrumental Case Acquisition: A Continuing Case Study December 29, Session D: 4:00-6:00 pm29D-1 Panel: Chekhov’s Stories Chair: Kristin Peterson-Bidoshi, Union College Panelist: Tom Roberts, Stanford University Title: Epiphany Exposed (but not Invalidated): The Aesthetics of Religious Experience in Chekhov’s ‘Khudozhestvo’ Panelist: Nikita Nankov, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Title: The Brainless Virtuoso as an Existential Thinker: Contrariety in Chekhov’s “Potselui” (“The Kiss”) Panelist: Katerina Siskron, San Francisco State University Title: The Fall of the House of Pesotsky: Chekhov's "Black Monk" as Gothic Tale 29D-2 Panel: Russian and Ukrainian Politics, History, and Culture Chair: Anna Chukur, University of Toronto Panelist: Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College Title: The Historical Writings of Nicolae Milescu Spafarii and Seventeenth Century Russian Political Ideology Panelist: Polina Rikoun, University of Denver Title: Narrative and Politics in Istoriia Rusov Panelist: Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami University of Ohio Title: Nation and Translation: Literary Translation as an Agent in Shaping Modern Ukrainian Culture 29D-3 Panel: Soviet Film Chair: Irina Makoveeva, Vanderbilt University Panelist: Andrey Shcherbonok, Columbia University (LCD, speakers) Title: Sublime Gaze and Suffering Woman in Soviet World War II Cinema Panelist: Robert Efird, Virginia Tech (LCD) Title: Tarkovsky and Adaptation: Restructuring Bogomolov’s “Ivan” Panelist: Lora Mjolsness, University of California, Irvine (LCD) Title: Animated Auteurs: The Brumberg Sisters and Early Soviet Animation Panelist: Rimma Garn, University of California, Davis Title: Muratova’s Human Comedy: A Postmodernist Chronotope 29D-4 Panel: Marketing and Posthumous Legacies (II) Chair: Luba Golburt, University of California, Berkeley Panelist: Yuri Leving, Dalhousie University Title: Interpreting Voids: Vladimir Nabokov’s Unfinished Novel The Original of Laura Panelist: William Nickell, Cowell College Title: Un-marketed Legacies: Tolstoy’s Works and Private Papers Panelist: Frederick H. White, Memorial University Title: Marketing Strategies: Vadim Andreev in Dialogue with the Soviet Union Discussant: Alexander Zholkovsky, USC 29D-5 Panel: Translation Today: Theory, Practice, Professionalism (II) Chair: Alexander Burak, University of Florida, Gainesville Panelist: Michael Katz, Middlebury College Title: Oh Boy! Tolstoy! New Translations of War and Peace Panelist: Karin Beck, Columbia University Title: Lost and Found in Translation: The Bilingualism of War and Peace in the Different English Versions Panelist: Kerry Sabbag, University of Kansas Title: Gordost’ i predubezhdenie: Russian Translations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Panelist: Brian Baer, Kent State University Title: Liubov’ Krichevskaia’s “Emma”: Rethinking Jane Austen’s Influence on Russian Literature 29D-6 Roundtable: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Novel: The Paradigm Reconsidered Roundtable Chair: Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley Roundtable Discussants: Seamas O’Driscoll, Northwestern University Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College William Mills Todd III, Harvard University Emily Van Buskirk, Harvard University/Rutgers University Alyson Tapp, University of California, Berkeley 29D-7 Panel: Language Norms and Usage Chair: Keith Langston, University of Georgia Panelist: Olga Thomason, University of Georgia Title: On Linguistic Particulars of Some Radio Genre Panelist: Daniela Hristova, University of Cambridge, England Title: Великий и могучий "олбанский" язык: The Russian Internet and the Russian language Panelist: Michael Gorham, University of Florida Title: Gramota.Ru: Language Monitoring, Folk Linguistics, and the Battle for Norms in the Contemporary Russian Mass Media Panelist: Natalia Bogdanova, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет (LCD) Title: На пути «из речи в язык» (редуцированные формы русской речи в национальном корпусе русского языка; лингводидактический аспект) 29D-8 Panel: Czech and Slovak Linguistics Chair: Christina Bethin, Stony Brook University Panelist: Mark Nuckols, Independent Scholar Title: The New Slovak Purism of the 1990s: Sins against Slovak Panelist: Susan Kresin, UCLA and Stephen Dickey, University of Kansas Title: Aspect, grounding, and negation in Czech (in contrast to Russian) Panelist: Masako Fidler, Brown University Title: Discourse-Semantic Network of Czech Vowels in Onomatopoeia: Implications for Universal Size-Sound Symbolism Panelist: Lida Hola, Accent International House, Prague Title: An Alternative Presentation of the Declension of Czech Nouns 29D-9 Panel: Technology Applications in the Slavic Language Classroom Panelist: Lyudmila Klimanova, University of Iowa and Svetlana Dembovskaya, Loyola University Chicago (AV request not clear) Title: Studgorodok : Web-based Multimedia Program for Intermediate and Advanced Learners of Russian Panelist: Anna Kolesnikova, University of Iowa (LCD) Title: Russian Alphabet Bricks: an alternative to classroom practice Panelist: Elena Shishkin, University of Arizona (LCD) Title: Global Simulation: theoretical objectives, practical applications, and technological innovations Panelist: Curtis Ford, University of South Carolina (LCD) Title: Visual Annotations in Vocabulary Acquisition: Experiences with Sona Vocabulary Assistant Panelist: Serguei Podoprigora, Independent Scholar (LCD) Title: Video Sequence versus Audio Content in a TL-Teaching Video Material: Pedagogical Implications for Proficiency-Oriented Instruction Discussant: Rachel Stauffer, University of Virginia December 29, 7:00-9:00 pmRussian Poetry Reading Chair: Polina Barskova, Hampshire College Poets: Boris Dralyuk, University of California, Los Angeles Yulia Trubikhina, New York University Raphael Levchin, Independent author Martin Melodiev, Independent author Discussants: Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California Catherine Ciepiela, Amherst College Polina Barskova, Hampshire College Tuesday, December 30December 30, Session A: 8:00-10:00 am30A-1 Panel: Intertextual Approaches to Dostoevsky Panelist: Lonny Harrison, University of Texas, Arlington Title: Reasonable to Ridiculous: Ecstatic Vision and Inarticulacy in Vladimir Odoevsky and Fyodor Dostoevsky Panelist: Benjamin Jens, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Patronymics and Poverty in Dostoevsky’s Poor Folk 30A-2 Panel: Rewriting the Nineteenth Century Chair: Kristina Toland, Northwestern University Panelist: Jason Strudler, Princeton University Title: Overcoming Gogol: Kruchenykh and the Anxiety of the Arabesque Panelist: Yelena Zotova, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: “You are a god, Mozart, and you do not know it”: Love vs. Relationships in the novel by Andrej Bitov Pushkin’s House Panelist: Christine Dunbar, Princeton University Title: Whispering from the Wings: Evgenii Onegin and Katia Kapovich’s Sufler 30A-3 Panel: Reading the Soviet Body in Performance and Celebration Panelist: Katerina Romanenko, CUNY Graduate Center/Kean University (LCD) Title: Performing the New Soviet Holidays: Visual Language of the Soviet Periodical Press, 1928-1938 Panelist: Susanna Weygandt, Independent Scholar (LCD) Title: Interpreting Stanislavsky’s System: Innovations of the Body in Performance 30A-4 Panel: Comparative Slavic Linguistics Chair: Daniela Hristova, University of Cambridge, England Panelist: Gilbert Rappaport, University of Texas, Austin Title: The Genesis of the Morphosyntactic Category of ‘Masculine Personal’ in West Slavic: A Case Study in Relative Chronology Panelist: Erik Houle, The University of Chicago Title: Pre-posed Adnominal Genitives in North Slavic Panelist: Ronald Feldstein, Indiana University, Bloomington Title: Development of Prosodic Redundancy in East and West Slavic, as Conditioned by the New Zero-Ending Panelist: Elena Boudovskaia, Vassar College (LCD) Title: i-stem Pl. tantum Nouns as a Declension Class in the Transcarpathian Ukrainian Dialects: Lingua-geographical Aspect 30A-5 Panel: New Approaches to Heritage Russian Curricula (LCD) Chair: Nila Friedberg, Portland State University Panelist: Sandra Freels, Portland State University Title: Russian Across the Curriculum: The Portland State University Russian Language Flagship Panelist: Evguenia Davidova, Portland State University Title: Integrating Russian into the General Education Curriculum Panelist: Kathi Ketcheson and Kathie Godfrey, Portland State University Title: Identifying and Lowering Barriers to Higher Education for Heritage Speakers of Russian December 30, Session B: 10:15am-12:15pm30B-1 Panel: Re-examinations of Tolstoianism Chair: Lonny Harrison, University of Texas, Arlington Panelist: David Herman, University of Virginia Title: Performance and the Crisis of Modern Subjectivity in Kreutzer Sonata Panelist: Matthew McGarry, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: The “Resonance” and “Wonder” of Lev Tolstoy’s New Historicism Panelist: Donna Oliver, Beloit College Title: The Vanity of Renunciation and the Validity of Anger: Problems in Tolstoyan Thought 30B-2 Panel: International Vladimir Nabokov Society: Technique in Nabokov’s Russian Prose Chair: Julian Connolly, University of Virginia Panelist: Mariya Lomakina, University of Michigan Title: Vladimir Nabokov’s Story “A Slice of Life” as an Anti-Parody of Female Writing Panelist: Naomi Olson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Journey to the “Kingdom of the Ill:" Childhood Illness in Writings of Bunin and Nabokov Panelist: Oksana Willis, Moscow State University Title: Мотив нежности как знак авторского присутствия в романе В. Набокова «Король, дама, валет» 30B-3 Panel: Dissident Culture Chair: Ekaterina Fleishman, Stanford University Panelist: Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma Title: Private Correspondence as Social Action: The Late-Soviet Human-Rights Movement and the Prison/Labor-Camp Mail System Panelist: Shlomit Gorin, Northwestern University Title: Joseph Brodsky and Jewishness: Looking at Brodsky’s World through the “Jewish Telescope” Panelist: Tatyana Malikova, Voronezh State University Title: Vassily Aksyonov’s History Lessons 30B-4 Panel: Alisa Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand): Studies at the University of Petrograd (1921-24) Panelist: Dina Schein Federman, The Ayn Rand Institute Title: Ayn Rand and Russian Education in Fact and in Fiction: In Life and in Her Novel We the Living Panelist: Lee Pierson, Farleigh Dickinson University Title: William James (Principles of Psychology) and the Education of Alisa Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand) Panelist: Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia Tech Title: Textbooks as Teachers: Ayn Rand’s Course of Study at the University of Petrograd 30B-5 Roundtable: Iberian-Slavonic Cultural Interactions Roundtable Chair: Slava Yastremski, Bucknell College Roundtable Discussants: Brian Head, Universidade do Minho, Portugal; SUNY Albany Larissa Semenova, Moscow State University Jaroslaw Jacek Jezdzikowski, Faculdade São Bento, Brazil 30B-6 Panel: South Slavic Linguistics Chair: Jennifer Bown, Brigham Young University Panelist: Anastasia Smirnova, The Ohio State University Title: Semantics of Embedded Tense in the Balkan Subjunctive Panelist: Traci Lindsey, University of California, Berkeley Title: Path and Manner-Saliency in South Slavic Motion Verbs Panelist: Keith Langston, University of Georgia Title: Linguistic Purism and the Language of Croatian Blogs 30B-7 Forum: Materials (LCD) Chair: David Galloway, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (LCD) Panelist: Kristin Peterson-Bidoshi, Union College Title: Molodets!—A Dynamic Russian Grammar Trainer Panelist: Neil Bermel, University of Sheffield (LCD) Title: Multimedia and VLE-based intermediate Czech language courses 30B-8 Roundtable: Teaching Language through Literature Roundtable Chair: Patricia Chaput, Harvard University Roundtable Discussants: Natalia Pokrovsky, Harvard University Natalia Reed, Harvard University Svetlana Kristal, San Francisco State University December 30, Session C: 1:00-3:00pm30C-1 Panel: Nikolai Gogol' / Mykola Hohol' in an Inter-National Context Chair: Natalia Pylypiuk, University of Alberta Panelist: Oleh Ilnytzkyj, University of Alberta (OP) Title: The Meaning of russkii and svoi tsar in Gogol's Taras Bul'ba (1842) Panelist: Svitlana Krys, University of Alberta Title: What is Hidden Behind Gogol'’s Basavriuk and Hoffmann’s Sandman? Panelist: Natalia Kovaliova, University of Alberta Title: A Comparison of the Sublime in Gogol’s The Portrait, Poe’s The Oval Portrait, and Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece 30C-2 Panel: Problems of Russian Realism and Nineteenth-Century Culture Chair: Inna Tigountsova, Dalhousie University Panelist: Vadim Shkolnikov, Columbia University Title: Bakunin and the History of Russian Realism Panelist: Anne Hruska, Stanford University Title: The Ties that Bind: Emancipation’s Deeper Meaning in Fathers and Sons Panelist: Ryan Walker, The Ohio State University Title: Pulling a Vampire’s Teeth: The Curse of Porfiry Golovlyov 30C-3 Panel: Discourse Analysis Chair: Anna Yatsenko, Reed College Panelist: Renee Perelmutter, University of Kansas Title: Reported speech with subject ellipsis in family conflict discourse Panelist: Ekaterina Schnittke, Independent Scholar Title: Logic Questioned: A Distortion of the Poetic Space and Question-Answer Adjacency Pairs in Brodsky’s Homage to Yalta Last updated 01/05/2009.
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