2021 Special Events*

The full conference program is available here.

Saturday, February 20th, 2021: Virtual Conference zakuska

To help our participants and attendees (and, let's be honest, ourselves!) to gain comfort and confidence with AATSEEL's virtual conference platform, we are offering an abbreviated menu of events on Saturday, February 20th, beginning at 10:00am as a preview or, as we've been calling it, a zakuska. Conference registration includes access to the zakuska and all events on the main conference weekend starting Thursday, February 25th and ending on Sunday, February 28th.

Keynote Address

Pre-recorded, available asynchronously starting Saturday, February 20th
Evgeny Dobrenko (University of Sheffield): "The Stalinist State (of) Laughter: The Fate of the Comic in a Tragic Age"

Streams

As in recent years past, we have several streams of panels on a variety of topics this year for attendees. For more info on this year's streams, visit 2021 Streams.

Open Seminars

Open Seminars offer attendees an opportunity to deep dive into a topic with an expert in the field. All are invited to join!

Saturday, February 20th, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Thomas J. Garza (University of Texas at Austin) "The Myth of «Шире круг»: Addressing Diversity and Intersectionality in the Teaching of Russian"

Thursday, February 25th, 11:30am-1:30pm
Sunnie Rucker-Chang (University of Cincinnati): "Critical Romani Studies and Central and Southeast European Film"

Translation Workshop

Saturday, February 20th, 12:15pm-1:45pm
The AATSEEL Translation Workshop this year will feature the Siberian poet EKATERINA SIMONOVA (b. 1977 in Nizhnii Tagil), who lives in Ekaterinburg. Simonova is one of the editors of the poetry series ‘InVersia,’ one of the few Russian publishing projects operated only by women. She moved from traditional to freer poetic forms to treat female subjectivity in the daily life of provincial towns with greater realism. Workshop participants will join Ekaterina to read and discuss several of her recent poems and their efforts to translate them.


AATSEEL Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion (AWGDI) Panels

Saturday, February 20th, 10:00am-12:00pm
Instructional Practice and Design for the 2020s: Inclusive and High-Impact Approaches to Language, Literature, and Culture


Saturday, February 20th, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Study Abroad: Accessibility, Diversity, Inclusivity

Saturday, February 27th, 11:45am-1:45pm
Presidential Panel: Socialist Anti-Racisms and their Ambivalent Legacies

Sunday, February 28th, 2:00pm-4:00pm
SEEJ Forum: Working Towards Equity in Slavic Language and Literature Programs: Experiences from the United States


Professional Development and Pandemic Research & Teaching

Saturday, February 20th, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Alternative Paths for Slavic PhDs

Thursday, February 25th, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Teaching Upper‑level Courses in a Remote Context: Models from the Flagship Program

Friday, February 26th, 2:30pm-4:30pm
Teaching Russian Online: Lessons Learned From Teaching During the Pandemic

Saturday, February 27th, 2:30pm-4:30pm
Immersive Teaching with VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality)

Saturday, February 27th, 5:15pm-7:15pm
Writing Within the Discipline: Creating a Productive Slavic Writing Group

Sunday, February 28th, 9:00am-11:00am
Teaching Polish during Pandemic: Challenges & Best Practices


Panels of Interest for K-12 Educators**

Saturday, February 20th, 10:00am-12:00pm
Instructional Practice and Design for the 2020s: Inclusive and High-Impact Approaches to Language, Literature, and Culture


Thursday, February 25th, 9:00am-11:00am
Tackling Russian Grammar;
Developing a Proficiency-Oriented Curriculum

Thursday, February 25th, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Working with Beginner’s Russian: Strategies, Additions, Program Formats

Thursday, February 25th, 4:30pm-6:30pm
The ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian: An Opportunity for Pre‑College and Post‑Secondary Collaboration and Recruitment

Friday, February 26th, 2:30pm-4:30pm
Teaching Russian Online: Lessons Learned From Teaching During the Pandemic

Friday, February 26th, 5:15pm-7:15pm
Activities Enhancing Social, Cognitive and Teacher Presence in Asynchronous Online Learning

Saturday, February 27th, 9:00am-11:00am
Films in the Russian Curriculum

Saturday, February 27th, 11:45am-1:45pm
Developing Online Instructional Materials for Russian

Sunday, February 28th, 9:00am-11:00pm, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Teaching Language Through Culture (Stream)

Sunday, February 28th, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Group Activities in a Russian Language Room for Intermediate and Advanced Students;
Making Russian Real;
Using Authentic Materials for Improving Students’ Skills at All Levels of Russian


Meetings

Friday, February 26th, 5:15pm-7:15pm
AATSEEL Graduate Student Committee

Saturday, February 27th, 5:15pm-7:15pm
ACTR Members Meeting

TBD
International Association of Teachers of Czech

Saturday, February 27th, 4:30pm-5:15pm
AATSEEL Members Meeting

Wednesday, February 24th and Sunday, February 28th, 6:00pm-8:00pm
AATSEEL Executive Council Meetings





*All times are EST
** Special thanks to Lauren Nelson (Pritzker College Prep) and Devin Browne (Brashear HS) for curating this list of panels.