2021 Conference Program

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🕐 All times are EST

Please note that this year's keynote address by Evgeny Dobrenko (University of Sheffield): "The Stalinist State (of) Laughter: The Fate of the Comic in a Tragic Age", will be pre-recorded, and available asynchronously starting Saturday, February 20th.

Saturday, February 20, 2021 (One-Day Virtual Conference Preview).

10:00am-12:00pm
Session 1: Instructional Practice and Design for the 2020s: Inclusive and High-Impact Approaches to Language, Literature, and Culture

12:15pm-1:45pm
Session 2: Translation Workshop
2:00pm-4:00pm
Open Seminar w/ Thomas J. Garza (University of Texas at Austin)
The Myth of «Шире круг»: Addressing Diversity and Intersectionality in the Teaching of Russian
4:30pm-6:30pm
Session 4: Roundtables on the Profession

Thursday, February 25, 2021

9:00am-11:00am
Conference Panels: Session 5
11:30am-1:30pm
Open Seminar w/ Sunnie Rucker-Chang (University of Cincinnati)
Critical Romani Studies and Central and Southeast European Film
2:00pm-4:00pm
Conference Panels: Session 7
4:30pm-6:30pm
Conference Panels: Session 8

Friday, February 26, 2021

9:00am-11:00pm
Conference Panels: Session 9
11:00am-11:40am
Slavic and East European Journal Editorial Board Meeting
11:45am-1:45pm
Conference Panels: Session 10
2:30pm-4:30pm
Conference Panels: Session 11
5:15pm-7:15pm
Conference Panels: Session 12
AATSEEL Graduate Student Committee Meeting

Saturday, February 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am
Conference Panels: Session 13
11:45am-1:45pm
Conference Panels: Session 14
2:30pm-4:30pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 15
4:30pm-5:15pm
AATSEEL Members Meeting
5:15pm-7:15pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 16
ACTR Members Meeting

Sunday, February 28, 2021

9:00am-11:00am
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 17
11:30am-1:30pm
F-Pis'mo Poetry Reading (featuring Galina Rymbu, Oksana Vasyakina, Lida Yusupova, Stanislava Mogileva, Egana Djabbarova, Elena Kostyleva, Yulia Podlubnova)
12:30pm-1:30pm
Open Meeting of AATSEEL's Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion (AWGDI)
2:00pm-4:00pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 19
4:30pm-6:30pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 20
6:00pm-8:00pm
AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting