2014 Conference Program:
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- 7:30am-6:00pm
- Conference Registration (Palm Court Foyer)
- 8:00am-10:00am
- SLAVA/Olympiada Breakfast (Florentine)
- 9:00am-4:30pm
- Exhibit Hall (Drake Room)
- 8:00am-10:00am
- Conference Panels: FRI-A (see below for room assignments)
- 10:00am-10:30am
- Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall Sponsored by Bard Abroad (Drake Room)
- 10:00am-12:00pm
- SEEJ Editorial Board Meeting (Ontario)
- 10:30am-12:15pm
- Conference Panels: FRI-B
- Publishers Roundtable (Michigan)
- 12:15pm-1:45pm
- Language Coordinators' Luncheon (Location TBD)
- RLJ Editorial Board Meeting (Walton II/Walton North)
- 12:30pm-1:30pm
- Coffee with Leading Scholar Robert Bird (Marquette)
- 1:45pm-3:30pm
- Conference Panels: FRI-C
- Presidential Panel: Rebecca Stanton's Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism with Amelia Glaser (University of California - San Diego), Gregory Freidin (Stanford University), and Sasha Senderovich (University of Colorado - Boulder) (Venetian)
- 3:30pm-4:00pm
- Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall Sponsored by the University of Chicago Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (Drake Room)
- 4:00pm-6:30pm
- ACTR Board Meeting (Tudor)
- 4:30pm-6:30pm
- Conference Panels FRI-D
- Advanced Seminar, Michael Flier "Icon, Index, Symbol: Reading the Signs of Medieval Rus'" (Parkside)
- Presidential Panel: Tim Harte's Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930 with John Bowlt (University of Southern California), Wendy Salmond (Chapman University), and Julia Vaingurt (University of Illinois - Chicago) (Venetian)
- Featured Workshop with Ben Rifkin (College of New Jersey): "Strategies and Tactics for Facilitating Discussion: Approaches for Language, Literature, and Culture Classes" (Georgian)
- International Association of Teachers of Czech Meeting (Michigan)
- Graduate Student Committee Meeting (Huron)
- 6:30pm-8:00pm
- Reception sponsored by Northwestern University Slavic Department (French Room)
- 7:00pm-9:00pm
- Poetry Reading (Parkside)
- 9:00pm-11:00pm
- AATSEEL President's Reception and Awards Ceremony (Gold Coast Room)
- Location:
- Venetian
- Chair:
- Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon
- Panelist:
- Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University
- Title:
- Feminine Seduction in Pushkin’s Stone Guest
- Panelist:
- Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont
- Title:
- Gambling Away the Petri-mony: Rival Models of Social Advancement in Pushkin’s “Queen of Spadesâ€
- Panelist:
- Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, University of Ljubljana Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Title:
- The Magical Strength of Water in Works about Love and Death in France Prešeren and Alexander Pushkin
- Panelist:
- Ray Alston
- Title:
- “He is My Fatherâ€: Pushkin’s Tutelage in Anna Karenina as a Turning Point for Tolstoy’s Aesthetics
- Location:
- Erie
- Organizer:
- Elise Thorsen
- Panelist:
- Sarah Bishop, Willamette University
- Title:
- Rome Lies Somewhere in Russia: The Roman Poetry of Elena Shvarts
- Panelist:
- Yelena Zotova, The Pennsylvania State University
- Title:
- The Republic(s) of the Southern Cross: Displaced Geographies in Valerii Briusov and Aleksandr Grin
- Panelist:
- Elise Thorsen
- Title:
- Soviet Eurasianists: The Global Effect of the Literary Center of Constructivists
- Location:
- Superior
- Chair:
- Robert Efird, Virginia Tech
- Panelist:
- Anna Arkatova, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Title:
- A. Solzhenitsyn’s Retrospective of Silver Age: Feminine Eros in Reconceptualization of Russian Revolution
- Panelist:
- Polina Maksimovich, University of Denver
- Title:
- Tragicomedy of Character in Vampilov's "Duck Hunting"
- Panelist:
- Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Title:
- Psychic Surveillance: Punitive Psychiatry and Artistic Dissidence in S. Sokolov’s A School for Fools
- Location:
- Astor
- Panelist:
- Natalia Ryabchikova, University of Pittsburgh
- Title:
- Soviet Cinephiles: Film Production vs. Film Appreciation in the 1920s
- Panelist:
- James H. McGavran III, Kenyon College
- Title:
- Making Comrades of the Classics: Mayakovsky's Comic Confrontations with Tradition
- Panelist:
- Miriam Shrager, Indiana University Bloomington
- Title:
- Meeting of Folklore and Ideology in the Film Vasilisa the Beautiful
- Location:
- Parkside
- Organizer:
- Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
- Chair:
- Rebecca Stanton, Columbia University
- Discussants:
- Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
- Eric Laursen, The University of Utah
- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
- Sonja Fritzsche, Illinois Wesleyan University
- Location:
- Tudor
- Chair:
- Kinga Kosmala, Northwestern University
- Panelist:
- Galina Siergiejczyk, University of Colorado-Boulder
- Title:
- Notes from the Pit, or How Russian and Polish Women Writers Composed a Post-Imperial Feminine.
- Panelist:
- Joanna Kot, Northern Illinois University
- Title:
- Non-recognition and Mourning: A Means of Change in a Few Polish Inter-War Dramas
- Panelist:
- Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, Kansas University
- Title:
- The Local Cosmopolitan: The post-1989 Literary and Film Career of the Polish Town of Wałbrzych
- Panelist:
- Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University
- Title:
- Joan Miró’s Imprints in Marta Fox’s Poetry
- Location:
- Georgian
- Panelist:
- Jing Ke, Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Title:
- The Multilayered Allusions in I. Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams
- Panelist:
- Angelina Ilieva, University of Chicago
- Title:
- Post-Socialist Masculinity in Crisis: Georgi Gospodinov’s Natural Novel
- Panelist:
- Dijana Jelaca, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Title:
- Post-Yugoslav Heritage Cinema and the Futurity of Nostalgia
- Location:
- Huron
- Organizer:
- Olga E. Kagan, University of California Los Angeles
- Chair:
- Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Panelist:
- Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University
- Title:
- Tutoring in a Russian Flagship Program
- Panelist:
- Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles
- Title:
- Content-Based Course: An online approach
- Panelist:
- Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina
- Title:
- The Language Cafe: What Advanced Students Learn in On-line Exchange Programs
- Panelist:
- Evgenia Wilkins, University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- Domestic Flagship Goes Overseas: Interlanguage development within level 3 TRKI
- Location:
- Erie
- Organizer:
- Maksim Hanukai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Chair:
- Kirsten Rutsala, University of Oklahoma
- Panelist:
- Maksim Hanukai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title:
- The Sublime Pleasures of Tragedy: Pushkin in Boldino
- Panelist:
- Yevgeny Slivkin, University of Denver
- Title:
- A Tale of Two Gallows: Reflections of Jan Potocki
- Discussants:
- Amanda Murphy, Colby College
- Location:
- Georgian
- Chair:
- Carmen Finashina, Northwestern University
- Panelist:
- Victoria Thorstensson, Carleton College
- Title:
- The Aesthetic Relations of Blue Spectacles to Reality: Divergent Images of Nihilists in the Literature of the 1860
- Location:
- Florentine
- Organizer:
- Olga Permitina, Queens College, City University of New York
- Chair:
- Benjamin Jens, The University of Arizona
- Panelist:
- Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona
- Title:
- Love for Hire: The Depiction of Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-century Russian Literature
- Panelist:
- Olga Permitina, Queens College, City University of New York
- Title:
- St. Petersburg through the Eyes of Nineteenth-century European Female Travelers
- Panelist:
- Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University
- Title:
- Elements of Religious Writings in Anna Akhmatova
- Discussants:
- Martha M. F. Kelly, University of Missouri
- Location:
- Astor
- Organizer:
- Irina Anisimova, Florida State University
- Chair:
- Bethany Braley, Indiana University
- Panelist:
- Irina Anisimova, Florida State University
- Title:
- The Returns of Traumatic History in the Recent Fiction by Vladimir Sorokin
- Panelist:
- Vadim Shkolnikov, University of Illinois Chicago
- Title:
- Revisions of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism in Shakhnazarov
- Panelist:
- Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh
- Title:
- Literary Idols of the 19th Century in Sergei Solov'ev’s Youth Films
- Discussants:
- Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College
- David Powelstock, Brandeis University
- Location:
- Walton II/Walton North
- Chair:
- Angelina Ilieva, University of Chicago
- Panelist:
- Michael Slager, University of Illinois Chicago
- Title:
- Catherine II and the Ideological Mapping of East and West
- Panelist:
- Hannah Schneider, Georgetown University
- Title:
- The Architect and the Storyteller: Nikon, Avvakum, and the Theological Fight for the Fate of a Nation
- Location:
- Superior
- Organizer:
- Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
- Chair:
- Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon
- Discussants:
- Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
- Jessie Labov, The Ohio State University
- Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana University
- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
- Location:
- Walton I/Walton South
- Organizer:
- Nina Wieda, Middlebury College
- Chair:
- Nina Wieda, Middlebury College
- Discussants:
- Angela Brintlinger, The Ohio State University
- Carol Apollonio, Duke University
- Erielle Davidson, Middlebury College
- Michael Finke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Radislav Lapushin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Location:
- Michigan
- Location:
- Parkside
- Organizer:
- Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University
- Chair:
- Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University
- Panelist:
- Irina Levontina, Russian Language (Vinogradov) Institute RAS
- Title:
- Скромное обаÑние нормы - Discreet Charm of the Norm
- Discussants:
- Michael Gorham, University of Florida
- Location:
- Venetian
- Chair:
- Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University
- Location:
- Michigan
- Organizer:
- Elizabeth Ginzburg, DePaul University
- Chair:
- Maksim Hanukai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Panelist:
- Amanda Murphy, Colby College
- Title:
- “Я приехала проÑить милоÑти, а не правоÑудиÑâ€: Masha Mironova and the Magic Tale
- Panelist:
- Elizabeth Ginzburg, DePaul University
- Title:
- “...И как Ð³ÐµÑ€Ð¾Ñ Ð½Ð°Ð·Ð¾Ð²Ñƒ...â€: Ð˜Ð¼Ñ Ð² звуковой композиции Ð•Ð²Ð³ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÐžÐ½ÐµÐ³Ð¸Ð½Ð°
- Panelist:
- Joe Peschio, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Title:
- "Why Pushkin Alludes to Secret Texts: From the History of Circle Poetics"
- Location:
- Erie
- Organizer:
- Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University
- Chair:
- Tim Langen, University of Missouri
- Panelist:
- Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University
- Title:
- Tolstoian Economy and Dostoevskian Expansiveness in the Engagement of the Polish Question in Anna Karenina and Brat'ia Karamazovy
- Panelist:
- Nicole Monnier, University of Missouri
- Title:
- Narrating Death: Chekhov's Response(s) to Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Il'ych"
- Panelist:
- Nicole Svobodny, Washington University
- Title:
- Swiss Footsteps: Rousseau, Tolstoy, Nijinsky
- Discussants:
- Angela Brintlinger, The Ohio State University
- Location:
- Florentine
- Chair:
- Marin Turk, University of Michigan
- Panelist:
- OLGA VOLKOVA, Indiana University
- Title:
- Poetics of War in Arsenii Nesmelov’s Battle Poetry and Prose
- Panelist:
- Christopher Fort, University of Michigan
- Title:
- Basmachi, White Guardists, and Interventionists, oh my!: The conflation of Russian Civil War foes in Central Asian War Literature
- Panelist:
- Adrienne Harris, Baylor University
- Title:
- Drunina Demobilized: The Woman Veteran, Silence, and Negotiation of Identity (1945-1960)
- Location:
- Astor
- Chair:
- Daniel Schuemann
- Panelist:
- Luke Parker, Amherst College
- Title:
- Nabokov in Weimar: Culture Criticism and Nabokov's Early Russian Novels
- Panelist:
- Julia Kobrina, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
- Title:
- Vladimir Nabokov as a Translator ("Eugene Onegin")
- Discussants:
- Michael Kunichika, Harvard University
- Location:
- Tudor
- Organizer:
- Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College
- Chair:
- Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College
- Panelist:
- Jonathan Stone, Franklin & Marshall College
- Title:
- Literary Institutions and the People Who Built Them
- Panelist:
- Emily Finer, University of St Andrews
- Title:
- From Shklovskii's Sterne to the Soviet Dickens: The Reception of English Literature in 20th century Russia
- Discussants:
- William Todd, Harvard University
- Location:
- Ontario
- Organizer:
- Sara Ceilidh Orr, Willamette University
- Chair:
- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
- Discussants:
- Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University
- Polina Rikoun, University of Denver
- Sara Ceilidh Orr, Willamette University
- Location:
- Superior
- Organizer:
- David L. Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Chair:
- David L. Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Panelist:
- Jenya Mironava, Harvard University
- Title:
- Elliptical Gaps as Seams of a Collage in Hrabal's Rosenkavalier
- Panelist:
- Daniel W. Pratt, The Ohio State University
- Title:
- Towards a New Central Europe: The Legacy of Bohumil Hrabal
- Panelist:
- Esther Peters, University of Chicago
- Title:
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Discussants:
- Cheryl Stephenson, University of Chicago
- Location:
- Venetian
- Location:
- Georgian
- Organizer:
- Robert Greenberg, University of Auckland
- Chair:
- Robert Greenberg, University of Auckland
- Discussants:
- Bill Darden, University of Chicago
- Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University
- Keith Langston, University of Georgia
- Marc L. Greenberg, University of Kansas
- Victor Allen Friedman, University of Chicago
- Location:
- Huron
- Organizer:
- Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University
- Location:
- Parkside
- Organizer:
- Donna Oliver, Beloit College
- Chair:
- Donna Oliver, Beloit College
- Discussants:
- Donna Oliver, Beloit College
- Edie Furniss, University of Pittsburgh
- Location:
- Parkside
- Location:
- Venetian
- Location:
- Astor
- Panelist:
- Galina Alekseeva, State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana
- Title:
- The American Collection of Books in Tolstoy's Personal Library: Original Sources for Work and Life
- Panelist:
- Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon University
- Title:
- “Don’t nod as if you agreed with meâ€: Obligation, Rivalry, and Monologism in Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata.
- Panelist:
- Miglena Dikova-Milanova, University of Gent
- Title:
- Tolstoy, Kant and the meaning of art
- Location:
- Georgian
- Location:
- Superior
January 10, 2014, 8:00-10:00am
FRI-A-1 : Reexaminations of Pushkin
FRI-A-2 Panel: Oblique Imaginative Geographies in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
FRI-A-3 : Late Soviet Literature
FRI-A-4 : Early Soviet Literature and Film
FRI-A-5 Roundtable: Mediating Science Fiction: Across Languages, Disciplines, and Platforms
FRI-A-6 : Polish Literature and Culture
FRI-A-7 : Contemporary Balkan Culture
FRI-A-8 Panel: New Developments in The Russian Flagship: Teaching face-to-face and online
January 10, 2014, 10:30am-12:15pm
FRI-B-1 Panel: Pushkin and French Writing
FRI-B-2 : Russian Literature and Ideology in the 1860s
FRI-B-3 Panel: Exploring the Urban Landscape: Prostitution, Travelogues and Genre Boundaries in the Petersburg Text
FRI-B-4 Panel: Revisiting Russian Past in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Fiction and Film
FRI-B-5 : Russian National Identity
FRI-B-6 Roundtable: Biblio-Migrancy: Translation, Transmission, and Global Communities of Reading
FRI-B-7 Roundtable: Reaching for the Elusive Laughter Through Tears in American Classroom: Teaching Chekhov
FRI-B-8 : Publishers Roundtable
FRI-B-9 Panel: Ð˜Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð² руÑÑком Ñзыке как ÑвидетельÑтво Ñдвигов в ÑиÑтеме культурных ценноÑтей - Changes in the Russian Language as Evidence of Shifts in Cultural Values
FRI-B-11 Roundtable: Real-World Encounters with Russian Language and Culture
January 10, 2014, 1:45-3:30pm
FRI-C-1 Panel: Intergeneric Play in Pushkin
FRI-C-2 Panel: Challenging Tolstoy
FRI-C-3 : Writing on War
FRI-C-4 : Nabokov
FRI-C-5 Panel: Interdisciplinarity: Sociologies of Publishing, Reading, and the Canon
FRI-C-6 Roundtable: Teaching an Introductory Literature Course
FRI-C-7 Panel: 100 Years of Bohumil Hrabal
FRI-C-8 : Presidential Panel I: Rebecca Stanton's Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism
FRI-C-9 Roundtable: The Legacy of Edward Stankiewicz (1920-2013)
FRI-C-10 Roundtable: Teaching Polish Language
FRI-C-11 Roundtable: Первый Круг: A New Option for the First-Year Russian Curriculum
January 10, 2014, 4:30-6:30pm
FRI-D-1 : Advanced Seminar Led by Michael Flier, "Icon, Index, Symbol: Reading the Signs of Medieval Rus'"
FRI-D-2 : Presidential Panel II: Tim Harte's Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930
FRI-D-3 : Reexamining Tolstoy
FRI-D-4 : Featured Workshop Led by Benjamin Rifkin: Strategies and Tactics for Facilitating Discussion: Approaches for Language, Literature, and Culture Classes
FRI-D-5 : Slavic Poetry in the U.S.: Reading and Discussion
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