2015 Conference Program:

January 9, 2015, 8:00-10:00am

FRI-A-1 Panel: Approaches to Language Learning & Teaching: Russian Flagship and Beyond

Location:

Ballroom II

Organizer:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist:

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University and Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

Writing Projects in the Intermediate Foreign Language/Russian Curriculum

Panelist:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Bringing Students from Intermediate to Advanced in a Russian Flagship Program

Discussants:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

FRI-A-2 Panel: Subjectivity and Narrative in the Novel: The Case of Anna Karenina

Location:

Ballroom III

Organizer:

Irina Paperno, Univ of California - Berkeley

Chair:

Irina Paperno, Univ of California - Berkeley

Panelist:

Thomas Dyne, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Silent Scenes of Interpretation: Visual and Verbal Language in Tolstoy's Major Novels

Panelist:

Brian Egdorf, University of California Berkeley

Title:

Against Narration: The Hidden Subjectivities of Anna Karenina

Panelist:

Jennifer Flaherty, New York University

Title:

Split Selves and Significant Others: The Role of the Peasant in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

Discussants:

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College

FRI-A-3 Panel: Syntactic Features of Heritage Russian

Location:

Salon D

Organizer:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Chair:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panelist:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Title:

Comparing Russian Native and Heritage Speakers’ Writing: Analysis of Syntax.

Panelist:

Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina

Title:

Measuring progress in writing development through measures of syntactic maturity: a corpus approach.

Panelist:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Title:

Word Order Patterns in Oral Narratives of Russian Heritage Speakers

Discussants:

Alla Epsteyn, Wellesley College

FRI-A-4 : 19th Century Russian and Polish Poetry

Location:

Salon E

Chair:

Elise Thorsen

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anna Kovalchuk, University of Oregon

Title:

Pushkin's Poltava: On History, the Cossacks, and the Russian Nation

FRI-A-5 : Ideas and Ideologies Behind the Iron Curtain

Location:

Port of San Francisco

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Emily Traverse, Columbia University

Title:

Cultural Quarantine: Anxieties of Contamination in "I Burn Paris" and "We"

Panelist:

Alec Brookes, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Title:

The Ontology of Kharms's Redheaded Man

Panelist:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

Title:

Lay Psychotechnics and the Sublimation of Soviet Emotion in Zoshchenko's Youth Restored

FRI-A-6 : Language Teaching Strategies and Practices

Location:

Port of New York

Chair:

David Prestel, Michigan State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Yekaterina Cotey, UT Austin

Title:

Guilty or not: using the social game "Mafia" for fluency building and vocabulary practice

Panelist:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida

Title:

Project “Picturing Russia” at the University of Central Florida

Panelist:

Katya Nemtchinova, Seattle Pacific University

Title:

Assessing spoken language through student-made video

January 9, 2015, 10:30am-12:15pm

FRI-B-2 : Material and Immaterial Modernisms

Location:

Ballroom III

Chair:

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jonathan Stone, Franklin & Marshall College

Title:

The Modernist Book and the Crisis of Symbolism

Panelist:

Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Emory University

Title:

Picasso’s Violin: “White Noise” and the Art of Elena Guro and Lyubov Popova

Panelist:

Polina Dimova, University of Denver

Title:

The Frozen Desert and The Crystal World: Figurations of Aleksander Skriabin’s Music in Evgenii Zamiatin’s “The Cave” and We

FRI-B-3 : Dostoevsky’s Thought: Influences and Impacts

Location:

Salon C

Chair:

Brian R. Johnson, Macalester College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Yuliya Ilchuk

Title:

The Role of H.S. Skovoroda’s Philosophy in the Development of F.M. Dostoevsky’s Anthropological Ideas

Panelist:

Benjamin Jens, The University of Arizona

Title:

Depictions of Faith in the Works of Dostoevsky and Gorky

Panelist:

Anastasia Selemeneva, Brown University

Title:

On the Origin of Father Zosima in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

FRI-B-4 Panel: Character Typologies as Generic Framework: An Analysis of Russian Literature and Film of the 1980s and 1990s

Location:

Salon D

Chair:

Angela Brintlinger, The Ohio State University

Panelist:

S. Ceilidh Orr, The Ohio State University

Title:

Seeking an Overcoat for a Cold War: Akakii Akakievich in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

Panelist:

Robert Mulcahy, College of William & Mary

Title:

Erast Fandorin: A New Literary Hero for a Post-Soviet World

Panelist:

David McVey, University of Kansas

Title:

Relics of the Fall: Pavel Lungin’s Defunct Stalinist Heroes

FRI-B-5 Panel: SOCIETY, NATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY IN RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN LITERATURE

Location:

Salon E

Organizer:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Chair:

Amber Aulen, University of Toronto

Panelist:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Title:

Symbolic Geography of the Desert in the Russian Realist Novel

Panelist:

Victoria Lyasota, University of Toronto

Title:

National Identity and Narrative Strategies in the Fictional Works of Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Vladimir Jabotinsky

Panelist:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

Ukrainian Identity in Ukrainian Poetry: From Shevchenko to BU-BA-BU

FRI-B-6 : Second Language Acquisition Resources and Assessment

Location:

Port of San Francisco

Chair:

Cori Weiner, Montclair State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Larisa Karkafi, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Language Transfer from English to Russian in Written Production of Intermediate level Heritage Language Learners and Learners of Russian as a Second Language.

Panelist:

Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University

Title:

Learner's Dictionary: Rediscovering a Forgotten Language-Learning Tool

Panelist:

Beata Gallaher, Independent Scholar

Title:

Effect of L2 Learners’ Proficiency Level on Pragmatic Performance

FRI-B-7 Panel: Graduate Student Committee Invitational Panel : Focus on Poetry

Location:

Port of New York

Organizer:

Emily Wang, University of Southern California

Chair:

Emily Wang, University of Southern California

Panelist:

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Title:

The Avant-Garde Journal On- and Offline: Translit

Panelist:

Daria Khitrova, Harvard University

Title:

Performativity and Pragmatics in Russian Lyrical Poetry of the Golden Age

Panelist:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title:

The Poetics of Literary Translation in the Soviet Period

Discussants:

Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley

FRI-B-8 : Russian-Jewish Encounters

Location:

Ballroom II

Chair:

Molly Brunson, Yale University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Nila Friedberg, Portland State University

Title:

Iconic stepladders: The origins of Boris Slutsky's visual poetry

Panelist:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Title:

Sholem Aleichem’s Incantatory Persuasion in its Russian and American Contexts

Panelist:

Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University

Title:

Jews at the Foothills of the Tatras before the Second World War

January 9, 2015, 1:45-3:30pm

FRI-C-2 Roundtable: Teaching Polish Language

Location:

Port of San Francisco

Organizer:

Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University

FRI-C-3 Panel: New Perspectives on Nabokov (1): Appropriations and Elisions

Location:

Port of Hong Kong

Organizer:

Julian W. Connolly, University of Virginia

Chair:

Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee

Panelist:

Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Nabokov, Proust, and the Russians

Panelist:

Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, Rochester Institute of Technology

Title:

Nabokov's Silent Nomads: The Absent and Absented Women of Nabokov's Poetics

FRI-C-4 : The New and the Old in Contemporary Russian Culture

Location:

Salon C

Chair:

Robert Mulcahy, College of William & Mary

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Конспирологический Детектив: Boris Akunin’s Dandy, or a Century in Queer Profiles from London to Moscow

Panelist:

Jenny Kaminer, University of California, Davis

Title:

Profaning the Provinces: Space, Place and Childbirth in Vasilii Sigarev’s Drama "Black Milk"

FRI-C-5 : Contexts and Subtexts in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Location:

Port of Singapore

Chair:

Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Amber Aulen, University of Toronto

Title:

Between Convention and Innovation: The Journalistic Context of Anton Chekhov’s Early Work

Panelist:

Miglena Dikova-Milanova, University of Gent

Title:

The responsibility of the spectator: Milan Kundera’s reading of Tolstoy

Panelist:

Anna Barker, The University of Iowa

Title:

Trigger Warnings and Beethoven: A Case for The Kreutzer Sonata

FRI-C-6 : Russian Sociolinguistics and Discourse

Location:

Ballroom III

Chair:

Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Katerina Rouzina, The Ohio State University

Title:

Contact-Induced Pragmatic Change: A Case Study of American Russian in Minnesota

Panelist:

Amy Garey, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

The Russian Male Macho Register and Performances of Masculinity in Sketch Comedy

Panelist:

Lindy Comstock, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Constructing the Russian Respondent: “Konečno” and the Epistemic Right to Express Knowledge

FRI-C-7 : Teaching Strategies and Motivations in First-Year Russian

Location:

Salon D

Chair:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lynne deBenedette, Brown University

Title:

The Grammar Is Communicative: Noticing and Structured Input Activities in First-Year Russian

Panelist:

Cori Weiner, Montclair State University

Title:

From Controlled Practice to Free Use: Supplementary Activities for First Year Russian

Panelist:

Irina Pidberejna, University of Central Florida

Title:

The Impact of Culture on Students’ Motivation in Acquiring a Second Language

Discussants:

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

FRI-C-8 Panel: The Civic Lyric Revisited

Location:

Salon E

Organizer:

Elise Thorsen

Chair:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panelist:

Emily Wang, University of Southern California

Title:

Reconsidering Pushkin and the Decembrist Lyric

Panelist:

Elise Thorsen

Title:

Some Versions of Ode: Maiakovskii’s Politics of Subjective and Soviet Horizon

Panelist:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Title:

Vsevolod Nekrasov and contemporary grazhdanskaia lirika [civic poetry]: negotiating private speech and public language

Discussants:

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

FRI-C-9 : Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literary Depictions of Men’s and Women’s Bodies

Location:

Port of New York

Chair:

Polina Dimova, University of Denver

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Megan Luttrell, University of Kansas

Title:

Discipline and the Docile Body in Tolstoy’s Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Panelist:

Donna Oliver, Beloit College

Title:

“Prodigal Children and Provincial Chains: Ambiguous Emancipation in Chekhov’s ‘Nevesta’”

Panelist:

Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, University of Ljubljana Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Title:

Seduction of a Woman in Slovenian Literature Within the European Literary Tradition

January 9, 2015, 4:30-6:30pm

FRI-D-2 Panel: Femen at Home and Abroad

Location:

Salon C

Organizer:

Julie A Cassiday, Williams College

Chair:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:

Jessica Zychowicz, University of Michigan, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literature

Title:

Vox Populi or Meme? Femen from Kyiv to Anywhere

Panelist:

Julie A Cassiday, Williams College

Title:

Fuck Putin! Femen’s Political Gets Personal

Panelist:

Emily D. Johnson, University of Oklahoma

Title:

Topless Jihad: Ukrainian Feminists Against the World

Discussants:

Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas

FRI-D-3 : Time and Philosophy in Early 20th Century Russian Literature

Location:

Salon E

Chair:

Jonathan Stone, Franklin & Marshall College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Title:

“The ‘meon’ (non-being) in Silver Age religious philosophy”

Panelist:

Leeore Schnairsohn, New York University

Title:

Mandelstam, Platonov, and the Rhythm of Utopia

Panelist:

Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College

Title:

Measuring Time and Eternity in "The Potudan’ River"

FRI-D-4 : Polish Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Location:

Salon D

Chair:

Adam Mielczarek, Jagiellonian University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Piotr Axer, Brown University

Title:

Escaping with "Mask" in Hand: Discourses on the Body in Ferdydurke

Panelist:

Julie Hansen, Uppsala University

Title:

Growing Up with Communism: Libera’s Madame and Topol’s Noční práce as Bildungsromane

Panelist:

Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, Kansas University

Title:

The End of History is the Beginning of Myth: The Post-Industrial Town of Wałbrzych in the Works of Polish Playwrights

FRI-D-5 : Russian Language Teaching Materials and Strategies

Location:

Ballroom III

Chair:

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Dulce de Castro, Collin College

Title:

Less Is More: The Benefits of Using Micro Fiction from the Beginning through Advanced Levels

Panelist:

Tatiana E. Smorodinska, Middlebury College

Title:

"Digital anthology of the Russian school canon in teaching language"

Panelist:

Tetiana Norman, Virtual Learning 247 LLC

Title:

Using Authentic Materials to Teach Reading in Russian

FRI-D-6 : Teaching Less Commonly Taught Slavic Languages

Location:

Port of New York

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Panelist:

Christopher Harwood, Columbia University

Title:

Fairy tale texts for a modular advanced Czech language course

Panelist:

Ellen Langer, University of California

Title:

Čeština Čapkem: Strategies for teaching language through cultural media

Panelist:

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Teaching Vocabulary in BCS Classes

Panelist:

Ewa Maria Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan

Title:

Teaching Czech in Distance Learning Format: Benefits and Challenges

Panelist:

Aleksandar Boskovic, Columbia University

Title:

On People, Characters, and Feelings: Comics : “Alan Ford” in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Classroom

Panelist:

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

Flipped and Connected: Creating an Active Learning Environment Through the Use of Authentic and Original Materials and Technology (Part I)

Panelist:

Marija Rosic, University of Michigan

Title:

To accept or not to accept “The Patriotic Making of the New Croatian Speak”?

Panelist:

Mila Saskova-Pierce, University of Nebraska

Title:

Construction of History of Czech Emigration in the Great Plains on the internet as Czech language students’ projects.