2016 Conference Program:
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- 7:30am-5:00pm
- Conference Registration (M3)
- 7:00am-9:00am
- Continental Breakfast (Salon C)
- 8:00am-10:00am
- SLAVA/Olympiada Breakfast (PDR 4)
- 9:00am-4:30pm
- Exhibit Hall (Salon C)
- 8:00am-10:00am
- Conference Panels: FRI-A (see below for room assignments)
- 10:00am-10:30am
- Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall, Sponsored by American Councils for International Education (Salon C)
- 10:00am-12:00pm
- SEEJ Editorial Board Meeting (PDR 1)
- 10:30am-12:15pm
- Conference Panels: FRI-B
- 12:15pm-1:45pm
- Language Coordinators' Luncheon
- Association for Diversity in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (PDR 1)
- RLJ Editorial Board Meeting (PDR 3)
- North American Association of Teachers of Polish (PDR 4)
- 1:45pm-3:30pm
- Conference Panels: FRI-C
- Presidential Memorial Panel for Charles Townsend (Classroom 102)
- 3:30pm-4:30pm
- Coffee with Leading Scholars, Sarah Clovis Bishop (M3)
- 4:00pm-6:30pm
- ACTR Board Meeting (PDR 3)
- 4:30pm-6:30pm
- Conference Panels FRI-D
- Advanced Seminar with Gabriella Safran (Classroom 102)
- International Association of Teachers of Czech Meeting (Classroom 104)
- Graduate Student Committee Meeting (Classroom 103)
- Presidential Memorial Panel for Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Salon D)
- 7:00pm-9:00pm
- President's Reception and Awards Ceremony Co-Sponsored by the University of Texas-Austin Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies (Courtyard; if rain, Tejas)
- 9:00pm-11:00pm
- Graduate Student Reception, featuring Baba Muzhik and Bobok (Courtyard; if rain, Tejas)
- Location:
- Classroom 102
- Organizer:
- Veta Chitnev, The University of British Columbia
- Chair:
- Jane F. Jane, The University of Utah
- Discussants:
- Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto
- Katya Nemtchinova, Seattle Pacific University
- Veta Chitnev, The University of British Columbia
- Location:
- Salon E
- Organizer:
- Anne Burke, Stanford University
- Chair:
- D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania
- Panelist:
- Ani Kokobobo, University of Kansas
- Title:
- Vassily Grossman and the Legacy of the Holocaust
- Panelist:
- Ruth Averbach, Stanford University
- Title:
- Soviet Yiddish Literary Criticism, 1917-1937: Language, Identity, and Ideology
- Panelist:
- Brett Roark Winestock, Stanford University
- Title:
- Linguistic, Religious, and Self Translation in Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Daniel’ Shtain, perevodchik
- Discussants:
- Sara Feldman, Harvard University
- Location:
- Classroom 103
- Organizer:
- Ekaterina Turta, University of Pittsburgh
- Chair:
- Valleri Robinson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Panelist:
- Jenya Mironava, Harvard University
- Title:
- The Work of Intertextuality against Forgetting in Remizov’s 1917 “Orison on the Downfall of the Russian Landâ€
- Panelist:
- Marilyn Schwinn Smith, Five Colleges, Inc
- Title:
- Remizov's Bicou: Dolmens on Russian Soil
- Discussants:
- Irina Anisimova, Florida State University
- Location:
- Salon A
- Chair:
- Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia
- Panelist:
- Amy Lauters, University of Kansas
- Title:
- “From Text to Image: Petr Boklevskii’s Portraits in Gogol’s Dead Soulsâ€
- Panelist:
- Anna Kovalchuk, University of Oregon
- Title:
- Gogol’s Taras Bulba: Cossack Geographies and the Russian Nation
- Panelist:
- Tatiana Melnikova, The Ohio State University
- Title:
- Indeterminacy in “Schtoss†and “Klara MIlich"
- Panelist:
- Greg Ormiston
- Title:
- Pechorin, Bazarov, and the Evolution of the Russian Atheist Hero
- Location:
- Salon B
- Chair:
- Tim Langen, University of Missouri
- Panelist:
- Nicole Svobodny, Washington University
- Title:
- More than Fig Leaves and Mad Leaps: Nijinsky in Nabokov's Lolita
- Panelist:
- Natalia Dame, University of Southern California
- Title:
- Embracing the Feminine or In Search of Lost Childhood in Nabokov's "Lolita"
- Panelist:
- Sarah Chao, The University of Kansas
- Title:
- “Today I Wrote [Some]thingâ€: Narrative Co-construction and the Kharmsian Genre
- Panelist:
- Anna Dvigubski, United Nations
- Title:
- The Third-Person Self: Images of Authorship in Kharms and Zoschenko
- Location:
- Classroom 107
- Organizer:
- Jennie Wojtusik, University of Texas at Austin
- Chair:
- Michael A. Pesenson, University of Texas at Austin
- Panelist:
- Jason Roberts, University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- "An Imagination Possessed: The Obstacle of Western Assumptions to Readings of Eastern Demons"
- Panelist:
- Jennie Wojtusik, University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- Western Self-Interest and Eastern Obligation: Alyosha Karamazov as the Modern Monk
- Panelist:
- Lindsay Shupala, University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- The Fluidity of Foolishness in Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair
- Discussants:
- Yekaterina Cotey, UT Austin
- Location:
- Salon D
- Chair:
- Jason Merrill, Michigan State University
- Panelist:
- Agnieszka Jezyk, University of Toronto
- Title:
- Fashion and Self-Fashioning in “Diary 1954†by Leopold Tyrmand and “Beautiful Twentysomethings†by Marek Hlasko
- Panelist:
- Amanda Allan, Northwestern University
- Title:
- Sons of the Regiment: From Heroes to Victims
- Panelist:
- Stephanie Porter, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Title:
- A Russian in Germany and a German in Russia: Trauma and Memory in the Work of Svetlana Geier and Olga Berggolts
- Panelist:
- Stoyan Tchaprazov, Iowa State University
- Title:
- Coldblooded, Greedy Executioners: The Gypsies of Ivo Andrić’s The Bridge on the Drina
- Location:
- Classroom 108
- Organizer:
- Charles Wukasch, Austin Community College
- Chair:
- Lonny Harrison, University of Texas at Austin
- Panelist:
- Karen Chilstrom
- Title:
- A Nation in Transition: The Fate of the Russian Language in Ukraine.
- Panelist:
- Wayles Browne, Cornell University
- Title:
- The Rusin Standard Language in Serbia and Croatia and the Rusyn Standard Language in Slovakia.
- Panelist:
- Maggie Harrison, Brown University
- Title:
- Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization – the Cultural Renaissance of Kashubian.
- Location:
- Classroom 103
- Organizer:
- Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles
- Chair:
- Masako Fidler, Brown University
- Panelist:
- Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University
- Title:
- Polish Culture in Lesson 0
- Panelist:
- Georgiana Galateanu, University of California Los Angeles
- Title:
- Linguistic and Methodological Uses of Textbook Visuals
- Panelist:
- Inchon Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- Title:
- The New Curriculum for Czech-based Job Training (Internship) in Multinational Companies in Czech Republic
- Panelist:
- Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles
- Title:
- LCTL Enrollments and Heritage Pipelines
- Panelist:
- Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta
- Title:
- Beginners' Ukrainian at the University of Alberta: The Blended-learning Model
- Panelist:
- Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago
- Title:
- Learning to Write: Genre-Based Writing Projects in Beginning and Intermediate Polish
- Panelist:
- Martin Votruba, University of Pittsburgh
- Title:
- Social and Topical Context of the Slovak Studies Program at the U. of Pittsburgh
- Panelist:
- SUNBEE YU, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- Title:
- Teaching ÄŒapek's Drama: Language, History and Culture
- Panelist:
- Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles
- Title:
- Benefits of Current Events-Based Curriculum for Advanced BCS Classes
- Panelist:
- Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago
- Title:
- What to Do When Intermediate Czech is Elementary Czech Redux
- Location:
- Classroom 104
- Organizer:
- Leslie O'Bell, University of Texas at Austin
- Chair:
- Yekaterina Cotey, UT Austin
- Panelist:
- Leslie O'Bell, University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- "Chudnaia kartinaâ€: Wanderers’ Night-songs, East and Westâ€
- Panelist:
- John Barnstead, Dalhousie University
- Title:
- "Fet's Catullus"
- Panelist:
- Zachary Rewinski, College of Wooster
- Title:
- "Fet and Pasternak as Nature Poets"
- Location:
- Salon E
- Organizer:
- Irina Anisimova, Florida State University
- Chair:
- Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University
- Panelist:
- Beach Gray, University of Pittsburgh
- Title:
- New Year's Trees: Empire and Commercial Cinema in Putin's Russia
- Panelist:
- Irina Anisimova, Florida State University
- Title:
- “E†for Empire: Sochi Olympics Opening Video
- Panelist:
- Pavel Khazanov, Rutgers University
- Title:
- The Technicolor Empire and the Aesthetics of Putinism in the Works of Leonid Parfenov, Boris Akunin and Nikita Mikhalkov
- Discussants:
- Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh
- Location:
- Classroom 108
- Organizer:
- Mark Hopkins, Bard College at Simon's Rock
- Chair:
- Rachel Stauffer, Virginia Tech
- Panelist:
- Marina Alexandrova, University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- Bringing Buddhism to Russia: Madame Blavatsky’s In the Caves and Jungles of Hindustan
- Panelist:
- Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College
- Title:
- Ivan Franko as a Liminal Figure on the Crossroads of Cultures and Ideologies
- Panelist:
- Mark Hopkins, Bard College at Simon's Rock
- Title:
- The Temple Builders: Buddhist Advaya and Nonduality in the Work of Otokar Březina
- Panelist:
- Alexei Bogdanov, University of Colorado - Boulder
- Title:
- Daniil Andreev and Buddhism
- Location:
- Classroom 102
- Organizer:
- Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
- Chair:
- Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
- Panelist:
- Julie Buckler, Harvard University
- Title:
- Russian Imperial Artifacts in Transit: Russianness as a Foreign Import
- Panelist:
- Irina Kogel, Boston University
- Title:
- Virginia Woolf’s ‘Russian Novel’: Touchstone and Stepping-stone
- Panelist:
- Jessie Labov, The Ohio State University
- Title:
- Amplification and Distortion: How we have learned to be heard across borders
- Location:
- Salon D
- Organizer:
- Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College
- Chair:
- Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College
- Discussants:
- Alexander Groce, American University
- Elena Rodina, Northwestern University
- Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University
- Location:
- Salon A
- Organizer:
- Justin Trifiro, University of Southern California
- Chair:
- Justin Trifiro, University of Southern California
- Panelist:
- Lonny Harrison, University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- The Suffering Games: De Quincean Prodigality and Self-Production in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Igrok
- Panelist:
- Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis
- Title:
- Between Humility and Humiliation: Love as Freedom and Love as Addiction in Dostoevsky
- Discussants:
- Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University
- Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto
- Location:
- Classroom 102
- Chair:
- Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles
- Discussants:
- George Fowler, Slavica Publishers; and Indiana University
- Steven Franks, Indiana University
- Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles
- Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, University of Oregon
- Location:
- Classroom 107
- Organizer:
- Lynne deBenedette, Brown University
- Chair:
- Alla Smyslova, Columbia University
- Panelists:
- Cori Anderson, Rutgers University
- Evgenia Wilkins, University of Texas at Austin
- Larry McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Megan Luttrell, University of Kansas
- Discussants:
- William J. Comer, Portland State University
- Lynne deBenedette, Brown University
- Location:
- Salon A
- Organizer:
- Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona
- Chair:
- Melissa Miller, Colby College
- Panelist:
- Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Title:
- Oral History, the National Standards, Significant Learning, and the Liberal Arts
- Panelist:
- Benjamin Jens, The University of Arizona
- Title:
- Oral History: Logistics of Community Engagement
- Panelist:
- Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona
- Title:
- Oral History: Learning Outcomes
- Discussants:
- Jason Merrill, Michigan State University
- Location:
- Classroom 108
- Organizer:
- Anne Burke, Stanford University
- Chair:
- Gabriella Safran, Stanford University
- Panelist:
- Anne Burke, Stanford University
- Title:
- Between Freedom and Constraint: Navigating Identity Through Language in Pionery and Piatero
- Panelist:
- Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University
- Title:
- Creating Resistance: Vasilii Aksenov, Stiliagi, and the Dilemma of Self-Interpretation
- Panelist:
- antje postema, University of California, Berkeley
- Title:
- Diasporic Fiction, Transnational Selves: Ex-Yugoslav Authors Beyond the Region and in Translation
- Location:
- Salon E
- Organizer:
- Jack J B Hutchens, University of Florida
- Chair:
- George Gasyna, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Panelist:
- Jack J B Hutchens, University of Florida
- Title:
- “The Jew, the Queer, the Antichrist: Criminal Identities in Nasierowski’s Ty Trilogyâ€
- Panelist:
- Jodi Greig, University of Michigan
- Title:
- “Historical Encounters of the Queer Kindâ€
- Panelist:
- Diana Sacilowski, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Title:
- “Wounded Selves: Trauma and Identity in Magdalena Tulli’s WÅ‚oskie szpilkiâ€
- Discussants:
- George Gasyna, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Location:
- Salon B
- Chair:
- Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College
- Panelist:
- Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University
- Title:
- Actors Versus Machines: Tairov's The Man Who Was Thursday and Polemics With Meyerhold
- Panelist:
- Tim Langen, University of Missouri
- Title:
- Krzhizhanovsky's Negatives
- Panelist:
- Inna Munroe, University of California Los Angeles
- Title:
- Personhood in Andrei Platonov’s Literary World
- Location:
- Classroom 104
- Organizer:
- Caroline Lemak Brickman, University of California, Berkeley
- Chair:
- Lyubov Golburt, University of California, Berkeley
- Panelist:
- Caroline Lemak Brickman, University of California, Berkeley
- Title:
- Rhyme as Reason in Fanailova's Poetics
- Panelist:
- Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College
- Title:
- At Home / Abroad: Technologies of Feeling and Memory in Khodasevich's Emigré Works
- Location:
- Salon D
- Chair:
- Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame
- Panelist:
- Piotr Axer, Brown University
- Title:
- Kant and Romantic Self-Fashioning in "Evgenii Onegin"
- Panelist:
- Dominick Lawton, Stanford University
- Title:
- Bringing It All Back Home: Pushkin, Tatiana, and the Problem of Mediation
- Panelist:
- Valleri Robinson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Title:
- The Time of Troubles and Conservative National Ideology in the Early 19th Century Russian Drama
- Panelist:
- Miroslava Nikolova, Bowdoin College
- Title:
- Like a Wine Cellar without a Corkscrew: Failing Modes of Communication in Chekhov’s Ivanov
- Location:
- Classroom 103
- Organizer:
- Volha Seliazniova, University of Southern California
- Chair:
- Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois Chicago
- Panelist:
- Volha Seliazniova, University of Southern California
- Title:
- There Isn’t Any Child: Functional Innocence and Coming-of-Age in Odoevtseva’s The Angel of Death
- Panelist:
- Yelena Zotova, The Pennsylvania State University
- Title:
- Daughter, Daughter, Why Did You Leave Me? The Loss of a Child and the Crisis of Answerability in Konstantin Vaginov’s Bambocciada
- Panelist:
- Anton Svynarenko, University of Illinois Chicago
- Title:
- Noli me tangere, for Queer I Am: Time and Sex in Leonid Dobychin's The Town of N
- Discussants:
- Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California
- Location:
- Salon D
- Chair:
- Carol R. Ueland, Drew University
- Discussants:
- Emily D. Johnson, University of Oklahoma
- Irina Reyfman, Columbia University
- Jamey Gambrell, Independent Scholar/Translator
- Katerina Clark, Yale University
- Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Russian Union of Journalists
- Location:
- Classroom 108
- Chair:
- Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College
- Panelist:
- Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University
- Title:
- Tsvetaeva’s “Don Juan†Cycle: Dialogue with Pushkin and Blok
- Panelist:
- Christopher W. Lemelin, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
- Title:
- Displacing the Departed: Tsvetaeva’s Elegiac Refashioning of Mayakovsky
- Panelist:
- Elise Thorsen
- Title:
- Classical Allusions and the Specter of Empire in Vladimir Maiakovskii’s Pro eto
- Location:
- Salon E
- Organizer:
- Susanna Weygandt, Princeton University
- Chair:
- Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College
- Discussants:
- Graham Schmidt
- Maksim Hanukai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Manon van de Water, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Susanna Weygandt, Princeton University
- Yury Urnov
- Location:
- Classroom 107
- Chair:
- Jennie Wojtusik, University of Texas at Austin
- Panelist:
- Soelve Curdts, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- Title:
- ‘Borodino is the word that comes to me in my sleep’: Coetzee reads Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
- Panelist:
- Rebecca Bostock-Holtzman, The Ohio State University
- Title:
- Chronic Issues: Spatial/Temporal Manipulation in The Death of Ivan Ilych
- Panelist:
- Michael Marsh-Soloway, University of Virginia
- Title:
- Dostoevsky and the Natural Philosophy of Classical Antiquity
- Panelist:
- Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College
- Title:
- The Higher Stakes
- Location:
- Salon A
- Chair:
- Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Panelist:
- Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, University of Ljubljana Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Title:
- THE WANDERING JEW IN SLOVENIAN LITERATURE WITHIN THE EUROPEAN LITERARY CONTEXT
- Panelist:
- Hui Andy Zhang, Northwestern University
- Title:
- The Conception of "Chinese Threat" in the Eschatological Imagination of Leontiev and Solovyov
- Location:
- Salon B
- Organizer:
- Irina Kogel, Boston University
- Chair:
- Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia
- Panelist:
- Irina Kogel, Boston University
- Title:
- Approaching Russian Cultural Competence and Listening Comprehension Through Video Interviews
- Panelist:
- Alex Spektor, The University of Georgia, Athens
- Title:
- Teaching Russian Literature and Language with Digital Technologies
- Discussants:
- Elisabeth M. Elliott, Northwestern University
- Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona
January 8, 2016, 8:00-10:00am
FRI-A-1 Roundtable: Assessment in the Russian Language Classroom, Theory and Practice
FRI-A-2 Panel: Identity in Translation: The Legacy of Jewish Writers in a Multilingual Russia
FRI-A-3 Panel: Intercultural Dialogue across Space and Time: The Case of Remizov
FRI-A-4 : Texts and Contexts: Gogol and Turgenev
FRI-A-5 : Texts and Contexts: Nabokov and Kharms
FRI-A-6 Panel: Deconstructing Archetypes: The Discursive Space of Demons, Fools and Monks
FRI-A-7 : Everyday Life Under Socialism
FRI-A-8 Panel: Slavic Minority Language Issues in Contemporary Europe
January 8, 2016, 10:30am-12:15pm
FRI-B-1 : Teaching Less Commonly Taught Slavic Languages
FRI-B-2 Panel: The Poetic World of Afanasy Fet
FRI-B-3 Panel: Empire and Postmodernism
FRI-B-4 Panel: Buddhism in Slavic Literature 1850-1950
FRI-B-5 Panel: Culture in/ as Circulation I
FRI-B-6 Roundtable: Decoding the Building Blocks of the Russian Media Landscape
FRI-B-7 Panel: Dostoevsky and Addiction
January 8, 2016, 1:45-3:30pm
FRI-C-1 : Presidential Panel: In Memoriam Charles Townsend
FRI-C-2 Forum: Using Между нами (Mezhdu nami): Benefits, Challenges, Outcomes
FRI-C-3 Panel: Oral History in the Russian Language Curriculum
FRI-C-4 Panel: Shifting Paradigms of Identity and Belonging: Language, Resistance, and Self-Discovery
FRI-C-5 Panel: Writing Marginalized Identities: Minority Polish Literature in the Post-Socialist Period
FRI-C-6 : Early Soviet Art, Theater, and Literature
FRI-C-7 Panel: Thinking/Feeling Lyric
FRI-C-8 : Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Drama
FRI-C-9 Panel: Figurations of the Child in Russian Modernism
January 8, 2016, 4:30-6:30pm
FRI-D-1 Roundtable: Presidential Panel: In Memoriam Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy: Teaching, Scholarship and Impact on Slavic Studies
FRI-D-2 : Tsvetaeva and Maiakovskii
FRI-D-3 Roundtable: Russian New Drama as Social Critique
FRI-D-4 : Texts and Contexts: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
FRI-D-5 : Religious, Philosophical, and Scientific Approaches to Slavic Culture
FRI-D-6 Panel: Perspectives on Technology in the Russian Language and Literature Classroom
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