2018 Conference Program:

February 2, 2018, 8:00-10:00am

Session 1-1 Panel: Pathways to Advanced-Level Proficiency in Russian Media Courses

Location:

Declaration A

Organizer:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

Panelist:

Larisa Moskvitina, Davidson College

Title:

Linguistic and Methodological Foundations for Work with Journalistic Texts in the Russian as a Foreign Language Classroom

Panelist:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Listen Up! Scaffolding Listening and Discussion Activities in an Advanced Russian Media Course

Panelist:

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

See It My Way: Using Global Debate to Train Advanced Proficiency in Russian

Panelist:

Richard Robin, George Washington University

Title:

Developing Listening Comprehension through Targeted Captions in Russian Media Clips

Session 1-2 : Stream 2A: Nabokov (I)

Location:

Banneker

Chair:

Matthew Walker, Middlebury College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

The Poetics of Frigidity: on Transparent Things

Panelist:

Brendan J. Nieubuurt, University of Michigan

Title:

Grin and Bare It: Teeth and the Risks of Narration in Nabokov and his Fiction

Panelist:

Rusina Volkova, Independent Scholar

Title:

Dead Souls in Nabokov’s Pnin

Discussants:

Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee

Session 1-3 : Stream 3A: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory (I)

Location:

Declaration B

Chair:

Anna Berman, McGill University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sara Ceilidh Orr, Willamette University

Title:

“Zachem eto u nas ne odinakovyi pocherk?”: Imitation and alienation in Dostoevsky’s copyist fiction

Panelist:

Daniel Green, University of Cambridge

Title:

Mimesis, Metonymy, and Metaphor in Clothing in Gogol’s Petersburg Tales

Panelist:

Tim Langen, University of Missouri

Title:

From Realism to Realiorism: Early twentieth-century views of Gogolian mimesis

Discussants:

Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Session 1-4 : Stream 4A: Russian-Language Poetry in Transition (I): Media and Society in Transition

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Title:

Dmitry Golynko: Poetry as Monstrology

Panelist:

Ilya Kukulin, National Research University - Higher School of Ec

Title:

2010s' Generation in Contemporary Russian Poetry: Between Social Activism and Subversion of Imagination

Panelist:

Jacob Edmond, University of Otago

Title:

Repetition in Transition: The Samizdat Principle of Russian Digital Poetics

Panelist:

Dirk Uffelmann, University of Passau

Title:

Poetry vs. iRhetoric: Boris Khersonskii’s Facebook

Session 1-5 : Stream 5A: Character Archetypes in the Soviet Cinema of the Post-Thaw Era (I)

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Chair:

Kirsten Rutsala, Virginia Tech

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alexander Prokhorov, College of William and Mary

Title:

From the Soviet Cyborg to the Russian Woman: Rural Film Melodrama of the 1960s and 70s

Panelist:

Elena Prokhorova, College of William and Mary

Title:

Not By Love Alone: Professional Woman as Protagonist in Melodrama of the Early Brezhnev Era

Panelist:

Tatiana MIkhailova, Columbia University

Title:

An Apple from The Rotten Tree: Anti-Heroine in Averbakh's Other People’s Letters (1976)

Discussants:

Tom Roberts, Smith College

Session 1-7 Panel: Shifting Boundaries of Disciplines, Art, and Life in the Avant-Garde

Location:

Burnham

Organizer:

Anne Burke, Stanford University

Chair:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:

Bradley Goerne, Concordia University

Title:

Roman Jakobson's Intellectual Promiscuity

Panelist:

Anne Burke, Stanford University

Title:

Pragmatics and Velimir Khlebnikov’s Zangezi

Panelist:

Svetlana Tcareva, Yale University

Title:

Utopia and the Poetics of Hunger: A Reading of Mayakovsky, Kruchenykh, and Khlebnikov

Discussants:

Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California

Session 1-8 Panel: Gender, Politics and Performance - panel sponsored by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS)

Location:

Bulfinch

Organizer:

Hana Waisserova, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Chair:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Panelist:

Zala Pavšič, ZRC SAZU

Title:

Discourse of Friendship, Discourse of War and the Question of Gender: the Case of the Disintegration of Yugoslavia

Panelist:

Hana Waisserova, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Title:

Czech(oslovak) Women Dissidents as Pillars of Civic Society: Back Then and Now

Discussants:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Session 1-9 : 19th-Century Russian Literature: Texts and Contexts

Location:

Latrobe

Chair:

Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elena Baraban, University of Manitoba

Title:

“Old World Landowners” by Nikolai Gogol and the Decline of Ukrainian Autonomy under Catherine the Great.

Panelist:

Vera Senina, Columbia University

Title:

Narrative Frames, Observation, and Mind-Reading in Gogol's Short Stories

Panelist:

Claire Whitehead, University of St Andrews

Title:

Secular and Divine Justice: The Representation and Function of Religion in Early Russian Crime Fiction

Panelist:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Title:

Redefining Emancipation: Chernyshevsky’s Feminist Critique of Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Session 1-10 Roundtable: The Present and Future of Online\Hybrid Instruction in Russian and East European Studies: Perspectives from Language and Literature Tracks.

Location:

Tiber Creek B

Organizer:

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Chair:

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Discussants:

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Beata Gallaher, Independent Scholar

Peter Kaufman, Read Russia Inc.

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles

Session 1-11 : On the Job Market: Survival Techniques for Grad Students (Organized by the AATSEEL Graduate Student Committee)

Location:

Renwick

Chair:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Katherine Reischl, Princeton University

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University

February 2, 2018, 10:15am-12:00pm

Session 2-1 : Steam 1A: Lower-level language instruction: issues, strategies, techniques

Location:

Declaration A

Chair:

Katya Nemtchinova, Seattle Pacific University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Joan Chevalier, United States Naval Academy

Title:

Content-Based Instruction for Lower-Level Students?

Panelist:

Veta Chitnev, The University of British Columbia

Title:

Feminist pedagogy and assessment in the elementary Russian language classroom

Panelist:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Title:

Using Snapchat at the Elementary Level to Practice Vocabulary and Grammar

Panelist:

Tatiana Hamlet

Title:

Using Games in the Elementary Russia Class

Session 2-2 : Stream 2A: Nabokov (II)

Location:

Banneker

Chair:

Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Luke Parker, Amherst College

Title:

Sons of Rul’: Vladimir Nabokov and Georgy Gessen on 1920s Film

Panelist:

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University

Title:

Creating the Conditions of their Own Reception: Mimesis and Transmissibility in Nabokov and Benjamin

Discussants:

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Session 2-3 : Stream 3A: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory (II)

Location:

Declaration B

Chair:

Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anne Eakin Moss, University of Chicago

Title:

Mimetic Intersubjectivity in Chekhov and Gorky

Panelist:

Donna Oliver, Beloit College

Title:

Turgenev’s Heirs in Chekhov’s World: Characters Reading Characters

Panelist:

Tom Roberts, Smith College

Title:

Discourse Twice-Removed: Mimesis and Frame Technology in Leskov's Na kraiu sveta

Discussants:

Carol Apollonio, Duke University

Session 2-4 : Stream 4A: Russian-Language Poetry in Transition (II): Poetics in Transition

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Henrieke Stahl-Schwaetzer, Universität Trier

Title:

Typology of Subject in Contemporary Russian Poetry

Panelist:

Mikhail Pavlovets

Title:

Экспериментальная "метапоэтология" в поисках новых форм современной русскоязычной поэзии

Panelist:

Eva Rottmann, Konstanz University

Title:

Maria Stepanova's Songs of Love and Love Lost: A Reading of '20 sonetov k M

Session 2-5 : Stream 5A: Character Archetypes in the Soviet Cinema of the Post-Thaw Era (II)

Location:

Penn Quarter B

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Considerations on Soviet Women’s Cinema: Lana Gogoberidze’s A Few Interviews on Personal Matters (Neskol’ko interv’iu po lichnym voprosam, 1978)

Panelist:

Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

A Compromised Hero: Aleksei German, Sr.’s My Friend Ivan Lapshin and its Bridge to the Past

Panelist:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

The Bad Good Man on the Soviet Screen of the 70s and 80s

Discussants:

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Session 2-6 : Stream 6A: Corpora in Linguistic Research and Language Teaching (I): Corpora as a Tool for Analyzing and Teaching Constructions and Collocations

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Chair:

Elena Shmeleva

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University and Anna Zalizniak, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Title:

Russian А Viewed through the Prism of Parallel Corpora

Panelist:

Ludmila Pöppel, Stockholm University and Dmitrij Dobrovolskij, Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Stockholm University

Title:

Near-synonymous Russian constructions in parallel corpora and language teaching

Panelist:

Mikhail Kopotev, University of Helsinki

Title:

CoCoCo: a new tool for teaching Russian word combinations

Session 2-7 : Polish Literature and Culture

Location:

Latrobe

Chair:

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Agnieszka Gutthy, Southeastern Louisiana University

Title:

The unknown Norwid

Panelist:

Lukasz Sicinski, Indiana University

Title:

Depths of Existential Shallowness: Tadeusz Różewicz and the Meaningless

Panelist:

Alexander Lindskog, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

Maintaining Unity-in-Plurality: Toward a Reading of Witkacy's Theory of Subjectivity

Panelist:

Justyna Zych, University of Warsaw

Title:

Warsaw as a Window to Polish Culture

Session 2-8 Roundtable: Strategies for Teaching Literature, Culture, and Film in Translation

Location:

Tiber Creek B

Organizer:

Jonathan Stone, Franklin & Marshall College

Chair:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Discussants:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont

Richard Robin, George Washington University

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Session 2-9 Panel: Graduate Student Committee Invitational Panel: Enthusiasm for the Word: Literary Creation from the Bolsheviks to Post-Soviet Market

Location:

Renwick

Organizer:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Chair:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Panelist:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

Title:

Revolutionary Enthusiasm and the Dialectics of Skaz

Panelist:

Anastasiya Osipova, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title:

Tragedy and Tragic Forms in the Soviet Union of the 1930s"

Panelist:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Title:

Бестселлер: The History of a Russian Word”

Discussants:

Elena Fratto, Princeton University

Session 2-10 : Post-Soviet Literature

Location:

Bulfinch

Chair:

Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Гамлет. Версия': Russia as Hamlet in the 21st Century

Panelist:

Mariia Gorshkova, Stanford University

Title:

Continuity and Change in Tatiana Tolstaya's Prose: From Print to Facebook

Panelist:

Julia Gerhard, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title:

Living the Dream: Anna Starobinets’ The Living as the Cyberpunk Novel

Discussants:

Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University

Session 2-11 : Language Teaching Challenges and Strategies

Location:

Burnham

Chair:

Rachel Stauffer, Virginia Tech

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Six, University of Kansas

Title:

Why Can’t We Teach Verbs of Motion?

Panelist:

Svetlana Sokolova, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Title:

TOP-Russian: Towards a Tutorial On Russian Aspectual Prefixes

Panelist:

Maia Solovieva, Oberlin College

Title:

Verbs of Motion in the 'Flipped Classroom': Benefits and Challenges

Panelist:

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia

Title:

The interrelationship between language and thought in processing motion: What eye movements can show us

February 2, 2018, 1:30-3:30pm

Session 3-1 : Advanced Seminar with Laura Janda

Location:

Declaration A

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Laura A. Janda, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Title:

TWIRRLL Workshop: Targeting Word forms In Research-based Russian Language Learning

Session 3-2 : Stream 2A: Nabokov (III)

Location:

Banneker

Chair:

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee

Title:

“Memory and material in "Sounds," "The Circle," and "Lantern Slides": Three transforming images

Panelist:

Elizabeth Geballe, Indiana University

Title:

Nabokov's Sideshow

Panelist:

Erika Knowles, University of Tennessee

Title:

War and Peace in 1914: Nabokov's 'Sounds

Discussants:

Luke Parker, Amherst College

Session 3-3 : Stream 3A: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory (III)

Location:

Declaration B

Chair:

Molly Brunson, Yale University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame

Title:

Emotional Truth vs. Emotional Authenticity: The Decembrists and Pushkin Debate Affective Realism

Panelist:

Robert Bird, University of Chicago

Title:

Positive Mimesis

Panelist:

Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon University

Title:

The Uncertain Artist in Anna Karenina

Discussants:

Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon University

Session 3-4 : Stream 4A: Russian-Language Poetry in Transition (III): Signifying and Resisting Transition

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Henrieke Stahl-Schwaetzer, Universität Trier

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Thomas Epstein, Boston College

Title:

Resisting Poetry: the Case of Alexander Skidan

Panelist:

Rainer Grübel, University of Oldenburg

Title:

Poetry as dream and dreams in the poetry of Gennadij Ajgi

Panelist:

Nataliya Karageorgos, Wesleyan University

Title:

From Seraphim to Signifiers: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s Metapoetic Gestures in 1985

Panelist:

Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

Title:

The Poet’s Freedom: Olga Sedakova

Session 3-5 Roundtable: Publishing Ukrainan Literature and Scholarship in Translation

Location:

Tiber Creek B

Organizer:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Chair:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Discussants:

Lada Kolomiyets

Maxim Tarnawsky, University of Toronto

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Oleh Kotsyuba, Harvard University

Svitlana Krys, MacEwan University

Session 3-6 : Stream 6A: Corpora in Linguistic Research and Language Teaching (II)

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Chair:

Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ekaterina Schnittke, National Research University, Higher School of Economics

Title:

Sequence of Tenses in Russian? A Corpus-based Study of Tense Choice in Complement Clauses

Panelist:

Alina Urazbekova

Panelist:

Valentina Apresyan, Nazarbayev University

Title:

Russian syntactic phrasemes with reduplication: a corpus study

Session 3-7 Roundtable: Imagining Automata in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

Location:

Latrobe

Organizer:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Discussants:

Alexandar Mihailovic, Bennington College

Dragan Kujundzic, University of Florida

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Mikhail Gronas, Dartmouth College

Session 3-8 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Masako Fidler, Brown University

Panelist:

Aleksandar Boskovic, Columbia University

Title:

Emojination: using pictographs in teaching BCS speaking skills

Panelist:

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

Blending 101: Suggestions for online activities and assessments

Panelist:

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles and Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles and Melinda Borbely, University of California Los Angeles and Georgiana Galateanu, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Promoting Slavic and East European languages through collaborative course design

Panelist:

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Title:

DeNTaL, PTaK, ERFV!: Mnemonics in the Polish-Language Classroom

Panelist:

David Danaher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Film-Texts as Teaching Aids in Second through Fourth Semester Czech

Panelist:

Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University

Title:

Readings with Idioms in the Third Year Polish Language Class

Panelist:

Christopher Harwood, Columbia University

Title:

Interactive Internet Resources for Practical Tasks in Czech

Panelist:

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Reality Czech Interviews – Unscripted Content as Models for Developing Proficiency

Panelist:

Agnieszka Jezyk, University of Toronto

Title:

Mapping San Escobar: Polish Current Affairs in the Language Classroom in the Times of Global Media

Panelist:

Ewa Maria Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan

Title:

Do They Really Think this Way?! Dealing with Different Cultural Values in the Foreign Language Classroom

Panelist:

Marija Rosic, University of Michigan

Title:

Teaching the Balkan Culture in B/C/S classes

Session 3-9 Panel: Fictionalizing the Woman Poet in Literature, Theater, and Film

Location:

Burnham

Organizer:

Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University

Chair:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Panelist:

Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University

Title:

Upstaging the Woman Poet: Leonid Grossman’s Vtornik u Karoliny Pavlovoi

Panelist:

Monika Greenleaf, Stanford University

Title:

"Voice and Voice-Over: How Tsvetaeva and Szymborska's Poems Sound and Behave in Russian and Polish Song and Film"

Panelist:

Olga Partan, College of the Holy Cross

Title:

"Mirrors": A Portrayal of Marina Tsvetaeva on the Post-Soviet Screen

Discussants:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Session 3-10 : Linguistics 1

Location:

Bulfinch

Chair:

George Fowler, Slavica Publishers; and Indiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ronelle Alexander, Univ of California - Berkeley

Title:

Demystifying Bulgarian Dialectology

Panelist:

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

Diglossia in Polish Heritage Speakers

Panelist:

Christina Y. Bethin, Stony Brook University

Title:

Stress and Gender in Belarusian Nouns

February 2, 2018, 4:30-6:30pm

Session 4-1 Roundtable: In Memoriam: Emilia Pavlovna Hramova

Location:

Banneker

Organizer:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Chair:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Session 4-2 Panel: Universal Linguistic Microcosms? Artificial Languages in Czech Literature

Location:

Declaration A

Organizer:

Laura A. Janda, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Chair:

David Danaher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist:

Masako Fidler, Brown University and Vaclav Cvrcek, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Title:

Ptydepe and Chorukor: Artificial languages and socialist discourse

Panelist:

Laura A. Janda, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Title:

Constructing Linguistic Reality: The Yggur Language

Panelist:

Andrei Rogatchevski, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Title:

A FICTIONAL LANGUAGE IN FICTION: THE CASE OF YGGURŠTINA

Discussants:

Michal Ajvaz

Session 4-3 Roundtable: Mastering Language Skills through Play in the Classroom

Location:

Tiber Creek B

Organizer:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Chair:

Megan Luttrell, University of Kansas

Discussants:

Albina Khabibulina, Vanderbilt University

Amber Aulen, University of Toronto

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Veta Chitnev, The University of British Columbia

Session 4-4 : Russian and East European Cinema

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Chair:

Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Robert Efird, Virginia Tech

Title:

The Image as Chiasm: Reconsidering Time in Ivan's Childhood and Solaris

Panelist:

Kirsten Rutsala, Virginia Tech

Title:

Families Lost and Found: Orphans and Orphanhood in Zviagintsev’s Vozvrashchenie and Kravchuk’s Italianets

Panelist:

Anastasia Gordienko, The University of Arizona

Title:

Agency of Objects in Selected Roman Polanski’s Films

Session 4-5 : Performances and Performers in Russian and Polish Literature

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Kentucky

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

Title:

Body and Object: The Phenomenology of Set Design in Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theater (1912)

Panelist:

Victoria Kononova, Lawrence University

Title:

“True Berendeevshchina” on Stage: Konstantin Stanislavsky Produces Ostrovsky’s The Snow-Maiden

Panelist:

Aleksandra Kremer, Harvard University

Title:

Polish Poetry in Performance

Discussants:

Andrzej Brylak, University of Southern California

Session 4-6 : Art Under Duress: War, Death, and Trauma in Slavic Culture

Location:

Burnham

Chair:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Daniel Bush, Stanford University

Title:

"Setting the Record Straight": Lieutenants' Prose and Mimetic Adequacy in Representations of the Second World War

Panelist:

Natalia Vygovskaia, Brown University

Title:

Social Cataclysm through the Doctor’s Eyes: Vikenty Veresaev ‘’V tupike” – as the Diagnostic Narrative

Panelist:

Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Title:

The Influence of Slavic Conceptions of the Afterlife and Death on The Belief in the Undead in Slavic Culture

Session 4-7 Roundtable: Promoting “Advanced” to “Superior” language acquisition: Flagship best practices

Location:

Latrobe

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Discussants:

Anna Alsufieva, Portland State University

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Session 4-8 Panel: Association for Women in Slavic Studies - Sponsored Panel: Gender and Language in Eastern Europe

Location:

Declaration B

Organizer:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Chair:

Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University

Panelist:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Title:

Redefining Emancipation: Chernyshevsky’s Feminist Critique of Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Panelist:

Lenora Murphy, Bucknell University

Title:

Why We Talk: Using Language to Navigate Reality in Moscow Chorus

Panelist:

Mateusz Swietlicki, University of Wroclaw

Title:

Be yourself… but don’t be a wimp! A Comparison of Contemporary Ukrainian Advice Literature for Girls and Boys

Discussants:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Session 4-9 Forum: Getting the Most from Video - Finding, Adapting and Delivering Content to Our Students

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Organizer:

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin