2022 Conference Program:

February 18, 2022, 8:00-10:00am

Session 1-1 : Stream 1A: Tolstoy

Location:

Independence A

Chair:

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Mattingly Gerasimovich, Northwestern University

Title:

Adapting Bifurcation: Anna Karenina and the Ethics of Active Participation

Panelist:

David Parker, Carnegie Mellon University

Title:

Combustion, Explosion, Equilibrium: Reading Anna Karenina Thermodynamically

Panelist:

Michael Denner, Tolstoy Studies Journal

Title:

Dusting off Tolstoy

Discussants:

Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University

Session 1-2 : Presidential Stream 2A: Othering and Authority in Slavic Studies, Panel I: Whose Theories? And What for?

Location:

Independence B

Chair:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University

Title:

The Anthropological Turn a Decade Later: Is This Enough for a Turn?

Panelist:

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Harvard University

Title:

Memory Studies Boom in Slavic Studies: Ukraine and Russia

Panelist:

Anastasiya Osipova, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title:

On the Russophone and the Russophobic

Session 1-3 Panel: Successful Practices for Teaching Culture in Context

Location:

Salon 3

Organizer:

Maria Bourlatskaya, University of Pennsylvania

Chair:

Djamilia Nazyrova, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:

Maria Alley, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Addressing the Diversity of Local Cultures in Russia

Panelist:

Maria Bourlatskaya, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Understanding Nation’s Identity Through the Study of Russian Song

Panelist:

Olena Chernishenko, American University

Title:

Developing Student Cultural Competence via Experiential Approach

Session 1-4 Roundtable: Learning by Doing in Intermediate and Advanced classroom

Location:

Salon 4

Organizer:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Chair:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Discussants:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marina Alexandrova, University of Texas at Austin

Oksana Willis, Bucknell University

Svitlana Malykhina, Boston University

Valeriya Kozlovskaya, Star Academy

Session 1-5 : New Research on Nabokov

Location:

Salon 5

Chair:

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine, Bucknell University

Title:

Nabokov’s “Friend” Pnin

Panelist:

Alexander Messejnikov, Indiana University Bloomington

Title:

Her Image Would Grow Immortal: Hyperreality and Visual Media in “The Return of Chorb”

Session 1-6 Roundtable: Digital Humanities: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation

Location:

Salon 10

Organizer:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Chair:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants:

Catherine Fantuzzo, University of Pennsylvania

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, Swarthmore College

Hilah Kohen, University of Pennsylvania

Lydia Shaw, Franklin and Marshall College

Olga Nechaeva, University of Pennsylvania

Scott Bartling

Session 1-7 : Preservation of Texts and Traditions

Location:

Salon 6

Chair:

Masako Fidler, Brown University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

David L. Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

The Text of the Czech Forged Manuscripts as a Product of Translation

Panelist:

Marie Stepanova, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova / Charles University in Prague

Title:

Ethnic Czechs in Argentina: Heritage, Language, and Culture 12,000 km Away from the Homeland of Their Ancestors

Session 1-8 Roundtable: Study Abroad 2022: Innovations in Overseas Language Immersion

Location:

Independence C

Organizer:

Kirsten Rutsala, Virginia Tech

Chair:

Robert Efird, Virginia Tech

Discussants:

Alyona Savelyeva

Carlotta Chenoweth, United States Military Academy

Kirsten Rutsala, Virginia Tech

Larisa Romancuk

Sergey Simonov, Learn Russian in the European Union

Tatiana Maslova, University of North Georgia

Session 1-9 Roundtable: Teaching Methods with an Eye towards Equity

Location:

Independence D

Organizer:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Chair:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Discussants:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Lauren Nelson, Pritzker College Prep

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

February 18, 2022, 10:15am-12:00pm

Session 2-1 : Stream 1B: Tolstoy

Location:

Independence A

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Olga Ovcharskaia, Stanford University

Title:

Between Statistics and Humanitarianism: the Case of Tolstoy and Chekhov

Panelist:

Megan Kennedy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Gendered Mentorship Dynamics as a Thematic Throughline in Tolstoy, Turgenev, and George Sand

Discussants:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

Session 2-2 : Presidential Stream 2B: Othering and Authority in Slavic Studies, Panel II: Authorities, Ideologies, and the Power of Belonging

Location:

Independence B

Chair:

Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Adam Leeds, Columbia University

Title:

The Collapse of the Nineteenth Century World and the Diremption of Cold War Modernity: Towards a De-provincialization of Political Theor

Panelist:

Siarhei Biareishyk, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Post-Revolutionary Thought in the Emancipatory and Political Discourses and the Authority of Slavic Studies

Panelist:

Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

On Slavophilic Queerness and Westernized Heteronormativity: Kharitonov's Under House Arrest and Vasilii Aksenov's The Island of Crimea

Panelist:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

Title:

Toward a New Internationalism in Slavic Studies

Discussants:

Lioudmila Fedorova, Georgetown University

Session 2-3 : Slavic Linguistics

Location:

Salon 3

Chair:

David L. Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

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

Title:

The mechanism of “zone-flooding”: Coverage of COVID and its (re)framing in anti-system media in the Czech Republic

Panelist:

James Lavine, Bucknell University

Title:

Pain Verbs and Case Assignment in Lithuanian

Session 2-4 Roundtable: Technologies Supporting Immersive Language Learning

Location:

Salon 4

Chair:

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University

Discussants:

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Session 2-5 Roundtable: Focus on Diversity: Language, Geography, Culture.

Location:

Salon 5

Organizer:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Chair:

Irina Poliakova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Discussants:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Morgan Lynch, Noble High School

Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Session 2-6 : Problems of Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Film

Location:

Salon 10

Chair:

Daria V. Ezerova, Columbia University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kirsten Rutsala, Virginia Tech

Title:

"I Didn't Want That Child": Recurring Patterns in Zviagintsev's Neliubov'

Panelist:

Natalia Sletova, University of Florida

Title:

Hopes for contemporary Russia in Yuriy Bykov’s filmography

Panelist:

Tetyana Shlikhar, University of Notre Dame

Title:

Creating Memories About Recent History: Memory Of The Russo-Ukrainian Contestation In The 21st C.

Panelist:

irina dzero, Kent State U

Title:

Putin at the Movies: Recent Russian Films Speak in Riddles and Parables

Session 2-7 : Boundary-Breaking in Soviet and post-Soviet Music

Location:

Salon 6

Chair:

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anastasia Gordienko, The University of Arizona

Title:

Emblematic Women-Criminals in Russian Criminal Ethos and Popular Music (Shanson)

Panelist:

Kaylin Land, McGill University

Title:

The Bard Songs of Soviet Space Engineer Chekhovsky

Panelist:

Karina McCorkle, University of California at Berkeley

Title:

"Круче Цветаевой, круче Ахматовой": Persona and Play in the Lyrics of Liza Monetochka

Session 2-8 Roundtable: The Early Turgenev: A Roundtable on the Conversations of a NYU 19v Group

Location:

Independence C

Organizer:

Jennifer Flaherty, University of Bologna

Discussants:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Walker Griggs, University of Southern California

Session 2-9 Panel: Modernist Transformations

Location:

Independence D

Organizer:

Kate Tomashevskaya, University of Southern California

Chair:

Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California

Panelist:

Victoria Buyanovskaya, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Overcoming Nature to Resurrect the Dead: Poetics of Metamorphoses in Mikhail Kuzmin’s The Trout Is Breaking Through the Ice (1927) As a Literary and Life-Creation Project

Panelist:

Marsel Khamitov, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Geometricizing the Modern(ist) Self: Paradoxes of Geometry in Andrey Bely’s Petersburg

Discussants:

Nina Gurianova, Northwestern University

Session 2-10 : Topics in Russian Grammar

Location:

Seminar A

Chair:

Anna Alsufieva, Portland State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Natalia V. Parker, University College London

Title:

The Role of Gender in the Acquisition of Russian Case

Panelist:

Maria Bondarenko, University of Montréal

Title:

Representation of Motion and Direction in Russian and non-Russian speakers: toward an alternative method of teaching Russian basic verbs of motion

Panelist:

Joan Chevalier, United States Naval Academy

Title:

A Corpus-Based Pedagogical Examination of “Vvodnye slova”

February 18, 2022, 1:30-3:30pm

Session 3-1 : Stream 3A: Russian Poetry and Poetics: Roundtable on Russian Stylistics and Poetics

Location:

Independence A

Chair:

Kamila Kocialkowska, University of Cambridge

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Veniamin Gushchin, Columbia University

Title:

"Voronezh - voron, nozh": From Western Stone to Slavic Root in Mandelstam’s Exilic Poetry

Panelist:

Adrian Wanner, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

Pushkin’s “Insomnia Poem” in the French Translations of Nabokov and Tsvetaeva

Panelist:

Timothy Sergay, UAlbany

Title:

Rhythm and Rhetoric: Vysotsky’s “Pesnia o druge” and the Logaoedic Aura of Simonov’s “Ubei ego!” for the Poetics and Stylistics panel of the "Russian Poetry and Poetics" Stream

Panelist:

Igor Pilshchikov, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

The Dolnik and Beyond: Russian Accentual Verse Revisited

Panelist:

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Title:

Hiatus as Device

Session 3-2 : Stream 4A: Language development and language pedagogy of Slavic languages: Focus on morphology

Location:

Independence B

Chair:

Anna Shkireva, University of Massachusetts

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Aleksey Novikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Development of Inflectional Morphology Across Program Levels

Panelist:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University and Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina

Title:

Orthographic errors in the writing of heritage learners of Russian

Panelist:

Albina Khabibulina, Vanderbilt University

Title:

Teaching L2 Russian Aktionsart verbs through instructor-learner collaborative interaction

Discussants:

Cynthia Martin, University of Maryland

Session 3-3 : Stream 5A: Neverending History: New Historical Cinema in Russia: Roundtable

Location:

Independence C

Chair:

Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University

Discussants:

Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh

Daria V. Ezerova, Columbia University

Session 3-4 Forum: Using Etazhi: Second Year Russian Language and Culture in the Intermediate Russian Classroom

Location:

Salon 10

Organizer:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Chair:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Panelists:

Evelina Mendelevich, New York University

Joan Chevalier, United States Naval Academy

Meredith Doubleday, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Svitlana Malykhina, Boston University

Valeriya Kozlovskaya, Star Academy

Session 3-5 Roundtable: Programmatic Articulation of Tutoring

Location:

Salon 5

Organizer:

Maria Shardakova, Indiana University Bloomington

Chair:

Maria Shardakova, Indiana University Bloomington

Discussants:

Ani Abrahamyan, Indiana University Bloomington

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Elena Grajinskaya, Indiana University Bloomington

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Harvard University

Sofiya Asher, Indiana University Bloomington

Session 3-6 Roundtable: Russian for STEM and Professional Purposes

Location:

Seminar A

Organizer:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair:

Alla Epsteyn, Wellesley College

Discussants:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Kentucky

Svetlana Abramova, University of Washington

Veronika Egorova, Harvard University

Session 3-8 Roundtable: Translating Poetry from the Balkans

Location:

Salon 4

Organizer:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Chair:

Ellen Elias-Bursac, Self-employed

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Christina E. Kramer, University of Toronto

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Session 3-9 : Nineteenth-Century Prose: Comparative and Institutional Views

Location:

Salon 3

Chair:

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College

Title:

Illuminating Darkness: Toward a Nyssen’s Reading of Dead Souls

Panelist:

Elena Petrova-Libgober, University of Southern California

Title:

Emile Zola’s “Comment on se marie” as an intertext of Tolstoy’s “Kreutzer Sonata”

Panelist:

Peter Winsky, University of Southern California

Title:

The Ferapont Paradox: Institutional Religion and Liturgical Orthodoxy in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

Panelist:

Matthew Mangold, George Mason University

Title:

Chekhov and Psychology: the Mind-Body Problem

Discussants:

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University

Session 3-10 : Open Seminar with Raquel Greene (Grinnell College): Discussing Africa as the Other in Russian Literature and Culture: Lessons for Instructors

Location:

Independence D

February 18, 2022, 4:30-6:30pm

Session 4-1 : Stream 3B: Russian Poetry and Poetics: Earlier Influences on 20th- and 21st-Century Poetry

Location:

Independence A

Chair:

Igor Pilshchikov, University of California Los Angeles

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kamila Kocialkowska, University of Cambridge

Title:

Mining for Subtext: Shared Strategies of Postal Censorship and Zaum Poetry

Panelist:

Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University

Title:

Apolitical Overlaps of Time and Space in Joseph Brodsky’s “Pis'ma k rimskomu drugu”

Panelist:

Laura Little, Connecticut College

Title:

I-mitatio: Elena Shvarts's “Imitation of Boileau”

Session 4-2 : Stream 4B: Language development and language pedagogy of Slavic languages: Focus on morphology

Location:

Independence B

Chair:

Rossina Soyan, Carnegie Mellon University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anna Alsufieva, Portland State University

Title:

Development of nominalization in writing: a survey of Russian learner (L2 and heritage) texts at intermediate and advanced levels

Panelist:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Title:

Derivational Morphology and the Lexical Richness in the Writing of Advanced Learners of Russian

Panelist:

Sviatlana Karpava, University of Cyprus

Title:

Russian heritage children in Cyprus: Narrative abilities and grammaticality

Discussants:

Aleksey Novikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Session 4-3 : Stream 5B: Neverending History: New Historical Cinema in Russia: Panel

Location:

Independence C

Chair:

Daria V. Ezerova, Columbia University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elena Prokhorova, College of William and Mary and Alexander Prokhorov, College of William and Mary

Title:

The Unholy Rus’: Quality Television and Putin-era Memory Wars

Panelist:

Pavel Khazanov, Rutgers University

Title:

Imperial nostalgia in films like Andrei Kravchuk’s Union of Salvation (2019)

Discussants:

Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University

Session 4-4 Roundtable: Увези меня с собою в облака! Virtual sojourns in lieu of study abroad

Location:

Seminar A

Organizer:

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia

Chair:

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia

Discussants:

Alexander Tullock, American Councils for International Education

April Djakoniya, SRAS

Maria Shardakova, Indiana University Bloomington

Olga Thomason, University of Georgia

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia

Session 4-5 Roundtable: Successful strategies in teaching Polish

Location:

Salon 5

Organizer:

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Illinois Chicago

Chair:

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Discussants:

Agnieszka Dziedzic, University of Pennsylvania

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Illinois Chicago

Piotr Westwalewicz, university of michigan

Session 4-6 : Russian, French and English Motifs in Multilingual Contexts

Location:

Salon 3

Chair:

Eliza Rose, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

David Molina, University of Chicago

Title:

“C’est moi”: On Sokurov’s Russophone Francofonia (2015)

Panelist:

Larisa Fialkova, University of Haifa

Title:

Alternative Slavic Fantasy: The Case of Orson Scott Card

Panelist:

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Oscar and Roman: Salomé's Eccentric Intersectionality on Center Stage

Panelist:

Olga Zaslavsky, Harvard University

Title:

The Memory of Memory in Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time

Session 4-7 Panel: Elena Guro: Feminist Revisions

Location:

Salon 6

Organizer:

Veronika Andrianova Schmitt, Northwestern University

Chair:

Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California

Panelist:

Elena Poiata, Northwestern University

Title:

“Elena Guro’s Female Eros at the Intersection of Culture and Nature”

Panelist:

Veronika Andrianova Schmitt, Northwestern University

Title:

“‘My Suffering is my Joy’. Masochism in Fyodor Sologub’s and Elena Guro’s writings”

Panelist:

Matvei Yankelevich, Columbia University / School of the Arts

Title:

“The Transcendent Fragment: Elena Guro’s Slippery Poetics of Subjectivity”

Panelist:

Nina Gurianova, Northwestern University

Title:

“Grandmothers and Granddaughters: from the ‘Amazons of the Revolution’ to the ‘Amazons of the Avant-Garde’. A Genealogical Study”

Discussants:

Jamie Bennett, Columbia University

Catherine A. Ciepiela, Amherst College

Session 4-8 Panel: Either/And: Economies of Desire and the Affixed Self

Location:

Salon 4

Organizer:

Elaine Wilson, Columbia University

Chair:

Marina Mayorski, University of Michigan

Panelist:

Amelia Glaser, University of California San Diego

Title:

How a Georgian Poem Became a Soviet Yiddish “Song of Songs”: Translations of Shota Rushtaveli’s “Vepkhist’kao-sani"

Panelist:

Elaine Wilson, Columbia University

Title:

Tonke, Tsalke, and the Tractor: Gender and Soviet-Jewish Identity in The Zelmenyaners

Panelist:

Alex Pekov, Columbia University

Title:

“Hers Was a Family of Touch”: Desire, Intimacy, and Postmemory in Gordana Kuić’s Balkan Trilogy

Discussants:

Emily Laskin, New York University

Session 4-9 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages 1

Location:

Independence D

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Panelist:

Ljiljana Duraskovic, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Using Media in Developing Advanced Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian Teaching Materials

Panelist:

Linc Jepson

Title:

Vocabulary Growth via Customized Suggestions

Panelist:

Frane Karabatic, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

A Culture-Centered Approach to Teaching Beginner-Level L2 Croatian

Panelist:

Elena Krejcova, Masaryk university, Faculty of Arts and Nadezhda Stalyanova, Sofia University

Title:

Specifics of Teaching Bulgarian as a Foreign Language for Advanced Students

Panelist:

Ana Petrov, University of Toronto

Title:

Teaching Czech and Slovak Cultures

Panelist:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Title:

Fun Interactive Language Learning with the 3ears App

Panelist:

Varvara Ponomareva, Charles University

Title:

Authentic Czech Texts Analysis