2022 Conference Program: Friday, February 18

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, 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, Colgate 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, UPENN

Chair:

Djamilia Nazyrova, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:

Maria Alley, UPenn

Title:

Addressing the Diversity of Local Cultures in Russia

Panelist:

Maria Bourlatskaya, UPENN

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, UNH

Chair:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Discussants:

Ekaterina Burvikova, UNH

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marina Alexandrova, University of Texas at Austin

Oksana Willis, Bucknell University

Svitlana Malykhina, Boston University

Valeriya Kozlovskaya, Brandeis University

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

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

Lauren Nelson, Pritzker College Prep

Thomas Jesús Garza, University of Texas - Austin

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

Session 2-1 : Stream 1B: Tolstoy

Location:

Independence A

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Olga Ovcharskaia, Stanford

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 at 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

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, UNH

Chair:

Irina Poliakova, DLIFLC

Discussants:

Ekaterina Burvikova, UNH

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, The Ohio State University

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, University of Texas - Austin

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anastasia Gordienko, 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

Walker Griggs, University of Southern California

Session 2-9 Panel: Modernist Transformations

Location:

Independence D

Organizer:

Kate Tomashevskaya, University of Southern California, USC

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, UK

Title:

The Role of Gender in the Acquisition of Russian Case

Panelist:

Maria Bondarenko, Université de 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, 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, UCLA

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

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, Brandeis University

Session 3-5 Roundtable: Programmatic Articulation of Tutoring

Location:

Salon 5

Organizer:

Maria Shardakova, University of Indiana-Bloomington

Chair:

Maria Shardakova, University of Indiana-Bloomington

Discussants:

Ani Abrahamyan, Indiana University

Anna Tumarkin, UW-Madison

Elena Grajinskaya, University of Utah

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Colgate University

Sofiya Asher, IU 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, University of Southern California (USC)

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, UCLA

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

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, University of Indiana-Bloomington

Olga Thomason, University of Georgia

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Thomas Jesús Garza, University of Texas - 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 at Chicago

Chair:

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Discussants:

Agnieszka Dziedzic, University of Pennsylvania

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Illinois at 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 - Chapel Hill

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

David G. 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, 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, UC 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 in the City of New York

Title:

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

Discussants:

Emily Laskin, NYU

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, Faculty of Arts

Title:

Authentic Czech Texts Analysis