2024 Conference Program:

February 16, 2024, 8:00-10:00am

Session 1-1 : STREAM 1: Reimagining the Teaching of Slavic and East European Literatures and Cultures I: Cultural Texts and Significant Learning Experiences

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

David Danaher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Title:

Transforming the Teaching of Cultural Texts in Translation

Panelist:

Benjamin Jens, The University of Arizona

Title:

Critical Disability Studies and the Teaching of East European Cultures

Panelist:

Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont

Title:

Power Plays: Embodying The Bronze Horseman in the Classroom

Panelist:

David Danaher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Teaching Václav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless": Historical Document or Living Text?

Session 1-2 : STREAM 2: Decolonizing the Russian Classics I

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Fiona Bell, Yale University

Title:

A Russian Woman in the Pacific: Imagining White Womanhood in Elsa Triolet’s 1925 On Tahiti

Panelist:

Virginia Zickafoose, Independent Scholar

Title:

Sienkiewicz's "American Sketches." Landscapes in Critical Context.

Panelist:

Olga Ovcharskaia, Stanford University

Title:

Ethnic Minorities of Imperial Russia during the 1891-92 Famine: Russian vs Foreign Perspective

Session 1-3 : STREAM 3: Death & Dying in Eurasian Culture I: Individual Responses to Historical Tragedies

Location:

Tonopah Room

Chair:

Simon Garibyan, University of Southern California

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Misha Martin, University of Michigan

Title:

The Locality of Death: Valentin Rasputin’s Narratives of Sacrifice

Panelist:

Daria Smirnova, University of South Carolina

Title:

Death and Oblivion in Maria Stepanova's In Memory of Memory

Panelist:

Kitty Brandon James, University College London

Title:

The Phenomenon of Zombie-Monuments

Discussants:

Maria Mayofis, Amherst College

Session 1-4 Roundtable: New Books in Ukrainian Studies

Location:

Elko Room

Organizer:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Discussants:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Oksana Lutsyshyna, The University of Texas at Austin

Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University

Session 1-5 Panel: Rewatching Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev

Location:

Laughlin Room

Organizer:

John R. Givens, University of Rochester

Chair:

Yuri Leving, Princeton University

Panelist:

Harlow Robinson, Northeastern University

Title:

Transfiguring the Visual’: Music in Andrei Rublev

Panelist:

Greg Miller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Title:

A Redemptive Dream of the Bad Old Days: Nostalgia, History, and Materiality in Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev

Panelist:

John R. Givens, University of Rochester

Title:

Molchanie vs. tishina in Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev

Discussants:

Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton College

Session 1-6 : Transnational Literary Journeys

Location:

Silver Room

Chair:

Robyn Jensen, University of California, Berkeley

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sooyeon Lee, University of Toronto

Title:

Divergent Paths of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and North Korea

Panelist:

Ilaria Sicari, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Title:

Beyond the Curtain: Transnationalizing Polish Culture during the Cold War (1946-1991).

Panelist:

Julia Kobrina, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Reimagining Nabokov: The Russian Émigré in Germany and America

Session 1-7 : Forms of Eros in 19th-Early 20th-Century Literature

Location:

Copper Room

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Diana Avdeeva, The University of Arizona

Title:

The Ambiguous Sexuality and Sexual Desire of the Main Characters in Nikolai Gogol’s “Old-World Landowners"

Panelist:

Olivia Kennison, Brown University

Title:

Sex and Christianity in Dmitri Merezhkovsky’s Translation of Daphnis and Chloe

Panelist:

Zachary Deming, Columbia University

Title:

Romantic Pragmatics: Dialogism and Emplotment in E. A. Baratynskii's Early Lyric

Session 1-8 : Soviet and Post-Soviet Theater

Location:

Parlor D

Chair:

Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

Title:

Making Belief in Stanislavsky and Evreinov

Panelist:

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

«Всё это я изложу вам.»: Alternative Histories in Bogomolov’s «Гамлет in Moscow»

Panelist:

Lenora Murphy, Bucknell University

Title:

Representing Stalin on the Russian Stage in Putin’s Fourth Term

Session 1-9 Panel: Decentralizing and Modernizing the Russian-Language Curriculum

Location:

Parlor B

Organizer:

Olena Chernishenko, American University

Panelist:

Olga A. Ogurtsova, Beloit College

Title:

Teaching “The Days of the Turbins” Play in Today’s Geopolitical Environment

Panelist:

Maria Bourlatskaya, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Curriculum Redesign: New Markets, New Perspectives

Panelist:

Olena Chernishenko, American University

Title:

Developing Student Understanding of Diverse Target Cultures and DEIA Perspectives

Session 1-10 : Innovative Pedagogy and Assessment in Language Teaching

Location:

Parlor C

Chair:

Irina Poliakova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Poliakova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Empowering Students through Innovative Instructional Design: A Case Study of a Rhetoric Club

Panelist:

Svetlana Korshunova, Princeton University

Title:

“Code of the World”: Podcasting in the Russian Language Heritage Classroom

Panelist:

Anastasiya Smith, University of Georgia and Doina Grecu, University of Georgia

Title:

Peer Coaching as a Tool for Reflection and Professional Growth for Foreign Language Graduate Teaching Assistants

Session 1-11 Panel: Enhancing Language Proficiency through Innovative Approaches

Location:

Studio 1

Organizer:

Alena Makarava, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Chair:

Alena Makarava, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Panelist:

Diana Molodilo, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Creative and Critical Thinking: A Key to Proficiency in the Target Language

Panelist:

Alena Makarava, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Excelling in OPI Proficiency: Empowering Russian Language Skills Through Interactive Games

Panelist:

Alina Buzovetskaya, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Elevating Speaking Proficiency through the Art of Attentive Listening

Panelist:

Arman Tarjimanyan, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Leveraging Web-Based Motivation for Language Proficiency Enhancement

Session 1-12 Roundtable: Teaching Russian culture in a war time

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Discussants:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irina Six, University of Kansas

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

February 16, 2024, 10:30am-12:30pm

Session 2-1 : STREAM 1: Reimagining the Teaching of Slavic and East European Literatures and Cultures II - New Approaches to Teaching 19th-Century Russian Literature

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Title:

Decoloniality and the Teaching of Canonical Texts

Panelist:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Reimagining the 19th-Century Russian Survey Course

Panelist:

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

Teaching 19th-Century Russian Literature in a Prison Classroom

Panelist:

Elena Murenina, East Carolina University

Title:

Pushkin’s Texts in the Context of the Experiential Learning and Digital Humanities: Practical and Theoretical Aspects

Session 2-2 : STREAM 2: Decolonizing the Russian Classics II

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon

Title:

The Struggle for Imperial Legibility in Shevchenko’s “Kavkaz” and “Autobiography”

Panelist:

Andrey Ridling, The Ohio State University

Title:

The influence of Russian and Soviet state policies on Udmurt language, culture, and literature through the work of Kuzebai Gerd

Panelist:

Adam Willson, Northwestern University

Title:

Alexander Pushkin as Symbolic Capitol in Soviet Kazakhstan

Discussants:

Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University

Session 2-3 : STREAM 3: Death & Dying in Eurasian Culture II: The Multimediality of Death

Location:

Tonopah Room

Chair:

Alexander Meienberger, University of St. Gallen

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Rita Safariants, University of Rochester

Title:

‘Tsoi lives, Tsoi lived, Tsoi will live on’: The Death of the Soviet Rock Star in Post-Soviet Cinema

Panelist:

Kate Tomashevskaya, University of Southern California

Title:

Traumatic History in Soviet Horror: Fyodor Petrukhin’s Dina (1991)

Panelist:

Natalya Khokholova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Decolonization, Defamiliarization, and the Factual Dec(S)eased Culture of Sakha on Film

Discussants:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Session 2-4 : STREAM 4: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Translation in the Teaching and Learning of Slavic Languages and Cultures I: Research and Applications of AI in Teaching

Location:

Laughlin Room

Chair:

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Victoria Thorstensson, Carleton College

Title:

The “Why” of Using Generative AI Tools in Teaching Literature

Panelist:

Kit Pribble, Wake Forest University

Title:

Razgovory s iskusstvennym intellektom: Determining the efficacy of generative AI chatbots for task-based conversation practice

Panelist:

Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Kentucky

Title:

Facing the Future of Language Learning with Generative AI: Research-Informed Practices and Adaptations

Panelist:

Clement Arhin, The University of Arizona

Title:

The Relationship Between Learner Autonomy, Engagement with AI for Learning, and Russian (L2) Learners’ Attitudes Towards ChatGPT as a Learning Tool

Panelist:

Mikhail Kopotev, University of Helsinki

Title:

Gramota.ru meets AI: Current Updates and Future Development

Session 2-5 Roundtable: Art and Protest after 2/24/22: Strategies and Limitations of Writing in Wartime

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University

Chair:

Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University

Discussants:

Lev Oborin, University of California, Berkeley

Marianna Petiaskina, University of California Los Angeles

Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley

Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University

Yulia Kim, Columbia University

Session 2-6 Panel: A Balancing Act: Ideology and Entertainment in Early Soviet Film

Location:

Copper Room

Organizer:

Mattingly Gerasimovich, Northwestern University

Chair:

Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelist:

Mattingly Gerasimovich, Northwestern University

Title:

The Protazanov Switch: From Aelita to His Call

Panelist:

Dominick Lawton, Stanford University

Title:

Revolting Things: Lev Lunts' Screenplay Vosstanie veshchei and Material Culture

Panelist:

Matthew Kendall, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

Trapeze A(ffe)ct: Agadzhanova and Kuleshov’s 2-Bul’di-2, Reconsidered

Discussants:

Nina Gurianova, Northwestern University

Session 2-7 : Women’s Resonances in Ukrainian Poetry, Film and Theater

Location:

Parlor D

Chair:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Joshua Velasquez, Princeton University

Title:

Variations on a Theme of Empire: Meter, Music, and Meaning in Lesia Ukrainka’s Early Lyric Poetry

Panelist:

Siobhan Seigne, The Ohio State University

Title:

Adapting pannochka: From Gogol’s “Viy” to Kadijević’s Sveto Mesto

Panelist:

Tetyana Shlikhar, University of Notre Dame

Title:

Russian War in Ukraine in Recent Ukrainian Cinema by Female Directors

Session 2-8 Panel: Trans Topics in Slavic Studies: Transhistoric Trans History in Slavic Cultures

Location:

Parlor B

Organizer:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Chair:

Ros Herling, University of California, Berkeley

Panelist:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Title:

Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Transsexual Empire: Gender, Nationalism, and Violence in The Calvary Maiden and Hussar’s Ballad

Panelist:

LeiAnna Hamel, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Narrating ‘Sexual Inversion’: The Case of Patient N* in I. Tarnovskii’s Sexual Inversion among Women

Panelist:

Brett Donohoe, Harvard University

Title:

“An Archive of Loss: Serbia’s First Trans Play and its Community”

Session 2-9 Panel: Russophone Poetic Posthumanism: Guro, Skandiaka, Simonova

Location:

Parlor C

Organizer:

Alexandra Tkacheva, University of Michigan

Chair:

Alexandra Tkacheva, University of Michigan

Panelist:

Anna Ivanov, Harvard University

Title:

Posthuman Becomings: Nika Skandiaka and Generative Language Models

Panelist:

Alexandra Tkacheva, University of Michigan

Title:

Raspberry Jam Foam: Vibrant Materiality in Ekaterina Simonova’s Poetry

Panelist:

Samantha Sharp, State University of New York at Binghamton

Title:

Defamiliarizing Semiosis: The Transcorporeal Poetics of Elena Guro

Discussants:

Nadezhda Vikulina, Harvard University

Session 2-10 Forum: Compassion in the Curriculum: Teaching Intercultural Competence Through Compassion and Empathy

Location:

Elko Room

Chair:

Jillian Costello, University of Colorado Boulder

Panelists:

Anya Nesterchouk, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irina Meier, The University of New Mexico

Julia Denne, By the Onion Sea Program

Suzanne Thompson, The University of Arizona

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Session 2-11 Roundtable: New Approaches to the Old Discourse: How to (Re)Use Existing Language Textbooks in Today’s Polish Language Classroom.

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Ewa Maria Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan

Chair:

Ewa Maria Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan

Discussants:

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Illinois Chicago

Justyna Zych, University of Warsaw

Krzysztof E. Borowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tony Lin, Boston College

Session 2-12 Roundtable: Empowering Neurodivergent Students in the Language Classroom

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Chair:

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Discussants:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Lauren Nelson, Pritzker College Prep

Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Session 2-13 : Russian Syntax and Semantics

Location:

Studio 1

Chair:

Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kamila Saifeeva, University of Kansas

Title:

“How Do I Put This…”: X ne X Constructions as Conceptual Blends in Russian

Panelist:

Hyug Ahn, Sungkyunkwan University

Title:

Constructional analysis of Russian particle АБЫ

Panelist:

Varvara Kurylova, University of Cincinnati

Title:

The Use of Empty Adjectives by Female and Male Russian Native Speakers: Corpus Approach

February 16, 2024, 2:00-4:00pm

Session 3-1 : STREAM 1: Reimagining the Teaching of Slavic and East European Literatures and Cultures III - Refreshing and Decolonizing the Teaching of Key Texts and Authors

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Václav Zheng, Johns Hopkins University

Title:

Polish Literature in Latin: Premodernity, Pedagogy, and Slavic Studies

Panelist:

Alena Aniskiewicz, Michigan State University

Title:

Making Fun: Teaching East European and Russian Culture Through Humor

Panelist:

Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame

Title:

The Postcolonial Russian Canon: Tolstoy’s Ghost in Hamid Ismailov’s Mbobo

Panelist:

Daria Solodkaya, Independent scholar

Title:

Off to Distant Shores: Vasily Golovnin's, Fedor Lutke's, and Fedor Matiushkin's Journals of the 1817-1819 Trip around the World on the Sloop Kamchatka

Session 3-2 : STREAM 2: Decolonizing the Russian Classics III

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

Title:

Decolonizing Dostoevsky

Panelist:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Title:

Teaching ‘Russian’ Classics Before and During the War

Panelist:

Ani Kokobobo, University of Kansas

Title:

Masculinity, Force, and Colonial Conquest in Tolstoy's Hadji Murat

Panelist:

Iain Cunningham, Indiana University

Title:

Cutting of the Forests: Mapping Political and Economic Conflicts of the Late 19th Century Russian Empire.

Discussants:

Donna Orwin, University of Toronto

Session 3-3 : STREAM 3: Death & Dying in Eurasian Culture III: Words That Describe Mortality & Immortality

Location:

Tonopah Room

Chair:

Sara Dickinson, University of Genoa

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Erica Camisa Morale, University of Southern California

Title:

The Cadaver Speaks in Anonymous Virshi “Oh Death”

Panelist:

Maria Mayofis, Amherst College

Title:

“Dying for Reading”: Symbolical and Analytical Functions of Women’s Deaths in Russian 1830s Literary Journals

Panelist:

Ivan Sokolov, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

“Some Men Are Born Posthumously”: Viktor Sosnora after Clinical Death

Discussants:

Lyubov Golburt, University of California, Berkeley

Session 3-4 Roundtable: STREAM 4: From Virtual Reality to Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Emerging Technologies in Second Language Acquisition

Location:

Laughlin Room

Chair:

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Discussants:

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University

Session 3-5 Roundtable: The Legacy of Dubravka Ugrešić

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Kaitlyn Sorenson, State University of New York at Binghamton

Chair:

antje postema, University of California, Berkeley

Discussants:

Ellen Elias-Bursac, Self-employed

Kaitlyn Sorenson, State University of New York at Binghamton

Ronelle Alexander, Univ of California - Berkeley

Vladislav Beronja, The University of Texas at Austin

Zachary Hicks, University of California, Berkeley

Session 3-6 Panel: Interactions Between Form and Content in Russian Modernist Poetry

Location:

Copper Room

Organizer:

Elizaveta Dvortsova, University of Southern California

Chair:

Igor Pilshchikov, University of California Los Angeles

Panelist:

Sarah Matthews, University of Southern California

Title:

Vladislav Khodasevich’s Object-Oriented and Object-Driven Poems

Panelist:

Veniamin Gushchin, Columbia University

Title:

“A Keen Sense of History Emerges”: Late Akhmatova’s Self-Conscious Philologism

Panelist:

Elizaveta Dvortsova, University of Southern California

Title:

Shape of Poetry: Iconic Effects in Russian Modernist Verse

Discussants:

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Session 3-7 : Environmental Poetics

Location:

Parlor D

Chair:

Reed Johnson, Bowdoin College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Savannah Eklund, Columbia University

Title:

“Здесь не может жить человек”: Competing Masculinist Visions of the Arctic Through the Lens of Pilnyak’s Заволочье

Panelist:

Rose FitzPatrick, Yale University

Title:

Черный уголь – подземный мессия: A Geological Reading of Blok's “Новая Америка”

Panelist:

Miroslava Nikolova, Bowdoin College

Title:

Concealed Catastrophes: Contradictions and Omissions in the Portrayal of Environmental Destruction in the Work of Khanty Poet Maria Vagatova

Session 3-8 Roundtable: New Horizons in Slavic Graduate Education

Location:

Parlor B

Organizer:

Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California

Chair:

Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California

Discussants:

Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois Chicago

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Vadim Shneyder, University of California Los Angeles

Session 3-9 : Crises of Cognition in Late- and Post-Socialist Culture

Location:

Parlor C

Chair:

Tatiana Efremova, Columbia University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Angelina Rubina, University of South Carolina

Title:

Clothes for conscience: The workings of shame and guilt in Vasily Grossman’s Everything Flows

Panelist:

Maria Kustova, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Heroes of a Hero-less time: The Crisis of the Socialist System and the Crisis of the Individual in 1970s Cinema: Camera Buff by Krzysztof Kieślowski and September Vacation by Vitaly Melnikov

Session 3-10 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages (1)

Location:

Elko Room

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Frane Karabatic, The University of Texas at Austin

Panelist:

Ljiljana Duraskovic, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Teaching Diversity Topics in Advanced Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian

Panelist:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

“Malá pravda, velká lež:” Addressing Media Literacy in Language and Area Studies Courses

Panelist:

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Using Social Justice Curriculum in BCSM Language Courses

Panelist:

Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta

Title:

U2 Ukraine in Warsaw: Ukrainian Study Abroad During the War

Panelist:

Varvara Ponomareva, Charles University

Title:

Creation and Application of a System of Grammar Exercises That Combines Classic and Creative Tasks for Czech Courses at Levels A1–⁠B1

Panelist:

Lydia Roberts, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Cultural Exploration in a Heritage Classroom: Perspectives of a Non-Native Polish Instructor

Panelist:

Pavlína Vondráčková, Charles University

Title:

Chinese Students and Their Attitudes towards Czech Culture

Panelist:

Oleksandra Wallo, University of Kansas

Title:

Activities for Developing Speaking Proficiency in Beginner Ukrainian In-Person and Online Courses

Panelist:

Svitlana Melnyk, Indiana University Bloomington

Title:

Fostering cultural understanding: Project-based learning in the Ukrainian language classroom

Session 3-11 : Teaching Advanced Learners of Russian

Location:

Studio 1

Chair:

Larisa Moskvitina, Davidson College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alena Makarava, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Aleksey Novikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Proficiency-based approach to teaching listening comprehension in Russian

Panelist:

Alla Shubina, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Navigating Challenges of Teaching Russian at General Professional Proficiency and Beyond

Session 3-12 Roundtable: Facilitating L2 Teaching in Summer Intensive Programs: Pedagogical Challenges and Solutions

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Natalia Petrova, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair:

Marina Tsylina, Columbia University

Discussants:

Ani Abrahamyan, Indiana University Bloomington

Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Elena Grajinskaya, Indiana University Bloomington

Lidia Gault, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marina Tsylina, Columbia University

Natalia Petrova, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Session 3-13 Roundtable: Integrated Performance Assessment: How and Why to Implement It?

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Chair:

Natalie McCauley, University of Richmond

Discussants:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Maia Solovieva, Oberlin College

Robert Chura, St. Louis University High School

TATIANA Zimakova, Southern Methodist University

February 16, 2024, 4:30-6:30pm

Session 4-1 Roundtable: STREAM 4: AI and Machine Translation in the Teaching & Learning of Slavic Languages and Cultures III: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Machine Translation, and Policy Making in the Teaching of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University

Discussants:

Carlotta Chenoweth, United States Military Academy

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Robert Reynolds, Brigham Young University

Session 4-2 : Affixation in Russian

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

George Fowler, Slavica Publishers; and Indiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Miriam Shrager, Indiana University Bloomington and Oksana Sukhovii, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Title:

Noun forming suffixes denoting people with disabilities in some Slavic languages

Panelist:

Michelle Verbitskaya, The Ohio State University

Title:

How Are Women Called? Morphopragmatics of Competing Feminine Affixes in Online Discourse

Session 4-4 : Multilingual 19th-early 20th-Century Poets

Location:

Laughlin Room

Chair:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Adrian Wanner, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

Karolina Pavlova’s Multilingual Identity

Panelist:

Veronika Andrianova Schmitt, Northwestern University

Title:

“I am not a Russian poet.” German poetry and language in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Krysolov

Panelist:

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Title:

Fedor Sologub and French Literature

Session 4-5 Roundtable: Right-Left Encounters and Russian Political Culture

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

Chair:

Rita Safariants, University of Rochester

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

Liana Battsaligova, Pomona College

Session 4-6 Panel: Fear and Loathing in Russian Cinema

Location:

Copper Room

Organizer:

Frederick White, Utah Valley University

Chair:

Ellina Sattarova, University of Southern California

Panelist:

Yuri Leving, Princeton University

Title:

Tarkovsky’s Guilty Pleasures

Panelist:

Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

The Past as Future, the Future as Past: Russian Cinema’s Queer Temporalities

Panelist:

Frederick White, Utah Valley University

Title:

“If there is no God…”: Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena and Leviathan

Panelist:

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University

Title:

Colonial Psychology and Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s DAU

Session 4-7 : Memory & Document in Contemporary Literature

Location:

Parlor D

Chair:

Ivan Sokolov, University of California, Berkeley

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sydney Stotter, Harvard University

Title:

“Blank pages in my memory…”: Literary Interventions of History in Svetlana Aleksievich’s Last Witnesses

Panelist:

Lora Maslenitsyna, Yale University

Title:

“The house of a thousand windows”: Postmemory, Experience, and the Failure of Documentation

Panelist:

Dmitrii Kuznetsov, University of Southern California

Title:

Fake People, Real Stories: On the Role of Fictionalized Ego-Narratives in Venerin Volos by Mikhail Shishkin

Panelist:

Dylan Ogden, University of Michigan

Title:

The Poetics and Politics of Shimmering in Aleksandr Il’ianen’s Pensiia

Session 4-8 Panel: [Post-]Soviet Modernities in Central Asian Literatures

Location:

Parlor B

Organizer:

Andrew Whittington-Biehle, Princeton University

Chair:

Gabriel Nussbaum, Princeton University

Panelist:

Eleanor Womack, Yale University

Title:

Kartopia on the Aral: Land and Language in Abdizhamil Nurpeisov’s Final Respects

Panelist:

Andrew Whittington-Biehle, Princeton University

Title:

On Ambivalence towards Soviet Modernity in Some Works of Chingiz Aitmatov

Panelist:

Alexey Shvyrkov, Columbia University

Title:

Soviet = (Post)Colonial?: National Mythologies in the Works of Olzhas Suleimenov and Chingiz Aitmatov

Discussants:

Veniamin Gushchin, Columbia University

Session 4-9 : Teaching Russian Linguistic Structures

Location:

Parlor C

Chair:

Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Six, University of Kansas

Title:

Teaching Russian Verbs via Aspectual Triplets

Panelist:

Svetlana Sokolova, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway and Andrea Camoletto, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Title:

Second Language Acquisition of Russian Fleeting Vowels

Panelist:

Emmanuelle Guenette, University of Victoria

Title:

The Russian Case System Acquisition: An Exploratory Study of L2 Learners’ Issues at the A1 Level

Session 4-10 : Understanding Learner Motivations, Experiences, and Outcomes

Location:

Studio 1

Chair:

Dmitrii Pastushenkov, Harvard University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Dmitrii Pastushenkov, Harvard University and Jason Merrill, Michigan State University and Liya Zalaltdinova, Harvard University

Title:

Engagement with Russian after graduation: What do students use and what do they suggest?

Panelist:

Natalia Petrova, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Lidia Gault, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Identity, Investment, and Imagined Communities: Russian Learners in the Flagship Program

Panelist:

Marina Tsylina, Columbia University

Title:

Learners’ Perceptions of the Quality of FL Russian Writing

Panelist:

Ala Simonchyk, University of Mississippi

Title:

The use of the first language in an intensive immersion language program

Session 4-11 Roundtable: Teaching Postmodern Russian Media Literacy

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Discussants:

Alexander Rojavin

Josh Segal, Tulane University

Joshua First

Kiril Avramov, The University of Texas at Austin

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Session 4-12 Roundtable: Youth Culture in Kazakhstan: Russian Flagship Blended Learning Workshops

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Margaret Godwin-Jones, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Chair:

Olga Thomason, University of Georgia

Discussants:

Anastasiya Smith, University of Georgia

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Kathryn Goodpaster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Margaret Godwin-Jones, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Sofiya Asher, Indiana University Bloomington