Open Seminar with Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University): "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About 'Decolonisation' of Russian Studies? Challenges and Opportunities for Slavists" (Tonopah Room)
4:30-6:30pm
Workshop: Language & Justice Hand in Hand: Enhancing Russian Instruction through Social Justice Standards & DEIA Frameworks — Iza Savenkova, Fordham University; Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh; Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Elko Room)
7:00pm-9:00pm
President's Reception and Awards Ceremony (Tahoe Room)
All attendees are warmly invited to mingle and also celebrate our award-winning colleagues. Cash bar, complimentary hors d'oeuvres.
8:30-11:00pm
Film screening of “Unclenching the Fists” and director Q&A with Kira Kovalenko (introduced by Tatiana Efremova) (Ely Room)
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, Slavic Langs
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Title:
Transforming the Teaching of Cultural Texts in Translation
Panelist:
Benjamin Jens, 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, Slavic Langs
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Teaching Václav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless": Historical Document or Living Text?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 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:
Alexander Nakhimovsky, Colgate University
Title:
Waiting for death when tired of living
Panelist:
Spencer Small, Yale University
Title:
Playing with Death: Death as a Device in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the Video Game
Panelist:
Misha Martin, University of Michigan
Title:
The Locality of Death: Valentin Rasputin’s Narratives of Sacrifice (Stream: Death and Dying in Eurasian Culture)
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, 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, 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 A
Chair:
Roman Utkin, Wesleyan Univestity
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University
Title:
Making Belief in Stanislavsky and Evreinov
Panelist:
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, 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 (Stream: Death and Dying in Eurasian Culture)
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
Panelist:
Kitty Brandon James, University College London
Title:
The Phenomenon of Zombie-Monuments
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, 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, 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 Univestity
Chair:
Roman Utkin, Wesleyan Univestity
Discussants:
Lev Oborin, University of California, Berkeley
Marianna Petiaskina, University of California Los Angeles
Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley
Roman Utkin, Wesleyan Univestity
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 A
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”
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 Nestechouk, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Irina Meier, University of New Mexico
Julia Denne, By the Onion Sea Program
Suzanne Thompson, 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 (CECH College)
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, Università di Genova
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 (for the stream "Death and Dying in Eurasian Culture")
Panelist:
Ivan Sokolov, University of California, Berkeley
Title:
“Some Men Are Born Posthumously”: Viktor Sosnora after Clinical Death
Panelist:
Daria Smirnova, University of South Carolina
Title:
Death and Oblivion in Maria Stepanova's In Memory of Memory
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:
Djordje Popović, University of California, Berkeley
ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAC, Self-employed
Kaitlyn Sorenson, State University of New York at Binghamton
Vladislav Beronja, University of Texas at Austin
antje postema, 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 A
Chair:
Reed Johnson, Bowdoin College
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Savannah Eklund
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
Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia 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
Panelist:
Timmy Straw, University of Pennsylvania
Title:
The Naked and the Virtual: Reading Late- and Post-Soviet Realisms
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, 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, Faculty of Arts
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
Title:
Fostering cultural understanding: Project-based learning in the Ukrainian language classroom
Session 3-11 : Teaching Advanced Learners of Russian
Location:
Not Assigned
Chair:
Larisa Moskvitina, Rice University
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
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, 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