2015 Conference Program:

January 10, 2015, 8:00-10:00am

SAT-A-1 Panel: New Genres and the Cinematic Nation in Recent Russian Film

Location:

Ballroom III

Organizer:

Andrew Chapman, The College of William and Mary

Chair:

Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist:

Laura Todd, University of Nottingham

Title:

The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Fake Documentary Films in Contemporary Russia

Panelist:

Andrew Chapman, The College of William and Mary

Title:

Remaking Past or Present? The “Remeik” as Genre and the Politics of the Nation

Panelist:

Beach Gray, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Television to Film: The Emergent Comedy in Contemporary Russian Cinema

Panelist:

Svitlana Kobets, University of Toronto

Title:

Zviagintsev's ‘kitchen dramas’

Discussants:

Volha Isakava, Central Washington University

SAT-A-2 Panel: Nineteenth-century Russian Realism on Hegelian Ground

Location:

Salon E

Organizer:

Vadim Shkolnikov, University of Illinois Chicago

Chair:

Tom Roberts, Smith College

Panelist:

Vadim Shkolnikov, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

The Hegelian Trace and the Origins of the Tragic in Turgenev

Panelist:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Title:

Tolstoy’s Own Master and Slave Dialectic: “Хозяин и работник” as a Re-writing of a Hegelian Narrative

Discussants:

Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto

SAT-A-3 Roundtable: Beyond Russian Table: Building Blocks of a Strong Russian Program

Location:

Salon C

Organizer:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Chair:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Discussants:

Alla Epsteyn, Wellesley College

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

SAT-A-4 Panel: Revolutionary Biologies: Life and the Body in Russian Culture of the early 20th Century

Location:

Ballroom II

Organizer:

Brian Droitcour, New York University

Panelist:

Brian Droitcour, New York University

Title:

Lysenkoism and Literature: An Anti-Genealogy”

Panelist:

Maya Larson, Russian and East European Studies Center

Title:

Krov' za krov': Zinaida Gippius's Svyataya Krov' as Biopoliticheskaya Fantastika

Panelist:

Maya Vinokour, New York University

Title:

Workflows: Human Labor and Bodily Energy in the works of Andrei Platonov”

Discussants:

Matthew Mangold, Rutgers University

SAT-A-5 : Language and Discourse in Later Soviet Culture

Location:

Port of Singapore

Chair:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Naya Lekht, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Before Auschwitz: Babi Yar and Holocaust Literature in the Soviet Union

Panelist:

Kevin McKenna, University of Vermont

Title:

"'Одно слово правды весь мир перетянет': Proverb Function in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture"

Panelist:

Lisa Woodson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

The Arabian Nights in Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow-Petushki

Panelist:

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Title:

M.L. Gasparov and the Philology Dispute of 1979

SAT-A-6 : Contemporary Culture, Society, and Identity in Eastern Europe

Location:

Port of New York

Chair:

Emily D. Johnson, University of Oklahoma

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lauren Post, The Ohio State University

Title:

"Is Abortion Necessary or Sinful? :Media Representations of Reproductive Policies and the Women Who Pursue them in Poland".

Panelist:

Jing Ke, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Title:

The Siege and Kadare’s Reconstruction of the Albanian National Identity

Panelist:

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

Title:

The Wind Horse: Tradition and Practice in Contemporary Buryatia

SAT-A-7 : Contexts and Motivations for Language Learning

Location:

Salon D

Chair:

Joseph Schlegel, University of Toronto

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta

Title:

Student Motivation Profiles: Ukrainian at the Post-Secondary Level

Panelist:

Tony Brown, Brigham Young University

Title:

Developing Global Proficiency Through Debate: Principles of Instructional Design for Advanced Language Learners

Panelist:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Title:

Title: Advanced Language Learning Online – The Community of Inquiry Model Re-discovered

January 10, 2015, 1:15-3:00pm

SAT-B-1 : Ethics and Aesthetics in Dostoevsky

Location:

Port of Singapore

Chair:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Daniel Nolan, University of Minnesota Duluth

Title:

Dostoevsky's Critique of Honesty

Panelist:

Inna Tigountsova, University of Nottingham

Title:

FAUSTIAN ETERNITY AND MOMENT IN DOSTOEVSKY’S “THE MEEK ONE”

Panelist:

Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University

Title:

Fedor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Solov’ev on Old Catholicism and the Future of Russian Orthodoxy

SAT-B-2 : Reflections and Refractions of Russian Modernism

Location:

Port of New York

Chair:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Joseph Schlegel, University of Toronto

Title:

Turgenev Becomes a Poet: Dmitrii Merezhkovskii’s Engagement with Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Panelist:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Title:

Inevitable Russia: Russian Modernism as the Inspiration for Chinese Dissident Poet

SAT-B-3 Panel: A Paper Revolution: Underground Printing Industry in Communist Poland, 1976-1989

Location:

Ballroom III

Organizer:

Gwido Zlatkes, University of California, Riverside

Chair:

Ann Frenkel, University of California, Riverside

Panelist:

Gwido Zlatkes, University of California, Riverside

Title:

“Duplicator underground”: independent printing in communist Poland 1976‑1989

Panelist:

Siobhan Doucette

Title:

Not a Samizdat but the Second Circulation:  Polish Independent Publishing and Poland's Unique Path to Independence

Panelist:

Adam Mielczarek, Jagiellonian University

Title:

The second circulation of the 1970s and 1980s in Poland as a component of a social movement

SAT-B-4 Panel: Traveling Subjects, Transcultural Practices

Location:

Port of San Francisco

Organizer:

Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University

Chair:

Anna Kovalchuk, University of Oregon

Panelist:

Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University

Title:

We: From National Allegory to Transatlantic Heterotopia

Panelist:

Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon

Title:

The Presentation of Empire: Women, Decoration and Decorum

Panelist:

Rebecca Stanton, Columbia University

Title:

Native Sons and Soviet Fathers: Forging Far Eastern Literatures in 1950s Leningrad

SAT-B-5 Roundtable: Standards for All: Revising the National Russian Standards for Secondary and Post-Secondary Programs

Location:

Salon C

Organizer:

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Chair:

Jane W. Shuffelton, Brighton High School, retired

Discussants:

Jane W. Shuffelton, Brighton High School, retired

Peter T. Merrill, Phillips Academy

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

SAT-B-6 Panel: Migrating Between Languages and Translingualism in Literature

Location:

Salon D

Organizer:

Julie Hansen, Uppsala University

Chair:

Julie Hansen, Uppsala University

Panelist:

Adrian Wanner, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

Little Failure: Gary Shteyngart’s Memoirs in the Context of Recent Russian Immigrant Life-Writing

Panelist:

Eugenia Kelbert, School of Philology, Higher School of Economics

Title:

Romain Gary’s Self-Translation: Another Reality or Another Fiction

Panelist:

Miriam Finkelstein, University of Passau, Germany

Title:

To (Ex)Change Words: Language Change and Historical Narratives in Contemporary Fiction on Russian Migrants

Discussants:

Amelia Glaser, University of California San Diego

SAT-B-8 Panel: Authors’ Personal and Non-personal Voices in Russian Literature

Location:

Salon E

Organizer:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Panelist:

Nicole Monnier, University of Missouri

Title:

“But, Volodichka, what am I to talk about?”: Voicing the Women in Chekhov’s Short Stories

Panelist:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

Author, Voice, and Character: Metamorphosis of “я” in the Short Stories of Tatiana Tolstaya

Panelist:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Title:

Face, Force and Voice: Gender and Stylistic Level in the Public Personae of Mariia Stepanova and Marianna Geide

Discussants:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

January 10, 2015, 3:15-5:00pm

SAT-C-2 Panel: Mandelstam's Conversation About Dante

Location:

Salon C

Organizer:

Alex Spektor, The University of Georgia, Athens

Chair:

Tom Dolack, Wheaton College

Panelist:

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

Title:

Keeping Time: Reading and Writing in Conversation about Dante

Panelist:

Alex Spektor, The University of Georgia, Athens

Title:

The Science of Poetry: Poetic Process as Evolution in Mandelstam’s Conversation About Dante

Discussants:

Vadim Shkolnikov, University of Illinois Chicago

SAT-C-3 Panel: Nabokov and History

Location:

Port of Hong Kong

Organizer:

Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College

Chair:

Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College

Panelist:

Kathryn Fleishman, UC Berkeley English Department

Title:

Eversion: Reading Space and Time in Ada, or Ardor

Panelist:

Benjamin Mangrum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title:

Speak, Nabokov: Bend Sinister, Totalitarianism, and the Rise of American Income Inequality

Panelist:

Geoffrey Green, San Francisco State University

Title:

“The Constant Necessity to Hide”: The Historical Implications and Resonances of the Cold War and the Space Program in the Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Hitchcock and in the Fiction of Nabokov”

Discussants:

Matthew Beedham, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

SAT-C-4 : Science, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Tolstoy

Location:

Port of San Francisco

Chair:

Nina Bond, Franklin & Marshall

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anna Berman, McGill University

Title:

The Scientific Roots of Tolstoy’s Religious Thought

Panelist:

Saera Yoon, UNIST

Title:

A Missing Link: Levin’s Railroad Scene

Panelist:

David Herman, University of Virginia

Title:

Tolstoyan Christian Love in What Then Are We to Do? and "After the Ball"

SAT-C-5 : Authorship and Identity in Russian Literature

Location:

Salon E

Chair:

Jenny Kaminer, University of California, Davis

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Brian James Baer, Kent State University

Title:

Chukovsky, Balmont and the Construction of Authorship in Soviet Russia

Panelist:

Irene Masing-Delic, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title:

"Out of "The Overcoat'. Nabokov's Luzhin as a Bashmachkin-Figure"

Panelist:

Kathleen Thompson

Title:

Person as Palimpsest: Identity as a Textual Construct in Anya Ulinich's Petropolis

SAT-C-6 : Folkloric and Visual Intersections in Russian Culture

Location:

Port of New York

Chair:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alina Wyman, New College of Florida

Title:

Timing Igor's Campaign: Temporality in "Slovo o Polku Igoreve" and in the Related Folklore Genres

Panelist:

David Borgmeyer, Saint Louis University

Title:

Angels in Hell: The Art of Natalia Goncharova and the Great War

Discussants:

David Prestel, Michigan State University

SAT-C-7 : Russian Morphosyntax

Location:

Salon D

Chair:

Robert Channon, Purdue University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Olga Steriopolo, Kiev State Linguistic University, Ukraine

Title:

A comparison of evaluative size suffixes in Russian, German, and Spanish

Panelist:

Hyug Ahn, Sungkyunkwan University

Title:

Iconicity and Prototypicality in Russian Bi-aspectual Verbs

SAT-C-8 : 20th Century Cultural Identities

Location:

Ballroom III

Chair:

Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

James H. McGavran III, Kenyon College

Title:

"A Productive Opening Idea": Chess and Soviet Culture in the Cold War

Panelist:

Yuliya Ladygina, Sewanee: The University of the South

Title:

“The ‘Fascist Hero’ and Ukrainian Independence: Olha Kobylianska's Late Fiction"

Panelist:

Irina McKay, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language

Title:

Russian Language Press Published in the USA: History, Development, and Distinguishing Features

Panelist:

Irina Shilova, The University of Calgary

Title:

Russian Orthodox Liturgy and the Soviet Rituals: Unusual Counterparts

SAT-C-10 Panel: Non-Western Translations of Pushkin

Location:

Port of Vancouver

Organizer:

Sara Feldman, Harvard University

Chair:

Teresa Polowy, The University of Arizona

Panelist:

Sara Feldman, Harvard University

Title:

“I nazovet menia vsiak sushchi v nei iazyk”: Pushkin’s Monument and Jewish Identity

Panelist:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

The Rising Sun of Russia: Pushkin's Japanese Legacy

Panelist:

Spencer Scoville, Brigham Young University

Title:

Pushkin in Palestine: Translating Nationalism

Discussants:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

January 10, 2015, 5:15-7:00pm

SAT-D-2 Panel: The Popular Culture in the former Yugoslavia

Location:

Port of San Francisco

Organizer:

Dragana Cvetanovic, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute

Chair:

Dragana Cvetanovic, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute

Panelist:

Dragana Cvetanovic, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute

Title:

Yugospotting through Rhyme-Dropping: Social Engagement of the Rap Scene in the Cultural Yugosphere

Panelist:

Dario Brentin, University of Graz

Title:

Ban Zvonimir Boban – A national hero of the streets? Heroism, sport and national identity in post-socialist Croatia

Panelist:

Richard Mills, University of East Anglia

Title:

Uses of Language as a Signifier of Ethnic Difference in Yugoslav Football Culture

Panelist:

Jack Pitt, University of East Anglia

Title:

Slovene hardcore punk in the 1980s: Exposing flawed academic approaches through conflict with existing models of musical history

SAT-D-3 Panel: New Perspectives on Nabokov (2): Narrative Technique in the Russian Novels

Location:

Port of Singapore

Organizer:

Julian W. Connolly, University of Virginia

Chair:

Julian W. Connolly, University of Virginia

Panelist:

Alisa Sniderman, New York University Tisch

Title:

The Problem of Knowledge: Vladimir Nabokov and the Detective Novel

Panelist:

Lyndsay Miller, University of Nottingham

Title:

Revision in Nabokov's Fictional Worlds

Panelist:

Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee

Title:

Revisiting The Gift's Narrator

SAT-D-5 : 20th-Century Czech Literature

Location:

Salon C

Chair:

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ellen Langer, University of California

Title:

Literature in the Occupation: Revising the classics

Panelist:

Jose Alaniz, University of Washington

Title:

Alois Nebel: History and the Gothic in Czech Comics

Panelist:

Michelle Woods, SUNY New Paltz

Title:

The barbequed rewriter: Milan Kundera’s plays, and the act and theme of rewriting

SAT-D-6 : Soviet Children’s Culture

Location:

Salon D

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alison Annunziata, University of Southern California

Title:

Shklovsky in the Land of Film

Panelist:

Megan Swift, University of Victoria

Title:

The Aerial Fairy Tale: Launching The Little Humpbacked Horse as a Soviet Children's Classic

SAT-D-7 Panel: Exploring the Role of Sound in Russian and Soviet Film

Location:

Ballroom III

Organizer:

Volha Isakava, Central Washington University

Chair:

Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas

Panelist:

Elena Baraban, University of Manitoba

Title:

Hear My Pain: Sound in Soviet Films about Traumas of the Second World War

Panelist:

Volha Isakava, Central Washington University

Title:

The Jukebox Musical: Hipsters (2008) and the Musical Genre in Contemporary Russian Cinema

January 10, 2015, 7:15-9:15pm

SAT-E-2 Roundtable: A Leap into Outer Space: Launching a Fully Online Beginning Russian Textbook

Location:

Port of New York

Organizer:

Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton College

Chair:

Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton College

Discussants:

Anna Dotlibova, Carleton College

Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton College

Laura Goering, Carleton College