2017 Conference Program: Saturday, February 19

February 4, 2017, 8:00-10:00am

Session 5-1 : STREAM 1: The Political in Contemporary Russian Culture B: New Conservative Aesthetics and the Culture Wars

Location:

Mission I

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Matthew Walker, Middlebury College

Title:

Fascism, Our Contemporary: Some Remarks on Myth, History and Politics in Recent Russian Cinema

Panelist:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Title:

The Battle for Pre-Modernity: Medieval Festivals in Contemporary Russia

Panelist:

Maria Sidorkina, Yale University

Title:

Deconstructive Conversations

Panelist:

Eliot Borenstein, New York University

Title:

Secret Societies for Creative Anachronism

Discussants:

Timothy Portice, Princeton University

Session 5-2 : STREAM 2: Three Left Panels! OBERIU and its Afterlives in Russian Culture B: Packing and Unpacking the Suitcase - OBERIU as an Unofficial Soviet Tradition

Location:

Powell I

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Geoffrey Cebula, Princeton University

Title:

Lipavsky’s Conversations with Eckermann

Panelist:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Title:

Concrete Absurd: Evolving Meanings of OBERIU for Postwar Unofficial Poetry

Panelist:

Rita Safariants, University of Rochester

Title:

The Avant-garde and Late-Soviet Rock-n-roll Culture

Discussants:

Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford University

Session 5-3 : STREAM 3: Russian Literature of the Anthropocene B: Political Geologies

Location:

Powell II

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Elena Fratto, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University

Title:

Red Allah’s Oil: Petrofuturism in the Shadow of Empire

Panelist:

Caroline Tracey, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Adapting Phaedra and the Ecofeminism of Marina Tsvetaeva

Panelist:

Elvira Godek-Kiryluk, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title:

Anthropocene for the Skeptic: Valentin Kataev’s Time, Forward!

Session 5-4 : STREAM 4: Translation in Slavic Contexts B: Translation and the Russian literary tradition

Location:

Cyril Magnin III

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Amelia Glaser, UC San Diego

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Maxwell Parlin, St. Olaf College

Title:

Pasternak's Faithfully Free Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73

Panelist:

Cassio de Oliveira, Portland State University

Title:

Translation as Literary Authorship in Rewritings of Guy de Maupassant by Tolstoi, Bunin, and Babel’

Panelist:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Title:

Beyond Good and Evil: Aleksei Remizov's "Chinese Strange Stories"

Discussants:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Session 5-5 : STREAM 5: Dostoevsky B: The North American Dostoevsky Society

Location:

Fillmore

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont

Title:

Pronouncing the "New Word": the Bronze Horseman Subtext of Crime and Punishment

Panelist:

Katie Lane, The Ohio State University

Title:

The Art of Literary Creation in The Brothers Karamazov

Session 5-7 : STREAM 7: Women's experience of War on Soviet and Post-Soviet Screen B

Location:

Hearst

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas

Title:

From Annychka to Liudmyla: Enduring Stereotypes in the Portrayal of Heroic Women in World War II

Panelist:

Tatiana MIkhailova, Columbia University

Title:

(De)marshing Femininity: Dmitry Meskhiev’s Battalion of Death (2015)

Discussants:

Gerald M. McCausland, Defense Language Institute - Washington

Session 5-8 : STREAM 8: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory B

Location:

Divisadero

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Greta Matzner-Gore, University of Southern California

Title:

The revisions to Anna Karenina and the Psychology of Perception

Panelist:

Matthew Mangold, Rutgers University

Title:

The Dreaming Mind in Realist Fiction: Grigorivich and Chekhov

Panelist:

Anastassia Kostrioukova, New York University

Title:

Mimetic Art and Medicine: The Ill Body as a Challenge to Claims to Truth in Late 19th Century Russian Realism and Medical Knowledge

Discussants:

Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon University

Session 5-9 Roundtable: STARTALK: Building bridges between high school and college programs (Part 2)

Location:

Mission II

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California - Los Angeles

Discussants:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Kathleen Evans-Romaine, Arizona State University

Svetlana Abramova, University of Washington

Session 5-10 : Aspect

Location:

Stockton

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Robert Channon, Purdue University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ilona Starý Kořánová, Filozoficka fakulta UK

Title:

Czech Capacitives: Aspect and Modality

Panelist:

Eun-Ji Song, Seoul National University

Title:

The Competition of Aspect for Verba Dicendi from a Constructional Perspective

Session 5-11 Roundtable: Issues in Language Assessment of Russian Heritage Language Learners

Location:

Mission III

Organizer:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Chair:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Discussants:

Alla Smyslova, Columbia University

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Irina Kogel

Tatiana E. Smorodinska, Middlebury College

February 4, 2017, 1:15-3:00pm

Session 6-1 : Knotty Problems in Slavic Grammar

Location:

Mission I

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Irina Mikaelian, Pennsylvania State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alina Israeli, American University

Title:

Why can’t we teach verbs of motion?

Panelist:

Lenore Grenoble, The University of Chicago and Jessica Kantarovich, The University of Chicago

Title:

A new methodology for reconstructing sociolinguistic variation and language contact

Panelist:

Christina Y. Bethin, Stony Brook University

Title:

Morphology on the Surface: The Belarusian Genitive Plural

Session 6-2 Panel: Current Events and Pop Culture in the Intermediate Russian Classroom: Experiments, Successes and Best Practices

Location:

Powell II

Organizer:

Diana Dukhanova, Brown University

Chair:

Lynne deBenedette, Brown University

Panelist:

Diana Dukhanova, Brown University

Title:

A Russian Life: Biographies as Linguistic and Cultural Teaching Tools in the Intermediate Classroom

Panelist:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title:

Keeping the Classroom Current: Incorporating News and Cultural Events in First and Second-Year Russian Curriculum

Panelist:

Ekaterina Burvikova, UNH

Title:

Teaching Russian Through Sitcoms

Session 6-3 Panel: Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina": Minor Characters, Major Impact"

Location:

Davidson

Organizer:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Chair:

Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Panelist:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Title:

The Politics of Life and Death: Nikolai Levin and Radicalism in "Anna Karenina"

Panelist:

Vadim Shneyder, University of California, Los Angeles

Title:

Varenka and the Economy of Women's Work in "Anna Karenina"

Panelist:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Title:

"The Labyrinth of Linkages" Decoded: Character Networks in "Anna Karenina"

Discussants:

Greta Matzner-Gore, University of Southern California

Session 6-4 : Musical Motifs in Russian Culture

Location:

Stockton

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Christina Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anastasia Gordienko, University of Arizona

Title:

Shanson: the Soundtrack of Russian Politics

Panelist:

Ekaterina Fleishman, DLI

Title:

Women Who Rock: Russian Female Rock Singers in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture

Session 6-5 Panel: Pushkin

Location:

Mission III

Organizer:

Leslie O'Bell, University of Texas-Austin

Chair:

Anna Muza, UC-Berkeley

Panelist:

Gerald E. Mikkelson, University of Kansas

Title:

Peter the Great and Pushkin--Two Revolutionaries?

Panelist:

Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon

Title:

Imperial Pushkin

Panelist:

Leslie O'Bell, University of Texas-Austin

Title:

Eugene Onegin in Process: Canto VII, 1827-28

Session 6-6 Panel: Slavists as Biographers and Scholars of Life-Writing

Location:

Divisadero

Organizer:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Chair:

Sarah Bishop, Willamette University

Panelist:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Title:

Recasting Lives: Biography and Censorship

Panelist:

Michael Naydan, Pennsylvania State University

Title:

The Ethics of Biography: Writing the Lives of Still Living Authors

Panelist:

Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University

Title:

Following in the Footsteps: Personal Places and the Biographical Subject

Discussants:

Hilde Hoogenboom, Arizona State University

Session 6-7 Panel: Physiologies of the Text in the 1840s

Location:

Cyril Magnin I

Organizer:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Chair:

Lyubov Golburt, UC Berkeley

Panelist:

Jennifer Flaherty, New York University

Title:

Он всегда попевал вполголоса: Capturing Peasant Voice in Turgenev’s Записки охотника

Panelist:

William S Nickell, University of Chicago

Title:

Tipazh and Politipazh: The Trouble with the Russian Types on Kul’chinskii’s “Omnibus”

Panelist:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Title:

Paper-Making and Turgenev’s Hunter as a Listener

Discussants:

Thomas Newlin, Oberlin College

Session 6-8 Panel: Regifting: Nabokov and His International Audiences

Location:

Powell I

Organizer:

Luke Parker, Amherst College

Chair:

Galya Diment, University of Washington

Panelist:

Luke Parker, Amherst College

Title:

America Obscura, or Segelkranz and Guinea Pig are Dead

Panelist:

Beci Carver, School of English

Title:

Nabokov’s American Gut

Panelist:

Roman Utkin, Davidson College

Title:

Despair: Nabokov, Fassbinder, and the Postwar Avant-Garde

Discussants:

Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley

Session 6-9 Panel: Cultural Fronts of the Cold War

Location:

Cyril Magnin III

Organizer:

Anya Corke, Yale University

Chair:

Isabel Lane, Boston College

Panelist:

Megan Race, Harvard University

Title:

The Prodigal Son Returns: Balanchine in the Soviet Union

Panelist:

Tony Lin, Connecticut College

Title:

American Hero and Soviet Sympathizer? The Case of Van Cliburn

Discussants:

Rita Safariants, University of Rochester

Session 6-10 : Identity, Philosophy and Gnosticism in 19th-Century Slavic Culture

Location:

Mission II

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anna Kovalchuk, University of Oregon

Title:

The Hymen and the Burial Mound: Taras Shevchenko and the Politics and Poetics of National Rebirth

Panelist:

Ellen Langer, University of California

Title:

Who’s Afraid of Jan Neruda? Notable deletions from editions of Povídky malostranské published during the Nazi Occupation

Panelist:

Kit Pribble, Wake Forest University

Title:

Beyond Heaven and Earth: Romantic Gnosticism and the Overcoming of Byron in Mikhail Lermontov's Demon

Session 6-11 Panel: New Approaches in Teaching Ukrainian as a Foreign Language

Location:

Hearst

Organizer:

Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University

Chair:

Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University

Panelist:

Oksana Lutsyshyna, University of Texas at Austin

Title:

How to Teach Writing in Ukrainian Through Content. Intermediate Level

Panelist:

Oleksandra Wallo, University of Kansas

Title:

Teaching Ukrainian Cases in the North American College Classroom

Panelist:

Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University

Title:

Teaching Ukrainian in a Shared Language Classroom. Experience of the Shared Course Initiative at Columbia, Yale, and Cornell Universities

February 4, 2017, 3:15-5:00pm

Session 7-1 Roundtable: AATSEEL Graduate Student Committee Invitational Panel: Q&A on Navigating the Slavic Job Market

Location:

Mission I

Organizer:

Daniel Green, University of Cambridge

Chair:

Daniel Green, University of Cambridge

Discussants:

Elena Fratto, Princeton University

Katherine Bowers, University of British Columbia

Sidney Dement, Binghamton University

Tatiana Filimonova, Dartmouth College

Session 7-2 Roundtable: The Revised Standards for Learning Russian and K-12 Articulation

Location:

Cyril Magnin II

Organizer:

Jane W. Shuffelton, Brighton High School, retired

Discussants:

Jane W. Shuffelton, Brighton High School, retired

Thomas Jesús Garza, University of Texas - Austin

Session 7-3 Panel: Love, Literature, and Late Tolstoy

Location:

Stockton

Organizer:

Victoria Juharyan, Middlebury College

Chair:

Jesse Stavis, Bryn Mawr College

Panelist:

David Herman, University of Virginia

Title:

The Hesitations of Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Il'ich

Panelist:

Victoria Juharyan, Middlebury College

Title:

Love and Knowledge in Tolstoy's Resurrection

Panelist:

Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College

Title:

Tolstoy and Folklore: The Case of The Forged Coupon

Discussants:

William S Nickell, University of Chicago

Session 7-4 : Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Art

Location:

Cyril Magnin III

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Emory University

Title:

Un-framing the Earth: “Ecotones” and The Art of Elena Guro and Liubov Popova

Panelist:

Rachael Lee, Harvard University

Title:

Approaching Non-Event Violence in Fiction: A Study of Babel’s Kaleidoscope

Panelist:

Alexander Tullock, American Councils for International Education

Title:

The Word as Body and the Body of the Word: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s “Avtobiografia trupa”

Discussants:

Alexander Lindskog, University of Illinois at Chicago

Session 7-5 : Late Twentieth-Century Literature

Location:

Mission III

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Rachel Stauffer, Virginia Tech

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University

Title:

The Body Remembers: Loss, Recollection, and Sincerity in Trifonov’s Late Works

Panelist:

Inessa Gelfenboym, University of Southern California

Title:

Teleology as Eternal Return in Vladimir Voinovich's Moscow 2042

Panelist:

Nadezhda Vinogradova, Northwestern University

Title:

The Metaphysics of Punctuation in Joseph Brodsky’s Lithuanian Nocturne

Panelist:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Title:

Milan Kundera and Wang Xiaobo: Sexuality as an Expresion of Rebellion Against Opressive Authority

Session 7-6 Roundtable: In Memoriam: Charles (Chuck) Gribble

Location:

Hearst

Organizer:

George Fowler, Slavica Publishers; and Indiana University

Chair:

Robert Channon, Purdue University

Discussants:

Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University

Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University

George Fowler, Slavica Publishers; and Indiana University

Katia McClain, Univ of California - Santa Barbara

Robert Channon, Purdue University

Session 7-7 : East-European and Eurasian Cinema

Location:

Fillmore

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Jennifer Zale, Indiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Tatiana Melnikova, Ohio State University

Title:

Art and Its Functions in Polanski’s Films

Panelist:

Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Colby College

Title:

Renegotiating the ‘Communal Apartment’: Migration and Identity in Contemporary Eurasian Cinema

Session 7-8 : Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Culture

Location:

Mission II

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee and Erika Knowles, University of Tennessee

Title:

Tolstoy, Shklovsky, and the Image of Creativity in Nabokov

Panelist:

Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University

Title:

The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer

Panelist:

Anna Aydinyan, Kenyon College

Title:

The “Treacherous Eunuch” in Pursuit of Freedom

Session 7-9 : Silver Age Perspectives on the Golden Age

Location:

Cyril Magnin I

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Jonathan Stone, Franklin & Marshall College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elizabeth Geballe, Indiana University

Title:

Fictions of Freedom: Bunin's Liberation of Tolstoy

Panelist:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Title:

Merezhkovskii’s Dostoevskian Response to Tolstoyan Death in “Smert'”

Panelist:

Tim Langen, University of Missouri

Title:

Ivanov's Gogol and the Supra-Individual

Session 7-10 Roundtable: Taking Russian Study Abroad Programs Outside Russia: Challenges, Approaches and Reflections on Practice

Location:

Powell II

Organizer:

Veronika Egorova, Harvard University

Chair:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Discussants:

Lawrence Mansour, US Military Academy

Margaret Stephenson, American Councils for International Education:ACTR/ACCELS

Nyusya Milman-Miller, Virginia Tech

Oksana Willis, Bucknell University

Olga Mukhortova, DLIFLC, DTRA

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Sergey Simonov, Learn Russian in the European Union

Veronika Egorova, Harvard University

Session 7-11 Panel: Implementation of Technology-Enhanced PBLL and Online Intercultural Exchanges in College-Level Russian Courses

Location:

Powell I

Organizer:

Liudmila Klimanova, University of Arizona

Chair:

Liudmila Klimanova, University of Arizona

Panelist:

Laura Little, Connecticut College

Title:

Global Russian, Local Classrooms: Telecollaboration Projects at Connecticut College

Panelist:

Maria Bondarenko, Université de Montréal and Valentina Vinokurova, University of Arizona

Title:

Learning Russian in Montreal: a comparative evaluation of two online intercultural exchange projects with elements of PBL

Panelist:

Liudmila Klimanova, University of Arizona

Title:

Intercultural Learning and The CULTURA project

Panelist:

Jennifer Bown, Brigham Young University

Title:

Assessing student performance in online exchanges

February 4, 2017, 5:15-7:00pm

Session 8-1 : STREAM 1: The Political in Contemporary Russian Culture C: The Protest Art

Location:

Cyril Magnin I

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Zhanna Budenkova, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Russian Protest Art: The Grotesque Body That Saves the Nation

Panelist:

Kiun Hwang, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Political and Artistic Claims on the Wall

Panelist:

Christina Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

The Ascension of Unskilled Labor: Critical Aesthetic Strategies from Prigov to Voina

Session 8-2 : STREAM 2: Three Left Panels! OBERIU and its Afterlives in Russian Culture C: "Can it be o poets/your songs have all been sung" - Russian Poetry after OBERIU

Location:

Cyril Magnin II

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Oleg Minin, Bard College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Maria Vassileva, Harvard University

Title:

“A quiet nuclear explosion”: Maria Stepanova reads Aleksandr Vvedensky

Panelist:

Michael Weinstein, Harvard University

Title:

Speech At the Word's End: The Persona Poem After Vvedensky

Panelist:

Laura Little, Connecticut College

Title:

How Osya Learned to Write: Vladimir Ufliand's Brodsky Legends

Discussants:

Geoffrey Cebula, Princeton University

Session 8-3 : STREAM 3: Russian Literature of the Anthropocene C: Other Natures

Location:

Divisadero

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Vasilina Orlova, School of Creative Writing

Title:

Gifts of Nature: Everyday life, Geoengineering and the Industrial Spectacle in Soviet Siberia

Panelist:

Isabel Lane, Boston College

Title:

Geologic Time, Radioactive Half-Life: Long Temporalities in Russian and American Nuclear Fiction

Panelist:

Christopher Pike, Northwestern University

Title:

Of Entropy and “Hairy Paws;” A Vision of Biocentric Freedom in Evgenii Zamiatin’s We

Panelist:

Alec Brookes, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Title:

Following Nabokov’s Butterflies While Looking for Life in the Other-than-Anthropocene

Session 8-4 Roundtable: STREAM 4: Translation in Slavic Contexts C: Roundtable on Cross-Disciplinary Teaching and Research in Translation Studies and Slavic Studies: State of the Field 

Location:

Powell II

Organizer:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussants:

Amelia Glaser, UC San Diego

Brian James Baer, Kent State University

Harsha Ram, University of California at Berkeley

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Session 8-5 : STREAM 5: Dostoevsky C: Roundtable

Location:

Davidson

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

Discussants:

Brian Armstrong, Augusta University

Katherine Bowers, University of British Columbia

Flávio Ricardo Vassoler do Canto, Northwestern University

Richard Weisberg

Session 8-6 Panel: Teaching Russian Grammar (Dedicated to the memory of Professor Frank J. Miller)

Location:

Powell I

Organizer:

Anna Kudyma, UCLA

Chair:

Lynn Visson, Hippocrene Books

Panelist:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Title:

Matching Activities to Topics: The Challenges of Teaching Russian Grammar at the Beginning Level.”

Panelist:

David W. Gasperetti, Univ. of Notre Dame

Title:

Teaching Grammar Outside the Time Allotted: A Case Study of В пути in Intermediate Russian

Panelist:

Jason Galie, Defense Language Insitute--Washington

Title:

Fluency at the Advanced Level Without Emphasis on Vocabulary?

Panelist:

Anna Kudyma, UCLA

Title:

Teaching Russian Grammar at the Advanced Level: From Linguistic to Discourse Competence

Discussants:

Lynne deBenedette, Brown University

Session 8-7 : STREAM 8: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory C

Location:

Cyril Magnin III

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

Greta Matzner-Gore, University of Southern California

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Daniel Brooks, Rutgers University

Title:

Iurii Annenkov: Mimesis in Visual and Verbal Portraiture

Panelist:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

Title:

Stanislavsky’s Humans and Meyerhold’s Puppets: Mimetic Bodies in the Russian Modernist Theater

Panelist:

Pavel Khazanov, Rutgers University

Title:

Looking Sincere: Vladimir Sappak’s Theory of Anti-Stalinist Subjectivity for the TV Era

Discussants:

Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Session 8-8 : Language-Teaching Tools

Location:

Fillmore

Organizer:

Program Committee

Chair:

David Prestel, Michigan State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Holly Raynard, University of Florida

Title:

Content-based instruction for the multi-level LCTL classroom

Panelist:

Natalia Nekora, Smolny College

Title:

The Specifics of the Functional Approach in the Study of Russian Grammar.

Panelist:

Maria Ortenberg, DLIFLC

Title:

GLOSS: A Versatile Language-Teaching Tool

Panelist:

Anna Alsufieva, Portland State University

Title:

The Functioning of Explanatory Complex Sentences (ECS) with the Conjunction ‘chto’ in Written Texts of L2 and Heritage Learners of Russian (Advanced Level)