2018 Conference Program:

February 3, 2018, 8:00-10:00am

Session 5-1 : Stream 1B: Tolstoevsky (I): Dostoevsky and Internality

Location:

Declaration A

Chair:

Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University School of Law

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Brian Armstrong, Augusta University

Title:

Undomesticating the Sublime in The Idiot

Panelist:

Paul Contino, Pepperdine University

Title:

Alyosha and Kolya: The Recovery of Internality in The Brothers Karamazov

Panelist:

Yuri Corrigan, Boston University

Title:

Transgression and Obedience: Dostoevsky on Evil, Before and After Auschwitz

Discussants:

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

Session 5-2 Roundtable: Stream 2B (I): What Was Soviet Children's Literature? Contesting Established Mythologies

Location:

Banneker

Organizer:

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Chair:

Sara Pankenier Weld, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussants:

Anastasia Kostetskaya, University of Hawai’i at M?noa

Erika Haber, Syracuse University

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Session 5-3 : Stream 3B: Reading in Russia (I): Soviet Readers and Their Communities

Location:

Declaration B

Chair:

Elena Prokhorova, College of William and Mary

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Megan Kennedy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

‘Life-Creation’ as Life-Consumption: The Reader as Consumer in Platonov

Panelist:

Philip Gleissner, The Ohio State University

Title:

Reading as Hoarding: Thick Journals and the Materiality of Literature under Late Socialism

Panelist:

Elise Thorsen

Title:

Ideal Readerly Communities on the Soviet Screen

Discussants:

William S Nickell, University of Chicago

Session 5-4 : Stream 4B: Translation (I): TRANSLATION AND IDEOLOGY

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Brian James Baer, Kent State University

Title:

Re-thinking the Politics of Untranslatability: The Case of Soviet Russia

Panelist:

Timothy Sergay, UAlbany

Title:

Looking Back at Translating Through the Looking Glass: Seventeen years of Language and Intercultural Communication and Whorfian Difficulties of Russian-to-English Literary Translation

Panelist:

Olga Demidova

Title:

On the Brink of Transgression: the Power and responsibility of the Translator

Discussants:

Roman Ivashkiv, University of Alberta

Session 5-5 : Stream 5B: Setting priorities: what, how and why to teach in a language learning program

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Chair:

Irina V. Ivliyeva, Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly UMR)

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Title:

Teaching Compassion in the Slavic Languages Curriculum

Panelist:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Title:

A Self-Aware Learner: Motivating students’ language learning, performance, and persistence

Panelist:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Title:

Russian 2nd Year Materials: Authenticity and Meaning-making

Session 5-6 Roundtable: Nothing is True: True or False? (on the politics of postpravda in Russian culture)

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Organizer:

Matthew Walker, Middlebury College

Chair:

Matthew Walker, Middlebury College

Discussants:

Jonathan Platt, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University

Session 5-7 : Approaches to Teaching Russian

Location:

Tiber Creek B

Chair:

Rachel Stauffer, Virginia Tech

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Paulina De Santis, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Russian Literature and Domestic Violence Debate: Transformative Learning in the Russian Language Classroom

Panelist:

Larissa Ryapolova-Webb, U.S. Department of State

Title:

Coaching Russian Advanced Reading

Session 5-8 Panel: Gogol in 20th century Russian Literature and Criticism

Location:

Latrobe

Organizer:

Evgeniya Koroleva, Graduate Center CUNY

Chair:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Panelist:

Benjamin Stein, Johns Hopkins University

Title:

The Form of the Speaking Subject in Gogol and Bely

Panelist:

Vasily Lvov, Hunter College, CUNY

Title:

Over Gogol Again: The Russian Formalists, Andrei Bely, and Mikhail Bakhtin on Gogol's Humor

Discussants:

Michal Oklot, Brown University

Session 5-9 Roundtable: Study Abroad Programs in Central and East Central Europe

Location:

Renwick

Organizer:

Hana Waisserova, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Discussants:

Daniel W. Pratt, The Ohio State University

Hana Waisserova, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tomáš Pospíšil, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Veronika Tuckerova, Harvard University

Session 5-10 : Early 20th-Century Poetry

Location:

Bulfinch

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Agnieszka Jezyk, University of Toronto

Title:

Walkscapes of the Avant-Garde. Rhythm and Embodiment in Polish Poetry of the 1920s

Panelist:

Miroslava Nikolova, Bowdoin College

Title:

“My Voice is Weak, but my Will is Strong”: The Changing Poetics of Voice in Anna Akhmatova’s Poetry

Panelist:

Christopher W. Lemelin, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Title:

Limitlessness of the Voice: Heteroglossia in Tsvetaeva’s “Poem of the City Gate”

Session 5-11 : Russian Aspect

Location:

Burnham

Chair:

Robert Channon, Purdue University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Laura A. Janda, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway and Robert Reynolds, Brigham Young University

Title:

Russian aspect in context

Panelist:

Alina Israeli, American University

Title:

A taxonomy of aspectual meanings of the prefixed verbs of motion (VOM)

February 3, 2018, 1:15-3:00pm

Session 6-1 : Stream 1B: Tolstoevsky (II): Tolstoy: Between Philosophy and Fiction

Location:

Declaration A

Chair:

Jesse Stavis, Bryn Mawr College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Steven Shankman, University of Oregon

Title:

Between Philosophy and Fiction: Levinas and Tolstoy

Panelist:

Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College

Title:

Adultery with One's Own Wife: Narrative Conflict in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata

Panelist:

Michael Denner, Tolstoy Studies Journal

Title:

The Fowls of the Air: order and Providence in War and Peace

Discussants:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Session 6-2 Roundtable: Stream 2B: Early Soviet Children’s Literature as Contested Site: Challenges of the Past and Strategies for the Future (II)

Location:

Banneker

Organizer:

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Chair:

Thomas Keenan, Princeton University

Discussants:

Larissa V. Rudova, Pomona College

Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University

Yuri Leving, Princeton University

Session 6-3 : Stream 3B: Reading in Russia (II): Learning to Read Soviet, 1917-1928

Location:

Declaration B

Chair:

Katherine Reischl, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Carlotta Chenoweth, United States Military Academy

Title:

Satirical Magazines, Zoshchenko and Reader Relations

Panelist:

Zachary Hicks, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Reforging Literacy: Eisenstein’s Language of Images

Discussants:

jeffrey brooks, Johns Hopkins University

Session 6-4 : Stream 4B: Translation (II): Translation and Diaspora: Poetics of Translation

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Olga Demidova

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Adrian Wanner, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

Doing the Impossible: Marina Tsvetaeva’s French Self-Translation

Panelist:

Eugenia Kelbert, School of Philology, Higher School of Economics

Title:

Translating Style: Dostoevsky in Emigration

Panelist:

Zakhar Ishov, Uppsala University

Title:

Brodsky Revisited: Principles & Practices of Russian-English Poetry Translation – Twenty Years After

Discussants:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Session 6-5 : Stream 5B (II): Intermediate Russian: creating (re-thinking) goal-oriented curricula

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Chair:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Title:

The Conundrum of “Intermediate Russian”

Panelist:

Daria Aleeva, Portland State University

Title:

Third-Year Russian from Scratch: Re-thinking Themes, Input, and Activities for the Intermediate-Level Student.

Panelist:

Cynthia Martin, University of Maryland

Title:

Moving from Intermediate to Advanced in Russian: Obstacles and Strategies

Session 6-6 : Stream 6B: The Political in Contemporary Russian Culture (II): Aestheticizing the Political

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Chair:

Timothy Portice, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Title:

Post-Truth by 3P: Pelevin, Pomerantsev, Putin

Panelist:

Valentyna Kharkhun, Mykola Gogol State University of Nizhyn

Title:

Memory and Politics: The Soviet Era as Represented in Ukrainian Museum Exhibitions

Discussants:

Matthew Walker, Middlebury College

Session 6-7 : Linguistics 2

Location:

Latrobe

Chair:

Alina Israeli, American University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Tore Nesset, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Title:

From Norwegian to Russian: Contrasting Compounds

Panelist:

Natalia Labunets, Tyumen State University

Title:

Вещь в лингвокультурологической истории слова: «скатерть узорчатословная»

Panelist:

Natalia Batova, The University of Melbourne

Title:

Russian Word Order: the Pragmatics of Verb-initial Types

Session 6-8 Panel: The Failure of the Idyll in Nineteenth-century Russian Realism: Gogol’, Aksakov, Saltykov-Shchedrin

Location:

Bulfinch

Organizer:

Erica Camisa Morale, University of Southern California

Chair:

Laurel Schmuck, University of Colorado, Boulder

Panelist:

Alexandre Gontchar, Harvard University

Title:

Gogol’s Logic: On the Biblical Pastoral in the Old World Landowners

Panelist:

Thomas Watson, University of Southern California

Title:

A Chronicle at the Threshold of Old and New: Aksakov’s Family Chronicle

Panelist:

Erica Camisa Morale, University of Southern California

Title:

Iudushka and the Abacus: The Golovlevs between Destruction of the Idyll and the Torpidity of Consciousness

Discussants:

Kit Pribble, Wake Forest University

Session 6-9 : Tools, Assessment, and Policies for Teaching Russian

Location:

Burnham

Chair:

Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida

Title:

Using STARTALK principals in the beginning Russian class at UCF

Panelist:

Anna Ice, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Language Education Policy and Language Choice of Heritage Language Learners: a Case Study of a Russian Community School

Panelist:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Assessment and Curriculum for Heritage Language Learners: Exploring Russian data

Panelist:

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Clara S. Azevedo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Student Perceptions of Native and Non-native Instructors of Russian

Session 6-10 : Advanced Seminar with Monika Greenleaf

Location:

Tiber Creek B

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Monika Greenleaf, Stanford University

Title:

Latency and Season: How Russian Theater Performs in Time

February 3, 2018, 3:15-5:00pm

Session 7-1 : Stream 1B: Tolstoevsky (III): Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Religion and Literature

Location:

Declaration A

Chair:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jimmy Sudario Cabral

Title:

Dostoevsky: Religion, Nihilism, and Negative Theology

Panelist:

David Herman, University of Virginia

Title:

Tolstoy's Orphans

Panelist:

Jesse Stavis, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

The Prince and the Pauper: Resurrection, Crime and Punishment, and the Question of Conversion

Panelist:

Maxwell Parlin, St. Olaf College

Title:

Three Levs Nikolaevich: Tolstoy, Myshkin, Odoevtsev. Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House as Commentary to Dostoevsky’s The Idiot

Discussants:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

Session 7-2 Roundtable: Stream 2B (III): Visualizing the Verbal and Verbalizing the Visual: Aesthetic Challenges of Image and Text in Early Soviet Picture Books

Location:

Banneker

Organizer:

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Chair:

Larissa V. Rudova, Pomona College

Discussants:

Katherine Reischl, Princeton University

Sara Pankenier Weld, University of California, Santa Barbara

Thomas Keenan, Princeton University

Session 7-3 : Stream 3B: Reading in Russia (III): Contemporary Russian Readers

Location:

Declaration B

Chair:

Elizaveta Mankovskaya, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jacob Lassin, Yale University

Title:

The Business and Practice of 'Correct Reading': Pravchtenie.ru and the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church

Panelist:

Amanda Lerner, Yale University

Title:

Readership Rewards: Superpower Acquisition Through Reading in "The Librarian"

Panelist:

Sean Blink, Yale University

Title:

How It Really Was: Online Literary Communities for Soviet-Afghan War Veterans

Discussants:

Roman Utkin, Davidson College

Session 7-4 : Stream 4B: Translation (III): Translation in Eastern European Contexts

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Eugenia Kelbert, School of Philology, Higher School of Economics

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Oana Popescu-Sandu, University of Southern Indiana

Title:

The Power of Non-compliant Voices: Translingual Romanian-American Poetry

Panelist:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Title:

Blending and Bounding Languages: Marija Knežević's Poetry and the Impacts of Translation

Discussants:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session 7-5 : Stream 5B (III): Advanced Russian: creating (re-thinking) goal-oriented curricula

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Chair:

Cynthia Martin, University of Maryland

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ludmila Kozhevnikova, Smolny College

Title:

Difficulties in Teaching Russian Grammar to American students at an Advanced Level

Panelist:

Natalia Nekora, Smolny College

Title:

Teaching Russian Grammar at the Advanced Level: Ways of Expressing Periods of Time and Terms

Panelist:

Irina V. Ivliyeva, Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly UMR)

Title:

Mastering Oral Foreign Language Proficiencies with CANVAS Tools: Face-to-Face, Online, Anytime!

Session 7-6 : Stream 6B: The Political in Contemporary Russian Culture (III): Politicizing the Aesthetical

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Chair:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jonathan Platt, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Title:

Rape of the Amazons: Écriture féminine and Contemporary Russian Poetry

Panelist:

Natalia Plagmann, Princeton University

Title:

The Politics of Sound in Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan (2014) and Sobytie (The Event, 2015)

Discussants:

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Session 7-7 Panel: GLOBAL EFFECTS ON CZECH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Location:

Bulfinch

Organizer:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Chair:

Jan Culik, University of Glasgow

Panelist:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Title:

The Borders in Milan Kundera’s Ignorance: Nostalgia in Odysseus Sense, Socratic Ignorance, or a Case of Mental Amnesia?

Panelist:

Liana Battsaligova, Pomona College

Title:

“Fundamental Rules of Human Coexistence: Place and Time in Bohumil Hrabal’s Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult_”

Panelist:

Zuzana Rihova, University of Oxford

Title:

“Apollinaire and Czech Modernism in the 1930s. Milada Součková’s Talking Zone_”

Session 7-8 Panel: Contemporary Russian Historical Fiction: The Case of Vladimir Sharov

Location:

Renwick

Organizer:

Amina Gabrielova, Purdue University

Chair:

Anna Brodsky, Washington & Lee University

Panelist:

Oliver Ready, St Antony's College

Title:

How Vladimir Sharov’s Novels Are Made: A Translator’s Thoughts

Panelist:

Irina Anisimova, Florida State University

Title:

Vladimir Sharov’s Embodied Utopias

Panelist:

Amina Gabrielova, Purdue University

Title:

Sharov and Theater

Panelist:

Anastasia de La Fortelle, University of Lausanne

Title:

Negative Geopoetics and Mnemotopes in Vladimir Sharov’s Novels

Discussants:

Olga Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University

Session 7-9 Forum: Introductory Textbook for Heritage Learners of Russian and Principles of a Research-Informed Heritage-Language Pedagogy

Location:

Burnham

Organizer:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Panelists:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina

Session 7-10 : Russian Modernist Discourse and Perspectives

Location:

Latrobe

Chair:

Andrzej Brylak, University of Southern California

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Title:

De-Monologizing Early Symbolist Discourse on Dostoevsky

Panelist:

Jeffrey Riggs, UCLA Dept. of Slavic langauges and literatures

Title:

Teurgiia and Bogodeistvie in Viacheslav Ivanov's "Suspiria" Cycle

Panelist:

Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Emory University

Title:

Animating Modernist Perspectives: The Meaning of Animals in Works by Elena Guro and Natalia Goncharova

Session 7-11 : Identity and Poetics in Russian Literature and Culture

Location:

Tiber Creek B

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sidney Dement, State University of New York at Binghamton

Title:

The Pushkin Monument and the Naive Reader in Russian Culture

Panelist:

Ana Cohle, Princeton University

Title:

The National Mythopoesis of Viktor Vasnetsov

Panelist:

Natasha Kadlec, Harvard University

Title:

‘Pushkin and Gogol’ and more: the (a)historical fiction of Daniil Kharms

February 3, 2018, 5:15-7:00pm

Session 8-1 : Stream 1B: Tolstoevsky (IV): Tolstoy and The Novel

Location:

Declaration A

Chair:

David Herman, University of Virginia

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

Title:

Anna Karenina and the Movement of Tolstoy's Religious Thought

Panelist:

Anna Berman, McGill University

Title:

Mother of the Novel: War and Peace

Panelist:

Tatiana Kuzmic, Harvard University

Title:

Reading Anna Karenina with Social Psychologists (A Case for Moving Away from Freud)

Panelist:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Title:

The Cognitive Value of Love in War and Peace and Anna Karenina

Discussants:

Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto

Session 8-2 Roundtable: Perspectives on teaching with «Между нами» in the Intensive Elementary Context

Location:

Banneker

Organizer:

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Chair:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Discussants:

Albina Khabibulina, Vanderbilt University

Alla Smyslova, Columbia University

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Megan Luttrell, University of Kansas

Session 8-3 Panel: Capturing the Muse: Inspiration and Authority in Eighteenth-Century Russian Culture

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Organizer:

Alexander Averbuch, University of Toronto

Panelist:

Mariia Nesterenko, University of Tartu

Title:

Woman as a Judge and Inspirer of Literature in the Conception of Russian Sentimentalists

Panelist:

Anastasia Tsylina, Brown University

Title:

Nikolai Karamzin and the Formation of Russian Literary Canon: Inspiring and Educating Heart and Mind

Panelist:

Maria Kutuzov, University of Manitoba

Title:

Western European Engravings as a Source of Inspiration for the Icons of the Passion Tier at Tallinn’s Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord

Discussants:

Alexander Averbuch, University of Toronto

Alexander Markin, Slavisches Seminar

Session 8-4 : Solzhenitsyn

Location:

Bulfinch

Chair:

Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kevin McKenna, University of Vermont

Title:

"'What Men Live By': Leo Tolstoy's Proverb-Parable As a Source for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Novel, Cancer Ward"

Session 8-5 Roundtable: Mindfulness and Meditation Practices for Language Learning

Location:

Latrobe

Organizer:

Mark Hopkins, Bard College at Simon's Rock

Chair:

Mark Hopkins, Bard College at Simon's Rock

Discussants:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Marina Alexandrova, University of Texas at Austin

Rachel Stauffer, Virginia Tech

Session 8-6 : Stream 6B: The Political in Contemporary Russian Culture (IV): Visualizing/Performing the Political

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Chair:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Title:

Acts of Defiance: The Body Politic in Contemporary Russian Drama

Panelist:

Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Aleksei Petrukhin’s The Teacher (2015) and Kirill Serebrennikov’s The Student (2016): Politicizing Russian Youth Cinema in the 2010s

Discussants:

Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University

Session 8-7 Roundtable: Roundtable on Publishing

Location:

Tiber Creek B

Organizer:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Chair:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Discussants:

Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University

Anastasiya Osipova, University of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Denner, Tolstoy Studies Journal

Session 8-8 Roundtable: Teaching a Methodology Course. Revisited.

Location:

Declaration B

Organizer:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Chair:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Discussants:

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Larysa Stepanova, The Ohio State University

Maria Shardakova, Indiana University Bloomington

Session 8-9 : ACTR Members' Meeting

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Session 8-10 : Alexandra Petrova Reading

Location:

Burnham