2019 Conference Program:

• Overview
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• Friday
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7:00am-5:00pm

Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration (Maurepas Prefunction, 3rd floor)

7:00am-8:00am

Continental Breakfast (Ile de France Prefunction, 3rd floor)

8:00am-10:00am

Conference Panels and Streams: Session 5 (see below for room assignments)

9:00am-4:30pm

Exhibit Hall (Ile de France Prefunction, 3rd floor

10:00am-10:50am

AATSEEL Members' Meeting (Ile de France I)

11:00am-12:00pm

Keynote Address: "The Pleasures of Philology" by Yuri Leving (Ile de France I)

1:15pm-3:00pm

Conference Panels: Session 6

Advanced Seminar with Irina Shevelenko (Ile de France I)

2:30pm-3:30pm

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall (Ile de France Prefunction, 3rd floor

3:15pm-5:00pm

Conference Panels and Streams: Session 7

5:15pm-7:00pm

Conference Panels and Streams: Session 8

ACTR Membership Meeting (Iris)

Pedagogy Workshop: Open Educational Practices and the Future of the Language Textbook, Christian T. Hilchey (Ile de France I)

7:30pm-9:30pm

Poetry Reading (3rd Floor Bridge) Please join us for a thrilling evening of Russian poetry featuring readings by an array of acclaimed Russian poet-scholars hailing from four countries: Alexander Averbuch (Canada), Polina Barskova (US), Stanislav Lvovsky (UK), Ivan Sokolov (US), Maria Stepanova (Russia). Barskova, Lvovsky and Stepanova will be the subjects of the annual AATSEEL Poetry Translation Workshop, so we may add some English translations to the mix as well. This will be an excellent opportunity to hear work by and pose questions to some of the leading lights of Russian poetry today.

February 9, 2019, 8:00-10:00am

Session 5-1 : Stream 1B: Approaches to teaching Slavic languages: connecting forms and functions and creating meaning (I): Lexis

Location:

Rosalie

Chair:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Six, University of Kansas

Title:

Hen or Egg? Vocabulary versus Syntax in Russian for the Professions.

Panelist:

Lidija Cvikic, Faculty of Teacher Education University of Zagreb

Title:

How can vocabulary determine grammar teaching? An example of the Croatian language

Panelist:

Maria Bondarenko, University of Montréal

Title:

‘Semantic labels’ as alternative strategy for learning basic verbs of notion at low-proficiency levels of Russian L2 instruction.

Session 5-2 : Stream 2B: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory (I)

Location:

Ile de France II

Chair:

Kit Pribble, Wake Forest University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College

Title:

Dostoevskiian Allegory and the Realist Project

Panelist:

Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Title:

“V romane nado geroiia”: Realist character-systems in Dostoevsky's Zapiski iz podpol’ia

Panelist:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Title:

Not theatrical, not aesthetic beauty will save the world:' Realistic Symbolism and Naturalism on the Stage

Discussants:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

Session 5-3 Roundtable: Stream 3B: Supporting Characters in the Soviet Cinema of 70s-80s (I)

Location:

Ile de France III

Organizer:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Discussants:

Natalia Plagmann, Princeton University

Tom Roberts, Smith College

Session 5-4 : Stream 4B: Inclusive Pedagogies in Slavic Languages (I): Using Technology to Include and Accommodate

Location:

Conde

Chair:

Rachel Stauffer, Virginia Tech

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Hope Wilson, The Ohio State University

Title:

Online paths to cultural and language learning

Panelist:

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Title:

The Russian Voices Interview Project: Building Empathy and an Inclusive Classroom Through Video Interviews of Russian Speakers

Discussants:

Jill Martiniuk, University of Houston

Session 5-5 : Stream 5B: Red Migrations: Marxism and Mobility in the early 20th Century (I): Theories of Migration/Theory in Migration

Location:

Frontenac

Chair:

Philip Gleissner, The Ohio State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University

Title:

On Circles and Spheres of Soviet Cosmopolitanism

Panelist:

Irina Denischenko, Georgetown University

Title:

Hungarian Marxist Theorists in the USSR: Janos Macza and Gyorgy Lukács

Panelist:

Kaitlyn Sorenson, State University of New York at Binghamton

Title:

“Dionysian Socialism?”: Discursive Economies of Theory and Praxis at the Korčula Summer School

Discussants:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Session 5-6 : Stream 6B: Spontaneity, Negativity, Anarchism in Russian Culture (I): Anarchism and Russian Letters

Location:

Maurepas

Chair:

Anastasiya Osipova, University of Colorado, Boulder

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Laurel Schmuck, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title:

Monetizing morality: Tolstoy's language of debt, from liberal economics to anarchy

Panelist:

Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University

Title:

LITERARY JOURNALISM IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA: OF WOMEN, BY WOMEN?

Panelist:

Anthony Topoleski, Northwestern University

Title:

History and the Poetics of Renewal in the Work of Aleksei Parshchikov

Panelist:

Artemy Magun, European University at Saint-Petersburg

Title:

Spontaneity and Negativity in the Work of Viktor Pelevin

Discussants:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

Session 5-7 : Stream 7B: The Russian Medical Humanities (I)

Location:

Orleans

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Natalia Vygovskaia, Brown University

Title:

Becoming the Doctor: Public and Personal in Nikolai Pirogov’s ‘’Questions of Life: diary of an Old Physician’’ and Vikenty Veresaev’s “The Memoirs of a Physician”

Panelist:

Brian R. Johnson, Macalester College

Title:

Stavrogin as Syphilitic in Dostoevsky’s Demons

Panelist:

Frederick White, Utah Valley University

Title:

Pauline Tarnowsky and the Russian Influence on Cesare Lomobroso’s Criminal Woman

Session 5-8 Panel: Dialogue(s) with the Other: Russian literature of the 18th century - the first half of the 19th century in the European context

Location:

Ile de France I

Organizer:

Anastasia Tsylina, Brown University

Chair:

Miroslava Nikolova, Bowdoin College

Panelist:

Evgenii Matveev, Friedrich Schiller University

Title:

Descriptio urbis in St. Petersburg panegyrics by M. V. Lomonosov and A. S. Pushkin

Panelist:

Anastasia Tsylina, Brown University

Title:

The cultural role of John Milton’s "Paradise Lost" in Russian and Czech literature at the end of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th century

Panelist:

Yuliya Volkhonovych

Title:

Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and Russian Heroides

Discussants:

Jelena Pogosjan, University of Alberta

Session 5-9 Roundtable: An Open Discussion of Formalists in the Classroom

Location:

St. Claude

Organizer:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Chair:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Discussants:

Edward Tyerman, University of California, Berkeley

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley

Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College

Session 5-10 Roundtable: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Polish Language

Location:

St. Jerome

Organizer:

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Chair:

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Discussants:

Agnieszka Jezyk, University of Toronto

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Ewa Maria Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Illinois Chicago

Kinga Kosmala, Northwestern University

February 9, 2019, 1:15-3:00pm

Session 6-1 : Stream 1B: Approaches to teaching Slavic languages: connecting forms and functions and creating meaning (II): Lexico-grammar

Location:

Rosalie

Chair:

Irina Six, University of Kansas

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ludmila Kozhevnikova, Smolny College

Title:

Impersonal Constructions in Russian Grammar Classes

Panelist:

Natalia Nekora, Smolny College

Title:

Teaching Time Constructions in Complex Sentences at the Advanced Level

Session 6-2 : Stream 2B: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory (II)

Location:

Ile de France II

Chair:

Jennifer Flaherty, New York University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kit Pribble, Wake Forest University

Title:

The Romantic Artwork as Embodiment: Word and Image in Gogol’s Arabesques

Panelist:

Olga Zolotareva, Princeton University

Title:

When the Image Responds: The Aura of the Photograph in Aleksandr Ivanov’s “The Stereoscope: A Twilight Story”

Panelist:

Byungsam Jung, Stanford University

Title:

Lolita in Humbert's Camera Obscura and Lolita in Nabokov's Camera Lucida

Session 6-3 Roundtable: Stream 3B: Supporting Characters in the Soviet Cinema of 70s-80s (II)

Location:

Ile de France III

Organizer:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Raymond DeLuca, Harvard University

Discussants:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Tatiana MIkhailova, Columbia University

Session 6-4 Roundtable: Stream 4B: Inclusive Pedagogies in Slavic Languages (II): Roundtable: Supporting Teachers in Creating an Inclusive Environment in a Russian Language Classroom

Location:

Conde

Organizer:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Chair:

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Discussants:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Jill Martiniuk, University of Houston

Natalie McCauley, University of Richmond

Rachel Stauffer, Virginia Tech

Session 6-5 : Stream 5B: Red Migrations: Marxism and Mobility in the early 20th Century (II): Circulating Revolutions: Race and Socialist Migrations

Location:

Frontenac

Chair:

Holly Myers, University of Delaware

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Katherine Reischl, Princeton University

Title:

Black, White, Red: American Civil Rights in Soviet Color

Panelist:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Title:

Disgust, Hygiene, and Revolution: Langston Hughes and Arthur Koestler in Soviet Central Asia

Discussants:

Edward Tyerman, University of California, Berkeley

Session 6-6 : Stream 6B: Spontaneity, Negativity, Anarchism in Russian Culture (II): Soviet/Post-Soviet Negativity

Location:

Maurepas

Chair:

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Marina Simakova, European University at St. Petersburg

Title:

Between Play and Negation: Lunacharsky’s Subversion of God and Religion of Labour

Panelist:

Matthew Whitley, CUNY Graduate Center

Title:

The Prince’s Many Peoples: Kropotkin and the Ethnographic Search for an “Anarchist Modernity”

Panelist:

Anastasiya Osipova, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title:

Anarchism’s Pessimistic Hero: Aleksey Borovoy’s Tragic Sensibility

Discussants:

Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University

Session 6-7 : Stream 7B: The Russian Medical Humanities (II)

Location:

Orleans

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

Title:

Theatrical Psychology: Vygotsky, the Stage, and a Theory of Communication

Panelist:

Angela Brintlinger, The Ohio State University

Title:

“Sisters, doin’ it for themselves”: The Decentered Female Text of Yuliya Voznesenskaya

Panelist:

William S Nickell, University of Chicago

Title:

Beyond Chekhov and Bulgakov: Other Approaches to the Russian Medical Humanities

Session 6-8 : Advanced Seminar with Irina Shevelenko

Location:

Ile de France I

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Shevelenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Russian Modernist Studies: A Centennial Perspective

Session 6-9 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages, Part 1

Location:

Rex

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

David L. Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelist:

Anna GÄ…sienica Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University

Title:

Easter traditions in the Polish language class

Panelist:

Christopher Harwood, Columbia University

Title:

Teaching elementary Czech with distance learning technology

Panelist:

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Interactive Prague: Creating culture videos for use with Google Maps

Panelist:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Old Church Slavic as a window to second Slavic language study

Panelist:

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Accommodating heritage language speakers in a foreign language class

Panelist:

Edit Nagy, University of Florida

Title:

Online activities and their (pedagogical) effectiveness in a hybrid classroom (Hungarian)

Panelist:

Varvara Ponomareva, Charles University

Title:

Methods of teaching inflection in Czech

Panelist:

Marie Stepanova, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova / Charles University in Prague

Title:

Sociocultural competence in heritage language classes in Czech diasporas: Experience and possible methods of teaching

Session 6-10 Roundtable: Teaching late Soviet literature

Location:

Bacchus

Organizer:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Chair:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Discussants:

Christina Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont

Laura Little, Connecticut College

Naomi Caffee, Reed College

Todd P. Armstrong, Grinnell College

Session 6-11 Roundtable: Russian for Professional Purposes

Location:

St. Jerome

Organizer:

Tony Brown, Brigham Young University

Chair:

Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University

Discussants:

Alexander Abashkin, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Elizaveta Kurganova, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Jennifer Bown, Brigham Young University

Tony Brown, Brigham Young University

Valeriya Chekalina, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session 6-12 : Soviet Literature and Culture

Location:

St. Claude

Chair:

Nina Bond, Franklin & Marshall

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Andrei Gorkovoi, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

History and Form: The Search for Authenticity and Artyom Vesyoly’s Russia Washed By Blood

Panelist:

Ekaterina Tikhonyuk, The Ohio State University

Title:

Gone with the Voice: The Strategies of Conformity Under Socialist Realism

February 9, 2019, 3:15-5:00pm

Session 7-1 : Stream 1B: Approaches to teaching Slavic languages: connecting forms and functions and creating meaning (III): Syntax

Location:

Rosalie

Chair:

Maria Shardakova, Bryn Mawr College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ekaterina Vlasova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation

Title:

A corpus-informed approach to teaching Russian predicative number agreement: from implicit learning to explicit instructions

Panelist:

Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina

Title:

Word order patterns in the writing of L2 and heritage learners of Russian: An exploratory study

Discussants:

Maria Shardakova, Bryn Mawr College

Session 7-2 : Stream 2B: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory (III)

Location:

Ile de France II

Chair:

Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jennifer Flaherty, New York University

Title:

Class Interest and The End of Realism in Nekrasov's Komu na Rusi zhit' khorosho

Panelist:

Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto

Title:

Why Tolstoy’s War Writing Does Not Grow Old

Panelist:

Hilah Kohen, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Mobile Mimesis: The Humanist Potentials of Vysotsky in Translation

Discussants:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Session 7-3 Panel: Finances, Politics, and Science: Unconventional Uses of Poetry in 18th-Century Russia

Location:

Ile de France III

Organizer:

Alexander Averbuch, University of Toronto

Chair:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Panelist:

Lyubov Golburt, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

The “Matter” of Poetry: Pyotr Slovtsov’s Scientific Lyric

Panelist:

Alexander Averbuch, University of Toronto

Title:

I Pay in Verse Cash: The Mercantile Muse in 18th-Century Russia

Panelist:

Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, University of Southern California

Title:

Women’s Claims to Political Relevance in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Discussants:

Marcus C. Levitt, University of Southern California

Session 7-4 : Stream 4B: Inclusive Pedagogies in Slavic Languages (III): Classroom Strategies for Inclusivity and Accommodation

Location:

Conde

Chair:

Natalie McCauley, University of Richmond

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Mark Hopkins, Bard College at Simon's Rock

Title:

Speaking from Silence: Breath-focused Practices for the Abatement of Anxiety in the Language Classroom

Panelist:

Lynne deBenedette, Brown University

Title:

Teaching the Whole Russian Language Class: Diverse Learners, Activity Design and Classroom Interaction

Discussants:

Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Session 7-5 : Stream 5B: Red Migrations: Marxism and Mobility in the early 20th Century (III): Creating the Space of/for Socialism

Location:

Frontenac

Chair:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Holly Myers, University of Delaware

Title:

Larisa Reisner in Afghanistan: Revolutionary, Writer, and Diplomat

Panelist:

Elise Thorsen

Title:

The Hazards of Russianizing Marxism: The Case of The Lay of Ulialaev

Panelist:

Philip Gleissner, The Ohio State University

Title:

Red Migration of Texts: Socialist Networks for the Circulation of Literature in Translation

Discussants:

Katerina Clark, Yale University

Session 7-6 Roundtable: Stream 6B: Spontaneity, Negativity, Anarchism in Russian Culture (III): Roundtable: Directions in Research on Anarchism in Russian Culture

Location:

Maurepas

Organizer:

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

Chair:

Daniil Leiderman, Texas A&M

Discussants:

Anastasiya Osipova, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University

Nina Gurianova, Northwestern University

Session 7-8 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages, Part 2

Location:

Rex

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Panelist:

Holly Raynard, University of Florida

Title:

Performance-based assessment

Panelist:

Marija Rosic, University of Michigan

Title:

Orthography and orthoepy in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian as a foreign Language

Panelist:

Yulia Semyachkina, Charles University

Title:

A contrastive approach to teaching in closely related languages

Panelist:

Anna Szawara, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

Advanced Polish through contemporary culture: a topical syllabus for mixed-proficiency groups

Panelist:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Title:

The old and the new: the use of Anglicisms as an effective way to learning Czech

Panelist:

Olena Sivachenko, University of Alberta

Title:

Incorporating a blended-learning model into the Ukrainian language course for beginners

Panelist:

Ewa Maria Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan

Title:

Between Russian and English: Designing OPI assessment questions for Slavic LCTLs

Session 7-9 : Joseph Brodsky: Texts and Contexts

Location:

Ile de France I

Chair:

Gabriella A. Ferrari, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Miroslava Nikolova, Bowdoin College

Title:

Faces (and Spaces) of Exile: Examining Motifs in Joseph Brodsky's and Anna Akhmatova's Late Poetry

Panelist:

Yuri Leving, Princeton University

Title:

Visual Perspective in Joseph Brodsky’s Graphic Art and Poetry

Panelist:

Zakhar Ishov, Uppsala University

Title:

“Prosody & Politics, or the poet’s take on Russian-Polish love-hate relationship: Joseph Brodsky on free verse in translations of Zbigniew Herbert.”

Session 7-10 Panel: Graduate Invitational Panel: Feeling Across Borders in 19th-century Russia

Location:

St. Claude

Organizer:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Chair:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Panelist:

Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame

Title:

Identifying Emotional Communities in the Age of Pushkin

Panelist:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Title:

Emotions and Cognition in Dostoevsky’s ‘A Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Panelist:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Tolstoy and the Translatability of Aesthetic Experience

Discussants:

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University

Session 7-11 : Bulgakov and Nabokov

Location:

St. Jerome

Chair:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Harvard University

Title:

The City that Inspires: Mikhail Bulgakov's Kyiv Narrative

Panelist:

Maria Whittle, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Heroes in Exile: Narrating the Stalinist Subject in The Master and Margarita

Panelist:

Marina Minskaya

Title:

My strangely loved land

Panelist:

Rusina Volkova, Independent Scholar

Title:

“Abdication! One third of the alphabet!”: Night Dreams in Nabokov’s Pnin

February 9, 2019, 5:15-7:00pm

Session 8-1 Panel: Open Educational Practices and the Future of the Language Textbook

Location:

Ile de France I

Organizer:

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin

Chair:

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin

Panelist:

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Pedagogy Workshop: Open Educational Practices and the Future of the Language Textbook

Session 8-2 Roundtable: Alternative Career Paths: Options and How Tos

Location:

Ile de France II

Organizer:

David L. Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Discussants:

Christine Dunbar, Columbia University Press

David L. Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Philip Gleissner, The Ohio State University

Session 8-3 Panel: Poetry and Politics

Location:

Ile de France III

Organizer:

Liana Battsaligova, Pomona College

Chair:

Marlow Davis, Columbia University

Panelist:

Matthew McWilliams, Yale University

Title:

Flânerie, Russian Style: Benjamin’s ‘Panoramic Literature’ and Nekrasov’s About the Weather

Panelist:

Spencer Small, Yale University

Title:

Unbound Time in Poetic Space: Compiling Temporality and Universality in Anna Akhmatova’s Poetic Cycles

Panelist:

Nadia Hoppe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Socialist Realism in Circles: The Toilet in Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva-Petushki

Panelist:

Liana Battsaligova, Pomona College

Title:

Archival Impulse in the Poetry of Protest: Pavel Arseniev

Session 8-4 : Early Soviet Art and Culture

Location:

Conde

Chair:

Jonathan Stone, Franklin & Marshall College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, Emory University

Title:

“Eye-Tunes” of the Avantgarde: Early Futurist “Writing” as Audio-Video Montage

Panelist:

Anna Aydinyan, Kenyon College

Title:

Saving the Persian Princess: Stepan Razin in the Creative Work of Russian Formalists and Futurists

Panelist:

Tomi Haxhi, Columbia University

Title:

Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Russian Attitude toward Sex: From Tolstoyan Abstinence to Soviet Sexlessness

Session 8-5 Roundtable: Crime and Punishment: Issues of Teaching and Translation

Location:

Frontenac

Organizer:

Carol Apollonio, Duke University

Chair:

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

Discussants:

Carol Apollonio, Duke University

Kate Holland, University of Toronto

Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia

Val Vinokur, The New School

Session 8-6 : Topics in Study Abroad and Language Immersion

Location:

Maurepas

Chair:

Olga Thomason, University of Georgia

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jill Neuendorf, Georgetown University

Title:

Examining the Identity of American Students of Russian in Study Abroad

Panelist:

Anastasiya Smith, University of Georgia

Title:

Assessing Language and Beyond Through Study Abroad Online Journaling

Session 8-7 Panel: Recovering the Hellenic in Russian Literature

Location:

Bacchus

Organizer:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Chair:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Panelist:

Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame

Title:

Pavel Katenin's Invalid Gorev and the Challenges of Community

Panelist:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

"We Are Hellenes": Syncretism and Aesthetics in Kuzmin's Wings

Panelist:

Caroline Lemak Brickman, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Inquiry & Quest: Mandelstam's Hellenic Poems

Discussants:

Irina Shevelenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Session 8-8 Panel: From the Tractor to the Farthest Reaches of the Galaxy: Science Fiction and the Soviet Temporal Imagination

Location:

Orleans

Organizer:

Matthew Schantz, Harvard University

Chair:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Panelist:

Matthew Schantz, Harvard University

Title:

Returning to Orbit: Shifting Temporalities in Soviet Science Fiction

Panelist:

Alejandra Isabel Otero Pires, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

The Tractor as Novum: Science Fictionality, Socialist Realism, and the Soviet Experience

Panelist:

Alexandra Portice, Middlebury College

Title:

Turning the Rivers Backwards: Temporal Aspects in Kir Bulychev’s The Chronos River

Discussants:

Yvonne H. Howell, University of Richmond

Session 8-9 Panel: Literature and Ethnography

Location:

Rosalie

Organizer:

Jennifer Wilson, University of Pennsylvania

Chair:

Natalie Kononenko, University of Alberta

Panelist:

Emily Laskin, New York University

Title:

Steppe Realism: The Foreign and the Domestic in Nikolai Karazin's Turkestan Novels

Panelist:

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, Swarthmore College

Title:

Writing Access to Peasant Reality: Nikolai Uspensky’s Documentary Fiction

Panelist:

Susanna Weygandt, Sewanee: The University of the South

Title:

After Realism: Documentary Affect in the Literature of Fact of Sergei Tret'iakov and the Factographers of the 1920’s, and Beyond

Discussants:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Session 8-10 Panel: Anglo-Irish Fathers and Russian Sons

Location:

Endymion

Organizer:

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:

Galya Diment, University of Washington

Title:

H. G. Wells and Early Soviet Science Fiction

Panelist:

Sara Karpukhin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Addition and Subtraction: The Strange Case of Joseph Brodsky and Samuel Beckett

Panelist:

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

Border Crossings: Mikhail Shishkin Reads James Joyce

Discussants:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Session 8-11 Panel: Designing a Language Curriculum toward Advanced Oral and Cultural Proficiency

Location:

St. Claude

Organizer:

Constantine Muravnik, Yale University

Chair:

Constantine Muravnik, Yale University

Panelist:

Constantine Muravnik, Yale University

Title:

Content and Language Integrated Learning for Achieving Advanced Proficiency in Third Year Russian

Panelist:

Svetlana Tcareva, Yale University

Title:

Additional Digital Resources in Russian Study Abroad Programs

Panelist:

Basil Bessonoff, GS USA

Title:

Preparing Students for Immersion Study Abroad: Challenges and Prospects

Panelist:

Minjin Hashbat, Yale University

Title:

A Shared Classroom Initiative for Collaborative Teaching and Learning

Session 8-12 Panel: Female Bodies/Female Voices: Projection, Performance, and Participation in Russian Media

Location:

St. Jerome

Organizer:

Ana Cohle, Princeton University

Chair:

Chloe Papadopoulos, Yale University

Panelist:

Ana Cohle, Princeton University

Title:

Blockade Airwaves: the Poetry and Performance of Olga Bergholz

Panelist:

Megan Race, Harvard University

Title:

Broadcasting Bodies: Ballet on Television During the Cold War

Panelist:

Daria V. Ezerova, Columbia University

Title:

(Ethno-)Gender Trouble in Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (2017)

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