2020 Conference Program:

February 8, 2020, 8:00-10:00am

Session 5-1 Panel: Re-imagining Socialist Aesthetics and Poetics in the Age of Capitalism

Location:

Balboa 4

Chair:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

Panelist:

Liliya Dashevski, Yale University

Title:

The Phenomenon of the New Barbizon: The Aesthetics of Socialist Realism (?) in Israel

Panelist:

Liana Battsaligova, Pomona College

Title:

Socialist Realism and the Rhetoric of Aesthetics in Russia in the 1990s

Panelist:

Maria Engström, Uppsala University

Title:

Queering Socialist Realism: Georgy Guryanov and Timur Novikov's New Academy

Panelist:

Fabrizio Fenghi, Brown University

Title:

Limonov's 'Great Epoch': Proustian Stalinism and Intimate Avant-Gardes

Discussants:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

Session 5-2 : From the Outskirts to the Center: The Many Faces of Soviet Unofficial Culture (I)

Location:

Gaslamp 3

Chair:

Thomas Epstein, Boston College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Daniil Leiderman, Texas A&M

Title:

Freedom Flies

Panelist:

Rebekah Smith, New York University

Title:

Poetics and Freedom: Radical Practices, Generative Forms in the Work of Ry Nikonova

Panelist:

Ivan Sokolov, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

(Eternal) Difference and Repetition in Elizaveta Mnatsakanova

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Session 5-3 : Slavic Science Fiction (I): SF and the Environment

Location:

Gallery 3A

Chair:

Sonja Fritzsche, Illinois Wesleyan University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Eliza Rose, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title:

Fallow Field, Fallow Phallus: Crises of Masculinity and Ecology in Piotr Andrejew’s Tender Spots

Panelist:

Brittany Roberts, Southeastern Louisiana University

Title:

Between the Living and the Dead: Vegetal Afterlives in Evgenii Iufit and Vladimir Maslov’s Silver Heads.

Panelist:

Yvonne H. Howell, University of Richmond

Title:

Bolshevik “Revolutionary Experiments” and Capitalism’s Utopian Dreams

Discussants:

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

Session 5-4 : Gender and Sexuality in the Slavic World (I)

Location:

Gallery 3B

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jenny Kaminer, University of California, Davis

Title:

Televising Russian Girlhood in Valeriia Gai Germanika’s School

Panelist:

Anastasia Gordienko, The University of Arizona

Title:

Women of the Shanson: Mothers, Prostitutes, and Lovers

Panelist:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Title:

Nastya Rybka and the Art of Kompromat: Politicizing Sexual Blackmail in the 21st Century

Discussants:

Hilde Hoogenboom, Arizona State University

Session 5-5 : Reading Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Location:

Balboa 1

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Laurel Schmuck, University of Colorado, Boulder and Justin Trifiro, University of Southern California

Title:

Tolstoy Versus Dostoevsky?: Free Will Under the Microscope

Panelist:

Byungsam Jung, Stanford University

Title:

The Unaddressed Letters in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot: The Unfinalizability of The Human Soul

Session 5-6 Roundtable: Designing the Inclusive Environment for Heritage Speakers

Location:

Balboa 2

Organizer:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Chair:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Discussants:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Irina Poliakova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Julia Kobrina, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Marina Aptekman, Tufts University

Oksana Willis, Bucknell University

Svitlana Malykhina, Boston University

Session 5-7 Roundtable: Quests in teaching Russian language and literature

Location:

Balboa 3

Organizer:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Nila Friedberg, Portland State University

Discussants:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Nila Friedberg, Portland State University

Session 5-8 : Sermons and Odes and the Emerging Social Institutions

Location:

Gaslamp 4

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Nataliya Pratsovyta, Ukrainian Catholic University

Title:

Elements of Bakhtin’s Internally Persuasive Discourse in Kirill of Turov’s Parables and Sermons

Panelist:

Maria Kutuzov, University of Manitoba

Title:

Personal mythology of Peter III in Mikhail Lomonosov’s odes of 1742 and 1743: identity craft design that did not work out

Panelist:

Ekaterina Shubenkina, University of Southern California

Title:

“…na razsuzhdenie blagorazumnykh i bezpristrastnykh chitatelei…”: The Case of Vladimir Lukin and His Prefaces

Session 5-9 : Classical Influences on Modern Russian Literature

Location:

Gaslamp 1

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine, Bucknell University

Title:

Ruslan and Lolita: Nabokov’s Pursuit of Pushkin’s Monsters and Maidens

Panelist:

Daria Eldridge, Stanford University

Title:

Translating (Un)freedom: “Mariia” between Shevchenko and Pasternak

Panelist:

Amina Gabrielova, Purdue University

Title:

The Theme of Scriabin in Vladimir Sharov's Novels

Session 5-10 Panel: Early Soviet Aesthetic and Social Theory: Between Immanence and Transcendence

Location:

Gaslamp 2

Chair:

Robert Bird, University of Chicago

Panelist:

Mari Jarris, Princeton University

Title:

Emotionality and "Winged Eros": Alexandra Kollontai’s Transitional Theory of Gender Emancipation

Panelist:

Anne Eakin Moss, University of Chicago

Title:

Vladimir Nil’sen’s Transparent Mirror

Panelist:

Tom Roberts, Smith College

Title:

Lukács on Dostoevsky: Immanence and Totality in the Wake of 1917

Discussants:

Robert Bird, University of Chicago

Session 5-11 Roundtable: Study Abroad and Career Development: Insights from the Russian Flagship

Location:

Gallery 2

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Discussants:

Alexander Groce, American University

Dan E. Davidson, American Councils for International Education

Gulnara Glowacki, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maria Lekic, American Councils for International Education

Maria Shardakova, Indiana University Bloomington

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia

Session 5-12 : Guided Readings and Self-Regulated Learning

Location:

Gaslamp 5

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Natalia Sletova, University of Florida

Title:

Reading for meaning with lower-level students of Russian: a classroom-based study

Panelist:

Maia Solovieva, Oberlin College

Title:

Advanced Russian Course “Women’s Voice in the Contemporary Russian Culture”: Challenges and Benefits

Panelist:

Tatiana Maslova, University of North Georgia

Title:

Self-Efficacy-Based Instruction for Self-Regulated Learning of Russian

Panelist:

Tanya McIntyre, Kent State University, Institute for Applied Linguistics and Dmitrii Pastushenkov, Harvard University

February 8, 2020, 1:00-3:00pm

Session 6-1 : Dostoevsky Beyond Bakhtin (I)

Location:

Gaslamp 4

Chair:

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan

Title:

Bakhtin's Narrative Realism

Panelist:

Maxwell Parlin, St. Olaf College

Title:

Raskolnikov’s Repentance: Kierkegaard as a Corrective to Bakhtin

Panelist:

Lynn Patyk, Dartmouth College

Title:

Provoking Bakhtin

Session 6-2 : From the Outskirts to the Center: The Many Faces of Soviet Unofficial Culture (II)

Location:

Gaslamp 3

Chair:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sarah Bishop, Willamette University

Title:

The Theater of Elena Shvarts: From Underground to the Stage

Panelist:

Andrei Gorkovoi, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

War, Death and Coming-of-Age in Rid Grachev’s short stories

Panelist:

Laura Little, Connecticut College

Title:

The Word Made Flesh: Oral Culture and Leningrad’s ‘Second’ Literature

Discussants:

Thomas Epstein, Boston College

Session 6-3 : Slavic Science Fiction (II): SF as Mirror of the Revolution

Location:

Gallery 3A

Chair:

Brittany Roberts, Southeastern Louisiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Title:

Women of the Future: Science Fictional Depictions of Gender Equity (or not)

Panelist:

Elena Fratto, Princeton University

Title:

Anabiosis and Deep Time in Early Soviet Science Fiction

Panelist:

Polina Dimova, University of Denver

Title:

The Revolution as Cosmic Mystery: The Myth of Alexander Scriabin in Vladimir Sharov's Before and During

Discussants:

Laura Mieka Erley, University of California, Berkeley

Session 6-4 : Gender and Sexuality in the Slavic World (II)

Location:

Gallery 3B

Chair:

Anastasia Gordienko, The University of Arizona

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Serenity Stanton Orengo, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Title:

“Am I a Real Soviet Woman?”: Reimagining Motherhood in Late Soviet Women’s Writing

Panelist:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

Title:

Alternative Visions of Motherhood in I’ll Be Around

Panelist:

Natalia Chernyaeva, Council on International Educational Exchange

Title:

Normalizing ‘cultural anomaly’: popular narratives of surrogate motherhood in Russian mass culture and media

Discussants:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Session 6-5 : From Grotesque to Dystopia

Location:

Balboa 1

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ben Hooyman, Columbia University

Title:

Russian 'Novorealism': Grotesque as a Device in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature

Panelist:

Jianing Zhao, Princeton University

Title:

Constructing the Future: Rodchenko’s Design from Bedbug to USSR in Construction

Panelist:

Nicholas Kupensky, United States Air Force Academy

Title:

“You Are Such a Slacker”: Mourning and Mocking Mayakovsky in Alexander Bezymensky’s Verses Make Steel

Session 6-6 Roundtable: New Generation of Russian Language Textbooks and “Open Architecture” Curriculum

Location:

Balboa 2

Organizer:

Oksana Willis, Bucknell University

Chair:

Oksana Willis, Bucknell University

Discussants:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Irina Dolgova, Yale University

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Julia Rochtchina, University of Victoria

Paulina De Santis, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Session 6-7 Panel: Talking like a peasant, listening like a scholar

Location:

Balboa 3

Chair:

Olga T. Yokoyama, Univ of California - Los Angeles

Panelist:

Alexander Nakhimovsky, Colgate University

Title:

Peasant periodization of Soviet history

Panelist:

Natalia Labunets, Tyumen State University

Title:

Гендерное своеобразие диалектной речи: "сибирские разговоры"

Panelist:

Christian Sappok, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum

Title:

Russian peasants’ speech: the benefit of auditory access to the recordings

Session 6-8 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages 1

Location:

Gallery 2

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Panelist:

Christopher Harwood, Columbia University

Title:

Czech Attitudes about Gender Roles and Family Reflected in Grammatical Forms, Proverbs and Texts

Panelist:

Kinga Kosmala, Northwestern University

Title:

Advancing Proficiency Through Collaboration: Mellon Collaborative Partnership for LCTLs at the University of Chicago

Panelist:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Title:

How to Deal Positively with Cultural Negativism in Czech Language Textbooks

Panelist:

Lida Hola, independent scholar

Title:

Czech Heresy Again: New Declension Patterns in Teaching Czech as a Foreign Language

Panelist:

Ellen Langer, University of California

Title:

The Play's the Thing: Catching the Linguistic Consciousness of Students through Turning a Short Story into a Play

Panelist:

Katia McClain, Univ of California - Santa Barbara

Title:

Language for Special Purposes: Bulgarian for Folklorists

Panelist:

Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta

Title:

Learning Ukrainian through the Open Education Resource Podorozhi.UA: Learners' Perspective (Part I)

Panelist:

Marija Rosic, University of Michigan

Title:

Inclusive Teaching in Bosnian/ Croatian/Serbian (Audacity- Audio Editing Software in the B/C/S class)

Panelist:

Gulnara Glowacki, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Task-Based Learning Activities for Novice to Intermediate-Level Students of Kazakh

Panelist:

Anastasia Tsylina, Brown University

Title:

Reading L2 Czech: A Study of Strategy Use

Panelist:

Oleksandra Wallo, University of Kansas

Title:

Добра Форма: Online Focus on Form Modules for Elementary Ukrainian

Session 6-9 : Roundtable: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Russia as Cultural Code: Text and Image

Location:

Balboa 4

Chair:

Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University

Discussants:

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Mads Jessen, University of Southern Denmark

Yuri Leving, Princeton University

Session 6-10 : Arts on Stage

Location:

Gaslamp 1

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

The Pygmalion Effect: Boris Eifman’s Century-long Pas de Deux with Sergei Diaghilev

Panelist:

Lee Singh, New York University Abu Dhabi

Title:

In Defense of 'Drambalety': A Decisive Stage in the Development of Twentieth-Century Ballet

Panelist:

Anna GÄ…sienica Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University

Title:

Gabriela Zapolska’s Glass Beads and Diamonds

Session 6-11 : Exile and Revolution

Location:

Gaslamp 2

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Roman Tashlitskyy, University of Toronto

Title:

National Liberation and Self-Expression in The Revolutionary Kyiv Of 1917

Panelist:

Miroslava Nikolova, Bowdoin College

Title:

Space, Exile and Claustrophobia in Anna Akhmatova's Late Oeuvre: A Case Study of the Lyrical Cycle Sweetbriar in Blossom (1946-1964)

Panelist:

Christopher W. Lemelin, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Title:

Tsvetaeva's "Magdalene" Cycle as an Expression of the Exilic Condition

Session 6-12 Roundtable: Incorporating Immersive VR (virtual reality) into the Language Curriculum

Location:

Gaslamp 5

Organizer:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Chair:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Discussants:

Elizabeth Enkin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Eric Kirschling, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ewa Golonka, University of Maryland

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Svetlana Abramova, University of Washington

Veronika Egorova, Harvard University

February 8, 2020, 3:30-5:00pm

Session 7-1 : Dostoevsky Beyond Bakhtin (II)

Location:

Gaslamp 4

Chair:

Edyta Bojanowska, Yale University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alex Spektor, University of Georgia

Title:

“Mr. -tin and the Question of Plot”: Realigning Dialogism in Dostoevsky.

Panelist:

Jillian Costello, University of Colorado Boulder

Title:

Reading Slant: The Failure of Dialogism and Narrative Cruelty in Dostoevsky’s Krotkaya

Session 7-2 : Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Location:

Boardroom 1

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Predrag Obućina, Faculty of Philology, Univeristy of Belgrade

Title:

Slavic Agreement as a “Black Box”: a Distributional Approach. A Case Study of Adjective-Noun Phrases in Serbian/ Croatian/ Bosnian

Panelist:

Valentina Vinokurova, The University of Arizona

Title:

Case selection for direct objects of negated verbs: A corpus-based investigation of Alan Timberlake’s hierarchies

Panelist:

Eun-Ji Song, Seoul National University

Title:

Multi-level Intersubjectivity of Russian Imperfective Aspect

Session 7-3 : Workshop: Expanding Language Program Design to Meet Liberal Arts Goals

Location:

Gallery 3B

Session 7-4 : The 19th-century Russian Novel and Myths

Location:

Gaslamp 3

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ilya Kalinin, Princeton University

Title:

The Colonna Case: Mysticism, Clues and Superstition in the late Kiukhel’beker

Panelist:

Ray Alston

Title:

“The Love of One’s Native Land…Has Always Been a Gloomy Feeling”: Pushkin’s Dialogue with Mickiewicz in “Songs of the Western Slavs”

Panelist:

Eva Faraghi, Princeton University

Title:

Turgenev and the Sculptural Myth

Session 7-5 Panel: Rethinking Russian and Ukrainian Horror: Gothic narratives, Soviet transformations

Location:

Balboa 1

Organizer:

Svetlana Tcareva, Yale University

Chair:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Panelist:

Lev Nikulin, Princeton University

Title:

Gogol’s Apophatic Turn: Tentacles and Viy

Panelist:

Svitlana Krys, MacEwan University

Title:

The Gothic in 19th-century Ukrainian Literary Imagination: Oleksa Storozhenko’s Villains

Panelist:

Svetlana Tcareva, Yale University

Title:

Bourgeois Indigestion: Food Horror in Soviet Children’s Literature

Panelist:

Brittany Roberts, Southeastern Louisiana University

Title:

Empty Landscapes, Broken Beasts: Human Exceptionalism and Animal Fury in Dmitri Svetozarov’s Dogs

Session 7-6 Panel: In 1937: Exile and Foreign Authors in Distant Lands

Location:

Balboa 2

Organizer:

Frederick White, Utah Valley University

Chair:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:

Lada Panova, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Rethinking the Émigré Künstlerroman: The Case of Nabokov’s Gift

Panelist:

Alexander Zholkovsky, University of Southern California

Title:

Exile and Experimental Writing: Bunin's Dark Alleys with special reference to “Calling Cards”

Panelist:

Yuri Leving, Princeton University

Title:

Commemorating Pushkin in Exile: The 1937 Centennial in America

Panelist:

Frederick White, Utah Valley University

Title:

Soviet Critics’ Response to Ernest Hemingway’s Emerging Social Consciousness

Session 7-7 : Russian Literature for Children and Young Adults

Location:

Balboa 3

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Semyon Leonenko, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Andrei Platonov's "Июльская гроза" and the Soviet Literature for Children

Panelist:

Michael Gluck, Columbia University

Title:

Can Irony be Sincere? Youth Prose and the Readers of Iunost’

Panelist:

Yuliya Volkhonovych

Title:

“Timur and his team”: One Book, Two Cinematic Realities

Session 7-8 Roundtable: Slavic Science Fiction (III): Teaching Slavic Science Fiction in the 21st Century

Location:

Gallery 3A

Chair:

Anthony Anemone, The New School

Discussants:

Alejandra Isabel Otero Pires, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Eliza Rose, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

Session 7-9 Panel: Gender, Sexuality, and Society in “The Kreutzer Sonata”

Location:

Balboa 4

Organizer:

Vadim Shneyder, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Anne Lounsbery, New York University

Panelist:

Ani Kokobobo, University of Kansas

Title:

Pacifism, Abstinence, and the Late Tolstoy as Gender Theorist

Panelist:

Mina Magda, Yale University

Title:

Stock Brokers: Anti-Capitalism and the Trade in Women in Tolstoy and Zola

Panelist:

Vadim Shneyder, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

The Industrial-Sexual Economy of "The Kreutzer Sonata"

Discussants:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Session 7-10 Panel: Russian Theater and Opera: New Interpretations, New Adaptations

Location:

Gaslamp 1

Organizer:

Victoria Kononova, Lawrence University

Chair:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Panelist:

Mila Shevchenko, Ohio University

Title:

Whose Chains Are Those Anyway? Womanhood and Motherhood in Al. Sumbatov-Iuzhin’s drama Chains

Panelist:

Victoria Kononova, Lawrence University

Title:

Not A Fairy Tale for Children: Cherniakov Stages Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden

Panelist:

John Pendergast, United States Military Academy

Title:

The Wizard of Igor: Cherniakov’s Prince Igor, Met Opera 2014

Panelist:

Amelia Glaser, University of California San Diego

Title:

Staging Crimea

Discussants:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Session 7-11 Panel: A Sense of Socialism: Late Soviet Sensorium through Film, Art and Urban Planning in 1960s-1980s

Location:

Gaslamp 2

Chair:

Elizaveta Mankovskaya, Princeton University

Panelist:

Michael Brinley, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

A Fire in the Architect’s Studio: The Role of Sense in Contesting Soviet City Planning

Panelist:

Elizaveta Mankovskaya, Princeton University

Title:

Construction Sight and Other Senses in Films about Soviet Construction in 1970-1980s

Panelist:

Olga Kondur, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

At the Periphery of Perception: (Dis)correlation of the Empirical and the Psychic in the 1984-85 Artworks of the Collective Actions group

Discussants:

Robert Bird, University of Chicago

Session 7-12 Roundtable: Homestays versus Dorms? A Comparative Analysis of Language Gains

Location:

Gaslamp 5

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

Oleg Troyanovskiy, Baltic Center for Educational and Academic Development

Tony Brown, Brigham Young University

Valeriya Chekalina, Georgia Institute of Technology

February 8, 2020, 5:15-7:00pm

Session 8-1 : Roundtable: A Discussion with the Author: Galin Tihanov, The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2019)

Location:

Gaslamp 4

Discussants:

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

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

Location:

Gallery 2

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Katia McClain, Univ of California - Santa Barbara

Panelist:

Anna GÄ…sienica Byrcyn, Saint Xavier University

Title:

All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day in Polish Language Classes

Panelist:

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Title:

Teaching English... in Polish: The Phonetics of American Loan Words in the Contemporary Foreign-Language Classroom, Part II

Panelist:

Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Creating a Communicative Classroom Experience -- the Reality Czech Activity Book

Panelist:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Developing Independent Research Skills in LCTLs: Tapping the Potential of Online Translators

Panelist:

Adela Lechintan-Siefer, The Ohio State University

Title:

Creating a Learning Community: Inclusive Communicative Teaching in the LCTL Classroom

Panelist:

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Effects of Formal and Informal Assessments in BCS (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) Classes

Panelist:

Ana Petrov, University of Toronto

Title:

Using pictures in teaching Intermediate Czech

Panelist:

Varvara Ponomareva, Charles University

Title:

Czech verbs: Presenting the imperative through homonymous endings

Panelist:

Olena Sivachenko, University of Alberta

Title:

Learning Ukrainian through the Open Education Resource Podorozhi.UA: Learners' Perspective (part II)

Panelist:

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

Title:

Czech Minority Schools in the Balkans

Session 8-4 : Advanced Seminar 2: "Russian Science Fiction on the Edges of the World" with Anindita Banerjee (Cornell University)

Location:

Gallery 3B

Session 8-5 Panel: Class, Taste and Print Media in Goncharov

Location:

Balboa 1

Organizer:

Anne Lounsbery, New York University

Chair:

Anne Lounsbery, New York University

Panelist:

Sara Dickinson, University of Genoa

Title:

The Taint of the Merchant in Goncharov’s Obyknovennaia istoriia

Panelist:

Anne Lounsbery, New York University

Title:

Learning Good Taste in Goncharov

Panelist:

Bella Grigoryan, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

The Meanings of Print in Goncharov’s ‘Literaturnyi vecher’ (1880)

Discussants:

Ilya Kliger, New York University

Session 8-6 Panel: Dialogues with/in Dostoevsky (Sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky Society)

Location:

Balboa 2

Organizer:

Greta Matzner-Gore, University of Southern California

Chair:

Greta Matzner-Gore, University of Southern California

Panelist:

Chloe Papadopoulos, Yale University

Title:

Speaking Silently in Fedor Dostoevsky’s “Krotkaia”

Panelist:

Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, University of Southern California

Title:

F. M. Dostoevsky’s Correspondence with A. G. Dostoevskaia: Dialogue or Serialized Novel?

Panelist:

Alex Spektor, University of Georgia

Title:

Between Idyll and Catastrophe: The Space of Ethics in “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

Discussants:

Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley

Session 8-7 Panel: Envisioning and Depicting the Imperial Edge in Russian Romantic Literature in the 1820s and early 1830s

Location:

Gaslamp 3

Organizer:

Anastasia Tsylina, Brown University

Chair:

Anastasia Tsylina, Brown University

Panelist:

Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame

Title:

Byron, Pushkin, and Decembrist Exiles: Fyodor Glinka’s “Maiden of the Karelian Forest”

Panelist:

Vera Senina, Columbia University

Title:

The Frame Narrative Unframed: The Narrative Voice in Gogol’s Evenings on a Farm near Dikan’ka

Panelist:

Ekaterina Iashchuk, University of Tartu

Title:

Polonophobia and the Creation Myth of the Russian Statehood in Zagoskin' novel Yury Miloslavsky in the context of Polish–Russian War 1830–31

Discussants:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Session 8-8 : War, Holocaust and Performative Memories

Location:

Balboa 3

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jiri Holy, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Title:

Holocaust as an Entertainment? Arnošt Lustig and Igor Ostachowicz

Panelist:

Alexey Shvyrkov, Columbia University

Title:

Dead among Us: The Immortal Regiment and Performative Memory of War.

Panelist:

Joanna Kot, Northern Illinois University

Title:

Popular Comedy as a Battleground of Cultural Change in Inter-War Poland

Session 8-9 : Dystopia in Contemporary Russian Prose

Location:

Balboa 4

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Walker Griggs, University of Southern California

Title:

All the Forest Scaries: Fear Taxonomies in The Slynx

Panelist:

Timothy Portice, Middlebury College

Title:

Science Fiction in the "Age of Plaster": Viktor Pelevin's iPhuck10

Panelist:

Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College

Title:

Gorky’s Legacy in the “New Realism” of Roman Senchin and Zakhar Prilepin

Session 8-10 : Spectacularization of Soviet Memory

Location:

Gaslamp 1

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Daniel Rusnak, Princeton University

Title:

The Soviet Space in Margaret Bourke-White’s Eyes on Russia

Panelist:

Sara Ruiz, University of Michigan

Title:

Future Under Siege: Death and Historical Time in Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

Panelist:

Tetyana Shlikhar, University of Notre Dame

Title:

Contrasting Memories of the Second World War in Russian and Ukrainian Contemporary Cinema

Session 8-11 : Spatial and Spiritual Travelogues

Location:

Gaslamp 2

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Laura Matthews, Princeton University

Title:

The Education of a Literary Educator: Tolstoy’s Pedagogical Journey through Europe

Panelist:

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Title:

The Reception of Fedor Sologub in English-Language Translation and Criticism Before the Revolution

Panelist:

Claudia Kelley, Columbia University

Title:

Man is to Man…a Man: An Examination of Human Relationships in the Fiction of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Session 8-12 Roundtable: Differentiating Russian Language Instruction through Technology

Location:

Gaslamp 5

Organizer:

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Chair:

Victoria Kononova, Lawrence University

Discussants:

Anna Borovskaya Ellis, University of Virginia

Anna Shkireva, University of Massachusetts

Linc Jepson

Natalia Roberts, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University