2021 Conference Program:

February 27, 2021, 9:00-11:00am

Session 8-1 : Pragmatics and Politics of Literature (Poland, Ukraine, Latvia)

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Agnieszka Jezyk, University of Toronto

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Aleksandra Kremer, Harvard University

Title:

When Poetry Matters: The Lives of Poems in 20th-Century Poland

Panelist:

Mykyta Grygorov, Charles University, Faculty of Arts

Title:

The Italian Regency of Carnaro and unrecognized quasi-states in Eastern Ukraine: literary substrate.

Panelist:

Maija Burima, Daugavpils University

Title:

Structure of cultural imaginaries of Soviet and post-Soviet Latvian society in Jana Egle’s collection of stories “Strangers or Milenkij Ti Moi”: from binarism to homogenization

Session 8-2 : Intercultural Competences

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Irina Kogel, Boston University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anastasiya Smith, University of Georgia and Alexandra Shapiro, University of Georgia

Title:

Fostering intercultural competence in the beginner’s Russian courses through online cultural presentations and discussions

Panelist:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida

Title:

A Discussion - Based Online Approach to Fostering Cultural understanding in the Beginning Russian Class

Session 8-3 : Spaces of Soviet Poetry

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Catherine A. Ciepiela, Amherst College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Miroslava Nikolova, Bowdoin College

Title:

Craving Infinity: Transcending Space and Exile in Joseph Brodsky's Late Poetry

Panelist:

Yulia Kim, Columbia University

Title:

Igor Kholin’s “Barrack Dwellers:” The Poetics of Double Exposure

Panelist:

Veniamin Gushchin, Columbia University

Title:

Translation as Trying out Forms: Pasternak’s Metapoetic Exploration of Simplicity

Session 8-4 Roundtable: Films in the Russian Curriculum

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Discussants:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irina Six, University of Kansas

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Veronika Egorova, Harvard University

Session 8-5 : Constructing and Deconstructing Communist Ideologies

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Title:

Racism and Soviet Internationalism in The Moskoviad by Yuri Andrukhovych

Panelist:

Adrian Wanner, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

The Return of Marxist Discourse to Russian-American Fiction: Keith Gessen’s Novel A Terrible Country

Panelist:

Susanna Weygandt, Sewanee: The University of the South

Title:

Undoing Communist War Ideology in Soviet Literature: The Pain Narratives of Female Veterans

February 27, 2021, 11:45am-1:45pm

Session 9-1 : Between Estate and Class in Russia's Long 19th Century (I): Raznochintsy, Meshchane, Muzhiki

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Olga Ovcharskaia, Stanford University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, Swarthmore College

Title:

Pseudo-Autobiographical Narratives of the Raznochintsy Realists

Panelist:

Anne Lounsbery, New York University

Title:

Herzen and the Meshchane

Discussants:

Alison Smith, University of Toronto

Session 9-2 : Sustainability and Slavic Studies: Classroom, Research, Profession (I): Subjectivity and the Anthropocene

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California

Title:

Nonhuman Subjectivities in Mikhail Zenkevich’s Wild Porphyry

Panelist:

Zachary Rewinski, College of Wooster

Title:

Mayakovsky and the Trash of the Anthropocene

Panelist:

Anne Eakin Moss, University of Chicago

Title:

This is how a factory begins…’: The Utopian Environmentalism of El Lissitzky’s Industry of Socialism

Discussants:

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

Session 9-3 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages, Part 1

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Ana Petrov, University of Toronto

Panelist:

Yana Demeshko, University of California Los Angeles and Peter Winsky, University of Southern California

Title:

Moving a Slavic Conference to a Digital Space: Challenges to Overcome and Practical Tips to Successfully Hosting Virtual Conferences

Panelist:

Emily Herring, Harvard University

Title:

The “Slavic” of Interslavic: Pedagogical Insights from Constructed Languages

Panelist:

Linc Jepson

Title:

Patterns in Vocabulary Growth through Simultaneous Listening and Reading

Panelist:

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Implementing Personal History‑related Research Projects in Advanced BCS Classes

Panelist:

Edit Nagy, University of Florida

Title:

Interactive platforms for language classes ‑ Critical review of teaching materials in hybrid and online Hungarian classes (L1‑L2)

Panelist:

Varvara Ponomareva, Charles University

Title:

Methods of Working with Students

Panelist:

Holly Raynard, University of Florida

Title:

Integrated Performance Assessment

Panelist:

Anastasia Tsylina, Brown University

Title:

Assessing Cross‑Cultural Competence in L2 Czech

Session 9-4 Roundtable: Developing online instructional materials for Russian

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University

Chair:

Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Discussants:

Curtis Ford

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University

Session 9-5 : AATSEEL Presidential Panel: Socialist Anti-Racisms and their Ambivalent Legacies

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Title:

Civilizational Myth and Class Politics: Yellow Peril and Its Discontents in Late Imperial Russia

Panelist:

Amelia Glaser, University of California San Diego

Title:

Through the Looking Glass of Race: Soviet Yiddish Poets and Internationalism, 1920-1940

Panelist:

Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University

Title:

Racializing the Russian Columbus between Victorian England and Soviet Bollywood

Panelist:

Sunnie Rucker-Chang, The Ohio State University

Title:

Bandung, Brijuni, Belgrade, and “Friends” of the Non-Aligned Movement

Panelist:

Rossen Djagalov, New York University

Title:

Racism, the Highest Stage of Anti-Communism

February 27, 2021, 2:30-4:30pm

Session 10-1 : Between Estate and Class in Russia's Long 19th Century (II): The Social Critic

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Jennifer Flaherty, New York University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sara Dickinson, University of Genoa

Title:

A Bride for Belinskii: The Iconic Ambivalence of Mariia Vasil'evna

Panelist:

Kirill Zubkov

Title:

Belinsky and the Social Status of the Critic

Discussants:

Bella Grigoryan, University of Pittsburgh

Session 10-2 : Sustainability and Slavic Studies: Classroom, Research, Profession (II): (Eco-)Ethics in Russian Culture

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Thomas Newlin, Oberlin College

Title:

Russia’s Ecological Footprint: A View from the Nineteenth Century

Panelist:

Matthew Mangold, George Mason University

Title:

Environmental Subjectivity in Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island

Panelist:

Hilah Kohen, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Climate Politics, Anglophone Experts, and the Russian Opposition: A Polemic

Discussants:

Isabel Lane, Boston College

Session 10-3 : Russian Linguistics

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

George Fowler, Slavica Publishers; and Indiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Richard Robin, George Washington University and Emily Herring, Harvard University

Title:

The New Intonation of the Russian Broadcast Media

Panelist:

Valentina Apresyan, Nazarbayev University and Maria Shchepetova, Higher School of Economics

Title:

Aspect in Russian Iterative Constructions: Rules and Errors (based on Russian National Corpus and Russian Learner Corpus).

Session 10-4 Roundtable: Immersive Teaching with VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality)

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Chair:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Discussants:

Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

Olga Dobrunoff, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Session 10-5 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages, Part 2

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Yana Demeshko, University of California Los Angeles

Panelist:

Frane Karabatic, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Developing Online Materials for Teaching Elementary Bosnian‑Croatian‑Serbian (BCS) Through Performance‑Based Culture‑Centered Instruction

Panelist:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

On Integrating Central European Film into Diversity Courses

Panelist:

Ana Petrov, University of Toronto

Title:

Slavic Languages Through Creative Writing with Czech, BCS and Russian students

Panelist:

Marija Rosic, University of Michigan

Title:

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

Panelist:

Oleksandra Wallo, University of Kansas

Title:

Dobra Forma: An Open‑Access Web‑Based Resource for Learning Ukrainian Grammar

Panelist:

Abigail Weil, Harvard University

Title:

Teaching Hašek in Prague

Panelist:

Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta

Title:

Interactivity and Language Games in a Remote Learning Environment: Examples from Ukrainian

February 27, 2021, 5:15-7:15pm

Session 11-1 : Between Estate and Class in Russia’s Long 19th Century (III): Capitalists and Scarcity

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, Swarthmore College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Vadim Shneyder, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Some Sort of Company: Capitalists in the 19th century Russian Novel

Panelist:

Olga Ovcharskaia, Stanford University

Title:

The Masses Are Hungry Because We Are Too Well Fed: Literary Responses to the Famine of 1891-2

Discussants:

Jennifer Flaherty, New York University

Session 11-2 : Sustainability and Slavic Studies: Classroom, Research, Profession (III): Classroom Approaches to Russian Natural Space

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Tom Roberts, Smith College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Russian Nature Writing: From the Margin of the Canon to the Center (and Back)

Panelist:

Jane T. Costlow, Bates College

Title:

Bringing Russia into the Environmental Humanities Classroom

Panelist:

Thomas Hodge, Wellesley College

Title:

Studying the Sacred Sea: Lessons from a Longstanding Lake Baikal course

Panelist:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Title:

Mapping Things Other Than St. Petersburg: Geographic Information Systems in the Environmental Humanities Classroom

Session 11-3 Panel: Stories, Retold: Polish Texts and Contemporary Memory of the Holocaust

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Anna Dulba-Barnett, University of Oregon

Chair:

Anna Dulba-Barnett, University of Oregon

Panelist:

Anna Dulba-Barnett, University of Oregon

Title:

Beyond the metaphor: breaking the silence of gendered violence in Irena Krzywicka's Życie mimo wszystko

Panelist:

Alex Braslavsky, Harvard University

Title:

In Service of Grafting: Zuzanna Ginczanka's Chimerical Metaphors in About Centaurs

Panelist:

Jessica Mitchell, Harvard University

Title:

"What Will Happen to Me Tomorrow": the Reception of Rywka Lipszyc's diary of the Łódź Ghetto in Contemporary Poland

Discussants:

Bozena Shallcross, The University of Chicago

Session 11-4 : Aesthetics and Politics in Eastern European Film

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Yuri Leving, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Milica Ilicic, Columbia University

Title:

Communism, Capitalism, Carnival: Genre and Ideology in Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie

Panelist:

Elena Popan, Texas Tech University

Title:

Film censorship in Romania and Hungary during the 1980s: a comparative perspective

Panelist:

Jo Nakpil, University of Southern California

Title:

An Uncanny Inheritance: Juraj Herz and the Czech Cinematic Tradition of Gothic Surrealism

Session 11-5 Roundtable: Writing Within the Discipline: Creating a Productive Slavic Writing Group

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College

Chair:

Jillian Costello, University of Colorado Boulder

Discussants:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame

Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College