Keynote Address by Irina Reyfman (Columbia University)
"Do We Need to Teach Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature? If Yes, Why and How?" (Independence C)
American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) Social Justice-Oriented Language Teaching (SJOLT) Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting (Seminar B) The SIG is sponsored by AAUSC and AATSEEL, with an annual meeting taking place at the AATSEEL conference when elections for the group’s chair and associate chair take place. This year’s meeting will focus on the National Anchor Standards of SJOLT, and their implementation in the teaching of Slavic languages and cultures. All interested are warmly invited to attend.
SolidariTea: LGBTQIA+ Justice (Salon 10) Interactive social hour for likeminded practitioners and educators to share methods and strategies for inclusivity of learners of diverse gender and sexual orientation identities (+complimentary afternoon tea)
Job Market Workshop: Portfolio-Dossier and Interview Tips (Salon 4)
4:00pm-6:00pm
ACTR Membership Meeting (meeting will be held in Zoom, link will be available here by the conference weekend)
Reading and Conversation with Featured Poet Oksana Lutsyshyna, moderated by Vitaly Chernetsky (Salon 6)
February 19, 2022, 8:00-10:00am
Session 5-1 : Stream 6A: Data, Technology, and Language Acquisition: Panel
Location:
Independence A
Chair:
Linc Jepson
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Robert Reynolds, Brigham Young University
Title:
A FLAIR for Russian: grammatically intelligent web search for learners and teachers
Panelist:
Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University
Title:
Videoconferencing as a mediating tool: in-class interaction and learner autonomy
Panelist:
Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire
Title:
Non-pedagogical apps for group work at Elementary level
Panelist:
Kit Pribble, Wake Forest University
Title:
Digital Social Reading (DSR) in the Intermediate Russian Classroom
Discussants:
Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session 5-2 : Stream 7A: Uneven & Combined Development
Location:
Independence B
Chair:
Michael Lerner, University of California, Berkeley
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley
Title:
The Uneven Modernity of Niko Pirosmani
Panelist:
Emily Laskin, New York University
Title:
Development and Belatedness in Abdulrauf Fitrat’s Tales of an Indian Traveler
Panelist:
Nicholas Bujalski, Oberlin College
Title:
Trotsky, the Self, and the Cell: Uneven and Combined Development in Intellectual History
Panelist:
Dominick Lawton, Stanford University
Title:
Uneven and Combined Devices: Shklovsky's revolutionary memoirs
Session 5-3 : Art Forms in the Language Classroom
Location:
Salon 3
Chair:
William J. Comer, Portland State University
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Alena Makarava, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Title:
Theater for Language Teaching and Learning
Panelist:
Veronika Williams, University of Arizona
Title:
Making Russian, Slavic, and post-Soviet Studies Hip: Teaching Contemporary Histories, Politics, and Cultures through Rap
Panelist:
Larisa Moskvitina, Rice University
Title:
«The structure of the organization of the material in the text of the genre "blog" and the creation of educational blogs in the context of online learning»
Session 5-4 Roundtable: Creative Uses of Learning Management Systems during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Location:
Salon 4
Organizer:
Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair:
Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussants:
Cori Anderson, Rutgers University
Melissa Miller, Colby College
Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University
Suzanne Freynik, The Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Session 5-5 : New Research on Russian Symbolism
Location:
Salon 5
Chair:
Djamilia Nazyrova, University of Pennsylvania
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Melvin Thomas, Princeton University
Title:
In Between, Above and Beyond: East, West, and Middle East in Solov’ev’s Poetics
Panelist:
Gabriel Nussbaum, Princeton University
Title:
Reaping What One Sows: Agricultural Myth in Viacheslav Ivanov's Tantal
Panelist:
Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Title:
The Symbolists’ Dostoevsky
Session 5-6 : In Between Politics and Literature in Soviet and post-Soviet Times
Location:
Seminar A
Chair:
Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Isabella Palange, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title:
Aesthetic and Linguistic Defamiliarization in the Soviet Communal Apartment: An Analysis of Abram Tertz’s “Pkhents”
Panelist:
Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College
Title:
Russian Intelligentsia: Importance or Impotence in Facing the Pandemic. Vladimir Sorokin’s The Blizzard
Panelist:
Cassio de Oliveira, Portland State University
Title:
Toward a Minor Literature, Back in the USSR
Session 5-7 Panel: Construction of Memory in Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Literature
Location:
Salon 6
Organizer:
Alexandra Portice, Middlebury College
Chair:
Melissa Azari, United States Air Force Academy
Panelist:
Ilona Sotnikova, Smith College
Title:
Futile revolt: Bronze Horseman references in the poetry of Elena Shvarts, Sergey Stratanovskii, and Viktor Krivulin
Panelist:
Alexandra Portice, Middlebury College
Title:
“Who Are We and Where Are We Going?”: The Reflection on Past and Present in Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Alternate Histories.
Panelist:
Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title:
The Memory of Non-Existence: Space and Post-Memory in Girshovich’s "Prais"
Session 8-3 : Stream 10B: Women Writers and Artists in Slavic and Eurasian Literature and Culture
Location:
Independence C
Chair:
Melissa Miller, Colby College
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Liliya Dashevski, Yale University
Title:
Telling Herstory: The Metropolitan Russian Rag Doll from Natalia Shabel’skaia’s Collection
Panelist:
Sara Dickinson, Università di Genova
Title:
The Snuffing of Ekaterina Shakovskaia in Turgenev’s “First Love”
Discussants:
Colleen Lucey, University of Arizona
Session 8-4 : Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Slavic and East European Languages 2
Location:
Independence D
Organizer:
Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles
Chair:
Ana Petrov, University of Toronto
Panelist:
Christopher Caes, Columbia University
Title:
Teaching Diversity in Polish
Panelist:
Eugene Bondarenko, University of Michigan
Title:
Recruitment to Less Commonly Taught Language Courses
Panelist:
Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California Los Angeles
Title:
Activities That Promote Student Engagement in BCS Classes
Panelist:
Marija Rosic, University of Michigan
Title:
Teaching Oral History in the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian classes
Panelist:
Oleksandra Wallo, University of Kansas
Title:
Добра форма: Acquisition of Basic Ukrainian Grammar through Open-Education Online Modules
Panelist:
Christian Hilchey, University of Texas at Austin
Title:
The Open Slavic Project
Session 8-5 : Workshop: Corpus is for everyone: Corpus tools and resources for Slavic Studies
Location:
Salon 3
Discussants:
Vaclav Cvrcek, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Masako Fidler, Brown University
Session 8-6 Panel: The Life of ‘Foreign’ and World Literature in Soviet Russia: Readers, Networks, and Theories
Location:
Seminar A
Organizer:
Peter Budrin, Queen Mary University of London
Chair:
Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University
Panelist:
Peter Budrin, Queen Mary University of London
Title:
World Literature, Friendship, and Terror at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy and Literature (IFLI)
Panelist:
Panayiotis Xenophontos, University of Oxford
Title:
The Image of Greek Literature in Inostrannaya literatura
Panelist:
Sarah Phillips, Indiana University
Title:
“Kurt Vonnegut is one of us:” The social life of Vonnegut in translation in the Soviet 1970s
Panelist:
Vasily Lvov, Hunter College, CUNY
Title:
World Literature for World Theory: Russian Formalism and Beyond
Session 8-7 : Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature
Location:
Salon 6
Chair:
Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Irina Avkhimovich, University of North Georgia
Title:
Theatrical Performance in the 18th Century: Russian Themes and European Conventions
Panelist:
Daria Solodkaya, Independent scholar
Title:
“Нету водки в штофе, пей одно ты кофе”: How the Eighteenth-century Russian Literati Drank Their Coffee, in Which Way It Influenced Their Successors, and Why It Is Important for Us
Panelist:
Stuart Goldberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title:
Did Derzhavin Dare? Another Look at “Vlastiteliam i sudiiam”
Session 8-8 : Brave New World: Radical Early Soviet Culture
Location:
Salon 5
Chair:
Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois Chicago
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Rachael Neidinger, Harvard University
Title:
Revolution of the Heart: The New Woman in Alexandra Kollontai’s Vasilisa Malygina
Panelist:
Carlotta Chenoweth, United States Military Academy
Title:
LikBez and the Digital Legacy of the Soviet Literacy Campaign
Panelist:
Zhanna Budenkova, University of Pittsburgh
Title:
Two Aelitas: Nostalgia and Trauma in Early Science Fiction in the USSR
Session 8-9 : Literature and History in the 1920s
Location:
Salon 4
Chair:
Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College
GROUP PANELISTS:
Panelist:
Isobel Palmer, University of Birmingham
Title:
Rhythm and (Literary) History in Yury Tynianov’s Problem of Verse Language
Panelist:
Lenora Murphy, Bucknell University
Title:
The Intertwined Fates of Nicholas II and Saint Petersburg in Kharms’s Comedy of the City of Petersburg
Panelist:
Michael Lerner, University of California, Berkeley
Title:
The Uneven and Combined Development of Revolutionary Symbolism in Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution