2024 Conference Program:

February 17, 2024, 8:00-10:00am

Session 5-1 : STREAM 5: Corpus-Based Investigations of Russian to Inform Pedagogical Practices I

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Anastasiia Gorlova, The University of Arizona

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Aleksey Novikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Irene Krasner, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Linguistic descriptions of ILR levels in listening texts

Panelist:

Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina and Anton Vakhranev and Mikhail Kopotev, University of Helsinki

Title:

Lexical complexity indices in the assessment L2 Russian proficiency

Panelist:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Title:

The Problem of “I don’t know if”

Session 5-2 : STREAM 5: Subversive Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures I

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Natalie McCauley, University of Richmond

Title:

“Only Revolution Ends War”: Eternal Revolution in Makaveev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Panelist:

Jenny Kaminer, University of California, Davis

Title:

Lady and the Snake: Screening Female Sexuality in Ivan Tverdovskii’s Zoology (2015)

Session 5-3 : STREAM 7: Beyond Horizon: Alternatives and Transgressions in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Polish Culture I: Through the Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Polish Cinema

Location:

Tonopah Room

Chair:

Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Lukasz Sicinski, Indiana University

Title:

Reality, Appearance, and Moral Agency: A Philosophical Reading of Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Films

Panelist:

Lukasz Wodzynski, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Strangers to Ourselves: ‘Productive Pathology’ in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Fugue

Panelist:

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Title:

1992; or, Glocalizing Genre in Three ‘Ambivalent’ Films: Jerzy Zalewski’s Black Suns, Łukasz Karwowski’s Novembre, and Sławomir Idziak’s Enak

Session 5-4 Panel: New Approaches to Ukrainian Poetry

Location:

Copper Room

Organizer:

John Wright, Barnard College

Chair:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Panelist:

Antonina Tymchenko

Title:

The Place of Volodymyr Svidzinsky's Unique Poetry within the Red Renaissance

Panelist:

Kevin Reese, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title:

Мiй меч не тяжкий для одважних рук: The Metaphor of the Sword in Ukrainka’s Cycle "Невiльничi пiснi"

Panelist:

Hryhorii Savchuk

Title:

Vasyl Symonenko's Moral Qualities as Poet, Prose Writer, and Critic

Panelist:

John Wright, Barnard College

Title:

Kostenko’s Inconstant Moon: An Encoded Artistic Manifesto

Discussants:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Session 5-5 Panel: Word/Image in Moments of Crisis

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

Chair:

Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont

Panelist:

Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Kentucky

Title:

"Nash otechestvennyi Barbizon”: Text-Image Narratives in the Uncensored Almanac Tarusskie stranitsy (1961)

Panelist:

José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College

Title:

A Palimpsest with Illustrations: Drawings in Contemporary Russian Prison Writing

Panelist:

Robyn Jensen, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Abandoned Strollers and Children’s Playgrounds: Photographs of the Everyday in Yevgenia Belorusets’ War Texts

Discussants:

Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont

Session 5-6 Roundtable: Why Indigenous Voices Matter in Russian Studies

Location:

Parlor B

Organizer:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Chair:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Discussants:

Brian Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Dmitry Arzyutov, The Ohio State University

Maria Whittle, University of California, Berkeley

Naomi Caffee, Reed College

Tatiana Filimonova, Dartmouth College

Session 5-7 Panel: Trans Topics in Slavic Studies: Beyond Borders of Gender and Sexuality

Location:

Parlor C

Organizer:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Chair:

LeiAnna Hamel, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelist:

Alexandra Michaud, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

"What is a Woman? Zamyatin and Androgyny"

Panelist:

Maya Garcia, Harvard University

Title:

Ivan the Terrible's Queer Legacy in Art

Panelist:

Nikon Kovalev, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Trans experience in the poetry of Friedrich Chernyshev

Discussants:

Ruth Averbach, Stanford University

Session 5-8 Panel: Writing/Translating the Jewish Bodies: Violence, Sexuality, Assimilation

Location:

Parlor D

Organizer:

Victoria Buyanovskaya, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair:

Kate Tomashevskaya, University of Southern California

Panelist:

Elena Petrova-Libgober, University of Southern California and Neta Kleine, Yale University

Title:

Pushkin Meets Agnon: Jewish Bodies, Voracious Femmes Fatales, and Subversions of Antisemitic Tropes

Panelist:

Victoria Buyanovskaya, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

The Tachanka Theory as a Theory of Revolution: Violence, Word, and Jewish Body in Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry

Panelist:

Marsel Khamitov, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Jewish Body, Russian Language, Tongor Name: A Jewish Translator on Soviet Trial

Discussants:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Session 5-9 : Late Soviet Underground Culture

Location:

Studio 1

Chair:

Ilya Kukulin, Amherst College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Ilona Sotnikova, Smith College

Title:

Leningrad Underground and Attempt at Course-Correction: Viktor Krivulin’s Utopic Project of the 1970s

Panelist:

Melissa Azari, United States Air Force Academy

Title:

“…Among this Heavenly Choir”: Natalya Gorbanevskaya's Liminality in Life and Work

Panelist:

Ben Hooyman, Columbia University

Title:

The Appeal of the Grotesque to the Religious Mind: The Transcendent Profanations of Flannery O’Connor and Yuri Mamleev

Session 5-10 : Approaches to Integrating Cultural Content

Location:

Studio 2

Chair:

Anna Asadov-Ossowska, San Diego State University Language Acquisition Resource Center

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida and Irina Pidberejna, University of Central Florida and Michelle Verbitskaya, The Ohio State University

Title:

Nurturing Cross-Cultural Competence of Russian Language Learners Through Multi-Modal Media Projects

Panelist:

Iuliia Rychkova, University of Mississippi

Title:

Reimagining the Russian Language Course: A Focus on Post-Soviet Countries and Cultures

Panelist:

Veronika Williams, The University of Arizona

Title:

Implementation of Rap in Culture Courses and Language Classroom

Session 5-11 Roundtable: Creating Transformative Learning Opportunities in and Beyond the Classroom

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussants:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh

February 17, 2024, 1:15-3:00pm

Session 6-1 : STREAM 5: Corpus-Based Investigations of Russian to Inform Pedagogical Practices II

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Mikhail Kopotev, University of Helsinki

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Valentina Apresyan, Nazarbayev University

Title:

The use of corpus tools in teaching near synonyms in Russian

Panelist:

Anastasiia Gorlova, The University of Arizona and Valentina Vinokurova, The University of Arizona

Title:

Data-driven learning and learner corpora in the Russian language classroom: exploring teacher perceptions

Panelist:

Elnaz Kia, The University of Utah and Lyndsay Ricks, Thomas Jefferson Jr. High School

Title:

Harnessing MuSSeL: Understanding the Teaching and Research Potential of A Spoken Russian Learner Corpus

Panelist:

Robert Reynolds, Brigham Young University

Title:

RuMOR: connecting insights from a learner corpus to an intelligent language tutoring system trojan

Session 6-2 : STREAM 5: Subversive Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures II: Music

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

Natalia Dame, University of Southern California

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Liubov Kartashova, University of South Carolina

Title:

Outcasts of the Non-Conformist Music: Female Rock in Russia

Panelist:

Tatiana Efremova, Columbia University

Title:

Instrumentalizing Affect and the Queer Body in Music Performances by Shortparis

Session 6-3 : STREAM 7: Beyond Horizon: Alternatives and Transgressions in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Polish Culture II: Beyond the Self: Transgressive Subjectivities in Polish Literature and Theater

Location:

Tonopah Room

Chair:

George Gasyna, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Marianna Petiaskina, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Romantic Sensibility and the Death Drive: The Case of Antoni Malczewski's Poetic Tale "Maria"

Panelist:

Andrzej Brylak, University of Southern California

Title:

Abyss of the See Where People Are Dying…or Not’—Forms of Disappearing in Leo Lipski Prose

Panelist:

Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto

Title:

Transgressive Psychobiography, or Horror of Existence

Session 6-4 Roundtable: Teaching Russian through the Russian Children's TV Series Yeralash

Location:

Laughlin Room

Organizer:

Veta Chitnev, The University of British Columbia

Chair:

Emmanuelle Guenette, University of Victoria

Discussants:

Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto

Julia Rochtchina, University of Victoria

Veta Chitnev, The University of British Columbia

Viktoria Tsimberov, Cornell University

Session 6-5 Roundtable: Publishing in Slavic Studies: Things you need to know before you submit your manuscript

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Discussants:

Alexander Burry, The Ohio State University

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Yana Hashamova, The Ohio State University

Session 6-6 Roundtable: Computational Formalism: Digital Approaches to Ukrainian Culture

Location:

Parlor D

Organizer:

Eric Kim, Stanford University

Chair:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Discussants:

Alyssa Virker, Stanford University

Anna Ivanov, Harvard University

Eric Kim, Stanford University

Georgii Korotkov, Stanford University

Ostap Kin, Stanford University

Session 6-7 : Contemporary Russian Cinema

Location:

Copper Room

Chair:

Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

David Molina, University of Chicago

Title:

Andrei Zvyagintsev and Narrative Ethics: Loveless (2017) as Narcissus Garden

Panelist:

Aleksandra Pchelintseva, University of Southern California

Title:

Compulsion to Repeat: The Familial, the Traumatic, and the Uncanny in Vladimir Bitokov’s Mama, I’m Home

Panelist:

Emma Simmons, Princeton University

Title:

Broken Homes: Gender, Power and the Iconography of Corruption in Contemporary Russian Cinema

Session 6-8 Panel: Mnimye velichiny: Tynianov's Images and Illusions

Location:

Elko Room

Organizer:

Gabriel Nussbaum, Princeton University

Chair:

Andrew Whittington-Biehle, Princeton University

Panelist:

Lidia Tripiccione, Princeton University

Title:

Imagined Tynianovs

Panelist:

Gabriel Nussbaum, Princeton University

Title:

«Похожи и непохожи на себя»: Yuri Tynianov’s Literary Imaginary in Context

Panelist:

Ilya Kalinin, Princeton University

Title:

Dream Baring Factory. The Film Theory and Practice of Y. Tynyanov

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Session 6-9 Panel: Dynamic Teaching of Language: Games and Gamification of Learning

Location:

Parlor B

Organizer:

Svetlana Nuss, University of Alaska

Chair:

Svetlana Nuss, University of Alaska

Panelist:

Dmitrii Pastushenkov, Harvard University

Title:

Game-Based Learning in L2 Russian Classrooms: Interaction, Multimodality, and Practical Suggestions

Panelist:

Svetlana Nuss, University of Alaska

Title:

Research, Practice, and Pedagogy of Teaching Language with Games

Panelist:

Maria Bondarenko, University of Montréal

Title:

Learning Motion Verbs Through a Board Game: insights from a cognitive linguistics perspective

Panelist:

Polina Peremitina, Yale University

Title:

Gamified Poetry Writing: Fostering Creativity in the Classroom

Session 6-10 : Teaching Russian Grammar and Vocabulary

Location:

Parlor C

Chair:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Daria Aleeva, Portland State University

Title:

Integrating the Teaching of Vocabulary and Grammar: Making a Lexico-Grammatical approach the heart of an Intermediate Russian Course.

Panelist:

Natalia V. Parker, University College London

Title:

Case Context: what is it and how does it affect the oral production of case forms?

Session 6-11 Roundtable: Teaching Russian from Advanced to Superior Proficiency

Location:

Studio 1

Organizer:

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Chair:

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Discussants:

Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Irina Poliakova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Irina Six, University of Kansas

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Session 6-12 Roundtable: Maximizing proficiency outcomes: curriculum (re)design in various contexts

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Chair:

Natalia Roberts, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Discussants:

Anna Borovskaya Ellis, University of Virginia

Anya Nesterchouk, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irina Avkhimovich, University of North Georgia

Natalia Roberts, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Olga Permitina, Queens College, City University of New York

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Session 6-13 Roundtable: Beyond the Classroom: Ukrainian Studies through Extracurricular Activities

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Ani Abrahamyan, Indiana University Bloomington

Chair:

Ani Abrahamyan, Indiana University Bloomington

Discussants:

Ani Abrahamyan, Indiana University Bloomington

Iryna Voloshyna, Indiana University Bloomington

Megan Luttrell, University of Kansas

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Harvard University

Svitlana Melnyk, Indiana University Bloomington

Veronika Trotter, Indiana University Libraries

February 17, 2024, 3:15-5:15pm

Session 7-1 : STREAM 5: Corpus-Based Investigations of Russian to Inform Pedagogical Practices III

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Valentina Vinokurova, The University of Arizona and Aleksey Novikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Anastasiia Gorlova, The University of Arizona

Title:

Designing corpus-based pedagogical materials using MACAWS

Session 7-2 : STREAM 6: Subversive Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures III: Poetry

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

Erica Camisa Morale, University of Southern California

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sara Dickinson, University of Genoa

Title:

Disability and Women’s Writing in the 1830s: The Literati Discover Domna Anisimova

Panelist:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

Title:

Pregnancy and Childbirth in the verse of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva

Session 7-3 : STREAM 7: Beyond Horizon: Alternatives and Transgressions in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Polish Culture III: Translocations: Writing History, Memory, and Identity

Location:

Tonopah Room

Chair:

Joanna Nizynska, Indiana University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

George Gasyna, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Radical Thoughts: Decolonizing Conrad in the Context of Polish Studies (and Beyond)

Panelist:

Lydia Roberts, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Anticipation and Return to Poland in 20th Century Memoirs

Panelist:

Marcin Cieszkiel, University of Toronto and Marcin Cieszkiel, University of Toronto

Title:

A Case Study of the Pamiętnik Kijowski – A New Spirit to Architect: Homo Novus and the Antenatus Between Modality and Spectrality

Session 7-4 : Contemporary Culture in Ukraine & Eastern Europe

Location:

Laughlin Room

Chair:

Amelia Glaser, University of California San Diego

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alyssa Virker, Stanford University

Title:

Using Literary Ethics to Understand the Importance of Slavic Literature and Language Instruction During the Full-Scale Invasion

Panelist:

Andrea Chandler, Carleton University

Title:

Дружба “Бeз вас”: Reclaiming the Concept of Political Friendship in Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Panelist:

Anastasia Gordienko, The University of Arizona

Title:

Volodymyr Zelensky: From Actor to Captain Ukraine. A Celebrity Studies Perspective

Panelist:

Nicholas Kupensky, United States Air Force Academy

Title:

“Dreams Don’t Burn”: The Sublime Ruins of the Antonov An-225 Mriya

Session 7-5 Panel: National Centers and Peripheries of Knowledge Production in the USSR: The Case of Literary Studies

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Galina Babak, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Chair:

Galina Babak, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Panelist:

Peter Budrin, Queen Mary University of London

Title:

Candide Soviétique: Centrifugal and Centripetal Dynamics in the Life of a Soviet Critic

Panelist:

Valerii Otiakovskii, University of Tartu and Galina Babak, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Title:

Kharkiv – Leningrad, Leningrad – Kolyma – Saratov: Trajectories of Ieremia Aizenshtok and Yulian Oksman

Panelist:

Igor Pilshchikov, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Decolonizing Soviet Semiotics: The Tartu School beyond the Tartu-Moscow and Tartu-Leningrad Dimensions

Panelist:

Susanne Frank, Humboldt University of Berlin

Title:

Forging' national literary history between center and periphery in the Soviet 1930s

Session 7-6 : Ukrainian Cinema in History

Location:

Copper Room

Chair:

Tetyana Shlikhar, University of Notre Dame

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elena Baraban, University of Manitoba

Title:

Filming the Civil War in Ukraine: Igor Savchenko’s "Ballad About Cossack Holota" (1937) and "Horsemen" (1939).

Panelist:

Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University

Title:

Early Ukrainian Cinema (1893-1918) and the Formation of Modern Ukrainian Identity

Session 7-7 Panel: Dostoevsky and Gambling

Location:

Parlor D

Organizer:

Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia

Chair:

Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia

Panelist:

Kate Holland, University of Toronto

Title:

Gambling, Aristocratic Identity and Plot in The Adolescent

Panelist:

Lynn Patyk, Dartmouth College

Title:

Working the Edge in Dostoevsky’s The Gambler

Panelist:

Vadim Shneyder, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

The Gamble of the Polish Uprising in the Geopolitical Aesthetic of The Gambler

Discussants:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

Session 7-8 : Propaganda and Discourse in Contemporary Russia

Location:

Parlor B

Chair:

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Andrei Rogatchevski, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Title:

Death and the NatsBol: Limonov’s and Prilepin’s War Prose

Panelist:

Ilya Kukulin, Amherst College

Title:

Appropriated Demonism: Toward the Cultural Psychology of Contemporary Russian Propaganda

Panelist:

Jeffrey Watson, United States Military Academy and Richard Wolfel, United States Military Academy

Title:

Putin’s Road to War: Political Discourse Analysis of Putin’s Speeches from a Linguistic and Cultural-Historical Perspective

Session 7-10 : Investigating the L2 Learning of Sounds and Structures

Location:

Studio 3

Chair:

Kimberly DiMattia, Harriton High School

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Kor Chahine, University of Cote d'Azur

Title:

Are the Russian Soft Consonants Really Inaudible to the L2 Learners? Some Observations Derived from French Experimental Data

Panelist:

Mirena Patseva, Sofia University

Title:

Variations in acquisition of Bulgarian lexical prosody by English and Mandarin Chinese native speakers

Panelist:

Hyug Ahn, Sungkyunkwan University

Title:

Influence of L1 to L2 acquisition in Russian Motion Verb Constructions

Session 7-11 Roundtable: Media Literacy Roundtable 1: Teaching Media Literacy across the Proficiency Spectrum: from Theory to Practice

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair:

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Discussants:

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Elena Grajinskaya, Indiana University Bloomington

Kelly Knickmeier Cummings, Howard University

Maria Shardakova, Indiana University Bloomington

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Session 7-12 Roundtable: The New Study Abroad Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities

Location:

Studio 1

Organizer:

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Chair:

Alex Spektor, University of Georgia

Discussants:

Alexandra Shapiro, University of Georgia

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Max Shelton, American Councils for International Education

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Tatiana Maslova, University of North Georgia

Tony Brown, Brigham Young University

Session 7-13 Roundtable: The Invisible Teacher: Reflecting on the Teacher Identities of non-Russian Instructors of Russian

Location:

Elko Room

Chair:

Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussants:

Alla Savelieva, University of Colorado Boulder

Anna Gomboeva, University of Virginia

Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Doina Grecu, University of Georgia

Jambul Akkaziev, University of Missouri

February 17, 2024, 5:30-7:30pm

Session 8-1 : STREAM 6: Subversive Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures IV: Memoirs & Life Writing

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Sara Dickinson, University of Genoa

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Polina de Mauny, Sorbonne Nouvelle University

Title:

Marko Vovchok’s “Female Gaze” and Strategy of Elusiveness

Panelist:

Eszter Balogh, Eötvös Loránd University

Title:

Narrating Gender Fluidity and Shifting Identities: Exploring the Representation and Role of Female Impersonators and Interpersonal Relationships in First World War Internment Camps through the Memoirs of Hungarian Writers

Panelist:

Magdalena Cabaj, University of Toronto

Title:

Intersex Narratives from Interwar Poland

Session 8-2 : Trauma and Authorship

Location:

Goldfield Room

Chair:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Olha Khometa, University of Toronto

Title:

Satire, Parody and Self-Parody in Osip Mandelstam's Late Poetry (Moscow Notebooks)

Panelist:

Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, University of Ljubljana Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Title:

Testimony to the Traumatic Experience of the Nazi Camps in the Autobiographical Novel Necropolis by the Contemporary Slovene Writer Boris Pahor (1913-2022)

Panelist:

Alexander Meienberger, University of St. Gallen

Title:

Dying in Oksana Vasjakina's prose

Session 8-3 Panel: Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Stories in Comparative Contexts

Location:

Tonopah Room

Organizer:

Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University

Chair:

Ilya Kukulin, Amherst College

Panelist:

Elena Mikhailik, University of New South Wales

Title:

“What Kind of Trash“: Lydia Ginzburg, Varlam Shalamov, and the Question of Trust

Panelist:

Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University

Title:

“Take it as a Fairytale”: Varlam Shalamov as Storyteller

Panelist:

Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

On the Subjectivity of the dokhodiaga in Shalamov and Nikolai Nikulin

Discussants:

Ilya Kukulin, Amherst College

Session 8-4 : Imperial Relations in 19th-Century Russian Literature

Location:

Laughlin Room

Chair:

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Marcus C. Levitt, University of Southern California

Title:

Aksakov’s Semeinaia khronika -- An Example of Settler Colonialism?

Panelist:

Kyong Wan Lee, Hallym University

Title:

N. Leskov's Expedition Towards the Ideal Russo-Western Relationship: Illuminating the Ambivalent Portrayal of the British in His Novels

Panelist:

Jiyoung Hong, Stanford University

Title:

The Cosmorama: Vladimir’s Gothic Journey to the Inside of a Viewing Toy

Panelist:

Kirill Ospovat, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

"Crime and Pubishment"'s Political Economy

Session 8-5 Panel: New Approaches to Yugoslav Literature and Culture

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Dominick Lawton, Stanford University

Chair:

Dominick Lawton, Stanford University

Panelist:

Djordje Popovic, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

The Last Yugoslav Author in the House of Being

Panelist:

Bojana Videkanic, University of Waterloo

Title:

Yugoslav People's Art in the Light of New Yugoslav Studies

Panelist:

antje postema, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Blind Spots and Broken Molds: A Troubling of Memory and Trauma Studies at the Heart of New Yugoslav Studies

Discussants:

Vladislav Beronja, The University of Texas at Austin

Dominick Lawton, Stanford University

Session 8-6 : Formalisms Revisited

Location:

Copper Room

Chair:

Igor Pilshchikov, University of California Los Angeles

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

David Haas, University of Georgia

Title:

Boris Asafyev’s Formalist-Adjacent Interpretation of Music

Panelist:

Hringur Sigurðarson, Columbia University

Title:

The End of the Family Plot in Shklovsky’s Reading of Rozanov

Panelist:

Yazhe Yang, Princeton University

Title:

Negative Dialogism: Rethinking Bakhtin’s “dialogical relation”

Session 8-7 Roundtable: Russophone Stardom and Politics

Location:

Parlor D

Organizer:

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Chair:

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Discussants:

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Rita Safariants, University of Rochester

Vincent Bohlinger, Rhode Island College

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

Location:

Elko Room

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Panelist:

Frane Karabatic, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Tako lako, New Open Source Online Textbook for Beginner-level L2 Croatian

Panelist:

Adela Lechintan-Siefer, The Ohio State University

Title:

Accessibility and Appeal of Open-Source Digital Materials in the Teaching and Learning of Language and Culture

Panelist:

Ewa Maria Malachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan

Title:

From Tempter to Savior: How to Use chatGPT and Other AI Technology to Improve Language Teaching and Learning

Panelist:

Edit Nagy, University of Florida

Title:

A Beginner’s Journey into Hungarian Language and Culture: Developing an Interactive Hungarian Textbook

Panelist:

Ana Petrov, University of Toronto

Title:

Slavic Languages Through Creative Writing Course: Substitute for the Czech language course?

Panelist:

Holly Raynard, University of Florida

Title:

Content-based instruction for higher performance outcomes

Session 8-9 : Diverse Perspectives in Russian Language Teaching

Location:

Parlor B

Chair:

Maria Alley, University of Pennsylvania

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alexandra Shapiro, University of Georgia

Title:

Student-created website – highlighting culture of the Russian-speaking world outside RF

Panelist:

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University and Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

Diverse Russian: A New Free Open Online Textbook

Panelist:

Anna Vozna, University of Ottawa and Olha Khometa, University of Toronto

Title:

Colonial Discourses in the teaching of Russian in North America

Panelist:

Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Title:

Using Participatory Design to Improve Slavic Language Instruction of Blind and Visually Impaired Students

Session 8-10 Roundtable: Unlocking Russian Pronunciation: A New Approach to Facilitating the Acquisition of Target-Like Speech

Location:

Parlor C

Organizer:

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Chair:

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Discussants:

Amy Singleton Adams, College of the Holy Cross

Ekaterina Korsunsky, New York University

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Julia Katsnelson, University of Vermont

Kimberly DiMattia, Harriton High School

Polina Maksimovich, University of Denver

Session 8-11 Roundtable: Collecting Data and Mapping Russian/Slavic College and Pre-college Programs in the US

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Natalia Sletova, University of Florida

Chair:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Discussants:

Elizabeth Durst, AATSEEL

Joshua Wilson, SRAS

Liudmila Klimanova, The University of Arizona

Renee Stillings, SRAS

Svetlana Abramova, University of Washington

Thomas Tabatowski, The Noble Academy

Session 8-12 Roundtable: Community Based Approach Across the US: Working With or For the People?

Location:

Studio 1

Organizer:

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Discussants:

Anna Shkireva, University of Massachusetts

Irina Meier, The University of New Mexico

Irina Poliakova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Oksana Willis, University of California, Berkeley

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Tatiana Kuzina, City University of Seattle

Valeria Bogomolnaya, Russian School of Boston

Session 8-13 Roundtable: Teaching Russian Language and Eurasian Studies in a New Political Environment: Challenges and Prospects

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Andrei Rogatchevski, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Chair:

Andrei Rogatchevski, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Discussants:

Basil Bessonoff, GS USA

Constantine Muravnik, Yale University

Nikita Mikhaylov, Dalarna University

Olga Voronina, Bard College

Svetlana Sokolova, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway