2014 Conference Program:

January 12, 2014, 9:00-11:00am

SUN-A-1 : The Idiot and Others

Location:

Superior

Chair:

Carol Apollonio, Duke University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Carmen Finashina, Northwestern University

Title:

“Beauty is an awful and a terrible thing!”: Beauty as a Physical and Psychological Characteristic in the Realist Novel

Panelist:

Julianna Leachman, University of Texas at Austin

Title:

"Constant Inappropriateness": National Identity and Otherness in Dostoevsky's The Idiot

Panelist:

Brian R. Johnson, Macalester College

Title:

Illness as Metaphor: The Case of Dostoevsky’s Consumptives

Discussants:

Daniel Schuemann

SUN-A-2 : Silver Age Culture

Location:

Erie

Chair:

Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Kentucky

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College

Title:

Embodying the Cogito: Rozanov as a Philosopher of Writing

Panelist:

Katherine Reischl, Princeton University

Title:

A Photographic Inheritance: The Afterlife of Leonid Andreev’s Family Photographs

Panelist:

Max Popelysh-Rosochynsky, Northwestern University

Title:

Sexuality and Creativity in Marina Tsvetaeva's Theoretical Writings

Panelist:

Andrey Bredstein, Emory University

Title:

Public Debates on Otherness in the Russian Literature, or Can a Jew Understand Dostoevsky?

SUN-A-3 Panel: Imagined Geographies: Space, Time and Identity in Soviet Russia and Beyond

Location:

Huron

Organizer:

Tatiana Filimonova, Dartmouth College

Chair:

Katherine Bowers, University of British Columbia

Panelist:

Conor Klamann, Northwestern University

Title:

The Geography of the Past in Andrei Platonov's Chevengur

Panelist:

Sanna Turoma, University of Helsinki

Title:

Geography, Space, and Identity in 1960s Soviet Russian Culture

Panelist:

Kolter Campbell, Northwestern University

Title:

The Imaginary Space in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker

Panelist:

Tatiana Filimonova, Dartmouth College

Title:

Exploring the Limits of Empire: Literary Eurasianism of Pavel Krusanov

Discussants:

Edith W. Clowes, University of Virginia

SUN-A-4 : Russian Literature Today

Location:

Ontario

Chair:

Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Rebecca Stakun, University of Kansas

Title:

Phantoms of Power in Pelevin

Panelist:

Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

The Deconstruction of Russian Nationalism in Vladimir Sorokin's Day of an Oprichnik

Panelist:

Karen Rosenflanz, The College of St. Scholastica

Title:

Kaminer’s Fire and Pelevin’s Ice: Manipulating the Media Image

Panelist:

Lidia Levkovitch, Rutgers University

Title:

The Zhungle Book: Place, Body and Language in Iurii Buida’s Story Cycle "Zhungli"

SUN-A-5 : Late Soviet Film and Fiction

Location:

Venetian

Chair:

David McVey, University of Kansas

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alexandre Gontchar, Harvard University

Title:

The Room That Wasn't There: the Stalker and the Nullity of Being

Panelist:

Robert Efird, Virginia Tech

Title:

Paradjanov and the Powers of the False: Narration and Identity in Legend of Suram Fortress

Panelist:

Erin Alpert, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Documenting and Demystifying the Great Leader: Semen Aranovich’s Documentaries about Stalin

Panelist:

Max Thompson, The University of Arkansas

Title:

Chingiz Aitmatov: Translations into English and his American Readership

SUN-A-6 : Issues in Teaching Beginning-level Language Courses

Location:

Parkside

Chair:

Katya Nemtchinova, Seattle Pacific University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Cori Weiner

Title:

From «Дождь» to «Комеди Клаб»: Entertaining Listening Material for Beginning Russian

Panelist:

Jane F. Jane, University of Utah

Title:

Teacher Beliefs and the Acquisition of Russian Lexical Stress: Is there a Disconnect?

Panelist:

Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida

Title:

The Role of Intercultural Competence in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

January 12, 2014, 12:00-2:00pm

SUN-B-1 Panel: Writing and Re-writing Literary Biographies

Location:

Superior

Organizer:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Chair:

Ludmilla Trigos

Panelist:

Angela Brintlinger, The Ohio State University

Title:

"Pushkin 'Three-fold' in the pages of ZhZL"

Panelist:

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Title:

"Remarkable Tolstoy, From the Age of Empire to the Putin Era (1894, 2007)"

Panelist:

Irene Masing-Delic, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title:

"Writing a Twentieth-Century Poet's Life: The Biography of Alexander Blok"

Discussants:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

SUN-B-2 Panel: Gendered Protest in Putin's Russia

Location:

Venetian

Chair:

Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist:

Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Sexposition: Voina, Pussy Riot, FEMEN

Panelist:

Holly Myers, University of Delaware

Title:

A Form of Public Protest: "Offensiveness"

SUN-B-3 : Slavic Views on Theoretical Issues

Location:

Erie

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Melissa Witcombe, Indiana University

Title:

The Case for [Lingual] Specification: Slavic Jotation

Panelist:

Ksenia Zanon, Indiana U

Title:

On the status of reflexive possessives in DP-languages

Panelist:

John Frederick Bailyn, Stony Brook University

Title:

Against Syntactic Cartography: Arguments from Russian

SUN-B-4 : Pedagogical Innovation

Location:

Parkside

Chair:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Edie Furniss, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Using a Corpus-Based Approach to Russian as a Foreign Language Materials Development

Panelist:

Liudmila Klimanova, University of Arizona

Title:

L2 Learners in the Wild: Task-based RuNet activities to foster learner autonomy

Panelist:

Rimma Ableeva, University of Georgia

Title:

Where have the word endings gone? Human-Mediated Dynamic Assessment of Text Comprehension in Russian as a Foreign Language

Panelist:

Yuliya Ilchuk

Title:

Integrating Research into Teaching: Geonarrative Projects in the Undergraduate Education