2018 Conference Program:

• Overview
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday
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7:00am-8:00am

Continental Breakfast (Grand Foyer)

8:00am-10:00am

AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting (Washington Boardroom)

8:00am-10:00am

Conference Panels: Session 9 (see below for room assignments)

10:00am-11:00am

AATSEEL Program Committee Meeting (Washington Boardroom)

10:15am-12:00pm

Conference Panels: Session 10 (see below for room assignments)

February 4, 2018, 8:00-10:00am

Session 9-1 : Corpus Linguistics Workshop

Location:

Tiber Creek B

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Mikhail Kopotev, University of Helsinki

Title:

Workshop: Language Corpora in Class: A Resource for Russian Language Teachers

Session 9-2 : Heredity and Identity

Location:

Banneker

Chair:

Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Anja Jovic-Humphrey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

The Postcolonial Balkans

Panelist:

Irina Meier, The University of New Mexico

Title:

“Siblings by Blood, Terrorists by Choice”: Exploring Sibling Ties Within Chechen Terrorist Movements

Panelist:

Olga Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University

Title:

Lost and Found: Crypto-Jews in Russia

Session 9-3 Roundtable: Online Language Instruction: Trends, Challenges, Strategies

Location:

Declaration A

Organizer:

Anna Dvigubski, United Nations

Chair:

Veta Chitnev, The University of British Columbia

Discussants:

Anna Dvigubski, United Nations

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Illinois Chicago

Katya Nemtchinova, Seattle Pacific University

Linc Jepson

Session 9-4 Panel: GLOBAL EFFECTS ON CZECH LITERATURE AND CULTURE II

Location:

Latrobe

Organizer:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Chair:

Karen von Kunes, Yale University

Panelist:

Jakub Říha, Institute of Czech literature of the CAS

Title:

Jan Neruda’s Poetry and the European Versification

Panelist:

Jan Culik, University of Glasgow

Title:

The Current Crisis in the Czech Republic and the Role of Literature

Panelist:

Veronika Tuckerova, Harvard University

Title:

Czech Literature in Translation

Session 9-5 Roundtable: Teaching Inclusively in Culture/Lit Courses for Non-Majors

Location:

Burnham

Organizer:

Martha M. F. Kelly, University of Missouri

Chair:

Martha M. F. Kelly, University of Missouri

Discussants:

Emily Wang, University of Southern California

Kristin Torres, University of Missouri

Roman Utkin, Davidson College

Session 9-6 Panel: North American Dostoevsky Society

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Organizer:

Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

Chair:

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

Panelist:

Erica Drennan, Amherst College

Title:

To America or Siberia? Binaries and Porous Boundaries in Crime and Punishment

Panelist:

Molly Rose Avila, Columbia Univeristy

Title:

A Calligraphic Gaze

Discussants:

Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University School of Law

Session 9-7 Panel: Colonial Fantasies: Sexuality, Orientalism, and Travel in Ukrainian and Russian Modernism

Location:

Declaration B

Organizer:

Alexander Averbuch, University of Toronto

Chair:

Mariia Nesterenko, University of Tartu

Panelist:

Alexander Averbuch, University of Toronto

Title:

Orientalism and Homoeroticism in Ukrainian Modernist Poetry: Ahatanhel Krymsʹkyi in Lebanon

Panelist:

Alexander Markin, Slavisches Seminar

Title:

Sexual Perversion in Russian Orientalist Modernist Poetry: the Case of Mikhail Kuzmin

Session 9-8 Panel: Imagining the Foreign: Russian (anti-) exoticism in Global Context

Location:

Bulfinch

Organizer:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Chair:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:

John Stachelski, Yale University

Title:

Turning Toward the Sun Ascending: Segalen and Leontiev’s Orientalist Modernisms

Panelist:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Title:

Globalizing a Style: Nikolai Gumilev, Ezra Pound, and Chinese Poetry in the 1910s

Panelist:

Edward Tyerman, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

The Exotic as Fetish: Sergei Tret’iakov, China, and Anti-Ekzotika Discourse in the 1920s

Panelist:

Daniel Taehun Lee, Northwestern University

Title:

Viktor Pelevin's Buddha and the Post-Soviet Quest for Identity

Discussants:

susanna lim, University of Oregon

Session 9-9 : 20th-Century Russian Literature and Culture

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Nina Bond, Franklin & Marshall

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Jillian Costello, University of Colorado Boulder

Title:

Soul is Matter: Platonov in the Scientific Discourse of the Early 20th Century

Panelist:

Karina McCorkle, University of California at Berkeley

Title:

"Proiskhodiat novye chudesa": The New Soviet Miracle in Master i Margarita

Panelist:

Julia Kobrina, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Title:

Berlin as a Setting in Vladimir Nabokov’s Russian Prose

Session 9-10 Panel: Cultural and Temporal Crossings throughout Russian Poetry

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Organizer:

Alexander Droznin, Harvard University

Chair:

Sara Jo Powell, Harvard University

Panelist:

Laura Matthews, Princeton University

Title:

Displacement in Time: Exile in the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova

Panelist:

Alexander Droznin, Harvard University

Title:

The Princely Syllabicist: Antioch Kantemir’s Anacreontea and the Italian Influence on Early Russian Versification

Panelist:

Chiara Benetollo, Princeton University

Title:

Cultural and Stylistic Mediation: Translating Boris Pasternak's Poetry into Italian

Discussants:

Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University

February 4, 2018, 10:15am-12:00pm

Session 10-1 Panel: Russian Lyric in a Comparative Context

Location:

Tiber Creek B

Organizer:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Chair:

Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

Panelist:

Caroline Lemak Brickman, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

"Originals That Read Like Translations: Sergei Zavialov, Anne Carson, and the Anthological Tradition"

Panelist:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Title:

"Kak budu odinok v svoem grobu: Tiutchev's Anti-Elegies"

Panelist:

Dominick Lawton, Stanford University

Title:

Mourning the Elegy: OBERIU's Nature Lyric

Panelist:

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Title:

Ivan Konevskoi’s “Starres Ich”

Session 10-2 Panel: The Works and Days of Konstantin Vaginov

Location:

Tiber Creek A

Organizer:

Geoffrey Cebula, Princeton University

Chair:

Philip Redko, Harvard University

Panelist:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Title:

The Writer as Mortician: The Rejection of the Future in Konstantin Vaginov and Post-war Soviet Literature

Panelist:

Charles Swank, Princeton University

Title:

Collecting and Cataloging in Konstantin Vaginov’s Garpagoniana

Panelist:

Geoffrey Cebula, Princeton University

Title:

Feasting in Times of Plague: Bad Taste in Bambocciata

Discussants:

Anthony Anemone, The New School

Session 10-3 Panel: Teaching from the Intermediate/1 to Advanced/2 Levels of Proficiency: Practices from the Flagship Programs

Location:

Declaration A

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Teaching Reading: Online Reading in Russian

Panelist:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

An Integrated Approach to Teaching Listening

Panelist:

Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Title:

“A Student-Led Approach to Flagship Conversation-Based Tutoring"

Discussants:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Session 10-4 Panel: Gendering Space in Contemporary Post-Soviet Culture: Literature, Cinema, Drama. Association for Women in Slavic Studies - Sponsored Panel.

Location:

Declaration B

Organizer:

Elizaveta Mankovskaya, Princeton University

Chair:

Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Panelist:

Elizaveta Mankovskaya, Princeton University

Title:

Reimagining Revolution: Gender and Urban Space in Turmoil in Dmitry Bykov’s "Orthography" (2003) and Boris Akunin’s "Aristonomia" (2012)

Panelist:

Tatiana Efremova, Columbia University

Title:

Indestructible Objects: The Afterlife of the Soviet Female Subject in the Post-Soviet Fantasies of Nation-Building

Panelist:

Daria V. Ezerova, Columbia University

Title:

Women on the Margins: Provincial Space and Gendered Subjectivity in the Plays of Vasilii Sigarev

Discussants:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Session 10-5 : Dostoevsky: Texts and Contexts

Location:

Banneker

Chair:

Edward Tyerman, University of California, Berkeley

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Maria Whittle, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Still Dreaming: Spatiotemporal Practice in Dostoevskii’s Belye Nochi

Panelist:

Vladimir Ivantsov, Williams College

Title:

“Awfully Fond of Children”: Children and the Exit from the Underground in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground

Panelist:

Saera Yoon, UNIST

Title:

Another Loveless Father: Grigory in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

Session 10-6 : Russian and Early Soviet Film

Location:

Penn Quarter A

Chair:

Elizabeth Papazian, University of Maryland

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Randall Rowe, The Ohio State University

Title:

Y/Our Land and Y/Our People: Filmic Constructions of Soviet National Identity 1926 and 1944

Panelist:

Dustin Condren, University of Oklahoma

Title:

“Is This Reality or a Dream?”: Eisenstein’s Precariously Comedic MMM

Panelist:

Yelena Severina, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Performing History: Neo-Medievalism in Russian Silent Film

Session 10-7 : Words and Language in 20th-Century Russia

Location:

Penn Quarter B

Chair:

Martha M. F. Kelly, University of Missouri

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Iana Omelianenko, University of Toronto

Title:

No Language – No Community: The impact of homophobia on the development of LGBTQ Related Language in Russia

Panelist:

Valentina Apresyan, Nazarbayev University and Mikhail Gronas, Dartmouth College

Title:

Metactant: A cognitive interpretation of a new trope at the intersection of metaphor and metonymy

Panelist:

David Parker, Carnegie Mellon University

Title:

Latin, Greek, and Aramaic: Master as Translator in The Master and Margarita

Session 10-8 Roundtable: ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY SLAVIC TRANSLATION STUDIES: PRACTICE AND THEORY

Location:

Burnham

Organizer:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Chair:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Discussants:

Alla Perminova, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv national university

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Roman Ivashkiv, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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