2019 Conference Program:
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- 7:00am-8:00am
- Continental Breakfast (Ile de France Prefunction)
- 8:00am-10:00am
- AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting (Muses)
- 8:00am-10:00am
- Conference Panels: Session 9 (see below for room assignments)
- 10:00am-11:00am
- AATSEEL Program Committee Meeting (Muses)
- 10:15am-12:00pm
- Conference Panels: Session 10 (see below for room assignments)
- Location:
- Rosalie
- Panelist:
- Natalia V. Parker, University College London
- Title:
- A New Approach to the Teaching of Russian Word Stress and Other Phonological Aspects to Complete Beginners
- Panelist:
- Anna Shkireva, University of Massachusetts
- Title:
- Model of Interactive Instructional Practice and development of students' persistence in lower-level Russian courses
- Panelist:
- Maria Yelenvskaya, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Ekaterina Protassova, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Title:
- Teaching Russian as a pluricentric language
- Location:
- St. Claude
- Chair:
- Olha Khometa, University of Toronto
- Panelist:
- Maria Salkinder, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- Title:
- Fine Art as a Teaching Tool for Russian as a Foreign Language: A Case study of the "History of Russian Fine Art" course
- Panelist:
- Mara Sukholutskaya, East Central University
- Title:
- Mastering Language and Culture with Educational Game"Quartet: Faces of Russia"
- Panelist:
- Heather Rice, The University of Texas at Austin
- Title:
- Taking Russian out of the Classroom: Exploiting the Advantages of Online
- Location:
- Conde
- Chair:
- Irina Denischenko, Georgetown University
- Panelist:
- Vera Senina, Columbia University
- Title:
- Axe and Yarn: The Discussion of Poetic Stance in Acmeist Poetry of the 1920s
- Panelist:
- Geordie Kenyon Sinclair, Harvard University
- Title:
- Anna Barkova's 1954 love lyrics in the Gulag
- Discussants:
- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
- Location:
- Bacchus
- Organizer:
- Meghan Vicks
- Chair:
- Brian James Baer, Kent State University
- Panelist:
- Jacob Emery, Indiana University
- Title:
- Individual Genius and International Standards in the Age of Typewriting
- Panelist:
- Elizabeth Geballe, Indiana University
- Title:
- The Journey of "Karma": What Goes Around Comes Around
- Panelist:
- Meghan Vicks
- Title:
- Edgar Allan Poe-zia in the Work of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
- Discussants:
- William S Nickell, University of Chicago
- Location:
- Endymion
- Organizer:
- Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College
- Chair:
- Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University
- Discussants:
- Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University School of Law
- Caroline Lemak Brickman, University of California, Berkeley
- Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College
- Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia
- Sean Blink, Yale University
- Location:
- Orleans
- Organizer:
- Brett Roark Winestock, Stanford University
- Chair:
- Ruth Averbach, Stanford University
- Panelist:
- Pavel Khazanov, Rutgers University
- Title:
- Ilya Oblomov as a Late-Soviet Conservative
- Panelist:
- Martha M. F. Kelly, University of Missouri
- Title:
- The Tolstoy Effect: Olga Sedakova in Public
- Panelist:
- Brett Roark Winestock, Stanford University
- Title:
- ‘Yes, not to Leningrad, but to Petersburg:’ Reading Tsypkin Reading Dostoevsky
- Discussants:
- Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College
- Location:
- St. Jerome
- Organizer:
- Jennifer Wilson, University of Pennsylvania
- Chair:
- Naomi Caffee, Reed College
- Panelist:
- Gesine Drews-Sylla, Universität Tübingen
- Title:
- An Acmeist Cartography of Africa. Ethiopia in Nikolay Gumilev’s “Shaterâ€
- Panelist:
- Nicholas Rinehart, Harvard University
- Title:
- Nabokov's Africanist Appendix
- Panelist:
- Katarzyna Cytlak, Centro de Estudios de los Mundos Eslavos y Chinos, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
- Title:
- Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor and Self-Identification with Africa in Polish Culture of the 1970s and 1980s
- Discussants:
- Sara Feldman, Harvard University
- Location:
- Frontenac
- Organizer:
- Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles
- Chair:
- Anna Alsufieva, Portland State University
- Discussants:
- Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College
- Olga Thomason, University of Georgia
- Sara Karpukhin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- William J. Comer, Portland State University
- Location:
- Conde
- Organizer:
- Irina Shevelenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Chair:
- Lyubov Golburt, University of California, Berkeley
- Discussants:
- Irina Shevelenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania
- Maria Stepanova
- Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University
- Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley
- Stanislav Lvovsky
- Location:
- Bacchus
- Organizer:
- Laura Little, Connecticut College
- Chair:
- Brian R. Johnson, Macalester College
- Panelist:
- Sarah Bishop, Willamette University
- Title:
- "The Life of a Poet: Elena Shvarts's Biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio"
- Panelist:
- Ilona Sotnikova, Smith College
- Title:
- "On the Question of Salvation in Elena Shvarts's Prose and Poetry"
- Panelist:
- Laura Little, Connecticut College
- Title:
- Shvarts, inked: "The Girl with 148 Birthmarks"
- Discussants:
- Thomas Epstein, Boston College
- Location:
- Rosalie
- Chair:
- Tatiana Hamlet
- Panelist:
- Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Title:
- Principles and Strategies: Teaching Reading in the Slavic Languages Curriculum
- Panelist:
- Rossina Soyan, Carnegie Mellon University
- Title:
- From Reading the News to Performing the News: Advanced Students’ Use of Media Texts
- Panelist:
- Svitlana Melnyk, Indiana University Bloomington and Veronika Trotter, Indiana University Libraries
- Title:
- Project-based learning with Wikipedia in an advanced Russian class
- Location:
- St. Claude
- Organizer:
- Melissa Miller, Colby College
- Chair:
- Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame
- Panelist:
- Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona
- Title:
- Women Who Traffic Women: The Madam in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
- Panelist:
- Julia Chadaga, Macalester College
- Title:
- Leaps of the Imagination: The Poprygunchiki as a Case Study in Criminal Creativity
- Panelist:
- Melissa Miller, Colby College
- Title:
- The Aesthetics of Abortion: Law and Family in The Kukotsky Enigma
February 10, 2019, 8:00-10:00am
Session 9-1 : Approaches to Teaching Russian
Session 9-2 : Russian Language Teaching Tools
Session 9-3 Panel: Death, Love, and Sex: Lyric identity in 20th century Russian poetry
Session 9-4 Panel: The Russification of American Literature
Session 9-5 Roundtable: Teaching Dostoevsky in the 21st Century
Session 9-6 Panel: The Reading and Reception of the Russian Classics in the Late-Soviet Period
Session 9-7 Panel: Ethiopia in the Eurasian Imaginary
Session 9-8 Roundtable: Ongoing Projects in the Russian Language Flagship
February 10, 2019, 10:15am-12:00pm
Session 10-1 Roundtable: The First Post-Soviet Literary Generation: A Quarter Century Later
Session 10-2 Panel: Elena Shvarts: the poet and her prose
Session 10-3 : Texts and Reading in the Language Classroom
Session 10-4 Panel: The Spectacle of Crime in Russian Literature and Culture
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