2024 Conference Program:

February 18, 2024, 8:00-10:00am

Session 9-1 : STREAM 6: Subversive Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures V: Literature

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Alina Fiorella, Independent Scholar

Title:

Of Women, Horses, and Men: The Erotic Triangle and The Role of Women in Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time

Panelist:

Natalia Dame, University of Southern California

Title:

Beyond Marriage: A Wife’s Search for Self in Olga Grushin’s Novels

Session 9-2 Panel: New Approaches to Skaz

Location:

Goldfield Room

Organizer:

Samuel Page, Stanford University

Chair:

Veniamin Gushchin, Columbia University

Panelist:

Jason Cieply, Hamilton College

Title:

How Aleksandra Kollontai’s Revolution of Feelings Brought Her to Skaz

Panelist:

Semyon Leonenko, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

“Some Jobs Make You Cringe in Horror”: Skaz and Sound Automation

Panelist:

Samuel Page, Stanford University

Title:

How It Was Made in Odessa: Functions of Skaz in Babel’s Odessa Tales

Discussants:

Jinyi Chu, Yale University

Session 9-3 Roundtable: The GDR in Slavic and East European Studies: East Germany as a Point of Contact during the Cold War

Location:

Tonopah Room

Organizer:

Olga Nechaeva, University of Pennsylvania

Chair:

Olga Nechaeva, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Mariana Ivanova, University of Massachusetts

Olga Nechaeva, University of Pennsylvania

Olga Simonova, University of Turku

Susanne Frank, Humboldt University of Berlin

Session 9-4 Roundtable: Should Scholars Outside of Russia Collaborate with Scholars in Russia During the War?

Location:

Laughlin Room

Organizer:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Chair:

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

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

Ilya Kukulin, Amherst College

Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Session 9-5 Roundtable: New Directions in Mayakovsky Studies

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Carlotta Chenoweth, United States Military Academy

Discussants:

Carlotta Chenoweth, United States Military Academy

Irina Denischenko, Georgetown University

Zachary Rewinski, College of Wooster

Session 9-6 : Political Play in 18th-19th-Century Literature

Location:

Copper Room

Chair:

Lyubov Golburt, University of California, Berkeley

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Isabella Palange, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:

High Up and Far Off: The Peasantry’s Rejection of the Absentee Sovereign and Official Nationalism in Nikolai Nekrasov’s “Komu na Rusi zhit’ khorosho”

Panelist:

Jemma Paek, Harvard University

Title:

Ludic play in orderly rule: satirical journals and the bounds of the carnival under Catherine the Great

Session 9-7 : New Devices for Classic 19th-Century Writers

Location:

Elko Room

Chair:

Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Kathleen Manukyan, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

I pro volju zaspivaj: Epic as Device in Gogol’s and Lysenko’s Taras Bulba

Panelist:

Byungsam Jung, Syracuse University

Title:

Nikolai Gogol’s Camera Obscura: The Portrait of Art

Panelist:

Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College

Title:

Chekhov’s "Kiss" and the Poetics of Error

Session 9-8 : Pushkin and Empire

Location:

Parlor B

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elizaveta Volkovskaia, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

"Pushkin is Our Everything”: The Appropriation of the Poet’s Image by the Russian Government

Panelist:

Elena Petrova-Libgober, University of Southern California

Title:

Compelled voyage meets compelled residence: New approach to Pushkin’s Southern exile

Panelist:

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University

Title:

Pushkin in the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv: How Pushkn's Ukranian Myth Was Made

Session 9-9 : God and Tolstoy

Location:

Parlor C

Chair:

Victoria Juharyan, University of California, Davis

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Nathan Goldstone, Harvard University

Title:

Present Omniscient: Information Transfer, “Leaky” Subjectivity, and Morality in Anna Karenina

Panelist:

Melvin Thomas, Princeton University

Title:

Which Love and Whose God in Tolstoy’s “Where Love Is, God Is There”

Session 9-10 : Connecting Language Learning to Other Disciplines and Communities

Location:

Studio 1

Chair:

Julia Katsnelson, University of Vermont

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Catharine Cooke, Mill River Union High School

Title:

Building a Web of Knowledge: Connecting Russian Language Learning to the Broader Middle School/High School Curriculum

Panelist:

Maria Alley, University of Pennsylvania

Title:

Fostering Intercultural Competence and Social Engagement: A Case Study of a Russian-language Service-Learning Course

Panelist:

Valeriya Chekalina, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title:

Building a Russian Technical Language Corpus for Use in Class

Panelist:

Valentina Vinokurova, The University of Arizona

Title:

Content-Based Instruction in the Russian Language Classroom: Fostering Sustainability Literacy

Session 9-11 Roundtable: Media Literacy Roundtable 2: Teaching Media Literacy at Various Levels of Instruction: Case Studies

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair:

Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussants:

Alexandra Shapiro, University of Georgia

Ilia Venyavkin, Russian Independent Media Archive

Irina Pidberejna, University of Central Florida

Magdalena Kaltseis, University of Innsbruck

Michelle Verbitskaya, The Ohio State University

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Session 9-12 Roundtable: Cultural Stereotypes in L2 Pedagogy: True or False Friends?

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Chair:

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Discussants:

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

Polina Maksimovich, University of Denver

Serhii Tereshchenko, Columbia University

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Tony Lin, Boston College

Yelena Zotova, The Pennsylvania State University

February 18, 2024, 10:30am-12:30pm

Session 10-1 : STREAM 6: Subversive Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures VI: Sofia Smirnova-Sazonova: A Great 19th-c. Russian Writer

Location:

Ely Room

Chair:

Irina Reyfman, Columbia University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Hilde Hoogenboom, Arizona State University

Title:

Sofia Smirnova: The Novels

Panelist:

Maude Meisel, Columbia University

Title:

Sofia Smirnova: The Plays

Panelist:

Olga Makarova, Queen Mary University of London

Title:

Sofia Smirnova: The Diaries

Discussants:

Fiona Bell, Yale University

Session 10-2 Panel: Language and War: Shifts and Transformations within Ukraine and Ukrainian Communities

Location:

Goldfield Room

Organizer:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist:

Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta

Title:

The War and Shifting Language Attitudes and Practices of Ukrainians

Panelist:

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Title:

Preserving Heritage Languages in Times of War: Insights from Ukrainian Immigrants and Refugees in California

Panelist:

Olenka Bilash, University of Alberta

Title:

Recent immigrants and refugees: marking the Ukrainian education landscape in the diaspora

Panelist:

Olena Morozova, The University of British Columbia

Title:

A lexicon inscribed in the realm of death: An exploration into the present-day Ukrainian linguistic worldview

Session 10-3 : Text/Cinema Crossing International Borders

Location:

Tonopah Room

Chair:

Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Dasom Kim, Yale University

Title:

People Woven by Texts: Hamaguchi Ryuske’s Drive My Car (2021)

Panelist:

Lioudmila Fedorova, Georgetown University

Title:

The Meek One Crossing the Borders: “Krotkaia” on the International Screens

Panelist:

Mariia Gorshkova, Stanford University

Title:

Konstantin Nabokov: An Americanophile in the Anglophile Family

Session 10-4 Roundtable: Ukrainian Formalism: Texts and Contexts. A Presentation of the Anthology

Location:

Laughlin Room

Organizer:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Chair:

Alyssa Virker, Stanford University

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

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

Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Session 10-5 Panel: Indigenous Theories and Methodologies in Practice in (post-)Russian Spaces

Location:

Silver Room

Organizer:

Brian Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair:

LeiAnna Hamel, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelist:

Jon Adsit, Northern Illinois University

Title:

To Enlighten a Midnight Land: Indigenous and Environmental Networks of Agency in Russian America, 1817-1863

Panelist:

Colton Brandau, University of California, Davis

Title:

Alaska and Settler Colonialism

Panelist:

Laurel Tollison, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Resistance in Empire: The Story of Indigenous Alaskan Women in Russian Alaska

Panelist:

Brian Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

Indigenous Siberian Literatures as “Tools for Futurity”

Session 10-6 Panel: The Pre-Life of the Work in Tolstoy and Nabokov

Location:

Copper Room

Organizer:

Elizabeth Geballe, Indiana University

Chair:

Matthew Walker, Middlebury College

Panelist:

Olga Voronina, Bard College

Title:

"Tree Scrabble": Pnin through the Lens of Nabokov Teaching and Translating Pushkin

Panelist:

Meghan Vicks

Title:

Nabokov’s Unstable Guides to Berlin

Panelist:

Elizabeth Geballe, Indiana University

Title:

Tolstoy’s Sentimental Journey through Sterne and Switzerland

Panelist:

Jacob Emery, Indiana University

Title:

Solus Rex and Its Sibling Cadaverkins

Discussants:

Robyn Jensen, University of California, Berkeley

Session 10-7 : Time, Space and Author in Dostoyevsky

Location:

Parlor D

Chair:

Kate Holland, University of Toronto

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Sergei Motov, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

The Trap of Mediocrity: Rank, Status, and St. Petersburg’s Topography in Dostoevsky’s The Double

Panelist:

Brad Montgomery-Anderson, Colorado Mesa University

Title:

Schedules and timetables: The pervasive modernity of structured time in Dostoevsky's The Idiot

Panelist:

Myles Garbarini, Columbia University

Title:

Myshkin in His Own Time: A Queer Theological Approach to Temporality in The Idiot

Panelist:

Jiwon Jung, Northwestern University

Title:

The Underground Man as an Author

Session 10-8 Panel: Politics of the written and spoken word in Soviet and contemporary Russian culture

Location:

Parlor B

Organizer:

Kathleen Mitchell-Fox, Princeton University

Chair:

Andrew Whittington-Biehle, Princeton University

Panelist:

Tatiana Krasilnikova, Columbia University

Title:

Overidentification on the Other Side of Ideology: How Propagandistic Art Subverts Itself

Panelist:

Yoonmin Kim, Yale University

Title:

The “Walking Tape Recorder” in the New Pre-Gutenberg Era: A Case Study on Orality in Soviet Underground Poetry

Panelist:

Kathleen Mitchell-Fox, Princeton University

Title:

“Exo-Russian” Self-Creation in the poetry of Varvara Nedeoglo

Discussants:

Ania Aizman, University of Chicago

Session 10-9 Panel: Paths Not Taken: Literary Re-imaginings of Russian History

Location:

Parlor C

Organizer:

Alexandra Portice, Middlebury College

Chair:

Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist:

Alexandra Portice, Middlebury College

Title:

Alternate History: Genesis of the Genre in the Russian Language

Panelist:

Reed Johnson, Bowdoin College

Title:

Leningrad/Petersburg through the Lens of Contemporary Alt-History

Panelist:

Irina Anisimova, University of Bergen

Title:

Queering Soviet Nostalgia

Session 10-10 Panel: Russian Verbs of Motion Instruction Using the ABC Principle: Teaching Challenges and Solutions

Location:

Studio 1

Organizer:

Margaret Godwin-Jones, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Chair:

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia

Panelist:

Anna Karpusheva, University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Verbs of Motion: The ABC Principle Applied

Panelist:

Margaret Godwin-Jones, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Title:

The Subtleties of Taking a Round Trip: An Examination of Сходить-Type D Verbs of Motion in Russian

Panelist:

Irina Six, University of Kansas and Kamila Saifeeva, University of Kansas

Title:

Verbs of Motion at Intermediate Level: The ABC principle continued. Imparting Prefixed Verbs

Discussants:

Maria Bondarenko, University of Montréal

Session 10-11 Roundtable: Teaching Russian in Mixed-Level Groups: Insights and Ideas Using the Textbook "Pro-dvizhenie" (GUP, 2023)

Location:

Elko Room

Organizer:

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Chair:

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Discussants:

Irina Kogel, Boston University

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Valeriya Kozlovskaya, Star Academy

Session 10-12 Roundtable: Reopening the case: Approaches to teaching case morphology to learners of Russian as a second language

Location:

Studio 2

Organizer:

Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University

Chair:

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Discussants:

Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California

Irina Mikaelian, The Pennsylvania State University

Olesya Kisselev, University of South Carolina

Session 10-13 Roundtable: Cinematic perspectives on Central and East European Culture

Location:

Studio 3

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Discussants:

Ana Petrov, University of Toronto

Christopher Caes, Columbia University

Christopher Harwood, Columbia University

Holly Raynard, University of Florida

Magdalena Cabaj, University of Toronto

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles