2021 Conference Program:

February 25, 2021, 10:00am-12:00pm

Session 1-1 Panel: Digital Directions in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies: Collaboration, Platforms, Visibility

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Ian Goodale, University of Texas at Austin

Panelist:

Ian Goodale, University of Texas at Austin and Vladislav Beronja, The University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Digital Humanities, Libraries, and the Global Classroom

Panelist:

Joan Neuberger, University of Texas at Austin

Title:

Digital Archives and Other forms of Digital Research

Panelist:

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Title:

Re-Imagining Digital Humanities and Russian and East European Studies after 2020

Panelist:

Andrew Janco, Haverford College

Title:

Machine Learning and Human Expertise in the Slavic Digital Humanities

Session 1-2 : Tackling Russian Grammar

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Maria Shardakova, Indiana University Bloomington

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Irina Six, University of Kansas

Title:

Причастия и деепричастия: An Easy Way to Approach Hard Verbal Categories

Panelist:

Natalia V. Parker, University College London

Title:

Facilitating Case Inflection Production among Ab-initio Learners of Russian

Session 1-3 Roundtable: Developing a Proficiency-Oriented Curriculum

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

Chair:

Irina Walsh, Bryn Mawr College

Discussants:

Cori Anderson, Rutgers University

Erik Houle, The University of Chicago

Kinga Kosmala, Northwestern University

Mark Baugher, University of Chicago

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Shannon Quinn, Michigan State University

Session 1-4 Roundtable: Reexamining Stagnation

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Chair:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Discussants:

Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College

Aleksey Konakov

Anthony Topoleski, Northwestern University

Igor Gulin

Laura Little, Connecticut College

Thomas Epstein, Boston College

Session 1-5 Roundtable: Learning and teaching indigenous languages of the Russian Federation in the United States

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Hilah Kohen, University of Pennsylvania

Chair:

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Discussants:

Anna Gomboeva, University of Virginia

Dylan Charter, Swarthmore College

Hilah Kohen, University of Pennsylvania

Irina Sadovina, Volga State University of Technology

Jessica Kantarovich, University of Chicago

Lenore Grenoble, The University of Chicago

Rossina Soyan, Carnegie Mellon University

February 25, 2021, 12:45-2:45pm

Session 2-1 : Open seminar with Sunnie Rucker-Chang (University of Cincinnati): Critical Romani Studies and Central and Southeast European Film

Location:

Not Assigned

February 25, 2021, 3:30-5:30pm

Session 3-1 Panel: The Art of Cultural Survival: Action, Silence, and Dissent in Russia and Eastern Europe

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Maia Toteva, Texas Tech University

Chair:

Maia Toteva, Texas Tech University

Panelist:

Maia Toteva, Texas Tech University

Title:

Tactics of Cultural Resistance in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Panelist:

Gediminas Gasparavicius, University of Akron

Title:

Subversive Affirmation as a Creative Strategy: Embracing Restrictions in the Art of Slovenian Collective NSK

Panelist:

Frank Boyer, SUNY-New Paltz

Title:

Punishment, Performance, and Practice: A Post-War Polish Artist’s Basic Training

Session 3-2 Roundtable: Working with Beginner’s Russian: Strategies, Additions, Program Formats

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Tatiana Maslova, University of North Georgia

Chair:

Tatiana Maslova, University of North Georgia

Discussants:

Alexandra Shapiro, University of Georgia

Anastasiya Smith, University of Georgia

Anna Kudyma, University of California Los Angeles

Anna Shkireva, University of Massachusetts

Tatiana Maslova, University of North Georgia

Session 3-3 Roundtable: Teaching Upper-level Courses in a Remote Context: Models from the Flagship Program

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Discussants:

Anna Alsufieva, Portland State University

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kirsten Rutsala, Virginia Tech

Nila Friedberg, Portland State University

Olga Thomason, University of Georgia

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia

Session 3-4 Panel: Slavic Horror: Evil Never Rests: Year 2

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Svitlana Krys, MacEwan University

Chair:

Tetyana Dzyadevych, Grinnell College

Panelist:

Svitlana Krys, MacEwan University

Title:

The Folk Horror Origins of the Ukrainian Gothic

Panelist:

Lev Nikulin, Princeton University

Title:

Gogol's Dead End: Dead Souls as the Culmination of a Horror Poetics

Panelist:

Agnieszka Jezyk, University of Toronto

Title:

From Body Horror to Social Critique: Political Reading of Jan Barszczewski's "Head Full of Screaming Hair"

Session 3-5 Panel: Ukrainian Words in Russian Texts and their English Translations: History and Approaches

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Chair:

Olha Tytarenko, Yale University

Panelist:

Ludmilla Trigos

Title:

"Negotiating Ukrainian Identity in Biographies of Gogol"Enter paper title

Panelist:

Carol R. Ueland, Drew University

Title:

E: V.I. Yakovenko vs. the Censorship: Ukrainian Words in the ZHZL biography of Taras Shevchenko

Panelist:

Michael Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

Title:

Russo-centric English Translations of Taras Bulba: The Colonization Continues.”Enter paper title

Discussants:

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University

Session 3-6 : Russian Poetry Between the 19th and 20th Centuries

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Daria Khitrova, Harvard University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Elizaveta Dvortsova, University of Southern California

Title:

Poetic Oscillation: The Passing of Time in Poems by Fet and Blok

Panelist:

Olga Zolotareva, Princeton University

Title:

The Trickle-Down Effect: The Poison of Alexander Pushkin’s “Upas-Tree” as a Metaphor for Art in Sologub and Balmont

-1 Roundtable: Gender, Gaze, and the Material World in Soviet Cinema

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Discussants:

Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College

Tatiana MIkhailova, Columbia University

Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College

-2 Roundtable: From Global Community to the Common Good: Advanced Language Courses for GenZ Learners

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Chair:

Meredith Doubleday, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussants:

Alyssa DeBlasio, Dickinson College

Ekaterina Burvikova, University of New Hampshire

Irina Filippova, Dickinson College

Izolda Savenkova, Fordham University

Svetlana Nuss, University of Alaska

-3 Roundtable: The ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian: An opportunity for pre-college and post-secondary collaboration and recruitment

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Susan Kresin, University of California Los Angeles

Chair:

Mark Trotter, Indiana University

Discussants:

Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore

Elizabeth Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Heather Rice, The University of Texas at Austin

Mara Sukholutskaya, East Central University

Nataliya Ushakova, Staten Island Technical High School

Ruth Edelman, Tenafly High School

-4 Roundtable: Russian Dual Language Immersion Programs and Higher Education

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

William J. Comer, Portland State University

Chair:

Lynne deBenedette, Brown University

Discussants:

Brandee Mau, Tooele School District

Brandon Locke, Anchorage School Distriict

Katya Huelsman, Woodburn School District

Lilia Doni, Portland Public Schools

William J. Comer, Portland State University

-5 Panel: Far From Moscow: The First Five-Year Plan Production Novel on the Soviet Periphery

Location:

Not Assigned

Organizer:

Semyon Leonenko, University of California, Berkeley

Chair:

Emily Laskin, New York University

Panelist:

Matthew Kendall, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

“Balancing Sounds in the Air”: Marietta Shaginyan’s Gidrotsentral’

Panelist:

Mieka Erley, Colgate University

Title:

From Belomor Canal to Vakhsh Canal: Genres and Geographies in the Soviet Carceral Imagination

Panelist:

Semyon Leonenko, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

“Clark Did Not Believe in Socialism”: Reforging the Novelistic in Bruno Jasieński’s Chelovek Meniaet Kozhu

Discussants:

Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois Chicago

-6 : Avant-Garde Arts in Russian and Eastern Europe

Location:

Not Assigned

Chair:

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

GROUP PANELISTS:

Panelist:

Nadezda Gribkova, University of Illinois Chicago

Title:

El Lissitzky and the Mobility of the Deleuzian "Minor"

Panelist:

Ksenia Radchenko, University of Southern California

Title:

Pavel Filonov: Between Russian Folklore and the Northern Renaissance.

Panelist:

Hana Stankova, Yale University

Title:

‘More American Than the Most American American’: When Russian and East European Avant-Garde Artists Discovered the New World