2020 Conference Program

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Thursday, February 6, 2020

3:00pm-7:00pm
Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Gallery Foyer)
5:00pm-6:00pm
AATSEEL Program Committee Meeting (Gallery 3A)
7:00pm-9:00pm
AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting (Gallery 3A)

Friday, February 7, 2020

7:00am-6:00pm
Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Gallery Foyer)
7:00am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast (Gallery 1)
9:00am-4:30pm
Exhibit Hall (Gallery 1)
8:00am-10:00am
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 1
10:00am-10:30am
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Gallery 1)
Generously co-sponsored by the University of California-San Diego Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program, the University of California-Berkeley Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Yale University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
10:15am-12:00pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 2
12:30-1:30pm
North American Association of Teachers of Polish (Gallery 3A)
Translation Workshop: Avvakum's Life (Gallery 2)
RLJ Editorial Board Meeting (Gallery 3B)
SEEJ Editorial Meeting (Balboa 1)
1:30pm-3:30pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 3
Advanced Seminar with Alyssa Gillespie (Gaslamp 3)
International Association of Teachers of Czech (Boardroom 1)
Forum: "The state of the field thirty years after the 1990 conference" (Organized by the AATSEEL Executive Council) with AATSEEL's current leadership and former Presidents: Caryl Emerson, Mark Lipovetsky, Sibelan Forrester, Sarah Pratt, Benjamin Rifkin, Gabriella Safran, Barry Scherr, Thomas Seifrid, and Michael Wachtel (Gallery 2)
3:30pm-4:30pm
Graduate Student Committee Meeting (Boardroom 1)
4:00pm-6:30pm
ACTR Board Meeting (Boardroom 1)
4:30pm-6:30pm
Conference Panels: Session 4

7:00pm-9:00pm
President's Reception and Awards Ceremony (Palm Terrace, 6th floor)
Generously co-sponsored by the Princeton University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Columbia University Department of Slavic Languages, the Stanford University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Amherst Center for Russian Culture
9:00pm-10:00pm
Graduate Student Reception with Mark Lipovetsky (Palm Terrace, 6th floor)
9:00pm-11:00pm
Narrative Feature: LISTOPAD: A Memory of the Velvet Revolution, plus Q&A with film producer Jeffrey Brown. (Gallery 2)
Petr, Jiri and Ondrej are an unlikely trio of friends. An artist, a hockey player and a music trader, the boys survive Communism by playing sports, drinking beer, chasing girls and listening to underground music. But they are bound together by their common desire for freedom and, on a cold, dark night in November, Petr, Jiri and Ondrej join the front lines of a student demonstration in the streets of Praha. Face-to-face with the riot police, the boys are forced into a momentous decision: stand up against the Communist regime or give in to a system that has silenced their families for generations.

Saturday, February 8, 2020

7:00am-5:00pm
Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration (Gallery Foyer)
7:00am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast (Gallery 1)
8:00am-10:00am
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 5
9:00am-4:30pm
Exhibit Hall (Gallery 1)
10:00am-10:50am
AATSEEL Members' Meeting (Gallery 2)
11:00am-12:00pm
Keynote Address by Alexander Zholkovsky (University of Southern California) "Linguistics and Poetics and Some Other Smoldering Issues of Literary Analysis. An (auto)heuristic study" (Gallery 2)
1:15pm-3:00pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 6
2:45pm-3:15pm
Coffee and Snack Break in the Exhibit Hall (Gallery 1)
Generously co-sponsored by the University of California-Los Angeles Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and the Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
3:15pm-5:00pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 7
Curricular Design Workshop with Ben Rifkin (Gallery 3B)
5:15pm-7:00pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 8
Advanced Seminar with Anindita Banerjee (Gallery 3B)
ACTR Member Meeting (Gallery 3A)
7:30pm-9:30pm
Feature Documentary: Vinyl Generation: A story of art, vinyl, and revolution, plus Q&A with film producer Jeffrey Brown. (Gallery 2)
In 1980s Communist Czechoslovakia an emerging generation took inspiration from alternative culture to create their own worldview, politics and eventually, a revolution. 25 years later, this unique generational perspective is explored for the first time.
9:30pm
Graduate Student Social with Serguei Oushakine (Off-site, meet at Pushkin Restaurant)

Sunday, February 9, 2020

7:00am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast (Gallery 1)
8:00am-10:00am
AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting (Gaslamp 3)
8:00am-10:00am
Conference Panels: Session 9
10:00am-11:00am
AATSEEL Program Committee Meeting (Gaslamp 3)
10:15am-12:00pm
Conference Panels: Session 10