Slavic and East European Languages
AATSEEL Annual Meeting: 27-30 December 2006, Philadelphia, PA
Preliminary Program
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William J.
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L. Zody
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Room assignments can be found on the printed program booklet, available at the Conference Check-in desk.
Non-Panel Events
December 27
AATSEEL Program Committee (5:00 –
7:00 p.m.)
AATSEEL Executive Council (7:00 –
10:00 p.m.)
Conference Registration (5:00 – 7:00
p.m.)
December 28
Conference Registration (7:30 a.m. -
7:00 p.m.)
Slava/Olympiada Breakfast (8:00 a.m.
– 10:00 a.m.)
Exhibits (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
ACTR Board Meeting (5:00 p.m. - 7:00
p.m.)
University of Southern California
Reception (5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
-- all are
invited) Columbus Ball Room
Middlebury
Russian School Reception (5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
AATSEEL President's Reception and
Awards Ceremony (7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.)
December 29
Conference Registration (7:30 a.m. –
5:00 p.m.)
Exhibits (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
AATSEEL Business Meeting (10:00 a.m.
– 11:00 a.m.)
Keynote Address:
William Mills Todd, III, Harvard University
On the Care and Development of “Home-Grown
Disciplines"
(11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon)
Meeting of Language Program
Coordinators (12:15-1:30 p.m.)
Special
Event: Open House at Exhibit: "The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin,
and the Age of Enlightenment" hosted by Marcus Levitt (University of
Southern California) and Irina Dubinina (Bryn Mawr College) at the Museum of
the American Philosophical Society (104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)
More information:
http://www.amphilsoc.org/exhibitions/princess.html
ACTR Membership Meeting (5:00 p.m. –
7:00 p.m.)
International Association of
Teachers of Czech (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Special Event: Screening of Marina
Goldovskaia’s film Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian
Story followed by
Question-Answer session with the Director
(8:00 p.m. –
10:00 p.m.) — (DVD)
Reception
for the Friends and Alumni of Indiana University (8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) —
Riverview
A Room
December 30
AATSEEL Executive Council (7:00 a.m.
- 10 a.m.)
Exhibits (9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.)
AATSEEL Program Committee (12:00
-1:00 p.m.)
Panels
(As
abstracts are edited they will be posted. The title of each paper links to the
abstract.)
Note: Equipment
requests are noted in parentheses following the panelist’s paper title.
CP=Computer
projector
OP =
Overhead Projector
CD=portable
audio CD/tape player
VCR or DVD
includes a television)
Thursday, December 28, 8:00-10:00am
28A-1 Workshop: The
Job Interview
Workshop Chair: Karen Evans-Romaine,
Ohio University
Workshop
Participants:
Kerry Sabbag, University of Kansas
Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania
Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
Julia Mikhailova, University of Toronto
28A-2 Panel: Defining
Genres and Aesthetic Programs
Panel Chair: Svetlana Evdokimova,
Brown University
Panelist: Marina Rojavin, Temple
University
Title: Русский исторический
анекдот в произведениях древней Руси и исторической литературе
Panelist: Vadim Shkolnikov,
Columbia University
Title: Imagining Community in
the Writings of the Natural School
Panelist: Victoria Somoff, UC
Berkeley
Title: No Need for Dogs or
Women: Ivan Turgenev’s Mumu and Interpretation of Silence
28A-3 Panel: Writing
the Soviet Reader, 1917-1941
Panel Chair: Jenny Kaminer, Oberlin
College
Panelist: Elizabeth Papazian,
University of Maryland
Title: “Fact Into Truth, Outlaw
Into Proletarian: Gorky, His Reader, And Realism”
Panelist: Anne Fisher, College of
Wooster
Title: Reading vs. Writing in
the Works of Il′f and Petrov
Panelist: Maria Isabel Kisel,
Northwestern University
Title: Feuilletons Don’t Burn:
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and the Imagined Soviet Reader
Panel Discussant: Jeffrey Brooks, Johns
Hopkins University
28A-4 Panel:
Classical Connections in Russian Literature
Panel Chair: Catherine O’Neil, United
States Naval Academy
Panelist: Viktoria Ivleva, Vassar
College
Title: On Ripping, Whipping and
the Importance of Underpants in Vasilii Maikov’s Elisei Or Bachus Infuriated
Panelist: Michael Kelly, Brigham
Young University
Title: Navigating a Landscape
of Dead Souls:
Gogol and the Odyssean Road
Panelist: Rebecca Pyatkevich,
Columbia University
Title: Building Authority:
Horace, Joseph Brodsky, and the Poetic Task
Panelist: Sharon Lubkemann Allen,
State University of New York-Brockport
Title: The Wandering Portico:
Classical Structures in Transnational Russian Fictions—Brodsky, Tarkovsky,
Makine, Ulitskaya (TV/DVD)
28A-5 Panel: Issues
in Slavic and East European Folklore
Panel Chair: Todd Armstrong, Grinnell
College
Panelist: Larissa Bondarchuk, The
Ohio State University
Title: Epithalamic Traditions
in Slavic Folklore: Comparative Analyses of Wedding Songs of South and East
Slavic Peoples
Panelist: George Mitrevski, Auburn
University
Title: A Relational Database of
Macedonian Proverbs
Panelist: Eugenia Kapsomera
Amditis, Dickinson College
Title: Pseudo-Slavic
Aesthetics: Using Russian Folk Culture to Sell Fast Food (Screen)
28A-6 Panel:
Semantics and Discourse
Panel Chair: Christina Kramer,
University of Toronto
Panelist: Bert Beynen, Free
Library of Philadelphia
Title: The Second Plural in
Georgian: A Semantic Analysis
Panelist: Jeffrey D. Holdeman,
Indiana University
Title: What do you want on your
tombstone?: The Correlation between Informational Weight and Language Choice in
Russian Old Believer Gravestone Inscriptions in the Eastern United States
Panelist: Masako Ueda Fidler,
Brown University
Title: Onomatopoeia and
inflection: Semantics and discourse functions of suffix-like formations in
Czech
Panelist: Tatiana Yanko, Institute
of Linguistics, Moscow
Title: Non-Standard Intonation
in Russian Public Discourse
28A-7 Panel:
Technology and Language Teaching
Panel Chair: Jonathan Perkins,
University of Kansas
Panelist: Miluse Saskova-Pierce,
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Title: Czech in a Distance
Delivery Format and Learners Natural Syllabus in Slavic languages (OP)
Panelist: Natalia Antokhin,
Defense Language Institute
Title: Online Language
Instruction Tool that Promotes Learners' Cultural and Communicative Competence
(CP)
Thursday, December 28, 10:15-12:15pm
28B-1 Panel: Tolstoy
and Dostoevsky: The Self, the Word, and Power
Panel Chair: Liza Knapp, Columbia
University
Panelist: Ani Kokobobo, Columbia
University
Title: “Мёртвые пчёлы”? —
Prince Myshkin’s Anti-Logos Stance in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
Panelist: Emma Lieber, Columbia
University
Title: «Я вот он. А я вот он»:
Megalomania and Homecoming in War and Peace
Panelist: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia
Commonwealth University
Title: Reading Dostoevsky in
the Shadow of the Holocaust
Panel Discussant: Robin Feuer Miller,
Brandeis University
28B-2 Panel: Russian
Literature and Music
Panel Chair: Molly Thomasy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panelist: Tania Gordeev,
Willamette University
Title: Revisionist
Interpretations of Tatiana’s Letter in Music and Literature
Panelist: Janneke van de Stadt,
Williams College
Title: Terrible Moments:
Tchaikovsky, Kuprin, and Narrative
Panelist: Galina Rylkova,
University of Florida
Title: “Konstantin has just
killed himself”: Chekhov and Wagner
28B-3 Panel: Russian
Symbolism: Ideas and Texts
Panel Chair: Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College
Panelist: Jonathan Stone,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Skorpion and the
Instantaneous Canonization of Russian Symbolism
Panelist: Lada Panova, University
of Southern California
Title: The Eternal Feminine in
Russian Poetry
28B-4 Panel:
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Panel Chair: Julian Connolly,
University of Virginia
Panelist: Gennady Denisenko,
University of Virginia
Title: Fedorov's Resurrection
of the Dead in Nabokov's “Mechtal ia o tebe…,” and Solovyov's Death Into Life
in “Blizko, daleko, ne zdes′ i ne tam…”: Comparative
Analysis of Two Poems (CP)
Panelist: Kirsten Rutsala, University
of Oklahoma
Title: Nabokov’s Dialogue with
Chekhov: Ladies with and without Dogs
Panelist: Anastasia Lakhtikova,
Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Khodasevich’s Legacy in
Nabokov’s Biographical Studies and in Scholarship on Onegin
Panelist: Stanislav A. Shvabrin,
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: “J’en sais d’immortelles
qui sont de purs sanglots”: Alfred de Musset in Nabokov’s Eulogy of Khodasevich
28B-5 Panel: “East”
European Literature and Culture
Panel Chair: Craig Cravens, University
of Texas, Austin
Panelist: Todd Miller, University
of Colorado
Title: Reading Ocular Reading
Self-reflexively, or a Postcolonial Examination of Central and Eastern European
“Minor” Literature
Panelist: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, Scientific Research Center, Slovene
Academy of Sciences and Arts
Title: Metaphors, Models, and
Self-expression in Personal Literature
Panelist: Elek Lehoczky,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: Effacing Ideology:
Politics, Sexuality, and Obscenity in Witkiewicz’s The Shoemakers
Panelist: Sheila Skaff, University
of Texas at El Paso
Title: Karol Irzykowski’s The
Tenth Muse:
Aesthetic Considerations of Cinema as a Work of Film and Literary Theory
28B-6 Panel: M. L.
Gasparov and the Poetics of Translation
Panel Chair: Irina Reyfman, Columbia
University
Panelist: Barry P. Scherr,
Dartmouth College
Title: Mikhail Gasparov on the
Art of Translation
Panelist: Michael Wachtel,
Princeton University
Title: Mikhail Leonovich
Gasparov as “stikhoved” and “stikhotvorets”
Panelist: Ruth Solomon Rischin,
Independent Scholar
Title: Zhabotinskii and the
Hendecasyllabic Line
Discussant: Joanna Trzeciak, Kent
University
28B-7 Panel:
Sociolinguistics
Panel Chair: Joan Chevalier, US Naval
Academy
Panelist: James Wilson, University
of Sheffield, UK
Title: Moravians in Prague: The
Results of Dialect Contact in a Society with a Socially Stigmatized and
Primarily Non-spoken Standard CP
Panelist: Irina Dubinina, Bryn
Mawr College
Title: Communications and
Consequences of Negotiating a Language Choice for Interpersonal Communication
in the Republic of Moldova
Panelist: N. Anthony Brown,
Brigham Young University
Title: Interethnic and
Intraethnic Dynamics Influencing Language Maintenance and Shift among
Belarusian University-Age Students
Panelist: Evgeny Dengub, Bryn Mawr
College
Title: Ethnic
Self-Identification of Heritage Speakers of Russian in the United States
28B-8 Round Table:
Pre-College Roundtable: Meeting the 5th C - Communities!
Roundtable Chair: Betsy Sandstrom, Thomas
Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia
Roundtable
Discussants:
Shannon Casey, Thomas Jefferson High School for
Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia
Jane Shuffelton, Brighton High School,
Rochester, NY
James Sweigert, Western High School, Baltimore,
Maryland
28B-9 Forum: New
Russian Textbooks from Yale University Press (CD, OP)
Forum Presenters:
Benjamin Rifkin, Temple University
Marita Nummikoski, University of Texas-San
Antonio
Sandra G. Freels, Portland State University
Thursday, December 28, 1:30-3:30pm
28C-1 Panel: Poet,
Poetry and Poetics in the 19th Century
Panel Chair: Kerry Sabbag, University
of Kansas
Panelist: Olena Chervonik-Bearden,
University of Kansas
Title: Muse or Anti-muse? The
Concept of the Creative Act in the Poetry of Karolina Pavlova
Panelist: Viktoriya Kononova,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Death of the Citizen”
and Iambic Pentameter in Nekrasov’s Poetry
Panelist: Molly Thomasy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Writing the Plastic
Arts: Ekphrasis in the Poetry of A. A. Fet
28C-2 Panel: Lev
Tolstoy: Revising and Revisiting the Critical Tradition
Panel Chair: Susan McReynolds Oddo,
Northwestern University
Panelist: Inessa Medzhibovskaya,
The New School
Title: Vital Force or Deity?
The Philosophical Quandary in the Epilogues to War and Peace
Panelist: Julie Buckler, Harvard
University
Title: Better Together:
Tolstoevsky and Cultural Mythologies of the Great Author
Panelist: Olga Voronina, Harvard
University
Title: A Child by the Deathbed:
On Some Aspects of Tolstoy’s Psychological Method
Panel Discussant: Vladimir Golstein, Brown
University
28C-3 Panel: Creative
Affinities: Poets in Dialogue
Panel Chair: Robert Efird, Virginia
Tech
Panelist: Katrine Lvovskaya,
Rutgers University
Title: Self-creation as
Folklore: Akhmatova Read through Pushkin
Panelist: Stuart Goldberg, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Title: The Shade of Gumilev in
Osip Mandelstam's Stikhotvoreniia (1928)
Panelist: Viktor Finkel, Independent
Scholar
Title: Естественно–научная
Ветвь Поэзии Цветаевой
28C-4 Round Table:
Slavic Dialogues
Roundtable Chair: Stephanie Sandler,
Harvard University
Roundtable
Discussants:
Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College
Alan Timberlake, University of California,
Berkeley
Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern University
28C-5 Panel: Syntax
Panel Chair: Robert Channon, Purdue
University
Panelist: Olga S. Eremina,
Michigan State University
Title: Reflexive Verbs in
Russian: Dative Subject Reflexives
Panelist: Steven Franks, Indiana
University
Title: Deriving Discontinuity
Panelist: Sarah Turner, Oxford
University
Title: Constituent Order in
Subordinate Clauses in Russian
28C-6 Round Table:
Teaching Methods and Materials for Heritage Learners Across Slavic Languages
Roundtable Chair: Anna Geisherik, Stony
Brook University
Roundtable
Discussants:
Joan Chevalier, US Naval Academy
Marina Rojavin, Temple University
Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova, Rutgers University
Nila Friedberg, Portland State University
Svitlana Rogovyk, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
28C-7 Roundtable: The
Academy and Russian-American Businesses: Outlooks, Experiences and
Opportunities
Roundtable Co-Chairs: Val Kogan, President,
Mid-Atlantic Russian Business Council
Paul Smith, Deputy Chief
of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Moscow (Retired)
Benjamin Rifkin, Temple
University
Roundtable
Discussants:
John Gallagher, United States Industry Coalition
Michael Curtis, American Councils for
International Education
Victor Fet, Marshall University
Igor Michalevich-Kaplan, Russian
International Literature and Art Magazine (Philadelphia)
Valentina Sinkevich, Encounters, Russian
Poetry Almanac (Philadelphia)
Thursday, December 28, 3:45-5:45pm
28D-1 Panel: North
American Chekhov Society
Panel Chair: Inna Caron, Ohio State
University
Panelist: Erica Siegel, Columbia
University
Title: Chekhov and the Old
Testament: “Mire” Revisited
Panelist: Mila Shevchenko, The
University of Michigan
Title: Misplacement as Poetic
Strategem in Chekhov's Platonov and On the High Road
Panelist: Tetyana Varenychenko,
Holy Family University
Title: Reading Chekhov’s
Stories “Vanka” and “Varka”
Panel Discussant: Cathy Popkin, Columbia
University
28D-2 Panel: The New
Soviet Man in a New Soviet World (abstracts)
Panel Chair: Edith Clowes, University
of Kansas
Panelist: Eric R. Laursen,
University of Utah
Title: Disorganizing the Human
Psyche: Literature and Transformation in Bogdanov’s Red Star and Zamiatin’s We
Panelist: Irina Panchenko,
Independent Scholar
Title: Идея «нового человека» и
судьба кинопьесы Юрия Олеши Строгий юноша
Panelist: Keith Livers, The
University of Texas at Austin
Title: Embodying the New Man:
Andrei Platonov as Literary Critic
28D-3 Panel: From the
Center Out: The Space of Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
Panel Chair: Sarah Pratt, University
of Southern California
Panelist: Sarah Valentine,
Princeton University
Title: City Outskirts and the
Moscow Avant-Garde
Panelist: Dunja Popovic, Princeton
University
Title: Poetry of the Periphery:
City Outskirts in Brodsky and Shvarts
Panelist: Benjamin Paloff, Harvard
University
Title: Modes of Lyric
Collision: The Urban Phantasms of Nikolai Zabolotskii
Panelist: Maria Khotimsky, Harvard
University
Title: The Poetics of Space in
Vladislav Khodasevich’s Evropeiskaia Noch′
28D-4 Panel: Violence
and Texts
Panel Chair: Elizabeth Skomp,
Sewanee: The University of the South
Panelist: Scarlet Marquette,
Harvard University
Title: Violence, Metaphor,
Recuperation: The Processing of Traumatic Experience in Two Russian Writers
Panelist: Sibelan Forrester,
Swarthmore College
Title: The Broken Body: Sex,
Martyrdom, and Poetry in Cvetaeva
Panelist: Lena Doubivko,
University of Washington, Seattle
Title: Representation of Rape
and Female Subjectivity in Elena Glinka's Kolyma Streetcar (OP)
28D-5 Panel: Czech
Literature and Culture
Panel Chair: David Powelstock,
Brandeis University
Panelist: Ellen Langer, University
of California, Berkeley
Title: The Language of Karel
Havlíček Borovský
Panelist: Malynne Sternstein,
University of Chicago
Title: “Toyen Between Prague
and Paris”
Panelist: Clarice Cloutier,
Univerzita Karlova, Praha
Title: Crossing the River: The
Motif of Charles Bridge in Czech Literature
28D-6 Round Table:
The Field Since Victor Erlich’s Formalism
Roundtable Chair: Catharine Nepomnyashchy,
Barnard-Columbia
Roundtable
Discussants:
Greta Slobin, Wesleyan University
Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh
Olga Hasty, Princeton University
Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University
28D-7 Panel: The
Verb: Morphology and Morphosyntax
Panel Chair: Elisabeth Elliott,
Northwestern University
Panelist: Roksolana Mykhaylyk,
Stony Brook University
Title: Ukrainian Imperfective
Future in the Theory of Grammaticalization
Panelist: Nadezhda Frid,
Computational Linguistics Laboratory, Institute for Information Transmission
Problems, Moscow
Title: Verb Tenses in Spoken
Russian (With Respect to Speech Verbs)
Panelist: Gary H. Toops, Wichita
State University
Title: The Communicative Status
of Previously Undescribed Morphosyntactic Peculiarities of Upper Sorbian
Panelists: Irina Mikaelian, The
Pennsylvania State University; Alexei Shmelev, Moscow Pedagogical State
University; Anna Zalizniak, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of
Sciences
Title: Imperfectivization in
Russian Viewed through Internet Data
28D-8 Panel: Studies
in Second Language Acquisition
Panel Chair: Maria Alley, Ohio State
University
Panelist: Valentina Dunn, Brigham
Young University
Title: The Effect of Second
Language Instruction on Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language
(CP)
Panelist: Kira Gor, University of
Maryland
Title: Tykajut, Tychut, or Tychajut: The One-Stem Verb
System in Pedagogical Grammar Versus Internalized Learner Grammar (CP)
Panelist: Meghan Murphy-Lee,
Military Academy at West Point
Title: The Acquisition of the
Instrumental Case in Second Year Learners of Russian: A Balance between
Function and Form
28D-9 Forum: New
Approaches to Study Abroad: Bard-Smolny Study Abroad Program for North American
Students
Forum Presenters
Irina Shevelenko, Smolny College
Elena Shchepina, Smolny College
Bryan Billings, Bard College
Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College
Friday, December 29, 8:00-10:00am
29A-1 Panel: North
American Pushkin Society
Panel Chair: Angela Brintlinger, Ohio
State University
Panelist: Ana Rodriguez Navas,
Princeton University
Title: Pushkin’s Joseph
Delorme: The Tales of Belkin as a Response to Sainte-Beuve’s Vie, Poésies
et Pensées de Joseph Delorme
Panelist: Sang Hyun Kim,
University of Kansas
Title: Interconnection of
Folkloristic Approach and Literary Criticism: Aleksandr Pushkin’s The Tales
of Belkin
Panelist: Igor Nemirovsky, Boston
College
Title: Don Guan as a Libertine
Panelist: Polina Rikoun, Ohio
State University
Title: The Poet, the Citizen,
and the Traitor in Pushkin’s “Poltava”
29A-2 Panel: Gender
and Identity in Russian Literature
Panel Chair: Eugenia Kapsomera
Amditis, Dickinson College
Panelist: Tatiana Osipovich, Lewis
and Clark College
Title: Intertextuality and
Gender in Zinaida Gippius’ Play Sacred Blood
Panelist: Meghan Vicks, University
of Colorado, Boulder
Title: The Lioness with a
Lion’s Mane: Boris Pasternak’s “Bisexual” Writing in “Detstvo Ljuvers”
Panelist: Sarah Clovis Bishop,
Wellesley College
Title: The Vision-Adventure of
Elena Shvarts's Lavinia
29A-3 Panel: The
Peripheral Genre in Soviet Culture (CD, CP)
Panel Chair: Marina Madorskaya,
University of Michigan
Panelist: Rossen Djagalov, Yale
University
Title: Guitar Poetry and
Anekdot as Anti-Genres of Soviet Literature
Panelist: Constantine Rusanov,
Yale University
Title: Bashlachev, Mirzayan,
and the Limits of Melopoetic Genres
Panelist: Seth Graham, University
College London
Title: Generic Behavior: Mit’ki
and the Public Sphere
29A-4 Panel: Recent
Writing and Interpretations
Panel Chair: TBA
Panelist: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya,
Florida State University
Title: The Turn from
Textuality: Changes in the Reception of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Panelist: Erika Haber, Syracuse
University
Title: Postmodern Parody with a
Twist: Andrei Iakhontov’s Uchebnik zhizni dlia durakov
Panelist: Adrian J. Wanner, Penn
State University
Title: The New Nabokovs?
Shteyngart, Vapnyar, Bezmozgis, Grushin, and the Wave of “Russian Debutantes”
29A-5 Panel:
Literature of Exile
Panel Chair: Agnieszka Gutthy,
Southeastern Louisiana University
Panelist: Natalia Mikhailova,
State University of New York at Buffalo
Title: Creation From the Void:
Dostoevsky’s Ontological Exile
Panelist: Olga Zaslavsky,
Independent Scholar
Title: Catcher in the Rye:
Georgy Efron's Tashkent Diaries
Panelist: Klara Lutsky, Centenary
College
Title: Living on the Margins
and Loving it: Gombrowicz and Exile
29A-6 Panel: Phonology
and Accentology
Panel Chair: David Birnbaum,
University of Pittsburgh
Panelist: Alan Timberlake,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Three Accentual Changes
in Lithuanian
Panelist: Miriam Shrager, Indiana
University
Title: Plural Accentuation of
Masculine Nouns in Pskov Dialects
Panelist: Christina Y. Bethin,
Stony Brook University
Title: Vowel Neutralization in
Belarusian and Russian Okan'e/Akan'e Dialects
Panelist: Ronald F. Feldstein,
Indiana University
Title: Polish trot Reflexes and the
Segmental Properties of Metathesis
29A-7 Panel: Language
Through Culture: Cultural and Linguistic Environment in Teaching Language
Panel Chair: Olga Mesropova, Iowa
State University
Panelist: Leonid Ivanov,
Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences
Title: Lazan'ja s rukkoloj i
lobster ot Pinokkio": The Language of the New Russian Food Critics
Panelist: Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia
University
Title: Which Ukrainian? The
Normative Meltdown and the Challenge of Teaching Ukrainian as a Second Language
(OP)
29A-8 Round Table:
Fair Use, Intellectual Property, and What if Russia Joins the WTO
Roundtable Chair: William J. Comer,
University of Kansas
Roundtable
Discussants:
Richard Robin, George Washington University
Benjamin Rifkin, Temple University
Masha Lekic, University of Maryland-College Park
George Fowler, Indiana University
Janice Pilch, University of
Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Marita Nummikoski, University of Texas-San
Antonio
Friday, December 29, 11:00am-12:00noon
29B-1 Keynote: On the
Care and Development of “Home-Grown Disciplines”
Keynote Lecturer: William Mills Todd, III,
Harvard University
Friday, December 29, 1:30-3:30pm
29C-1 Panel: Tolstoy
as Artist and Critic
Panel Chair: Inessa Medzhibovskaya,
The New School
Panelist: Karin Beck, Columbia
University
Title: “L’Russe Besuhof”: Names
in War and Peace
Panelist: Tim West, Princeton
University
Title: Tolstoy’s Dialogue with
the Sources
Panelist: Nicholas K. Kupensky,
Bucknell University
Title: Denying Shakespeare:
Tolstoy’s Essay against Literary Imperialism
29C-2 Panel:
Religious and Philosophical Themes in Russian Literature (abstracts)
Panel Chair: Tetyana Varenychenko,
Holy Family University
Panelist: Charles Arndt, Rhodes
College
Title: At the Death Bed: Priests
Performing Civic Roles in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Devils
Panelist: Yuri F. Corrigan,
Princeton University
Title: Chekhov’s Divine Comedy:
Reinterpreting the ‘Little Trilogy’
Panelist: Nikita Dimitrov Nankov,
Indiana University
Title: Chekhov’s Prose Fiction
on the Meaning of Life: Thematic and Temporal Problems
Panelist: Michael Pesenson,
Swarthmore College
Title: Changing Perceptions of
the Antichrist in Russian Literature and Culture
29C-3 Panel:
Self-Identity and Imagining the Other
Panel Chair: Polina Barskova,
Hampshire College
Panelist: Alina Orlov, Defense
Language Institute
Title: Provincialism in Bunin’s
Village
(1910)
Panelist: Anna Aydinyan, Yale
University
Title: Orientalism in
Tynjanov’s Historical Novel Smert’ Vazir-Mukhtara
Panelist: Charles Sabatos, Oberlin
College
Title: The Slovak Opera Beg
Bajazid:
A Socialist-Era “Clash of Civilizations”
29C-4 Panel: Texts
and the Arts: The Broad Scope of the Soviet Cultural Agenda
Panel Chair: Eric R. Laursen, University
of Utah
Panelist: Anna Tumarkin,
UW-Madison
Title: Techniques of Survival:
Artistic Devices in the Feuilletons of Ilia Il’f and Evgenii Petrov
Panelist: Anna Dvigubski, Columbia
University
Title: The Letter Meets the
Dog: Texts and the Suffering of Flesh in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog
Panelist: Elena Boudovskaia, UCLA
Title: Knowledge is Power:
Images of the Book in the Soviet Ideological Poster
Panelist: Romy Taylor, University
of Arizona (TV/DVD/VCR)
Title: Unexpected Voices of
Radio Moscow: Black American Radio Propagandists in the USSR
29C-5 Panel: Film
Directors and Their Creations
Panel Chair: Anthony Anemone, The New
School University
Panelist: Robert Efird, Virginia
Tech
Title: Dreaming through the
Eyes of the Dead: The Epilogue of Ivan’s Childhood (DVD, CP)
Panelist: Vadim Besprozvany,
University of Michigan
Title: Brief Encounters:
‘Provincial Melodrama’ by Kira Muratova in the Context of Soviet Cinema of the
1930s – 1960s (DVD)
Panelist: Gerald McCausland,
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Political Violence in
the Films of Karen Shakhnazarov (DVD)
Panelist: Angelina Ilieva,
Independent Scholar
Title: Fathers and Sons in Some
Contemporary Russian Films (DVD)
29C-6 Round Table:
Slavists As Cultural Intermediaries
Roundtable Chair: TBA
Roundtable
Discussants:
Carol Ueland, Drew University
Julie Buckler, Harvard University
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
29C-7 Panel:
Particles and Clitics
Panel Chair: Cindi Martin, University
of Maryland, College Park
Panelist: Alexei Shmelev, Moscow
Pedagogical State University
Title: Russian eshche as a Pragmatically
Obligatory Particle
Panelist: Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova,
Rutgers University
Title: Particle Combinations in
Colloquial Russian
Panelist: Charles Mills, Knox
College
Title: The Prosody of 2P: An OT
Approach to Czech Clitics
29C-8 Round Table:
Approaches to Presenting New Grammatical and Lexical Material in the Classroom:
Theory and Practice (OP)
Roundtable Chairs: Marina Rojavin, Temple
University
Benjamin Rifkin, Temple
University
Roundtable
Discussants:
Yulia Mikhailova, University of Toronto (CP)
Meghan Murphy-Lee, Military Academy at West
Point (Screen)
Mara Sukholutskaya, East Central University
Valentina Zaitseva, University of Washington
Friday, December 29, 3:45-5:45pm
29D-1 Panel: In The
Shadow of Pushkin’s Statu(r)e (abstracts)
Panel Chair: Julie Buckler, Harvard
University
Panelist: Maksim Klymentiev,
University of Southern California
Title: Talking From Around
Pushkin’s Statue: Dostoyevsky’s 1881 Speech.
Panelist: Jonathan Brooks Platt,
Columbia University
Title: Of Monuments and Men:
Statues of Pushkin in the 1937 Jubilee (OP)
Panelist: Christine Dunbar,
Princeton University
Title: The Pushkin Sub-text in
Timur Kibirov’s “Двадцать Сонетов к Саше Запоевой”: “Я помню чудное мгновенье”
and Руслан и Людмила
29D-2 Panel:
Modernist Travel through Imperial Spaces
Panel Chair: Evgenii Bershtein, Reed
College
Panelist: Anne Dwyer, University
of California, Berkeley
Title: "Gogol in
Palestine": Toska and Obnazhenie in Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental
Journey
Panelist: Michael Kunichika,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: The Archaeology of
Russian Modernist Scythianism
Panelist: Susanna Lim, Wheaton
College
Title: Japan and Velimir
Khlebnikov’s Eurasia
Panel Discussant: Harsha Ram, University
of California, Berkeley
29D-3 Panel:
Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons on Soviet Screens
Panel Chair: Yana Hashamova, Ohio
State University
Panelist: Susan Larsen, Pomona
College
Title: Nobody’s Child:
Fatherless Sons and Revisionist Histories in Khutsiev’s Two Fedors and Bondarchuk's Fate
of a Man
Panelist: Alexander Prokhorov,
College of William and Mary
Title: Myth of the “Great
Family” in Marlen Khutsiev’s Lenin’s Guard and Mark Osepyan’s Three Days of
Viktor Chernyshev
(DVD, VCR)
Panelist: Elena Prokhorova,
University of Richmond
Title: “Fathers without Sons?”:
the Figure of the Veteran in 1970s Melodrama and Comedy (DVD,VCR)
Panel Discussant: Helena Goscilo,
University of Pittsburgh
29D-4 Round Table:
What Should A Slavist Know?
Roundtable Chair: William Mills Todd, III,
Harvard University
Roundtable
Discussants:
Cathy Popkin, Columbia University
Boris Wolfson, University of Southern California
Justin Weir, Harvard University
David M. Bethea, University of Wisconsin-Madison
29D-5 Panel:
Historical Linguistics
Panel Chair: Stephen Franks, Indiana
University
Panelist: Yaroslav Gorbachov,
Harvard University
Title: “Northern” *tū sn%tī
‘1000’: A New Proposal
Panelist: Hakyung Jung, Harvard
University
Title: Syntactic Innovations in
the Development of the -NO/-TO Perfect Construction in North Russian
29D-6 Panel: L2
Competencies and Cross-Cultural Communication
Panel Chair: Jeffrey D. Holdeman,
Indiana University
Panelist: Elena Denisova-Schmidt,
Humboldt University, Berlin
Title: Cultural Conflicts in
American-Russian Business Communication: An Example from the Civil Aircraft
Industry
Panelist: Jane Hacking, University
of Utah
Title: Acquiring L2 Pragmatic
Competence: How is Input Not Enough?
Panelist: Lynne deBenedette, Brown
University
Title: Rethinking the "Communicative" in Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Competence
Panelist: Jeanette Owen, Arizona
State University (OP)
Title: Russian Request Speech
Acts and the Art of Persuasion
29D-7 Forum: The
REALIA Project: On-line Open Access to Virtual Realia
Forum Presenters:
Arlene Forman, Oberlin College
Donna Oliver, Beloit College
Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Bowdoin College
Friday, December 29, 7:00-9:00pm
29E-1 Special Event:
Russian Poetry Reading (In memoriam Marina Georgadze)
Chair: Vadim Mesyats,
Independent Scholar
Andrey Gritsman
Dmitry Bobyshev
Eugeny Slivkin
Vladimir Gandelsman
Polina Barskova
Bakhyt Kenzheev
Alexandr Stessin
Julia Kunina
Inna Bliznetsova
Ilya Kutik
Pavel Lion
Vladimir Druk
Helga Olschvang
Irina Mashinski
Saturday, December 30, 8:00-10:00am
30A-1 Panel: Poetics
and Romanticism
Panel Chair: Vadim Shkolnikov,
Columbia University
Panelist: Jason Galie, Columbia
University
Title: The “sinisterization” of
the Term “chuzhoj” in Griboedov’s Woe from Wit
Panelist: Jessika Aguilar,
Columbia University
Title: “In the World of My
Creation”: The Production of “Real” Readers in Gogol’s Selected Passages
from Correspondence with Friends
Panelist: Jonathan Perkins,
University of Kansas
Title: The Terminological
Evolution of the Fantastic Tale During the Nineteenth Century
30A-2 Panel: New
Approaches to Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead
Panel Chair: Robin Feuer Miller,
Brandeis University
Panelist: Susan McReynolds Oddo,
Northwestern University
Title: The Law Punishes You,
Not I: Moral Evasion in Notes from the House of the Dead
Panelist: Nina Perlina, Indiana
University
Title: Thematic Composition of
Gorianchikov’s Image in Notes from the House of the Dead
Panelist: Alexander Burry, The
Ohio State University (CD)
Title: Voices of the Folk:
Janáček’s From the House of the Dead
Panel Discussant: Caryl Emerson, Princeton
University
30A-3 Panel: Hero,
History and Story
Panel Chair: Sharon Lubkemann Allen,
State University of New York-Brockport
Panelist: Volodymyr Chumachenko,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Conflicting Identities:
the Soviet Historical Novel in the 1960-1980s
Panelist: Jenne Powers, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: Ne boltai!: Gossip and History in
the Works of Liudmila Ulitskaia
Panelist: Marina Madorskaya,
University of Michigan
Title: The End of the Typical Hero: Aleksei
Batalov in the films of Iosif Kheifits (VCR)
30A-4 Panel:
Publishing and Positioning in the Fin-de-siècle
Panel Chair: Jason Merrill, Michigan
State University
Panelist: Gabriella Safran,
Stanford University
Title: Dreyfus and Zola in
Russia: The Engagé Writer, the Poet as Prophet, and the Newspaper
Panelist: Oleg A. Minin,
University of Southern California
Title: Hypostases of the Final
Liberation: Mystical Anarchism in the Context of the Political Satire Journal Adskaia
Pochta (1906)
Panelist: Natalia Kazakova, Hunter
College
Title: Scandal as a Strategy of
Literary Conduct: Rozanov, Vekhi, and Others
30A-5 Panel: Women in
Current Russian Culture
Panel Chair: Helena Goscilo,
University of Pittsburgh
Panelist: Olga Mesropova, Iowa
State University
Title: Humor, Crime, and
Punishment: Daria Dontsova and the post-Soviet Ironic Detektiv
Panelist: Erin Collopy, Texas Tech
University
Title: Working Mothers in
Post-Soviet Popular Culture
Panelist: Elizabeth Skomp,
Sewanee: The University of the South
Title: Manifestos and
Maternity: The New Amazons as Writers and Mothers
30A-6 Panel:
Morphosyntax
Panel Chair: Christina Y. Bethin,
Stony Brook University
Panelist: Renee Perelmutter,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Predicate Adjectives under
Negation in Modern Russian
Panelist: Laura Elaine Davies,
University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: A Constructional
Analysis of Russian Reflexive Impersonals
Panelist: Olya Gurevich,
Educational Testing Service / Princeton University
Title: Russian Conditionals
with Imperative Forms (CP)
30A-7 Round Table:
Department of Defense Language Transformation Roadmap: Role of Cultural
Immersion in Establishing a Cadre of Language Professionals
Roundtable Chair: Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr
College
Roundtable Discussants:
Lawrence Mansour, United States Military Academy
Anto Knezevic, Defense Language Institute,
Foreign Language Center
Jack Franke, Defense Language Institute, Foreign
Language Center
30A-8 Forum: Computer
System "Washington" for Advanced Study of the Russian Language
Forum Presenter: Walter Allen,
Independent Researcher
Saturday, December 30, 10:15-12:15pm
30B-1 Panel: Reading
Dostoevsky
Panel Chair: Nina Perlina, Indiana
University
Panelist: Kristin Vitalich,
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Dostoevsky's Selo
Stepanchikovo
– A Case of Literary Transference?
Panelist: Lioudmila Fedorova,
Georgetown University
Title: “The Golden Pot” and The
Idiot:
Structure Revised
Panelist: Marcus C. Levitt,
University of Southern California
Title: The Weight of Stone in
Dostoevsky’s Besy
Panelist: Jesse Menefee, Princeton
University
Title: Spotting Dostoevsky in a
“Dark Alley amongst Broken Fences and Chagall’s Cows”: Beat Author John Clellon
Holmes Rewriting The Possessed
30B-2 Panel: Russian
and East European Expatriates in Film, Theatre, Music
Panel Chair: Olia Prokopenko, Temple
University
Panelist: Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Moscow Art Theatre (MAT)
on Berlin's Screen, 1922-23 (OP, VHS, DVD)
Panelist: Vera Zubarev, University
of Pennsylvania
Title: Cinema and the Synthesis
of Arts: An Illustrated Presentation
Panelist: Elizabeth Blake,
Independent Scholar
Title: Toward Defining Ayn
Rand's Cine-Aesthetics
30B-3 Panel:
Representing the Siege: Narratives, Images, Sounds
Panel Chair: Boris Wolfson,
University of Southern California
Panelist: Polina Barskova,
Hampshire College
Title: The Colorful Nights of
the Siege: An Analysis of the Unexpected Reincarnation of the Petersburg Text
Panelist: Anna Nisnevich,
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Sounding Catastrophe:
Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony as/in Performance
Panelist: Alexis Peri, University
of California, Berkeley
Title: Deteriorating Toward
Humanity: The Transition to Blockade Life in Leningrad
Panelist: Emily Van Buskirk,
Harvard University
Title: Crafted Characters in
the Leningrad Blockade and the Making of Записки блокадного человека
30B-4 Panel: Poetry
and Performance in Late Soviet Culture
Panel Chair: Mary A. Nicholas, Lehigh
University
Panelist: Anthony Qualin, Texas
Tech University
Title: Viewing Vladimir
Vysotsky’s Concert Programs as Poetic Cycles
Panelist: Sidney Dement,
University of Kansas
Title: Empire and Identity in
D. A. Prigov’s Moskva i moskvichi
Panelist: Zaur V Agayev, Princeton
University
Title: “The Hunt for the
Mammoth” — The Ahistorical Properties of Time in the Weltanschauung of Viktor Krivulin
30B-5 Round Table:
Translation from and into Slavic Languages: Theory and Practice
Roundtable Chair: Slava Yastremski,
Bucknell University
Roundtable
Discussants:
Brian Baer, Kent State University
Michael Naydan, Penn State University
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,
Barnard-Columbia
Adrian J. Wanner, Penn State University
30B-6 Panel:
Grammatical Gender
Panel Chair: Jane Hacking, University
of Utah
Panelist: Julia Babicheva,
University of Alberta
Title: Different Femininities in
Russian Gender Advertising
Panelist: Svetlana
Vassileva-Karagyozova, University of Kansas
Title: Feminine or Masculine?
The Case of Gender Preference in Occupational Titles in the Bulgarian Language
30B-7 Panel:
Addressing Specific Issues in Language Instruction
Panel Chair: Maria Shardakova,
University of Pennsylvania
Panelist: Francis McLellan,
Princeton University
Title: Addressing Pronunciation
in the Elementary Russian Classroom
Panelists: Nina Romanova, Bauman
State Technical University, Moscow and Olga Zhilina, Bauman State Technical
University, Moscow
Title: Система предъявления
русских фразеологизмов иностранным учащимся на краткосрочных курсах
Panelist: Viktoria Driagina,
Pennsylvania State University
Title: Motion Expressions in
the Speech of American Learners of Russian (OP)
Panelist: William Comer, University
of Kansas
Title: A Treatment of One's
Own: The Teaching and Learning of свой in Russian
30B-8 Forum:
"Rossija v kontekste": Assessment of Content-Based Web Materials for
Teaching Advanced Russian Based on Testing and Feedback
Forum Presenters:
Irina Agafonova, Michigan State University
David Prestel, Michigan State University
Jason Merrill, Michigan State University
Saturday, December 30, 1:00-3:00pm
30C-1 Panel:
Леpмонтов: незаконченное, неизданное, недосказанное
Panel Chair: Gary Saul Morson,
Northwestern University
Panelist: Inna Caron, Ohio State
University
Title: Аpбенин без маски, или
Жизнь поэта: Lermontov’s Unknown Tribute to Pushkin
Panelist: David Powelstock,
Brandeis University
Title: The Lie That Tells the
Truth: Lermontov’s Shtoss Between Text and Performance
Panelist: Ilya Vinitsky,
University Of Pennsylvania
Title: Pechorin’s Last Journey:
Literary Models and Historical Background
30C-2 Panel:
Modernist Texts in Dialog
Panel Chair: Malynne Sternstein,
University of Chicago
Panelist: Sara Stefani, Yale
University
Title: Of Animals, Humans,
Islands, and States: Zamiatin's Reading, and Creative Misreading, of H. G.
Wells
Panelist: Yelena Zotova,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: Parody and Imitation in
Olesha’s Envy
Panelist: Marijeta Bozovic,
Columbia University
Title: Nabokov and Damaged
Time: Parodied Modernist Poetics in Lolita and Ada
30C-3 Panel: Crime
and Consumption: The Construction of the Soviet Self
Panel Chair: TBA
Panelist: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,
Barnard-Columbia
Title: Crimes of Omission:
Censorship and Self-Fashioning
Panelist: Serguei Oushakine,
Princeton University
Title: A Cosmopolitan
Apparatchik: Global Exchanges of Late Socialism in Siberia
Panelist: Cristina Vatulescu, New
York University
Title: Constructing the Soviet
Criminal and His/Her Spectator in the Early Thirties
30C-4 Panel: Mothers
and Magdalenes: Russian Women Writers and Orthodoxy
Panel Chair: Stuart Goldberg, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Panelist: Martha Kelly, Stanford
University
Title: My Sister is Death:
Akhmatova and Pasternak’s Weeping Marys
Panelist: Sarah Pratt, University
of Southern California
Title: Angelina Polonskaya:
Atheist Ice Dancer as Orthodox Poet
Panelist: Natalia Ermolaev,
Columbia University
Title: Zhiznetvorchestvo in Paris: The Theme of
Motherhood in the Works of Mother Maria (Skobtsova) (CP)
Panel Discussant: Sibelan Forrester,
Swarthmore College
30C-5 Panel:
Pragmatics
Panel Chair: Jeanette Owen, Arizona
State University
Panelist: Elena Koudinova
Title: The Personal Pronoun вы in Russian Syntax
Panelist: Yelena Belyaeva-Standen,
Saint Louis University
Title: Слово о комплименте
30C-6 Panel:
Content-Based Language Instruction
Panel Chair: Richard Robin, George
Washington University
Panelists: Ludmila Poklonskaya and
Natalia Haskin, Defense Language Institute
Title: Language Learning
through Area Studies at Advanced Levels (CP)
Panelist: Anna Yatsenko, Reed
College
Title: Russian History for
Foreign Students of Russian: On the Question of Creating a Multi-aspect
Textbook