2022 Conference Program

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

3:00pm-7:00pm
Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Salon 8 Foyer)
Exhibit Hall Setup (Philadelphia Ballroom, storage in Salon 8)
5:00pm-6:00pm
AATSEEL Program Committee Meeting (Franklin Room)
7:00pm-9:00pm
AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting (Salon 10)

Friday, February 18, 2022

7:00am-5:00pm
Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Salon 8 Foyer)
7:00am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast (Philadelphia Ballroom)
9:00am-4:30pm
Exhibit Hall (Philadelphia Ballroom)
8:00am-10:00am
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 1
9:00am-10:00am
AATSEEL Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion (AWGDI) - open to all who wish to be involved (Seminar B)
10:00am-10:15am
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Philadelphia Ballroom)
10:15am-12:00pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 2
12:00-1:30pm
North American Association of Teachers of Polish (Blended format: in-person in Seminar B and in Zoom, to request the link, email naatplorganization@gmail.com)
12:15-1:00pm
Slavic and East European Journal Editorial Board Meeting (Zoom)
12:15-1:30pm
Workshop: Implementing DEI Principles in a Russian Language Classroom: Innovative Practices & Strategies, Olga Klimova (University of Pittsburgh) and Iza Savenkova (Dickinson College) (Independence D)
1:30pm-3:30pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 3
Open Seminar with Raquel Greene (Grinnell College): Discussing Africa as the Other in Russian Literature and Culture: Lessons for Instructors (Independence D)
3:30pm-4:30pm
Graduate Student Committee Meeting (Seminar B)
SolidariTea: Racial Justice (Salon 10) Interactive social hour for likeminded practitioners and educators to share methods and strategies for antiracist and abolitionist teaching (+complimentary afternoon tea)
4:30pm-6:30pm
Conference Panels: Session 4
6:00pm-7:00pm
Reception at the REEES Northeast Exhibit (Philadelphia Ballroom). Attendees from anywhere can learn about and meet collaborators from the network for Northeast undergrad/masters education (+complimentary hors d'oeuvres)
7:00pm-9:00pm
President's Reception and Awards Ceremony (Horizons Rooftop Ballroom) All attendees are warmly invited to mingle and also celebrate our award-winning colleagues. Cash bar, complimentary hors d'oeuvres.
8:00pm-???
Graduate Student Social Hour (off-site, meeting place TBD)
9:00pm
Bilingual Poetry Reading featuring Anton Tenser and Yevgeniy Volpert (Salon 6)

Saturday, February 19, 2022

7:00am-5:00pm
Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration (Salon 8 Foyer)
7:00am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast
8:00am-10:00am
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 5
9:00am-4:30pm
Exhibit Hall (Philadelphia Ballroom)
10:00am-10:15am
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Philadelphia Ballroom)
10:15pm-12:00pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 6
10:15am-10:50am
AATSEEL Members' Meeting (Independence C)
11:00am-12:00pm
Keynote Address by Irina Reyfman (Columbia University) "Do We Need to Teach Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature? If Yes, Why and How?" (Independence C)
12:15pm-1:30pm
Ukrainian Poetry Translation Workshop featuring Oksana Lutsyshyna (Independence D)
American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) Social Justice-Oriented Language Teaching (SJOLT) Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting (Seminar B) The SIG is sponsored by AAUSC and AATSEEL, with an annual meeting taking place at the AATSEEL conference when elections for the group’s chair and associate chair take place. This year’s meeting will focus on the National Anchor Standards of SJOLT, and their implementation in the teaching of Slavic languages and cultures. All interested are warmly invited to attend.
1:30pm-3:30pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 7
Open Seminar with Brian Baer (Kent State University): Queer(ing) Slavic Studies: Terminology, Theories and Approaches (Salon 10)
3:30pm-4:30pm
SolidariTea: LGBTQIA+ Justice (Salon 10) Interactive social hour for likeminded practitioners and educators to share methods and strategies for inclusivity of learners of diverse gender and sexual orientation identities (+complimentary afternoon tea)

Job Market Workshop: Portfolio-Dossier and Interview Tips (Salon 4)
4:00pm-6:00pm
ACTR Membership Meeting (meeting will be held in Zoom, link will be available here by the conference weekend)
4:30pm-6:30pm
Conference Panels and Streams: Session 8
6:00pm-8:00pm
International Association of Teachers of Czech (IATC): Hybrid meeting, in-person (Independence D) or in Zoom
8:00pm-10:00pm
Reading and Conversation with Featured Poet Oksana Lutsyshyna, moderated by Vitaly Chernetsky (Salon 6)

Sunday, February 20, 2022

7:00am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast (Philadelphia Ballroom)
8:00am-10:00am
Conference Panels: Session 9
10:15am-12:00pm
Conference Panels: Session 10