2024 Conference Program

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

9:00am-4:30pm: K-12 Teacher Excellence Program Pre-Conference Workshop— Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore; Bill Comer, Portland State University; Tommy Tabatowski, The Noble Academy (Studio 3)

3:00pm-7:00pm: Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Registration Desk); Exhibit Hall Setup (Reno Room)

5:00pm-6:00pm: AATSEEL Program Committee Meeting (Studio 3); K-12 Teachers Reception (Copper Room)

7:00pm-9:00pm: AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting (Studio 3)

Friday, February 16, 2024

7:00am-5:00pm: Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Registration Desk)

7:00am-8:00am: Continental Breakfast (Reno Room)

9:00am-4:30pm: Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

8:00am-10:00am: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 1

10:00am-10:30am: Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

10:30am-12:30pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 2

12:30pm-2:00pm: Elena Kostyuchenko reading + Q&A (Tahoe Room)

North American Association of Teachers of Polish (Elko Room)

Pedagogy Workshop: Learning Tasks for Literature in Translation in the 21st Century: Realignment with Liberal Arts Goals — Benjamin Rifkin, Fairleigh Dickinson University (Ely Room)

Bridgebuilding Forum: Building Connection between High School and College Slavic Programs (Silver Room)

1:00-1:45pm: Slavic and East European Journal Editorial Board Meeting (Studio 3)

1:45pm-2:15pm: Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

2:00pm-4:00pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 3

4:30pm-6:30pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 4

4:30-6:30pm: Open Seminar with Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University): "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About 'Decolonisation' of Russian Studies? Challenges and Opportunities for Slavists" (Tonopah Room)

4:30-6:30pm: Workshop: Language & Justice Hand in Hand: Enhancing Russian Instruction through Social Justice Standards & DEIA Frameworks — Iza Savenkova, Fordham University; Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh; Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Elko Room)

7:00pm-9:00pm: President's Reception and Awards Ceremony (Tahoe Room) All attendees are warmly invited to mingle and also celebrate our award-winning colleagues. Cash bar, complimentary hors d'oeuvres.

8:30-11:00pm: Film screening of “Unclenching the Fists” and director Q&A with Kira Kovalenko (introduced by Tatiana Efremova) (Ely Room)

Saturday, February 17, 2024

7:00am-5:00pm: Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration (Registration Desk)

7:00am-8:00am: Continental Breakfast (Reno Room)

8:00am-10:00am: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 5

8:00am-10:00am: International Association of Teachers of Ukrainian (IATU) Meeting (Elko Room) — Hybrid meeting; register here to attend virtually

9:00am-4:30pm: Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

10:00am-10:30am: Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

10:00am-10:50am: AATSEEL Members' Meeting (Tahoe Room)

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Address by Marcus Levitt (University of Southern California): "My Adventures in Slavic" (Tahoe Room)

12:00pm-1:15pm: Translation Workshop (Elko Room)

International Association of Teachers of Czech (Parlor B)

AATSEEL Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion (AWGDI) (Studio 1)

Meeting for Instructors of South Slavic Languages (Parlor C)

Finding, Adapting, and Using Authentic Texts in the Novice Classroom: A Collaborative Workshop — Heather Rice, University of Texas at Austin (Ely Room)

Workshop: How Books Can Be Made: Reflections on and Strategies for the (Potentially Arduous) Dissertation-to-Monograph Process — Sasha Senderovich, University of Washington, Seattle (Goldfield Room)

American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) Social Justice-Oriented Language Teaching (SJOLT) Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting (Studio 2)

1:15pm-3:00pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 6

1:15pm-3:00pm: AATSEEL Presidential Roundtable: Representation in Slavic Studies: What are we teaching? Why? To whom? — Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin — Madison; Aselle Almuratova, graduate student, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College; Thomas J. Garza, University of Texas at Austin; Oksana Lutsyshyna, University of Texas at Austin; Jason Merrill, Michigan State University; Director, Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College; Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Ohio State University; Oksana Stoychuk, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Jose Vergara, Bryn Mawr College (Tahoe Room)

3:00pm-3:30pm: Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

3:15pm-5:15pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 7

3:15pm-5:15pm: Open Seminar with Jose Alaniz (University of Washington): "Comics, Decolonization, Slavic Studies: Strategies for the Classroom" (Parlor C)

5:30pm-7:30pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 8

8:00pm-9:00pm: AATSEEL CDIPS reception (program alumni only) (Tahoe Room)

8:00pm-9:00pm: Bilingual poetry reading with Elena MIkhailik & Sibelan Forrester, plus new translations from Lesya Ukrainka (Ely Room)

Sunday, February 18, 2024

7:00am-8:00am: Continental Breakfast (Reno Room)

8:00am-10:00am: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 9

10:30am-12:30pm: Conference Panels: Session 10