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The AATSEEL Constitution restricts participation in the annual AATSEEL meeting to members in good standing. In conformity with this requirement, on 1 October all persons listed in the Preliminary Program who are not current members of AATSEEL (or who have not received written approval of a membership waiver request) will be eliminated from the final program. All persons listed on the program must preregister for the conference by 30 September. (The preregistration deadline for others is 30 November; those not listed on the program may also register at the door.) Preregistration information was mailed to all AATSEEL members in September. It is also available on the web at: http://www.aatseel.org. Please send direct renewals, registrations, and inquiries to Kathleen Dillon, Executive Director, AATSEEL, P.O. Box 7039, Berkeley, CA 94707-2306. Office phone/fax/messages: 510-526-6614, e-mail: aatseel@earthlink.net.
December 27
4:00 – 9:00 pm: Exhibitor Set-Up (Exhibitors Only)
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Conference Registration
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Program Committee Meeting
7:00 – 10:00 pm: Executive Council Meeting
December 28
7:30 am – 7:00 pm: Conference Registration
9:00 am – 4:30 pm: Exhibits Open
10:15 am – 12:15 pm: SEEJ Board Meeting
4 :00 – 6:00 pm: Friends and Alumni of Indiana University Reception
5:00 – 7:00 pm: ACTR Board Meeting
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Committee on College and Pre-College Russian (CCPCR) Meeting
9:00 pm: AATSEEL President’s Reception and Awards Recognitions
December 29
7:30 am – 5:00pm: Conference Registration
8:00 am – 10:00 am: Slava/Olympiada Breakfast for Pre-College Teachers
of Russian
9:00 am – 4:30 pm: Exhibits Open
10:15 – 10:45 am: AATSEEL Business Meeting and General Session
5:15 – 6:30 pm: ACTR General Membership Meeting
7:00 – 9:00 pm: Committee for Slavic Language Program Directors
9:00 pm: Reception: Middlebury Russian School
December 30
7:00 – 10:00 am: Executive Council Meeting
9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Exhibits Open
12:15 – 1:30 pm: Program Committee Meeting
(The title of each paper links to the abstract.)
December 28, 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Pre-Conference Job Application/Interview Workshop
Participants:
Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio University
Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
Jason Merrill, Michigan State University
Benjamin Rifkin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Roundtable: Book Publication in Slavic Studies
Chair: George Fowler, Indiana University
December 28, 10:15 am - 12:15 pm
Panel 28B-1: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chair: George R. Rueckert, University of Washington
Equipment: CP
Paper: Writing Fire with Fire:
Lomonosov as Pyrotechnician (Ian Chesley, Harvard University)
Paper: The Symbolism of
Astraea and the Russian Throne: Politics and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Russia
(Vera Proskurina, Cornell University)
Paper: The Russia of Catherine
the Great: A View From Outside (Pedro L. Talavera-Ibarra, State University
of New York, Fredonia)
Panel 28B-2: North American Čexov Society
Chair: Julie de Sherbinin, Colby College
Paper: A Man without a Spleen:
Early Čexov and the Melancholy Tradition (Ilya Vinitsky, University
of Pennsylvania)
Paper: The Autobiographical and
Metapoetic Significance of Čexov’s “Rasskaz neizvestnogo cheloveka”
(Michael C. Finke, Washington University)
Paper: Čexov’s Theodicy:
Good and Evil “In the Ravine” (Lyudmila Parts, McGill University)
Paper: Anton Čexov
in Soviet Film Criticism of the Thaw (Marina Madorskaya, University of Michigan)
Panel 28B-3: Silver Age Culture
Chair: Margo Rosen, Columbia University
Equipment: SP
Paper: Beyond the Mirror:
Liminal Discourses in Petersburg and Poem without a Hero
(Colleen McQuillen, Columbia University)
Paper: Akhmatova’s “Staryi
portret” (1910) and Pavil’on Armidy (Kelly E. Miller,
Dickinson College)
Paper: Literary Mystifications
of Russian Symbolism (Yuliya Ilchuk, University of Southern California)
Paper: God and Art: The Emergence
and Decline of Mir iskusstva (Barbara A. Brown, Central Washington
University)
Panel 28B-4: Bulgakov
Chair: Nina Perlina, Indiana University
Paper: Following the “Red
Brick” Road: Was There a Wizard in Bulgakov’s Moscow of the 1920s?
(Galina Krivonos, Indiana University)
Paper: The Theater as an
Enchanted Kingdom and as a State: Authors and Authority in Bulgakov’s
Molière cycle and Theatrical Novel (Lina Khawaldah, Indiana
University)
Paper: Master of the Categorical
Imperative: Kantian Doctrines of History and Religion in Bulgakov’s The
Master and Margarita (Elizabeth M. Sheynzon, Northwestern University)
Discussant: Dodona Kiziria, Indiana University
Panel 28B-5: Post-Soviet Literature
Chair: Olga Prokopenko, Ohio State University
Paper: Paradigm of Foolishness
in Christ in Post-Soviet Literature: Svitlana Vasilenko’s Little Fool
(Svitlana Kobets, Pontifical Institute of of Mediaeval Studies)
Paper: Sash-Bash versus the
Refrigerator People: The Redemptive Power of Art in Nina Sadur’s Čudesnye
znaki spasen’ja (Anthony Qualin, Texas Tech University)
Paper: The Exhaustion of
Postmodernism (Gerald McCausland, University of Pittsburgh)
Panel 28B-6: Phonetics and Phonology
Chair: David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
Paper: The State of Stress: Zaliznjak’s
Stress Charts and the Accentual Properties of Post-accented 2nd -declension
Nouns in Russian (Brian E. Felt, Emory University)
Paper: On Hard and Soft Velars
in Russian: How They May Be Changing and How They Illustrate Linguistics Change
(Robert Channon, Purdue University)
Paper: Intonational Correlates
of Cognitive States and Procedures in Russian (Tatyana Yanko, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Moscow)
Panel 28B-7: Roundtable on Models of Instruction in Teaching Polish
Chair: Andrzej Karcz, University of Kansas
Equipment: OP
Panelists:
Katarzyna Dziwirek, University of Washington
Anna Frajlich, Columbia University
Christopher Howard, Indiana University
Dariusz Skorczewski, Rice University
December 28, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Panel 28C-1: Teaching Lolita (I)
Chair: Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College
Equipment: CP
Paper: My Sin, My Soul: Making
a Monster in Frankenstein and Lolita (Rebeca Helfer, Columbia
University)
Paper: ‘To borrow and
to borrow and to borrow’: Teaching Lolita Through Parody
(Charles Fischer, University of Washington)
Paper: A Question of Focal Adjustment:
Teaching Lolita with Its Film Adaptations (Christopher A. Link,
Boston University)
Paper: On the Road with Lolita
(Corinne Scheiner, Colorado College)
Panel 28C-2: Philosophy and Russian Modernism
Chair: Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College
Paper: Ostranenie, Kenosis,
and Dialogue: The Metaphysics of Formalism (Alexei Bogdanov, University
of Colorado)
Paper: Nietzsche and Solov’ev:
An Unlikely Convergence in the Critique of Subjectivity (Peter Huk, University
of Southern California)
Paper: Rozanov and the ‘Deconstruction’
of Literature (Natalia Kazakova, New York)
Panel 28C-3: Literature, Cinema, and Politics in Russia Today
Chair: Megan Swift, University of Manitoba
Equipment: VCR
Paper: Death Wish
and Vorošilovskij strelok: Ideological Contexts of the Revenge Fantasy
(Avram Brown, University of California, Davis)
Paper: Prisoners of the Mountains
(Tatiana Karmanova, Missouri Southern State University)
Paper: A Writer on Trial: The
Institutional Persecution of Literature (The Case of Vladimir Sorokin) (Yuri
Leving, University of Southern California)
Panel 28C-4: Russian Literary Spaces
Chair: Ann Komaromi, Swarthmore College
Paper: Enchanted House:
Social Ideal and Uncanny Familiarity in “The House with a Mezzanine”
(Elena Vassilieva, University of Southern California)
Paper: Janus Sisters: Ol’ga
Forš and Virginia Woolf (Martha W. Hickey, Portland State University)
Paper: Revisiting the Topoi
of Petrograd’s House of Arts: The Role of the Kitchen “Club”
in the Creation of a Collective Narrative (Margarita Nafpaktitis, University
of Michigan)
Paper: The Communal Apartment
in Literature (Erin Collopy, Texas Tech University)
Panel 28C-5: Cognitive Categories in Slavic Languages
Chair: Jane Hacking, University of Utah
Equipment: OP
Paper: Language-Specific Rhetoric
Strategies: the Russian Concept of ‘Concession’ (Valentina Apresjan,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Language)
Paper: Russian Language-Specific
View of the World (Alexei Shmelev, Moscow Pedagogical State University and
Anna Zalizniak, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics)
Paper: Narrative Scheme in
Personal Stories Interpreting Historical Events (Recurring Motif: Desecration
of a Church/Temple) (Olga Levitski, York University, Toronto)
Paper: Exploding the Myth of
the Aspectual Pair in Russian (Laura Janda, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
Panel 28C-6: Slavic Languages Other Than Russian: From Official Policy
to the Classroom
Chair: Eloise M. Boyle
Equipment: OP
Paper: Assessing Language Policy
in Belarus: Toward Rehabilitation or Death for Belarusian (Tony Brown, Bryn
Mawr College)
Paper: Communication Skills
in the Beginning Czech Classroom (Katya Koubek, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Panel 28C-7: Roundtable: Literacy in Russian: Teaching a Basic Course
for Heritage Speakers
Chair: Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
Joan Chevalier, Brandeis University
Lyudmila Parts, McGill University
Stanislav Shvabrin, University of California, Los Angeles
Victoria Somoff, University of California, Berkeley
December 28, 3:15pm - 5:15 pm
Panel 28D-1: North American Pushkin Society: Readings of Pushkin
Chair: Aaron Beaver, University of Chicago
Paper: Ukrainian Poets and
Readers in Pushkin’s Poltava and Hrebinka’s Poltava
(Nicole Boudreau, University of Chicago)
Paper: “Life’s
Novel” and the Poet: Reading Lenskij (Heather Smith Buckser, Princeton
University)
Paper: A Poet Astray: Puškin
and the Image of a Nomadic Wanderer in Putešestvie v Arzrum (Ingrid
Kleespies, University of California, Berkeley)
Paper: Taking History by
the Wig: Pushkin’s Captain’s Daughter as an Locus Of Russia’s
Historical, Cultural, and Ideological Differences (Maksim Y. Klymentiev,
University of Southern California)
Paper: Don Juan as Dissident
Poet in Venedikt Erofeev’s Val’purgieva noch’, ili shagi
komandora (Alexander Burry, Princeton University)
Panel 28D-2: Soviet Myths: Looking to the Soviet Past and Future
Chair: Carol Ueland, Drew University
Paper: Anti-Utopia as a Means
of Polemics: Some Aspects of Bogdanov’s Red Star and Zamjatin’s
We (Vera Aginsky, Iowa State University)
Paper: Competitive Consciousness
in Zamjatin’s We (Brett Cooke, Texas A & M University)
Paper: Marietta Shaginjan
and the Soviet Production Novel (Mary Nicholas, Lehigh University)
Paper: Life in the Deep End
of the Gene Pool: Making the Case for the Evolution of Altruism under Interrogation
(1932) and in the Private Letters (1988) of V. P. Efroimson (Yvonne Howell,
University of Richmond)
Paper: Towards the Radiant
Past: Nostalgia in Aleksandra Marinina’s Detektiv (Elena
V. Baraban, University of Victoria)
Panel 28D-3: Teaching Lolita (II)
Chair: Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College
Paper: Being Cruel to be Kind:
Teaching Lolita’s ‘Trifles’ and ‘Telltale Tingles’
(Harriet Hustis, The College of New Jersey)
Paper: Humbert Humbert and
the Five D’s: Dramatics, Dance, Debating, Dating, and Democracy (David
Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University)
Paper: Peddling Pedophilia,
Murder, Lesbianism, and Suicide: Teaching Controversial Texts at a Religious
College (Marianne Cotugno)
Discussant: Galya Diment, University of Washington
Panel 28D-4: The Literary and the Visual I: The Russian Avant-Garde
Chair: Nikita Nankov
Equipment: CP, SP
Paper: The Grotesque in the Literary
and Visual Output of the Russian Satirical Weekly Journal Satirikon
(Oleg A. Minin, University of Southern California)
Paper: Against Blending In: Natan
Altman’s Jewish Art of the 1910s (Alina Orlov, University of Southern
California)
Paper: A Modernist Revision
of Manuscript Art: Aleksej Remizov’s Illustrated Albums (Julia Friedman,
Brown University)
Paper: The Polyphonies of the
Russian Experimental Book: Vladimir Majakovskij (1923) and Vladimir Druk (1991)
(Olga Livshin, Northwestern University)
Panel 28D-5: Sociolinguistics
Chair: Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta
Equipment: OP
Paper: Language Attitudes, Ethnic
Relations, and Ethnic Identity in Crimea (Mica Hall, Medina Joint Language
Center Department of Defense)
Paper: Restructuring Language:
Turkisms and Westernisms in the Bosnian Media Since 1992 (Maria Belyavski-Frank,
DePauw University)
Paper: Doublets
in the Russian Lexicon of the Old Believers of Erie, Pennsylvania (Jeffrey
D. Holdeman, Indiana University)
Panel 28D-6: Roundtable on Music and Song in the Slavic Language Classroom
Chair: Jeanette Owen, Arizona State University
Equipment: OP, VCR
Panelists:
Jennifer Sanders, Indiana University
Janneke van de Stadt, Williams College
Katya Koubek, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ruby Jones, University of Texas-Austin
Panel 28D-7: Roundtable on Teaching the Mixed Classroom
Chair: Richard Robin, George Washington University
Panelists:
Tatiana Akishina, University of Southern California
Rebecca Wells, University of California, San Diego
Lynne deBenedette, Brown University
Olga Kagan, University of California, Los Angeles
December 28, 5:20pm - 7:00pm
Panel 28DE-1: Film: “Nina Berberova, à l'ouest de Petersbourg”
Chair: Ruth Rischin, San Francisco
Equipment: VCR
December 28, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Panel 28E-1: Dostoevskij
Chair: Yekaterina Vernikov, Indiana University
Paper: Gorjančikov’s
Two Voices: Tensions in the Redemption Narrative of Dostoevskij’s Notes
from the House of the Dead (Yulia Borisova, Northwestern University)
Paper: Literary Conventions
and Social Models of Love in The Idiot (Eugenia Kapsomera Amditis,
University of Kansas)
Paper: The Tree is Known by
its Fruits: The Word Made Flesh in Dostoevskij’s The Devils
(Jacqueline A. Zubeck, Manhattan College)
Paper: Simple Forms in Brat’ja
Karamazovy (Kate Holland, Yale University)
Paper: Dostoevskij and the
Question of the Scientific Method (Anna Kaladiouk, Keene State College)
Panel 28E-2: The Literary and the Visual II: Contemporary Experiments
Chair: Nikita Nankov
Equipment: CP, SP
Paper: Words in Action: Rimma
and Valery Gerlovins’ Visual and Linguistic Experimentation (Tatiana
Nazarenko, University of Manitoba)
Paper: Mirrors, Pictures, and
Tropes: Ol’ga Sedakova and Ivan Ždanov (Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University)
Paper: The Poetry of Absence:
Parataxis in Bob Perelman and Lev Rubinštejn (Gerald Janecek, University
of Kentucky)
Discussant: Natalia Rulyova, University of Surrey
Panel 28E-3: Russian Romanticism
Chair: George Gutsche, University of Arizona
Paper: Silence and the Rest:
On the Inexpressible in Russian Romantic Poetry (Sofya Khagi, Brown University)
Paper: Ненависть,
презрение, любовь
в прозе Лермонтова
(Georgii V. Moskvin, Moscow State University)
Paper: The Demon Myth and History
in Lermontov’s Vadim (Saera Yoon, Indiana University)
Paper: The Politics of Friendship
in Nicholaevan Russia (Vadim Shkolnikov, Columbia University)
Panel 28E-4: The Westward Glance in Russian Literature and Culture
Chair: Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State University
Paper: Turgenev’s Button
on Stevenson’s Shirt: The Strange Case of a Resuscitated Lover (Inna
Caron, Ohio State University)
Paper: Gumilev’s Don Juan
and Its Literary Antecedents (Francoise Rosset, Wheaton College)
Paper: Trading Perceptions,
Changing Stereotypes: the United States in the Travelogues of Mikhail Zadornov
and Igor Svinarenko (Olga Mesropova, Iowa State University)
Panel 28E-5: Visual Adaptations
Chair: Alexander Prokhorov, College of William and Mary
Equipment: VCR, OP
Paper: Culturally (Re)Contextualizing
an Icon: Visual Presentations of Il’f and Petrov’s Ostap Bender
(Anne Fisher, University of Michigan)
Paper: Anna
Karenina L'va Tolstogo: Comics
as Culture or Culture as Comics (Irina Makoveeva, University of Pittsburgh)
Paper: Отношения
между литературным
произведением
и его визуальными
адаптациями
(на примере трёх
ранних экранизаций
романа Л.Н.Толстого
«Анна Каренина»)
(Raisa Solovyova, Brigham Young University)
Paper: Five Spoons
of Elixir by the Strugackij Brothers
and Temptation B by Arkadij Sirenko (Andrei Rogatchevski, University
of Glasgow)
Discussant: Dragan Kujundzic, University of California, Irvine
Panel 28E-6: Slavic Languages in Contact with Non-Slavic Languages
Equipment: OP
Chair: John Dingley, York University
Paper: Trilingual Lexicography:
Sorbian - German – English (Gunter Schaarschmidt, University of Victoria)
Paper: Central Europe: A Sprachbund
Overlooked? (Mark Nuckols, Ohio State University)
Paper: Non-Indo-European
Cognates of Slavic Words: Contact Origin and Traces of Remote Genetic Relationship
(Kirill Reshetnikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics)
Panel 28E-7: Roundtable on Using the Internet in Czech Language Instruction
Chair: Susan C. Kresin, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelists:
Andrew Drozd, University of Alabama
Masako Fidler, Brown University
Laura Janda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Anne Keown, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Danaher, University of Wisconsin, Madison
December 29, 8:00am - 10:00am
Panel 29A-1: Cvetaeva and Pasternak
Chair: Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio University
Paper: Marina Cvetaeva and
the Economy of Romance (Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College)
Paper: Object Language and Metalanguage
in Cvetaeva’s Poetry (Anastasia Graf, Princeton University)
Paper: The Genres of “An Otherworldly
Evening,” or How Marina Cvetaeva Rewrites her Encounter with Mixail Kuzmin
(Julia Zarankin, Princeton University)
Paper: Естественно-научная
ветвь поэзии
Пастернака: локализация,
генезис, физический
уровень (Viktor Finkel,
Independent Scholar)
Panel 29A-2: Myths of St. Petersburg
Chair: Timothy Harte, Bryn Mawr College
Equipment: VCR
Paper: Forms of the End in
the Literature of Soviet Modernism (Polina Barskova, University of California,
Berkeley)
Paper: Remembering Another
Jubilee: Notes on the Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of St. Petersburg/Leningrad
(Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma)
Paper: Petersburg in the Films
of Aleksej Balabanov (Jennifer J. Day, Bard College)
Panel 29A-3: Theoretical Approaches to Literature
Chair: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth University
Paper: Narrative Realms and
Narrative Limits: Čekhov’s Story “Doma” (“At Home”) in the Context of Modernity
(Nikita Nankov, Indiana University)
Paper: Avant le Bloom:
Mandel’štam’s Presciently “Meta-Bloomian” Poems and Essays (Stuart Goldberg,
Georgia Institute of Technology)
Paper: The Linguistic Prison-House
of the Unconscious: Oedipus Complex in Belyj and Nabokov (Maria Levina Parker,
University of Geneva)
Paper: Recycling Literary
Legacy: Major Trends in Postmodern Textual Appropriation (Olga Prokopenko,
Ohio State University)
Panel 29A-4: Linguistic Readings of Literary Texts
Chair: David Polet, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Paper: Tolstoj’s Use
of Metaphorical Analogy in Anna Karenina (David S. Danaher, University
of Wisconsin, Madison)
Paper: Intimacy and Estrangement:
Instrumental Singular Variation in Deictic Pronouns in Nineteenth-Century Russian
Literary Prose (Ellen Langer, University of California, Berkeley)
Paper: On the Differences
Between Poetry and Prose Recitation (Nila Friedberg, University of California,
Los Angeles)
Panel 29A-5: Slavic Syntax
Chair: Daniela S. Hristova, University of Chicago
Equipment: chalkboard/whiteboard and chalk/marker
Paper: A Simultaneous Perception
of Things, Relatively Speaking (Daniel G. Altshuler, University of California,
Los Angeles)
Paper: Case Marking and Negative
Closure: Arguments for A-Chain Reconstruction? (Sue Brown, Harvard University)
Paper: Pro-Drop vs. Clitic-Second
in Old Russian: Doesn’t Something Have to Give? (Sukhoon
Choo, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and George Fowler, Indiana University)
Panel 29A-6: Technology and Language Teaching
Chair: Richard Robin, George Washington University
Equipment: CP
Paper: Using the Web for Teacher
Preparation and Development (Natalie Lovick, Defense Language Institute)
Paper: Using the Internet to
Promote Continuing Language Use (Susan C. Kresin, University of California
at Los Angeles)
Paper: Asynchronous Computer-assisted
Classroom Discussion in the Beginning Level Russian Classroom (Natasha Anthony,
Union College)
Panel 29A-7: Striving for Literacy in the Russian Curriculum
Chair: Olga Kagan, University of California, Los Angeles
Equipment: OP
Paper: Vozmozhnosti ispol’zovanija
dvujazychnyx kul’turologicheskix tekstov v obuchenii studentov russkomu
jazyku (Irina Yulianova, St. Louis University)
Paper: Literacy: An Organizing
Principle for Russian Curricula? (William J. Comer, University of Kansas)
Paper: Forging Literacy:
A Genre-Based Approach (Joan Chevalier, Brandeis University)
December 29, 11:00 am - 12:00pm
Panel 29B-1
AATSEEL Keynote Lecture: Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Russians in Hollywood/Hollywood on Russia
Equipment: SP2, VCR
December 29, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Panel 29C-1: Centenary of Čexov’s Cherry Orchard
Chair: Andrew Durkin, Indiana University
Paper: Čexov’s Cherry
Orchard: The Cultural Subtext (Joseph L. Conrad, University of Kansas)
Paper: Real and Dramatic Spaces:
Interpreting Čexov’s Cherry Orchard in Pre-Independence Ireland
(Maggie Ivanova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Paper: The Cherry Orchard:
A Symphony of Mortality (Jerome H. Katsell, Independent Scholar)
Panel 29C-2: Constructions of Gender in Russia
Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
Paper: Ol’ga’s Baptism in the
Povest’ vremennyx let (Francis Butler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Paper: On Šaxova’s Mary Magdalene:
A Feminist Reconstruction of an Early Christian Myth and a Nineteenth-Century
Poem (Kathleen Dillon, University of California, Davis)
Paper: Through a Crooked
Mirror: Documenting Everyday Life in the Prose of Grekova and Baranskaja
(Benjamin Sutcliffe, University of Pittsburgh)
Panel 29C-3: International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Chair: Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College
Paper: Sports in Nabokov
(Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College)
Paper: Poshlust’,
Hegelian Syllogism, and the Proverb: A Paremiological Approach to Vladimir Nabokov’s
Laughter in the Dark (Kevin J. McKenna, University of Vermont)
Paper: Imaginary Journeys
and Nightmares: “The Execution” and its Models (Stanislav Shvabrin,
University of California, Los Angeles)
Paper: Nabokov’s
Theory and Practice of Translation (Joseph Fitzpatrick, Duke University)
Paper: Literalness, Translation,
and Commentary : Nabokov’s Eugene Onegin (Julia Trubikhina,
New York University)
Panel 29C-4: Czech Literature and Culture (NAATC)
Chair: Holly Raynard, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper: A Blast against Orientalism?:
Josef Dobrovský’s Establishment of the Outlines of Czech Music Historiography
(Geoffrey Chew, University of London)
Paper: A Bohemian Raskol’nikov:
Dostoevskij and Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Czech Literature
(Craig Cravens, University of Texas, Austin)
Paper: Bridging the Contradictions:
Karel Teige’s Socialist Realism and Surrealism (Deborah Garfinkle,
Independent Scholar)
Paper: Always Never the
Same: Dramatic Temporality in Havel’s Vernisáž (Cole M. Crittenden,
Princeton University)
Panel 29C-5: Poetry and Poetics
Chair: Nila Friedberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper: Tjutčev and Poetic
Closure (Michael Wachtel, Princeton University)
Paper: Composition Strategies
of Some Poems by Vladislav Xodasevič (Milla Fedorova, Independent Scholar)
Discussant: Stuart Goldberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panel 29C-6: Issues in Language Standardization
Chair: Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Arizona
Equipment: CP
Paper: “I Have Two Sons
and a Child” - Gender in Substandard Central South-Slavic (Danko Sipka,
Arizona State University)
Paper: From Dialect to
Literary Language: Lexical Transition (Olena V Chernishenko, Princeton University)
Paper: Glagolite
Ponaz Redka Zloueza - The Beginnings
of Slovene as a Written Language from the Freising Monuments to the Protestant
Reformation (Elisabeth Seitz Shewmon, University of California, Los Angeles)
Panel 29C-7: Communicating Across Cultures: Multiple Models of Teaching
Chair: Tatiana Akishina, University of Southern California
Equipment: CP, OP, VCR
Paper: Using the Web-Based
Forum CULTURA in Intermediate-Level Russian (Lynne deBenedette, Brown University)
Paper: Obuchenie mezhkul’turnoj
kommunikacii pri izuchenii russkoj kul’turnoi istorii (Natalia Getmanenko,
Brigham Young University)
Paper: The Russians are Talking!
Designing a Language Course Around Student-Conducted Interviews with Native
Speakers (Raissa Krivitsky, Cornell University)
Discussant: Alla Akishina, Academy of Social Relations, Moscow
December 29, 3:15pm - 5:15pm
Panel 29D-1: North American Dostoevskij Society: Dostoevskij and Cultural
Others
Chair: Vadim Liapunov, Indiana University
Paper: Dostoevskij’s
“Poor Folk” and the Traffic in Women (Brian R. Johnson, University
of Wisconsin, Madison)
Paper: Dostoevskij and Cultural
Others (Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University)
Paper: The Jews and The Poles
as Two “Cultural Others” in Dostoevskij’s Writings (Nina
Perlina, Indiana University)
Paper: Dostoevskij and Russian
Anarchist Thought (James Goodwin, University of Florida)
Discussant: Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University
Panel 29D-2: East Meets West, or Orientalism in Russian and Post-Soviet
Culture
Chair: John Hope, Williams College
Equipment: VCR
Paper: “While Judea Remains
Silent”: Biblical Israel in Russia’s Self-Image (David Herman,
University of Virginia)
Paper: Yellow Face, White Face:
Race in Russian and Japanese Modernism (Susanna Lim, University of California,
Los Angeles)
Paper: Buddhist Undercurrents
in the Late Work of Velimir Xlebnikov (Andrea Hacker, University of California,
Santa Barbara)
Paper: Is the Central Asian
Screen Postcolonial? (Seth Graham, University of Washington)
Panel 29D-3: Russian Readings of Shakespeare
Chair: Jason Merrill, Michigan State University
Paper: Silencing the Living Dead:
Folk-Hesychast Historicism in Boris Godunov (Jonathan Brooks Platt,
Columbia University)
Paper: Shakesperian
Images in Čexov’s Works (Margarita Odesskaya, Moscow State University)
Paper: Shakespeare’s
Hamlet: A Drama Of Will or an Ideologically-Motivated Version? The
Hamletism of Boris Pasternak (Daria Shembel, University of Southern California)
Panel 29D-4: Hrabal
Chair: Craig Cravens, University of Texas, Austin
Paper: A Discourse-Cognitive
Approach to Bohumil Hrabal (Masako Fidler, Brown University)
Paper: Kafkarna (Hana Pichova,
University of Texas, Austin)
Paper: “One Can’t
Survive without Holes in the Brain”: Hrabal and the Gnosis of the Real
(Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago)
Paper: Městecko, kde se
zastavil čas (Tim West, University of Texas, Austin)
Discussant: Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Panel 29D-5: Issues in Semantics
Chair: Yelena Belyaeva Standen, Saint Louis University
Equipment: CP
Paper: The Semantic Development
of the Russian Suppletive Pair god - leto>year (David Hart,
Brigham Young University)
Paper: Маскулизмы
против феминативов:
возможна ли гендерная
реформа в русском
языке? (Marina Rojavin, Temple University)
Paper: Syntax and Semantics
of Polish and English Expressions of Emotions: A Corpus Study (Katarzyna
Dziwirek, University of Washington and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University
of Łodź)
Panel 29D-6: The Results Are In: Empirical Studies in Learning Outcomes
Chair: William J. Comer, University of Kansas
Equipment: CP
Paper: Error Gravity and
Perception in Written Russian (Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Arizona)
Paper: Language Gain in Classroom
Instruction: Proficiency Paradox or Ceiling Effect? (Benjamin Rifkin, University
of Wisconsin, Madison)
December 29, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Panel 29E-1: Russian Poetry Reading
Chair: Dmitry V. Bobyshev, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Poets:
Polina Barskova. Berkeley, CA
Vladimir Druk, NY
Vladimir Gandelsman, NY
Andrey Gritsman, NJ
Bakhyt Kenjeev, Montreal, Canada
Yuri Kublanovsky, Moscow, Russia
Pavel Lion (Psoi Korolenko) NY - Moscow
Vera Pavlova, Moscow, Russia
Kiril Reshetnikov, Moscow, Russia
Evgenii Slivkin, Monterey, CA
Panel 29E-2: Life-Writing: Auto/Biography and Memoir
Chair: Frederick H. White, Memorial University, Newfoundland
Paper: “Art Is a Reconciliation
with Life”: Gogolian Paradox and Aesthetic Credo (Michael Kelly, Brigham
Young University)
Paper: Portraiture by Contrast:
Andrej Belyj on Three of Aleksandr Blok’s Contemporaries (Virginia
Bennett, University of Hawaii)
Paper: Nikolai Gumilev's "The
African Hunt": On a Continent Awaiting "Guests" (Gwen Walker,
Madison, Wisconsin)
Paper: Nabokov’s Childhood:
The Tolstoy Theme in Nabokov’s Autobiography and Fiction (Gabriel
White, University of California, Berkeley)
Paper: Venička and the
Death of the Russian Author (Ann Komaromi, Swarthmore College)
Panel 29E-3: Modernist Constructions of Gender
Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
Paper: Reconsidering Image Criticism:
Reception of Nineteenth-Century Russian Classics in Early Twentieth-Century
Women’s Periodicals (Jane Gary Harris, University of Pittsburgh)
Paper: Metaliterary Commentaries
in Verbickaja’s Keys to Happiness (Charlotte Rosenthal, University
of Southern Maine)
Paper: Stars Made in Moscow:
Xanžankov and the Creation of the Female Star (Michelle L. Torre, University
of Southern California)
Panel 29E-4: Stalin and Stalinism in Russian Literature
Chair: Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma
Equipment: CP
Paper: Anatoly Rybakov’s
Kortik: From First Draft in Exile to Children’s Classic (John
Schillinger, American University)
Paper: Laughter in the Dark:
Afinogenov’s “Fear” and the Rhetoric of Stalinist Theater
(Boris Wolfson, University of California, Berkeley)
Paper: “It’s penal servitude!
What bliss!” Play and Survival in Evgenija Ginzburg’s Journey Into the Whirlwind
and Andrej Sinjavskij’s Voice from the Chorus (Oana Popescu-Sandu,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Paper: Vasilij Aksenov’s
The Burn: An Integral Approach (Tom Dolack, University of Oregon)
Panel 29E-5: Polish Literature and Culture
Chair: Andrzej Karcz, University of Kansas
Paper: Andrzej Szczypiorski’s
Początek: Reconstructing Warsaw and the Aesthetics of Reckoning
(Todd Patrick Armstrong, Grinnell College)
Paper: Clay and Light
in the Poetry of Joanna Pollakówna (Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn, University of
Illinois, Chicago)
Paper: The Freedom of Form and
the Paralysis of Formlesness: Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke and Dostoevskij’s
Notes from the Underground (Maria Kisel, Northwestern University)
Paper: In the Scope of
Hierophany: Sacral Motives in Polish-Jewish Poetry (Ryszard Zajaczkowski,
Catholic University of Lublin)
Panel 29E-6: Translation as Path of Influence in Slavic Literatures
Chair: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College-Columbia
University
Paper: The Ideology of Russian
Translation: From Poetic to National Competition (David L. Cooper, Columbia
University)
Paper: Approaches to Translation
in Čelakovský’s Česká včela and Tyl’s Květy
(Rachel Harrell, University of Michigan)
Paper: Death by Translation:
Aesthetic Experience in Maupassant’s “Miss Harriet” and Babel’’s “Guy de Maupassant”
(Janneke van de Stadt, Williams College)
Panel 29E-7: Changing Contents and Contexts for Language Instruction
Chair: Seth Graham, University of Washington
Equipment: VCR, OP, CD/cassette player
Paper: A Course on Russian
Cuisine, Culture and Language (Zoya Sanatullova, Marat Sanatullov, University
of Nebraska)
Paper: Interim in Russia: Integrating
Russian into a Literature Course Taught in English (Irina Walter, St. Olaf
College)
Paper: Russian TV Broadcasts
as a Means of Developing Aural Comprehension Skills in Advanced Russian
(Yelaina Kripkov, University of Oregon)
Discussant: Mikhail Palatnik, Washington University
December 30, 8:00am - 10:00am
Panel 30A-1: Literature and History
Chair: James Goodwin, University of Florida
Paper: Dictionary as Historiography:
Vuk’s 1818 Srpski rječnik and the Idea of a Serbian Language
(Kristin Vitalich, University of California, Los Angeles)
Paper: Gogol’’s Views on Ukrainian
History and the Problem of his Dual National Identity (Paul Karpuk, Central
Connecticut State University)
Panel 30A-2: Literature and Exile
Chair: Michelle Torre, University of Southern California
Paper: Ayn Rand Within the Tradition
of Exile Literature (Elizabeth Blake, University of Memphis)
Paper: Christology in Emigration:
Toward a Redefinition of Russianhood (David B. Polet, University of Wisconsin,
Madison)
Paper: Women’s Migration
in Contemporary Russian Literature (Karin Sarsenov, Lund University, Sweden)
Panel 30A-3: New Economic Criticism
Chair: Susan McReynolds Oddo, Northwestern University
Paper: Economic Metaphors in
St. Seraphim of Sarov (Mikhail Gronas, Dartmouth College)
Paper: The Narrative of Noble
Decline and the Discourse of Money in Saltykov-Ščedrin’s Gospoda Golovlevy
(Ewa Wampuszyc, University of Michigan)
Paper: The New Russian Capitalism
and Modern Russian Novel: Economics and Morals in the Novels of M. Butov, M.
Višneveckaja and A. Dmitriev (Mikhail Makeev, Moscow State University)
Paper: Looking a Gift Horse
in the Mouth: Value and Context in the Case of the Taločkin Collection
(Donna Oliver, Beloit College)
Panel 30A-4: Tolstoj and Narrative
Chair: Martin Bidney, Binghamton University
Paper: Tolstoj’s
Scientific Language in War and Peace and Later Works (Arkadi Klioutchanski,
University of Toronto)
Paper: A Temporality of Contradiction
(Jeff Love, Clemson University)
Discussant: Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Princeton University
Panel 30A-5: Conversational Discourse
Chair: Katarzyna Dziwirek, University of Washington
Equipment: OP, CD/cassette player
Paper: The Russian Particle
–to as a Marker of Misplacement (Galina Bolden, University
of California, Los Angeles)
Paper: Метафорические
Kоличественные
Существительные
со Значением
Неопределенно
Большого Количества
в Поэтической
и Разговорной
Речи (Natalia Dizenko, Berlitz Language Center,
New York)
Paper: Thank You, No Thank
You: Russian and American Thanking Routines (Yelena Belyaeva Standen, Saint
Louis University)
Discussant: Jane Hacking, University of Utah
Panel 30A-6: Forum on “Rossija v kontekste”: A Content-Based
Coursepack and Web Materials for Teaching Advanced Russian
Equipment: CP
Panelists:
Jason Merrill, Michigan State University
Irina Agafonova, Michigan State University
December 30, 10:15am - 12:15pm
Panel 30B-1: North American Tolstoj Society
Chair: Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth University
Equipment: CD/cassette player
Paper: Plantation Owners with
a Troubled Conscience: Another Look at Jefferson’s Bible and Tolstoj’s
Gospel in Brief (Martin Bidney, Binghamton University)
Paper: Echoes of Islam:
Conceptions of Free Will in the Qur’an and War and Peace
(Walter Comins-Richmond, Occidental College)
Paper: Natasha Rostova at Meyerbeer’s
Robert le Diable (Margo Rosen, Columbia University)
Paper: “Virtue on Display”
– Tolstoj’s Treatment of Fame (Kerry Sabbag, Brown University)
Panel 30B-2: Panel: Dramatizing History: Tom Stoppard’s Trilogy
The Coast of Utopia
Chair: Jean Laves, University of Chicago
Paper: Dostoevskij and The
Coast of Utopia (Nicholas Rzhevsky, State University of New York at
Stony Brook)
Paper: The Sound of a Distant
Thunder: the Čexovian Subtext in The Coast of Utopia (Anna Muza,
University of California, Berkeley)
Paper: ‘The Absolute
Whole Perpetually Renewing Itself’: Tom Stoppard’s Cat (Ruth
Rischin, San Francisco)
Panel 30B-3: Sexuality in Russian Literature and Thought
Chair: Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley
Paper: Sergej
Bulgakov on Pol and Sexuality (Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College)
Paper: The Green Lamp and the
Mystery of Del’vig’s “Fanni” (Joseph Peschio, University
of Michigan)
Paper: Sex and Text: Writing
the Body in Contemporary Russian Women’s Fiction (Yelena Furman, University
of California, Los Angeles)
Paper: Who Is the Cute Little
Redhead? A Literary Conversation (David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
and Karin Sarsenov, Lund University)
Panel 30B-4: Slavic Morphosyntax
Chair: Frank Y. Gladney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper: On Roman Jakobson’s
Concept of Irregularity in Russian Conjugation (Ronald F. Feldstein, Indiana
University)
Paper: To HAVE or to BE in
Russian: an Apology of the Verb imet' (Irina Mikaelian, Universite
de Grenoble, France)
Paper: Genitive Absolute (GA)
or Genitive of Time with a Participle (Daniela S. Hristova, University of
Chicago)
Panel 30B-5: Slavic Languages for Specific Purposes: Producing Specialists
for the Department of Defense
Equipment: CP (author-provided)
Chair: Mica Hall, Medina Joint Language Center, Department
of Defense
Paper: Focus on Form in Online
Task-based Instruction: Developing Reading Comprehension Learning Objects for
Russian Intermediate and Advanced Learners (Maria Ortenberg, Natalia Antokhin,
Defense Language Institute)
Paper: Pursuing ILR Level 2
Oral Proficiency: Russian and Serbian/Croatian Case Studies (Jack Franke,
Anto Knezevic, Defense Language Institute)
Paper: How can 2+ Russian linguists
in speaking be produced in 47 weeks at the Defense Language Institute? (Tatiana
Hursky, Defense Language Institute)
Panel 30B-6: Roundtable: Pre-College Teachers of Russian
Chair: Todd Golding, Jefferson High School, Lafayette, Indiana
Equipment: CP
Panelists:
Andy Padlo, San Francisco’s School of the Arts
Peter Merrill, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Betsy Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Panel 30B-7: Roundtable on Teaching the Languages of the Former Yugoslavia
Chair: Jennifer Sanders, Indiana University
Panelists:
Radmila Gorup, Columbia University
Ronelle Alexander, University of California, Berkeley
Kristin Vitalich, University of California, Los Angeles