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National

Convention

2009

November 12–15, 2009

Boston, Massachusetts

American Association for the Advancement

of Slavic Studies

American Association

for the Advancement

of Slavic Studies

41st National Convention

November 12–15, 2009

Marriott Copley Place

Boston, Massachusetts

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

8 Story Street, 3rd ﬂ oor

Cambridge, MA 02138

tel.: 617-495-0677, fax: 617-495-0680

e-mail: aaass@fas.harvard.edu

web site: www.aaass.org

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CONTENTS

Convention Schedule Overview ................................................................. iv

List of the Meeting Rooms at the Marriott Copley Place ............................ v

Diagrams of Meeting Rooms .................................................................vi–ix

Exhibit Hall Diagram ................................................................................... x

Index of Exhibitors, Alphabetical................................................................ xi

Index of Exhibitors, by Booth Number .......................................................xii

2009 AAASS Board of Directors ...............................................................xiii

AAASS National Ofﬁ ce .............................................................................xiii

Program Committee for the Boston, MA Convention ................................xiii

AAASS Afﬁ liates .......................................................................................xiv

2009 AAASS Institutional Members ......................................................... xv

Program Summary ........................................................................xvi–xxxvii

Important Meeting Notes .................................................................... xxxviii

Program: Daily Schedule

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Session 1 ............12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M. ................................... 1

Session 2 ..............2:00 P.M. – 3:45 P.M. ................................... 8

Session 3 ..............4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M. ................................. 15

Presidential Plenary Session (6:00 P.M.) ............................................22

Opening Reception & Tour of the Exhibit Hall (7:00 P.M.) ...................22

Friday, November 13, 2009

Session 4 ..............8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. ................................. 23

Session 5 ............10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. .................................31

Session 6 ..............1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. ................................. 39

Session 7 ..............3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M. ................................. 46

Session 8 ..............5:00 P.M. – 6:45 P.M. ................................. 54

Evening Meetings and Events.....................................................60

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Session 9 ..............8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. ................................. 62

Session 10 ..........10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. .................................69

Session 11 ............1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. ................................. 76

Session 12 ............3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M. ................................. 84

AAASS Annual Meeting (5:00 P.M.) .............................................91

AAASS Awards Buffet (5:30 P.M.) ................................................91

Awards Presentation and President’s Address (6:30 P.M.) .......... 91

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Session 13 ............8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. ................................. 95

Session 14 ..........10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. ...............................102

Session 15 ..........12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M. ............................... 109

Advertisements ....................................................................................... 116

Index of Convention Participants ............................................................149

Index of Advertisers ................................................................................180

Please refer to the “Program Supplement”

for last-minute changes to this Program.

CONVENTION SCHEDULE OVERVIEW

The Registration Desk is located on the Fourth Floor.

Meetings for afﬁ liate organizations and committees are listed in the main section of this

Convention Program, at the beginning of the session for which they are scheduled.

See also the end of each day’s listing for other events.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Registration Desk Hours ......8:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.

Exhibit Hall Hours ................4:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.

AAASS Board Meeting ........8:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.

Session 1 ...........................12:00 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.

Session 2 .............................2:00 P.M. - 3:45 P.M.

Session 3 .............................4:00 P.M. - 5:45 P.M.

Presidential Plenary Session (open to all) - 6:00 P.M. - Grand Ballroom Salon E

- “Reading and Writing Lives” with William Chase Taubman, Amherst College as Chair;

Timothy James Colton, Harvard U; Laura Engelstein, Yale U; Beth C. Holmgren, Duke U;

and Alexei Yurchak, UC Berkeley.

Opening Reception and Tour of the Exhibit Hall (open to all) - 7:00 P.M. -

Gloucester. For further details, please see page 22 of the program.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Registration Desk Hours ......7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Exhibit Hall Hours ................9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.

Session 4 .............................8:00 A.M. - 9:45 A.M.

Session 5 ...........................10:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M.

Session 6 .............................1:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.

Session 7 .............................3:00 P.M. - 4:45 P.M.

Session 8 .............................5:00 P.M. - 6:45 P.M.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Registration Desk Hours ......7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Exhibit Hall Hours ................9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.

Session 9 .............................8:00 A.M. - 9:45 A.M.

Session 10 .........................10:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M.

Session 11 ...........................1:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.

Session 12 ...........................3:00 P.M. - 4:45 P.M.

AAASS Annual Meeting (open to all) - 5:00 P.M. - Grand Ballroom Salon F

AAASS Awards Buffet, followed by Awards Presentation and President’s

Address - AAASS Awards Buffet with cash bar (by ticket only and held in the Grand

Ballroom Salon E) begins at 5:30 P.M., tickets are on sale at the AAASS registration desk

on Thursday only. Sorry, no refunds. Awards Presentation (open to all and held in the

Grand Ballroom Salon F) begins at 6:30 P.M. For the list of awards that will be presented,

and the details about the President’s address, please see pages 91-94 of the program.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Registration Desk Hours ......7:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Exhibit Hall Hours ................8:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Session 13 ...........................8:00 A.M. - 9:45 A.M.

Session 14 .........................10:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M.

Session 15 .........................12:00 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.

MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE

MEETING ROOMS

(see the room diagrams on the following pages)

The meeting rooms at the Boston Marriott Copley Place are organized on three ﬂ oors.

St. Botolph is the only meeting room on the second ﬂ oor. Rooms named for colleges and

universities, and Boston street names are located on the third ﬂ oor. The Grand Ballroom

Salons A-K and rooms named after Massachusetts towns are located on the fourth ﬂ oor.

Rooms named after New England states are located on the ﬁ fth ﬂ oor.

ROOM NAME ................LOCATION

Arlington ................................. 3rd Floor

Berkeley .................................3rd Floor

Boston University ................... 3rd Floor

Brandeis .................................3rd Floor

Clarendon ............................... 3rd Floor

Connecticut ............................ 5th Floor

Dartmouth ..............................3rd Floor

Exeter ..................................... 3rd Floor

Fairﬁ eld ................................... 3rd Floor

Falmouth ................................ 4th Floor

Gloucester (Exhibit Hall) ........3rd Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon A ........4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon B ........4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon C ........ 4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon D ........ 4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon E ........4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon F ......... 4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon G ........ 4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon H ........ 4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon I ..........4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon J ......... 4th Floor

Grand Ballroom Salon K ........4th Floor

Harvard .................................. 3rd Floor

Hyannis ..................................4th Floor

Maine ..................................... 5th Floor

Massachusetts ....................... 5th Floor

MIT ......................................... 3rd Floor

Nantucket ............................... 4th Floor

New Hampshire ...................... 5th Floor

Northeastern .......................... 3rd Floor

Orleans ................................... 4th Floor

Provincetown ..........................4th Floor

Regis ...................................... 3rd Floor

Rhode Island ..........................5th Floor

Simmons ................................ 3rd Floor

St. Botolph ..............................2nd Floor

Suffolk ....................................3rd Floor

Tufts ........................................ 3rd Floor

Vermont .................................. 5th Floor

Vineyard ................................. 4th Floor

Wellesley ................................ 3rd Floor

Yarmouth ................................ 4th Floor

MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE

MEETING ROOMS DIAGRAMS

Second Floor

OPEN

ATRIUM

ST. BOTOLPH

RESTROOMS

GIFT SHOP

CHAMPIONS

BUSINESS

CENTER

ESCALATORS

GREAT ROOM

ELEVATORS

PRUDENTIAL MALL

STARBUCKS

COPLEY PLACE

SECOND FLOOR

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MARRIOTT BOSTON COPLEY PLACE

MEETING ROOM DIAGRAMS

Third Floor

ENTRANCE TO EXHIBIT HALL

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MARRIOTT BOSTON COPLEY PLACE

MEETING ROOM DIAGRAMS

Fourth Floor

MARRIOTT BOSTON COPLEY PLACE

MEETING ROOM DIAGRAMS

Fifth Floor

EXHIBIT HALL

The Exhibit Hall is located in the Gloucester Ballroom, on the third ﬂ oor.

Entrance to the Exhibit Hall is between the Harvard and the Brandeis rooms.

ENTRANCE TO EXHIBIT HALL

INDEX OF EXHIBITORS – Alphabetical Listing

(with booth number)

Academic International Press ..............203

Academic Studies Press ......................120

American Councils for International

Education: ACTR/ACCELS ..........112

Association Book Exhibit .....................322

Association for Women

in Slavic Studies ..........................319

Berghahn Books ..................................215

Brill ....................................................123

Bronze Horseman ..................... 106 & 108

Cambridge University Press ................208

Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center ......323

Central and East European

Online Library (CEEOL) ..............221

Central European University Press .....312

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) .......115

Cornell University Press ......................304

Council for International Exchange

of Scholars ..................................117

East View

Information Services ......... 205 & 207

European University

at St. Petersburg ..........................315

Harvard Ukrainian

Research Institute .......................223

Harvard University Press .....................308

Haymarket Books ................................313

Indiana University Press ......................209

Integrum World Wide ...........................100

IREX ....................................................217

Istituto per L’Europa Centro-Orientale

E Balcanica .................................102

Lame Duck Books ...............................410

Lexicon Maciej Wolinski .......................310

Mehring Books.....................................118

M.E. Sharpe, Inc. ...................... 305 & 307

Natasha Kozmenko Booksellers ..........214

National Council for Eurasian

and East European Research:

NCEEER .....................................206

New Literary Observer .........................320

Northern Illinois University Press ........311

Northwestern University Press ............321

Oxford University Press .......................202

Panorama of Russia ............................126

Paraclete Press ...................................124

Routledge ................................. 103 & 105

Russian and East European Institute

- Indiana University ......................211

Russian Studies Publications ... 119 & 121

Russia Online, Inc. ...............................404

Serbica Books .....................................219

Slavica Publishers ...............................213

St. Petersburg Review .........................406

The Carl Beck Papers............... 314 & 316

The Edwin Mellon Press ......................302

The Scholar’s Choice...........................309

Tver InterContact Group ......................113

U.S. Department of Education –

International Education

Programs Service ........................408

University of Illinois – Russian, East

European and Eurasian Center &

Slavic Reference Service ............212

University of

Pittsburgh Press ............... 316 & 318

University of Toronto Press ..................107

University of Washington Press/

Treadgold Studies ........................109

University of Wisconsin Press .............317

Wiley-Blackwell ....................................111

Woodrow Wilson Center ........... 218 & 220

Yale University Press ...........................114

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INDEX OF EXHIBITORS – by Booth Number

100... Integrum World Wide

102 .. Istituto per l’Europa Centro-

Orientale e Balcanica

103... Routledge

105... Routledge

106... Bronze Horseman

107... University of Toronto Press

108... Bronze Horseman

109... University of Washington Press/

Treadgold Studies

111... Wiley-Blackwell

112... American Councils for International

Education: ACTR/ACCELS

113... Tver InterContact Group

114... Yale University Press

115 .. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

117... Council for International Exchange

of Scholars

118... Mehring Books

119... Russian Studies Publications

120... Academic Studies Press

121... Russian Studies Publications

123... Brill

124... Paraclete Press

126... Panorama of Russia

202... Oxford University Press

203... Academic International Press

205... East View Information Services

206... National Council for Eurasian and

East European Research: NCEEER

207... East View Information Services

208... Cambridge University Press

209... Indiana University Press

211... Russian and East European

Institute-Indiana University

212... University of Illinois – Russian, East

European and Eurasian Center &

Slavic Reference Service

213... Slavica Publishers

214... Natasha Kozmenko Booksellers

215... Berghahn Books

217... IREX

218... Woodrow Wilson Center

219... Serbica Books

220... Woodrow Wilson Center

221... Central and Eastern European

Online Library (CEEOL)

223... Harvard Ukrainian Research

Institute

302... The Edwin Mellen Press

304... Cornell University Press

305... M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

306... Charles Schlacks Publishers

307... M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

308... Harvard University Press

309... The Scholar’s Choice

310... Lexicon Maciej Wolinski

311... Northern Illinois University Press

312... Central European University Press

313... Haymarket Books

314... The Carl Beck Papers

315... European University at St.

Petersburg

316... The Carl Beck Papers/University of

Pittsburgh Press

317... University of Wisconsin Press

318... University of Pittsburgh Press

319... Association for Women in Slavic

Studies

320... New Literary Observer

321... Northwestern University Press

322... Association Book Exhibit

323... Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center,

Inc.

404... Russia Online, Inc.

406... St. Petersburg Review

408... U.S. Department of Education,

International Education Programs

Services (IEPS)

410... Lame Duck Books

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2009 AAASS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

William Taubman, President; Amherst College

Beth Holmgren, Immediate Past-President; Duke U

Mark von Hagen, Vice-President/President-Elect; Arizona State U

Dmitry Gorenburg, Executive Director; Harvard U

Susan Linz, Treasurer; Michigan State U

Mark Steinberg, Editor, Slavic Review; U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ronelle Alexander, member-at-large, 2007–2009; U of California, Berkeley

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Antohny Anemone, ATSEEL representative, 2007–2009; The New School

Michael Brewer, Chair of the B&D Committee, 2009–2010; U of Arizona

Nancy Condee, member-at-large, 2009–2011; U of Pittsburgh

Peter Craumer, AAG Representative, 2007–2009; Florida International U

Anna Grzymala-Busse, APSA representative, 2009–2011; U of Michigan

Stephen Hanson, member-at-large, 2008–2010; U of Washington

Robert Hayden, AAA representative, 2008–2010; U of Pittsburgh

Robert Huber, Council of Institutional Members, Chair, 2006–2009; NCEEER

Michael Khodarkovsky, member-at-large, 2009–2011; Loyola U

Gail Kligman, member-at-large, 2008–2010; UCLA

Diane Koenker, AHA Representative, 2007–2009; U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Nancy Lubin, member-at-large, 2007–2009; JNA Associates, Inc.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer, ASA representative, 2008–2010; Brown University/

Rhode Island School of Design

Mary Theis, Council of Regional Afﬁ liates, Chair, 2009–2010; Kutztown U

AAASS NATIONAL OFFICE

Dmitry Gorenburg, Executive Director

Jolanta Davis, Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor

Emily Falkenstein, Membership Coordinator

Galina Shaumyan, Comptroller

Wendy Walker, Convention Coordinator

2009 CONVENTION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Elizabeth A. Wood, MIT – Chair

Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School

Jonathan H. Bolton, Harvard U

Steven L. Burg, Brandeis U

Choi Chatterjee, California State U, Los Angeles

Gerald M. Easter, Boston College

Michael S. Flier, Harvard U

Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis U

Edythe C. Haber, Davis Center, Harvard U

Michael C. Hickey, Bloomsburg U

Vida T. Johnson, Tufts U

T. Mills Kelly, George Mason U

Donald Ostrowski, Harvard U

Marilyn R. Rueschemeyer, Brown U/RISD

Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Harvard U

Bradley L. Schaffner, Harvard U

Valerie J. Sperling, Clark U

Jane A. Taubman, Amherst College

William C. Taubman, Amherst College

Sarah M. Terry, Tufts U (Emerita)

Rex A. Wade, George Mason U

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AAASS REGIONAL AFFILIATES

Central Slavic Conference

Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference

Midwest Slavic Conference

New England Slavic Association

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

Southwest Slavic Association

Western Association for Slavic Studies

AAASS SPECIAL INTEREST AFFILIATES

Allan K. Wildman Group for the Study of Society, Politics, and Culture in Russian

Revolutionary Era

American Association for Ukrainian Studies

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

American Council of Teachers of Russian

Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research

Association for Croatian Studies

Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture

Association for the Study of Health and Demography in the Former Soviet Union

Association for the Study of Nationalities

Association for Women in Slavic Studies

Bulgarian Studies Association

Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center

Central Eurasian Studies Society

Czechoslovak Studies Association

Early Slavic Studies Association

East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections

Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association

Hungarian Studies Association

Interdisciplinary Group for Museum Studies

International Association of Teachers of Czech

North American Pushkin Society

North American Society for Serbian Studies

Polish Studies Association

Shevchenko Scientiﬁ c Society

Slavic and East European Folklore Association

Slovak Studies Association

Society for Albanian Studies

Society for Armenian Studies

Society for Austrian and Habsburg History

Society for Romanian Studies

Society for Slovene Studies

Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art & Architecture

Southeast European Studies Association

Soyuz - The Research Network for Postsocialist Studies

Working Group on Cinema & Television

2009 AAASS INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS

Amherst College, Department of Russian

Arizona State U, The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian, and East European

Studies

Brigham Young U, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages

Brown U, Department of Slavic Languages

Bryn Mawr College, Department of Russian

Columbia U, Harriman Institute

Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” (Macedonia)

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Italy)

French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) (France)

Georgetown U, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies

(premium member)

Harvard U, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (premium member)

Harvard U, Ukrainian Research Institute (premium member)

Hoover Institution, Library and Archives

Indiana U, Russian and East European Institute

IREX

Michigan State U, Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) (premium

member)

National Library of the Czech Republic, Slavonic Library (Czech Republic)

New York U

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America

Princeton U, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (premium member)

Russian State U for the Humanities (Russia)

School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS)

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (premium member)

Stanford U, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

Stetson U

The Uniterra Foundation

Tver InterContact Group

U of California, Berkeley, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

(premium member)

U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center

U of Kansas, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

U of Kansas, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

U of Michigan, Center for Russian and East European Studies

U of Oklahoma, School of International and Area Studies

U of Oregon, Russian and East European Studies Center

U of Pittsburgh, Center for Russian and East European Studies

U of Texas, Austin, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

U of Washington, Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian

Studies

U of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Russia, East Europe & Central Asia

(premium member)

Vassar College, Department of Russian Studies

Villanova U, Russian Area Studies Program

Wittenberg U, Russian Area Studies Program

Woodrow Wilson Center, Kennan Institute

Yale U, Council on European Studies

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PROGRAM SUMMARY:THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 12, 2009

For full panel, roundtable, and meeting information for this day see main program listings. For the list and diagrams of meeting rooms see pages v–ix.

Room Name 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M. 2:00 P.M. – 3:45 P.M. 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Arlington 2-01: Two Decades After 1989: Reflections

of Activists and Analysts

3-01: Unconference Session 1

Berkeley 1-03: Are You Gangsters? No, We are

Russians: Criminals, Rogues and

Hooligans in Russian and East European

Culture

2-03: Institutions and Social Change in the

USSR

3-03: Structuring Soviet Life in Text and

Space

Boston University 1-04: Picturing Stalinist Heroes: Soviet Art

1930-1945

2-04: Russian Conceptualism 3-04: Portrait of an Artist:

Modrzejewska/Modjeska (1840-1909)

Brandeis 1-05: Religion and Commerce in the Sea of

Azov and the Black Sea Area in the

Nineteenth Century

2-05: Rebellion and Reform in the Polish

Lithuanian Commonwealth

3-05: Poltava 1709: Revisiting the Turning

Point in East European History

Clarendon 1-06: The Cultural Politics of Jewish Sites

in Poland after the Holocaust

2-06: The Next Generation: Rethinking the

Experiences of Jewish Children in Poland

3-06: Children and Adolescents in Imperial

Russia and the USSR

Connecticut 1-07: Approaches to Modern Ukrainian

Literature in the Original and in Translation

2-07: The Self as Literature: Literary

Identity in Bohumil Hrabal, Witold

Gombrowicz and Bruno Schulz

3-07: Ukrainian Linguistics

Dartmouth 1-08: Nationalism, Security and the Past in

Central Europe and the Balkans

2-08: Reform and Institutional Development

in Eastern Europe

3-08: Civil Society and the Politics of

Memory in Post-Communist Europe

Exeter 1-09: Philanthropists, Statesmen, and

Radicals: Russian-American Relations in

the Revolutionary Era

2-09: July 1914 in Comparative

Perspective

3-09: Russia's Great World War and

Revolution: The Centenary Reappraisal

Fairfield 1-10: The Birth of Military Aviation in

Central and Eastern Europe, 1914-1922

2-10: The First Year of the Great Patriotic

War

3-10: The World Wars in Comparative

Perspective

Falmouth 1-11: Hungarians Coming in from Cold 2-11: The Formation of National Identity in

Central Europe

3-11: Russian Foreign Policy: Old and

New Mechanisms

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Room Name 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M. 2:00 P.M. – 3:45 P.M. 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Grand Ballroom

Salon A

2-12: Seminal Themes in Slovene History:

The Slovene Croatian Border in the 19th

Century, Yugoslav and Slovene Politics in

the 1930s, and the Issue of Lustration after

Independence

3-12: Progress in Social, Legal and

Governmental Reforms in Serbia

Grand Ballroom

Salon B

1-13: Migration in the Post-Communist

World: Causes and Consequences

2-13: Migrants and the Receiving Societies:

Anti-immigrant Phobias and Social

Practices

3-13: Modes of Living: Crafting Sacred and

Secular Sensibilities after Socialism

Grand Ballroom

Salon C

1-14: Homo Imperii: Personal Biographies

and the Science of Human Diversity in the

Russian Empire

2-14: Homo Imperii: Biographies of Political

and Social Activism in the Russian empire

3-14: Empire and the Self in

Russian/Soviet History, 1870-1940

Grand Ballroom

Salon D

1-15: Mathematics and Power in Russian

Culture/Literature Calculation of Power

2-15: Perspectives on Madness in Late

Soviet Culture

3-15: The Role of Individuals: Assessing

the Impact of Persons from Different

Disciplinary Positions

Grand Ballroom

Salon E

2-16: Building and Destroying Communities

in the Former Yugoslavia

3-16: Reading Architecture and City Life in

Post-War Eastern Europe, Part I:

Conceiving the Everyday

Grand Ballroom

Salon F

2-17: Hungarian Studies Association

Grand Ballroom

Salon G

2-18: Czechoslovak Studies Association

Grand Ballroom

Salon H

1-19: Industrial Workers and Postwar

Central and Eastern Europe

2-19: De-Stalinization Across Borders in

Eastern Europe

3-19: Nation, Nationalism and Nation

Building in Post-1945 Communist Eastern

Europe

Grand Ballroom

Salon I

1-20: State and Society in the New Russia 2-20: Party Development in the Post-

Communist Transition

3-20: Political System Transformation in

Today's Russia

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PROGRAM SUMMARY:THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 12, 2009 – CONTINUED

Room Name 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M. 2:00 P.M. – 3:45 P.M. 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Grand Ballroom

Salon J

1-21: N. Gogol'/M. Hohol': Postcolonial,

Comparative and Religious Perspectives

2-21: Re-Imagining Pushkin - A Panel in

Memory of Anna Lisa Crone

3-21: Testing Boundaries: Writing, Motion,

and Identity in Russian Literature

Grand Ballroom

Salon K

1-22: Macedonian Language Contact -

from Linguistic League to Diaspora

2-22: The Development of Russian

Language and Contemporary Language

Practices (Literature, Mass Media, Internet)

3-22: What Does "God" Mean? Religious

Lives and Changing Language in Poland

and Russia

Harvard 1-23: Sexuality and Gender under

Communism

2-23: Generation, National Identity and the

Body: Reading Polish and Russian

Women's Life-Writing

3-23: Reading and Writing Queer Lives in

20th Century Russia

Hyannis 1-24: Immigrant Fiction(s): The Emerging

Phenomenon of Russian-American

Literature

2-24: Subversive Biographies of the

Croatian Renaissance

3-24: Reading US: Literary Depictions of

Russian Professors in North America

Maine 1-25: Economic Reform and Political

Liberalization in Russia and Eastern

Europe

2-25: Transitional Norms: Diffusion,

Learning, High-Jacking and Transformation

in Russia and Eastern Europe

3-25: Russia’s Energy Policy and Its

External Impacts

Massachusetts 1-26: Unconditioned Conditionality? Civil

Society, the Legacy of War and EU

Conditionality in the Western Balkans

2-26: The New Member States’ Influence

on the European Union’s Policy Towards

the East

3-26: Rethinking Political and Economic

Outcomes in Post-Communist States

MIT 1-27: Intellectuals, Church and State in

Late 19th Century Croatia

2-27: Christian-Communist Encounters in

the Soviet Bloc 1959-1987

3-27: Atheism in Russia over the Longue

Durée

Nantucket 1-28: Modernity, Modernism and Religion

in Russia's Silver Age

2-28: Lolita 3-28: Another Look at Nabokov: Reception,

Translation, Commentary

New Hampshire 2-29: Association for the Study of Eastern

Christian History and Culture

3-29: Reconceptualizing Borders in Eastern

Europe and Eurasia: Past and Present

Northeastern 1-30: Framing Mary: Icons and Ideas 2-30: The Cult of Russian Antiquity 3-30: Of Stones and Bones: Dedicated to

the Memory of Benjamin Uroff

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Room Name 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M. 2:00 P.M. – 3:45 P.M. 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Orleans 1-31: Literary Organ-ization: The Uses of

Biology in Russian Modernism

2-31: Framing and Re-framing Komsomol

Lives: Entertainment, Ideology and Soviet

Youth from the Khrushchev to Brezhnev

Eras, 1956-1984

3-31: Young Kazakh Cinema

Provincetown 1-32: Love and Conjugal Bliss in Russian

Music and Literature

2-32: Narrative Identities in the Later

Tolstoy: Resurrection or Repetition?

3-32: Subversion and Communication in

Dostoevsky's Work

Regis 1-33: Negotiating the Periphery: Literary

Perspectives on Russian Imperial

Discourse

2-33: Water and the Fate of Eurasian

History

3-33: Empire and Experience of Muslim

Subjects in Imperial Russia

Rhode Island 1-34: Friendships across Borders in

Eastern Europe

2-34: Identity Formation: Self and Other in

Diaspora

Simmons 1-35: Viewing Lives: Russia at the

Cinematic Margins

2-35: Soviet TV Night: Television and its

Audience in the Brezhnev Era

3-35: Women in Early Russian Cinema

Suffolk 1-36: The Dynamics of Stagnation: (Re)-

Conceptualizing the Long 1970s in Soviet

History

2-36: Darkness and Light in Late 20th

Century Russian and East European Film

3-36: Representations of Post-Communist

Media in Cinema and Literature in the

Czech Republic, Poland and Russia

Tufts 1-37: Consciousness and Civil Society in

Bulgaria and Romania

2-37: The Cultural Politics of the National

(Re)awakenings in Southeastern Europe

3-37: BDC Subcommittee on ABSEES

Vermont 1-38: Russia and Emerging Powers:

Betting on the Future

2-38: Dynamics of the Turkish Foreign

Policy in the Basin of Five Seas

3-38: At the Crossroads of Controversy:

Trieste Crises, 1945-2008

Vineyard 1-39: Forgotten Serbian Thinkers:

Borisavljević, Vasić, Krakov and Milanković

- Current Relevance

2-39: Bulgarian Studies Association 3-39: Ruptures and Continuities in

Yugoslav Avant-gardes and Post-Avant-

Gardes

Wellesley 1-40: 'It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...':

Looking Back at The Singing Revolution

2-40: New Perspectives on Aleksandra

Kollontai's Life and Work

3-40: Contested Historical Memories and

History Textbooks in Today’s Russia

Yarmouth 1-41: Ideology and Experimentation in the

Russian Avant-garde

2-41: Collective Analysis of Contemporary

Poetry (A Workshop)

3-41: Landscapes of Joseph Brodsky

PROGRAM SUMMARY:FRIDAY,NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For full panel, roundtable, and meeting information for this day see main program listings. For the list and diagrams of meeting rooms see pages v–ix.

Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M. 5:00 P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

Arlington 4-01: Polish Studies

Association

5-01: Twenty Years

Later: Reflections on

1989

6-01: Twenty Years After:

1989 in Retrospect

7-01: 1989 Twenty Years

Later: What Has Been

Most Surprising

8-01: Roundtable on the

1989 Polish Roundtable:

Legacies and

Controversies Twenty

Years After

Berkeley 4-03: Grappling with

Strong Men, Religion,

and the Fascists: Popular

Culture in the Late

Imperial and Soviet

Periods

5-03: ‘The People’s Own

Report’: Teaching and

Research with Harvard

Project on the Soviet

Social System Interviews

6-03: Late-Soviet and

Post-Soviet Identities:

Life in Oral History and

Cultural Memory

7-03: Confronting the

National Past: History

and Memory in Belarus,

Russia, and Ukraine

8-03: Post-Soviet Fiction

and Transmission of

Memory of Stalinism

Boston

University

4-04: Ethnicity and

Biography in Russian Art

5-04: Interventions in the

Real: New Approaches to

Nineteenth-Century

Russian Art

6-04: Life versus Works:

Tensions in the

Historiography and

Criticism of Ukrainian

Literature

7-04: Vital Connections:

Lives of Texts, Authors,

Translators, and

Translations in

Contemporary Ukrainian

Literature

8-04: Scholars and

Writers Writing Ukrainian

Lives

Brandeis 4-05: Writing Noble Lives

in Russia’s Eighteenth

Century

5-05: Orthodoxy and

Enlightenment in the

Eighteenth Century

6-05: Materiality,Visuality,

and Corporeality: Re-

ordering Eastern-rite

Christian Practices, 17th-

19th century

7-05: ‘Living on the Edge’:

Writing and Recording

Lives in the Borderlands

of the Polish-Lithuanian

Commonwealth, 1600-

1800

8-05: Enlightenment and

Reputation in the 18th

and 19th Centuries

Clarendon 4-06: Navigating the

Estate (Soslovie) System

in the Urban Streets of

Nineteenth-Century

Russia

5-06: Visual Images of

Jews in Late Imperial and

Early Soviet Eras

6-06: Knowledge,

Property and Power:

Visions of the Socio-

Political Order in Late

Imperial Russia

7-06: Signs and

Signposts: Russian

Thought at the Turn of

the 20th Century

8-06: Vekhi at 100:

Signposts Then and Now

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Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M. 5:00 P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

Connecticut 4-07: Slavic Diachronic

Morphosyntax

5-07: The Diachrony of

Case Government

6-07: Slavic Numerals I

(Russian)

7-07: Slavic Numerals II

(West Slavic)

8-07: East European

Politics and Societies

Editorial Board Meeting

Dartmouth 4-08: War Crimes in the

Soviet Union: Past and

Present

5-08: The Rule of Law in

Post-Communist

Societies

6-08: Trials and

Tribulations: New

Research on the

Conspiracies of Post-

1945 Hungary

7-08: War, Crimes and

Transitional Justice in the

Soviet Union and its

Successor States

8-08: Lives of the Legal

Profession in Post-

Communist Societies

Exeter 4-09: The Role of the

Individual in History:

Revolutionary Russia

5-09: Soviet Power and

the Bolshevik State,

1917-1921

6-09: Vlast’ from the

Past: State Building,

State Practices, and

Conceptions of State

Power in 1917-1921

7-09: Perspectives on the

February Revolution and

Power

8-09: Russian

Revolutionary Culture

before and after 1917

Fairfield 4-10: Ukrainians and the

Holocaust

5-10: Forced Labor and

Urban Transitions

6-10: Perpetrators and

Bystanders? The

Dynamics of Mass

Murder of Jews in

Southern Ukraine, 1941-

1944

7-10: Perpetrators and

Dynamics of Violence:

Soviet Collectivization

Reconsidered

8-10: Stalin’s Terror of

1936-38: Images,

Analysis and

Perspectives

Falmouth 4-11: Writing the Lives of

Others: The Genre of

Popular Biography and

the Creation and

Deconstruction of Myths

5-11: Writing Little

Russian Lives

6-11: Women and Small

Business in Russia

7-11: Slovak Studies

Association

8-11: The Syntax of

Polish Nominals

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Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M. 5:00 P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

Grand Ballroom

Salon A

4-12: Empires,

Interrupted: Imperial

Legacies and

Contemporary National

Identity Formation in the

Balkans, South Caucasus

and Crimea

5-12: Forging Socialist

Yugoslavia among

Diverse Communities,

1943-1948

6-12: The Austro-

Hungarian Empire in

Transition

7-12: State-Building in

Yugoslavia

8-12: State and

Institutions in Albania and

Kosovo: New

Perspectives

Grand Ballroom

Salon B

4-13: Reforming the

Land, Remaking the

Nation: New Approaches

to the History of Land

Reform in Pre-

Communist Central and

Eastern Europe

5-13: The Changing Face

of Agriculture and Rural

Life in Contemporary

Russia

6-13: Adaptation and

Assimilation: Living

Migration in Eurasia

7-13: Consumption and

Culture in Three Post-

Soviet States

8-13: Ethics and the

Common Good in

Russian Society

Grand Ballroom

Salon C

4-14: Soviet ‘Micro

History’: The Letters of

Olga Aleksandrovna

Voeikova (1927-1936)

5-14: The Self and the

Soviet State

6-14: Big Decisions:

Framing the Writing of

Soviet Lives

7-14: The Family

Fridlyand: Journalism,

Caricature, and

Photography under Stalin

Grand Ballroom

Salon D

4-15: Of Dogs and

Dogmatism: Pavlov and

Pavlovism at the

Crossroads of Soviet

Science, Politics, and

Ideology, 1917-1964

5-15: New Research on

Soviet Medicine and

Public Health:

Implications for our

Understanding of Soviet

History

6-15: Health and

Demography in the

Former Soviet Union

7-15: Cultural Tectonics:

Reading Beneath the

Surface of History

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Grand Ballroom

Salon E

4-16: Reading

Architecture and City Life

in Post-War Eastern

Europe (Part II):

Interpreting Urban

Spaces

5-16: Reading

Architecture and City Life

in Postwar Eastern

Europe, Part III: Yugoslav

Exceptionalism?

6-16: Reading

Architecture and City Life

in Postwar Eastern

Europe, Part IV: Creating

Postsocialist Spaces

7-16: Places of Memory:

Prague

8-16: Ruin, Preservation,

and History in Leningrad

Grand Ballroom

Salon F

4-17: Stalinism and

Nazism as Entangled

Histories

5-17: Beyond

Soviet/Post-Soviet

Dichotomies

6-17: Cultural Responses

to World War I: Against

the Grain

8-17: Russia in the Year

2009: The Ed Hewett

Memorial Roundtable

Grand Ballroom

Salon G

4-18: Categories and

Individuals in Political

Science--an Assessment

5-18: Whither Soviet

History?

6-18: Slavic Review

Board Meeting

8-18: Handbooks after

Great Narratives: the

Search for the New

Optics in Teaching

Russian History &

Literature

Grand Ballroom

Salon H

4-19: Internationalizing

the History of WWII in

East-Central Europe

5-19: Critical Condition?

Health Policy and the

Social Contract in Russia,

Hungary, Poland, and the

Czech Republic

6-19: Soviet Past as the

Traumatic Object of

Contemporary Russian

Culture

7-19: State-Society

Relations in Eurasia and

Eastern Europe: A Cross-

Section of Research

Archives

Falmouth

10-11: Émigré Narratives in

Context

11-11: Slavictionaries: the Latest

Projects in Language and

Culture Learning

12-11: The Intermediate

Language Class: At the

Intersection of Tasks, Grammar,

and Content Learning

Grand Ballroom

Salon A

10-12: Building Borderlands: The

Institutionalization of Frontier

Territories in Modern Southeast

and Central Europe

11-12: The King’s Testament -

The 80th Anniversary of the

Royal Dictatorship of King

Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia

1929-2009

12-12: The Life Histories of

Slovene Socialist Directors and

the Reality of Self-Management

Grand Ballroom

Salon B

12-13: Ideology, Culture and

Identity in the Transition from the

Soviet to the Post-Soviet State

Grand Ballroom

Salon C

9-14: Lives without Lenin? The

Transformation of Identities in

the Later Soviet Union

10-14: Council of Institutional

Organizations

11-14: Unconference Session 3 12-14: Comparative Approaches

to Autobiographical Narratives

Grand Ballroom

Salon D

9-15: Reading Lives of Nations

and Individuals in the Context of

Chernobyl

10-15: From Sputnik to Vostok:

Popularizing the Advent of the

Space Age

11-15: Of Cosmonauts, Athletes,

and Rock Stars: Official

Celebrity and Popular Celebrity

in the USSR after Stalin

12-15: Banias and Bodies: Life

and Death in the Soviet

Bathhouse

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PROGRAM SUMMARY:SATURDAY,NOVEMBER 14, 2009 – CONTINUED

Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Grand Ballroom

Salon E

9-16: Urban History in

Russia/East-Central Europe:

New Approaches and Insights

10-16: Urban Design and

Development: Exploring Soviet

and Post-Soviet Practices

11-16: St. Petersburg-Petrograd-

Leningrad: Mosaic of the City

Through Memoirs and Letters

Grand Ballroom

Salon F

9-17: Russian Politics in 2009: A

Look Back at an Unpredictable

Year

10-17: Lives of Analysts of

Soviet Russia during the Cold

War

11-17: Author Meets Critics -

Know Your Enemy: The Rise

and Fall of America’s Soviet

Experts

12-17: Why Did the Soviet Union

End? A Discussion of Stephen

F. Cohen’s Book ‘Soviet Fates

and Lost Alternatives’

Grand Ballroom

Salon G

9-18: The Lives of Others:

Surveillance, Researchers and

Fieldwork in Eastern Europe

10-18: Gor’kii the Memoirist as

Modernist: To Honor Donald

Fanger

11-18: Are We All Cultural

Historians Now?

12-18: Emotions Across the

Disciplines: Past, Present,

Future

Grand Ballroom

Salon H

9-19: The Return of Class in

Post-Communist Society

11-19: Company Towns,

Company Lives: Producing

Communities in 20th Century

Eastern Europe

12-19: Spatial Narratives in the

Russian Imperial Context (19th-

20th c.)

Grand Ballroom

Salon I

9-20: Russian Mass Media and

Contemporary Russian Politics

10-20: Repercussions of Power

Vertical in the Regions: Recent

Evidence from Russia

11-20: Russian Regionalism

Redefined? New Theoretical

Explorations

12-20: Writing Home: Visions of

the Domestic in Mid-Nineteenth

Century Russia

Grand Ballroom

Salon J

10-21: Pushkin’s Politics and the

Politics of Pushkin

11-21: European Union Regional

Policy in Central Europe:

Responding to Global

Challenges

Grand Ballroom

Salon K

9-22: Education in the Soviet

and Post-Soviet Eras

10-22: The Internationalization of

Russian Universities

11-22: Teaching Environmental

History(ies) of Russia

12-22: American Council of

Teachers of Russian

Harvard 9-23: Gender, Race, Ethnicity

and Narrative in Modern Russia

and the USSR

10-23: Representations of

Motherhood in Russian

Literature: 1885-2008

11-23: Bad Mothers:

Representations of Negative

Maternity in Soviet and Post-

Soviet Russia

12-23: Russian and Soviet

Women’s Lives in the Twentieth

Century

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Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Hyannis 9-24: Mikhail M. Karpovich

(1888-1959): Linking Russian

Immigration and American

Academia

10-24: Literary Dialogues in

Emigration

11-24: Media, Diasporas and

Identities: The Comparative

Cases of Serbia and Croatia

12-24: Dubravka Ugresic

Maine 9-25: Assessments of Western

Study of the Soviet Economy

10-25: Writing Women’s Lives:

Self-Representation and

Exceptionalism in Women’s

Biography

11-25: Auto/Biography as

Iconography? Mythologizing and

Demythologizing Revolutionary

Heroines

12-25: The Impact of Economic

Reforms: National and

Transnational Factors

Massachusetts 9-26: 1989-1999-2009 The

Renaissance of Europe? The

Communist Collapse, the

Helsinki Decision for the EU

Enlargement, and the Western

Balkans Today

10-26: Unconditioned

Conditionality? The Impact of EU

Conditionality on State-Building

and Democratization in the

Western Balkans

11-26: Security Issues in

Eastern and Central Europe

12-26: Central Europe and the

EU: Comparing the Presidencies

of Slovenia and the Czech

Republic

MIT 9-27: Between the Sacred and

Profane: Clericalism, Minorities,

and the Quest for National

Belonging in Greater Romania

10-27: Russian Religious

Thinkers in Dialogue: Berdiaev

and Bulgakov

11-27: Defining Russianness

Through Spirituality in

Nineteenth-Century Literature

12-27: Catholicism and

Nationalism in Modern Poland

Nantucket 9-28: Reading Herzen’s Life: the

Personal and the Political

10-28: Presentation and Self-

Presentation in Autobiography

and Critical Commentary

11-28: Russian Literature in the

Post-Emancipation Era: New

Media and Expanded Contexts

12-28: Faith and Doubt: Russian

Literature and the State

New

Hampshire

9-29: National Epics,

International Solidarity, and

Interethnic Romance in the

Modern History of Bosnia and

Herzegovina

10-29: Eurasian Frozen Conflicts

and (Un)recognized States in

Comparative Perspective:

What’s Next?

11-29: Islam’s Influence in

Central Asia and Azerbaijan

12-29: Nationalism and Religion

in the Post-Communist Space

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Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Northeastern 9-30: Hagigraphical Traditions of

Holy Foolery: Byzantium and

Rus

10-30: ‘Visualizing’ an Empire of

Subjective Individuals and

Individual Subjects: Weaving

Together Diverse Lives of 19th

Century Kazan Province

11-30: Medieval Slavic-German

Relations, Real and Imagined

12-30: Soyuz- The Research

Network for Postsocialist Studies

Orleans 9-31: On the Move in the USSR:

Tourism, Exploration,

Homecoming

10-31: Women Navigating

Academia

11-31: Petropoetics

12-31: Asocial or a ‘Necessary

Evil?’: Prostitution in Occupied

Central Europe during World

War II

Provincetown 9-32: Living Fiction 10-32: Tolstoy’s Thought and

His Time

11-32: Boris Pasternak: Life and

Literature

12-32: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and

Village Traditions

Regis 9-33: State and Society in Late

Imperial/Early Soviet Russia

10-33: Definitions of Russian

National Identity

11-33: Writing Lives, Inventing

Eurasia: Biographies of Leaders

of the Eurasianist Movement

12-33: Russia Views the World,

the World Views Russia

Rhode Island 9-34: Exile and Identity in

Eastern Europe

11-34: Banking Transition in

East and Southeast Europe

Simmons 9-35: Cinematography in Soviet

and Post-Soviet Cinema I: The

Stalin Era and the Thaw

10-35: Cinematography in Soviet

and Post-Soviet Cinemas II: The

Thaw and Post-Soviet Cinema

11-35: Soviet “New Wave”

Cinema

12-35: Thaw Cinema: New

Approaches (in Memoriam of

Josephine Woll)

Suffolk 9-36: Serbian Music: Melodies

and Rhythms, Past and Present

11-36: Concepts of Symbol and

Image in Russian Modernism

12-36: Horrorshow: Violence,

Narrative and Audience in

Russian Literature and Film

Tufts 9-37: Music and Literature 10-37: Assembling the Ballets

Russes Mosaic Through Its

Participants

11-37: Writing (Composing) and

Reading (Hearing) Lives: Music

and Politics in Bohemia, 1848 to

1918

12-37: Music and Identity in

Early Twentieth-Century Russia

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Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Vermont 9-38: Socialist Internationalism,

Part I (Brotherly Help)

10-38: Socialist Internationalism,

Part II (Genres)

11-38: Socialist Internationalism,

Part III (Cultural Geographies)

12-38: Battling for the Hearts

and Minds of the Future Citizens

of the World - Mobilization of

Young People and Images of

Youth in the Cold War

Vineyard 9-39: MAG - the International

Association of Humanists

10-39: Independent Belarus:

Historical Memory, Opinion

Polls, and Rapproachement with

the West

11-39: Belarus 12-39: Who Gets to Give?

Eastern Europe and Russia in

the Global Community of Donors

and Receivers

Wellesley 9-40: Representing Romani

(Gypsy) Lives: The Politics of

Identity in Contemporary Eastern

Europe

10-40: Speaking Lives I: Self

and Other

11-40: Speaking Lives II:

Construction of Gender Identity

12-40: Speaking Lives III: The

Secular and the Sacred

Yarmouth 9-41: Classics of Post-Stalinism:

Aksenov, Bitov and Brodsky

10-41: Translating Brodsky with

and by Brodsky: Ups and Downs

of Poetic Transmogrification

11-41: The Lyric Self 12-41: Acmeism and Beyond:

Life in Poetry/Poetry of Life

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PROGRAM SUMMARY:SUNDAY,NOVEMBER 15, 2009

For full panel, roundtable, and meeting information for this day see main program listings. For the list and diagrams of meeting rooms see pages v–ix.

Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Arlington 13-01: Authoritarian Reactions to Colored

Revolutions

14-01: Socialist and Postsocialist Spaces of

Identity in Contemporary Romania

15-01: Looking Back to Look Forward-

Hungary

Berkeley 13-03: Bibliography & Documentation

Committee Executive Meeting

14-03: Remembering Stalin's Victims

Boston

University

13-04: Performing Identity/Painting

Biography in East-European Émigré Art

and Writing

14-04: Soviet Amateur Photography

between the Public and the Private

15-04: Word and Image in the Arts of Serbia

Brandeis 13-05: Marc Raeff's Contribution to Our

Understanding of Imperial Russia

14-05: Shifting Perspectives on Russian

Alaska

15-05: Derzhavin

Clarendon 13-06: Jewish Influence and Identity under

the Soviet Regime

14-06: The Person Behind Its Creation 15-06: Zionism in the Russian Contexts:

Cultural and Literary Dialogues, 1897-1939

Connecticut 13-07: Writing Romantic Lives 14-07: Cold War Warriors: The Political

Activism of East European Anti-Communists

in the U.S.

Dartmouth 13-08: Justice vs. the Right to Know: The

Transparency Dilemma at the ICTY

14-08: Russian Civil Society Organizations:

Agents of Social Justice?

15-08: Russian Laws and Cultural Property:

Exploring Legal Problems Arising from

Appropriations, Sales, and Restitution

Claims in the 20th Century

Exeter 13-09: Stalinist Politics - New Dimensions

and Interpretations

14-09: Central Policy and Local Practice in

the Khrushchev Reforms

15-09: Reconsideration of Lenin, Trotsky,

Luxemburg, and Serge in Light of the

Current Economic Climate

Fairfield 13-10: Partisan Wars in Ukraine in World

War II

14-10: The Face of the People's War 15-10: Telling the Second World War

Falmouth 13-11: New Research in South Slavic and

Balkan Linguistics

14-11: Writing and Rewriting Rusyn Lives:

Memoirs, Fiction, Biography

15-11: Authors of Memory in West Ukraine:

Tensions on the National, Local, and Private

Levels

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Grand Ballroom

Salon A

13-12: Revising and Reinterpreting

Contemporary History in Slovenia, Serbia

and Japan

14-12: Serbia in Transition: 2000-2010 15-12: The 2009 Albanian Parliamentary

Elections: An Analysis

Grand Ballroom

Salon B

13-13: Slavic and East European Folklore

Association

14-13: The Complexities of Writing Russian

and Soviet Poetry

Grand Ballroom

Salon C

13-14: Psychohistorical Personalities and

the Russian Revolution

14-14: Self Expression in Rural Russia:

New Perspectives

15-14: Writing Biographies, Mastering

Spaces

Grand Ballroom

Salon D

13-15: Narratives of Biological Deviance in

Russian Literature (1880-1930)

14-15: Imperial Life Stories: Narratives of

Exile and Belonging in Imperial Russia and

the Soviet Union

Grand Ballroom

Salon E

13-16: Yugoslavia on the Move: Traveling

and Tourism in Pursuit of the Socialist Good

Life

14-16: Russia’s 'Global Cities' in the

Economic Crisis

Grand Ballroom

Salon F

13-17: 2008 Parliamentary Elections and

2009 Presidential Elections in Romania

14-17: New Perspectives on Political

Violence in Russian History

Grand Ballroom

Salon G

13-18: The Memoirs of Wayne Vucinich:

Portrait of the Historian as a Young Man in

Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, and Eastern

Europe

14-18: Bibliography and Documentation

Committee Membership Meeting

Grand Ballroom

Salon H

13-19: State Capitalism, Big Business, and

Economic Crisis

14-19: Brussels Dreams: State Socialist

Pavilions at Expo '58

15-19: Old Warriors and New Men: The

Legacy of the War and the Radical Right in

the Successor States 1918-1939

Grand Ballroom

Salon I

13-20: Women's Voices in the Stalinist

Terror

14-20: Gender and Everyday Life in State

Socialist Eastern Europe and Russia

15-20: Institutions and Sectoral Reform In

Russia and Eastern Europe

Grand Ballroom

Salon J

13-21: (Re)claiming Russia: Russian Prose

and National Borderlands

14-21: The Fantastic and Supernatural in

Russian Literature

15-21: Influence and Intertext in Pushkin,

Dostoevsky and Esenin

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PROGRAM SUMMARY:SUNDAY,NOVEMBER 15, 2009 – CONTINUED

Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Grand Ballroom

Salon K

13-22: 'Images Have Lives of Their Own':

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching

with Russian and Early Soviet Visual

Culture

14-22: 'Ideas that Never Meet': Navigating

Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Practice

within Slavic & East European Studies

15-22: Integrating Russian History Into

Western and World Civilization Surveys

Harvard 13-23: Femininity in Russian Culture:

What's Fashion Got to Do with It

14-23: Experience and Narration: Women

and Family in Soviet Russia and Latvia

15-23: When Gender Goes South

Hyannis 14-24: Anxiety of Shared Identity in Post-

Yugoslav Fiction

15-24: Exile in Twentieth-Century Serbian

and Croatian Literature

Maine 13-25: Women's Organizations and Political

Change in Eastern Europe

14-25: Elements of Nature: Russia's

Resources in Historical Context

Massachusetts 13-26: What's 'Central' about Central

Europe?: The Region's Importance for

Europe, NATO, and the Eastern

Neighborhood

14-26: Resources and Institutional Issues in

Russia.

MIT 13-27: Christian-Jewish Relations in Late

Imperial Russia

14-27: Daily Life, Religious Practices, and

Apocalyptic Visions in the Soviet Union

15-27: Ukrainian Churches: Telling the

Human Story

Nantucket 13-28: Textuality and Experience: Modes of

Life-Writing in Nineteenth-Century Russia

14-28: Others Writing Herzen's Life, Then

and Now

15-28: Society and the Individual in 19th

Centuy Russian Literature

New Hampshire 13-29: Difficult Moments and Difficult

Memories in Postwar Eastern Europe

14-29: Globalization and Regime Change:

Stories from the New Europe and the New

Russia

Northeastern 13-30: Muscovite Foreign and Military

Policy: Major Questions and Recent

Historiography

14-30: What Textual Criticism and Linguistic

Analysis Tell Us about the Origin of the Igor'

Tale

15-30: Sustaining Historical Old Believer

Attitudes

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Room Name 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M. 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Orleans 13-31: Reading and Writing the Siege:

Narratives of Space, Survival, and

Intellectual Inspiration inside Leningrad,

1941-1944

14-31: Emigration from Russia and its

Cultural Baggage

15-31: My Home Is My Castle: Homes and

the Morality of Really Existing Socialism in

late Communist Czechoslovakia

Provincetown 14-32: Visualizing Trauma: Images of

Historical Propaganda

15-32: Russian Silver Age Artists: Reading

Zhiznitvorchestvo

Regis 13-33: New Meanings of 'Center' and

'Periphery': Interdisciplinary Perspectives on

Eurasia

14-33: Russia and the Orthodox East in the

Nineteenth-Century

15-33: Persistence of the Old Regime?

Imperial Russia in the Ottoman East, 1830-

1917

Rhode Island 13-34: The Production of Isolation, or the

Anthropology of Closed Societies

(Celebrating the 100th issue of NLO journal)

14-34: New Trends in Russian Linguistic

Conceptualization of the World

15-34: Ethnosemantics: Connotations

Reflected in Semantics and Pragmatics of a

Language

Simmons 13-35: East European Cinema 1989-2009 14-35: Watching and Writing the Cinema 15-35: Author and Film

Suffolk 13-36: Women Behind Kremlin Walls: The

Wives and Daughters of Russian Leaders in

History and Popular Myth

14-36: A 'Trans-Baltic' Perspective?

Constructing post-1991 Baltic Identities in

Cinema

15-36: Post- and Neo-Colonialism in

Russian Cinema

Tufts 13-37: Sincerity and Voice: Contemporary

Russian Poetry on the Page and in Song

14-37: 'Enough for a Lifetime': Lives Lived

on the Boundaries of Music and Literature

15-37: Great Musicians and Their Patrons

Vermont 13-38: The Soviet Union and the

Communist Bloc in 1956

14-38: Third World Solidarity in Yugoslavia

and the USSR

15-38: Serbia Beyond 2009: Strategic

Culture and Foreign Policy Choices

Vineyard 15-39: The Utopian Ideal in East Europe

Wellesley 13-40: Generational Identities: Cultural

Producers in the Soviet National Satellites

14-40: Reflections and Refractions: The

Mirror in Russian Culture

15-40: The Holocaust in Russia through the

Eyes of Victims, Rescuers, and Veterans

Yarmouth 13-41: Underground of the 1950s and

1960s: Poets of "Mansarda" Circle and

Their Heirs: A Rondtable in Memory of Lev

Loseff

14-41: Elegy and Elegiac in Contemporary

Russian Culture

15-41: Presenting the Poet: Life-Writing and

Creation/Re-creation

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AAASS 41ST NATIONAL CONVENTION

IMPORTANT MEETING NOTES

REGISTRATION DESK AND EXHIBIT HALL

The Registration Desk will open at 8:00 A.M. on Thursday, November 12, 2009.

Registration Counters and the Desk are located on the 4th ﬂ oor near the Atrium.

The Exhibit Hall is located in the Gloucester Ballroom, on the third ﬂ oor.

Entrance to the Exhibit Hall is between the Harvard and the Brandeis rooms.

THE OPENING RECEPTION AND TOUR OF EXHIBIT HALL

The opening reception, open to all, will begin at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, November

12, Gloucester Hall (Exhibit Hall).

PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY SESSION

Presidential Plenary Session, open to all, is scheduled for Thursday, November 12,

from 6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. in Grand Ballroom Salon E. The title of the Presidential

Plenary Session is “Reading and Writing Lives” and it will be chaired by William

Chase Taubman, Amherst College. For further details, please see page 22 of the

program.

SATURDAY EVENING AAASS AWARDS BUFFET

Tickets for the Awards Presentation Cocktail Buffet on Saturday, November 14 will

be on sale at the registration desk on THURSDAY ONLY. Sorry, no refunds on

tickets.

COAT AND PACKAGE CHECK

Please do not ask us to store your personal belongings at the desk, we cannot

secure them and therefore must refuse such requests. Personal belongings may be

stored with the Bell Captain in the lobby. Coats may be left at your own risk on the

coat racks near the Registration Desk.

Please help us save money and protect the environment

by recycling your badge sleeve at the end of the convention.

Sleeves may be left in the box at the registration desk.

If you do not wish to keep your Convention Program Book,

you may leave that in the recycling bins near the registration desk.

Thursday

November

Registration Desk Hours: 8:00 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.

AAASS Board Meeting: 8:00

A.M. – 12:00 P.M. – New Hampshire

Exhibit Hall Hours: 4:00

P.M. – 9:00 P.M. – Gloucester

Session 1 • THURSDAY • 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

1-03 Are You Gangsters? No, We are Russians: Criminals, Rogues and

Hooligans in Russian and East European Culture - Berkeley

Chair: Anna Fishzon, Williams College

Papers: Thomas Francis Anessi, Columbia U

“Warsaw’s Criminal Element in Leopold Tymand’s Zly”

Manuela Kovalev, U of Manchester (UK)

“Gopniki – Messing up our Lives: the Representation of Gopnik Subculture

in Contemporary Russian Culture”

Rebecca Jane Stanton, Barnard College, Columbia U

“The Odessa Rogue In Soviet Literary Culture”

Disc.: Rachel Slayman Platonov, U of Manchester (UK)

1-04 Picturing Stalinist Heroes: Soviet Art 1930-1945 - Boston University

Chair: Sara Pankenier, Wellesley College

Papers: K. Andrea Rusnock, Indiana U, South Bend

“Stalinist Sunday Painters: Amateur Artists and Socialist Realism”

Cynthia A. Ruder, U of Kentucky

“Gleb Kuhn: Master Illustrator and Gulag artist of Moskva-Volgastroi”

Olga Klimova, U of Pittsburgh

“The Legacy of Medieval Heroes in the Military Poster Art of the 1940s”

Disc.: Mary A. Nicholas, Lehigh U

Erika Wolf, U of Otago (New Zealand)

1-05 Religion and Commerce in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea Area in the

Nineteenth Century - Brandeis

Chair: Theofanis G. Stavrou, U of Minnesota

Papers: Gregory Lynn Bruess, U of Northern Iowa

“The Black Sea Trinity: Religion, Migration, and Commerce in Late

Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Russia”

Evrydiki Sifneos, National Hellenic Research Foundation (Greece)

“Merchant Enterprises and Strategies in the Azov Sea Ports”

Gelina Harlaftis, Ionian U (Greece)

“Trade and Shipping in Nineteenth Century Azov”

1-06 The Cultural Politics of Jewish Sites in Poland after the Holocaust -

Clarendon

Chair: Catherine Epstein, Amherst College

Papers: Michael Liddon Meng, U of Minnesota

“The Presence of Absence: Reclaiming Jewish Spaces in Poland before

1989”

Erica Lehrer, Concordia U

“Lieux de Memoire as Milieux de Memoire: Krakow’s Kazimierz”

Robert L. Cohn, Lafayette College

“Stony Survivors: Revisiting the Jewish Cemeteries and Synagogues of

Poland”

Disc.: Michael C. Steinlauf, Gratz College

1-07 Approaches to Modern Ukrainian Literature in the Original and in

Translation - Connecticut

Chair: Olha Tytarenko, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Larysa Bobrova, The Pennsylvania State U

“Pitfalls in Rendering Spatial Relationships in the Translations of

Contemporary Ukrainian Literary Texts”

Lidia Stefanowska, Warsaw U (Poland)

“New Ukrainian Literature in the New Millennium”

Michael M. Naydan, The Pennsylvania State U

“Strategies in Translating and Publishing Emerging Ukrainian Writers”

Disc.: Liliya Pavlivna Valihun

1-08 Nationalism, Security and the Past in Central Europe and the Balkans -

Dartmouth

Papers: Dragana Dulic, U of Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro)

“Prospect for Enhancing Human Security in Serbia within the Practice of the

EU and UN”

Ivan Zverzhanovski

“Domestic War Crimes Trials and the Process of Dealing with the Past in

Serbia “

Disc.: Ausra Park, Simmons College

1-09 Philanthropists, Statesmen, and Radicals: Russian-American Relations

in the Revolutionary Era - Exeter

Chair: Lee A. Farrow, Auburn U at Montgomery

Papers: Matt Lee Miller, Northwestern College

“An American-Russian Venture in Philanthropy: The YMCA and the St.

Petersburg ‘Mayak,’ 1900-1918”

Norman E. Saul, U of Kansas

“Woodrow Wilson, Charles Crane, and Russia in War and Revolution”

Lyubov A Ginzburg, U of Kansas

“Ardent Sympathizers: American Socialists and Russian Revolutions, 1890-

1920”

Disc.: William Benton Whisenhunt, College of DuPage

1-10 The Birth of Military Aviation in Central and Eastern Europe, 1914-1922

- Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Bruce William Menning, US Army Command & General Staff College

Papers: Richard Louis DiNardo, USMC Command and Staff College

“German Air Operations on the Eastern Front, 1914-1917”

Scott W. Palmer, Western Illinois U

“The Russian Origins of Strategic Bombing”

Session 1 • Thursday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Matthew R. Schwonek, Air Command and Staff College

“Improvising an Air Service: Military Aviation in Poland, 1918-1922”

Disc.: Robert Citino, U of North Texas

1-11 Hungarians Coming in from Cold - (Roundtable) - Falmouth

Chair: Bela Bodo, Missouri State U

Part.: Ildiko Asztalos Morell, Södertörn U College (Sweden)

Emese Ivan, St. John’s U

Alfred Alexander Reisch, U of Economics of Izmir (Turkey)

Zsuzsanna Varga, U of Glasgow (UK)

1-13 Migration in the Post-Communist World: Causes and Consequences -

Grand Ballroom Salon B

Chair: Marshall I. Goldman, Harvard U

Papers: Mila Dragojevic, Brown U

“Refugees in Serbia: A New Social Identity”

Caress Schenk, Miami U

“Politics of Immigration: Russia in Comparative Perspective”

Disc.: Jonathan Bach, The New School

1-14 Homo Imperii: Personal Biographies and the Science of Human Diversity

in the Russian Empire - Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Bruce Grant, New York U

Papers: Marina Loskutova, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

“Regionalizing the Russian Empire: Scholars, Careers, Concepts”

Marina B. Mogilner, Ab Imperio

“Biographical Patterns of Jewish Physical Anthropology in the Russian

Empire”

Sergey Glebov, Smith College, Ab Imperio

“The Two Expeditions: Exiles, Scholars and Native Peoples in North Eastern

Siberia, 1894-1925”

Disc.: Sergei A. Kan, Dartmouth College

1-15 Mathematics and Power in Russian Culture/Literature Calculation of

Power - Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Sven Spieker, UC Santa Barbara

Papers: Konstantin Bogdanov, U Konstanz (Germany)

“The Dispute between ‘Physicists’ and ‘Poets’ in the Soviet Union of the

1960s”

Jurij Murasov, U of Konstanz (Germany)

“Ciffres, Letters and Lotman’s Poetics of Power”

Wladimir Velminski, Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany)

“When the Book became the Object of Experimentation”

Disc.: Rainer Goldt, U of Mainz (Germany)

1-19 Industrial Workers and Postwar Central and Eastern Europe - Grand

Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Veronica E. Aplenc, Rosemont College

Papers: David Priestland, U of Oxford (UK)

“The State and Workers in Eastern Europe and the USSR: Early and Late

Stalinism”

Malgorzata Fidelis, U of Illinois at Chicago

“A Laboratory of Social Change? Gender, Class, and Work in Postwar

Poland”

Session 1 • Thursday • 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Eszter Bartha, Eötvös Loránd U (Budapest)

“‘It is not the Working Class that is to be Blamed’: The End of the Party-

State ‘From Below’ in East Germany and Hungary”

Disc.: David Ost, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Mark David Pittaway, The Open U (UK)

1-20 State and Society in the New Russia - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Papers: James Gerard Richter, Bates College

“Russia’s Organized Civil Society”

Julie D. Hemment, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

“A Soviet-style Neoliberalism? Nashi, Youth Voluntarism and the

Restructuring of Social Welfare in Russia”

Olga Beznosova, U of British Columbia (Canada) and Lisa McIntosh

Sundstrom, U of British Columbia (Canada)

“Does Institutionalized Dialogue with Government Weaken Civil Society? A

Comparison of Novgorod and Khabarovsk”

Disc.: Kristen R. Ghodsee, Bowdoin College

Laura A. Henry, Bowdoin College

1-21 N. Gogol’/M. Hohol’: Postcolonial, Comparative and Religious

Perspectives - Grand Ballroom Salon J

Papers: Oleh Stepan Ilnytzkyj, U of Alberta (Canada)

“Taras Bul’ba as a Work of Ukrainian Nationalism”

Svitlana Krys, U of Alberta (Canada)

“Allusions to E.T.A. Hoffmann in Gogol’s Ukrainian Horror Stories”

Peter Sawczak, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)

“The Relentlessly Immanent in Gogol’s Dead Souls”

Disc.: Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers U

1-22 Macedonian Language Contact - from Linguistic League to Diaspora -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Victor Allen Friedman, U of Chicago

Part.: Andrew Dombrowski, U of Chicago

Grace E. Fielder, U of Arizona

Christina Elizabeth Kramer, U of Toronto (Canada)

Marjan Markovic, U of Saints Cyril & Methodius (Macedonia)

Elena Petroska, U of Saints Cyril and Methodius (Macedonia) / Indiana U

1-23 Sexuality and Gender under Communism - Harvard

Papers: Erin Kay Biebuyck, Indiana U

“The Collectivization of Pleasure: Sexual Ideals in Communist Romania”

Rebecca Katz, Morehead State U

“The Brave New Woman and the Frightened New Male Louse: Doing

Gender in the Early Soviet Era “

Ingvild Sorbye, Independent Scholar

“Writing the Biography of A.M. Kollontai: New Sources, New Challenges”

Disc.: Arianna Lynn Nowakowski, U of Denver

1-24 Immigrant Fiction(s): The Emerging Phenomenon of Russian-American

Literature - Hyannis

Chair: Kristin Leigh Vitalich, Independent Scholar

Papers: Sasha Razor, UCLA

“Migration and Gender: Representational Practices in Texts by Russian-

American Writers”

Yakov Leonidovich Klots, Yale U

“Towards a ‘New York Text’ of Russian Émigré Literature”

Session 1 • Thursday • 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Yelena Furman, UC San Diego

“Russian-American Fiction: Negotiating the Hyphen”

Disc.: Amelia Glaser, UC San Diego

1-25 Economic Reform and Political Liberalization in Russia and Eastern

Europe - Maine

Chair: Alexander A. Cooley, Barnard College

Papers: Jordan Gans-Morse, UC Berkeley

“Out of Chaos? Business Elites and Property Rights in Russia”

Susanne Alice Wengle, UC Berkeley

“Power Politics: The Role of Experts in the Liberalization of Russia’s

Electricity Sector “

Disc.: Theocharis Nikolaou Grigoriadis, UC Berkeley / MGIMO (Russia)

1-26 Unconditioned Conditionality? Civil Society, the Legacy of War and EU

Conditionality in the Western Balkans - Massachusetts

Chair: Florian Bieber, U of Kent (UK)

Papers: Marlene Spoerri, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

“Forcing them to Remember: Exploring the Effects of ICTY Conditionality on

Truth and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia”

Ivana Djuric, U of Nottingham (UK)/CRCEES

“The EU’s Political Conditionality and Refugee Return: A Comparative Study

of the Repatriation of Minority Refugees to Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and

Kosovo”

Adam Fagan, U of London (UK)

“Compliance without Governance: The Impact of EU Assistance for NGOs in

BiH and Serbia”

Disc.: Nida Gelazis, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

1-27 Intellectuals, Church and State in Late 19th Century Croatia - MIT

Chair: Jure Kristo, Croatian Inst of History (Croatia)

Papers: William B. Tomljanovich, United Nations

“Faith and Fatherland: the Religious Split within Croatian Nationalism in the

late 19th Century.”

Nives Rumenjak, CREES, U of Pittsburgh

“Autobiography, Prosopography and Identity: Serbian Elite, Church and

State in Late 19th Century Croatia”

Ellen Elias-Bursac, Independent Scholar

“Kaptol vs. Gric in the Historical Novels of August Senoa”

Disc.: Sarah Anne Kent, U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Tatiana Kuzmic, U of Texas at Austin

1-28 Modernity, Modernism and Religion in Russia’s Silver Age - Nantucket

Chair: Valeria Z. Nollan, Rhodes College

Papers: Sean Gillen, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“The Symbolist Conceit: Vladimir Solov’ev in the Silver Age”

Patrick Lally Michelson, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“Against ‘Banal Eudemonism’ and ‘Egoistic Strivings’: Ivan Vasil’evich

Popov and the Creation of the Modern Orthodox Self, 1891-1914”

Christopher Alan Stroop, Stanford U

“The Times are Slavophiling: Vladimir Ern as Modern Religious Thinker”

Disc.: Randall Allen Poole, College of St Scholastica

1-30

Framing Mary: Icons and Ideas - Northeastern

Papers: Elena Boeck, DePaul U

“Trials of the Three-Handed Mother of God: Framing and Re-framing the

Miraculous”

Session 1 • Thursday • 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Amy Singleton Adams, College of the Holy Cross

“The Woman at the Window: Gorky’s Revolutionary Madonna”

Vera Shevzov, Smith College

“The Marian Face of Contemporary Russia”

Disc.: Christine Diane Worobec, Northern Illinois U

1-31 Literary Organ-ization: The Uses of Biology in Russian Modernism -

Orleans

Chair: Thomas Seifrid, USC

Papers: Rad Borislavov, U of Chicago

“Revolution is Evolution: Evolution as a Trope in Shklovsky’s Literary

History”

Devin Fore, Princeton U

“Labor ‘Sans Phrase’: On Production and Silence in Erenburg’s ‘10 L.S.’”

Julia Vaingurt, U of Illinois at Chicago

“Technology Cracks the Shell: Mechanical Eggs, from Rockets to Light

Bulbs, in Russian Modernist Fiction”

Disc.: Eric Naiman, UC Berkeley

1-32 Love and Conjugal Bliss in Russian Music and Literature - Provincetown

Papers: Brett Cooke, Texas A&M U

“The Conjugal Unity of Borodin’s Prince Igor”

Viktoria V. Ivleva, U of Chicago

“Stasis of Representations and Dynamic Potential of Interpretations in

Ippolit Bogdanovich’s Dushen’ka”

Ronald Denis LeBlanc, U of New Hampshire

“The Theme of Love in Tolstoy’s ‘Kholstomer’”

Disc.: Catherine B. O’Neil, US Naval Academy

1-33 Negotiating the Periphery: Literary Perspectives on Russian Imperial

Discourse - Regis

Chair: Mary Evelynne Childs, U of Washington

Papers: Kathryn Schild, UC Berkeley

“The Imperial Traveler’s Moments of Wonder in Hero of Our Time”

Peter Roy Weisensel, Macalester College

“Contextualizing Russia’s Encounter with Central Asia: The Captive Tale of

Filipp Efremov, Stranstvovanie i Prikliuchenie v Bukharii, Khive, Persii i Indii

(1786)”

Polina Rikoun, U of Denver

“Ukrainian and/or Soviet?: Readers’ Quest for Identity and Oleksandr

Il’cheko’s Novel ‘Kozats’komu rodu nema perevodu’ (1958).”

Disc.: Marina Antic, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Sanna Turoma, U of Helsinki (Finland)

1-34 Friendships across Borders in Eastern Europe - Rhode Island

Chair: Joanna Nizynska, Harvard U

Papers: Agnieszka A Marczyk, U of Pennsylvania

“The Self and Dilemmas of a European Friendship”

Jonathan Murphy, U College Cork (Ireland)

“‘Those Troublesome Poles:’ Sikorski, the Foreign Ofﬁ ce and the 1941

Polish-Soviet Treaty”

Anna M. Procyk, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

“The Presence of Giuseppe Mazzini’s Ideas in Eastern Europe as Seen

through the Prism of Correspondence and Other Writings”

Disc.: Annika E. Frieberg, U of Northern Colorado

Session 1 • Thursday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

1-36 The Dynamics of Stagnation: (Re)-Conceptualizing the Long 1970s in

Soviet History - Suffolk

Chair: Sander Brouwer, U of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Papers: Stanislav Savitsky, Russian Institute of Cultural History (Russia)

“Stagnation Today”

Otto Floris Boele, Leiden U (The Netherlands)

“Remembering Brezhnev in the New Millennium: the Commemorations of

2006 and 2007”

Disc.: Olga Shevchenko, Williams College

1-37 Consciousness and Civil Society in Bulgaria and Romania - Tufts

Chair: Katherine M. Verdery, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Papers: Anna Miroslavova Mirkova, Soﬁ a U (Bulgaria)

“Corporative Citizenship: Bulgarian Agrarianists Challenge European Liberal

Modernity (1900-1939)”

Mihaela Serban, New York U

“Surviving Property: Property Ideologies and Rights Consciousness during

the Transition to Communism (Romania, 1944-1960)”

Nikolay Valkov, Université de Montréal (Canada)

“The Birth of a Civil Society Organization: West European and Balkan

Origins of the Bulgarian Chitalishte”

Disc.: Evguenia N. Davidova, Portland State U

1-38 Russia and Emerging Powers: Betting on the Future - Vermont

Chair: Wayne Paul Limberg, US Dept of State

Papers: John Wilson Parker, US Dept of State

“Persian Dreams: Russia and Iran”

Matthew Joseph Ouimet, US Dept of State

“Old Partners, New Dance: Russia and India”

John A. Nemeth, US Defense Intelligence Agency

“Money Talks: Russia - Latin America”

Disc.: Bruce Parrott, Johns Hopkins U

1-39 Forgotten Serbian Thinkers: Borisavljević, Vasić, Krakov and Milanković

- Current Relevance - (Roundtable) - Vineyard

Chair: Jelena Bogdanovic, East Carolina U

Part.: Visnja Ciric, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

Dusan Danilovic, Temple U

Nikola Marinkovic, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

Ljubomir Milanovic, Rutgers U

Nebojsa Petar Stankovic, Princeton U

1-40 Estonia’s Singing Revolution: Nonviolent Resistance and the Path to

Independence (with clips from the feature ﬁ lm “The Singing Revolution”) -

(Roundtable) - Wellesley

Chair: James Tusty, Sky Films

Part.: Christopher Kukk, Western Connecticut State U

Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conﬂ ict

Jaak Rakfeldt, Southern Connecticut State U

1-41 Ideology and Experimentation in the Russian Avant-garde - Yarmouth

Chair: Bengt Jangfeldt, Independent Scholar

Papers: Maksim Hanukai, Columbia U

“How Mayakovsky’s ‘Flute’ Was Played”

Natasha Kurchanova, RES Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics

“Ideology at the Helm of Art: Osip Brik and the Russian Avant-Garde”

Session 1 • Thursday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Edward Waysband, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel)

“‘Khodasevich was a Skeptic, Destroyed Everything around Himself, not

Creating Anything’: About One Conﬂ ict in Emigration”

Session 2 • THURSDAY • 2:00 P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

Hungarian Studies Association - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon F

Czechoslovak Studies Association - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon G

Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture - (Meeting) -

New Hampshire

Bulgarian Studies Association - (Meeting) - Vineyard

2-01 Two Decades After 1989: Reﬂ ections of Activists and Analysts -

(Roundtable) - Arlington

Chair: Barbara J. Falk, Canadian Forces College, U of Toronto (Canada)

Part.: Andras Bozoki, CEU

Martin Butora, Inst for Public Affairs

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Hertie School of Governance (Germany)

Jiri Pehe, New York U in Prague (Czech Republic)

2-03 Institutions and Social Change in the USSR - Berkeley

Papers: Kazuhiro Kumo, Hitotsubashi U (Japan)

“Long-Term Population Statistics for Russia, 1867-2002”

Kyung Deok Roh, U of Chicago

“Stalin’s Think Tank: A History of the Institute of World Economy and World

Politics, 1927-1953”

Meredith L Roman, SUNY Brockport

“Uncle Toms and White Chauvinists: The Soviet Experiment with Integration

at the International Lenin School and the U.S.S.R.’s Image as an Anti-Racist

Society”

Disc.: Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State U

2-04 Russian Conceptualism - Boston University

Chair: Susan M. Corbesero, U of Pittsburgh

Papers: Jane Ashton Sharp, Rutgers U, Zimmerli Art Museum

“Parallel Play: The Painted Image in Moscow Conceptualism”

Mary A. Nicholas, Lehigh U

“Words Worth 1,000 Pictures: Narrative Impulses in Russian

Conceptualism”

Joseph Charles Troncale, U of Richmond

“The Creative Act as Unwitting Dissent in Soviet Underground Art”

Disc.: Ann Komaromi, U of Toronto (Canada)

2-05 Rebellion and Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Brandeis

Chair: Serhii Plokhii, Harvard U

Papers: Catherine J. M. McKenna, Georgetown U

“The Liberum Veto in Context: Dunin-Karwicki’s View of Citizenship”

Oksana Viktorivna Mykhed, Harvard U

“Crime and Punishment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: the Case

of Kolii Unrising (1768)”

Curtis Gordon Murphy, Georgetown U

“Paving the Way to the State: Enlightened Reform and City-Self Government

in the Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1776-1815”

Disc.: Barbara J. Skinner, Indiana State U

Session 2 • Thursday • 2:00

P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

2-06 The Next Generation: Rethinking the Experiences of Jewish Children in

Poland - Clarendon

Papers: Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College

“Lessons of the Past: Raising a New Generation of Polish Jews”

Sean Andrew Martin, Western Reserve Historical Society

“Teaching Jewish Orphans in Interwar Poland: From the Diary of Yehi’el

Ben-Tsion Kats”

Joanna Beata Michlic, Brandeis U

“Rebuilding Shattered Lives: The Rescued Jewish Children in Early Postwar

Poland, 1945-1949”

Disc.: Antony Polonsky, Brandeis U

2-07 The Self as Literature: Literary Identity in Bohumil Hrabal, Witold

Gombrowicz and Bruno Schulz - Connecticut

Chair: Yuri Corrigan, Wellesley College

Papers: Alex Spektor, Harvard U

“Between Mourning and Melancholy: Gombrowicz and the Ethics of Form”

David Anthony Goldfarb, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

“Bruno Schulz and the Submissive Self”

Daniel Webster Pratt, U of Chicago

“The Primacy of How: Hrabal’s Aesthetic Identity”

Disc.: Malynne M. Sternstein, U of Chicago

2-08 Reform and Institutional Development in Eastern Europe - Dartmouth

Chair: Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College

Papers: Bojan Bugaric, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

“Return to Europe and Development of Legal Institutions in Central and

Eastern Europe”

Tatiana P. Kostadinova, Florida Intl U

“Corruption and Public Trust: East European Experiences”

Martin Mendelski, Frankfurt U

“The Varieties of the Capitalism Approach Go East: Institutional

Complementarities and Law Enforcement during Post-Communist

Transition”

Disc.: Serguei I. Cheloukhine, John Jay College CUNY

Gerald M. Easter, Boston College

2-09 July 1914 in Comparative Perspective - Exeter

Chair: Francis William Wcislo, Vanderbilt U

Papers: Graydon A. Tunstall, U of South Florida

“Conrad Prepares to go to War: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the

Summer of 1914”

John W. Steinberg, Georgia Southern U

“Did Russian Military Professionals Contribute to the Decision Made by

Nicholas II in the Summer of 1914?”

Bruce William Menning, US Army Command & General Staff College

“The July Crisis in St. Petersburg”

Disc.: David McDonald, U of Wisconsin-Madison

2-10 The First Year of the Great Patriotic War - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Nicholas Ganson, College of the Holy Cross

Papers:

Lennart Samuelson, Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden)

“Tankograd”

Evgenii Kodin, Smolensk State Pedagogical U (Russia)

“Two Important Partisans in Smolensk: 1941 and 1942”

Session 2 • Thursday • 2:00

P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

Lawrence X. Clifford, U of Massachusetts, Boston

“The Great Patriotic War”

Disc.: Lynne A. Hartnett, Villanova U

2-11 The Formation of National Identity in Central Europe - Falmouth

Papers: Alicja W. Kusiak-Brownstein, U of Michigan

“Family, Gender, and Historical Novels: The Construction of National Identity

in Late Nineteenth-Century Poland”

Jovica Lukovic, Freie U Berlin (Germany)

“Writing Peasant Identity: Local Almanacs in South-Eastern Europe during

the Interwar Period”

Dorota Szeligowska, Central European U (Hungary)

“From Individual Memories to Collective Identity: Construction of National

Identity within the Debate about Patriotism in Nowadays Poland”

Disc.: Robert Pyrah, U of Oxford (UK)

2-12 Seminal Themes in Slovene History: The Slovene Croatian Border in the

19th Century, Yugoslav and Slovene Politics in the 1930s, and the Issue

of Lustration after Independence - Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Robert G. Minnich, U of Bergen (Norway)

Papers: Marko Zajc, Institute of Contmporary History (Slovenia)

“What was Understood as the Slovene-Croat Border in the Nineteenth

Century”

Jure Gasparic, Institute for Contemporary History (Slovenia)

“The Country at a Standstill: Yugoslavia and Slovenian Politics during the

Dictatorship of King Alexander (1929-1935)”

Peter Rozic, Georgetown U

“Transition to Democracy in Slovenia: Understanding the Absence of

Lustration from a Comparative Perspective”

Disc.: Sarah Anne Kent, U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Gregor Kranjc, U of Toronto (Canada)

2-13 Migrants and the Receiving Societies: Anti-immigrant Phobias and Social

Practices - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon B

Chair: Andrei Vladimir Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State U

Part.: Vera Bondartsova, Michigan State U

Vladimir Izyavitch Mukomel, Inst of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences

(Russia)

Yelena Sadovskaya, Center for Conﬂ ict Management

Vladimir E. Shlapentokh, Michigan State U

2-14 Homo Imperii: Biographies of Political and Social Activism in the Russian

Empire - Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Seymour Becker, Rutgers U

Papers: Alexander M. Semyonov, Smolny College (Russia)

“Intellectual and Political Travels (Real and Imagined) of Russian Turn

of the Century: Putting Russian Liberalism and Russian Empire into a

Comparative Perspective”

Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevich, U of Manchester (UK)

“Academic Studies of Buddhism and the Critique of European Orientalism in

Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia”

Ilya V. Gerasimov, Ab Imperio

“Alexander Chaianov and the Ideal of a Progressivist Empire”

Disc.: Charles R. Steinwedel, Northeastern Illinois U

Session 2 • Thursday • 2:00

P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

2-15 Perspectives on Madness in Late Soviet Culture - Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Benjamin Zajicek, U of Chicago

Papers: Rebecca Zohar Reich, Harvard U

“Voluntary and Involuntary Diagnosis in the Work of Aleksandr Vol’pin and

Venedikt Erofeev”

Jacqueline Friedlander, Inst for Health at Rutgers

“Art and Science? Psychological Healing in the Soviet Union in the Post-

Stalin Period”

Oliver Ready, Oxford U (UK)

“The Fate of the Fool in the Fiction of Iuz Aleshkovskii”

Disc.: Yvonne Helen Howell, U of Richmond

2-16 Building and Destroying Communities in the Former Yugoslavia - Grand

Ballroom Salon E

Papers: Nancy Susanne Martin, U of Texas at Austin

“The Politicization of Language: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina”

Vasiliki Neofotistos, SUNY, Buffalo

“Dead Bodies, Reburials, and the Biographies of Ethno-national

Communities in the Republic of Macedonia”

Frances Trix, Indiana U

“Mitrovice/a: Lives and Narrowing of Public Space in a Kosovar City”

Disc.: Emily Greble Balic, City College of New York

2-19 De-Stalinization Across Borders in Eastern Europe - Grand Ballroom

Salon H

Chair: Steven A. Barnes, George Mason U

Papers: Rachel Applebaum, U of Chicago

“Traveling the Friendship Train: Soviet and Czechoslovak Tourists and the

Coming of the Prague Spring, 1964-1968”

Frank Cibulka, Zayed U (United Arab Emirates)

“Nationalism, Communism and Collaborationism: A Case-Study of the 1968

Soviet-led Invasion of Czechoslovakia”

Zbigniew Wojnowski, U College London (UK)

“Counterrevolution or Reform? Local Propaganda Meetings in Ukraine and

News of Instability in the Soviet Camp (1956-57)”

Disc.: Federigo Argentieri, John Cabot U / Temple U Rome Campus (Italy)

2-20 Party Development in the Post-Communist Transition - Grand Ballroom

Salon I

Chair: Yoshiko M. Herrera, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Papers: Galina V Belokurova, U of Wisconsin, Madison

“The Paradox of Political Parties in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of

Russia “

Katia Levintova, U of Wisconsin, Green Bay

“Being the Opposition in Post-Communist Russia: CPRF Between Social

Justice and Civil Rights Discourses”

Emilia Alexandrova Zankina, U of Pittsburgh

“The Failure of the Right in Bulgarian Transition Politics”

Disc.: John Toaru Ishiyama, Truman State U

2-21 Re-Imagining Pushkin - A Panel in Memory of Anna Lisa Crone - Grand

Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Catherine B. O’Neil, US Naval Academy

Papers:

Michael Wachtel, Princeton U

“The Onegin Stanza in English”

Sonia I. Ketchian, Harvard U

“Taming the Wasteland: Akhmatova Enlists Pushkin”

Session 2 • Thursday • 2:00

P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

Barry Paul Scherr, Dartmouth College

“Arsenii Tarkovskii’s ‘Pushkinskie epigrafy’”

Disc.: Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, U of Notre Dame

2-22 The Development of Russian Language and Contemporary Language

Practices (Literature, Mass Media, Internet) - (Roundtable) - Grand

Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Marina Adamovitch, The New Review Magazine

Part.: Dmitry P. Bak, Russian U for the Humanities (Russia)

Mikhail N. Epstein, Emory U

Gasan Chingizovich Gusejnov, Moscow State U (Russia)

Maxim A. Kronhaus, Russian State U for the Humanities (Russia)

2-23 Generation, National Identity and the Body: Reading Polish and Russian

Women’s Life-Writing - Harvard

Chair: Marja Rytkonen, U of Tampere (Finland)

Papers: Ursula Ann Phillips, U College, London (UK)

“Narcyza Żmichowska’s Novel from Life: Czy to powieść? (Is this a Novel?)”

Urszula Magdalena Chowaniec, U of Tampere (Finland)

“Whole Life of a Woman in the Mirror of the Body’s Decay: Helena

Boguszewska’s Całe życie Sabiny (1934)”

Kirsi Inkeri Kurkijarvi, U of Tampere (Finland)

“Elena Rzhevskaia: Writing the Second World War”

Disc.: Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan U

2-24 Subversive Biographies of the Croatian Renaissance - Hyannis

Chair: Anita Peti-Stantić, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

Papers: Marijan Despalatovic, Connecticut College

“Marcus Marulus Spalatensis: Humanist and Practical Moralist”

Aida Vidan, Harvard U

“Marin Držić and Refracted Mythology: Prologue as a Subversive Genre”

Gordan Matas, U of Split (Croatia)

“Cvijeta Zuzorić and the Croatian Renaissance”

Disc.: Ivo Soljan, Grand Valley State U

2-25 Transitional Norms: Diffusion, Learning, High-Jacking and

Transformation in Russia and Eastern Europe - Maine

Chair: Radu R. Florescu, Boston College

Papers: Venelin Iordanov Ganev, Miami U of Ohio

“Dilemmas of Rule of Law Transformation”

Karen Dawisha, Miami U

“Dictatorship of the Law”

Conor Andreas O’Dwyer, U of Florida

“Norm Diffusion in the New EU-Member States of Postcommunist Europe:

The Case of Sexual Minorities’ Rights”

Disc.: Henry (Chip) F. Carey, Georgia State U

Jelena Subotic, Georgia State U

2-26 The New Member States’ Inﬂ uence on the European Union’s Policy

Towards the East - Massachusetts

Chair: Tim John Haughton, U of Birmingham (UK)

Papers: Nathaniel Copsey, U of Birmingham (UK)

“Poland’s Inﬂ uence on the Making of EU Policy Towards the East”

Vladimir Bilcik, Slovak Foreign Policy Association (Slovakia)

“Slovakia and EU Policy Towards the East”

Session 2 • Thursday • 2:00

P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

Marek Rybar, Comenius U Bratislava (Slovakia)

“The Impact of the New EU Members States on Eastern Dimension of the

ENP”

Disc.: Darina Malova, Comenius U (Slovakia)

2-27 Christian-Communist Encounters in the Soviet Bloc 1959-1987 - MIT

Chair: Jennifer Wynot Garza, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Papers: Sean Philip Brennan, U of Scranton

“Not One Step Back: Bishop Otto Dibelius’ Understanding of Communism

and the Necessity of Christian Civil Disobedience in the German Democratic

Republic”

James Ramon Felak, U of Washington

“Nation, State, Church: John Paul’s Final Visit to Communist Poland, June

1987”

Robert F. Goeckel, SUNY, Geneseo

“Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia under Brezhnev: Effects of

International Detente and ‘Mature Socialism’”

Disc.: David Doellinger, Western Oregon U

2-28 Lolita - Nantucket

Chair: Julian Welch Connolly, U of Virginia

Papers: Stephen Blackwell, U of Tennessee - Knoxville

“Lolita’s Ape: Behind Bars at Last”

Leland de la Durantaye, Harvard U

“Humbert’s Green Lane”

Eric Naiman, UC Berkeley

“What is the Point of Rita in Lolita?”

Disc.: Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College

2-30 The Cult of Russian Antiquity - Northeastern

Chair: Marcus C. Levitt, USC

Papers: Kristen M Harkness, U of Pittsburgh

“Russia’s Kustar Pavilion at the 1900 Exposition Universelle: Nostalgia for

Antiquity or the Marketing of Orientalism?”

Wendy R. Salmond, Chapman U

“The Fate of Russian Icons”

Katia Dianina, U of Virginia

“Writing Russian Antiquity: the National Revival and the Press”

Disc.: Anne C. Odom, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

2-31 Framing and Re-framing Komsomol Lives: Entertainment, Ideology and

Soviet Youth from the Khrushchev to Brezhnev Eras, 1956-1984 - Orleans

Chair: Roman Senkus, Canadian Inst of Ukrainian Studies (Canada)

Papers: Gleb Tsipursky, UNC at Chapel Hill

“Re-imagining the Model Communist in the Thaw: Grassroots Activism and

Youth Initiative Clubs”

Sergei Ivanovich Zhuk, Ball State U

“Reading and Writing Komsomol Lives: Rovesnik Magazine, Personal

Diaries and Westerm Mass Culture in Soviet Ukraine during the Brezhnev

Era”

William Jay Risch, Georgia College & State U

“‘Nationalists,’’ Hippies,’ and Komsomol Identities in Post-1953 Lviv”

Disc.: Denise J. Youngblood, U of Vermont

Session 2 • Thursday • 2:00

P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

2-32 Narrative Identities in the Later Tolstoy: Resurrection or Repetition? -

Provincetown

Chair: Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Eugene Lang College, The New School

Papers: Ilya Kliger, New York U

“Plot and Truth in Resurrection?”

Gordon Jeffrey Love, Clemson U

“Resurrection and the Persistence of Allegory”

Lina L. Steiner, U of Chicago

“Resurrection and Reformation: Tolstoy’s Return to Protestant Theology”

Disc.: Kate Rowan Holland, U Toronto

2-33 Water and the Fate of Eurasian History - Regis

Chair: Douglas T. Northrop, U of Michigan

Papers: Nicholas Brenton Breyfogle, Ohio State U

“Sacred Waters: The Spiritual World of Lake Baikal”

Randall Scott Dills, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“Beneath the Imperial Façade: The Institute of the Engineers of Transport

and the Maintenance of the Imperial Ideal, 1809-1858”

Maya Karin Peterson, Harvard U

“Constructing Modernity?: Vakhshstroi and the Making of Soviet Tajikistan,

1929-1939”

Disc.: Paul Robert Josephson, Colby College

2-34 Identity Formation: Self and Other in Diaspora - Rhode Island

Chair: Victoria M. Khiterer, Millersville U

Papers: Taras Kurylo, U of Alberta (Canada)

“‘Jewish Problem’ in Dmytro Dontsov’s Writings”

Erik R. Scott, UC Berkeley

“Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora in the Soviet Union”

Disc.: Krystyna T. Zamorska, U of Connecticut

2-35 Soviet TV Night: Television and its Audience in the Brezhnev Era -

Simmons

Chair: Konstantine Klioutchkine, Pomona College

Papers: Elena V. Prokhorova, College of William & Mary

“The Soviet Television Schedule as a Narrative”

Christine Elaine Evans, UC Berkeley

“A Good Mood for the Holidays: Celebrating the New Year on Central

Television”

Manfred Zeller, Helmut Schmidt U, Hamburg (Germany)

“Soccer and the Living Room: Television, Sport Reception, and Private Life

in the Late Soviet Union”

Disc.: Kristin Roth-Ey, U College London (UK)

2-36 Darkness and Light in Late 20th Century Russian and East European

Film - Suffolk

Chair: Narcisz Fejes, Case Western Reserve U

Papers: Stefka Hristova, UC Irvine

“The State as Prison in the Border (Granitzata)”

Volha Isakava, U of Alberta (Canada)

“Dark Films: Russian Perestroika Film and the Ethics of Cinema “

Vera Zubarev, U of Pennsylvania

“Who is in the Fog? ‘A Hedgehog in the Fog’ in the Light of Yuri Norstein’s

Life and Ethics”

Session 2 • Thursday • 2:00

P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

2-37 The Cultural Politics of the National (Re)awakenings in Southeastern

Europe - Tufts

Chair: Katrin Hristova Bozeva-Abazi, McGill U (Canada)

Papers: Venetta Todorova Ivanova, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“The Bulgarian National Revival of the Eighteenth Century”

Anca Mandru, Central European U (Hungary)

“Cheering the Nation, Hindering Nationalism: The Romanian Intelligentsia at

the 1871 Putna Celebration”

James Frusetta, Hampden-Sydney College

“Reviving Revival: The National Revival in Bulgarian Interwar Rightist

Discourse”

Disc.: Mari A. Firkatian, U of Hartford

2-38 Dynamics of the Turkish Foreign Policy in the Basin of Five Seas -

Vermont

Chair: Ahmet Kasim Han, Istanbul U (Turkey)

Papers: Ozlem Tur, Middle East Technical U (Turkey)

“Evaluation of the Turkish Foreign Policy Under the AKP”

Itir Bagdadi, Izmir U of Economics (Turkey)

“Turkey’s Post-Cold War Foreign Policy in the Wider Black Sea Area”

Ozan Arslan, Izmir U of Economics (Turkey)

“Turkey, A Historical Actor in the Black Sea and Caucacus: The Ottoman

Empire’s Foreign Policy Towards the Region in WWI”

2-40 New Perspectives on Aleksandra Kollontai’s Life and Work - (Roundtable)

- Wellesley

Chair: Barbara Allen, La Salle U

Part.: Asmund Egge, U of Oslo (Norway)

Barbara Evans Newman, U of Akron

Beatrice Brodsky Farnsworth, Wells College

Ingvild Sorbye, Independent Scholar

Valentina Uspenskaya, Tver State U (Russia)

2-41 Collective Analysis of Contemporary Poetry (A Workshop) - (Roundtable)

- Yarmouth

Chair: Polina Rikoun, U of Denver

Part.: Sara Ceilidh Orr, Ohio State U

Dunja Popovic, Harvard U

Sarah Pratt, USC

Session 3 • THURSDAY • 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Unconference Session 1 - (Meeting) - Arlington

BDC Subcommittee on ABSEES - (Meeting) - Tufts

3-03 Structuring Soviet Life in Text and Space - Berkeley

Chair: Olga Muller Cooke, Texas A&M U

Papers: Alison Beth Annunziata, Columbia U

“Speaking in Structures: Textual Constructions and Deconstructions of the

Babelian Projects of the First Five Year Plan”

Shelley L. Cannady, U of Georgia

“Widows, Spaces, Curfews, Silence: Reading the Gaps in Late-Soviet

Leningrad”

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00

P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Junna Hiramatsu, Oxford U (UK)

“A Reconsideration of Soviet Censorship: the Case of the Quiet Don”

Disc.: Mary Elizabeth Theis, Kutztown U

3-04 Portrait of an Artist: Modrzejewska/Modjeska (1840-1909) - Boston

University

Chair: David Frick, UC Berkeley

Papers: Emil Orzechowski, Jagiellonian U (Poland)

“Modrzejewska in America”

Bianka Kurylczyk, Jagiellonian U (Poland)

“Modjeska’s Costumes in the Context of Contemporary Fashion”

Beth C. Holmgren, Duke U

“Helena Modjeska and Edwin Booth: The Art of Selling Shakespeare in Late

Nineteenth-Century America”

Disc.: Madeline G. Levine, UNC at Chapel Hill

3-05 Poltava 1709: Revisiting the Turning Point in East European History -

(Roundtable) - Brandeis

Chair: Zenon E. Kohut, U of Alberta (Canada)

Part.: Brian James Boeck, DePaul U

Serhii Plokhii, Harvard U

Frank Edward Sysyn, U of Alberta (Canada)

Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, St. Petersburg U (Russia)

3-06 Children and Adolescents in Imperial Russia and the USSR - Clarendon

Chair: Igor Fedyukin, New Economic School

Papers: Katharina S. Kucher, U of Tubingen (Germany)

“Changing Conceptions of Childhood in 19th Century Russia”

Robert L. Przygrodzki, St Xavier U

“Rearing Russian Children in a Polish City during the Late Imperial Era”

Katy Turton, Queen’s U (UK)

“Children of the Revolution, 1870-1917”

Disc.: Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U, San Marcos

3-07 Ukrainian Linguistics - Connecticut

Chair: Curt Woolhiser, Harvard U

Papers: Andriy Danylenko, Pace U

“Analytic Tense Forms in Southwest Ukrainian”

Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Stony Brook U

“On the Ukrainian Future: Questions of Chronology and Grammaticalization”

Yuliya Walsh, The Ohio State U

“Pronominal Address in the Eighteenth Century Ukrainian Private Letters”

Disc.: Stefan M. Pugh, Wright State U

3-08 Civil Society and the Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Europe -

Dartmouth

Papers: Jenny Wustenberg, U of Maryland

“Challenging Mainstream Memory: Civic Activism and the Remembrance of

the Victims of the GDR”

Lavinia Stan, St. Francis Xavier U (Canada)

“Truth Commissions in Post-Communism: The Overlooked Solution?”

Nadya Nedelsky, Macalester College

“Justice from Below: Memory Politics and Civil Society in Post-Communist

Slovakia”

Disc.: Veljko Marko Vujacic, Oberlin College

CANCELLED

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

3-09 Russia’s Great World War and Revolution: The Centenary Reappraisal

- (Roundtable) - Exeter

Chair: John W. Steinberg, Georgia Southern U

Part.: Anthony John Heywood, U of Aberdeen (UK)

Alexei Miller, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) / Central European U

(Hungary)

Ludmila Novikova, Lomonosov Moscow State U (Russia)

Scott W. Palmer, Western Illinois U

David Wolff, Hokkaido U (Japan)

3-11 Russian Foreign Policy: Old and New Mechanisms - Falmouth

Papers: Jakub Kulhanek, Georgetown U

“Putin’s Foreign Policy and the Founding of the NATO-Russia Council”

Mary Beth Manjikian, Regent U

“Real Politik in the Virtual Battlespace: Russian Views of Cyberspace as a

Domain for Warfare”

Disc.: Margarita Mercedes Balmaceda, Harvard U/Seton Hall U

Walter Downing Connor, Boston U

3-12 Progress in Social, Legal and Governmental Reforms in Serbia - Grand

Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Ljubica D Popovich, Vanderbilt U (Emeritus)

Papers: Soﬁ ja Korac, Tufts U

“Legislative Reform through a Right-Based Approach: The Role of the

Disabled in Serbia”

Borko Komnenovic, Shirley and Banister Public Affairs

“The Restitution Processes in Serbia and Arising Problems”

Obrad Kesic, TSM Global Consultants, LLC

“The N.G.O. Factor: Lack of Legitimacy”

Disc.: David Binder, The New York Times

3-13 Modes of Living: Crafting Sacred and Secular Sensibilities after

Socialism - Grand Ballroom Salon B

Chair: Patty A. Gray, National U of Ireland Maynooth (Ireland)

Papers: Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State U

“New Beliefs and the Reenchantment of Urban Life in Ukraine”

Mathijs Pelkmans, London School of Economics (UK)

“Hope, Doubt, Disillusionment: Reﬂ ections on Ideological Transformations in

Kyrgyzstan”

Melissa L. Caldwell, UC Santa Cruz

“Civic Ecumenicalism among Russia’s Faith-Based Charities”

Disc.: Bruce Grant, New York U

3-14 Empire and the Self in Russian/Soviet History, 1870-1940 - Grand Ballroom

Salon C

Chair: Brian Allen Porter-Szucs, U of Michigan

Papers: Faith C. Hillis, Columbia U

“‘Empire, Nation, and the Self: The Many Lives of Orest Ivanovich Levitskii,

1848-1922”

Yedida S. Kanfer, Yale U

“The Clergymen of Lodz: Religion, Nationalism, and Charisma in an

Industrial City, 1880-1914”

Sarah Cameron, Yale U

“‘Goloshchekin’s Genocide?’: Leadership, Local Politics and the Kazakh

Famine, 1930-33”

Disc.: Francine R. Hirsch, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00

P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

3-15 The Role of Individuals: Assessing the Impact of Persons from Different

Disciplinary Positions - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Klaus Segbers, Freie U Berlin (Germany)

Part.: Alena Ledeneva, U College London (UK)

Andrei Melville, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia)

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U

3-16 Reading Architecture and City Life in Post-War Eastern Europe, Part I:

Conceiving the Everyday - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Ana Kladnik, Inst of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

(Czech Republic)

Papers: Marie Alice L’Heureux, U of Kansas

“Resisting Mass Production, Deﬁ ning Identity: Estonian SSSR Housing in

the 1950s and 1960”

Juliana Maxim, U of San Diego

“‘Always Higher’: Literary and Visual Descriptions of Bucharest’s New

Neighborhoods, 1950-60s”

Elidor Mehilli, Princeton U

“Tipovoi Proekt: A Soviet Bloc Story”

Disc.: Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U

3-19 Nation, Nationalism and Nation Building in Post-1945 Communist

Eastern Europe - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Irina Gigova, College of Charleston

Papers: Cristofer Scarboro, King’s College

“Nationalism and Internationalism in Socialist Humanist Bulgaria”

Markus Wien, American U (Bulgaria)

“Sovietization and Nation Building in Bulgaria 1944-64”

Martin Mevius, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

“A Crown for Kadar: Hungarian Communists and the Quest for

(Inter)National Legitimacy, 1945-1978”

Disc.: Jan C. Behrends, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Germany)

3-20 Political System Transformation in Today’s Russia - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Carol Ruth Nechemias, Penn State U, Harrisburg

Papers: Irina Zhezhko Braun, Panorama of Russia

“Designing a New Political System of Russia by the Putin Administration”

Leah Elizabeth Gilbert, Georgetown U

“State-led Mobilization and Authoritarianism in Russia”

Andreas Umland, The Catholic U of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (Germany)

“How Far is Moscow Weimar? Similarities and Dissimilarities between Inter-

War Germany and Post-Soviet Russia”

Disc.: Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, U of British Columbia (Canada)

3-21 Testing Boundaries: Writing, Motion, and Identity in Russian Literature

- Grand Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Charles Logan Byrd, U of Georgia

Papers: Sara Dickinson, U of Genoa (Italy)

“Pnin and Pechorin”

Michael C. Finke, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“War, Travel, and Identity: From the Russo-Japanese War”

Ingrid Anne Kleespies, U of Florida

“Traveling Domestics: Locating the Penates in Pushkin’s Poetry”

Disc.: Anne Elizabeth Dwyer, Pomona College

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00

P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

3-22 What Does “God” Mean? Religious Lives and Changing Language in

Poland and Russia - Grand Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Walter William Sawatsky, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Papers: Bill Johnston, Indiana U

“What Does ‘God’ Mean? Religious Discourse among Poles and North

American Evangelicals”

Daniel Washburn, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)

“Enculturation and the Language of Religious Conversion in Provincial

Russia”

Disc.: Lucian Turcescu, Concordia U (Canada)

3-23 Reading and Writing Queer Lives in 20th Century Russia - Harvard

Chair: Anastasia Ioanna Kayiatos, UC Berkeley

Papers: Brian James Baer, Kent State U

“First Person Lives: Reading the Diaries of K.R., Chaikovsky, and Kuzmin”

Kevin Moss, Middlebury College

“Out in the USSR: Kharitonov and Trifonov”

Luc Jean Beaudoin, U of Denver

“Writing the Body in Post-Soviet Gay Literature”

Disc.: Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College

3-24 Reading US: Literary Depictions of Russian Professors in North America

- Hyannis

Chair: Timothy Portice, Princeton U

Papers: Inna Caron, Ohio State U

“Serving Two Masters: Scholarship and Motherhood in Rachel Pastan’s

‘Lady of the Snakes’”

Julie S. Draskoczy, U of Pittsburgh

“John Crowley’s ‘The Translator’ and Karen Karbo’s ‘Trespassers Welcome

Here’”

Irene Ingeborg Masing-Delic, Ohio State U / UNC Chapel Hill

“Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Pnin’”

Disc.: Galya Diment, U of Washington

3-25 Russia’s Energy Policy and Its External Impacts - Maine

Papers: Pami Aalto, U of Tampere (Finland), David Dusseault, U of Helsinki (Finland),

Michael David Kennedy, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Markku Kivinen, U of

Helsinki (Finland)

“Towards a Social Structurationist Approach to Global Energy Politics:

Russia’s Energy Relations in the East and West”

Hanna Smith, U of Helsinki (Finland)

“Between Bilateralism and Multilateralism: Russia’s Energy Policy and the

Nord Stream Pipeline Project”

Mikko Palonkorpi, Aleksanteri Institute, U of Helsinki (Finland)

“Energy Security Complex Theory: Russia’s Energy Policy and the

Caucasus”

Disc.: Robert Legvold, Columbia U

3-26 Rethinking Political and Economic Outcomes in Post-Communist States

- Massachusetts

Chair: Conor Andreas O’Dwyer, U of Florida

Papers: Scott Gehlbach, UW Madison, and John S. Earle, Upjohn Institute for

Employment Research/CEU

“Did Postcommunist Privatization Increase Mortality?”

Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton U

“The Post-Communist Democratic Deﬁ cit: Roots and Consequences”

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00

P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Joshua A. Tucker, New York U

“To NATO or not to NATO: What Signaling Games can Teach us about

the Russian-Georgian War, and Why Policy Makers Ought to be Paying

Attention”

Disc.: Shanker Satyanath, New York U

3-27 Atheism in Russia over the Longue Durée - MIT

Chair: Douglas J. Rogers, Yale U

Papers: Victoria S. Frede, UC Berkeley

“‘If There is no God, then Everything is Permitted’: Atheism in Nineteenth

Century Russia”

Victoria Smolkin, UC Berkeley

“‘A Parasite on the Unsettled Questions of Communist Construction’:

The Transformation of the Soviet Ritual Cosmos”

Sonja Luehrmann, U of British Columbia (Canada)

“Positive Atheism? The Search for Atheist Values in the Late Soviet

Sociology of Religion”

Disc.: Heather J. Coleman, U of Alberta (Canada)

3-28 Another Look at Nabokov: Reception, Translation, Commentary -

Nantucket

Chair: Anna Dvigubski, Columbia U

Papers: Yuri Leving, Dalhousie U (Canada)

“‘The Book is Dazzlingly Brilliant...but’: The Critical Reception of Vladimir

Nabokov’s The Gift”

Graziela Schneider, U of São Paulo (Brazil)

“Nabokovian Arts of Translation”

Francisco Javier Picon, Columbia U

“Nabokov’s Ritual of Resurrection: The EO Commentator as Historical

Thinker”

Disc.: Julia Valerievna Trubikhina, New York U

3-29 Reconceptualizing Borders in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Past and

Present - New Hampshire

Chair: Lucan Alan Way, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Jessica Allina-Pisano, U of Ottawa (Canada)

“Property and Entrepreneurship on the Edge of Empires: 1946 and 2004 in

the Magyar Borderlands of Ukraine”

Lilya Berezhnaya, U of Muenster (Germany)

“‘Antemurale Myth’ in Contemporary Ukrainian Intellectual Discourse”

Andrey Alexander Shlyakhter, U of Chicago

“A Fence of Carrots and Sticks: the Soviet Border Strip in the 1930s”

Disc.: Andre Simonyi, U of Ottawa (Canada)

3-30 Of Stones and Bones: Dedicated to the Memory of Benjamin Uroff -

Northeastern

Chair: Brigit A. Farley, Washington State U Tri-Cities

Papers: Robert Romanchuk, Florida State U

“The World as Fourfold Garment: ‘Lapidary’ Rhetoric in Kievan Rus’

Monasticism”

Ann M. Kleimola, U of Nebraska

“The Canine Image in Rus”

Charles J. Halperin, Independent Scholar

“Ivan the Terrible Goes to the Dogs”

Disc.: Daniel H. Kaiser, Grinnell College

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00

P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

3-31 Young Kazakh Cinema - (Roundtable) - Orleans

Chair: Eugenie Zvonkine, U of Paris 8 (France)

Part.: Gulnara Abikeyeva, Ctr for Central Asian Cinema (Kazakhstan)

Birgit Beumers, U of Bristol (UK)

Jane Elizabeth Knox-Voina, Bowdoin College

Stephen Michael Norris, Miami U

3-32 Subversion and Communication in Dostoevsky’s Work - Provincetown

Chair: Stanley J. Rabinowitz, Amherst College

Papers: Elina Bloch, Yale U

“The Rhetoric of Doubling in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Poor Folk’”

Greta Nicole Matzner-Gore, Columbia U

“Rakitin’s Revenge”

James L. Rice, U of Oregon

“The Secular Dostoevsky: Toward a Revisionist Vita”

Disc.: Tony Anemone, The New School

3-33 Empire and Experience of Muslim Subjects in Imperial Russia - Regis

Chair: Kelly O’Neill, Harvard U

Papers: Eileen Mary Kane, Connecticut College

“Hajj Memoirs as Sources on Russian Imperial History”

Janet Marie Kilian-Kivler, George Washington U

“Russian Imperial Exploration and Anthropology on the Kazakh Steppe”

Mikail Narimanovich Mamedov, Georgetown U

“Friend or Foe: Nineteenth Century Russian Images of Islam in the

Caucasus”

Disc.: Peter A. Blitstein, Lawrence U

3-35 Women in Early Russian Cinema - Simmons

Chair: Rimgaila E. Salys, U of Colorado at Boulder

Papers: Joanna M Matuszak, Indiana U, Bloomington

“Watching Exemplary Mothers in Soviet Russia in 1926: the Case of

Vsevolod Pudovkin’s ﬁ lm ‘Mother’”

Timothy Ormond, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Reading ‘Anna Karenina’ on Canvas and On-screen in 1914: Vladimir

Gardin’s Film and Ivan Sytin’s Illustrated Edition”

Disc.: Olga Klimova, U of Pittsburgh

3-36 Representations of Post-Communist Media in Cinema and Literature in

the Czech Republic and Poland - Suffolk

Papers: Jan Culik, U of Glasgow (UK)

“Representations of Post-Communist Czech Media in Czech Feature Films

Made Since 1989”

John Michael Bates, U of Glasgow (UK)

“Representations of Post-Communist Media in Polish Cinema after 1989”

Disc.: Andrei Rogatchevski, U of Glasgow (UK)

3-38 At the Crossroads of Controversy: Trieste Crises, 1945-2008 - Vermont

Chair: Vjeran Ivan Pavlakovic, U of Rijeka (Croatia)

Papers:

Robert Edward Niebuhr, Simmons College

“Tito’s Westward Reach: The Battle with Italy for Trieste, 1945-48”

Katja Favretto, UCLA

“Third-Party Interventions: The Case of Trieste”

Peter J. Verovsek, Yale U

“Driving Populations Apart: Understanding the Polarizing Effects of Violence

in Istria”

Disc.: Peter Rozic, Georgetown U

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

3-39 Ruptures and Continuities in Yugoslav Avant-Gardes and Post-Avant-

Gardes - Vineyard

Chair: Radmila Gorup, Columbia U

Papers: Richard Lee Pierre, Univeristy of Michigan

“On Looking Back: Miloš Crnjanski and the Possibility of an Avant-Regard”

Marijeta Bozovic, Columbia U

“The Barbarian Internationale: Zenit and Exporting the Yugoslav Avant-

Garde”

Vladislav Beronja, U of Michigan

“Metaphysicians of the Junkyard: Leonid Sejka, Medijala, and post-

Surrealism Yugoslav Painting “

Disc.: Aleksandar Boskovic, U of Michigan

3-40 Contested Historical Memories and History Textbooks in Today’s Russia

- (Roundtable) - Wellesley

Part.: Taras Kuzio, Carleton U

Alexander V Pantsov, Capital U

Vladislav M. Zubok, Temple U

Andrei Zubov, MGIMO (Russia)

3-41 Landscapes of Joseph Brodsky - Yarmouth

Chair: Tomas A. Venclova, Yale U

Papers: Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern U

“Brodsky, Milosz and the Space of Exile”

Ekaterina Kozitskaia Fleishman, Defense Language Institute

“Russian Countryside in Brodsky’s Poetry”

Sanna Turoma, U of Helsinki (Finland)

“Brodsky’s Venice as ‘Third Space’”

Disc.: Yakov Leonidovich Klots, Yale U

Rebecca Pyatkevich, Columbia U

Presidential Plenary Session • 6:00 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.

Presidential Plenary: Reading and Writing Lives - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom

Salon E

Chair: William Chase Taubman, Amherst College

Part.: Timothy James Colton, Harvard U

Laura Engelstein, Yale U

Beth C. Holmgren, Duke U

Alexei Yurchak, UC Berkeley

Opening Reception and Tour of the Exhibit Hall –

Gloucester – 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.

AAASS Opening Reception and Tour of the Exhibit Hall – Gloucester – 7:00 P.M.

– open to all

CANCELLED

Session 3 • Thursday • 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

Friday

November

Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Exhibit Hall Hours: 9:00

A.M. – 6:00 P.M. – Gloucester

Session 4 • FRIDAY • 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

Polish Studies Association - (Meeting) - Arlington

4-03 Grappling with Strong Men, Religion, and the Fascists: Popular Culture

in the Late Imperial and Soviet Periods - Berkeley

Chair: Louise McReynolds, UNC at Chapel Hill

Papers: Chris J. Chulos, Roosevelt U

“‘Satan Triumphant’: Faith on the Early Soviet Silver Screen”

Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College

“The Cult(ure) of the Circus Wrestler in Pre-Revolutionary Russia”

Disc.: Joan Neuberger, U of Texas at Austin

4-04 Ethnicity and Biography in Russian Art - Boston University

Chair: Wendy R. Salmond, Chapman U

Papers: Rosalind Polly Blakesley, U of Cambridge (UK)

“Russian Portraits or Ukrainian Art? The Case of Dmitry Levitsky and

Vladimir Borovikovsky”

Anna Winestein, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford U (UK)

“Eternal Jew or Son of Russia? The Appropriation of Mordechai Antokolsky”

Amy Bryzgel, U of Aberdeen (UK)

“Afrika’s Crimania and the Construction of a New Russian Identity”

Disc.: Jane Ashton Sharp, Rutgers U, Zimmerli Art Museum

4-05 Writing Noble Lives in Russia’s Eighteenth Century - Brandeis

Papers: Igor Fedyukin, New Economic School

“Who Wants to go to School? Career Choices of Russian Nobles in the

1730s”

David Ian Burrow, U of South Dakota

“How Open was the ‘Open Table’ in Catherinian Russia?”

Anna Kuxhausen, St Olaf College

“Writing the Lives of Educated Noblewomen in the Eighteenth Century”

Disc.: Abby M. Schrader, Franklin & Marshall College

4-06 Navigating the Estate (Soslovie) System in the Urban Streets of

Nineteenth-Century Russia - Clarendon

Chair: Alison K. Smith, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Alexander M. Martin, U of Notre Dame

“Was There a ‘Third Estate’ in Early Nineteenth Century Moscow? Evidence

From the Archives”

Rodney Dean Bohac, Independent Scholar

“Neighborhood and Residential Ties Among Social Estates in Early

Nineteenth-Century County Seats”

Robert E. Johnson, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Occupation, Soslovie, and Family in Russian Cities of the Late Nineteenth

Century”

Disc.: Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis U

4-07 Slavic Diachronic Morphosyntax - Connecticut

Chair: Kyongjoon Kwon, Harvard U

Papers: Jan Ivar Bjornﬂ aten, U of Oslo (Norway)

“The Formation of Gerunds in Russian: Mechanisms and Effects”

Mirjam Fried, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)

“From Participles to Actor Nouns in Old Czech”

Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, U of Copenhagen (Denmark)

“The Construction-based Syntax of Old Russian”

Disc.: Daniela S. Hristova, U of Cambridge (UK)

4-08 War Crimes in the Soviet Union: Past and Present - Dartmouth

Chair: Alti Rodal, Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter Initiative

Papers: Nathalie Moine, CNRS (France)

“The Soviet Extraordinary Commission on War Crimes and the Non-German

Occupiers, 1943-1951”

Anton Weiss-Wendt, Norwegian Holocaust Ctr (Norway)

“The Cold War That the Soviets Won: The Politics of Soviet War Crimes

Trials, 1943-1987”

Dominique Arel, U of Ottawa (Canada)

“The Memory and Politics of War Crimes in Contemporary Ukraine”

Disc.: Jeffrey Burds, Northeastern U

4-09 The Role of the Individual in History: Revolutionary Russia - Exeter

Chair: Barbara Evans Newman, U of Akron

Papers: Lars Thomas Lih, Independent Scholar

“Karl Kautsky and Lenin’s Aggressive Unoriginality, 1914-1918”

Alexander Rabinowitch, Indiana U

“Alexander Kerensky and V. I. Lenin as Political Leaders in Times of Crisis”

Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard U

“Trotsky on Lenin, Stalin, and Himself: Revolution and the Challenge of

Political Hatred - was it Personal or ‘Just Business?’”

Disc.: John M. Thompson, Indiana U (Emeritus)

4-10 Ukrainians and the Holocaust - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Wendy Morgan Lower, Ludwig-Maximilian U Munich (Germany)

Papers: Per Anders Rudling, U of Alberta (Canada), and John-Paul Himka, U of Alberta

(Canada)

“The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Holocaust”

Marco Carynnyk, Independent Scholar

“The Zolochiv Pogrom of 1941”

Soﬁ

ya Grachova, Harvard U

“Wartime Diaries of Ukrainians as an Insight into Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

during the Holocaust”

Disc.: David Roger Marples, U of Alberta (Canada)

4-11 Writing the Lives of Others: The Genre of Popular Biography and the

Creation and Deconstruction of Myths - (Roundtable) - Falmouth

Chair: Tatiana Smorodinska, Middlebury College

Part.: Dmitry P. Bak, Russian U for the Humanities (Russia)

Session 4 • Friday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

Katya Elizabeth Hokanson, U of Oregon

Ilya Kukulin, New Literary Observer (Russia)

Julia Valerievna Trubikhina, New York U

4-12 Empires, Interrupted: Imperial Legacies and Contemporary National

Identity Formation in the Balkans, South Caucasus and Crimea - Grand

Ballroom Salon A

Papers: Artyom H. Tonoyan, Baylor U, J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies

“Echoes of the Past: Identity, Religion and Nationalism in the Nagorno-

Karabakh Conﬂ ict”

Maja Catic, Brandeis U

“Between a Staatsvolk and a Threatened Minority: Thinking about Bosniak

Nationalism”

Filiz Tutku Aydin, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Framing Nationalism in Exile: the Crimean Tatar Collective Return

Movement”

Disc.: Christopher Marsh, Baylor U

4-13 Reforming the Land, Remaking the Nation: New Approaches to the

History of Land Reform in Pre-Communist Central and Eastern Europe

- (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon B

Chair: Thomas Anselm Lorman, U of Cincinnati

Part.: David William Darrow, U of Dayton

Mark Lapping, U of Southern Maine

Daniel E. Miller, U of West Florida

Martyn C Rady, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

4-14 Soviet ‘Micro History’: The Letters of Olga Aleksandrovna Voeikova

(1927-1936) - Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Irene Ingeborg Masing-Delic, Ohio State U / UNC Chapel Hill

Papers: Veronique Jobert, Universite Paris (France)

“The Burden of Everyday Life”

Maxine David, U of Surrey (UK)

“Politics, Self-Censorship and Familial Discourse”

Peter I. Barta, U of Surrey (UK)

“Voices from the Past: English, French and German in the Letters”

Disc.: Carol R. Ueland, Drew U

4-15 Of Dogs and Dogmatism: Pavlov and Pavlovism at the Crossroads of

Soviet Science, Politics, and Ideology, 1917 - 1964 - Grand Ballroom Salon

Chair: Christopher Burton, U of Lethbridge (Canada)

Papers: Daniel P. Todes, Johns Hopkins U

“Pavlov’s Communists: Science, Marxism, and Party Culture during the

Great Break”

Benjamin Zajicek, U of Chicago

“Deﬁ ning the ‘Scientiﬁ c’ in Scientiﬁ c Medicine: The Creation of the Soviet

Academy of Medical Sciences, Pavlov’s Theory of Higher Nervous Activity,

and the Case of Psychiatry, 1944-1948”

Paula Anne Michaels, U of Iowa

“Destalinization, Soviet Childbirth, and the Decline of Pavlovian Physical

Psychology”

Disc.: Mary Schaeffer Conroy, U of Colorado at Denver (Emeritus)

Session 4 • Friday • 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

4-16 Reading Architecture and City Life in Post-War Eastern Europe (Part II):

Interpreting Urban Spaces - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Marie Alice L’Heureux, U of Kansas

Papers: Jonathan Bach, The New School

“Berlin’s Royal and Communist Palaces: From Relic to Reclamation”

Sonia A. Hirt, Virginia Tech

“The Layers of Belgrade: Changing Urban Forms through the Twentieth

Century”

Alice Osborne Lovejoy, Yale U

“A World Eternally Under Construction: Urban Peripheries of Late-Socialist

Prague in Cinema”

Disc.: Marilyn R. Rueschemeyer, Brown U / Rhode Island School of Design

4-17 Stalinism and Nazism as Entangled Histories - Grand Ballroom Salon F

Papers: Michael David-Fox, U of Maryland

“A Non-Causal Nexus: Soviet Outreach to Fascist Intellectuals on the Eve of

the Nazi Revolution”

Jan Plamper, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

“Modern Personality Cults: Hitler and Stalin”

Mark Edele, U of Western Australia (Australia)

“Learning from the Enemy, 1941-1945”

Disc.: Omer Bartov, Brown U

Sheila Fitzpatrick, U of Chicago

4-18 Categories and Individuals in Political Science--an Assessment -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon G

Chair: William Zimmerman, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Part.: Donna Bahry, Penn State U

George William Breslauer, UC Berkeley

Ted Hopf, Ohio State U

Mary Beth Manjikian, Regent U

Sharon Werning Rivera, Hamilton College

4-19 Internationalizing the History of WWII in East-Central Europe - Grand

Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Daniel Perez, Stanford U

Papers: Emil Kerenji, U of South Carolina

“Between West German Fascism and Its Soviet Counterpart: The Fate of

European Jews, the ‘Jewish Question’ in Yugoslavia, and Yugoslav Road to

Socialism, 1948-1953”

Tara Zahra, U of Chicago

“Between Reconciliation and Expulsion: Premysl Pitter’s Children’s Castles

and the Cold War (1945-51)”

Holly Case, Cornell U

“Axis Realignment: The Fate of the Little Entente during World War II”

Disc.: Alison F. Frank, Harvard U

4-20 The Inner and Outer Lives of ‘Social Movements’: Postsocialist

Trajectories and Shifting Contexts in Slovakia - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Julianna Acheson, U of Maine, Farmington

Papers: David Doellinger, Western Oregon U

“No Longer Secret: Slovak Catholics after 1989”

Edward Karl Snajdr, John Jay College, CUNY

“From Brigades to Blogs: Slovak Representations of Nature, Freedom and

Identity 20 Years after the Velvet Revolution”

Session 4 • Friday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

Jonathan L. Larson, U Iowa

“‘Normal Critical Thinking’: Language Ideologies and Global Lessons from

Post-Revolutionary Intellectual Discourse in Slovakia”

Disc.: Krista Harper, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Padraic Kenney, Indiana U

4-21 Pushkin’s Trades: Gambling, Reading, and Prostitution - Grand Ballroom

Salon J

Chair: Susan McReynolds Oddo, Northwestern U

Papers: Luba Golburt, UC Berkeley

“Pushkin’s Readers and Consumers”

Jillian Porter, UC Berkeley

“Pushkin’s Economic Sentiments”

Seamas Stiofan O’Driscoll, Northwestern U

“Adam Smith and the Genius of Pushkin”

Disc.: Monika Greenleaf, Stanford U

4-22 Teaching Culture through Language/Language through Culture - Grand

Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Diane M. Nemec-Ignashev, Carleton College

Papers: Maria Basom, U of Northern Iowa

“Do You go to Church? Vy veruiushchii? Comparing and Contrasting

Cultures”

Elena F. Verem’eva, St. Petersburg State U (Russia)

“Pravoslavie in the Russian Language Classroom”

Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski, U of Northern Iowa

“Little Beliefs: Religion or Folklore? Do Students Care?”

Disc.: Teresa Lynn Polowy, U of Arizona

Francoise Jeannine Rosset, Wheaton College

4-23 Mapping Identities in Post-Soviet Russia: Gender, Space and Borders -

Harvard

Chair: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Harvard U

Papers: Jennifer Anne Suchland, Ohio State U

“Finding Eurasia in Transnational Feminist Studies”

Natasha Lachelle Bingham, Louisiana State U

“Lesbian Identity in Russia”

Irina G. Stakhanova, Bowling Green State U

“Transgressing Borders: Text and Subjectivity in Sonya Adler’s novel ‘I Love

You, Neither Do I’”

Disc.: Brian James Baer, Kent State U

Amy Elise Randall, Santa Clara U

4-24 Immigrant Fiction(s): Negotiating a ‘Normal’ Life in Recent Emigre

Literature - Hyannis

Chair: Christopher Woodruff Lemelin, Dickinson College

Papers: Olga Zaslavsky, Independent Scholar

“The Curious Case of Andrei Makine: Obscure in Russia and Celebrated in

France”

Kristen Welsh, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“Flying Fathers, Dissolving Rainbows, and Other Nabokovian Shadows in

Olga Grushin’s The Dream Life of Sukhanov”

Anna Ronell, Wellesley College

“Blogging Your Life on LiveJournal: Fiction and Autobiography of Victoria

Raicher”

Disc.: Marina A. Aptekman, Brandeis U

Session 4 • Friday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

4-25 Russian Regions and the Economic Crisis: Social and Political

Dimensions - (Roundtable) – Maine

Chair: William Eric Pomeranz, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

Part.: Larissa Andronova, Tomsk State U (Russia)

Konstantin Grigorichev, Irkutsk State U (Russia)

Kirill Kolesnichenko, Far Eastern National U (Russia)

Yaroslav Nikiforev, Saratov State U (Russia)

4-26 Representations of Violence in Balkan Literature - (Roundtable) -

Massachusetts

Chair: Tatjana Aleksic, U of Michigan

Part.: Marina Antic, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Victor Allen Friedman, U of Chicago

Ani Kokobobo, Columbia U

Damjana Mraovic-O’Hare, Pennsylvania State U

Dragana Obradovic, U College London (UK)

4-27 Magic Folklore: Incantations, Ritual and Sorcery - MIT

Chair: Halina Rothstein, Independent Scholar

Papers: Anna Brzozowska-Kraijka, Maria Curie-Sklodowska U (Poland)

“Pragmatic Religion: Angels’ Charming Life in Polish Non-canonical Prayers

and Incantations”

Aleksey V. Yudin, Ghent U (Belgium)

“Babushka Solomonija in East Slavic Charms and Written Sources of Her

Image”

Yuliya Minkova, Virginia Tech

“Shape-shifting and Sorcery: A Crisis of Meaning in Contemporary Russian

Language”

Disc.: John Wesley Hill, U of Michigan

4-28 Tsvetaeva’s ‘Life-Writing’ and Creation of Self - Nantucket

Chair: Connor Brian Doak, Northwestern U

Papers: Rebecca Pyatkevich, Columbia U

“Intimacy as Device: ‘Poema Kontsa’ as Metapoetry and Meta-auto-

biography”

Katherine Ann Bowers, Northwestern U

“Taking up the Poet’s Mantle: Tsvetaeva’s Narratives of Childhood”

Elena Konstantinovna Murenina, East Carolina U

“A Poet’s Re-creation of an Artist’s Life within Modernist Discourse: Marina

Tsvetaeva and Natalia Goncharova”

Disc.: Irina Shevelenko, U of Wisconsin-Madison

4-29 Chekhov Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Life and Poetics) - (Roundtable)

- New Hampshire

Chair: Radislav Lapushin, UNC at Chapel Hill

Part.: Carol Apollonio, Duke U

Svetlana B. Evdokimova, Brown U

Michael C. Finke, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Cathy Lynn Popkin, Columbia U

Galina S. Rylkova, U of Florida

4-30 Show and Tell in Situ: Muscovite Images and the Texts that Frame Them

- Northeastern

Chair: Isolde Renate Thyret, Kent State U

Papers: Michael S. Flier, Harvard U

“At Daggers Drawn: Murdering a Prince in Muscovite Miniatures”

Session 4 • Friday • 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

Valerie Ann Kivelson, U of Michigan

“Mystical and Mystifying: Exploring the Minimal Role of Imagery in

Muscovite Spellbooks”

Nancy S. Kollmann, Stanford U

“Pictures at an Execution: Johann Georg Korb’s Diary”

Disc.: Daniel B. Rowland, U of Kentucky

4-31 Eugenic Thinking: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in 19th- and 20th-Century

Central Europe - Orleans

Chair: Maria Bucur, Indiana U

Papers: Meghann Pytka, Northwestern U

“The Biopolitics of Polishness: Race and Nationality in Interwar Poland”

Lenny A. Urena, U of Michigan

“Thinking through Tensions of Eugenic Thinking and Religious Values: A

Case Study from Prussian Poland, 1890-1918”

Dasa Francikova, U of Michigan

“Physical and Physiological Features, Morality, and Innocent Victims:

Training People to Ensure the Future Existence of the Czech National

Community in the Early Nineteenth Century”

Disc.: Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes U (UK)

4-32 Family and the Nineteenth-Century Novel - Provincetown

Chair: Jane Andelman Taubman, Amherst College

Papers: Michael R. Katz, Middlebury College

“Go Argue with Today’s Children: The Jewish Family in Sholem Aleichem

and Vladimir Jabotinsky”

Anna Aries Berman, Princeton U

“A Breach in the Kinship Network: Rethinking Family in Anna Karenina”

Natalie Rouland, Stanford U

“Ballet, Aristocratic Taste, and Family Affairs in Anna Karenina”

Disc.: Karin Agnes Beck, Columbia U

4-33 The Russian Empire’s Nationality and Citizenship Practices:

Entanglements and Borrowings from other Empires - (Roundtable) - Regis

Chair: Eric Lohr, American U

Part.: Alexei Miller, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) / Central European U

(Hungary)

Kelly O’Neill, Harvard U

Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown U

Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevich, U of Manchester (UK)

4-34 Narrating Violence: Representations of Trauma, Temporality, and

Emplacement in East and Central European Life History Accounts -

Rhode Island

Papers: Natasha Zaretsky, Princeton U

“European Again: Narratives of Belonging in Response to Violence in

Buenos Aires”

Susanna Helen Trnka, U of Auckland (New Zealand)

“‘The World’ and the Czechs: Place, Time and Belonging in Czech Oral

Narratives”

Steven J. Seegel, U of Northern Colorado

“Genealogie als Beruf: The Role of Internet Genealogy in Re-Rooting

Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish Narratives of Victimization”

Disc.: Vasiliki Neofotistos, SUNY Buffalo

Session 4 • Friday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

4-35 Russian Film Genre Theory - Simmons

Chair: Anne Eakin Moss, Johns Hopkins U

Papers: Alexander V. Prokhorov, College of William & Mary

“The Question of Genre in Thaw Film Criticism”

Dawn A Seckler, U of Pittsburgh

“What Genre Tells us about Gender”

David MacFadyen, UCLA

“The Russian Music Video”

Disc.: Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami U

4-36 Contemporary Bosnian Film - Suffolk

Chair: Gregory Steven Carleton, Tufts U

Papers: Trevor Laurence Jockims, The Graduate Center, City U of New York

“Sarajevo Film Festival: Its History and Importance in the Region”

Natasa Milas, Yale U

“On the Road: Miljenko Jergovic’s Buick Riviera from Literature to Film”

Cynthia F. Simmons, Boston College

“Women ‘Actors’ in Postwar Bosnian Film”

Disc.: Lucian Ghita, Yale U

4-37 Digitization of Soviet Archives - (Roundtable) - Tufts

Part.: Jonathan Brent, Yale U Press

Sarah Davies, U of Durham

Sergei Mironenko, State Archive of the Russian Federation (Russia)

Timothy Snyder, Yale U

4-38 Relations between the U.S. and Croatia, 1990-1996 - Vermont - Sponsored

by: Association for Croatian Studies

Chair: Joseph T. Bombelles, Retired

Papers: Peter Galbraith, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

“Political Aspects of U.S.-Croatian Relations, 1990-1996”

Branko Salaj, Zagreb School of Economics and Management (Croatia)

“Choosing Between Aloofness and Activism: American Diplomacy Facing

the Western European Imbroglio in the Balkans, 1990-96”

Miroslav Tudjman, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

“Military Aspects of U.S.–Croatian Relations, 1990-1996”

Disc.: Joseph McCarthy, Harvard U, Kennedy School

4-39 Bulgarian Militant Right-Wing Nationalism in Historical Perspective -

Vineyard

Chair: Robert Donnorummo, U of Pittsburgh

Papers: Benedict Edward DeDominicis, Catholic U in Korea

“Evolving Repertoires of Contention among the Bulgarian Nationalist Right:

the Attack Party”

Didar Erdinc, American U (Bulgaria)

“Economics of a Hidden Saga: Bulgarian-Turkish Trade and Joint

Companies, 1990-2008”

Boris M Gurov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)

“The Paradoxicality and Continuity of the Pro-West Orientation of the

Bulgarian Right”

Disc.:

Markus Wien, American U (Bulgaria)

4-41 The Russian Elegy from Zhukovsky to Mandel’shtam - Yarmouth

Chair: Andrew Reynolds, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers: Alyson Louise Tapp, UC Berkeley

“The Elegiac Future: The Sound and Shape of Hope”

Session 4 • Friday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

David Cedric Houston, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“The ‘Death of a Poet’ Cycle in the Age of Pushkin and Lermontov”

Andrew Kahn, Oxford U (UK)

“The Form of Memory and Memory of Form in Mandel’shtam’s Voronezh

Poems”

Disc.: Stephanie Sandler, Harvard U

Session 5 • FRIDAY • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

BDC Subcommittee on Slavic Digital Projects - (Meeting) - Maine

PIASA (Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America) - (Meeting) - New

Hampshire

5-01 Twenty Years Later: Reﬂ ections on 1989 - Arlington

Chair: Norman M. Naimark, Stanford U

Papers: Gale Stokes, Rice U

“The Walls Came Tumbling Down: the Collapse of Communism in Eastern

Europe”

Padraic Kenney, Indiana U

“Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989”

Charles S. Maier, Harvard U

“Dissolution: the Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany”

Disc.: T. Mills Kelly, George Mason U

5-03 ‘The People’s Own Report’: Teaching and Research with Harvard Project

on the Soviet Social System Interviews - (Roundtable) - Berkeley

Chair: Bradley Lewis Schaffner, Harvard U

Part.: Tom Ewing, Virginia Tech

Terry Martin, Harvard U

Kenneth Slepyan, Transylvania U

Benjamin Tromly, U of Puget Sound

Hugh K. Truslow, Davis Center, Harvard U

5-04 Interventions in the Real: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century

Russian Art - Boston University

Chair: Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, Columbia U

Papers: Margaret Samu, New York U

“Serving Art: The Artist’s Model in Nineteenth-Century Russia”

Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Montclair State U

“Inventing the Historical Jesus: or the Ivanov-Strauss-Renan School of

Religious Painting”

Molly Jo Brunson, Yale U

“On the Volga: Repin and the Creation of a Realist Picture”

Disc.: Rosalind Polly Blakesley, U of Cambridge (UK)

5-05 Orthodoxy and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century - Brandeis

Chair: Jane Burbank, New York U

Papers: Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, California State Polytechnic U

“Enlightenment and the Orthodox Hierarchy: Platon (Levshin) and the

Question of Learnedness”

Scott M. Kenworthy, Miami U

“Enlightenment and Monasticism: Paisii Velichkovskii and the Revival of

Hesychasm”

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis U

“Enlightenment and Parish Religious Life”

Disc.: Sandra Kalmar Batalden, Arizona State U

5-06 Visual Images of Jews in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Eras - Clarendon

Chair: Laurie Bernstein, Rutgers U

Papers: Heather S. Sonntag, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“Central Asian Jewish Communities and the Russian Imperial Photographic

Project”

Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College

“Visual Depictions of Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Russia: Continuity

and Change”

Jonathan L. Dekel-Chen, Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel)

“The ‘New’ Soviet Jew and Jewish Agricultural Colonization in the 1930s”

Disc.: Joan Neuberger, U of Texas at Austin

5-07 The Diachrony of Case Government - Connecticut

Chair: Leonard Harvey Babby, Princeton U

Papers: Elena Bratishenko, U of Calgary (Canada)

“Change in Case Government with the Preposition Protivu”

Kyongjoon Kwon, Harvard U

“Overt Predicators in Diachrony”

Nerea Madariaga, U of the Basque Country (Spain)

“The Dative of Subordination: from Indo-European to Russian”

Disc.: George Hayden Fowler, Slavica Publishers

5-08 The Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies - Dartmouth

Chair: Sophia Wilson, U of Washington

Papers: Daniel Beers, U of Indiana-Bloomington

“The Rule of Norms: Examining the Institutional Culture of the Judiciary in

Romania and the Czech Republic”

Nikolay Pavlovich Kovalev, U of Toronto, CERES (Canada)

“Russian Jury Under Attack: Can the Institution Survive?”

Lauren Alicia McCarthy, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“Thoughts on Russian Law Enforcement’s Role in Establishing the Rule of

Law”

Disc.: Maria Popova, McGill U (Canada)

5-09 Soviet Power and the Bolshevik State, 1917-1921 - Exeter

Chair: Alexander Rabinowitch, Indiana U

Papers: Jonathan W. Daly, U of Illinois at Chicago

“Bolshevik Power and Ideas of the Common Good”

Paul M. Hagenloh, Syracuse U

“Soviet Power, the Bolshevik State, and the NKVD RSFSR”

Aaron Benyamin Retish, Wayne State U

“Soviets against the Bolsheviks: The Izhevsk Revolt of 1918”

Disc.: Rex A. Wade, George Mason U

5-10 Forced Labor and Urban Transitions - Fairﬁ

eld

Chair: Maria Todorova, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers: Alan Joseph Barenberg, Texas Tech U

“How to Make a ‘Human Compote’: Ex-Prisoners, Demobilized Soldiers, and

Local Authorities in Vorkuta, 1953-1965”

Andy Richard Bruno, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Life and Environment during the Construction of a Socialist City: The

Experience of ‘Special Settlers’ in the Khibiny Mountains”

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Lilia Topouzova, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Camp Labour and Urban Redevelopment: Social and Cultural Landscapes

of the Town of Belene”

Disc.: Donald Filtzer, U of East London (UK)

5-11 Writing Little Russian Lives - Falmouth

Chair: Maxim Tarnawsky, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Olga Andriewsky, Trent U (Canada)

“Mykola Lysenko and Concepts of Belonging in Late Imperial Russia”

Heather J. Coleman, U of Alberta (Canada)

“History, Faith, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Kyiv: Father Petro

Lebedyntsev as Priest and Scholar”

Taras Koznarsky, U of Toronto (Canada)

“The Taxonomy of Little Russia/Ukraine in the Cultural Discourse of the First

Half of the Nineteenth Century”

Disc.: Frank Edward Sysyn, U of Alberta (Canada)

5-12 Forging Socialist Yugoslavia among Diverse Communities, 1943-1948 -

Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Emil Kerenji, U of South Carolina

Papers: Daniel Perez, Stanford U

“Between Yugoslav Federation and Albanian Nation-State: Albanian

Nationalists and the Assertion of National Sovereignty in Kosovo, 1944-

1945”

Emily Greble Balic, City College of New York

“Marriage, Property, and the Fate of Orphans: Muslim Responses to

Socialism and Yugoslavia (1943-1945)”

Jelena Batinic, Stanford U

“Gender, Nation-Building, and Power in Communist Yugoslavia: The

Campaign for the Unveiling of Muslim Women in the Early Postwar Years”

Disc.: Melissa Katherine Bokovoy, U of New Mexico

5-13 The Changing Face of Agriculture and Rural Life in Contemporary Russia

- Grand Ballroom Salon B

Chair: Stephen K. Wegren, Southern Methodist U

Papers: David John O’Brien, U of Missouri-Columbia

“Changes in Material and Subjective Quality of Life in Rural Russia: 1991-

2008”

Oane Visser, Radboud U Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

“Large Farms, Outside Investors and Peasant Resistance in Russia “

Danielle Aliza Berman, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“Producing Fast Food: How Fast Food Companies Change Russian

Agricultural Practice”

Disc.: William H. Meyers, U of Missouri-Columbia

5-14 The Self and the Soviet State - Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Mark D. Steinberg, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Papers: Nanci Dale Adler, U of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

“Punishment Without Crime: Reconciling the Self with the System”

Marcie Katherine Cowley, Michigan State U

“The Soviet Family and Inheritance: Self-Narration to State Ofﬁ cials in the

Late Stalinist Period”

Yukio Nakano, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan)

“Abram Tertz as a Medium for Interpreting Contemporary Culture”

Disc.:

Christine Varga-Harris, Illinois State U

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

5-15 New Research on Soviet Medicine and Public Health: Implications for our

Understanding of Soviet History - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: David L. Hoffmann, Ohio State U

Part.: Frances Lee Bernstein, Drew U

Kenneth Martin Pinnow, Allegheny College

Tricia Starks, U of Arkansas

Susan Gross Solomon, U of Toronto (Canada)

5-16 Reading Architecture and City Life in Postwar Eastern Europe, Part III:

Yugoslav Exceptionalism? - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Sonia A. Hirt, Virginia Tech

Papers: Nande Korpnik, U of Maribor (Slovenia)

“Architectural Narrative of Velenje: Building a Modern Town in Post-War

Yugoslavia “

Daniela Rankovic, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

“New Belgrade Post-War Changed Identity - Sustainable Modern City”

Veronica E. Aplenc, Rosemont College

“Whose Spatial Production? Slovenian Planners, Newly Arrived Residents,

and a 1980s Ljubljana Neighborhood”

Disc.: Vladimir Kulic, Florida Atlantic U

5-17 Beyond Soviet/Post-Soviet Dichotomies - Grand Ballroom Salon F

Chair: Natalie Rochelle Koch, U of Colorado - Boulder

Papers: Melanie A. Feakins, UC Berkeley

“In-shore Industries”

Marianna Pavlovskaya, Hunter College, CUNY

“Soviet Experience as Non-singular”

Jessica K. Graybill, Colgate U

“Post-Soviet Sahalin”

5-18 Whither Soviet History? - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon G

Chair: Lewis Henry Siegelbaum, Michigan State U

Part.: Michael David-Fox, U of Maryland

Sheila Fitzpatrick, U of Chicago

Ronald Grigor Suny, U of Michigan

5-19 Critical Condition? Health Policy and the Social Contract in Russia,

Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Marilyn R. Rueschemeyer, Brown U / Rhode Island School of Design

Papers: Sandor Gallai, Corvinus U of Budapest (Hungary) and Terry Cox, U of

Glasgow (UK)

“The Making of Health Care Policy in Contemporary Hungary”

Peggy Watson, U of Cambridge (UK)

“Health Policy in Poland”

Leah Seppanen Anderson, Wheaton College

“Contested Power: The Role of the State and Professional Organizations in

Czech Health Policymaking”

Disc.: Anna Geltzer, Cornell U

Judyth Lynn Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth U

5-20 Russian Federalism in the Putin Era - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Kathryn Elizabeth Stoner-Weiss, Stanford U

Papers: Helge Blakkisrud, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (Norway)

“The Change in Presidency: A New Chance for Russian Federalism?”

Joel Charles Moses, Iowa State U

“Russian Regional Politics in the Putin-Medvedev Era”

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Ora John Edward Reuter, Emory U

“The Origins of Dominant Parties: Regional Legislators and United Russia,

2001-2008”

Disc.: Regina Anne Smyth, Indiana U

5-21 Meeting Points of Life and Art in Pushkin - Grand Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, U of Notre Dame

Papers: Ani Kokobobo, Columbia U

“Hoarding Away the Self: Social Isolation and the Primordial Self in

Pushkin’s Malen’kie Tragedii”

Boris Gasparov, Columbia U

“Pushkin’s Classical Cap”

Katharine Holt, Columbia U

“The Gavriliada as Gossip and Chronicle”

Disc.: Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton U

5-22 Russian Language and Literary Culture in the New Media Age 1 - Grand

Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Daniela S. Hristova, U of Cambridge (UK)

Papers: Ingunn Lunde, U of Bergen (Norway)

“Language Play with an Agenda: Norm-Negotiating Linguistic Practices in

the Internet”

Ellen Rutten, U of Cambridge (UK)

“Snorapp and Tanyant: Desiring Imperfection in Digital Writing”

Vera Zvereva, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

“Comments on the Ru.net News: Speech Formulas and Cultural Meanings”

Disc.: Michael S. Gorham, U of Florida

5-23 Reading Lesbian Lives in Russia and Czechoslovakia - Harvard

Chair: Julie Anne Cassiday, Williams College

Papers: Mark Cornwall, U of Southampton (UK)

“Exiles of Love: Uncovering the Lives of Czech Lesbians 1918-1945”

Anne Eakin Moss, Johns Hopkins U

“Lesbian Lives, Soviet Stories: M. V. Mikhailova’s Memoir of Incarceration in

the Moscow Women’s Reformatory, 1923-1927”

Dan D.B. Healey, Swansea U (UK)

“Lesbian Lives Observed in the Gulag: ‘Medical’ Memoirs and the

Pathologization of Same-Sex Love”

Disc.: Caitlin E. Murdock, California State U, Long Beach

5-24 America(ns) in Contemporary Russian Literature - Hyannis

Chair: Konstantin V. Kustanovich, Vanderbilt U

Papers: Karen Ryan, U of Virginia

“Making It in America: Recent Russian Anglophone Literature”

Sarah Clovis Bishop, Willamette U

“Writing in Russian-American: Anya Ulinich’s ‘Petropolis’”

Margarita Nafpaktitis, U of Virginia

“Post-Soviet Essays into America”

Disc.: Nina Shevchuk-Murray, Independent Scholar

5-26 The Legacy of Solzhenitsyn: Texts and Interpretations - Massachusetts

Chair: John Barrett Dunlop, Stanford U

Papers: Michael A. Nicholson, Oxford U (UK)

“Solzhenitsyn before Ivan Denisovich: The Lost Versions of V kruge pervom”

Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College

“The Active Struggle Against Evil: Reﬂ ections on a Theme in Solzhenitsyn”

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Alexis Klimoff, Vassar College

“After the Red Wheel: The Late Prose of Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn”

Disc.: Richard V. Tempest, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

5-27 Reading the Book of Veles: Slavic Neo-Paganism - MIT

Chair: Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, U of Kentucky

Papers: Maria Carlson, U of Kansas

“‘Filling an ‘Empty Vessel’: The Book of Veles as Modern Mythopoesis”

Mariya Lesiv, U of Alberta (Canada)

“‘Wisdom is Rooted in Veles!’ The Book of Veles in Ukrainian Neo-

Paganism”

Eliot Borenstein, New York U

“Walking the Planks: Neopaganism, The Book of Veles, and Post-Soviet

Conspiracy Theories”

Disc.: John Starkes Bushnell, Northwestern U

5-28 The Function of ‘Writing Lives’ Within Modernist Autobiographical

Discourse - Nantucket

Chair: Margarita Safariants, Yale U

Papers: Thomas Francis Keenan, Yale U

“Christian Autobiographies”

Kristina Anatolievna Toland, Northwestern U

“Vasiliy Rozanov’s Modernist Autobiography”

Jerome Howard Katsell, Independent Scholar

“Nabokov: Autobiography - Memory, Science and Metaphysics”

Disc.: Dassia Nadezhda Posner, Davis Center, Harvard U

5-30 Gift-Giving in Muscovy: Forms and Meanings - Northeastern

Chair: Nikolaos A. Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State U

Papers: Maria Salomon Arel, The Centre for Literacy (Canada)

“The Price of Friendship: Generous Gestures, Proﬁ table Outcomes”

Erika L. Monahan, U of New Mexico

“Gift-Giving and the Maintenance of ‘Amicable-Economic’ Relations

between Merchants and Administrators in Muscovy”

Russell Edward Martin, Westminster College

“Gifts and Social Status at Muscovite Royal Weddings”

Disc.: Janet L. B. Martin, U of Miami

5-31 War and the Construction of Soviet Self, Soviet Power, and Soviet

Society: Lessons from the Blockade of Leningrad - Orleans

Chair: David Brandenberger, U of Richmond

Papers: Jeffrey Kenneth Hass, U of Richmond

“Cosmologies of Self, Soviet Power, and Suffering: War, Political Normality,

and Survival Practices in the Blockade of Leningrad”

Nikita Andreevich Lomagin, St Petersburg State U (Russia)

“The Black Market in Besieged Leningrad: the Soviet Self and Soviet Power

in the Context of War”

Richard H. Bidlack, Washington and Lee U

“Religious Belief, Practice, and Church-State Relations in the Blockade of

Leningrad”

Disc.: Steven Maddox, Canisius College

5-32 Teaching ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ in the 21st Century - (Roundtable) -

Provincetown

Chair: William Mills Todd, III, Harvard U

Part.: Joe Andrew, Keele U

Susan McReynolds Oddo, Northwestern U

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis U

Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern U

Donna Tussing Orwin, U of Toronto (Canada)

5-33 Russian Youth and the Contradictory National Identity - Regis

Chair: Bettina Jungen, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Papers: Jussi Lassila, Aleksanteri Institute, U of Helsinki (Finland)

“Didactics and Stimulation – Symbolic Production of the Youth Movement

Nashi”

Nelli Piattoeva, U of Tampere (Finland)

“Active Citizen or Obedient Soldier - Citizenship Education in Post-Soviet

Russia”

Kaarina Aitamurto, Aleksanteri Institute/U of Helsinki (Finland)

“Reviving the Native Faith: Nationalism in Contemporary Slavic Paganism,

Rodnoverie”

Disc.: Mischa Gabowitsch, Princeton U Society of Fellows

Oxana Shevel, Tufts U

5-34 What’s the Score on Moldova? Conﬂ ict and Identity as the Republic

Approaches Twenty Years - Rhode Island

Chair: Matthew Ciscel, Central Connecticut State U

Papers: Luke March, U of Edinburgh (UK)

“The Consequences of the 2009 Elections for Moldova’s International

Relations”

Elizabeth A. Anderson, American U

“‘And this is Democracy?’ Young Moldovans’ Reﬂ ections on the Past,

Present, and Future”

Patricia Fogerty, Emory U

“National Identity and Development Discourse in Moldova’s Social

Investment Fund ‘House Of Culture’ Projects”

Disc.: Paul Daniel Quinlan, Providence College

5-35 Visionary Film and the New Media - Simmons

Chair: Yuliya Minkova, Virginia Tech

Papers: Daria Shembel, USC

“The ‘Solvable Maze’ or the ‘Tangled Rhizome’: Converging Poetry and

Database Narratives”

Robert Eﬁ rd, Virginia Tech

“Narration in Digital Cinema: Sokurov’s Russian Ark and Figgis’ Timecode”

Inna Mattei, Harvard U

“Playing the Game: Gaming, Identity, Ideology”

Disc.: Laszlo Dienes, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

5-36 Theater and Symbolic Politics in the Early 20th Cenury - Suffolk

Chair: Elizabeth Cooper English, U of Waterloo (Canada)

Papers: John K. Cox, North Dakota State U

“‘The Biography of an Idealist’ and Other Incendiary Projects: Translating

Ivan Cankar’s World of Victims and Villains”

Paul du Quenoy, American U of Beirut (Lebanon)

“‘Condemned to Tedious Vegetation’: Actors in the Revolution of 1905”

Mayhill Fowler, Princeton U

“A Cafe Called Hell: 1929’s ‘Hello from Frequency 477’ and the Creation of a

Soviet Ukrainian Beau Monde”

Disc.: Grzegorz Danowski, Independent Scholar

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

5-37 Concealed Biographies: Uncovering the Life Stories of 19th- and Early

20th-Century Buryats - Tufts

Chair: Melissa Andrea Chakars, U of North Carolina Wilmington

Papers: Jesse Murray, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“19th-Century Buryat Convert Petitions as Reﬂ ections of Orthodoxy”

Robert W. Montgomery, Baldwin-Wallace College

“Buryats in the 1905 Revolution and its Aftermath”

Tristra Michele Newyear, Indiana U

“Staging the Buryat Renaissance: Buryat Theater and the Public Sphere in

the Early 20th-Century”

Disc.: Julia Esther Fein, U of Chicago

5-38 Economics and Defense Policy in Contemporary Russia - Vermont

Chair: Carol R. Saivetz, Harvard U

Papers: Stephen Jerome Blank, US Army War College

“Russia’s New Defense Reforms, Doctrine and Strategy”

Steven Shelley Roseﬁ elde, UNC at Chapel Hill

“Russian Economy and Defense: After 2008 Crash”

Stefan P. Hedlund, Uppsala U (Sweden)

“After the Crash: Finding Post-Putin Pathways”

Disc.: Donald Jensen, SAIS

5-39 Between Common Memory and Identity Crisis: Tribulations of Polish

Historiography and Cinema - Vineyard - Sponsored by: Polish Studies

Association

Chair: Genevieve Zubrzycki, U of Michigan

Papers: Mikolaj Stanislaw Kunicki, U of Notre Dame

“Between Heroism, Polish Raison d’etat, and Marxist Political Correctness:

Red Nationalism in the Cinema of People’s Poland”

Pawel Ukielski, Warsaw Rising Museum (Poland)

“Memory, Commemoration, and Evaluation of the Past: The Museum of

Warsaw Rising and Historical Memory in Contemporary Poland”

Piotr J. Wrobel, U of Toronto (Canada)

“The Most Difﬁ cult Subject: Polish-Jewish Relations in Polish Post-1945

Historiography”

5-40 Listening in on the Past: Oral History and the Culture of Speaking Out

Loud - Wellesley

Chair: Jessie Labov, Ohio State U

Papers: Gene Sosin, Retired Senior Executive Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

“Radio Liberty’s Use of Samizdat in Reaching East and West”

Anna Bischof, Ludwig-Maximillians U (Germany)

“Exile Journalism and Transnational Interactions: The Czech Desk of Radio

Free Europe in Munich and German Society”

Friederike Johanna Kind-Kovács, Regensburg U (Germany)

“Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as the ‘Echo Chamber’ of Tamizdat”

Disc.: A. Ross Johnson, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Hoover Institution

Jane Leftwich Curry, Santa Clara U

5-41 Khochu, Chtob Kazhdyi Dopisyval i Luchshil: A New Mayakovsky -

Yarmouth

Papers: Katherine Marie Lahti, Trinity College

“‘Pro eto’ as a Buddhist Poem”

Natalia Vladimirovna Krylova, Purdue U

“Et tu, Mayakovsky? We are all Essentially Horses”

Pavel Lion, Moscow State U (Russia)

“How to Make ‘Kak delat’ stikhi’”

Session 5 • Friday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Session 6 • FRIDAY • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Slavic Review Board Meeting - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon G

BDC Subcommittee on Copyright Issues - (Meeting) - Orleans

6-01 Twenty Years After: 1989 in Retrospect - Arlington

Chair: William Chase Taubman, Amherst College

Papers: Archie Brown, U of Oxford (UK)

“Explaining the Political Transformations of 1989”

Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Washington and Lee U

“Legacies of the Roundtable Accords and the June 1989 Elections in Poland”

Svetlana Vitalievna Savranskaya, National Security Archive

“Gorbachev and the Wall”

Disc.: Thomas Blanton, National Security Archive

6-03 Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities: Life in Oral History and Cultural

Memory - Berkeley

Papers: Anna Nikolaevna Kushkova, European U at St Petersburg (Russia)

“Surviving in the Time of Deﬁ cit: A Narrative Construction of ‘Soviet Identity’”

Victoria Donovan, U of Oxford (UK)

“Provincial Identities: History and Myth in the Oral Histories from Novgorod,

Pskov, and Vologda”

Andy Byford, U of Durham (UK)

“Migrant Lives: The Last Soviet Generation in Britain”

Disc.: Marc Elie, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

6-04 Life versus Works: Tensions in the Historiography and Criticism of

Ukrainian Literature - Boston University

Chair: Peter Sawczak, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)

Papers: George G. Grabowicz, Harvard U

“Ivan Franko, Uliana Kravchenko and Making Poetry: A Detective Story”

Maxim Tarnawsky, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Reading Nechui with a Grudge”

Marko John Pavlyshyn, Monash U

“Martyrology and Literary Scholarship: The Case of Vasyl’ Stus”

Disc.: Taras Koznarsky, U of Toronto (Canada)

6-05 Materiality,Visuality, and Corporeality: Re-ordering Eastern-rite Christian

Practices, 17th-19th century - Brandeis

Chair: Valerie Ann Kivelson, U of Michigan

Papers: Wojciech Kazimierz Beltkiewicz, U of Michigan

“Framing the Miraculous: the Re-ordering of Image-oriented Lay Religious

Devotions in Early Modern Greek-rite Catholicism”

Nikolaos A. Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State U

“Ediﬁ cation through the Memory of Sins: Indulgences in the Eastern

Orthodox Church in the Early Modern Period”

Barbara J. Skinner, Indiana State U

“Antimensions, Holy Oil, and Beards: Material Requirements of Uniate

Conversions to Orthodoxy”

Disc.: Paul Alexander Bushkovitch, Yale U

6-06 Knowledge, Property and Power: Visions of the Socio-Political Order in

Late Imperial Russia -

Clarendon

Chair: David McDonald, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers: Ekaterina Pravilova, Princeton U

“Public Goods and the Censure of Private Property in Late Imperial Russia”

Session 6 • Friday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Peter Isaac Holquist, U of Pennsylvania

“‘In Accord with State Interests and the People’s Wishes’: The Technocratic

Ideology of Imperial Russia’s Resettlement Administration”

David William Darrow, U of Dayton

“Land Norms and Agrarian Reform: Quantifying ‘Sufﬁ ciency’”

Disc.: Yanni George Kotsonis, New York U

6-07 Slavic Numerals I (Russian) - Connecticut

Chair: Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, U of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Papers: Irina Mikaelian, Pennsylvania State U

“Russian Numeral Constructions through Corpora and Internet Data”

Leonard Harvey Babby, Princeton U

“Pre-quantiﬁ ers Revisited”

Asya Pereltsvaig, Stanford U

“Paucal Numerals in Russian: Variability in Synchrony is a Result of

Diachrony”

Disc.: Wayles Browne, Cornell U

Steven Laurence Franks, Indiana U

6-08 Trials and Tribulations: New Research on the Conspiracies of Post-1945

Hungary - Dartmouth

Chair: Judith Szapor, McGill U (Canada)

Papers: Thomas Sakmyster, U of Cincinnati

“American Communists and the Rajk Trial”

David Stephen Frey, US Military Academy at West Point

“Robert Vogeler and the Trial of the Standard Electric Company in Hungary”

Edit Nagy, U of Florida / U of Pecs (Hungary)

“Socialist Law and Jurisdiction (1946- 1953) - Case Study: Hungarian

(Economic) Trials “

Disc.: Alice Freifeld, U of Florida

Virag Rab, U of Pecs (Hungary)

6-09 Vlast’ from the Past: State Building, State Practices, and Conceptions of

State Power in 1917-1921 - (Roundtable) - Exeter

Chair: Michael C. Hickey, Bloomsburg U

Part.: Robert Thomas Argenbright, U of Utah

Lara Cook, Newcastle U (UK)

Lars Thomas Lih, Independent Scholar

Aaron Benyamin Retish, Wayne State U

6-10 Perpetrators and Bystanders? The Dynamics of Mass Murder of Jews in

Southern Ukraine, 1941-1944 - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: John-Paul Himka, U of Alberta (Canada)

Papers: Diana Dumitru, Moldova State Pedagogical U (Moldova)

“The Friendship of Peoples Tested: Jews and Gentiles in Occupied Odessa

(1941-1944)”

Vladimir A. Solonari, U of Central Florida

“A Conspiracy to Murder? Zealots, Compliers, and Evaders among

Romanian Perpetrators”

Eric C. Steinhart, UNC, Chapel Hill

“Stalin’s Victims, Hitler’s Killers: A Collective Biography of Southern

Ukraine’s Ethnic German Militia”

Women and Small Business in Russia - Falmouth

Chair: Alfred Burney Evans, Jr., California State U, Fresno

Papers: Ann-Mari Sätre, Uppsala U (Sweden)

“Women’s Business in Transitional Russia: Impacts from the Soviet System”

Session 6 • Friday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Carol Ruth Nechemias, Penn State U, Harrisburg

“Women and Small Business in Russia: The Little Engine that Can?”

Larisa B. Kosova, ISP

“Women and Business: Dynamics of Role Representations in Russian

Society”

Disc.: Valerie Jeanne Sperling, Clark U

6-12 The Austro-Hungarian Empire in Transition - Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Zdenek Vaclav David, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

Papers: Daniel Michael Rhea, U of Maryland

“Bosnia-Herzegovina after the Ofﬁ ce of the High Representative: Finally on

Its Own, Ownership or Obstruction and Dissolution”

Tamara Scheer, U of Vienna (Austria)

“Occupation and Cultural Transfer: Experience with Austro-Hungarians

Military Presence in Sandžak Novi Pazar/Plevlje (1879-1908)”

Stefan Wedrac, U of Vienna (Austria)

“Collective Biographies and the Individual: The Case of the Austro-

Hungarian General Svetozar Boroevic of Bojna in 1918”

Disc.: Thomas J. Butler

6-13 Adaptation and Assimilation: Living Migration in Eurasia - Grand Ballroom

Salon B

Chair: Timothy E. Heleniak, U of Maryland

Papers: Ronald L. Breiger, U of Arizona, Olga V. Mayorova, U of Arizona, Beth Ann

Mitchneck, U of Arizona and Joanna M. Regulska, Rutgers U

“A Social Network Analysis of Adaptation of Long-term Displaced Persons in

Georgia”

Cynthia J. Buckley, U of Texas at Austin

“Adjustment and Adaptation: Economic Stability and Male Labor Migration in

the Southern Caucasus”

Matthew Aaron Light, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Migrants’ Responses to Residential Registration and Other Mobility

Controls in the Russian Federation “

Disc.: Blair A. Ruble, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

6-14 Big Decisions: Framing the Writing of Soviet Lives - Grand Ballroom

Salon C

Chair: Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn, Harvard U

Papers: Elizabeth Anne McGuire, UC Berkeley

“Writing Lives that Aren’t Over: The ‘Created Family,’ Interdom 1933-2009”

Susan Gross Solomon, U of Toronto (Canada)

“De-Coding the Life of a Public Health Go-Between: A. N. Rubakin (1889-

1979) between ‘East’ and ‘West’”

Thomas Lahusen, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Capturing the Lives of a Generation in Photographs: Evgeny Kashirin

(1949-2007)”

Disc.: Elizabeth A. Wood, MIT

6-15 Health and Demography in the Former Soviet Union - (Roundtable) - Grand

Ballroom Salon D - Sponsored by: Association for the Study of Health and

Demography in the FSU

Chair: Murray Feshbach, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

Part.: Mark G. Field, Harvard U

Daniel Goldberg, US Dept of Defense

John Martin Kramer, U of Mary Washington

David Edward Powell, Wheaton College

Alexandra M. Vacroux, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

Session 6 • Friday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

6-16 Reading Architecture and City Life in Postwar Eastern Europe, Part IV:

Creating Postsocialist Spaces - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Maria C Taylor

Papers: Katya Makarova, U of Virginia

“Gentriﬁ cation and the Transformation of Urban Space in Contemporary

Moscow”

Megan L. Dixon, College of Idaho

“Transformations of the Spatial Hegemony of the Courtyard in Post-Soviet

St. Petersburg”

Diana Kurkovsky, Princeton U

“Post-Soviet Pre/Post-Modern: Style, Architecture, and National Identity in

Contemporary Moscow”

Disc.: Heather D. DeHaan, Binghamton U, SUNY

6-17 Cultural Responses to World War I: Against the Grain - Grand Ballroom

Salon F

Chair: Eric Lohr, American U

Papers: Catherine Ann Ciepiela, Amherst College

“Tsvetaeva and the German Side”

Laura Engelstein, Yale U

“Russian Intellectuals in Defense of the Jews”

Nina Gourianova, Northwestern U

“Vanquished War: A Futurist Drama of World War I”

Disc.: Yuri Tsivian, U of Chicago

6-19 Soviet Past as the Traumatic Object of Contemporary Russian Culture

- (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Evgeny A. Dobrenko, U of Shefﬁ eld (UK)

Part.: Nancy Condee, U of Pittsburgh

Alexander Etkind, U of Cambridge (UK)

Dina Khapaeva, St Petersburg State U (Russia)

Mark N. Lipovetsky, U of Colorado at Boulder

Andrey Shcherbenok, U of Shefﬁ eld (UK)

6-20 Russia’s New Political Economy: Domestic Politics and Policy - Grand

Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Paul Thomas Christensen, Boston College

Papers: Richard T. Sakwa, U of Kent (UK)

“The Oligarchs After Putin: Medvedev, Big Business and the Yukos Affair”

Gerald M. Easter, Boston College

“Revenue Imperatives: State over Market in Post-Communist Russia”

Stephen K. Wegren, Southern Methodist U

“Agrarian Capitalism in Russia: Who Won, Who Lost, and Prospects”

Disc.: Neil Robinson, U of Limerick (Ireland)

6-21 Turgenev Redux: A Life in Literature Revisited - Grand Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Andrew R Durkin, Indiana U

Papers: Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College

“Turgenev, the Feuilleton and the Feuilletonistic: ‘French’ Writing in A Nest of

the Gentry”

Hilde M. Hoogenboom, SUNY Albany

“Return to Sentimentalism: Turgenev and his Narrators”

Emma Kusnetz Lieber, Columbia U

“‘Monsieur moi Zver’: Nature and Culture in Turgenev”

Disc.: Dale E. Peterson, Amherst College

Session 6 • Friday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

6-22 Russian Language and Literary Culture in the New Media Age 2 - Grand

Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, U of Edinburgh (UK)

Papers: Dirk Uffelmann, U of Passau (Germany)

“Speaking in the Tongues of New Media: a Thread in Pelevin’s works”

Martin Paulsen (U of Bergen)

“Criticism on Runet: How New Technology Has Changed Russian Literary

Criticism”

Henrike Schmidt, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

“Digital Village Prose”

Disc.: Alexei Yurchak, UC Berkeley

6-23 Polish Queer: Theory, Practice, Representation - Harvard

Chair: Jonathan H. Bolton, Harvard U

Papers: Benjamin Paloff, U of Michigan

“‘For Behold this Selfsame Thing’: Writing Difference in the Undifferentiated

Society”

Magda Romanska, Emerson College

“The ‘Suspended Theatre’ of Krystian Lupa: ‘The Sleepwalkers’ and the

Polish Stage of the 1990s”

Joanna Nizynska, Harvard U

“How to be Emancipated: A Queer Case of Poland”

Disc.: Bill Johnston, Indiana U

6-24 The ‘Russian Debutantes’: Writing the Russian-American Immigrant

Experience - Hyannis

Chair: Carol R. Ueland, Drew U

Papers: Margarita Shalina

“Sex and the Single Slavic Girl: Women’s Identities and the Literary

Immigrant Experience”

Val Vinokur, The New School

“New Jews from the Old Country v. 2.0”

Adrian J. Wanner, Pennsylvania State U

“The Russian Immigrant Narrative as Meta-Fiction”

Disc.: Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College

6-25 Sustainability of Russian Economic Growth (I) - Maine

Chair: Akira Uegaki, Seinan Gakuin U (Japan)

Papers: Vladimir Popov, New Economic School (Russia)

“Economic Growth and Real Exchange Rate of Ruble and Yuan: Why are

There Currency Crises in Russia, but not in China?”

Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U

“Russia, the CIS States, and Varieties of Capitalism”

Shinichiro Tabata, Hokkaido U (Japan)

“Changes in the Mechanism of Economic Growth in Russia under the World

Financial Crisis in 2008”

Disc.: Misha V. Belkindas, World Bank

Stefan P. Hedlund, Uppsala U (Sweden)

6-26 Modes of Dissident Self-expression under Communism in the Personal

Accounts of Authors from Russia and Eastern Europe - Massachusetts

Chair: Irina Reyfman, Columbia U

Papers: Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Columbia U

“A Price of Integrity”

Judith Wermuth-Atkinson, Columbia U

“Having Lived my Book”

Session 6 • Friday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Yevgeny A. Slivkin, Defense Language Institute

“Between Ofﬁ cialdom and Non-Conformism”

Disc.: Margo Rosen, Columbia U

6-27 Representing Religious Lives - MIT

Chair: Lavinia Stan, St. Francis Xavier U (Canada)

Papers: Roland Clark, U of Pittsburgh

“Conversion Accounts and Religious Frames in Romanian Fascist

Biographies”

Joel C. Brady, U of Pittsburgh

“Ethnography by Judicial Proxy in East European and American Migrant

Religious History”

Arpad von Klimo, U of Pittsburgh

“Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty: A Biography Shaped by the Cold War or by

Religion?”

Disc.: Milica Bakic-Hayden, U of Pittsburgh

6-28 After Biography: Revisiting the 20th Century Russian Literary Canon -

Nantucket

Chair: Justin McCabe Weir, Harvard U

Papers: Dana L. Dragunoiu, Carleton U (Canada)

“Russian Liberals, American Communists, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita”

Anita Alexandrovna Kondoyanidi, Georgetown U

“Non-Canonical Gorky”

Olga Yurievna Voronina, Harvard U

“‘A Jewelry Chest Has a Triple Bottom’: Reading Akhmatova’s Poem Without

a Hero in the Cold War Context”

Disc.: Emily Stetson Van Buskirk, Rutgers U

6-29 New Approaches to Identity and Conﬂ ict in the Caucasus - New Hampshire

Chair: Eric M. McGlinchey, George Mason U

Papers: Scott Radnitz, U of Washington

“Historical Narratives and Political Reconciliation in the Caucasus: A

Psychological Experiment”

Fredrik Sjoberg, Harvard U

“Political Identities and Electoral Dynamics in Semi-Authoritarian Newly

Independent States of Eurasia”

Disc.: Pauline Jones Luong, Brown U

6-30 Traveling Between Worlds in Early Modern Europe and Muscovy -

Northeastern

Chair: Hugh M. Olmsted, Russian Studies Publications

Papers: Zdzislaw Szmanda, U of Fribourg (Switzerland)

“Maximus the Greek: a Split Life in a Split World”

Boris Atanassov Todorov, Yonsei U, Seoul (South Korea)

“Hagiography and the Integration of Medieval Serbian Space”

Megan K. Williams, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands)

“Captive and Prisoner-of-War Ransoming on the Early Modern Hungarian-

Ottoman Frontiers”

Disc.: Jeanne E. Grant, Metropolitan State U

6-32 Writing and Reading Lev Tolstoy’s Life -

Provincetown

Chair: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis U

Papers: Irina Paperno, UC Berkeley

“‘My Life’: Tolstoy Writes his Diary and Plans his Biography”

William Scott Nickell, UC Santa Cruz

“Tolstoyan Hagiography: Writing the Lives of Tolstoyans at the Turn of the

Century”

Session 6 • Friday • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Galina S. Rylkova, U of Florida

“Ivan Bunin’s ‘Liberation of Tolstoy’ and Recollections of Chekhov as Two

Modes of Biography Writing”

Disc.: Caryl Emerson, Princeton U

6-33 Russian Nationalism: Marginality or Mainstream? - (Roundtable) - Regis

Chair: Stephen Earl Hanson, U of Washington

Part.: Mikhail A. Alexseev, San Diego State U

Marlene Laruelle, French Ctr for Russian, Caucasian and East European

Studies (France)

Andreas Umland, The Catholic U of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (Germany)

Alexander Verkhovsky, SOVA Center for Information & Analysis (Russia)

Veljko Marko Vujacic, Oberlin College

6-34 Census and Citizenship in Czechoslovakia in the 20th Century - Rhode

Island

Papers: Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, Purdue U

“The 1919 Census of the Territory of Slovakia”

Tatjana Lichtenstein, U of Texas at Austin

“Jewish Nationalists and the Census in Interwar Czechoslovakia”

Anna Agnieszka Cichopek, European U Institute (Italy)

“Negotiation of Citizenship in Postwar Slovakia”

Disc.: Steven Jobbitt, California State U, Fullerton

6-35 Vozhd and Screen - Simmons

Chair: Dawn A Seckler, U of Pittsburgh

Papers: Maria Belodubrovskaya, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“Scriptwriter Stalin: Soviet Bio-pics under the Dictator’s Watch”

Eugenie Zvonkine, U of Paris 8 (France)

“Kazakhstan Rules the World: Satybaldy Narymbetov’s Mustafa Shokai

(2008) Rewrites History”

Birgit Beumers, U of Bristol (UK)

“The New Heroes of the Revolution: Kolchak and Others on Screen”

Disc.: Denise J. Youngblood, U of Vermont

6-36 Performing and Watching Lives: The Contemporary Russian Stage -

Suffolk

Chair: Amy Singleton Adams, College of the Holy Cross

Papers: Monika Greenleaf, Stanford U

“Performing ‘Russkaia dusha’ in the Putin Era: How Different Directors

Stage Dostoevsky”

Olga S. Partan, College of the Holy Cross

“The Post-Soviet Taganka: Real Performance or Just a Museum?”

Alexandra Smith, U of Edinburgh (UK)

“Reading Pushkin and Briusov through the Lens of Post-modern Irony:

Fomenko’s ‘Egyptian Nights’”

Disc.: Maria Ignatieva, Ohio State U

6-37 Music, Poetry and the State in Russia and Bulgaria - Tufts

Chair: Stefka Hristova, UC Irvine

Papers: Grzegorz Danowski, Independent Scholar

“A Russian in the Soviet Union: Vladimir Vysotsky’s Autobiographical Poetry

as an Artistic Chronicle of a Russian’s Life”

Eran Livni, Indiana U

“Popfolk Music and Bulgarian Ambivalence toward Post-Socialist

Democracy “

Session 6 • Friday • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Margarita Safariants, Yale U

“Rock-n-roll and Memory: The Musical Structure of Aleksei Balabanov’s

Cargo 200”

6-38 Russian Foreign Policy in 2009 - (Roundtable) - Vermont

Chair: Carol R. Saivetz, Harvard U

Part.: Stephen Jerome Blank, US Army War College

Aurel Braun, U of Toronto (Canada)

Robert Owen Freedman, Johns Hopkins U

Thomas Gomart, IFRI French Institute for International Relations (France)

R. Craig Nation, US Army War College

6-39 Reconstructing the Lives of Others: Soviet History Through Personal

Sources - Vineyard

Chair: Jeffrey W. Jones, UNC at Greensboro

Papers: Daniel A. Panshin, U of Minnesota

“‘Tell All You Know’: The Chronicle of a Russian Father and His American

Son”

Jenifer L. Parks, Rocky Mountain College

“‘Your Russian Friend’: The Life of a Self-Described Sports Fan and

Amateur Athlete of the Soviet Union through His Letters to Avery Brundage,

President of the International Olympic Committee, 1962”

Rosa Magnusdottir, U of Aarhus (Denmark)

“A Soviet-Icelandic Love Affair: The Story of a Life Long Commitment to

Communism”

Disc.: Susanne Schattenberg, Research Centre for East European Studies at

Bremen U (Germany)

6-41 Poetic Self-fashioning from Pushkin to Brodsky - Yarmouth

Chair: Victoria Thorstensson, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers: Andrew Reynolds, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“In Word and Deed: ‘Calendar Rhyme’ as Poetic Self-fashioning from

Pushkin to Brodsky”

Pavel Nerler, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

“The Poet’s ‘Slovo’ and his ‘Delo’: Osip Mandelstam Through the Prism of

Repression”

Michael Eskin, Columbia U

“‘Net liriki bez dialoga’: Mandelstam and Brodsky”

Disc.: David M. Bethea, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Session 7 • FRIDAY • 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Slovak Studies Association - (Meeting) - Falmouth

BDC Subcommittee on Slavic and East European Microform Project - (Meeting)

- Rhode Island

7-01 1989 Twenty Years Later: What Has Been Most Surprising - (Roundtable)

- Arlington

Chair: Sharon L. Wolchik, George Washington U

Part.: Valerie Jane Bunce, Cornell U

Andrzej Korbonski, UCLA

Ronald H. Linden, U of Pittsburgh

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

7-03 Confronting the National Past: History and Memory in Belarus, Russia,

and Ukraine - (Roundtable) - Berkeley

Chair: Andrzej W. Tymowski, American Council of Learned Societies

Part.: Yaroslav Hrytsak, Lviv State U (Ukraine)

Boris Kolonitskii, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

Volodymyr Kravchenko, Karazin Kharkiv National U (Ukraine)

Theodore R Weeks, Southern Illinois U Carbondale

7-04 Vital Connections: Lives of Texts, Authors, Translators, and Translations

in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature - Boston University

Chair: Volha Isakava, U of Alberta (Canada)

Papers: Natalia Kovaliova, U of Alberta (Canada)

“Approaching Madness in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature: Authors and

Texts”

Nina Shevchuk-Murray, Independent Scholar

“A Russian, A Frenchman, And an Englishman are Stranded on a Desert

Island: Narrative Analysis and Translatability of Humor”

Roman Ivashkiv, U of Alberta (Canada)

“Translating Playfulness in Postcolonial/Postmodernist Contexts: Yuri

Andrukhovych’s Moscoviada and Vitaly Chernetsky’s Translation”

Disc.: Mark Andryczyk, Columbia U

7-05 ‘Living on the Edge’: Writing and Recording Lives in the Borderlands of

the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1600-1800 - Brandeis

Chair: Michelle Ruth Viise, Harvard U

Papers: David Frick, UC Berkeley

“Maciej Vorbek-Lettow’s ‘Treasure-House of Memory’: A Life Written across

Borders”“

Liudmyla Sharipova, U of Nottingham (UK)

“A Saint or not a Saint: A Late Eighteenth-Century Life of Peter Mohyla”

Karin Friedrich, U of Aberdeen (UK)

“Brothers, Foes and Statistics: Lives on the Eighteenth-Century Polish-

German Border”

Disc.: Andzrej S. Kaminski, Georgetown U

7-06 Signs and Signposts: Russian Thought at the Turn of the 20th Century

- Clarendon

Chair: James H. Krukones, John Carroll U

Papers: April French, Regent College

“A Call to Repentance: Sergei Bulgakov’s ‘Heroism and Asceticism’ Essay

as the Fruit of His Early Russian Experience, 1871-1909”

Gary Michael Hamburg, Claremont McKenna College

“Lev Tolstoi and Vekhi”

Susanna Soojung Lim, U of Oregon

“The Chinese Boxer Rebellion in Russian Literature”

Disc.: Leonid Blickstein, U of Massachusetts-Lowell

7-07 Slavic Numerals II (West Slavic) - Connecticut

Chair: Jan Ivar Bjornﬂ aten, U of Oslo (Norway)

Papers: Gilbert C. Rappaport, U of Texas at Austin

“Masculine Personal Invades the Polish Numeral System: How and Why”

Mila Saskova-Pierce, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

“On the History and Current State of Czech Numerals”

Disc.: Wayles Browne, Cornell U

Steven Laurence Franks, Indiana U

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

7-08 War, Crimes and Transitional Justice in the Soviet Union and its

Successor States - Dartmouth

Chair: Peter H. Solomon, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Wendy Morgan Lower, Ludwig-Maximilian U Munich (Germany)

“War Crimes Trials in Soviet Ukraine”

Tanja Penter, Ruhr U (Germany)

“The Latest Compensation of Forced Labour in Post-Soviet Russia, Belarus

and Ukraine”

Marina Sorokina, Russian Academy of Sciences Archive (Russia)

“War Crimes and Experts: the Soviet Professionals in the Soviet

Extraordinary State Commission for the Investigation of Fascist Crimes”

Disc.: Francine R. Hirsch, U of Wisconsin-Madison

7-09 Perspectives on the February Revolution and Power - (Roundtable) -

Exeter

Chair: Sarah Badcock, U of Nottingham (UK)

Part.: Michael C. Hickey, Bloomsburg U

Semion Lyandres, U of Notre Dame

Daniel T. Orlovsky, Southern Methodist U

Rex A. Wade, George Mason U

7-10 Perpetrators and Dynamics of Violence: Soviet Collectivization

Reconsidered - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Joerg Bernhard Baberowski, Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany)

Papers: Felix Schnell, Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany)

“Rapine, Revenge, Redistribution: Scenarios from Ukraine, 1928-1932”

Christian Teichmann, Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany)

“The Uzbek Connection: Collectivization and Inter-Ethnic Violence in the

Middle Volga Region”

Tracy Ann McDonald, McMaster U (Canada)

“From Physical to Symbolic Violence: Villagers Remember Collectivization”

Disc.: Lynne Viola, U of Toronto (Canada)

7-12 State-Building in Yugoslavia - Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Biljana D. Obradovic, Xavier U of Louisiana

Papers: Ana Antic, Columbia U

“Heroes and Hysterics: Soldiers’ Neurosis and Socialist State-Building in

Yugoslavia after 1945”

Tanja D Conley, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

“A Backdrop of Serbian Statehoods: Staging Public Events in Front of the

National Assembly”

Disc.: James Frusetta, Hampden-Sydney College

7-13 Consumption and Culture in Three Post-Soviet States - Grand Ballroom

Salon B

Chair: Krisztina Fehervary, U of Michigan

Papers: Olga Gurova, State U - Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg (Russia);

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Finland)

“Fashioning the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia”

Neringa Klumbyte, Miami U

“European Citizenship, Consumption, and Identity in Lithuania”

Jennifer A. Dickinson, U of Vermont

“Social Relations, Urban Space and the Aesthetics of Shopping in Lviv,

Ukraine”

Disc.: Adele Marie Barker, U of Arizona

Melissa L. Caldwell, UC Santa Cruz

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

7-14 The Family Fridlyand: Journalism, Caricature, and Photography under

Stalin - Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: David Shneer, U of Colorado at Boulder

Papers: Katerina Clark, Yale U

“Mikhail Kol’tsov (Fridlyand), Pravda Journalist, Publisher Extraordinaire,

and Chief Soviet Liase with the Anti-Fascist Movement”

Stephen Michael Norris, Miami U

“The Visual World of Communism: Boris Eﬁ mov (Fridlyand) and the Soviet

Century”

Erika Wolf, U of Otago (New Zealand)

“Semyon Fridlyand in Context: The Politics of Soviet Photography in Print”

7-15 Cultural Tectonics: Reading Beneath the Surface of History - (Roundtable)

- Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: William Scott Nickell, UC Santa Cruz

Part.: Boris Gasparov, Columbia U

Dale E. Peterson, Amherst College

Dennis Tenenboym, Harvard

7-16 Places of Memory: Prague - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Peter Bugge, Aarhus U (Denmark)

Papers: Marek Nekula, Universität Regensburg (Germany)

“Institutions of Memory: Prague Pantheons since 1848”

Jindrich Toman, U of Michigan

“Memory Has Agendas: Nineteenth-Century Images of Prague’s Old Jewish

Cemetery”

Hana Pichova, UNC Chapel Hill

“The Demolition of Stalin in Prague”

Disc.: Chad Bryant, UNC at Chapel Hill

Cynthia Paces, The College of New Jersey

7-19 State-Society Relations in Eurasia and Eastern Europe: A Cross-Section

of Research Sponsored by the National Council for Eurasian and East

European Research - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Robert T. Huber, NCEEER

Part.: Stephen Fitzgerald Crowley, Oberlin College

Sarah Louise Henderson, Oregon State U

Eric M. McGlinchey, George Mason U

7-20 Russia’s New Political Economy: Interactions between Domestic and

Global Economy - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Neil Robinson, U of Limerick (Ireland)

Papers: David Stuart Lane, U of Cambridge (UK)

“Russia and the Global Economy”

Andrew Scott Barnes, Kent State U

“Russia’s Potential Role in the World Oil System”

Linda Jean Cook, Brown U

“Oil Wealth and Welfare in the Russian Federation”

Disc.: Paul Thomas Christensen, Boston College

7-21 In Honor of William Mills Todd, III: Fiction, Society, Ideology (I) -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Anne Lounsbery, New York U

Part.: Justyna Anna Beinek, Indiana U

Seamas Stiofan O’Driscoll, Northwestern U

David Powelstock, Brandeis U

Nancy Ruttenburg, New York U

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

7-22 Reading and Writing Russia in 1s and 0s: Digital Culture, New Media, and

the Virtual Vox Populi - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Henrike Schmidt, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

Part.: Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk, Russian State U for the Humanities (Russia)

Ellen Rutten, U of Cambridge (UK)

Robert Alexander Saunders, Farmingdale State College

Vlad Strukov, U of Leeds (UK)

7-23 Sex, Violence, and Russian Women - Harvard

Chair: Roy Raymond Robson, U of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Papers: Sharon A. Kowalsky, Texas A&M U

“Beyond Chubarov Alley: Sexual Violence in Revolutionary Russia”

Kate Transchel, California State U, Chico

“From Hope to Hell: A History of Human Trafﬁ cking from the Former Soviet

Union”

William B. Husband, Oregon State U

“Spanking Natasha: Post-Soviet Pornography and the Internet”

Disc.: Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech

7-24 Émigré Lives in Letters: Aleksandr Amﬁ teatrov and His Correspondents

- Hyannis

Chair: Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia, British Library (UK)

Papers: Edythe C. Haber, Davis Center, Harvard U

“‘I Live Like a Dog. . . It’s Even Funny’: Tefﬁ ’s Tragicomic Life in Letters”

Elda Garetto, U of Milan (Italy)

“Dve emigratsii Aleksandra Amﬁ teatrova”

Andrei Rogatchevski, U of Glasgow (UK)

“Finansovye voprosy v perepiske Bunina i Amﬁ teatrova”

Disc.: Oleg Korostelev, Inst of World Literature

Nina M. Perlina, Indiana U

7-25 Sustainability of Russian Economic Growth (II) - Maine

Chair: Misha V. Belkindas, World Bank

Papers: Philip Hanson, U of Birmingham (UK)

“What’s Russian and What’s Global? The Economic Crisis and Policy

Responses in Russia”

Masaaki Kuboniwa, Hitotsubashi U (Japan)

“Russian Diversiﬁ cation Away from Dependence on Oil after the Lehman

Shock”

Yugo Konno, Mizuho Research Inst (Japan)

“The Russian Economy in the International Division of Labor after the World

Financial Crisis”

Disc.: Richard E. Ericson, East Carolina U

Vladimir Pantyushin, Jones Lang LaSalle

7-26

The European Union, the Awkward Uncle in the Castle and the Path of

Czech Politics in the Past Two Decades - (Roundtable) - Massachusetts

Part.: Tim John Haughton, U of Birmingham (UK)

Kieran Williams, Drake U

Michael Baun, Valdosta State U

Tereza Novotna, Boston U

7-27 Religious Practices, The Orthodox Church and the State - MIT

Chair: Susan Smith-Peter, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Papers: Angela V. Ilic, Temple U

“The Perception of the ‘West’ in the Contemporary Discourse of the Serbian

Orthodox Church”

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Mari-Liis Paaver, Estonian Academy of Arts, Institute of Art History (Estonia)

“The Life of an Icon Painter as Memory of a Lost World”

Irina A. Papkova, Central European U (Hungary)

“Changing of the Guard: Dmitry Medvedev and the New Patriarch”

Disc.: Peter H. Quimby, Princeton U

7-28 Topics in Russian Symbolism - Nantucket

Chair: Yevgeny A. Slivkin, Defense Language Institute

Papers: Jason Merrill, Michigan State U

“Repeating Themes and Images in the Early Theater of Fedor Sologub,

1905-1910”

Tatiana Osipovich, Lewis and Clark College

“A Little Fish out of Water: a Comparative Study of Andersen’s ‘Little

Mermaid’ (1837) & Gippius’ ‘Sacred Blood’ (1901)”

Sara Pankenier, Wellesley College

“Zdravstvui, ty, strannoe: Andrei Bely’s Uses of the Infantile”

Disc.: Henryk Baran, SUNY Albany

Kirsten Lodge, Columbia U

7-29 Debating Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Cosmopolitan Melting Pot or

a Balkan Powder-keg? - New Hampshire

Chair: Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola U Chicago

Papers: Robert M. Hayden, U of Pittsburgh

“Antagonistic Tolerance”

Fedja Buric, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Phlegmatic Nationalists: A History of Bosnians’ Interaction with Ethnicity”

Svetlana Broz, GARIWO

“Mobilizing Ethno-Religious Difference for Political Purposes”

Disc.: Maria Todorova, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

7-30 From Ideal to Historical Reality: Contextualizing Early Russian

Monasticism - Northeastern

Chair: Michael A. Pesenson, U of Texas, Austin

Papers: Jennifer B. Spock, Eastern Kentucky U

“Tipichnyi ili unikal’nyi? Solovki in the Context of Pre-Petrine Russian

Monasticism”

Ludwig Steindorff, U of Kiel (Germany)

“The Visit of Tsar Ivan Vasil’evich IV to the Iosifo-Volokolamskii Monastery in

1566”

Isolde Renate Thyret, Kent State U

“The Politics of Ascription: The Case of the Borisoglebskii Monastery of

Torzhok”

Disc.: Eve Levin, U of Kansas

7-31 Reception and Memory of Natural Disasters in Russia and the Soviet

Union in the Twentieth Century - Orleans

Chair: Andy Byford, U of Durham (UK)

Papers: Jenifer Presto, U of Oregon

“Seismic Southern Italy, Revolutionary Russia, and the Writing of Rupture in

Early 20th Century Russian Thought”

Marc Elie, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

“Defeating the Elements: Heroism and the Memory of the 1973 Landslide in

Alma-Ata”

Douglas T. Northrop, U of Michigan

“Commemorating Catastrophe: Memories of Earthquakes on the Russian/

Soviet Frontier”

Disc.: Douglas R. Weiner, U of Arizona

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

7-33 Bringing Agency Back In: Biographies and Institutional Cultures in

Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union - Regis

Chair: Mark von Hagen, Arizona State U

Papers: David Feest, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (Germany)

“State Representatives and Representations of State: Institutional Cultures

in the Local Admininistration of Ryazan’ Province after the Great Reforms”

Christoph Martin Gumb, Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany)

“Institutional Cultures, Personal Rule, and the State of Emergency: Warsaw

1905”

James W. Heinzen, Rowan U

“Corruption and Institutional Culture in the Soviet Union, 1941-1960”

Disc.: Jane Burbank, New York U

7-35 Modes of Expression in Tarkovsky’s Cinema - Simmons

Chair: Jane Andelman Taubman, Amherst College

Papers: Harlow Loomis Robinson, Northeastern U

“Transﬁ guring the Visual: Music in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky”

Marina Potoplyak, U of Texas at Austin

“‘S Toj Storony Zerkal’nogo Stekla’: Arseny Tarkovsky’s Poetry in Andrei

Tarkovsky’s Zerkalo and Nostalgia”

Katya Balter, UC Berkeley

“The Space of the Dream, the Place of the Spectator: Suture and the

Oeneric in Tarkovsky’s Stalker”

Disc.: Vida T. Johnson, Tufts U

Graham Petrie, McMaster U (Canada)

7-36 New Spins on Russian Cloth Culture, 1900-1920s - Suffolk

Chair: Olga Matich, UC Berkeley

Papers: John Ellis Bowlt, U of Southern California

“‘To Beautify the Dresses of Everyday’: Leon Bakst and Fashion Design”

Colleen McQuillen, U of Illinois at Chicago

“Couture Canvas: Costume Balls at the Petersburg Academy of Arts”

Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion (UK)

“The Flapper: Mediating Modernity in 1920s Russia”

Disc.: Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Harvard U

7-37 Cultural Transgessions - Tufts

Chair: Svitlana Kobets, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Yelena Zotova, U of Illinois at Chicago

“What’s in the Birthday Cake? Assault on the Breast in Two Works by Iuri

Olesha”

Rachel Slayman Platonov, U of Manchester (UK)

“Circus, Spectatorship and the Grotesque in Early 20th-Century Russia”

Anna Fishzon, Williams College

“Highbrow Fans and their Middlebrow Critics: Opera Fandom as

(Sub)culture in Late Imperial Russia”

Disc.: Rebecca Jane Stanton, Barnard College, Columbia U

7-38 Appropriating Adria: The Adriatic Sea as a Space of Conﬂ ict and

Coexistence between the Italian and the South Slavic worlds -

Vermont

Chair: Larry Wolff, New York U

Papers: Dominique K Reill, U of Miami

“Water World and the Clash over Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia”

Borut Klabjan, U of Primorska (Slovenia)

“Scramble for the Adriatic: Discourses of Appropriation of the Adriatic Space

After World War One”

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Igor Tchoukarine, EHESS (France)

“Jugoslovenske More or Dalmazia Nostra? The Confrontation Between

Yugoslav and Italian Associations and Their Claims to the Adriatic Sea After

1918”

Disc.: Pamela Lynn Ballinger, Bowdoin College

7-39 Writing the Margin: Daniil Kharms and Aleksandr Vvedensky - Vineyard

Chair: Gregory Freidin, Stanford U

Papers: Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford U

“Kharms and Karpov: On Outsider Art in Soviet Russia of 1920s and 1930s”

Eugene Ostashevsky, New York U

“Poetry as Critique of Language in the 1930s and Today”

Matvei Yankelevich, Hunter College

“Kharms and Witkacy: The Error of Death”

7-40 Transgressive Lives - Wellesley

Chair: Robert L. Belknap, Columbia U

Papers: Lioudmila Fedorova, Georgetown U

“The Divine American Comedy: The Gogolian Presence in the American

Travelogues of Russian Writers”

Deborah A. Martinsen, Columbia U

“Transgressive Narratives”

Marcia A. Morris, Georgetown U

“Tynianov and the Tragi-Comic Life of Paul I”

Disc.: Peter Rollberg, George Washington U

7-41 Translating Lives: Poetic Tanslation in Twentieth-Century Russian

Literature - Yarmouth

Chair: Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern U

Papers: Stanislav Shvabrin, Princeton U

“Verbal Transmigration as Artistic Cross-Pollination: Translation in

Nabokov’s Original Oeuvre”

Tom Dolack, Wheaton College

“Translation and Mandel’shtam’s Poetic Archaeology”

Maria Y. Khotimsky, Harvard U

“Polish Dialogues in the Poetry of Joseph Brodsky and Natalia

Gorbanevskaia”

Disc.: Sibelan E. S. Forrester, Swarthmore College

Friday Afternoon Event

Joint Reception: Northwestern University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press,

and University of Wisconsin Press invite you to a reception for their Mellon Slavic

Studies Initiative supporting ﬁ rst books in Russian, East European, and Central Asian

Studies. Meet and speak with the acquiring editors from all three presses – Exhibit Hall

– 4:00 P.M.

Session 7 • Friday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Session 8 • FRIDAY • 5:00 P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

Society for Slovene Studies - (Meeting) - Maine

BDC Subcommittee on Collection Development - (Meeting) - Rhode Island

Unconference Session 2 - Tufts

Society for Romanian Studies - (Meeting) – Yarmouth

East European Politics and Societies Editorial Board Meeting - Connecticut

8-01 Roundtable on the 1989 Polish Roundtable: Legacies and Controversies

Twenty Years After - (Roundtable) - Arlington

Chair: Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Washington and Lee U

Part.: Michael H. Bernhard, U of Florida

Jan Kubik, Rutgers U

Jacques Rupnik, Ctr for Intl Studies and Research (France)

Piotr J. Wrobel, U of Toronto (Canada)

8-03 Post-Soviet Fiction and Transmission of Memory of Stalinism -

(Roundtable) - Berkeley

Chair: Evgeny A. Dobrenko, U of Shefﬁ eld (UK)

Part.: Sander Brouwer, U of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Dina Khapaeva, St Petersburg State U (Russia)

Kevin Mercer Forsyth Platt, U of Pennsylvania

William G. Rosenberg, U of Michigan

Timo Vihavainen, U of Helsinki (Finland)

8-04 Scholars and Writers Writing Ukrainian Lives - (Roundtable) - Boston

University

Chair: Myroslava Tomorug Znayenko, Rutgers U

Part.: Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Retired

Vasyl Makhno, Shevchenko Scientiﬁ c Society

Askold Melnyczuk, U Mass, Boston

Larissa M. L. Z. Onyshkevych, Shevchenko Scientiﬁ c Society

8-05 Enlightenment and Reputation in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Brandeis

Papers: Evguenia N. Davidova, Portland State U

“The Importance of Being Esteemed (According to Nineteenth-Century

Balkan Merchants)”

Ryan Jones, University of Washington

“Was There a Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century Russia? The Life of

Peter Simon Pallas”

8-06 Vekhi at 100: Signposts Then and Now - Clarendon

Chair: Ruth Coates, U of Bristol (UK)

Papers: Christopher John Read, U of Warwick (UK)

“Concepts of Religion Revealed in the ‘Vekhi’ Debate”

James Lawrence West, Middlebury College

“Philosophical Idealism and Utopian Capitalism: ‘Vekhi’s’”

Edith W. Clowes, U of Kansas

“How to Be an Independent Public Intellectual: Solzhenitsyn, Pomerants,

and Vekhi”

Disc.: Randall Allen Poole, College of St Scholastica

Session 8 • Friday • 5:00

P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

8-08 Lives of the Legal Profession in Post-Communist Societies - (Roundtable)

- Dartmouth

Chair: Lauren Alicia McCarthy, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Part.: William Eric Pomeranz, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

Peter H. Solomon, U of Toronto (Canada)

Brian D. Taylor, Syracuse U

Alexei Trochev, Indiana U

8-09 Russian Revolutionary Culture before and after 1917 - (Roundtable) -

Exeter

Chair: James W. Heinzen, Rowan U

Part.: Sally Anne Boniece, Frostburg State U

Betsy Jones Hemenway, Loyola U Chicago

Michael Stanford Melancon, Auburn U

Alice K. Pate, Columbus State U

Deborah Pearl, Independent Scholar

8-10 Stalin’s Terror of 1936-38: Images, Analysis and Perspectives - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Wendy Zeva Goldman, Carnegie Mellon U

Papers: David King, Independent Scholar

“On the Eve of Execution: Photographs of the Moscow Trial Defendants

(1936-38)”

Andrea Grant-Friedman, UCLA

“Vadim Rogovin and the Sociology of Stalinism”

David North North, World Socialist Web Site, Mehring Books

“The Moscow Trials as Political Genocide”

Disc.: Frederick Schuyler Choate, UC Davis (Retired)

8-11 The Syntax of Polish Nominals - Falmouth

Chair: Barbara H Partee, U of Massachusetts

Papers: Agnieszka Pysz, Hoegskulen i Volda (Poland), Helen Trugman, HIT (Israel)

and Bożena Cetnarowska, U of Silesia (Poland)

“Derivational versus Representational Approach to Classiﬁ catory Adjectives

in Polish”

Piotr Cegłowski, Adam Mickiewicz U (Poland)

“The Derivational Mechanics of Extraction out of Nominal Phrases in Polish”

Bożena Rozwadowska, U of Wrocław (Poland)

“Against Movement in Polish NPs”

Disc.: Mirjam Fried, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)

8-12 State and Institutions in Albania and Kosovo: New Perspectives - Grand

Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Elidor Mehilli, Princeton U

Papers: Besnik Pula, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“Albania’s Highland Policy, 1919-1943”

Elton Skendaj, Cornell U

“What Works? How International Actors Build State Institutions”

Smoki Musaraj, The New School

“Progress or Stagnation? Competing Temporalities of ‘Transition’ in Post-

Socialist Albania”

8-13 Ethics and the Common Good in Russian Society - Grand Ballroom Salon B

Chair: Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U

Papers: Laura A. Henry, Bowdoin College

“Appealing to the Authorities: Public Efforts to Shape the Common Good in

Russia”

Session 8 • Friday • 5:00

P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

Elisabeth Schimpfoessl, Manchester U (UK)

“Russia’s New Social Upper Class: Life Stories and Social Reproduction”

Xin Zhang, UCLA

“‘Civilized Market’, Ethic Discourse, and Russia’s Economic Transition”

Disc.: Andrew Savchenko, U of Rhode Island

8-16 Ruin, Preservation, and History in Leningrad - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Tatiana Smoliarova, Columbia U

Papers: Andreas Xavier Schonle, Queen Mary U of London (UK)

“Trauma, Beauty, and Ideology: Representing the Ruins of the Blockade”

Steven Maddox, Canisius College

“They See it in Their Dreams, but They do not Have the Wherewithal to

Achieve it: Historic Preservation and Postwar Reality in Leningrad”

Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, U of Oxford (UK)

“Should We ‘Correct’ History? Preserving Leningrad’s Monuments in the

Post-Stalin Era”

Disc.: Julie A. Buckler, Harvard U

8-17 Russia in the Year 2009: The Ed Hewett Memorial Roundtable -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon F

Chair: Victor Henry Winston, Marshall U

Part.: George William Breslauer, UC Berkeley

Timothy James Colton, Harvard U

Richard E. Ericson, East Carolina U

Gail W. Lapidus, Stanford U

8-18 Handbooks after Great Narratives: the Search for the New Optics in

Teaching Russian History & Literature - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom

Salon G

Chair: Maria Mayoﬁ s, New Literary Observer (Russia)

Part.: Caryl Emerson, Princeton U

Irina Dmitrievna Prokhorova, New Literary Observer (Russia)

Ilya Vinitsky, U of Pennsylvania

Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern U

8-19 The Soviet Manager: New Evidence - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Anthony John Heywood, U of Aberdeen (UK)

Papers: Paul R. Gregory, U of Houston

“Terror by Quota: Managing State Security”

Mark Harrison, U of Warwick (UK)

“Forging Success: Soviet Managers and False Accounting”

Andrei Mikhaylovich Markevich, New Economic School

“What did Soviet Managers Maximize? Evidence from the Industrial

Archives”

Disc.: Michael Ellman, U of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

8-20 United Russia: Power and Legitimacy - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Regina Anne Smyth, Indiana U

Papers: Henry E. Hale, George Washington U

“What Makes Dominant Parties Dominant? The Unlikely Importance of

Ideas in the Case of United Russia”

Marlene Laruelle, French Ctr for Russian, Caucasian and East European

Studies (France)

“The Ideology Issue in United Russia: The Structuring of the Think Tank

World”

Thomas Frederick Remington, Emory U

“United Russia and the Search for an Ideological Doctrine”

Disc.: Richard T. Sakwa, U of Kent (UK)

Session 8 • Friday • 5:00 P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

8-21 In Honor of William Mills Todd III: Fiction, Society, Ideology (II) -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon J - A reception will be held as part of

this Roundtable. The reception will begin at approximately 5:45 P.M.

Chair: Michael S. Flier, Harvard U

Part.: Jeffrey Peter Brooks, Johns Hopkins U

Katia Dianina, U of Virginia

Gregory Freidin, Stanford U

Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College

Irina Reyfman, Columbia U

8-22 Postwar Soviet Higher Learning and its Discontents - Grand Ballroom

Salon K

Chair: Vladislav M. Zubok, Temple U

Papers: Polly Jones, U College London (UK)

“Revisions, Revisionism, or Dissent? Stalinist History and ‘Stalinist’

Historians in the Thaw”

Kathleen Elizabeth Smith, Georgetown U

“‘Acts Incompatible with the Title of Komsomol’: Studying Genetics in the

Age of Lysenko”

Benjamin Tromly, U of Puget Sound

“Pre-Revolutionary Fossils as True Intelligenty: Old Professors and Soviet

University Politics, 1948-1964”

Disc.: Anne E. Gorsuch, U of British Columbia (Canada)

8-23 Research and Writing about Women in the CIS - (Roundtable) - Harvard

Chair: Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva, Herzen State Pedagogical Unviersity

(Russia)

Part.: Elena Gapova, European Humanities U (Lithuania)/Western Michigan U

Oksana Kis, National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)

Natalia V. Novikova, Yaroslav’l State Pedagogical U (Russia)

Natalia Lvovna Pushkareva, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

8-24 Narrating South Slav Muslim Lives: Ivo Andric and Mesa Selimovic -

Hyannis

Chair: Olga L. Medvedkov, Wittenberg U

Papers: Thomas J. Butler

“The Islamic Element in the Works of Ivo Andric and Mesa Selimovic”

Keith Doubt, Wittenberg U

“Solipsism and the Problem of Self-Knowledge in ‘Death and the Dervish’”

Amila Buturovic, York U

“The Anguish of Salvation in Mesa Selimovic’s Novels”

Disc.: Robert J. Donia, U of Michigan

8-26 The EU in the Balkans: Recent Entrants, Hopeful Aspirants - (Roundtable)

- Massachusetts

Chair: Walter Downing Connor, Boston U

Part.: Evan Kraft, Croatian National Bank (Croatia)

John R. Lampe, U of Maryland

Ronald H. Linden, U of Pittsburgh

8-27 The Occult Revival in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia - MIT

Chair: John McCannon, U of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Papers: Birgit Menzel, U of Mainz (Germany)

“Occult/Esoteric Quests, Circles and Movements 1960-1985”

Michael Hagemeister, U of Munich (Germany)

“The Third Rome Against the Third Temple”

Session 8 • Friday • 5:00 P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

Boris Zinovyvich Falikov, Lewis and Clark College

“Transpersonal Psychology in Russia”

Disc.: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Fordham U

8-28 Topics in Russian Symbolism II: Life Intersections - Nantucket

Chair: Katherine Ann Bowers, Northwestern U

Papers: Irina Shevelenko, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“Aesthetic Ideals and Nationalist Sentiments: Russo-Japanese War in

Modernist Publications”

Michael D. Johnson, U of Kansas

“Rewriting the (Dramatic) Life: Briusov’s and Przybyszewski’s Views of the

New Art and Drama”

Kirsti Ekonen, U of Tampere (Finland)

“Nina Petrovskaia: Anti-Decadent Pathos and the Feminine Self”

Disc.: Katherine Marie Lahti, Trinity College

8-29 Documenting Conﬂ ict in Former Yugoslavia - New Hampshire

Chair: Sandra Kalmar Batalden, Arizona State U

Papers: Filip Erdjelac, Arizona State U

“Ethnic Conﬂ ict Mobilization in Popular Serbian and Croatian Song Lyrics of

Former Yugoslavia”

Brian Gratton, Arizona State U

“A Pilot Attitudinal Survey Documenting Religious Tolerance and Intolerance

among Bosnian Muslims, Orthodox, and Catholics”

Zilka Spahic-Siljak, U of Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

“Nationalization of Muslim Women’s Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An

Analysis of the First Muslim Women’s Magazine ‘Zehra’”

Disc.: Robert M. Hayden, U of Pittsburgh

8-30 Religion and Representations in Early Modern Russian Foreign Relations

- Northeastern – Sponsored by the Early Slavic Studies Association

Chair: Karin Friedrich, U of Aberdeen (UK)

Papers: Bulat Raimovich Rakhimzyanov, Institute of History of the Academy of

Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia)

“On the Path to Empire: Muslim Dynasts and Their Lurts in Fifteenth and

Sixteenth Century Muscovy”

Christoph Witzenrath, U of Aberdeen (UK)

“Wisdom and Redemption: On Liberation and Delineation of Identities in

Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Muscovite Steppe Exchanges”

Cornelia Soldat, U of Potsdam (Germany)

“Giles Fletcher: Making Religion a Topic of Foreign Affairs”

Disc.: Donald Ostrowski, Harvard U

8-31 Neither Here, Nor There: Tricksters in Soviet Culture - Orleans

Chair: Jenifer Presto, U of Oregon

Papers: Mark N. Lipovetsky, U of Colorado at Boulder

“Ilya Erhenburg’s Julio Jurenito: Trickster and Revolution”

Ilya Kalinin, New Literary Observer (Russia)

“Shklovsky as a Technique: Literary Theory and Biographic Strategies of

One Soviet Intellectual”

Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn U College (Sweden)

“Trickery, Agency, and the Crisis of Conﬁ dence in the Age of Anomie”

Disc.: Boris Wolfson, Amherst College

Session 8 • Friday • 5:00

P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

8-32 Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”: History, Genre, Theology - Provincetown

Chair: Carol Apollonio, Duke U

Papers: Anna Dvigubski, Columbia U

“Historicizing, Foretelling, Fortunetelling: False Memories and False

Narratives in War and Peace”

John R. Givens, U of Rochester

“Divine Love in War and Peace”

Matthew Peter McGarry, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“War and Peace: Tolstoy’s Anthropological Thought Experiment in Genre,

Will, and Freedom”

Disc.: Gordon Jeffrey Love, Clemson U

8-35 Aesthetics and Geopolitics of Poetic Cinema - Simmons

Chair: Julie Ann Christensen, George Mason U

Papers: Joshua First, Miami U of Ohio

“Poetic Cinema and Modernism: France. USSR. Italy. Ukraine’”

Elizabeth A. Papazian, U of Maryland

“Shadows of Forgotten Identity: Aesthetics of Ethnicity in Poetic Cinema”

Karla Oeler, Emory U

“Don Juan Is Dead: Zoltán Huszárik’s Szindbád (1971)”

Disc.: Maria Salazkina, Colgate U

8-36 (Re)writing Life and Death through Art and Policing - Suffolk

Chair: Julia Bekman Chadaga, Macalester College

Papers: Sven Spieker, UC Santa Barbara

“The Avant-Garde and the Police”

Cristina Vatulescu, New York U

“Police Aesthetics”

Svetlana Boym, Harvard U

“The Bildungsroman of a Rootless Cosmopolitan”

Disc.: Alice Osborne Lovejoy, Yale U

8-39 From Underground Magazines to Cross-Cultural Poetics and Media

Art: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Alternate Routes in Contemporary

Russian Literature - (Roundtable) - Vineyard

Chair: Yuri Leving, Dalhousie U (Canada)

Part.: Jacob Edmond, U of Otago (New Zealand)

Thomas Ralph Epstein, Boston College

Anna Glazova, Northwestern U

Dennis Ioffe, U of Amsterdam(The Netherlands) / Memorial U of Newfoundland

(Canada)

Evgeny Pavlov, U of Canterbury (New Zealand)

8-40 Writing and Performing Identity in East Europe and Russia - Wellesley

Chair: Willard Sunderland, U of Cincinnati

Papers: Ramajana Hidic-Demirovic, Indiana U

“Performing Tradition in the Public Arena-Laura Papo Bohoreta and the

Sephardi Identity in the Inter-war Bosnia”

Krista Lynn Sigler, U of Cincinnati

“Noblesse Oblige: Elite Society’s Search for Relevance in Late Imperial

Russia, 1880-1917”

Susan Marie Williams, Indiana U

“Biographizing a Nation: Romani Publications in Interwar Romania”

Disc.: Malgorzata Fidelis, U of Illinois at Chicago

Session 8 • Friday • 5:00

P.M. – 6:45 P.M.

Friday Evening Meetings • 7:00 P.M. – 8:45 P.M.

Association for Croatian Studies - (Meeting) - Orleans

BDC Vendor Presentations - (Meeting) – Simmons

Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center - (Meeting) - Hyannis

Early Slavic Studies Association - (Meeting) – Yarmouth

North American Society for Serbian Studies - (Meeting) - New Hampshire

PIASA (Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America) - (Meeting) – Maine

Society for Albanian Studies - (Meeting) - MIT

Southeast European Studies Association - (Meeting) - Brandeis

Working Group on Cinema & Television - (Meeting) - Northeastern

Friday Evening Events

(All Events Begin at 7:45 P.M. unless otherwise noted)

Film Screening: of My Perestroika (working title), a documentary by Robin Hessman

which tells the personal histories of 5 childhood classmates who grew up as part of the

last generation of Soviet children. The ﬁ lm interweaves their stories of the past and their

contemporary Moscow lives with their 8mm home movies to give an intimate portrait of

what it was like to grow up during times of change. (Sneak preview prior to showing on

PBS) sponsored by the Davis Center at Harvard University – Grand Ballrooms H and I

– 7:00

P.M.

Davis Center at Harvard University Alumni Reception – Grand Ballrooms J and K

– 9:00

P.M.

Film Screening: Red Zion. Krasnyi Sion - a ﬁ lm by Evgenii Tsymbal (Russia, 2006

- 52 minutes) – Provincetown – To discourage Jews from immigrating to Palestine during

the 1920s, the USSR established agricultural collectives in the fertile lands north of the

Black Sea. The renowned documentary director Evgeny Tsymbal presents a compelling

documentary about the rise and fall of the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region in the

Crimea, featuring newly released archival newsreels. – 8:00

P.M.

Central Europeanists Reception, cosponsored by the Czechoslovak Studies

Association, Hungarian Studies Association, Polish Studies Association, Slovak

Studies Association, Society for Romanian Studies and Society for Slovene

Studies – Grand Ballroom Salon E

Harriman Institute at Columbia University Alumni Reception – Grand Ballroom

Salons C & D

Stanford/UC Berkeley Joint Alumni Reception – Grand Ballroom Salons A & B

Relaunch of Nationalities Papers – Suffolk Room – To celebrate the relaunch of

Nationalities Papers, the Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, the Association for the

Study of Nationalities and Taylor and Francis would like to invite all interested AAASS

participants to a reception to meet with members of the new editorial team.

Friday Evening Meetings and Events

St. Petersburg Review Poetry Reading with St. Petersburg poets Dmitry Golynko

and Polina Barskova followed by a wine reception – Nantucket

European University at St. Petersburg Reception – Wellesley – Please join EU

faculty, alumni, and friends to celebrate our expanded MA Program for non-Russian

students, the initial success of our endowment campaign, and our mutual efforts to

sustain independent graduate education in Russia. – 8:00 P.M.

University of Chicago Alumni Reception – Harvard

Indiana University Alumni Dessert Reception – Grand Ballroom Salon F – 9:30

P.M.

Friday Evening Meetings and Events

Saturday

November

Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Exhibit Hall Hours: 9:00

A.M. – 6:00 P.M. – Gloucester

Saturday Morning Event

Morning Coffee Break in honor of the publication of Stalinism Revisited, The

Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe, edited by Vladimir

Tismaneanu. The editor and numerous contributors will be in attendance. Sponsored by

the Central European University Press in Booth #312 in the Exhibit Hall – 9:00 A.M.

Session 9 • SATURDAY • 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

MAG – the International Association of Humanists - Vineyard

9-01 Teaching 1989: New Resources and Strategies - (Roundtable) - Arlington

Chair: Deanna Gayle Wooley, Indiana U

Part.: Eliza Johnson Ablovatski, Kenyon College

T. Mills Kelly, George Mason U

Cynthia Paces, The College of New Jersey

9-02 The Future of Slavic Librarianship in the Digital Era - (Roundtable) - St.

Botolph – Sponsored by BDC Subcommittee on Slavic Digital Projects

Chair: Michael Meyer Brewer, U of Arizona

Part.: Robert Harding Davis, Columbia U

Janice T. Pilch, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nicholas Thorner, Library of Congress

Patricia K. Thurston, Yale U

Aaron J. Trehub, Auburn U

9-03 (Re)writing the Stalinist Hero - Berkeley

Chair: Edith W. Clowes, U of Kansas

Papers: Conor Klamann, Northwestern U

“From Class Consciousness to Class Warfare: The Changing Place of

Pushkin’s Work in his Stalinist Biography”

Adrienne M. Harris, Baylor U

“Heroic Mothers and their Deti-geroi: Zoia Kosmodem’ianskaia and Oleg

Koshevoi”

Benjamin Massey Sutcliffe, Miami U

“Destalinizing Banality in I. Grekova’s The Hotel Manager”

Disc.: Arianna Lynn Nowakowski, U of Denver

9-04 Literature and the Visual (Arts): Clouds, Steppe, Road, Etc. - (Roundtable)

- Boston University

Chair: John Ellis Bowlt, U of Southern California

Part.: Polina Barskova, Hampshire College

Molly Jo Brunson, Yale U

Boris Groys, Inst for Art Science, Braunschweig U of Art (Germany)

Olga Matich, UC Berkeley

9-05 Russia and the West, the West and Russia, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries

- Brandeis

Chair: Ana Siljak, Queen’s U (Canada)

Papers: Kees Boterbloem, U of South Florida

“Dutch Travelers in Late Muscovy: The van Klenck Embassy and Coyett’s

Historisch Verhael”

Steven A. Usitalo, Northern State U

“Pilgrimages to Enlightenment: Tropes in the (Auto-) Biographies of the

Early-Modern ‘Scientist’”

William Benton Whisenhunt, College of DuPage

“Charles Ross Parke: An American Surgeon in Service to Nicholas I during

the Crimean War”

Disc.: Daniel H. Kaiser, Grinnell College

9-07 Hungarian and Czecho-Slovak Encounters in the Short Twentieth

Century - Connecticut

Chair: Susan Glanz, St John’s U

Papers: Balazs Ablonczy, Eotvos Lorand U (Hungary)

“Masaryk’s Friends: The Czechophiles in Hungary between the Two World

Wars”

Bela Bodo, Missouri State U

“The Hungarian Ragged Guard and the Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939”

Peter Pastor, Montclair State U

“Hungarian Responses to the ‘Prague Spring’ in 1968”

Disc.: Thomas Sakmyster, U of Cincinnati

9-08 Citizens and the State: The Search for Justice in Putin’s Russia -

Dartmouth

Chair: Alan Holiman, William Jewell College

Papers: Janet Elise Johnson, Brooklyn College, CUNY

“Assessing Gender Justice under Putin”

Alfred Burney Evans, Jr., California State U, Fresno

“The Public Chamber as a Channel of Appeal”

Valerie Jeanne Sperling, Clark U

“Trials and Tribulations: Russia and the European Court of Human Rights”

Disc.: James Gerard Richter, Bates College

9-09 The NEP Era in Soviet Russia: Politics, Personalities, and Cadres - Exeter

Chair: Barbara Allen, La Salle U

Papers: Alexis Esther Pogorelskin, U of Minnesota-Duluth

“Kamenev and Moscow Politics in Early NEP”

Christopher S. Monty, California State U, Dominguez Hills

“The Central Committee Secretariat as a ‘Labor Exchange’: the Politics of

Personnel Assignments during the New Economic Policy, 1921-1928”

Charters S. Wynn, U of Texas at Austin

“Balancing Act: Mikhail Tomsky as Politburo Member and Trade Union

Leader”

Disc.: T. Clayton Black, Washington College

Session 9 • Saturday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

9-10 ‘Within the Whirlwind’: Everyday Experience During the Terror - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Lynne Viola, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: David Brandenberger, U of Richmond

“Popular Reactions to the Purge of the Red Army High Command”

Jeffrey J. Rossman, U of Virginia

“Perpetrator Experience during the Great Terror”

Wendy Zeva Goldman, Carnegie Mellon U

“Small Motors of Terror: Mass Participation and the Factory Newspapers”

Disc.: J. Arch Getty, UCLA

9-14 Lives without Lenin? The Transformation of Identities in the Later Soviet

Union - Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: David Randall Shearer, U of Delaware

Papers: Juliane Fuerst, U of Bristol (UK)

“Hooligan, Writer, Hijacker: The Many Lives of Eduard Kuznetsov”

Michael Thomas Westrate, U of Notre Dame

“A Flea on the Bear: Valery Abramkin and Dissent under the Late Soviet

Regime”

Maria Rogacheva, U of Notre Dame

“Assault from Within: Alexander Yakovlev and the End of the Communist

Utopia”

Disc.: Denis Kozlov, Dalhousie U (Canada)

9-15 Reading Lives of Nations and Individuals in the Context of Chernobyl -

Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Elena Gapova, European Humanities U (Lithuania)/Western Michigan U

Papers: Tatiana Kasperski, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France)

“The Value of Human Life in the Post-Chernobyl Politics in Belarus”

Evgenia Ivanova, European Humanities U (Lithuania)

“Gender and Citizenship in the Post-Chernobyl Context”

Andrei Stepanov, Center for Historical Studies (Germany)/ European

Humanities U (Lithuania)

“Risk and Life Politics in Belarus after Chernobyl”

Disc.: Melanie Arndt, The Centre for Research on Contemporary History (Germany)

9-16 Urban History in Russia/East-Central Europe: New Approaches and

Insights - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Tarik Cyril Amar, Princeton U

Part.: Faith C. Hillis, Columbia U

Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton U (Canada)

Roshanna Patricia Sylvester, DePaul U

Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois U Carbondale

9-17 Russian Politics in 2009: A Look Back at an Unpredictable Year -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon F

Chair: Henry E. Hale, George Washington U

Part.: M Steven Fish, UC Berkeley

Stephen Earl Hanson, U of Washington

Thomas Frederick Remington, Emory U

Kathryn Elizabeth Stoner-Weiss, Stanford U

Joshua A. Tucker, New York U

Session 9 • Saturday • 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

9-18 The Lives of Others: Surveillance, Researchers and Fieldwork in Eastern

Europe - Grand Ballroom Salon G - Sponsored by: Soyuz - The Research

Network for Postsocialist Studies

Chair: Rebecca A. Chamberlain, London School of Economics & Political Science (UK)

Papers: Aleksandra Sasha Milicevic, U of North Florida

“Interrogated Interviewer: What I Learned from the Secret Police”

Katherine M. Verdery, The Graduate Center, CUNY

“Observer Observed: Notes From My Securitate File”

Kristen R. Ghodsee, Bowdoin College

“Visas, Residency Permits, and Background Checks: The Politics of Doing

Fieldwork in Eastern Europe”

Disc.: Gail Kligman, UCLA

9-19 The Return of Class in Post-Communist Society - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Papers: David Ost, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

“The Return of Class in Post-Communist Society”

Jacek Lubecki, U of Arkansas at Little Rock

“The Class Basis of Galician Political Culture: Polish and Ukrainian Galicias

Compared”

Mieke Meurs, American U

“Farmers and Peasants in the Bulgarian Countryside: What Difference Do

Property Rights Make”

Disc.: Kevin Deegan-Krause, Wayne State U

9-20 Russian Mass Media and Contemporary Russian Politics - (Roundtable)

- Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Yitzhak Brudny, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel)

Part.: Gasan Chingizovich Gusejnov, Moscow State U (Russia)

Pavel Polian, Russian Academy Of Sciences (Russia)

Ilya Prizel, U of Pittsburgh

Alexander Smoljanski, Integrum World Wide (Germany)

9-22 Education in the Soviet and Post-Sovet Eras - Grand Ballroom Salon K

Papers: Melissa Andrea Chakars, U of North Carolina Wilmington

“Buryat Schools in the Late Soviet Period: Teachers, Parents, and

Educational Content”

Joan F. Chevalier, US Naval Academy

“Minority Language Education in Russia: The Fate of the National Schools

in South Siberia”

Harun Yilmaz, U of Oxford (UK)

“Creation of National History of Kazakhstan and Relations with ‘Others’”

Disc.: Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton U

9-23 Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Narrative in Modern Russia and the USSR

- Harvard

Chair: Paula Anne Michaels, U of Iowa

Papers: Deborah A. Field, Adrian College

“Noble Savages, Musical Spendthrifts and European Despots: Russian

Travelers’ Views of American Slavery and African-American Views of

Russian Serfdom”

Rebecca Friedman, Florida Intl U

“Narrating the Self: Gender and Coming of Age in Late Imperial Russia”

Tom Ewing, Virginia Tech

“Lives in Schools: Gender, Education, and Empire in the Soviet Narrative”

Disc.: Choi Chatterjee, California State U, Los Angeles

Session 9 • Saturday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

9-24 Mikhail M. Karpovich (1888-1959): Linking Russian Immigration and

American Academia - Hyannis

Chair: Marina Ledkovsky, Barnard College, Columbia U (Emerita)

Papers: Alla Zeide, Independent Scholar

“Teaching Russian History during the Cold War: M. M. Karpovich at

Harvard”

Linda Groves Gerstein, Haverford College

“‘I was Karpovich’s Last Student Convert’: Converted to Russian History and

Literature in 1956-1957”

Marina Adamovitch, The New Review Magazine

“Prof. Mikhail Karpovich on the Pages of the New Review, 1940-50”

Disc.: Alexis Klimoff, Vassar College

Alexander M. Semyonov, Smolny College (Russia)

9-25 Assessments of Western Study of the Soviet Economy - Maine

Papers: Michael Ellman, U of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

“The Contribution of Economic Sovietology to Mainstream Economics”

Gur Ofer, Hebrew U, Mt. Scopus (Israel)

“Sovietology and Transition: Blessing or Burden?”

Vladimir Kontorovich, Haverford College

“Sovietology and the Soviet Military Sector”

9-26 1989-1999-2009 The Renaissance of Europe? The Communist Collapse,

the Helsinki Decision for the EU Enlargement, and the Western Balkans

Today - (Roundtable) - Massachusetts

Chair: Francine Friedman, Ball State U

Part.: Stefano Bianchini, U of Bologna (Italy)

David B. Kanin, CIA

Julie Mostov, Drexel U

R. Craig Nation, US Army War College

Francesco Privitera, U of Bologna (Italy)

9-27 Between the Sacred and Profane: Clericalism, Minorities, and the Quest

for National Belonging in Greater Romania - MIT

Chair: Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes U (UK)

Papers: R. Chris Davis, U of Oxford (UK)

“The Brothers Martinas and the Romanianization of the Hungarian-Speaking

Csangos”

Tudor Georgescu, Oxford Brookes U (UK)

“Father Alfred Csallner and the Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar

Romania”

James Kapalo, U of London (UK)

“Canonization of the Turkish Tongue: Mihail Çakir, Clerical Agency, and the

Gagauz National Movement”

Disc.: Vladimir A. Solonari, U of Central Florida

9-28 Reading Herzen’s Life: the Personal and the Political - Nantucket

Chair: Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Georgetown U

Papers: Martha A. Kuchar, Roanoke College

“‘Things Fall Apart’: Marriage and Divorce in Herzen’s Circle in the 1840s”

Robert Harris, Oxford U (UK)

“Herzen’s Reading of Mill and Owen: English Theories of Individual Liberty

for the Russian Nation”

Kathleen Frances Parthe, U of Rochester

“The Voice of ‘The Bell’”

Disc.: Michael R. Katz, Middlebury College

Session 9 • Saturday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

9-29 National Epics, International Solidarity, and Interethnic Romance in the

Modern History of Bosnia and Herzegovina - New Hampshire

Chair: Kate Meehan Pedrotty, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers: Tatiana Kuzmic, U of Texas at Austin

“Yugoslav Wars of Succession and the Romantic National Epics: Njegoš’s

‘Mountain Wreath’ and Mažuranić’s ‘Death of Smail-aga Čengić’ Revisited”

James DC Walker, Ohio State U

“Bosnia as the Chronotopic Location of the Turkish Self “

Zdenko Mandusic, U of Chicago

“Inconvenient Romances: Interethnic Relations After Yugoslavia”

Disc.: Cynthia F. Simmons, Boston College

9-30 Hagiographical Traditions of Holy Foolery: Byzantium and Rus -

Northeastern

Chair: Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, U of Oregon

Papers: Priscilla Hart Hunt, U of Massachusetts

“The ‘Life’ of St. Andew the Fool and the ‘Life’ of Avvakum: Holy Foolery in

Defense of the Universal Church”

Svitlana Kobets, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Isaakii of the Kievan Caves Monastery: An Ascetic Feigning Madness or a

Madman Turned Saint?”

Marina Swoboda, McGill U (Canada)

“The Ascetics and the Prophets: The Topic of Holy Foolishness in the Vitas

of Avraami of Smolensk and Mikhail of Klopsk”

Disc.: David Kirk Prestel, Michigan State U

9-31 On the Move in the USSR: Tourism, Exploration, Homecoming - Orleans

Chair: Andreas Xavier Schonle, Queen Mary U of London (UK)

Papers: Anne Elizabeth Dwyer, Pomona College

“In Search of a Lost Empire: Joseph Roth’s Russia”

John Preston Hope, Colgate U

“At Home among Strangers? Soviet Mountaineering and Ethnic Difference”

Sasha Senderovich, Harvard U

“Return to ‘Red’ Zion: Semyon Gekht’s ‘A Ship Sails to Jaffa and Back’”

Disc.: Michael M. Kunichika, New York U

9-32 Living Fiction - Provincetown

Papers: Rolf E. Hellebust, U of Nottingham (UK)

“Dostoevsky’s Heroes as Readers and Writers of Their Own Lives”

David M.B.L. Herman, U of Virginia

“Tolstoy and the Imperfections of Fiction”

Julia P. Friedman, Waseda U, SILS (Japan)

“Life into Fiction, Fiction into Life: The Love and the Sin of Alexei Remizov”

9-33 State and Society in Late Imperial/Early Soviet Russia - Regis

Chair: Michael Stanford Melancon, Auburn U

Papers: Elena N Eskridge-Kosmach, Francis Marion U

“Russian Foreign Policy Towards China at the End of the 19th century to

1903”

Gayle Lonergan, U of Oxford (UK)

“Military Contingency versus Revolutionary Theory: The Military Opposition

at the Eighth Party Congress”

Brandon C. Schneider, Georgetown U

“To Form a More Perfect Union: The Petrov Commission and the Russian

Railroads, 1908-1913”

Session 9 • Saturday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

9-34 Exile and Identity in Eastern Europe - Rhode Island

Papers: Irena Gantar Godina, Inst for Slovenian Emigration Studies (Slovenia)

“Biographical Insight into First Ofﬁ cial Slovene National Socialist Fran

Radešček: His Forced Emigration and its Impacts upon his World-View and

Political Determination”

Gregor Kranjc, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Crusaders, Clerics, Kulaks and Émigré Conspiracies: Yugoslavia’s Post-

War Politics of Fear, 1945-1948”

Francis D. Raska, Charles U

“Balancing Principle and Practicality: The American Exile of Ferdinand

Peroutka “

9-35 Cinematography in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema I: The Stalin Era and

the Thaw - Simmons

Chair: Elizabeth A. Papazian, U of Maryland

Papers: Andrey Shcherbenok, U of Shefﬁ eld (UK)

“The Suture, the Subject, and the (Extra) Diegetic Space in Soviet Cinema”

Herbert J. Eagle, U of Michigan

“Semantic and Affectual Functions of Camera Movement in Thaw Cinema”

Vida T. Johnson, Tufts U

“Tarkovsky: From Eisenstein to Dovzhenko--Elements of Style”

Disc.: Karla Oeler, Emory U

9-36 Serbian Music: Melodies and Rhythms, Past and Present - Suffolk

Chair: Nada Petkovic, U of Chicago

Papers: Katarina Tomašević, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbia)

“Guardian of the Memory: Serbian Art Music According to Tradition”

Dimitrije Golemović, Belgrade Academy of Music (Serbia)

“Musical Dialects in Serbia”

Owen Kohl, U of Chicago

“Serbian Hip Hop in Global and Regional Context”

Disc.: Jim Samson, U of Trondheim (Norway)

9-37 Music and Literature - Tufts

Chair: Alexander Burry, Ohio State U

Papers: Polina Dimcheva Dimova, UC Berkeley

“The Poet of Fire: Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus and the Russian

Symbolist Poetics of Light”

Emily A Frey, UC Berkeley

“Onegin’s Journey: Chaikovsky and Evgeny Onegin from Pushkin to

Dostoyevsky”

Tony Hsiu Lin, UC Berkeley

“Alexander Scriabin and Viacheslav Ivanov: The Fusion of Music and

Poetry”

Disc.: Janneke Micaela Van de Stadt, Williams College

9-38 Socialist Internationalism, Part I (Brotherly Help) - Vermont

Chair: Maria Sidorkina Rives, Yale

Papers: Ulrich Best, TU Chemnitz (Germany)

“The Controlled Space of Socialist Internationalism and its Transgression:

COMECON Energy Projects between 1970 and 1990”

Maryna Yevgenivna Bazylevych, SUNY Albany

“In and Out of Africa: the Post-Socialist Migration of Ukrainian Physicians”

Johanna K. Bockman, George Mason U

“Yugoslavia, the Non-Aligned Movement, and International Socialism “

Disc.: Douglas J. Rogers, Yale U

Session 9 • Saturday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

9-40 Representing Romani (Gypsy) Lives: The Politics of Identity in

Contemporary Eastern Europe - Wellesley

Chair: Eran Livni, Indiana U

Papers: Krista Harper, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Lives, Images, Audiences, Intentions: Participatory Visual Anthropology in a

Hungarian Romani Neighborhood”

Carol T. Silverman, U of Oregon

“Artful Politics of Identity: The Life of ‘Gypsy Queen’ Esma Redzepova”

Margaret Hiebert Beissinger, Princeton U

“Born-Again Romani Musicians: Pentecostal Faith and Shifting Identities

among Roma in Post-Communist Romania”

Disc.: Alaina Maria Lemon, U of Michigan

9-41 Classics of Post-Stalinism: Aksenov, Bitov and Brodsky - Yarmouth

Chair: Ellen Chances, Princeton U

Papers: Nataliya Gavrilova, City U of New York

“Shakespearean Intertext in Joseph Brodsky’s Works”

Konstantin V. Kustanovich, Vanderbilt U

“In Search of a Genre: The Latest Works of Vasilii Aksenov”

Jenna Jieun Song, U of Chicago

“Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House: The Museum of Cultural Amnesia”

Disc.: Maria Rubins, U College London (UK)

Session 10 • SATURDAY • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Council of Institutional Organizations - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon C

10-01 Was 1989 Inevitable? External Factors vs. Local Actors - (Roundtable) -

Arlington

Part.: Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston U

Mark Nathan Kramer, Harvard U

Michael Kraus, Middlebury College

Igor Lukes, Boston U

Joseph W. Wippl, Boston U

10-02 Practical Copyright Considerations for Slavic and Eurasian Research,

Teaching, and Librarianship - (Roundtable) - St. Botolph

Chair: Stephen D Corrsin, New York Public Library

Part.: Michael Meyer Brewer, U of Arizona

Min Chan, East View Information Services

Janice T. Pilch, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James T. Simon, Center for Research Libraries

10-05 Religion and Property in Imperial Russia - Brandeis

Chair: William Gilson Wagner, Williams College

Papers: Martina Winkler, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany)

“Holy Possessions: Icons and Noble Identities in 18th and 19th-Century

Russia”

Mikhail Dolbilov, U of Maryland

“Contesting Icons, Expropriating Churches: Some Cases of Orthodox-

Catholic Confrontation in the Russian Empire’s West”

Paul William Werth, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

“‘Spiritual Domains’ and Non-Orthodox Ecclesiastical Property in Imperial

Russia”

Disc.: Nicholas Brenton Breyfogle, Ohio State U

Session 10 • Saturday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

10-06 More about Growing Up in Modern Russia: Children, Society and the

State - Clarendon

Chair: Julie K. deGraffenried, Baylor U

Papers: Boris B Gorshkov, Auburn U

“Gendering Children in Late Imperial Popular Culture”

Tricia Starks, U of Arkansas

“The Smoking Boy and Moral Panic in Turn-of-the-Century Russia”

Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon, U of West Georgia

“The Forgotten Victims of Stalinism: Childhood and the Soviet Gulag, 1929-

1953”

Disc.: Margarita Nafpaktitis, U of Virginia

10-07 Acting Hungarian on a European Stage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on

the Performance of Modern Hungarian Identities - Connecticut

Chair: Katalin Franciska Rac, U of Florida

Papers: Steven Jobbitt, California State U, Fullerton

“Playing the Part: Hungarian Boy Scouts and the Performance of National

Trauma in Interwar Europe”

Emese Ivan, St. John’s U

“At Play in Europe: Sport and Hungarian Identity Performance in Open

(Non)National Championships”

Catherine E. Portuges, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Hungarian Cinema Negotiates the EU Challenge”

Disc.: Richard Sherman Esbenshade, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10-08 Writing and Reading Violated Lives: Towards a History of Human Rights

in Russia - Dartmouth

Chair: Steven A. Barnes, George Mason U

Papers: Lynn E. Patyk, U of Florida

“The Humanitarian Terrorist”

Stuart D. Finkel, U of Florida

“Defending the Rights of the Individual: The Juridical Commission of the

Political Red Cross in Early Soviet Russia”

Anna Brodsky, Washington and Lee U

“Soldier Memoirs: Engaging Non-Combatants in Chechnya and Iraq”

Disc.: Emma Gilligan, U of Connecticut

10-09 Did Leninism Lead to Stalinism? - Exeter

Chair: Jonathan Harris, U of Pittsburgh Press

Papers: Paul Joseph Le Blanc, La Roche College

“Lenin and Revolutionary Democracy”

Thomas Marshall Twiss, U of Pittsburgh

“Trotsky’s Analysis of Stalinism”

Kevin J. Murphy, U of Massachusetts, Boston

“The Soviet Working Class under Lenin and Stalin”

Disc.: Susan Weissman, St Mary’s College of California

10-10 Scripting a Heroic Past: Soviet War Memory and Commemoration -

Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Nina Tumarkin, Wellesley College

Papers: Karen Petrone, U of Kentucky

“Remembering (and Forgetting) World War I: Moscow’s All-Russian War

Cemetery, 1915-2009”

Justus Grant Hartzok, U of Iowa

“Celebrating Triumph Amidst Terror: Reshaping the Civil War Narrative

during the Twentieth Anniversary of the Red Army, 1937-1939”

Session 10 • Saturday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Jonathan Brunstedt, U of Oxford (UK)

“Building a ‘Boundary of Glory’: Conceptions of National Identity along

Moscow’s Battlefront during the Cult of WWII”

Disc.: Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester U

10-11 Émigré Narratives in Context - Falmouth

Chair: Greta N. Slobin, Wesleyan U

Papers: Nina L. Khrushcheva, New School U

“Bound by Exile: Vladimir Nabokov and Osip Mandelstam”

David H.J. Larmour, Texas Tech U

“Orpheus and the Outwork: Prefacing Exile in Nabokov’s Early Novels”

Maria Rubins, U College London (UK)

“Writing the ‘Roaring Twenties’ (Gaïto Gazdanov’s Novel The Specter of

Alexander Wolf)”

Disc.: Peter I. Barta, U of Surrey (UK)

10-12 Building Borderlands: The Institutionalization of Frontier Territories in

Modern Southeast and Central Europe - Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State U

Papers: Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola U Chicago

“(B)ordering Practices: The Making of Bosnia from an Austrian-Ottoman

Borderzone to a Serbian-Croatian Frontier”

Caitlin E. Murdock, California State U, Long Beach

“Bulwark and Bridge: The Nazi Discovery of the Saxon-Bohemian

Borderlands, 1932-1938”

Mark David Pittaway, The Open U (UK)

“The Uses and Abuses of Failed Separation: Contesting the Austrian/

German-Hungarian Border, 1935-1944”

Disc.: Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College

10-15 From Sputnik to Vostok: Popularizing the Advent of the Space Age -

Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Asif A. Siddiqi, Fordham U

Papers: Lewis Henry Siegelbaum, Michigan State U

“Sputnik Goes to Brussels: The Production, Reproduction, and Consumption

of a Soviet Technological Wonder”

Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech

“Popular Science Meets Geopolitics: The Spectacle of the Space Dogs”

Roshanna Patricia Sylvester, DePaul U

“Sveta’s Dream: Soviet School Girls and the Tereshkova Moment”

Disc.: Anita Alexandrovna Kondoyanidi, Georgetown U

10-16 Urban Design and Development: Exploring Soviet and Post-Soviet

Practices - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Blair A. Ruble, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

Papers: Alexander d’Hooghe, MIT

“Collision and Transformation of Urban Design ‘Templates’ in Soviet Siberia”

Maria C Taylor

“Whatever Happened to the Micro-raion? Architect’s Narratives and

Neighborhood Design in Krasnoyarsk”

William Henszey Pyle, Middlebury College

“Land Policy and Urban Development: Evidence from Ten Russian Cities”

Disc.: Jessica K. Graybill, Colgate U

Session 10 • Saturday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

10-17 Lives of Analysts of Soviet Russia during the Cold War - (Roundtable) -

Grand Ballroom Salon F

Chair: Carol S. Leonard, U of Oxford (UK)

Part.: Padma Desai, Columbia U

Abbott Gleason, Brown U

Marshall I. Goldman, Harvard U

Philip Hanson, U of Birmingham (UK)

10-18 Gor’kii the Memoirist as Modernist: To Honor Donald Fanger -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon G

Chair: Julie S. Draskoczy, U of Pittsburgh

Part.: Donald L. Fanger, Harvard U

Mary Louise Loe, James Madison U

Donna Tussing Orwin, U of Toronto (Canada)

Ruth Solomon Rischin, Independent Scholar

Barry Paul Scherr, Dartmouth College

10-20 Repercussions of Power Vertical in the Regions: Recent Evidence from

Russia - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Paul Goode, U of Oklahoma

Papers: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Miami U

“Redistributing Sovereignty and Prosperity in Putin’s Russia”

Darrell L. Slider, U of South Florida

“United Russia and Regional Elites”

Joan T. DeBardeleben, Carleton U (Canada)

“Economic Crisis and the Power Vertical”

Disc.: Joel Charles Moses, Iowa State U

10-21 Pushkin’s Politics and the Politics of Pushkin - Grand Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Tom Dolack, Wheaton College

Papers: Leslie C. O’Bell, U of Texas, Austin

“Inspired by Politics”

Katya Elizabeth Hokanson, U of Oregon

“Polkovodets and Other Complications”

Mikhail Gronas, Dartmouth College

“Digital Pushkin: Computational Visualizations of Pushkin’s Social and

Political Networks”

Disc.: Ludmilla A. Trigos, Independent Scholar

10-22 The Internationalization of Russian Universities - (Roundtable) - Grand

Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Andrei Kortunov, ISE Ctr (Russia)

Part.: Alexander Arguchintsev, Irkutsk State U (Russia)

Elvira Kaminskaya, Novgorod State U (Russia)

Maxim Khomyakov, Ural State U (Russia)

Anatoly Shcherbina, Southern State U (Russia)

Aleksey Starichkov, Far Eastern National U (Russia)

10-23 Representations of Motherhood in Russian Literature: 1885-2008 -

Harvard

Chair: Donna Oliver, Beloit College

Papers: Charlotte Rosenthal, U of Southern Maine

“All the Views That Are Fit to Print: Representations of Motherhood in

Anastasiia Verbitskaia and Her Contemporaries”

Elizabeth Ann Skomp, Sewanee: The U of the South

“Russian Religious Feminism and Representations of Motherhood: ‘Marija’

and Beyond”

Session 10 • Saturday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Rosalind Judith Marsh, U of Bath (UK)

“New Mothers for a New Era? Mothers and Daughters in Post-Soviet Prose”

Disc.: Yelena Furman, UC San Diego

10-24 Literary Dialogues in Emigration - Hyannis

Chair: Lina Bernstein, Franklin and Marshall College

Papers: Yulia D Kovatcheva, U of Tennessee

“Julia Kristieva: The Cosmpolitan Emigrant”

Oksana Willis, Independent Scholar

“Poetics of Cityscape in V. Nabokov’s and G. Ivanov’s Prose.”

James Frank Goodwin, U of Florida

“Russian Anarchism in Emigration: Grigorii Maksimov’s ‘Discussions with

Bakunin’”

Disc.: Stephen Blackwell, U of Tennessee - Knoxville

10-25 Writing Women’s Lives: Self-Representation and Exceptionalism in

Women’s Biography - Maine

Chair: Hugh LeCaine Agnew, George Washington U

Papers: Michelle Lamarche Marrese, Independent Scholar

“Writing the Exceptional Woman: Princess Dashkova and Her

Contemporaries”

Rita Arlene Krueger, Temple U

“Representing Maria Theresa’s Power and Piety”

Adele Lindenmeyr, Villanova U

“The Self-Representation of a ‘New Woman’: Reading the Memoirs of Soﬁ a

Panina”

Disc.: David L. Ransel, Indiana U

10-26 Unconditioned Conditionality? The Impact of EU Conditionality on State-

Building and Democratization in the Western Balkans - Massachusetts

Chair: Nida Gelazis, Woodrow Wilson Intl Ctr for Scholars

Papers: Florian Bieber, U of Kent (UK)

“Building Impossible States? State-Building Strategies and EU Membership

in Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro”

Vedran Dzihic, U of Vienna (Austria) and Angela Wieser, U of Vienna (Austria)

“Incentives for Democratization? Effects of EU-Conditionality on Post-

Yugoslav Democracy”

Andrew Konitzer, Samford U

“Median Parties and Cooperation with War Crimes Tribunals: Comparing the

Serbian and Croatian Experiences”

Disc.: Paula M. Pickering, College of William & Mary

10-27 Russian Religious Thinkers in Dialogue: Berdiaev and Bulgakov - MIT

Chair: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Fordham U

Papers: Stephen J. Janos, Russian Orthodox Priest

“N.A. Berdiaev: Bezortodoksal’noe pravoslavie”

Tamara Alekseevna Muravitsky

“Freedom as a Subject of the Berdiaev-Bulgakov Dialogue”

Robert F. Slesinski, Holy Trinity Byzantine Catholic Church

“Bulgakov’s Christological Synthesis: A Catholic Appreciation”

Disc.: Kristi Groberg, North Dakota State U

Session 10 • Saturday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

10-28 Presentation and Self-Presentation in Autobiography and Critical

Commentary - Nantucket

Chair: Jenifer L. Parks, Rocky Mountain College

Papers: Lyubov Bugaeva, St Petersburg State U (Russia)

“Narrating the Autobiographical Experience: Fantasy and History in Soviet

Literature”

Maryana Pinchuk, Harvard U

“Portrait of the Artist as a Young Communist: Alexander Dovzhenko as

Character”

Larisa V. Walsh, U of Chicago

“Reading Belinsky: a Personal Library as a Psychological Portrait of It’s

Owner”

Disc.: Kristina Anatolievna Toland, Northwestern U

10-29 Eurasian Frozen Conﬂ icts and (Un)recognized States in Comparative

Perspective: What’s Next? - (Roundtable) - New Hampshire

Chair: William H. Hill, National War College

Part.: Lyndon K. Allin, II, Independent

Rebecca A. Chamberlain, London School of Economics & Political Science (UK)

Julie George, Queens College, City U of New York

Angela Kachuyevski, Arcadia U

Sergey Markedonov, Inst for Political and Military Analysis

10-30 ‘Visualizing’ an Empire of Subjective Individuals and Individual Subjects:

Weaving Together Diverse Lives of 19th Century Kazan Province -

Northeastern

Chair: Catherine Evtuhov, Georgetown U

Papers: Rita S. Guenther, Georgetown U and Lyala Khasanshina, Natl Archive of the

Republic of Tatarstan (Russia)

“Finding the ‘I’ in the ‘-ism’: Kazan’s Clergy, Academics, and Intellectuals as

Individuals in Society”

Elena Anatolieva Vishlenkova, Kazan State U (Russia)

“Life of a Nation as the Life of an Individual: The Strategies of Visual

Metaphorization”

Agnes Neylufer Kefeli, Arizona State U

“Writing the Life of a Baptized Suﬁ ”

Disc.: Robert Paul Geraci, U of Virginia

10-31 Women Navigating Academia - (Roundtable) - Orleans

Chair: Margaret Hiebert Beissinger, Princeton U

Part.: Elisabeth Elliott, Northwestern U

Patricia Herlihy, Brown U

Deborah A. Kaple, Princeton U

Katya Makarova, U of Virginia

Ljerka Vidic Rasmussen, Tennessee State U

10-32 Tolstoy’s Thought and His Time - Provincetown

Chair: Deborah A. Martinsen, Columbia U

Part.: Gary Michael Hamburg, Claremont McKenna College

Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Eugene Lang College, The New School

James P. Scanlan, Ohio State U

Karin Agnes Beck, Columbia U

Ronald Denis LeBlanc, U of New Hampshire

Session 10 • Saturday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

10-33 Deﬁ nitions of Russian National Identity - Regis

Chair: Vera Shevzov, Smith College

Papers: Laurie Manchester, Arizona State U

“Redeﬁ ning the Nation: The Russian Diaspora’s Attempt to Forge a New

Ethnicity during Stalin’s Revolution from Above”

Olga Y. Maiorova, U of Michigan

“Redeﬁ ning Russianness: Russia’s Encounter with Asia and its Effects”

Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall U

“Pushkin and the People: the Anatomy of a Discursive Shift”

Disc.: Willard Sunderland, U of Cincinnati

10-35 Cinematography in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinemas II: The Thaw and

Post-Soviet Cinema - Simmons - Sponsored by: Working Group on

Cinema and Television

Chair: Sofya Khagi, U of Michigan

Papers: James M Steffen, Emory U

“‘Il’ya Muromets’ and the Introduction of Widescreen Photography in the

Soviet Union”

Julie Ann Christensen, George Mason U

“Signature Shots of Mikhail Kalatozishvili”

Jane Elizabeth Knox-Voina, Bowdoin College

“Kazakh New New Wave Cinema”

Disc.: Elena Stishova, Iskusstvo Kino (Russia)

10-37 Assembling the Ballets Russes Mosaic Through Its Participants - Tufts

Chair: Anna Winestein, Oxford U (UK)

Papers: Margarita Mazo, Ohio State U

“Stravinsky Performing the Self and the Transformations of Les Noces”

Sjeng Scheijen, Royal Netherlands Embassy Moscow (Russia)

“Walther Nouvel: Rewriting the Lives of Diaghilev and Stravinsky”

Jane Pritchard, Victoria and Albert Museum, Theatre & Performance

Collections (UK)

“The Contribution of the Muses: The Relationship between Ballerinas and

Choreographers of the Ballets Russes”

Disc.: Harlow Loomis Robinson, Northeastern U

10-38 Socialist Internationalism, Part II (Genres) - Vermont

Chair: Christopher Hurshman, Yale U

Papers: Harsha Ram, UC Berkeley

“Revolutionary Internationalism and Futurist Utopianism in the Late

Khlebnikov”

Rossen Djagalov, Yale U

“The International Audioleft: from ‘30s Street Marches to ‘60s Guitar Poetry”

Robert Bird, U of Chicago

“Of Trains, Nags, and SLON: Chris Marker’s Cinematic Encounter with

Aleksandr Medvedkin”

Disc.: Katerina Clark, Yale U

10-39 Independent Belarus: Historical Memory, Opinion Polls, and

Rapproachement with the West - Vineyard

Chair: David Stuart Lane, U of Cambridge (UK)

Papers: Grigory Ioffe, Radford U

“The Rapprochement between Belarus and the West”

David Roger Marples, U of Alberta (Canada)

“The Brest Hero Fortress as a Symbol of Historical Memory in Belarus”

Session 10 • Saturday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Stephen Leonard White, U of Glasgow (UK)

“People and Politics in Post-Communist Belarus”

Disc.: Olga L. Medvedkov, Wittenberg U

10-40 Speaking Lives I: Self and Other - Wellesley - Sponsored by: Slavic and

East European Folklore Association

Chair: Klawa N. Thresher, Randolph College

Papers: Huseyin Oylupinar, U of Alberta (Canada)

“The Construction of the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in the Evliya Çelebi’s

Seyahatname: The Narratives on the Slavs of the Eastern Europe”

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, U of Kentucky

“The (Un)clean Other: Jews and Roma in Russian Folk Legends”

Disc.: J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State U

10-41 Translating Brodsky with and by Brodsky: Ups and Downs of Poetic

Transmogriﬁ cation - Yarmouth

Chair: Alexandra Smith, U of Edinburgh (UK)

Papers: Irena Grudzinska Gross, Princeton U

“Brodsky Translating Milosz, Milosz Translating Brodsky”

Barry Rubin, The City U of New York

“Translating Brodsky with Brodsky”

Zakhar Ishov, Yale U

“The Phenomenon of the ‘English Brodsky’: Author and Self-translator”

Disc.: Vadim V. Liapunov, Indiana U

Saturday • Lunch Event

Association for Women in Slavic Studies Luncheon, Awards Presentation and

Business Meeting – Grand Ballroom Salon B (Luncheon by Ticket only; business

meeting open to all) – 12:00 P.M.

Session 11 • SATURDAY • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Unconference Session 3 - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon C

11-01 Lessons and Legacies of the Velvet Revolution - (Roundtable) - Arlington

Chair: Michael J Kilburn, Endicott College

Part.: Chad Bryant, UNC at Chapel Hill

Barbara J. Falk, Canadian Forces College, U of Toronto (Canada)

Vitaly Kozyrev, Endicott College

Michal Pullmann, Charles U (Czech Republic)

Deanna Gayle Wooley, Indiana U

11-02 Librarianship as Career Path for Scholars in Slavic and Eurasian

Studies - (Roundtable) - St. Botolph - Sponsored by: Bibliography and

Documentation Committee

Chair: Jon C. Giullian, U of Kansas

Part.: Diana Greene, New York U

Kelly E. Miller, U of Virginia

Kristen Regina, Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

Patricia Thurston, Yale U

Allan Joseph Urbanic, UC Berkeley

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

11-03 Trauma in Oral History-Oral History as Trauma? - (Roundtable) - Berkeley

Chair: Suzanne Ament, Radford U

Part.: Katharine Gratwick Baker, Independent Scholar/ Family Therapist

Cathy Anne Frierson, U of New Hampshire

Jehanne M Gheith, Duke U

Anika Walke, UC Santa Cruz

Georg Wurzer, U of Tuebingen (Germany)

11-04 Pitching a Book Project to a Prospective Publisher - (Roundtable) - Boston

University

Part.: Peter W. Kracht, U of Pittsburgh Press

Michael Levine, Northwestern U Press

Gwen C. Walker, U of Wisconsin, Madison

11-05 Eighteenth-Century Life-Writing - Brandeis

Chair: Gary J. Marker, SUNY, Stony Brook U

Papers: Ecatherina Rai, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

“The Autobiography of Van’ka Kain as Historical Fiction”

Alexander Levitsky, Brown U

“Derzhavin and Pushkin: Confessing the Creative and Spiritual Life of a

Poet”

Vladimir Bilenkin, North Carolina State U

“‘For us, Russians with a Soul, only Russia Truly Exists’: An Existential

Reading of Karamzin’s Conversion to Nationalism”

Disc.: Joachim Klein, Leiden U (Netherlands)

11-06 Russian Children’s Literature after 1991 - Clarendon

Chair: Christopher Colbath, Mitchell College

Papers: Andrea Lanoux, Connecticut College

“A Tale of Two Markets: ‘Detskaia Literatura’ and the New Child Elite”

Raquel Ginnette Greene, Grinnell College

“Rethinking Cultural Difference: Constructions of Otherness in

Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature”

Kelly Herold, Grinnell College

“Translating ‘Gossip Girl’: Anglo-American Teen Values in the New Russia”

Disc.: Laura Goering, Carleton College

11-07 Unexpected Variation in Post-Communist Outcomes - Connecticut

Chair: Maria Popova, McGill U (Canada)

Papers: George Soroka, Harvard U

“Between Anchoring Hegemons: Poland and Ukraine in the Post-Soviet

Order”

Marcy Elisabeth McCullaugh, UC Berkeley

“Democracy, Globalization, Oil and Social Spending in Post-Communist

Countries, 1999-2005”

Mikhail Pryadilnikov, Harvard U

“Explaining the Performance of Russian Bureaucracy: What Makes Public

Ofﬁ cials Implement Reforms”

Disc.: Daniel Jacob Epstein, Colgate U

11-08 The World Wars in Comparative Perspective -

(Roundtable) - Dartmouth

Chair: Omer Bartov, Brown U

Part.: Mark Edele, U of Western Australia (Australia)

Anna Krylova, Duke U

Joshua A. Sanborn, Lafayette College

David Hendrik Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock U (Canada)

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

11-09 Stalinist Politics - Exeter

Chair: Jeffrey J. Rossman, U of Virginia

Papers: Matthew E. Lenoe, U of Rochester

“The ‘Komarovites’ in Leningrad Politics, 1927-1935”

Matthew John Payne, Emory U

“‘False Activists and True Misery’: Local Resistance to Stalin’s Order to de-

Socialize Cattle in Kazakhstan, 1932-1934”

Jeffrey W. Jones, UNC at Greensboro

“Postwar Stalinist Politics in Rostov”

Disc.: Peter A. Blitstein, Lawrence U

11-10 Ukraine’s Regionalism and Russia’s Intervention: The Case of

Transcarpathia - Fairﬁ eld - Sponsored by: Carpatho-Rusyn Research

Center

Chair: George G. Grabowicz, Harvard U

Papers: Paul Robert Magocsi, U of Toronto (Canada)

“The Heritage of Autonomy in Subcarpathian Rus’/Transcarpathia”

Taras Kuzio, Carleton U

“Centre-Periphery Relations and Ukrainian Regional Policies “

Lowell Barrington, Marquette U

“Russia’s Interests in the Former Soviet Sphere”

Disc.: Dominique Arel, U of Ottawa (Canada)

Alexander John Motyl, Columbia U

11-11 Slavictionaries: the Latest Projects in Language and Culture Learning -

Falmouth

Chair: Bojan Belic, U of Washington

Papers: Quinn Dombrowski, U of Chicago

“The On-Line Church Slavonic Dictionary: Challenges and Opportunities for

Digital Reference Material”

Elisabeth Elliott, Northwestern U

“Miscommunication is Misculture: A Visual Dictionary of Russian Images of

Russian Elementary Vocabulary”

Nada Petkovic, U of Chicago

“To Bind the Unbound: Aspectual Pairs of Croatian and Serbian Verbs”

Disc.: Andrew Dombrowski, U of Chicago

11-12 The King’s Testament - The 80th Anniversary of the Royal Dictatorship of

King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia 1929-2009 - Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Michael Eoghan Allen, Rutgers U

Papers: Mario Jareb, Croatian Inst of History (Croatia)

“How to Create a Dinaroid Uebermensch or the Ideology of King

Aleksandar’s Dictatorship”

Hrvoje Capo, Croatian Inst of History (Croatia)

“King to the Army’s Taste: the Inﬂ uence of Military Circles on the

Dictatorship of Aleksandar Karđorđević I”

John Peter Kraljic, Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, PC

“The Response of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to the Dictatorship of

King Aleksandar I”

Disc.: John Paul Newman, U College Dublin (Ireland)

11-15 Of Cosmonauts, Athletes, and Rock Stars: Ofﬁ cial Celebrity and Popular

Celebrity in the USSR after Stalin - Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: T. Clayton Black, Washington College

Papers: Andrew L. Jenks, California State U, Long Beach

“The Soviet Path to Fame: Yuri Gagarin as a Post-Stalinist Personality Cult”

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Mauricio Borrero, St John’s U

“Lev Yashin: Soviet Football Icon on a World Stage”

Henry F. Reichman, California State U, East Bay

“Soviet Rock Stars: Boris Grebenshchikov and Andrei Makarevich”

Disc.: Susan E. Costanzo, Western Washington U

11-16 St. Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad: Mosaic of the City Through

Memoirs and Letters - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Teresa Lynn Polowy, U of Arizona

Papers: Svetlana Evgenievna Paulson, Southern Arkansas U

“The Glitter and Grime of Imperial St. Petersburg: The Observations of

Katherine Breckinridge, 1894-98”

Ekaterina Yudina, UC Riverside

“Peace to the Palaces! Preserving the Cultural Heritage in the Post-

Revolutionary St. Petersburg”

Veronica Shapovalov, San Diego State U

“Leningrad--’Saigon’-’Ulster’: the City on the Memoirs of the 1960s-70s”

Disc.: Anton Masterovoy, Graduate Center, City U of New York

11-17 Author Meets Critics - Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s

Soviet Experts - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon F

Chair: Abbott Gleason, Brown U

Part.: Eliot Borenstein, New York U

David C. Engerman, Brandeis U

Timothy M. Frye, Columbia U

Diane P. Koenker, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Terry Martin, Harvard U

11-18 Are We All Cultural Historians Now? - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom

Salon G

Part.: Jonathan H. Bolton, Harvard U

Julie A. Buckler, Harvard U

Michael Dan Gordin, Princeton U

Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Harvard U

Ann Komaromi, U of Toronto (Canada)

11-19 Company Towns, Company Lives: Producing Communities in 20th

Century Eastern Europe - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: James Ramon Felak, U of Washington

Papers: Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore

“Plutonium Cities in the Soviet Union and United States: The Nuclear

Security State and the Creation of the Model Suburb/Sotsgorod”

Mary Catherine Neuburger, U of Texas at Austin

“A ‘Fortress’ of Tobacco and Wine: Life in a Bulgarian Cooperative Town,

1918-39”

Ana Kladnik, Inst of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

(Czech Republic)

“The Newly Privileged Proletariat: Biographies from a Company Town in

Yugoslavia (1945-1965)”

Disc.: Patrick H. Patterson, UC San Diego

11-20 Russian Regionalism Redeﬁ ned? New Theoretical Explorations - Grand

Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Andrew Konitzer, Samford U

Papers: Elena Albina, KU Leuven (Belgium)

“New Regionalism in Russia? Discovering Links With the European

Experience”

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Nikolay Petrov, Carnegie Moscow Center (Russia)

“The Crises and Rise of New Regionalism in Russia”

Paul Goode, U of Oklahoma

“Reconsidering Regionalism”

Disc.: Darrell L. Slider, U of South Florida

11-21 European Union Regional Policy in Central Europe: Responding to

Global Challenges - Grand Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Geoffrey Robert Swain, U of Glasgow (UK)

Papers: Clare McManus-Czubinska, U of Glasgow (UK) and Richard R Berry, U of

Glasgow (UK)

“The Global Recession and EU Regional Policy in Hungary and Poland”

Irene McMaster, European Policies Research Centre and Martin Hugh Ferry, U

of Strathclyde (UK)

“Regional Policy and Demographic Change in Central and Eastern Europe”

Martin Myant, U of the West of Scotland (UK)

“The Czech EU Presidency during the Global Economic Crisis”

11-22 Teaching Environmental History(ies) of Russia - (Roundtable) - Grand

Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Ryan Jones, Univeristy of Washington

Part.: Stephen Brain, Mississippi State U

Paul Robert Josephson, Colby College

Erika L. Monahan, U of New Mexico

Douglas R. Weiner, U of Arizona

11-23 Bad Mothers: Representations of Negative Maternity in Soviet and Post-

Soviet Russia - Harvard

Chair: Elizabeth A. Wood, MIT

Papers: Jenny Kaminer, U of California-Davis

“Staging the Bad Mother: Agitational Trials of the 1920s”

Lauren Oakley Kaminsky, New York U

“Mother v. Mother: Popular Responses to Stalin-era Family Policy”

Gerald M. McCausland, U of Pittsburgh

“‘You Never Loved Me’: Maternal Abandonment and Russian Identity in

Cinema Under Putin”

Disc.: Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva, Herzen State Pedagogical Unviersity

(Russia)

11-24 Media, Diasporas and Identities: The Comparative Cases of Serbia and

Croatia - (Roundtable) - Hyannis

Chair: Hrvoje Hrengek, Croatian Television

Part.: Domagoj Bebic, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

Nataša Čorbić, UNDP

Marijana Grbesa, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

Zlatan Krajina, Goldsmiths U (UK)

Anamarija Musa, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

11-25 Auto/Biography as Iconography? Mythologizing and Demythologizing

Revolutionary Heroines - Maine

Chair: Adele Lindenmeyr, Villanova U

Papers: Lynne A. Hartnett, Villanova U

“Constructing a Myth or Recounting a Life? Vera Figner’s Efforts to Find and

Deﬁ ne Her Place in the Russian Revolutionary Movement”

Sally Anne Boniece, Frostburg State U

“Living Her Myth and Mythologizing Her Life: Mariia Spiridonova as Self-

Effacing Icon”

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Anna Viktorovna Biel, SUNY Albany

“Lady into Lassie: Linguistic Mythologization of the Decembrist Wives in

Nekrasov’s ‘Russian Women’”

Disc.: Katy Turton, Queen’s U (UK)

11-26 Security Issues in Eastern and Central Europe - Massachusetts

Chair: Daniel E. Miller, U of West Florida

Papers: Robin Remington, Peace Haven Intl

“Human Security in East-Central Europe”

Matthew Rhodes, George C. Marshall Ctr

“The Obama Administration and East-Central Europe: An Early Assessment”

Paul Wallace, U of Missouri (Emeritus)

“Terrorism and Security in the New Europe”

Disc.: Robert Kent Evanson, U of Missouri-Kansas City

11-27 Deﬁ ning Russianness Through Spirituality in Nineteenth-Century

Literature - (Roundtable) - MIT

Chair: Michal Oklot, Brown U

Papers: Nina A. Wieda, Northwestern U

“Secular Kenosis in Dostoevsky”

Nadieszda Kizenko, SUNY Albany

“Confession in Russian Literature and Liturgy”

Catherine Evtuhov, Georgetown U

“Confession in Tolstoy and Leopoldo Alas”

Disc.: Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern U

11-28 Russian Literature in the Post-Emancipation Era: New Media and

Expanded Contexts - Nantucket

Chair: Donald L. Fanger, Harvard U

Papers: Jeffrey Peter Brooks, Johns Hopkins U

“Russian Literature and the Illustrated Press”

William Mills Todd, III, Harvard U

“The Tug of Serial Fiction”

Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers U

“Thick Journal Fiction and Its Textual Neighborhoods: Porous Boundaries

and Unstable Genres”

Disc.: Irina Paperno, UC Berkeley

11-29 Islam’s Inﬂ uence in Central Asia and Azerbaijan - New Hampshire

Chair: Svetlana Peshkova, University of New Hampshire

Papers: Shoshana Keller, Hamilton College

“Public Morality in Soviet Central Asia: Did Islam Matter?”

Kelly McMann, Case Western Reserve U

“The Absence of Islamic Social Services in Central Asia”

Kathleen A. Collins, U of Minnesota

“Islam, Political Preferences, and Muslim Democracy: Evidence from

Central Asia and Azerbaijan”

Disc.: M Steven Fish, UC Berkeley

11-30

Medieval Slavic-German Relations, Real and Imagined - Northeastern

Chair: David Kirk Prestel, Michigan State U

Papers: Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg U

“Russian-German Marital Ties in the Eleventh Century: Real and Imagined”

Lisa A. Wolverton, U of Oregon

“Czechs but no Germans: Cosmas of Prague’s Fantasy of Bohemia’s

Earliest History”

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Paul Richard Milliman, U of Arizona

“‘Sic erit Bohemis et nobis unus rex et communis convivendi amicabilis lex’:

The Fourteenth-Century Union of Poland and Bohemia”

Disc.: Paul W. Knoll, U of Southern California, (Emeritus)

11-31 Petropoetics - (Roundtable) - Orleans

Chair: Anindita Banerjee, Cornell U

Part.: Marina A. Aptekman, Brandeis U

Alexander Etkind, U of Cambridge (UK)

Sofya Khagi, U of Michigan

11-32 Boris Pasternak: Life and Literature - Provincetown

Chair: Catherine Ann Ciepiela, Amherst College

Papers: Karen Joan Evans-Romaine, U of Wisconsin - Madison

“Pasternak and the Creation of Genius”

Elena Glazov-Corrigan, Emory U

“A Stolen Child in Early Pasternak”

Timothy Dimitry Sergay, SUNY Albany

“Pasternak and the ‘Museum Girls’: The Biographical Dimension of the

Immortality Theme in ‘Doktor Zhivago’”

Disc.: Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton U

11-33 Writing Lives, Inventing Eurasia: Biographies of Leaders of the

Eurasianist Movement - Regis

Chair: Stuart D. Finkel, U of Florida

Papers: Martin Beisswenger, U of Notre Dame

“Eurasianism as a Philosophy of Action: P.N. Savitskii’s role in the

Eurasianist Movement”

Ernest Gyidel, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Ukraine in the Life and Writings of George Vernadsky: Beyond Eurasia?”

Disc.: Henryk Baran, SUNY Albany

Sergey Glebov, Smith College, Ab Imperio

11-34 Banking Transition in East and Southeast Europe - Rhode Island

Chair: Peter Vodopivec, Inst for Modern History (Slovenia)

Papers: Stephan Barisitz, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austria)

“Banking Transformation 1980-2006 in Central and Eastern Europe”

Hermine Vidovic, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

(Austria)

“Transition of the Banking Sector in Croatia”

Zarko Lazarevic, Inst for Contemporary History (Slovenia)

“Basic Characteristic of Banking Transition in Slovenia”

Disc.: John P. Bonin, Wesleyan U

John R. Lampe, U of Maryland

11-35 Soviet “New Wave” Cinema - Simmons

Chair: Maria Basom, U of Northern Iowa

Papers: Mary Evelynne Childs, U of Washington

“Neo-realism and the Early Films of Tengiz Abuladze: ‘Another’s Children’

and ‘Magdana’s Donkey’”

Susan Larsen, U of Chicago

“Adventures of a Band Apart: Nouvelle Vagueness in Marlen Khutsiev’s ‘July

Rain’ (1966)”

Lilya Kaganovsky, U of Illinois

“New Soviet Cinema: Looking at Larisa Shepitko’s ‘Wings’ (1966)”

Disc.: Michele Leigh Torre, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

11-36 Concepts of Symbol and Image in Russian Modernism - (Roundtable) -

Suffolk

Chair: Robert Bird, U of Chicago

Part.: Nina Gourianova, Northwestern U

Matthew Jesse Jackson, U of Chicago

Harsha Ram, UC Berkeley

Thomas Seifrid, USC

James D. West, U of Washington

11-37 Writing (Composing) and Reading (Hearing) Lives: Music and Politics in

Bohemia, 1848 to 1918 - Tufts

Chair: Katya A. M. Kocourek, Independent Scholar

Papers: William J. Peterson, Pomona College and James Walter Peterson, Valdosta

State U

“Musical Signposts at Political Crossroads in the Czech Lands”

Hugh LeCaine Agnew, George Washington U

“Singing Identity: The Use of Songs in Czech Political Demonstrations of the

Dualist Era in Austria-Hungary”

Brian Locke, Western Illinois U

“The Third Widow: Ostrčil’s The Bud and the Revival of Smetana as a Model

for Modern Operatic Comedy”

Disc.: Rita Arlene Krueger, Temple U

11-38 Socialist Internationalism, Part III (Cultural Geographies) - Vermont

Chair: Maria Hristova, Yale U

Papers: Volodymyr Chumachenko, U of Illinois

“Warping the Internationalist Mental Map: Eurasianism in the Historical

Novels of Dmitry Balashov”

Patryk Jan Babiracki, U College Dublin (Ireland)

“Doubting Communism, Doubting Empire: Narratives of Scepticism in the

USSR and East-Central Europe between 1945 and 1989”

Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U, San Marcos

“In Their Own Words: Iraqis in the Soviet Periodical Press, 1955-1965”

Disc.: Rad Borislavov, U of Chicago

Elizabeth Anne McGuire, UC Berkeley

11-39 Belarus - Vineyard

Chair: Ivonka Joanna Survilla, Belarusian Inst of Arts & Sciences (Canada)

Papers: Zina J. Gimpelevich, U of Waterloo (Canada)

“The Jews in V. Bykaǔ’s Prose”

Maria Paula Survilla, Wartburg College

“Radio, YouTube, and Music Websites: Cultural Constructions and Intimate

Responses in Belarusan Contemporary Virtual Space”

Nadzeya Sychugova, Center For Belarusian Studies

“Who is a Belarusian?”

Disc.: Curt Woolhiser, Harvard U

11-40 Speaking Lives II: Construction of Gender Identity - Wellesley

Chair: Robert A. Rothstein, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Papers: Oksana Lutsyshyna, U of Georgia and Maria Mayerchyk, Inst of Ethnology,

National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)

“Female Masculinity and Sexuality in Early Soviet Time Iconography and

Literature - 1920s - 1930s”

Monica F. Kindraka-Jensen, U of Alberta (Canada)/Indiana U

“Two Sisters and a Funeral or How Oral Narratives Reﬂ ect Identity”

Session 11 • Saturday • 1:00

P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Laura Olson Osterman, U of Colorado, Boulder

“Identity Construction in Lyric Songs and Personal Narratives of Russian

Rural Women”

Disc.: Natalie Kononenko, U of Alberta (Canada)

11-41 The Lyric Self - Yarmouth

Chair: Charlene Castellano, Carnegie Mellon U

Papers: David Powelstock, Brandeis U

“Subject, Self and Selfhood in the Modern Russian Lyric”

Stephanie Sandler, Harvard U

“Prigov’s Body”

Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami U

“The Unusual Case of Fr. Sergei Kruglov: Poet, Priest, and Post-modernist

in Post-Soviet Siberia”

Disc.: Brett Cooke, Texas A&M U

Session 12 • SATURDAY • 3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

American Council of Teachers of Russian - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon K

Soyuz - The Research Network for Postsocialist Studies - (Meeting) - Northeastern

12-01 The 20 Years since 1989 in Eastern Europe: The Uses of Freedom -

Arlington

Chair: Andrzej W. Tymowski, American Council of Learned Societies

Yaroslav Hrytsak, Lviv State U (Ukraine)

“The Politics of Memory in Ukraine”

Jessie Labov, Ohio State U

“What has not Changed in East European Film since 1989”

Mitchell A. Orenstein, Johns Hopkins U, SAIS

“Developments in East European Political Economy”

Disc.: Irena Grudzinska Gross, Princeton U

12-02 Slavic Acquisitions and Collection Development: Broadening Bandwidth,

Fine-Tuning Selections - (Roundtable) - St. Botolph - Sponsored by: BDC

Subcommittee on Collection Development

Chair: Joanna Epstein, Harvard College Library

Part.: Wook-Jin Cheun, Indiana U

Liladhar R. Pendse, UCLA Library

Christina K Peter, Frick Art Reference Library

Kristen Regina, Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia, British Library (UK)

12-03 Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Writing Memories, Reading Memoirs - Berkeley

Chair: Timothy Ormond, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Anna Chukur, U of Toronto (Canada)

“The Search for Aesthetic Authenticity in Iurii Ianovs’kyi’s Novel Maister

Korablia [Master of the Ship, 1928]”

Agnieszka Eleonora Polakowska, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Ethics of Reading Life in Extremis: Narrative Positioning of the Reader in

Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski’s Inny Swiat [A World Apart]”

Olga Ponichtera, Univeristy of Toronto (Canada)

“Defragmenting Experience – Tadeusz Różewicz’s Mother Departs (1999)”

Disc.: Artur Placzkiewicz, U of Toronto (Canada)

Session 12 • Saturday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

12-04 The Cultural Front: Refashioning the West as Enemy at the Outset of the

Cold War - Boston University

Chair: Polly Jones, U College London (UK)

Papers: Oliver Johnson, U of Shefﬁ eld (UK)

“Aesthetic Cleansing: The Liquidation of the Moscow Museum of Modern

Western Art”

Kiril Tomoff, UC Riverside

“Moscow Musical Holiday: Music Competitions, Socialist Realism, and

Soviet Cultural Empire in the Late Stalin Years”

Disc.: Julie Hessler, U of Oregon

12-05 The Russian Provincial Nobility in the 18th Century: The Individual Faces

in a Collective Portrait - Brandeis

Chair: David L. Ransel, Indiana U

Papers: Olga E. Glagoleva, Tula Institute of Economics and Informatics (Russia)

“Culture and Everyday Life of the Russian Provincial Nobility in the 18th

Century: A German-Russian Research Project”

Galina Babkova, Russian State U for the Humanities (Russia)

“‘It’s My Opinion’: Local Gentry in the Legislative Commission of 1767-1768

(Provinces of Moscow, Tula and Orel)”

Ingrid Schierle, German Historical Institute in Moscow (Russia)

“Kinship and Mobility: How Russian Nobles Travelled”

Disc.: Michelle Lamarche Marrese, Independent Scholar

12-06 Institutions and Individuals in the Russian Autocracy - Clarendon

Chair: Samuel C. Ramer, Tulane U

Papers: Leonid Kil, UC Berkeley

“Internal Conquest: Origins and Evolution of Authoritarian Liberalism in

Russia”

Oxana Stuppo, Humboldt U (Germany)

“From Inspired Upholders to Disillusioned Bureaucrats: Zemstvo Activists in

Biographies”

Disc.: Richard Gardner Robbins, Jr., U of New Mexico

12-08 Law and Politics in Contemporary Russia - (Roundtable) - Dartmouth

Chair: Ethan S. Burger, Georgetown U

Part.: Mark Galeotti, New York U

Kathryn Hendley, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Mary Susan Holland, NYU Law School

Jeffrey David Kahn, Southern Methodist U

12-10 The 1932-33 Famine in the USSR: The View from the Archives - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Mark von Hagen, Arizona State U

Papers: Nonna S. Tarkhova, Russian State Military Archive (Russia)

“The Red Army during the Famine in the USSR, 1932-33”

Viktor V. Kondrashin, Belinsky Penza State Pedagogical U (Russia)

“The Famine of 1932-33 in the Russian Republic”

Roman Serbyn, U of Quebec at Montreal (Canada)

“Russian and Ukrainian Interpretations of Soviet Documents on the Famine

of 1932-33: Is Convergence Possible?”

Disc.:

David Randall Shearer, U of Delaware

Session 12 • Saturday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

12-11 The Intermediate Language Class: At the Intersection of Tasks, Grammar,

and Content Learning - Falmouth

Chair: Jason Merrill, Michigan State U

Papers: Patricia Rowe Chaput, Harvard U

“Combining Content Goals with Vocabulary Building in Intermediate

Russian”

Lynne deBenedette, Brown U

“Getting Right Where They Live(d): Communal Apartment Life and

Intermediate Russian”

William J. Comer, U of Kansas

“From Biographies to Monuments: Teaching and Assessing Language and

Content Learning”

Disc.: Sandra G. Freels, Portland State U

12-12 The Life Histories of Slovene Socialist Directors and the Reality of Self-

Management - Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U

Papers: Jurij Fikfak, ZRC SAZU (Slovenia)

“Socialist Directors: Between Ideas and Practice”

Jeffrey David Turk, ZRC SAZU (Slovenia)

“Slovene Directors as Searchers: Using Narratives for Social Science”

Tatiana Bajuk-Sencar, Scientiﬁ c Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of

the Arts (Slovenia)

“Socialist Directors and the Politics of Multilayered Identity”

Disc.: Robert G. Minnich, U of Bergen (Norway)

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, U of Tennessee

12-13 Ideology, Culture and Identity in the Transition from the Soviet to the

Post-Soviet State - Grand Ballroom Salon B

Chair: Sergei N. Khrushchev, Brown U

Papers: Jason Ackermann, U of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

“Soviet Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Russia: An Examination of its Causes,

Forms and its Connection to the Creation of a Post-Soviet Identity”

Sergey Erofeev, European U at St. Petersburg (Russia)

“Looking West and Back: Soviet Popular Culture and Modernization “

Evelina Tverdohleb

“From Homo Sovieticus to Homo Economicus”

Disc.: Laura Adams, Harvard U

12-14 Comparative Approaches to Autobiographical Narratives - (Roundtable)

- Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore

Part.: Melissa Dawn Feinberg, Rutgers U

Rebecca Friedman, Florida Intl U

Kristin McGuire, U of Michigan

Marcus Moseley, Northwestern U

12-15 Banias and Bodies: Life and Death in the Soviet Bathhouse - (Roundtable)

- Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Donald Joseph Raleigh, UNC at Chapel Hill

Part.: Donald Filtzer, U of East London (UK)

Dan D.B. Healey, Swansea U (UK)

Alexis Jean Peri, UC Berkeley

Ethan M. Pollock, Brown U

Session 12 • Saturday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

12-17 Why Did the Soviet Union End? A Discussion of Stephen F. Cohen’s

Book ‘Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives’ - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom

Salon F

Chair: Nanci Dale Adler, U of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Part.: Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton U

Archie Brown, U of Oxford (UK)

Stephen F. Cohen, New York U

Dmitri Daniel Glinski

Paul R. Gregory, U of Houston

12-18 Emotions Across the Disciplines: Past, Present, Future - (Roundtable) -

Grand Ballroom Salon G

Chair: Victoria S. Frede, UC Berkeley

Part.: Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, U of Oxford (UK)

Jan Plamper, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Mark D. Steinberg, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ronald Grigor Suny, U of Michigan

Ilya Vinitsky, U of Pennsylvania

12-19 Spatial Narratives in the Russian Imperial Context (19th-20th c.) -

(Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Michael M. Kunichika, New York U

Part.: Julia Esther Fein, U of Chicago

Chia Yin Hsu, Portland State U

Anne Lounsbery, New York U

Olga Y. Maiorova, U of Michigan

Alexander M. Martin, U of Notre Dame

12-20 Writing Home: Visions of the Domestic in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russia

- Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College

Papers: Susan Smith-Peter, College of Staten Island, CUNY

“Local Writing and Family Writing: A.I. Chikhachev and ‘The District

Treasurehouse’”

Katherine M. Pickering-Antonova, Columbia U

“A Khoziaika Writes Her Life: Gendered Work and Duty in the Diary of N. I.

Chikhacheva”

Bella Grigoryan, Columbia U

“Writing the 1840’s Home: The Uses of Domestic Advice Literature in ‘Notes

of the Fatherland’”

Disc.: Alison K. Smith, U of Toronto (Canada)

12-23 Russian and Soviet Women’s Lives in the Twentieth Century - Harvard

Chair: Michelle D. DenBeste, California State U, Fresno

Papers: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Harvard U

“Bridging the Divide: Feminists in Soviet Russia”

Olga Vadimovna Shnyrova, Ivanovo State U (Russia)

“Soviet Women’s Lives in the Nineteen Seventies: Evidence from Oral

Histories “

Irina Bykhovskaya, Russian State U of Physical Culture, Russian Academy of

Sciences (Russia)

“Images of Soviet/Russian Women: Social Factors, Trends, Forms of

Objectivation”

Disc.: Esther R. Kingston-Mann, U of Massachusetts, Boston

Session 12 • Saturday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

12-24 Dubravka Ugresic - Hyannis

Chair: Mark Baskin, SUNY, Ctr for Intl Development

Papers: Natasa Kovacevic, East Michigan U

“Attack on ‘Fortress Europe’: Post Communism and the European Union in

Recent Texts by Dubravka Ugresic”

Masa Grdesic, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

“Dubravka Ugresic’s Steﬁ ca Cvek and Women’s Popular Literature in

Contemporary Croatia”

Jasmina Lukic, Central European U (Hungary)

“From an Exile to a Transnational Migrant: Reading Dubravka Ugresic with a

Transnational and Post-Yugoslav Perspective”

Disc.: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Independent Scholar

Goce Smilevski, Institut za literatura (Macedonia)

12-25 The Impact of Economic Reforms: National and Transnational Factors

- Maine

Chair: Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School

Papers: Theocharis Nikolaou Grigoriadis, UC Berkeley / MGIMO (Russia)

“EU Aid Effectiveness in the Former Soviet Union: Evidence from Russia,

Ukraine and Kazakhstan “

Susan J. Linz, Michigan State U

“Job Satisfaction in Transition Economies”

Fumikazu Sugiura, Teikyo U (Japan)

“Global Financial Crisis and its Impact on Russian Economy”

Disc.: Yoshiko M. Herrera, U of Wisconsin, Madison

12-26 Central Europe and the EU: Comparing the Presidencies of Slovenia and

the Czech Republic - (Roundtable) - Massachusetts

Chair: Tamara J. Resler, US Dept. of State

Part.: Charles Bukowski, Bradley U

James Gow, King’s College London (UK)

Jaroslav Kurfurst, Embassy of the Czech Republic to the US

Miriam Mozgan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Slovenia

Matthew Rhodes, George C. Marshall Ctr

12-27 Catholicism and Nationalism in Modern Poland - MIT

Papers: Brian Allen Porter-Szucs, U of Michigan

“The Ecclesia Militans and the Polak-Katolik”

Paul Brykczynski, U of Michigan

“Resisting the Polak-Katolik: The Complexities of Polish National Identity in

the Interwar Period”

John F. Connelly, UC Berkeley

“Universal Church and National Body”

Disc.: James Edward Bjork, King’s College London (UK)

12-28 Faith and Doubt: Russian Literature and the State - Nantucket

Chair: Brian Jay Horowitz, Tulane U

Papers: Daria Germanovna Safronova, Ohio State U

“Hagiographies of Literary Holy Fools”

Carol J. Any, Trinity College

“Faith and Doubt: True Confessions of a Bolshevik Literary Cadre”

Clint Walker, U of Montana

“Pelevin and the Deformed Bildungsroman: From HOMO (Sovieticus) to

ОМОН (Ra)”

Disc.: Michael A. Pesenson, U of Texas, Austin

Session 12 • Saturday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

12-29 Nationalism and Religion in the Post-Communist Space - New Hampshire

Papers: Stefanie Gray, Hunter College

“Nationalism in Transdniestria”

Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Harvard U

“The Party’s Just Begun: Scholar, Suﬁ , State and Nationalism’s Futures

among Post-Communist Muslims”

Michael Andrew Armstrong, San Francisco State U

“The Framing of His Flock: The Karabakh Movement, Armenia’s Religious

Authority and the Use of Narrative”

Disc.: Natalie Rochelle Koch, U of Colorado - Boulder

12-31 Asocial or a ‘Necessary Evil?’: Prostitution in Occupied Central Europe

during World War II - Orleans

Chair: Marci Lynn Shore, Yale U

Papers: Nancy Meriwether Wingﬁ eld, Northern Illinois U

“‘Asocial’ or a ‘Necessary Evil’?: Prostitution in the Czech Lands during the

Second World War”

Anna Hajkova, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Rational Relationships and Instrumental Sex in the Theresienstadt Ghetto,

1941-1945”

Robert Sommer, Ravensbrück Memorial (Germany)

“Forced Prostitution in the Concentration Camp at Auschwitz”

Disc.: Keely Stauter-Halsted, Michigan State U

12-32 Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Village Traditions - Provincetown

Chair: Michael M. Naydan, The Pennsylvania State U

Papers: Olha Tytarenko, U of Toronto

“Tolstoy’s Grisha and Dostoevsky’s Stinking Lizaveta: Reading the Code of

Holy Foolishness”

Linda J. Ivanits, The Pennsylvania State U

“The Legend of the Great Sinner in Tolstoy’s ‘Godson’ and Dostoevsky’s

Merchant Skotoboinikov”

Slava I. Yastremski, Bucknell U

“The Constant Gardener: Verbal Landscape in Lev Tolstoy’s Fiction”

Disc.: Thomas Gaiton Marullo, U of Notre Dame

12-33 Russia Views the World, the World Views Russia - Regis

Chair: Anindita Banerjee, Cornell U

Papers: David Hendrik Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock U (Canada)

“Asia in the Russian Mind”

Jennifer Siegel, Ohio State U

“The Price of Publicité: Late Imperial Russia and the Foreign Press”

Ana Siljak, Queen’s U (Canada)

“Russian Messianism: A Reconsideration”

Disc.: Susanna Soojung Lim, U of Oregon

12-35 Thaw Cinema: New Approaches (in Memoriam of Josephine Woll) -

(Roundtable) - Simmons - Sponsored by: Working Group on Cinema &

Television

Chair: Alexander V. Prokhorov, College of William & Mary

Part.: Marko Dumancic, UNC at Chapel Hill

Joshua J. First, Miami U of Ohio

Susan Larsen, U of Chicago

Evgeny Tsymbal

Session 12 • Saturday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

12-37 Music and Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Russia - Tufts

Chair: Randall Scott Dills, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Papers: Rebecca Anne Mitchell, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“‘Russian or German?’ The Medtner Brothers and Their Search for a

Musical Identity”

Jessica A Shelvik, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“Rachmaninoff and Musical ‘Russianness’”

Elina Kristiina Viljanen, Aleksanteri Institute/U of Helsinki (Finland)

“From Temptations to Triumphs - Russian Musical Aesthetics in Transition”

Disc.: Susannah L Smith, U of Minnesota

12-38 Battling for the Hearts and Minds of the Future Citizens of the World

- Mobilization of Young People and Images of Youth in the Cold War -

Vermont

Chair: Anne E. Gorsuch, U of British Columbia (Canada)

Papers: Pia Maria Koivunen, U of Tampere (Finland)

“A Story Never Told - Participants’ Views of the World Youth Festivals,

1940s-1960s”

Margaret Elizabeth Peacock, U of Alabama

“Defenders of Freedom: Conﬂ icting Visions of the Cold War Child in the

Soviet Union and the United States”

Dina Fainberg, Rutgers U

“Introducing the Next Generation – Youth in the Writings of Soviet and

American Cold War Correspondents”

Disc.: Erica L. Fraser, Goucher College

12-39 Who Gets to Give? Eastern Europe and Russia in the Global Community

of Donors and Receivers - Vineyard

Chair: Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State U

Papers: Amy Ninetto, Rice U

“‘Gift of the American People’: Grants, Aid, and Ambivalent Recipients in

1990s Russian Science”

Paulina Maria Pospieszna, U of Alabama

“Poland’s Governmental and Non-Governmental Aid to Ukraine and Belarus

as a Mechanism of the Regional Diffusion of Democracy”

Patty A. Gray, National U of Ireland Maynooth (Ireland)

“Changing Vectors of Development: Locating Russia in Development

Discourse and Practice”

Disc.: Valerie Jane Bunce, Cornell U

Janine R. Wedel, George Mason U

12-40 Speaking Lives III: The Secular and the Sacred - Wellesley

Chair: Patricia Ann Krafcik, The Evergreen State College

Papers: J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State U

“Reading and Writing the Lives of Adam and Eve in Molokan Prophecy”

Natalie Kononenko, U of Alberta (Canada)

“Imagining the Life of Bohdan Khmelnytsky”

Robert Carl Metil, Chatham U/U of Pittsburgh/National Slovak Society

“‘A Word To One’s Own’: Ideology and Social History in the Confessional

Narratives of Rusyn Dissidents in Eastern Slovakia”

Disc.: Ronelle Alexander, UC Berkeley

12-41 Acmeism and Beyond: Life in Poetry/Poetry of Life - (Roundtable) -

Yarmouth

Chair: Charlene Castellano, Carnegie Mellon U

Part.: Vadim Besprozvany, U of Michigan

Svetlana V. Cheloukhina, CUNY, Queens College

Session 12 • Saturday • 3:00

P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Cassio Ferreira De Oliveira, Yale U

Sarah Pratt, USC

Francoise Jeannine Rosset, Wheaton College

Saturday Evening Events

AAASS Annual Meeting – Grand Ballroom Salon F – 5:00 P.M.

AAASS Cocktail Buffet, Awards Presentation,

and President’s Address

AAASS Cocktail Buffet with Cash Bar (by ticket only) – Grand Ballroom Salon E

– 5:30 P.M.

AAASS Awards Presentation and President’s Address – Grand Ballroom Salon F

– 6:30

P.M.

William Chase Taubman, Amherst College will deliver the President’s Address

– “Personality and Political Leadership: The Case for Psychologically-Informed

Biography”

The Association will present the following awards:

• • •

Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award

Caryl Emerson

Leopold Haimson

• • •

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European

studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences

Laurie Manchester

Holy Fathers, Secular Sons:

Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia

(Northern Illinois University Press)

honorable mention:

Peter Andreas

Blue Helmets and Black Markets:

 e Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo

(Cornell University Press)

• • •

Saturday Evening Events • AAASS Awards Presentation

University of Southern California Book Prize

in Literary and Cultural Studies

for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia

in the ﬁ elds of literary and cultural studies

Priscilla Meyer

How the Russians Read the French:

Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy

(University of Wisconsin Press)

• • •

Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History

for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia

in the ﬁ eld of history

Elena Shulman

Stalinism on the Frontier of Empire:

Women and State Formation in the Soviet Far East

(Cambridge University Press)

honorable mention:

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Cars for Comrades:

 e Life of the Soviet Automobile

(Cornell University Press)

• • •

AAASS Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies

for an outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe

in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography

Jessica Allina-Pisano

 e Post-Soviet Potemkin Village:

Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth

(Cambridge University Press)

honorable mentions:

Charles King

 e Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus

(Oxford University Press)

Saturday Evening Events • AAASS Awards Presentation

Scott Gehlbach

Representation through Taxation:

Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States

(Cambridge University Press)

• • •

Ed A. Hewett Book Prize

for an outstanding publication on the political economy

of the centrally planned economies

of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe

and their transitional successors

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Cars for Comrades:  e Life of the Soviet Automobile

(Cornell University Press)

• • •

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize

for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect

of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600,

or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history

Tara Zahra

Kidnapped Souls:

National Indiﬀ erence and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands,

1900-1948

(Cornell University Press)

• • •

AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies

for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish aﬀ airs

Roman Koropeckyj

Adam Mickiewicz:  e Life of a Romantic

(Cornell University Press)

Tomasz Inglot

Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919-2004

(Cambridge University Press)

• • •

Saturday Evening Events • AAASS Awards Presentation

Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize

for an outstanding doctoral dissertation

in historical political science and political history of the Soviet Union

Mie Nakachi

University of Chicago

“Replacing the Dead:  e Politics of Reproduction

in the Postwar Soviet Union, 1944-1955”

• • •

Graduate Student Essay Prize

for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic studies

Ula Lukszo

“Bringing a Suppressed World to Light: Alterations to the Postcolonial Travel

Narrative in Mariusz Wilk’s Woloka”

(winner of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference competition)

Saturday Evening Events • AAASS Awards Presentation

Sunday

November

Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Exhibit Hall Hours: 8:00

A.M. – 1:00 P.M. – Gloucester

Session 13 • SUNDAY • 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

Bibliography & Documentation Committee Executive Meeting - (Meeting) - Berkeley

Slavic and East European Folklore Association - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon B

13-01 Authoritarian Reactions to Colored Revolutions - Arlington

Chair: Oxana Shevel, Tufts U

Papers: Yitzhak Brudny, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel) and Evgeny Finkel, U of

Wisconsin-Madison

“Failed Promise of the Fourth Wave: Why no Colored Revolution in

Russia?”

Lawrence P. Markowitz, Rowan U

“The Rhetoric and Reality of Authoritarian Reaction in Postwar Tajikistan”

Disc.: Scott Radnitz, U of Washington

13-04 Performing Identity/Painting Biography in East-European Émigré Art and

Writing - Boston University

Papers: Yana Meerzon, U of Ottawa (Canada)

“Performing Language - Performing Self: On the Heteroglosia of a

Castaway”

Dassia Nadezhda Posner, Davis Center, Harvard U

“Mapping an Émigré Community: Boris Chaliapin’s Theatrical Portraiture”

Mila Nazyrova, USC

“The American Dream and the Old-World Idyll: Konstantin Somov’s

Constructing of the Emigration Narrative”

Disc.: William D Gunn, U of Southern California

Ekaterina Vyazova, Independent Scholar/Deputy Editor for Pinakotheke

13-05 Marc Raeff’s Contribution to Our Understanding of Imperial Russia

- (Roundtable) - Brandeis - Sponsored by: Eighteenth-Century Russian

Studies Association

Chair: Amanda Ewington, Davidson College

Part.: Paul Alexander Bushkovitch, Yale U

Samuel C. Ramer, Tulane U

Richard Gardner Robbins, Jr., U of New Mexico

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, California State Polytechnic U

13-06 Jewish Inﬂ uence and Identity under the Soviet Regime - Clarendon

Chair: Musya Glants, Harvard U

Papers: Sarah Masha Fainberg, Georgetown U

“Delineating Russian-Jewish Identity: A Study of Life Stories on Three

Continents”

Theodore Herzl Friedgut, Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel) and Bella S. Kotik-

Friedgut, David Yellin College of Education (Israel)

“L.S. Vygotsky: Jewish Inﬂ uences on the Outlook and Science of a Marxist

Soviet Psychologist”

Shifra Faye Sharlin, U of Wisconsin, Madison

“Malevich and the Jews: An Aesthetic Conversion in the Provinces”

Disc.: Alexandra S. Korros, Xavier U

13-07 Writing Romantic Lives - Connecticut

Chair: Karen Underhill, U of Chicago

Papers: Agata Bielik-Robson, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)

“Another Modernity: The Romantic Discovery of Singular Life”

Roman Koropeckyj, UCLA

“Symbolizing (the Real) Mickiewicz”

Justyna Anna Beinek, Indiana U

“The Romantic Album as Auto/Biography”

Disc.: Halina Goldberg, Indiana U

Benjamin Paloff, U of Michigan

13-08 Justice vs. the Right to Know: The Transparency Dilemma at the ICTY -

(Roundtable) - Dartmouth

Chair: Richard A Wilson, U of Connecticut

Part.: Andrew R. Corin, Defense Language Institute

Robert J. Donia, U of Michigan

András J. Riedlmayer, Harvard U

Susan Somers, Former Senior Prosecuting Trial Attorney, UN ICTY

13-09 Stalinist Politics - New Dimensions and Interpretations - Exeter

Chair: David L. Hoffmann, Ohio State U

Papers: Simon Ertz, Stanford U

“Stalinist Politics - the Triumph of the Deed”

Alexander Frese, Stanford U

“The Forms of Stalinist Politics: Soviet Diplomacy vis-à-vis Britain and the

United States, 1945-46”

Anna Krylova, Duke U

“By State Order: Old and New Gender Landscapes for the Military, 1930s-

1945”

Disc.: David Priestland, U of Oxford (UK)

13-10 Partisan Wars in Ukraine in World War II - Fairﬁ eld - Sponsored by:

American Association for Ukrainian Studies

Chair: J. Arch Getty, UCLA

Papers: Jared Graham McBride, UCLA

“‘Deti-Parachutisty’: Soviet Children in Service of the Third Reich”

Oleksandr Ivanovych Melnyk, U of Toronto (Canada)

“‘And You Bastards Are Calling Yourself Partisans?!’ Negotiating Political

Identity in Stalinist Ukraine”

Jeffrey Burds, Northeastern U

“The War Within the War: Partisans and Nationalists in German-Occupied

Galicia and Volhynia”

Disc.: David R. Stone, Kansas State U

Session 13 • Sunday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

13-11 New Research in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics - Falmouth

Chair: Bojan Belic, U of Washington

Papers: Traci S. Lindsey, UC Berkeley

“Balkan Sprachbund Inﬂ uence on the Lexicalization Patterns of Bulgarian

Motion Verbs”

Anita Peti-Stantić, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

“Which Case is the So-Called ‘Orphan Accusative’ in Slovene?”

Aleksandra Petrovic, U of Washington

“Do You Feel Like I Feel? Expressing Emotions in Bosnian-Croatian-

Serbian”

Disc.: Ronelle Alexander, UC Berkeley

13-12 Revising and Reinterpreting Contemporary History in Slovenia, Serbia

and Japan - Grand Ballroom Salon A - Sponsored by: Society for Slovene

Studies

Chair: Carole Rogel, Ohio State U

Papers: Dubravka Stojanovic, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

“Reinterpreting Contemporary History in Serbia”

Nobuhiro Shiba, U of Tokyo (Japan)

“Revising Contemporary History in Japan”

Peter Vodopivec, Inst for Modern History (Slovenia)

“Reinterpretations of the Contemporary History in Slovenia between

Anticommunism and Communist Legacy”

Disc.: John K. Cox, North Dakota State U

Nicholas John Miller, Boise State U

13-14 Psychohistorical Personalities and the Russian Revolution - Grand

Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Nina Tumarkin, Wellesley College

Papers: Philip Pomper, Wesleyan U

“Desperate Times: Psychodynamics of the ‘Second March First’”

Sandra Pujals, U of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

“The Accidental Revolutionary in Revolutionary Russia: Impersonation,

False Identity, and the Genesis of Soviet Revolutionary Mythology, 1905-

1935”

Disc.: Cathy Anne Frierson, U of New Hampshire

13-15 Narratives of Biological Deviance in Russian Literature (1880-1930) -

Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Jurij Murasov, U of Konstanz (Germany)

Papers: Daniel Beer, Royal Holloway U of London (UK)

“The Biologisation of Subjectivity in Russian Literature, 1880-1914”

Matthias Schwartz, Freie U Berlin (Germany)

“The Secret of Dr. Lepsius: Literary Disputes about Biologistic Deviance in

1920s Soviet Union”

Riccardo Nicolosi, Universität Konstanz (Germany)

“The Karamazov Blood: Heredity, Experiment, and Naturalism in

Dostoevsky’s Last Novel”

Disc.: Otto Floris Boele, Leiden U (The Netherlands)

13-16 Yugoslavia on the Move: Traveling and Tourism in Pursuit of the Socialist

Good Life - Grand Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Tanja D Conley, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

Papers: Brigitte Le Normand, Indiana U Southeast

“Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Automobility between Driver, Urban

Planner and Market in Tito’s Yugoslavia”

Session 13 • Sunday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

Kate Meehan Pedrotty, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“A Socialist Ethics of Tourism: The Purposeful ‘Good Life’ in Yugoslavia,

1945-1949”

Patrick H. Patterson, UC San Diego

“Yugoslavia As It Once Was: What Tourism and Leisure Meant for the

History of the Socialist Federation”

Disc.: Gyorgy G. Peteri, Norwegian U of Science & Technology (Norway)

13-17 2008 Parliamentary Elections and 2009 Presidential Elections in Romania

- (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon F - Sponsored by: Society for

Romanian Studies

Part.: Peter Gross, U of Tennessee - Knoxville

Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton U

Michael Shaﬁ r, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Czech Republic)

Vladimir Tismaneanu, U of Maryland

F. Peter Wagner, U of Wisconsin, Whitewater

13-18 The Memoirs of Wayne Vucinich: Portrait of the Historian as a Young Man

in Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, and Eastern Europe - (Roundtable) - Grand

Ballroom Salon G

Chair: Norman M. Naimark, Stanford U

Part.: Wendy Bracewell, U of London (UK)

Holly Case, Cornell U

Thomas Allan Emmert, Gustavus Adolphus College

Tomislav Zoran Longinovic, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Larry Wolff, New York U

13-19 State Capitalism, Big Business, and Economic Crisis - Grand Ballroom

Salon H

Chair: Harley D. Balzer, Georgetown U

Papers: Vadim Volkov, European U at St. Petersburg (Russia)

“The Shaping of the State Capitalism: Relations between the Russian State

and Business and the Problem of Credible Commitment, 1993-2008 “

Sergey A. Afontsev, Institute for World Economy and International Relations

(Russia)

“The State, Oligarch, and Global Capital in Russia”

Duckjoon Chang, Kookmin U (Seoul, S. Korea)

“Big Business and Foreign Policy in Russia: The Case Studies of Gazprom

and Rosneft”

Disc.: Brian D. Taylor, Syracuse U

13-20 Women’s Voices in the Stalinist Terror - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Marina Rojavin, Swarthmore College

Papers: Olga Meerson, Georgetown U

“Evgeniia Ginzburg’s ‘House of the Dead’: What Cannot Women Mention in

Labor Camps?”

Kirsten M. Rutsala, U of Oklahoma

“Myth and Memory: The Autobiographical Writings of Pasha Angelina,

Evgenia Ginzburg, and Nadezhda Mandelshtam”

Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern U

“Solitude and Creativity in Tamara Petkevich’s Zhizn’ - Sapozhok Neparnyi”

Disc.: Jennifer Ryan Tishler, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Session 13 • Sunday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

13-21 (Re)claiming Russia: Russian Prose and National Borderlands - Grand

Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Irina G. Stakhanova, Bowling Green State U

Papers: Laura Mieka Erley, UC Berkeley

“‘Reclaiming the Land’: Melioratsiia and Andrei Platonov’s Central Asian

Prose”

Anzhelika Khyzhnya, UC Berkeley

“‘Taras Bulba’: Nikolai Gogol Beyond Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism”

Victoria Somoff, Dartmouth College

“Nontransparent Minds: Tales of the Caucasus and Narrative Authority in

Russian Fiction of the 1830s”

Disc.: Kathryn Schild, UC Berkeley

13-22 ‘Images Have Lives of Their Own’: Interdisciplinary Approaches to

Teaching with Russian and Early Soviet Visual Culture - (Roundtable) -

Grand Ballroom Salon K

Chair: Roann Barris, Radford U

Part.: Marta Mestrovic Deyrup, Seton Hall U

Page Herrlinger, Bowdoin College

Kevin Michael Kain, U of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Nicole Monnier, U of Missouri-Columbia

Roy Raymond Robson, U of the Sciences in Philadelphia

13-23 Femininity in Russian Culture: What’s Fashion Got to Do with It - Harvard

Chair: Adele Marie Barker, U of Arizona

Papers: Christine Ruane, U of Tulsa

“Fashion, Russianness, and the Union of Russian Women, 1908-1916”

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan U

“‘What Little Girls Are Made Of’: Constructing Femininity in Soviet Children’s

Literature”

Larissa V. Rudova, Pomona College

“Glamour Learns Russian, or the New Femininity”

Disc.: Ludmila Aliabieva, Teoriia Mody (Fashion Theory) (Russia)

Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion (UK)

13-25 Women’s Organizations and Political Change in Eastern Europe - Maine

Chair: Carol S. Lilly, U of Nebraska at Kearney

Papers: Jill Benderly, School for Intl Training/World Learning

“The Impact of International Assistance on Women’s Organizations in the

Balkans”

Nanette Funk, CUNY, Brooklyn College

“In Defense of Women’s NGOs in European Post-Socialism”

Jill Ann Irvine, U of Oklahoma

“Women’s Organizations and Regional Security in the Balkans”

Disc.: Julie Mostov, Drexel U

13-26 What’s ‘Central’ about Central Europe?: The Region’s Importance

for Europe, NATO, and the Eastern Neighborhood - (Roundtable) -

Massachusetts

Chair: Steven Gayle Stoltenberg, US Dept of State

Part.: Frank Babetski, US Government

Stephen Burant, US Dept of State

Stephan M Wallace, US Dept of Defense

John C. Wiecking, Intelligence and Research Bureau, US Dept of State

Session 13 • Sunday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

100

13-27 Christian-Jewish Relations in Late Imperial Russia - MIT

Chair: Antony Polonsky, Brandeis U

Papers: Victoria M. Khiterer, Millersville U

“The Orthodox Church and Jews in Kiev”

Andrew Christopher Reed, Arizona State U

“Russian ‘Silver Age’ Religious Philosophers and Jews”

Rina Lapidus, Bar-Ilan U (Israel)

“Leo Tolstoy and His Place in the Zionist Ideology and in Hebrew Literature:

A.D. Gordon and Hayyim Hazaz”

Disc.: Kathleen Frances Parthe, U of Rochester

Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State U

13-28 Textuality and Experience: Modes of Life-Writing in Nineteenth-Century

Russia - Nantucket

Chair: Ingrid Anne Kleespies, U of Florida

Papers: Boris Wolfson, Amherst College

“Loathsome Paradise: The Demise of Prince Golitsyn as a Literary Problem”

Konstantine Klioutchkine, Pomona College

“‘What Am I?’ Middling Fiction-writers at the Turn of the 1860s”

Kate Rowan Holland, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Inventing the Decline of the Russian Novel: Literary Criticism and

Journalistic Politics in the 1870s”

Disc.: Ilya Kliger, New York U

13-29 Difﬁ cult Moments and Difﬁ cult Memories in Postwar Eastern Europe -

New Hampshire

Chair: Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College

Papers: Max Bergholz, U of Toronto (Canada)

“The Creation of Silence About Muslims Killed During the Second World

War in Bosnia-Herzegovina”

Svitlana Frunchak, U of Toronto (Canada)

“Imagining the (Non)existing City: Ofﬁ cial Cultural Representations of the

Borderland in the Late-Stalinist Ukraine”

David Gerlach, St Peter’s College

“Rumor, Reality, and Representation in Sudeten German Expellees’

Memories”

Disc.: Jan T. Gross, Princeton U

13-30 Muscovite Foreign and Military Policy: Major Questions and Recent

Historiography - (Roundtable) - Northeastern

Chair: David Maurice Goldfrank, Georgetown U

Part.: Kees Boterbloem, U of South Florida

Peter B. Brown, Rhode Island College

Chester S. L. Dunning, Texas A&M U

Carol Belkin Stevens, Colgate U

13-31 Reading and Writing the Siege: Narratives of Space, Survival, and

Intellectual Inspiration inside Leningrad, 1941-1944 - (Roundtable) -

Orleans

Chair: Henry F. Reichman, California State U, East Bay

Part.:

Polina Barskova, Hampshire College

Jeffrey Kenneth Hass, U of Richmond

Nikita Andreevich Lomagin, St Petersburg State U (Russia)

Alexis Jean Peri, UC Berkeley

Session 13 • Sunday • 8:00

A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

101

13-33 New Meanings of ‘Center’ and ‘Periphery’: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

on Eurasia - (Roundtable) - Regis

Chair: Alisha Lynn Kirchoff, The Social Science Research Council

Part.: Cynthia J. Buckley, U of Texas at Austin

Judyth Lynn Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth U

13-34 The Production of Isolation, or the Anthropology of Closed Societies

(Celebrating the 100th issue of NLO Journal) - (Roundtable) - Rhode Island

Chair: Irina Dmitrievna Prokhorova, New Literary Observer (Russia)

Part.: Alexander Dmitriev, New Literary Observer (Russia)

Ilya Kukulin, New Literary Observer (Russia)

Maria Mayoﬁ s, New Literary Observer (Russia)

Abram Reitblat, New Literary Observer (Russia)

13-35 East European Cinema 1989-2009 - (Roundtable) - Simmons

Part.: Alyssa DeBlasio, U of Pittsburgh

Marko Dumancic, UNC at Chapel Hill

Herbert J. Eagle, U of Michigan

Catherine E. Portuges, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Aida Vidan, Harvard U

13-36 Women Behind Kremlin Walls: The Wives and Daughters of Russian

Leaders in History and Popular Myth - Suffolk

Chair: Lilya Kaganovsky, U of Illinois

Papers: Emily D Johnson, U of Oklahoma

“Bad Girls of Soviet History: Svetlana Allilueva and Galina Brezhneva in

Post-Soviet Pop Culture and Historical Narrative”

Julie Anne Cassiday, Williams College

“Russia’s First Ladies: From Raisa Gorbacheva to Liudmila Putina”

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U

“The Woman Behind the President: The Life of ‘Saint Svetlana’”

Disc.: Nancy Condee, U of Pittsburgh

13-37 Sincerity and Voice: Contemporary Russian Poetry on the Page and in

Song - Tufts

Chair: Donald Loewen, Binghamton U, SUNY

Papers: Stuart H. Goldberg, Georgia Tech

“Original Sincerity: Some Thoughts on the Poetry of Boris Ryzhii”

Martin Daughtry, New York U

“Constructing the Sincere Voice: On Musical Settings of Boris Ryzhii’s

Verse”

Brigitte Obermayr, FU Berlin (Germany)

“‘Semantic Poetry’ and Sincerity Revisited”

Disc.: Michael Wachtel, Princeton U

13-38 The Soviet Union and the Communist Bloc in 1956 - (Roundtable) -

Vermont

Chair: James G. Hershberg, George Washington U

Part.: Charles Gati, Johns Hopkins U/SAIS

Leszek Wlodzimierz Gluchowski, Brandeis U

Chen Jian, Cornell U

Lorenz M Luthi, McGill U (Canada)

Peter Vamos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)

Session 13 • Sunday • 8:00 A.M. – 9:45 A.M.

102

13-40 Generational Identities: Cultural Producers in the Soviet National

Satellites - Wellesley

Chair: Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton U (Canada)

Papers: Anaita Khudonazar, UC Berkeley

“Nostalgia and the Production of National Past in Soviet Central Asia”

David Ilmar Beecher, UC Berkeley

“Generation of Strangers at Tartu University, Estonia”

Zhanara Nauruzbayeva, Stanford U

“The 1960s Generation: Class, Intelligentsia and the State in Kazakhstan”

Disc.: Alma Kunanbayeva, U of Washington

13-41 Underground of the 1950s and 1960s: Poets of “Mansarda” Circle

and Their Heirs: A Rondtable in Memory of Lev Loseff - (Roundtable) -

Yarmouth

Part.: Natalia K. Pervukhina, U of Tennessee

Allan Patrick Reid, U of New Brunswick (Canada)

Gabriel Superﬁ n, Bremen U (Germany)

Roman Timenchik, Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel)

Tomas A. Venclova, Yale U

Session 14 • SUNDAY • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

Bibliography and Documentation Committee Membership Meeting - (Meeting) -

Grand Ballroom Salon G

14-01 Socialist and Postsocialist Spaces of Identity in Contemporary Romania

- Arlington

Chair: Fedja Buric, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers: Diana Georgescu, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Socialist Spaces of Childhood in Ceausescu’s Romania: From the Pioneer

Palace to the Romanian Disneyland”

Alexandra M Nacu, Sciences-Po (France)

“Asylum-Seekers in the Romanian Health System: Struggles of Legitimacy

and Identity”

Oana Popescu-Sandu, U of Southern Indiana

“Imprisoned in Discourse: Representing the Communist Carceral

Experience after 1989”

Disc.: Gail Kligman, UCLA

14-03 Remembering Stalin’s Victims - Berkeley

Chair: Cynthia A. Ruder, U of Kentucky

Papers: Olga Muller Cooke, Texas A&M U

“Remembering the Victims of Solovki”

Jehanne M Gheith, Duke U

“Guarding the Documents: Cultural Memory and Oral History of Gulag

Survivors”

Dariusz Tolczyk, U of Virginia

“Katyn: Forgetting Before Knowing”

Disc.: Kathleen Elizabeth Smith, Georgetown U

14-04 Soviet Amateur Photography between the Public and the Private -

(Roundtable) - Boston University

Part.: Oksana Gavrishina, Russian U of the Humanities (Russia)

Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, German Historical Inst Moscow (Russia)

Galina Orlova, Rostov-on-Don State U (Russia)

Oksana Sarkisova, Central European U (Hungary)

Session 14 • Sunday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

103

14-05 Shifting Perspectives on Russian Alaska - Brandeis

Chair: Sonja Luehrmann, U of British Columbia (Canada)

Papers: Ilya Vinkovetsky, Simon Fraser U (Canada)

“Russian Bureaucrats and the Founding of the Russian-American Company,

1799”

Sergei A. Kan, Dartmouth College

“‘Proud Heirs of a Golden Age’ or ‘Russians in Name Only’: Sitka Creoles

after 1867 as Seen by the Russian Orthodox Clergy”

Andrei Znamenski, The U of Memphis

“History with an Attitude: Alaska in Modern Russian Patriotic Rhetoric”

Disc.: Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall U

14-06 The Person Behind Its Creation - Clarendon

Chair: Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard U

Papers: Oleg Vitalievich Budnitskii, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

“From the Jewish Childhood to the Combat Organization: The Life of Mikhail

Gotz”

Viktor Kelner, Russian Natl Library (Russia)

“The Missioner of History: Zhizn I Trudy Semona Markovicha Dubnoya”

Olaf Terpitz, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Germany)

“In Search for Life’s Meaning: The Picaresque in G. Bogrov’s ‘Notes of a

Jew’ and I. Erenburg’s ‘The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz’”

Disc.: Musya Glants, Harvard U

14-07 Cold War Warriors: The Political Activism of East European Anti-

Communists in the U.S. - Connecticut

Papers: Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Southeastern Louisiana U

“One Goal Many Paths: Internal and External Struggles of Hungarian

Expatriates, 1945-1956”

Anna A Mazurkiewicz, U of Gdansk (Poland)

“‘The Voice of Silenced Peoples’: The Assembly of Captive European

Nations”

Ieva Zake, Rowan U

“Multiple Fronts of the Cold War: Ethnic Anti-Communism of Latvian

Emigres”

Disc.: Edward Wynot, Florida State U

14-08 Russian Civil Society Organizations: Agents of Social Justice? -

Dartmouth

Chair: Janet Elise Johnson, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Papers: Anna Colin Lebedev, Sciences Po (France)

“Personal Concerns as a Basis for Collective Action: The Case of the

Russian Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers”

Meri Kulmala, U of Helsinki (Finland)

“Russian Social Organizations: Welfare Service Providers or Social Policy

Advocators?”

Michael Rasell, U of Birmingham (UK)

“Disability Organizations in Russia: the Failure of a Movement?”

Disc.: Linda Jean Cook, Brown U

14-09 Central Policy and Local Practice in the Khrushchev Reforms - Exeter

Chair: Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State U

Papers: Jeffrey Scott Hardy, Princeton U

“Prison Guards and Prosecutors: Implementing Khrushchev’s Penal Reform

in Ukraine, 1954-1964 “

Session 14 • Sunday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

104

Nataliya Kibita, U of Glasgow (UK)

“Center-Periphery Relations during the Sovnarkhoz Reform: Application of

the Reform in the Ukrainian SSR, 1957-1965”

Brian LaPierre, U of Southern Mississippi

“Khrushchev’s Anti-Hooligan Policy and the Principal-Agent Problem”

Disc.: Amir Weiner, Stanford U

14-10 The Face of the People’s War - Fairﬁ eld

Chair: Karen Petrone, U of Kentucky

Papers: Jean Levesque, U of Quebec at Montreal (Canada)

“Arm Them with Whatever You Can Make: The People’s Militia (Narodnoe

Opolchenie) in Kiev, Summer 1941”

Alex Statiev, U of Calgary (Canada)

“The Holy Cross in Service of the Proletarian Dictatorship: the Church in

Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands, 1943-50”

Kenneth Slepyan, Transylvania U

“The Great Patriotic War and Remembrance from Afar: Memories of Soviet

Emigres During the Early Cold War”

Disc.: David R. Stone, Kansas State U

14-11 Writing and Rewriting Rusyn Lives: Memoirs, Fiction, Biography -

Falmouth

Chair: Alexandra Christine Wiktorek, Georgetown U

Papers: Patricia Ann Krafcik, The Evergreen State College

“Memoirs of Rusyn-American Immigrants: Shaping New Lives”

Mark Wansa, Independent Researcher

“Icons, Onions, and Inﬂ uenza: Constructing a Rusyn Historical Novel”

Elaine Rusinko, U of Maryland, Baltimore

“Icon of the Rusyn Movement: The Afterlife of Andy Warhol”

Disc.: Linda Pugh, Independent Scholar

14-12 Serbia in Transition: 2000-2010 - Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Slobodan Pesic, American Public U

Papers: Snezana Grk, Institute of Social Sciences (Serbia)

“Structural Reforms in Serbia: Preparing for the Future”

Svetlana Adamovich, School of Political Sciences, Belgrade (Serbia)

“Comparative Analysis of Transition Processes in Serbia and the Region “

Gordana Pesakovic, Argosy U

“Serbia in Transition: Role of the EU and USA “

Disc.: Boris Bulatovic, U of Novi Sad (Serbia)

14-13 The Complexities of Writing Russian and Soviet Poetry - Grand Ballroom

Salon B

Chair: Peter Joseph Scotto, Mt Holyoke College

Papers: Ekaterina Nikitina, Harvard Divinity School

“Writing One Life, Reading Many Lives: Akhmatova’s ‘Requiem’ as an

Autobiographical Poem and a Collective Biography of Soviet People in the

1930s”

Josephine Von Zitzewitz, Oxford U (UK)

“Writing the Poet’s Identity: Unofﬁ cial Soviet Poetry in the 1970s”

14-14

Self Expression in Rural Russia: New Perspectives - Grand Ballroom

Salon C

Chair: Jenny Leigh Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers: Mari Ristolainen, U of Joensuu (Finland)

“Amateur Writing in Provincial Russia”

Session 14 • Sunday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

105

Auri Cashel Berg, U of Toronto (Canada)

“The Diary of Ivan N. Kononov, Village Librarian from Arkhangel’sk Oblast’

(1950-1995)”

Elisa Rachel Gollub, Brown U

“Reading ‘Ordinary’ People’s Biographies”

Disc.: Jessica Allina-Pisano, U of Ottawa (Canada)

Grigory Ioffe, Radford U

14-15 Imperial Life Stories: Narratives of Exile and Belonging in Imperial

Russia and the Soviet Union - Grand Ballroom Salon D

Chair: Joshua A. Sanborn, Lafayette College

Papers: James Howard Meyer, Montana State U

“Imperial Fathers and National Sons: Self-Narration and Elite Muslim

Families in the Late-Imperial Volga Region”

Brigid O’Keeffe, Brooklyn College

“The Self-Edited Life of a Sometimes Gypsy: A. V. Germano, 1893-1955”

Andrew Paul Janco, U of Chicago

“From Stalingrad to Sydney: Strategies of Self-Narration in the Diaries of

Konstantin Gavrilov, 1914-1962”

Disc.: Francis William Wcislo, Vanderbilt U

14-16 Russia’s ‘Global Cities’ in the Economic Crisis - (Roundtable) - Grand

Ballroom Salon E

Chair: Marianna Pavlovskaya, Hunter College, CUNY

Part.: Robert Thomas Argenbright, U of Utah

Megan L. Dixon, College of Idaho

Melanie A. Feakins, UC Berkeley

14-17 New Perspectives on Political Violence in Russian History - Grand

Ballroom Salon F

Chair: Martin Alan Miller, Duke U

Papers: Gerald D. Surh, North Carolina State U

“Mirroring the Other: Self Defense in the 1905 Pogroms”

Abraham Ascher, CUNY

“State Violence under Stolypin”

Glennys J. Young, U of Washington

“Rethinking the State and Insurgent Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia,

1907-1924”

Disc.: Daniel T. Orlovsky, Southern Methodist U

14-19 Brussels Dreams: State Socialist Pavilions at Expo ‘58 - Grand Ballroom

Salon H

Chair: Kiril Tomoff, UC Riverside

Papers: Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U

“Socialism with a Modern Face: Czechoslovakia’s Pavilion at Expo ‘58”

Gyorgy G. Peteri, Norwegian U of Science & Technology (Norway)

“Trans-Systemic Fantasies: Counterrevolutionary Hungary Staging Herself

at Expo ‘58”

Vladimir Kulic, Florida Atlantic U

“An Avant-garde Architecture for an Avant-garde Socialism: The Pavilion of

Yugoslavia at Expo ‘58”

Disc.: Greg Alan Castillo, UC Berkeley

John F. Connelly, UC Berkeley

14-20

Gender and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern Europe and Russia

- (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon I

Part.: Maria Bucur, Indiana U

Daniela Koleva, St. Kliment Ohridski U of Soﬁ a (Bulgaria)

Session 14 • Sunday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

106

Jill M. Massino, Women’s Research and Education Institute

Basia A. Nowak, Ohio State U

Shana Penn, Graduate Theological Union

Susan E. Reid, U of Shefﬁ eld (UK)

14-21 The Fantastic and Supernatural in Russian Literature - Grand Ballroom

Salon J

Chair: Edythe C. Haber, Davis Center, Harvard U

Papers: Henriette Cederlöf, Södertörn U (Sweden)

“Reading Reality through Fantasy - Perumov vs Tolkien”

Stamatios Zochios, U Paris VII-Diderot (France)

“The Hag, the Corn Spirit and the Nightmare: a Complicated Afﬁ nity”

Disc.: Raymond Miller, Bowdoin College

14-22 ‘Ideas that Never Meet’: Navigating Interdisciplinary Knowledge and

Practice within Slavic & East European Studies - (Roundtable) - Grand

Ballroom Salon K

Part.: Elwira Grossman, U of Glasgow (UK)

Francesca Stella, U of Glasgow (UK)

Geoffrey Robert Swain, U of Glasgow (UK)

Vikki Turbine, U of Glasgow (UK)

14-23 Experience and Narration: Women and Family in Soviet Russia and

Latvia - Harvard

Chair: Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn U College (Sweden)

Papers: Helene Carlbäck, CBEES, Södertörn U College (Sweden)

“Letters and Narrative: How to Look for Underlying Texts in Letters from

Single Mothers”

Maija Runcis, Södertörn U College (Sweden)

“Life Stories of Soviet Latvian Families”

Marja Rytkonen, U of Tampere (Finland)

“Autobiography, Biography, Fiction: A Diary of a Single Mother”

Disc.: Marianne Liljeström, U of Turku (Finland)

14-24 Anxiety of Shared Identity in Post-Yugoslav Fiction - Hyannis

Chair: Robert Rakocevic, CEEM, INALCO Paris, (France)

Papers: Aleksandar Boskovic, U of Michigan

“Confronting the Abject: David Albahari’s Bait”

Tatjana Aleksic, U of Michigan

“Looking Back at the Final Decade: Yugoslav Fragmentation in Recent

Fiction”

Disc.: Vladimir Zoric, U of Nottingham (UK)

14-25 Elements of Nature: Russia’s Resources in Historical Context - Maine

Chair: Maya Karin Peterson, Harvard U

Papers: Brian Bonhomme, Youngstown State U

“Twice Shaken: The Impacts of Political Collapse and Transformation on the

Russian Forest, 1917 and 1991”

Pey-Yi Chu, Princeton U

“The Lost Settlement of Naminga: A Story of Resource Extraction in Soviet

Eastern Siberia”

Christopher John Ward, Clayton State U

“Pandora’s Box Reopened?: The Death and Rebirth of Sibaral”

Disc.: Andy Richard Bruno, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Session 14 • Sunday • 10:00 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

107

14-26 Resources and Institutional Issues in Russia. - Massachusetts

Chair: Barry William Ickes, Pennsylvania State U

Papers: Judith Ann Thornton, U of Washington

“Natural Resources and Federal Transfers to Russian Regions”

Vladimir Pantyushin, Jones Lang LaSalle

“Regional and Country-Wide Peculiarities of Land Distribution in Russia”

Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U

“The Effects of Tax Reform on the Performance of Russia’s Tax System”

Disc.: James A. Leitzel, U of Chicago

William Henszey Pyle, Middlebury College

14-27 Daily Life, Religious Practices, and Apocalyptic Visions in the Soviet

Union - MIT

Chair: Shoshana Keller, Hamilton College

Papers: Xavier Le Torrivellec, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations

(Paris)

“Oral History of Religion in Soviet Volga Ural Region (1953-1990)”

Masaru Suda, Hokkaido U (Japan)

“The Re-Colonizing of the Daily Life: Community and Social Organization in

Stalinist Uzbekistan”

Olga V. Velikanova, U of North Texas

“Apocalyptic Moods in Soviet Village in the 1920s and 1930s”

Disc.: Timothy John Paynich, UC Riverside

14-28 Others Writing Herzen’s Life, Then and Now - Nantucket

Chair: Natalia K. Pervukhina, U of Tennessee

Papers: Victoria Thorstensson, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“A Path to ‘Our Famous Exiles in London’: Exploring the Motif of the

Pilgrimage to Herzen in the Context of Russian Life and Literature of the

1860s”

Elizabeth Ann Blake, Saint Louis U

“Ridiculing the Revolutionaries in Besy: Dostoevsky’s Writing of Herzen into

Russian History”

Vadim Shkolnikov, Columbia U

“History Does Not Respect Intellectuals”

Disc.: Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Georgetown U

14-29 Globalization and Regime Change: Stories from the New Europe and the

New Russia - New Hampshire

Chair: Robin Remington, Peace Haven Intl

Papers: Robert Kent Evanson, U of Missouri-Kansas City

“The Czech Republic, Germany, and the Sudeten Germans: Codependency

and Reconciliation”

Carol Skalnik Leff, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“In the Nick of Time: Politics of European Integration in Slovakia”

Francine Friedman, Ball State U

“Reinventing Yugoslavia: Rebirth of Bosnia”

Disc.: David John O’Brien, U of Missouri-Columbia

14-30 What Textual Criticism and Linguistic Analysis Tell Us about the Origin of

the Igor’ Tale - (Roundtable) - Northeastern

Chair: David J. Birnbaum, U of Pittsburgh

Part.: Harvey Goldblatt, Yale U

Donald Ostrowski, Harvard U

Robert Romanchuk, Florida State U

Olga B. Strakhov, Harvard U Library

Session 14 • Sunday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

108

14-31 Emigration from Russia and its Cultural Baggage - (Roundtable) - Orleans

Chair: Alexander Levitsky, Brown U

Part.: Nicholas Ganson, College of the Holy Cross

Maria Ignatieva, Ohio State U

Olga S. Partan, College of the Holy Cross

Tatiana Smorodinska, Middlebury College

14-32 Visualizing Trauma: Images of Historical Propaganda - Provincetown

Chair: Luba Golburt, UC Berkeley

Papers: Katerina Romanenko, The Graduate Center, CUNY

“Visual Language of the Soviet Periodical Press in the 1930s: ‘We Will Build

our Own New World’”

Katy Sosnak, UC Berkeley

“Dostoevsky’s Modern Illustrators: ‘Prestuplenie i Nakazanie’ as 1950s

Propaganda”

Katherine Hill Reischl, U of Chicago

“Visualizing the Invisible: The Gulag in Photography and Illustration”

Disc.: Douglas Matthew Greenﬁ eld, Temple U

14-33 Russia and the Orthodox East in the Nineteenth-Century - Regis

Chair: John Athanasios Mazis, Hamline U

Papers: Theophilus C. Prousis, U of North Florida

“Russia and the Eastern Crisis of the 1820s: A British Perspective”

Lucien Frary, Rider U

“Russia and the Last Phase of the Greek War of Independence”

Jack Fairey, National U of Singapore (Singapore)

“Russia’s Quest for the Holy Grail: Relics, Liturgics, and Great Power

Politics in Ottoman Northern Greece”

Disc.: Gregory Lynn Bruess, U of Northern Iowa

14-34 New Trends in Russian Linguistic Conceptualization of the World - Rhode

Island

Chair: Svitlana V. Malykhina, SUNY Albany

Papers: Alexei D. Shmelev, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

“Russian View of Western Concepts: Linguistic Evidence”

Elena Shmeleva, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of

Sciences (Russia)

“‘Pozitivnyj egoist’ and ‘uspeshnyj kar’jerist’ as ‘Heroes of our Time’”

Irina Levontina, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

“New English Borrowings in Contemporary Russian”

Disc.: Valentina Apresjan

14-35 Watching and Writing the Cinema - Simmons

Chair: Mila Shevchenko, Bowling Green State U

Papers: Maia Vladimirovna Solovieva, Oberlin College

“The Chekhovian Sense of Life: A Cultural Adaptation of The Three Sisters”

Michele Leigh Torre, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

“Women’s Work?: Writing for the Cinema, 1913-1917”

Lora Wheeler Mjolsness, UC Irvine

“Ivan Ivanov-Vano: Writing Soviet Animation”

Disc.: B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Howard U

14-36 A ‘Trans-Baltic’ Perspective? Constructing post-1991 Baltic Identities in

Cinema - (Roundtable) - Suffolk

Chair: Maruta Z. Vitols, Emerson College

Part.: Bjorn Ingvoldstad, Bridgewater State College

Mari Laaniste, Estonian Literary Museum (Estonia)

Session 14 • Sunday • 10:00

A.M. – 11:45 A.M.

109

Eva Naripea, Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia)

Andreas Trossek, Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia)

14-37 ‘Enough for a Lifetime’: Lives Lived on the Boundaries of Music and

Literature - Tufts

Chair: Alexandra G. Kostina, Rhodes College

Papers: Ruth Solomon Rischin, Independent Scholar

“Tchaikovsky as Historian of Music: ‘Betkhoven I Ego Vremia (1873)’”

Valeria Z. Nollan, Rhodes College

“The Muse Fell Silent: Why Rachmaninoff Stopped Composing Art Songs

After 1917”

Brad Michael Damare, U of Southern California

“Sologub’s ‘New, Modern’ art: ‘I Pojdet uzh Muzyka ne ta’”

Disc.: Alexander Burry, Ohio State U

14-38 Third World Solidarity in Yugoslavia and the USSR - Vermont

Chair: Susan E. Costanzo, Western Washington U

Papers: Michael Rouland, Miami U

“Friendship of the Peoples: The Third World of a Soviet Intellectual”

Julie Hessler, U of Oregon

“Solidarity Weeks, Gala Beneﬁ ts, and Sponsorship: The Soviet Committee

for Solidarity with Asian and African Countries “

James MacEwan Robertson, New York U

“International Solidarity in Tito’s Yugoslavia”

Disc.: Jennifer Ann Amos, U of Chicago

Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall U

14-40 Reﬂ ections and Refractions: The Mirror in Russian Culture - Wellesley

Chair: Petre Petrov, Princeton U

Papers: Karin Sarsenov, U of Lund (Sweden)

“Reﬂ ections in Women’s Post-Soviet Autobiographies: Individuals and

Collectives”

Irina Makoveeva, Vanderbilt U

“Fleshing out the Star’s Reﬂ ection in Sergei Livnev’s ‘Kiks’”

Kirsten Lodge, Columbia U

“Subjective Idealism and Decadence: Valery Briusov’s ‘In the Mirror’”

Disc.: Julia Bekman Chadaga, Macalester College

14-41 Elegy and Elegiac in Contemporary Russian Culture - Yarmouth

Chair: Gitta Hammarberg, Macalester College

Papers: Diane M. Nemec-Ignashev, Carleton College

“On the Cinematic Elegies of Aleksandr Sokurov: From Mood to Genre”

Alexandar Mihailovich, Hofstra U

“The Romance of Cloning: Vladimir Sorokin’s Baudrillardian View of

Collectivism in Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Film ‘4’ and Leonid Desiatnikov’s Opera

‘Rosenthal’s Children’”

Disc.: Emily D Johnson, U of Oklahoma

Session 15 • SUNDAY • 12:00 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

15-01 Looking Back to Look Forward - Hungary - Arlington - Sponsored by:

Hungarian Studies Association

Chair: Anne Dropick, Yale U

Papers: Alice Freifeld, U of Florida

“1989: Revolution when History Rebuffed Revolution”

Session 15 • Sunday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

110

Katalin Fabian, Lafayette College

“Open Societies? Connections between Women’s Activism, Globalization

and Democracy in Hungary”

Susan Glanz, St John’s U

“Economic Platforms of the Opposition Parties in Hungary in 1989”

Disc.: Andrew Felkay, Kutztown U, Professor Emeritus

Judith Szapor, McGill U (Canada)

15-04 Word and Image in the Arts of Serbia - Boston University

Chair: Ruzica Popovitch-Krekic, Mt St Mary’s College

Papers: Ljubica D Popovich, Vanderbilt U (Emeritus)

“The Body Language: The Visual Rhetoric of Prophet Images in Serbian Art”

Lilien Filipovitch Robinson, George Washington U

“Painting History: Reconciling Fact and Fiction”

Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric, Texas A&M U

“Mutual Illumination of National Identity: Stevan Mokranjac and Paja

Jovanovic”

Disc.: Ida Sinkevic, Lafayette College

15-05 Derzhavin - Brandeis

Chair: Gitta Hammarberg, Macalester College

Papers: Marcus C. Levitt, USC

“Derzhavin’s ‘Zapiski’”

Vera Proskurina, Emory U

“Reshaping Gallant Praise: Derzhavin and ‘Barkoviana’”

Joachim Klein, Leiden U (Netherlands)

“Horace and Derzhavin: The Ode ‘Na Umerennost’”

Disc.: Tatiana Smoliarova, Columbia U

15-06 Zionism in the Russian Contexts: Cultural and Literary Dialogues, 1897-

1939 - Clarendon

Chair: Jeffrey Veidlinger, Indiana U

Papers: Brian Jay Horowitz, Tulane U

“Volynsky-Flekser - Zionist”

Marat Grinberg, Reed College

“Judaic Wisdom in Vladimir Jabotinsky’s The Five”

Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College

“Mark Egart and the Writing of a Soviet Novel about Halutzim”

Disc.: Amelia Glaser, UC San Diego

15-08 Russian Laws and Cultural Property: Exploring Legal Problems Arising

from Appropriations, Sales, and Restitution Claims in the 20th Century

- Dartmouth

Chair: Charles Arthur Goldstein, Commission for Art Recovery

Papers: Irina Tarsis, Cardozo School of Law

“Russian Emigre Legal Reaction to the 1930s Sales”

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Harvard Ukrainian Research Inst, Harvard U

“Repatriation v. Restitution: Legal Issues in National Heritage and the Spoils

of World War II Revisited”

Elena Schafer Danielson, Hoover Inst Archivist Emerita

“Does Digital and Microﬁ

lm Reproduction Make Repatriation of Original

Manuscripts Obsolete?”

Disc.: Konstantin Akinsha, Commission for Art Recovery

Howard N Spiegler, Herrick, Feinstein LLP

Session 15 • Sunday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

111

15-09 Reconsideration of Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, and Serge in Light of the

Current Economic Climate - Exeter

Chair: Michel Vale, Independent Scholar

Papers: Hillel Herschel Ticktin, U of Glasgow (UK)

“Trotsky: Honesty, Consistency, Dedication and Prescience in Politics?”

Lea Haro, U of Glasgow (UK)

“Myth-Making After the Russian Revolution: Interpretation and

Misrepresentation of Rosa Luxemburg’s Political Thought”

Susan Weissman, St Mary’s College of California

“Victor Serge, Historian and Conscience of the Left Opposition: Relentless

Fight for Human Dignity, Unﬂ inching Critique of the Revolution’s

‘Decapitated Dawn’”

Disc.: Paul Joseph Le Blanc, La Roche College

15-10 Telling the Second World War - Fairﬁ eld

Papers: Nicole Eaton, UC Berkeley

“The Battle for East Prussia: Soviet and German Stories in 1945 and Beyond”

Brandon Schechter, UC Berkeley

“‘The Language of the Sword’: Aleksandr Bek, the Writers Union and

Baurdzhan Momysh-uly in Battle for the Memory of Volokolamskoe Shosse”

Jennifer Ann Amos, U of Chicago

“The Readings of Fascism: How the Second World War Inﬂ uenced Soviet

Diplomacy on Human Rights”

Disc.: Stephen Brain, Mississippi State U

15-11 Authors of Memory in West Ukraine: Tensions on the National, Local, and

Private Levels - Falmouth

Chair: Patrice M. Dabrowski, UMass Amherst

Papers: Uilleam Blacker, U College London (UK)

“Biography in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature: Andrukhovych, Antonych

and the Cultural Text of L’viv”

Robert Pyrah, U of Oxford (UK)

“The Cultural Politics of Memory: National, Civic or Personal

‘(Auto)Biography’? The Case of L’viv, Ukraine”

Olesya Khromeychuk, U College London (UK)

“Ukrainian Institutional Attempts to Frame an Elusive Memory of WWII”

Disc.: Keely Stauter-Halsted, Michigan State U

15-12 The 2009 Albanian Parliamentary Elections: An Analysis - (Roundtable)

- Grand Ballroom Salon A - Sponsored by: Society for Albanian Studies

Chair: Nicholas C. Pano, Western Illinois U

Part.: Robert C. Austin, U of Toronto (Canada)

Elez Biberaj, Voice of America

Bernd J. Fischer, Indiana U, Fort Wayne

Ines A. Murzaku, Seton Hall U

Gregory James Pano, Salem State College

15-14 Writing Biographies, Mastering Spaces - Grand Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Riccardo Nicolosi, Universität Konstanz (Germany)

Papers:

Sandra Evans, U of Tuebingen (Germany)

“Solitary or Solidary? Indeterminacy and Innovation in Communal Spaces”

Schamma Schahadat, U of Tuebingen (Germany)

“Gendered Spaces, Female Biographies: Looking for Space in the Soviet

1930s”

Disc.: Igal Halﬁ n, Tel Aviv U (Israel)

Susanne Schattenberg, Research Centre for East European Studies at

Bremen U (Germany)

Session 15 • Sunday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

112

15-19 Old Warriors and New Men: The Legacy of the War and the Radical Right

in the Successor States 1918-1939 - Grand Ballroom Salon H

Chair: Thomas Anselm Lorman, U of Cincinnati

Papers: Katya A. M. Kocourek, Independent Scholar

“White Generals From Eastern Fronts to Western Fronts - The Seeds of

Paramilitary Potential and the Ascendancy of the ‘New’ Czechoslovak Man,

1918-26”

John Paul Newman, U College Dublin (Ireland)

“‘For the Honour of the Fatherland’: Veterans and the Right in Serbia”

Rebecca Haynes, U College London (UK)

“‘Saving Greater Romania’: The Legionary Movement and the ‘New Man’ “

Disc.: Mark Cornwall, U of Southampton (UK)

15-20 Institutions and Sectoral Reform In Russia and Eastern Europe - Grand

Ballroom Salon I

Chair: Stephen Fitzgerald Crowley, Oberlin College

Papers: Marc P. Berenson, Princeton U

“Tax Compliance and Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Poland, Russia and

Ukraine: Do Competing Conceptions of Civil Society Matter?

Yelena Biberman, Brown U

“A Comparative Analysis of the Post-Soviet Transformation of the

Institutional Arrangement between the Ruling Elite and State Ofﬁ cials in

Russia and Ukraine”

Brian Keith Grodsky, U of Maryland, Baltimore County

“From the Shop Floor to the Parliamentary Floor: How Institutions Affect

State-Union Relations during Early Democratization”

15-21 Inﬂ uence and Intertext in Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Esenin - Grand

Ballroom Salon J

Chair: Tony Anemone, The New School

Papers: Connor Brian Doak, Northwestern U

“Did Pushkin ‘Overcome’ Byron?: The Case of ‘Mazeppa’ and ‘Poltava’”

Evelina Mendelevich, The Graduate Center, CUNY

“A Vital Art: Reading, Writing and Living in James and Dostoyevsky”

Elise Thorsen, U of Pittsburgh

“‘I Have Never Been at Bosphorus’: The Appropriation of Subjective

Experience in Sergei Esenin’s Persian Motifs”

Disc.: Peter Joseph Scotto, Mt Holyoke College

15-22 Integrating Russian History Into Western and World Civilization Surveys

- (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon K

Part.: Kathleen E. Addison, California State U, Northridge

Mary W. Cavender, Ohio State U

Julie K. deGraffenried, Baylor U

Boris B Gorshkov, Auburn U

Bradley Davis Woodworth, U of New Haven

15-23 When Gender Goes South - Harvard

Chair: Sibelan E. S. Forrester, Swarthmore College

Papers: Andrea Zink, U of Basel (Switzerland)

“Borderline Cases: Stevan Sremac ‘Pop Cira and Pop Spiro’”

Tatjana Rosic Ilic, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

“Nomadic Gender: Judita Salgols ‘Put u Birobidzan’”

Tomislav Zoran Longinovic, U of Wisconsin-Madison

“Masculine Wounds: Roots of National Imaginary”

Disc.: Jasmina Lukic, Central European U (Hungary)

Session 15 • Sunday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

113

15-24 Exile in Twentieth-Century Serbian and Croatian Literature - Hyannis

Chair: Irena Lazic, Southern Connecticut State U

Papers: Vladimir Zoric, U of Nottingham (UK)

“A Submergent Bridge: Water and Exile in the Work of Miloš Crnjanski”

Robert Rakocevic, CEEM, INALCO Paris, (France)

“Traditional and Modern Patterns in Serbian Exile Narratives”

Dragana Obradovic, U College London (UK)

“A Flâneuse in Berlin: Dubravka Ugresic’s Museum of Unconditional

Surrender”

Disc.: Radmila Gorup, Columbia U

15-27 Ukrainian Churches: Telling the Human Story - MIT

Chair: Anna M. Procyk, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

Papers: Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Retired

“Building the Ukrainian Catholic Diocese in the United States”

Ivan Kaszczak, St. Basil College

“Bishop Ortynsky’s Role in the Greek (Ukrainian) Catholic Church in the

U.S.”

Zenon Victor Wasyliw, Ithaca College

“The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of the 1920s: Parallel

Developments in Soviet Ukraine and North America”

Disc.: Thomas E. Bird, Queens College, CUNY

15-28 Society and the Individual in 19th Centuy Russian Literature - Nantucket

Chair: Raymond Miller, Bowdoin College

Papers: Yanina V. Arnold, U of Michigan

“‘What Is Truth?’’: Conversations about Legal Culture in the Literature of

Late Imperial Russia”

Anton A Fedyashin, American U

“Writing the Lives of the Zemstva: Local Self-Government in Russian

Literature, 1864-1869”

Mila Shevchenko, Bowling Green State U

“The Dialectics of Internal and External Space in Chekhov’s ‘My Life’”

Disc.: Elena Konstantinovna Murenina, East Carolina U

15-30 Sustaining Historical Old Believer Attitudes - Northeastern

Chair: Katia Levintova, U of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Papers: Kevin Michael Kain, U of Wisconsin-Green Bay

“Competing Biographies: Old Believer Responses to Ioann Shusherin’s

‘Account of Birth, Life, and Upbringing of His Holiness Nikon’”

Tamara B. Morris (Yumsunova), Portland State U, Oregon

“Language of American-born Old Believers in Oregon”

Axinia Crasovschi, U of Bucharest (Romania)

“Re-establishing Russian as a First Language (Mother Tongue for Lipovan

Children in Romanian Schools)”

Disc.: Richard A Morris, Independent Scholar

15-31 My Home Is My Castle: Homes and the Morality of Really Existing

Socialism in late Communist Czechoslovakia - Orleans

Chair: Nancy W. Collins, Columbia U

Papers: Bradley F. Abrams, President, Czechoslovak Studies Association

“Who Gets to Live Where?: Weekend Houses and Desirable Housing in

Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring”

Christopher W. Harwood, Columbia U

“‘The Modest Family House of the Socialist Bourgeois’: Zdenek Sverak’s

Critique of Czechoslovak Society in ‘My Sweet Little Village’ and Vaclav

Havel’s Critique of the Film”

Session 15 • Sunday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

114

Christina Manetti, Independent Scholar

“Build a House? Plant a Tree?: The Morality of ‘Real Existing Socialism’ in

Jakubisko’s ‘Postav dom, zasad’ strom’”

15-32 Russian Silver Age Artists: Reading Zhiznitvorchestvo - Provincetown

Chair: K. Andrea Rusnock, Indiana U, South Bend

Papers: Scott D Ruby, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

“The Effulgence of the Decorative Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Russia”

Kristi Groberg, North Dakota State U

“Mikhail Vrubel’s Shell Series: Reading the Impact of Disease”

John McCannon, U of Saskatchewan (Canada)

“Reading Nikolai Rerikh”

Disc.: Maria Carlson, U of Kansas

15-33 Persistence of the Old Regime? Imperial Russia in the Ottoman East,

1830-1917 - Regis

Chair: Ilya Vinkovetsky, Simon Fraser U (Canada)

Papers: Natasha Renee Margulis, U of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

“Russia’s 19th Century Balkan Policy in Microcosm: Montenegro’s

Russophilia 1830-1851”

Denis Vladimirovich Vovchenko, Northeastern State U

“Orthodox Modernities Compared: Greek and Russian Monks and

Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914”

Halit Dundar Akarca, Princeton U

“Clash of Legitimacies: Ottoman and Russian Empires in the First World

War”

Disc.: Victor Taki

15-34 Ethnosemantics: Connotations Reﬂ ected in Semantics and Pragmatics

of a Language - Rhode Island

Chair: Timothy Dimitry Sergay, SUNY Albany

Papers: Valentina Jurjewna Apresjan, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

“The Concept of ‘Truth’ in the Russian Language”

Svitlana V. Malykhina, SUNY Albany

“New-coined Aphorisms and Old-fashioned Euphemisms in the Russian

Current Media Discourse”

Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia U

“New Words, Old Ways: Ukraine’s Post-Soviet Predicament as Reﬂ ected in

Lexical Borrowings”

Disc.: Andriy Danylenko, Pace U

15-35 Author and Film - Simmons

Chair: Maria Belodubrovskaya, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers: Erin Alpert, U of Pittsburgh

“The Role of the Soviet Scriptwriter”

Vincent Morrison Bohlinger, Rhode Island College

“‘It’s a Difﬁ cult Movie’: Audience Survey Responses to Eisenstein’s October”

Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary, U of London (UK)

“Authorship in Soviet Wartime Documentaries”

Disc.:

Gerald M. McCausland, U of Pittsburgh

15-36 Post- and Neo-Colonialism in Russian Cinema - (Roundtable) - Suffolk

Part.: Anna Brodsky, Washington and Lee U

Fatima Demelkhanova, Moscow State U (Russia)

Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood, SUNY, Stony Brook U

Jeremi M Szaniawski, Yale U

Joanna Trzeciak, Kent State U

Session 15 • Sunday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

115

15-37 Great Musicians and Their Patrons - Tufts

Chair: Radu R. Florescu, Boston College

Papers: Matei Cazacu, CNRS, U of Paris (France)

“George Enescu and Queen Carmen Sylva”

Kathryn L Libin, Vassar College

“Beethoven and Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz”

Julien Musaﬁ a, CSU Long Beach

“Wagner and Ludwig II”

15-38 Serbia Beyond 2009: Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Choices -

Vermont - Sponsored by: North American Society for Serbian Studies

Chair: Slobodan Pesic, American Public U

Papers: Dragana Filipovic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia (Serbia)

“Serbia’s Foreign Policy Choices Beyond 2009”

Sergei Romanenko, Russian Academy of Sciences

“Russia and Serbia in the Beginning of the 21 Century”

David B. Kanin, CIA

“‘Eastern’ or ‘Western’: Serbian Identity at the Crossroads”

Disc.: Angela V. Ilic, Temple U

Julian Schuster, Hamline U

15-39 The Utopian Ideal in East Europe - Vineyard

Chair: Malynne M. Sternstein, U of Chicago

Papers: Maria Isabel Kisel, U of Victoria

“Awaking from the Nightmare of History: Andrei Platonov’s Linguistic

Transcendence in The Foundation Pit”

Shawn Eric Clybor, Northwestern U

“Radical Dreams: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the Czech

Avant-garde, 1920-1925”

Carlos Reijnen, U of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

“Communists and National Temptations: Czech and Polish Post-War

Communism and the Nation”

Disc.: Peter Bugge, Aarhus U (Denmark)

15-40 The Holocaust in Russia through the Eyes of Victims, Rescuers, and

Veterans - Wellesley

Chair: Eric C. Steinhart, UNC, Chapel Hill

Papers: Crispin Brooks, USC Shoah Foundation Inst

“Russian Survivor Testimonies from the Shoah Foundation Archive”

Kiril Feferman, Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel)

“Rescue of Jews in Occupied Russia”

Zvi Y. Gitelman, U of Michigan

“Fighting for Kin or Country? Context and the Remembrance of Things Past

by Soviet Jewish Combatants”

Disc.: Martin J. Blackwell, Gainesville State College

15-41 Presenting the Poet: Life-Writing and Creation/Re-creation - Yarmouth

Chair: Irina Anisimova, U of Pittsburgh

Papers: Sarah A Krive, UNC - Greensboro

“The Legacy of Trauma and the Limits of Criticism in Recent Biographical

Approaches to Anna Akhmatova”

Donald Loewen, Binghamton U, SUNY

“Pushkin’s Autobiography Fragments: Reading Between the Lines”

Ona Renner-Fahey, U of Montana

“Tsvetaeva’s Epistolary Constructions of the Self”

Disc.: Maria Y. Khotimsky, Harvard U

Session 15 • Sunday • 12:00

P.M. – 1:45 P.M.