SCSS CONFERENCE IN 2015
LEXINGTON, KY March 5-7, 2015
The Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Downtown Lexington, KY, March 5-7, 2015. The meeting is supported by ASEEES and will be hosted by the University of Kentucky, Transylvania University, Eastern Kentucky University, and Morehead State University. SCSS is the largest of the regional Slavic and Eurasian Studies associations and its programs attract national and international scholarly participation. The purpose of SCSS is to promote scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly interest in Russian, Soviet, East European, and Eurasian studies in the Southern region of the United States and nationwide. Membership in SCSS is open to all persons interested in furthering these goals.
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ON-LINE REGISTRATION:history.as.uky.edu/awss-scss-registration
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: KAREN PETRONE (petrone@uky.edu)
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PROGRAM: ALICE PATE (apate9@kennesaw.edu)
LEXINGTON PROGRAM 2015
Program Southern Conference of Slavic Studies
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Registration Hilton Hotel 4 pm
Opening Reception Grand KY- Salon A Hilton Hotel 6 pm
Friday, 6 March 2015
Breakfast Buffet: At Entrance to Grand KY - Salons A& B, 7:00-9:00 am
Session 1: 8:30-10:00 am
Panel 1.1: Place and Identity Bluegrass Room – Salon A
Chair: Susan McCaffray, UNC-Wilmington, mccaffrays@uncw.edu
“Baikonur, Tyuratam and Long Duree History”
Cathleen Lewis, Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space Museum, LewisCS@si.edu
“This City Has Become Human for Me”: Stalingrad and the Gendered Use of Hero-cities in the
Formation of a Soviet National Identity”
Hannah Zinn, University of Oklahoma,hlzinn@ou.edu
Discussant: John Davis, Hopkinsville Community College, jpdavi4@gmail.com
Panel 1.2: Illustrations, Fiction and Theater Bluegrass Room-Salon B
Chair: Joan Titus, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, j_titus@uncg.edu
“Staging Trauma: Experiential Performance in the Kantor’s Umarla Klasa”
Ty Vanover, University of Virginia
"The Double Narrative of Domestic Violence in Contemporary Russia”
Jessica Dougherty, Duke University, jessica.dougherty@duke.edu
“Russian Children’s Picture Books and Their Illustrators in the Post Stalin Era”
Katherine Lane, Duke University, Katherine.lane@Duke.edu
Discussant: Sharon Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu
Panel 1.3: History and Gender Identity -Triple Crown Room
Chair andDiscussant: Marjorie Hilton, Murray State University, mhilton@murraystate.edu
“Historical Encounters of the Queer Kind”
Jodi Greig, University of Michigan, jcgreig@umich.edu
“The Curious Case of Stella Walsh, the Greatest Woman Athlete of the Frist Half of the Twentieth Century”
Sheldon Anderson, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, anderss@miamioh.edu
Panel 1.4: Body and Soul: Aspects of Physicality and Spirituality in Literature - Grand Kentucky –Salon B
Chair: Kevin Reese, University North Carolina – Chapel Hill, kreese@email.unc.edu
“Seeing, Hearing, Touching: The Limited Space of the Senses in Lev Tolstoy’s ‘Father Sergius’”
Natalia Chernysheva, University North Carolina – Chapel Hill, chernysn@email.unc.edu
“Silver Age Yoga”
J. Alexander Ogden, University of South Carolina, ogdenj@mailbox.sc.edu
“How Do You Like My Darkness Now?: Slavic Lovers, Sexual Initiation and ‘Ethnic Cleansing’”
Elena Pedigo Clark, Wake Forest University, clarkep@wfu.edu
Discussant: Kevin Reese, University North Carolina – Chapel Hill, kreese@email.unc.edu
Panel 1.5: Identity and Politics among the Czechs- Grand Kentucky-Salon A
Chair: Katya Jordan, Virginia Tech, kjordan5@vt.edu
“Art Nouveau’s Connection to Pan-Slavism
Erin Dusza, erin_dusza@yahoo.com
“The Velvet Revolution in the Views of Czech Presidents (and Czech Media)”
Vladimir Polách, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, vladimir.polach@unl.edu
“Rethinking National Identify in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1921: What’s in a Song?”
William J. Peterson, Pomona College, wpeterson@pomona.edu
James W. Peterson, Valdosta State University, jpetersn@valdosta.edu
Discussant: Tony Makowksi, Delaware County Community College, amakowski@dccc.edu
Session 2: 10:15am -12:00pm
Panel 2.1: Placing Time: Private and Public Cultural Production in Fin de Siecle Russia - Grand Kentucky-Salon A
Chair: Chris Ely, Florida Atlantic University, cely@fau.edu
“Daily Time/Private Time: Domestic Interiors and Modern Temporalities”
Rebecca Friedman, Florida International University, friedmar@fiu.edu
“Shifting Time-Frames and Metaphorical Spaces: Dmitrii Merezhkovsky, Russian Modernism, and the Classical Past”
Judith Kalb, University of South Carolina, kalbj@mailbox.sc.edu
“Cool-tivating Modernity: Exploring Russian Futurists’ Reconstruction of Nature”
Rosibel Roman, Florida International University , rroma004@fiu.edu
Discussant: Anna Fishzon, Duke Univeristy
Anna.fishzon@duke.edu or afishzon@gmail.com
Panel 2.2: Roundtable: The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of the Russian Revolution
Grand Kentucky – Salon B
Chair and Discussant: John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University
Steven Marks, Clemson University, MSTEVEN@Clemson.edu
Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles, cchatte@calstatela.edu
Steve Sabol, University North Carolina – Charlotte, sosabol@uncc.edu
Alice Pate, Kennesaw State University, apate9@kennesaw.edu
Panel 2.3: Transnationalism: Migration and Human Trafficking - Bluegrass Room- Salon A
Chair:Sandra Pojals, University of Puerto-Rico, San Juan, spuprrp@gmail.com
“Ideologies of (non)-return: An Examination of Transnationalism among Romanian Migrant Women in France”
Elena Popa, Indiana University, epopa@indiana.edu
“Movie Influences on U.S. Media Reporting on Human Trafficking in Eastern European Countries”
Stepanka Korytova-Magstadt, Indiana University, stepkory@indiana.edu
Discussant: Debbie Field, Adrian College, dfield@adrain.edu
Panel 2.4: The World of the Slavic World - Bluegrass Room – Salon B
Chair: Lee Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery, lfarrow@aum.edu
“Suicide as a Final Resolution of Conflicting Identities in The Brothers Karamazov”
Rachael Daum Indiana University, rcldaum@gmail.com
“Admission of Guilt in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov”
Catherine Spitzer, Saint Anselm College, cspitzer@anselm.edu
“Vladimir Nabokov as a Translator (‘Eugene Onegin’)”
Julia Kobrina-Coolidge (Middlebury College), jkobrinacoolidge@csuchico.edu
“Textual dissimulation strategies in early modern Poland-Lithuania”
Maria Ivanova, University of Virginia ivanova@virginia.edu
Discussant: Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State University, kvladimi@kennesaw.edu
Panel 2.5: Domestic Context of Russian Foreign Policy - Triple Crown Room
Chair: Cathleen Lewis, Smithsonian Institution, LewisCS@si.edu
“Fear and Loathing in Russian Political Culture”
Robert Nalbandov, Utah State University, Robert.Nalbandov@usu.edu
“Literature as Cold War Weapon: Soviet Publishing and Foreign Policy During the 1960s”
Karl E. Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, loewenst@uwosh.edu
“The Russian Christian Take on Putin and Ukraine”
Mark Elliott, Asbury University, emark936@gmail.com
“Cuban-Russian Relations in the 21st Century: Oil and Geopolitics."
Christopher Moldes. Duke University, christopher.moldes@duke.edu
Discussant: Matt Payne, Emory University, mpayn01@emory.edu
Panel 2.6: Uses of Poetry in the Study of Twentieth-century Russian Literature - Crimson Clover Room
Chair: Elena Pedigo Clark, Wake Forrest University, elenapedigo@yahoo.com
“Okhotnik ili dobycha?: Internalized Homophobia in the Poetry of Tsvetaeva and Parnok”
Karina McCorkle, UNC- Chapel Hill, karinamccorkle@bellsouth.net
“The Cosmology of Peter’s City: Pushkin’s Mednyi vsadnik in the Strugatskiis’ Piknik na obochine” Kevin Reese, UNC-Chapel Hill, kreese@email.unc.edu
“Maiakovski’s Superfluous Sacrifice: The Poetic Persona as Christ Figure in Vladimir Maiakovskii: Tragediia”
Jasmine Trinks, UNC-Chapel Hill, jaklar@live.unc.edu
Discussant: John Wright, Kenyon College, cal.wright@gmail.com
Executive Committee Lunch 12:15 -1:15 pm Arabian Board Room
Session 3: 1:30-3:00 pm
Panel 3.1: Bodies in Film and Literature - Grand Kentucky-Salon A
Chair: Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee - The University of the South, eskomp@sewanee.edu
“Bodies of Power: Control and Influence in Ulitskaia's The Funeral Party and 'March 1953'”
Natalie McCauley, University of Michigan, NataliMc@UMich.edu
“Sexuality Indignity: Representations of Women and Sex in Glasnost-Era Soviet Film”
Svetlana Ter-Grigoryan, Western Kentucky University
svetlana.ter-grigoryan604@topper.wku.edu
“The Female in Bee Bodies: Honey Bee Imagery in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia”
Catherine Clay, Shippensburg University, cbclay@ship.edu
Moderator: Karen Petrone, University of Kentucky, petrone@uky.edu
Panel 3.2: Making St. Petersburg: Consciousness or Spontaneity - Grand Kentucky-Salon B
Chair: Julie Buckler, Harvard University, buckler@fas.harvard.edu
“Énvisioned but Unrealized: The Petersburg that Wasn’t”
George Munro, Virginia Commonwealth University, gmunro@vcu.edu
“From Admiralty Meadow to Palace Square”
Susan McCaffray, University North Carolina – Wilmington, mccaffrays@uncw.edu
“Reform-Era St. Petersburg as Embattled Space of Representation”
Chris Ely, Florida Atlantic University, cely@fau.edu
Discussant: David Goldfrank, Georgetown University, goldfrad@georgetown.edu
Panel 3.3: Women and Islam in a Russian/Soviet Context - Bluegrass Room –Salon B
Chair: Matthew Payne, Emory University, mpayn01@emory.edu
“Marriage to non-Muslims: Changing Times and Perspectives”
Rahimjon Abdugarfurova, Emory University, rahimjon.abdugafurov@emory.edu
“The Images of Women in Turkestan: From Heroines to Myopic Individuals”
Donohon Abdugafurova, Emory University, donohon.abdugafurova@emory.edu
“Awakening the East”: Soviet Representations of Central Asian Women in the Interwar Period”
Rebekah Ramsay, Emory University, rebekah.ramsay@gmail.com
Discussant: Clayton Black, Washington College, cblack2@washcoll.edu
Panel 3.4: Something Old, Something New: Tatar Linguistic, Cultural, and Political Transformations in the Twentieth Century – Triple Crown Room
Chair: John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University, steinbergi@apsu.edu
“Dictionaries, Scripts, and Soviet Power: The Imperfect Science of Tatar Lexicography”
Daniel Schafer, Belmont University, daniel.schafer@belmont.edu
“The Maidan in Kazan: Sabantui as a Communicative Space, 1920-41”
Gary Guadagnolo, University North Carolina – Chapel Hill, gdg@email.unc.edu
“A Nation without an Ideology is like a Body without a Soul’: Volga Tatars Theorize Turkish Nationalism”
Elizabeth Bospflug, Yale University, elizabeth.bospflug@yale.edu
Discussant: Mustafa Tuna, Duke University, mustafa.tuna@duke.edu
Panel 3.5: Russia and the Near Abroad – Bluegrass Room Salon A
Chair: Tony Makowksi, Delaware County Community College, amakowski@dccc.edu
“Between Cold War, Détente, and Glasnost’: Perceptions of Japan in the Soviet Press, 1956-1991”
Christopher J. Ward, Clayton State University, christopherward@clayton.edu
“European Reactions to the Alaskan Purchase”
Lee Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery, lfarrow@aum.edu
Discussant: Olavi Arens, Armstrong Atlantic University, olavi.arens@armstrong.edu
Business Meeting: 3:30-4:30 pm – Grand Kentucky Salon A
5:30 -Shuttle to Banquet site on UK Campus
Banquet 6:00 pm
E. S. Goodbarn on the University of Kentucky Campus
http://ukcc.uky.edu/cgi-bin/dynamo?maps.391+campus+0097
Keynote Speaker
Julie Buckler, Harvard University, “Repurposing the Past: Post-Soviet Urban Spaces”
Saturday, 7 March
Breakfast Buffet: At Entrance to Grand KY Salons A & B, 7:30-9:00 am
Session 4: 9:00-10:30 am
Panel 4.1: Stalin’s Gulag and World War II: Undergraduate Research - Triple Crown Room
Discussant and Chair: Ken Slepyan, Transylvania University, kslepyan@transy.edu
"Good Neighbors in a World at War: Hollywood Portrays the Soviet Union"
Michael Guarnieri, Transylvania U., meguarnieri15@transy.edu
"US Foreign Policy Response to the Gulag"
Rick Spencer, University of Kentucky, rick.spencer@gmail.com
"Biblioteka "Perekovka": Preliminary Observations"
Nash Whaley, University of Kentucky, nash.whaley@gmail.com
"Partisans and Civilians during World War II"
Shelley Zhou, University of Kentucky, shelley.zhou@uky.edu
Panel 4.2: Literature as Politics - Bluegrass Room Salon A
Chair and Discussant: Judith Kalb, University of South Carolina, kalbj@mailbox.sc.edu
“Impossible Knowledge as Insanity or Hypnosis”
Brendan Mooney, University of South Carolina, mooneyb@email.sc.edu
“František Ladislav Čelakovsky: Hapsburg Loyalist or Closet Rebel”
Andrew Drozd, University of Alabama, adrozd@ua.edu
“Publicizing National Literature: Professionalization of Writers in Interwar Bulgaria and Their Case for Social Relevance”
Irina Gigova, College of Charleston, gigovai@cofc.edu
Panel 4.3: Post-Soviet Nationalism - Grand Kentucky-Salon A
Chair and Discussant : Stacy Closson, University of Kentucky, stacy.closson@uky.edu
“Georgia’s Rose Revolution”
Rebecca S. Katz, Morehead State University, r.katz@moreheadstate.edu
“Russian Nationalism and the Rejection of the Western Liberal Order”
Charles E. Ziegler, University of Louisville, charles.ziegler@louisville.edu
“Embroidery to the UPA: The Rise of Post-Soviet Ukrainian Nationalism”
Adrian Mandzy, Morehead State University, a.mandzy@moreheadstate.edu
Panel 4.4: World War and Civil War - Grand Kentucky- Salon B
Chair: Tony Makowski, Delaware County Community College, amakowski@dccc.edu
“Propaganda, Ideology, and the Press in ‘White Siberia,’ 1918-1920”
Dakota Irvin, University North Carolina-Chapel Hill, dirvin1@live.unc.edu
“Alternative Food Policies in WWI: The Estonian Experience with the German Policy in 1918”
Olavi Arens, Armstrong Atlantic State University, olavi.arens@armstrong.edu
“Russian Naval Aviation in the Black Sea in WWI”
James K. Libbey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, libbeyj@erau.edu
Discussant: Cathleen Lewis, Smithsonian Institution, LewisCS@si.edu
Session 5: 10:45-12:15pm
Panel 5.1: The Americas and the Soviet Experiment – Triple Crown Room
Chair: Steve Barnes, George Mason University, sbarnes3@gmu.edu
“Exposiciones Soviéticas: Selling Socialist Modernity in the US’s Backyard”Austin Yost, University North Carolina – Chapel Hill, atyost@live.unc.edu
“Dispatches from a True Believer: Anna Louise Strong’s Reporting in the Mainstream American Press, 1924-1935”
Jeanie M. Welch, University North Carolina – Charlotte, welch.jeanie@gmail.com
“Translating Whose Vision? Claude McKay and W.E.B. Du Bois Write Up the Soviet Experiment”
Joy Gleason Carew, University of Louisville, joy.carew@louisville.edu
Discussant: David Goldfrank, Georgetown University, goldfrad@georgetown.edu
Panel 5.2: Dissidents, Expats and Intellectuals – Bluegrass Room-Salon A
Chair: Boris Gorshkov, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, boris.gorshkov@yahoo.com
“Soviet Citizens and Their Disillusionment with the State: Revisionist History and the Harvard Project Interviews” Terri Blom Crocker, University of Kentucky, tbcroc2@email.uky.edu
“Actors in a “Cheap Comedy”: Dissidents in Soviet Psychiatric Institutions, 1968-1973”
Philip Kiffer, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, kiffer@live.unc.edu
“Pamiat’i mechta: Soviet Intellectuals, Late 1960s-1970s”
Dr. Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State University, kvladimi@kennesaw.edu
Discussant: Suzanne Ament, Radford University, seament@radford.edu
Panel 5.3: Political Identity in Early Twentieth Century Russia – Grand Kentucky Salon A
Chair: Alice K. Pate, Kennesaw State University, apate9@kennesaw.edu
“A Different Kind of Empire?: Europe, East Asia, and Mainstream Conservatism in the Discourse of Russian Identity in the Early Twentieth Century.”
Zachary Hoffman, University of Virginia, zah3pn@virginia.edu
“Prince Georgii E. Lvov and the Failure of Russian Liberalism”
Dr. Thomas Earl Porter, North Carolina, A&T State University, portert@ncat.edu
“Republicanism and the Pamphlet Literature in 1917 Russia”
Ian Thatcher, University of Ulster, iandthatcher@hotmail.co.uk
Discussant: Rex Wade, George Mason University, rwade@gmu.edu
Panel 5.4: Relief Efforts in Europe and Siberia – Grand Kentucky- Salon B
Chair: Yining Sun, University of Virginia, ys2vf@virginia.edu
“Bor’ba: The Struggle with Cholera and Technology in Russia, 1890-1927”
John Davis, Hopkinsville Community College, jpdavi4@gmail.com
“Tsarist Humanitarianism and Balkan Entanglement: The Russian Red Cross and Relief Missions to Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Siberia, 1875-1878”
Andrew Ringlee, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, aringlee@email.unc.edu
Discussant: Jennifer Spock, Eastern Kentucky University, Jennifer.Spock@EKU.edu
Panel 5.5: Dimensions of Russian Influence in the Post-Soviet Space - Bluegrass Room- Salon B
Chair: Charles E. Ziegler, University of Louisville, charles.ziegler@louisville.edu
“The Two Sovereignties: Negotiating Historically Divergent Conceptions of Sovereignty”
Stacy Clossin, University of Kentucky, stacy.closson@uky.edu
William Stroupe, Georgetown School of Law, william.stroupe5@uky.edu
“Eurasia’s Russia Future”
Cassidy Henry, University of Kentucky, cassidy.henry@uky.edu
Kate Miller, University of Kentucky, catherine.miller2@uky.edu
“Kazakh Language Promotion and Identity Formation”
Paige Brewer, University of Louisville, paige.brewer@louisville.edu
Discussant: Charles E. Ziegler, University of Louisville, charles.ziegler@louisville.edu
Behind the Scenes Tour of Keeneland Racetrack and Distillery Tour at Buffalo Trace 1:00 pm
Meet in Hotel Lobby
Beach Blanket Bulgakov 6:00 pm
Dinner at Natasha's Cafe beginning at 6; a la carte menu
Play begins at 8
112 Esplanade Alley (a 5 block walk from the hotel)
