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MARCH 17-19, 2016
The room rate is $149.00 per night in the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Tuscaloosa. Each room is a suite, with a living room and kitchen.
The rate includes a free breakfast and a free wine and cheese reception each night.
There will be online registration.
The panels and keynote banquet will happen in the hotel.
There are also lots of great pubs and restaurants within walking distance.
The "Beach Trip" will be an excursion to Moundville (the second largest city in America from the 11th-16th centuries).
More exciting news: Our banquet speaker for Tuscaloosa will be Serhii Plokhy from Harvard University. His latest book was "The Last Empire.”
It is time to organize your panel: contact Alice Pate at apate9@kennesaw.edu with all your panel information!
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: January 15, 2016
Papers from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome and encouraged, as is a focus on countries other than Russia/USSR. Papers and panels on all topics will be considered. The program committee is accepting panel and paper proposals until January 15, 2015. Whole panel proposals (chair, three papers, discussant) are preferred, but proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Whole panel proposals should include the titles of each individual paper as well as a title for the panel itself and identifying information (email addresses and institutional affiliations) for all participants. Proposals for individual papers should include paper title, email contact, institutional affiliation, and a brief (one paragraph) abstract to guide the program committee in the assembly of panels. If any AV equipment will be needed, the panel or paper proposals should indicate so when submitted. AV will be of limited availability and assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Email your proposals to Alice Pate at apate9@kennesaw.edu, or send it by conventional post to:
Alice Pate, Chair and Professor of History, Dept. of History and Philosophy, Kennesaw State University, 402 Bartow Ave. MD 2206, Kennesaw, GA 30144
For local arrangements or conference information other than the program, please contact Margaret Peacock, Department of History, University of Alabama, mepeacock@ua.edu, 205-348-1861
The conference hotel can be booked online at:
http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/T/TCLRTES-UAH-20160316/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
For questions, proposals or other information regarding the program, please contact Alice Pate at apate9@kennesaw.edu or by telephone at 470-578-3288.
PROGRAM
2016 Draft Program Southern Conference of Slavic Studies
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Registration, Main Lobby, Embassy Suites, Tuscaloosa, AL 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm
Opening Reception, 6:00pm-11:00 PM Loosa Brews Pub in Tuscaloosa, AL. 412 20th Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401. Sponsored by the University of Alabama.
Friday, 18 March 2016
Registration, Main Lobby, Embassy Suites, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Session 1: 8:30-10:00 am
Panel 1-1: Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry and the Poet’s Biography
Chair: Karl Brown, UW-Whitewater, brownk@uww.edu
“Biography and Form: Kuzmin’s”, Ryan Serrano, Northwestern University ryanserrano2019@u.northwestern.edu
“The Physicality of Immortality. Interpreting and Translating Maykovsky’s ‘To Comrade Nette,’” Jasmine Trinks, Northwestern University, jasminetrinks2015@u.northwestern.edu
“Brodsky’s Prose Tombeau for Tsvetaeva”, Nadia Vinogradova, Northwestern University, nadezhdavinogradova2019@u.northwestern.edu
Discussant: Kevin Reese, UNC-Chapel Hill, kreese@email.unc.edu
Panel 1-2: Reading the 1905 Revolution
Chair:
“’The Destruction of Mercy, Love, and Joy:’ Newspaper Coverage of Revolutionary Violence in 1905 Ekaterinburg”, Dakota Irvin, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, dirvin1@live.unc.edu
“Revolutionary Reactionaries: Novoe Vremia and its Readers Interpret the Revolution of 1905”, Zachary Hoffman, University of Virginia, zah3pn@virginia.edu
Discussant: Steven Barnes, George Mason University, sbarnes3@gmu.edu
Panel 1-3: Chernobyl Retrospective at the Thirtieth Anniversary
Chair: Michael K. Launer, Florida State University, mlauner@fsu.edu
“What Happened at Chernobyl: What Do American Students Know about the World’s Worst Nuclear Accident?”, Svitlana Kalinska, RussTech Language Services, Inc. skalinskaya@russtechinc.com
“An Overview of Assistance Programs Sponsored by the Nuclear Industry, the United States Government, the European Union, and the G-7 involving the Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and Ukraine as a Result of the Chernobyl Accident”, Michael K. Launer, Florida State University mlauner@fsu.edu
“Chernobyl in Public Memory: The ’Normalization’ of a Disaster”, Marilyn J. Young, Florida State University, myoung@fsu.edu
Discussant: David Cratis Williams, Florida State University, dcwill@fau.edu
Panel 1-4: Reformers and Dissent
Chair:
“Tat`iana Goricheva: the Development of a Religious Dissident”, Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: The University of the South, eskomp@sewanee.edu
“A ‘Thaw’ in Fashion?: The Houses of Design and Consumer Production in the Soviet Union, 1944-1959”, Virginia Olmsted, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, volmsted@live.unc.edu
“Russia’s Other Favorite Drink: Tea as a Solution to Lower-Class Alcoholism, 1837-1917” Audra Yoder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, audra.jo.yoder@gmail.com
Discussant: Marjorie Hilton, Murray State University, mhilton@murraystate.edu
Session 2: 10:15am -12:00pm
Roundtable 2-1: The 2014 Ukrainian Crisis and its Aftermath
Chair: James W. Peterson, Valdosta State University, jpetersn@valdosta.edu
Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern University, jlubecki@georgiasouthern.edu
Ivan Nikolov, Valdosta State University, inikolov@valdosta.edu
Michael Baun, Valdosta State University, mbaun@valdosta.edu
Olavi Arens, Armstrong State University, olavi.arens@armstrong.edu
Discussant: Anna Fishzon, Duke University, Anna.fishzon@duke.edu or afishzon@gmail.com
Panel 2-2: The Novel
Chair: Marjorie Hilton, Murray State University, mhilton@murraystate.edu
“The Revolt of a Mass Man in Ilichevsky’s Matiss”, Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University, katya.jordan@byu.edu
“The Homeostatic Universe Murdered Pushkin: The Strugatskiis’ Za milliard let do kontsa sveta”, Kevin Reese, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, kreese@email.unc.edu
“Fear of a Red Plant: Aelita and avant-garde aesthetics in 1924”, Karl Brown, UW-Whitewater, brownk@uww.edu
Discussant:
Panel 2-3: The Reckless 1920s
Chair:Steve Barnes, George Mason University, sbarnes3@gmu.edu
“Forgotten Soviet Flight of 1926”, Katya Vladimirov, kvladimi@kennesaw.edu
“Rule of None: Soviet Policy in the Era of the New Economic Policy”, Benjamin Sawyer, Middle Tennessee State University, benjamin.sawyer@mtsu.edu
“Trying the Female Criminal: State, Society, and Social Norms in Revolutionary Russia”,
Sharon A. Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu
Discussant: Christopher Ward, Clayton State University, christopherward@clayton.edu
Panel 2-4: The Fate of the Other
Chair: Sandra Pujals, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, spuprrp@gmail.com
“Meanings and Negotiations of Pride: Conducting LGBTQ Activism in Belgrade”, Alexander Cooper, Central European University, Wgalexander.cooper@gmail.com
“Two Romeos with no Juliet: Queer Subversion in Jerzy Nasierowki’s Romeo and Romeo”, Jack J.B. Hutchens, University of Florida, jhutchens@ufl.edu
“Tolerating the Ethnic ‘Other’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Student Attitudes towards the Out Group” Matthew Becker, University of Mississippi, mtbecker@olemiss.edu
Discussant: Lee Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery, lfarrow@aum.edu
Executive Committee Lunch 12:15 -1:15 pm
Session 3: 1:30-3:00 pm
Panel 3-1: Reflections on Russia’s turn of the century Monarchy
Chair: Stella Gherva, Univeristy of Alabama, Birmingham, sghervas@uab.edu
“American Impressions of Russian Monarchy, 1870-1871” Lee Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery, lfarrow@aum.edu
“Monarchical Populism at the Court of Nicholas I”, Susan McCaffray, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, mccaffrays@uncw.edu
“Autocratic Elite Political Culture during the First World War” Frank Wcislo, Vanderbilt University, Francis.W.Wcislo@vanderbilt.edu
Discussant:
Panel 3-2: War and Evacuation in Russia and Ukraine
Chair and Discussant: David Goldfrank, Georgetown University goldrad@georgetown.edu
“Evacuation, Forced Migration and Depo, rtation during the Crimean War”, Mara Kozelsky, University of South Alabama, mkozelsky@southalabma.edu
“Wheel of Misfortune: A Tale of Soviet Wartime Evacuation, 1943-1943”, Larry E. Holmes, University of South Alabama, lehviatka@bellsouth.net
“Migration to Russia During the Ukrainian Crisis”, Nick Gossett, University of South Alabama, ngossett@southalabama.edu
Panel 3-3: Imprints: Forgeries, Spies and Tombstones
Chair and Discussant: Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State University, kvladimi@kennesaw.edu
“Forgeries and pseudonymity in premodern Ukraine”, Maria Ivanova, University of Virginia, ivanova@virginia.edu,
“Mr. and Mrs. Spy: Alleged Espionage During Stalin’s Great Terror”, Jeanie M. Welch, UNC Charlotte (retired), jeaniemwelch@gmail.com
“From Curbstones to Commemoration: Reclaiming the Memory of Jewish Life in a Polish Town”, Marysia Galbraith, University of Alabama, mgalbrai@ua.edu
Panel 3-4: Representations of War and Diplomacy
Chair: Cadra Peterson McDaniel, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, cadra.mcdaniel@tamuet.edu
“A Tournament of Manliness: Czech K.u.K. Soldiers in Mobilization of 1914”, Jiri Hutecka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, jhutecka2@unl.edu
“Wartime influence or irrelevance: A first look at Izvolskii in Paris during World War I”, Ronald Bobroff, Oglethorpe University, rbobroff@Oglethrorpe.edu
“Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and the Representation of War”, David Borgmeyer, Saint Louis University, dborgmey@slu.edu
Discussant: Mara Kozelsky, University of South Alabama, mkozelsky@southalabama.edu
Business Meeting: 3:30-4:30 pm Ballroom A
Banquet 6:00 pm Banquet Room
Keynote Speaker
"The Ukrainian Crisis in Historical Perspective."
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University
Saturday, 19 March 2016
Registration, Main Lobby, Embassy Suites 8:00 am -12:00 pm
Session 4: 9:00-10:30 am
Roundtable 4-1: The Arc and the Wider Arc of Revolution
Chair:
Steve Sabol, UNC Charlotte, sosabol@uncc.edu
Alex Marshall, University of Glasgow, Alexander.Marshall@glasgow.ac.uk
John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University, steinbergj@apsu.edu
Discussant:
Panel 4-2: Ukraine: From the Second World War to the Maidan
Chair: Ron Bobroff, Chair, Oglethorpe University, rbobroff@oglethorpe.edu
“Deep and Unofficial: The Curious Case of the Soviet Underground in Nazi-Occupied Kyiv, 1941-1943”, Martin Blackwell, University of North Georgia, Martin.Blackwell@ung.edu
“Demographic Convulsions, Border Changes, and the Crystallization of the Ukrainian Identity, 1945-2014”, George Liber, University of Alabama at Birmingham, gliber@uab.edu
“Donbas Challenges: Identity, War, and the Roots of the (Non-) Resistance in Maidan and Post-Maidan Ukraine”, Olena Leipnik, Sam Houston State University, oxl001@shsu.edu
Discussant: Matt Payne, Emory University, mpayn01@emory.edu
Panel 4-3: Clubs, Societies and Interaction
Chair: Roy R. Robson, Penn State University, royrobson@psu.edu
“Literature as Diplomacy: The Bulgarian P.E.N. Club in the Interwar Years”, Irina Gigova, College of Charleston, gigovai@cofc.edu
“Exporting Subversion: Polish Blackmarketeers’ Contacts with Socialist Societies, 1972-1980”, Michael Skalski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, mskalski@unc.edu
“Metaphor in the Architecture of Ivan Leonidov and Bernard Tschumi”, Mila Nazyrova, University of South Carolina, nazyrova@mailbox.sc.edu
Discussant: Katya Jordan, Brigham Young University, katya.jordan@byu.edu
Panel 4-4: National Interest and Northern Russia
Chair: Maria Ivanova, University of Virginia, ivanova@virginia.edu
“Russian and Chinese Arctic Interest: Problems and Prospects”, Tom Rotnem, trotrnem@kennesaw.edu
“Arctic Nationalism: Vladimir Putin’s Strategy for Russia as a Northern Power”, Cadra Peterson McDaniel, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, cadra.mcdaniel@tamuet.edu
Discussant: Michael Baun, Valdosta State University, mbaun@valdosta.edu
Session 5: 10:45-12:15pm
Roundtable 5-1: Poland, World War II & The Holocaust
Chair: David Borgmeyer, Saint Louis University, dborgmey@slu.edu
Matthew Schwonek, United States Airforce Air Command and Staff College, matthew.schwonek@us.af.mil
Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern University, jlubecki@georgiasouthern.edu
John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University, steinbergj@apsu.edu
Discussant:
Panel 5-2: The Embodiment of Creative Memories
Chair:
“The Archive as Weapon of Class Struggle: Archivists, Citizens, and the Creation of the Soviet Historic Record”, Kelly A. Kolar, Middle Tennessee State University, Kelly.kolar@mtsu.edu
“Religious Faith, Secular Culture and Technology Converge: Cosmonaut Rituals at Baikonur”, Cathleen S. Lewis, Smithsonian Institution, LewisCS@si.edu
“’The Immortal Regiment’- War Memory, Politics, and Emotions in Putin’s Russia”, Karen Petrone, University of Kentucky, petrone@email.uky.edu
Discussant: Suzanne Ament, Radford University, seament@radford.edu
Panel 5-3: Nationalism: Reflections and Attitudes
Chair: David Goldfrank, Georgetown University, goldrad@georgetown.edu
“Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Attitude of the Russian Society(based on memoirs, diaries and the epistolary heritage of the contemporaries)”, Alena Eskridge-Kosmach, Francis Marion University, AEskridgeKosmach@fmarion.edu
“Vuk Karadzic as Politician and Nationalist: The Standardization of Modern Serbian and its Role in the Language Politics of Nationalism in Late Austria-Hungary” Thomas Elvins, tae17@pitt.edu
“Stolidly Plodding Home: Poland’s Refugee Problem, 1919-1922.” Matthew Adams, Savannah State University, adamsm@savannahstate.edu
Discussant:
Panel 5-4: Legacy of Communism: Theater and Film
Chair: Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State University, kvladimi@kennesaw.edu
“And Your Mother Too: Soviet Cinema’s Legacy to Mexican Cinematography, 1931-2000”, Sandra Pujals, University of Puerto Rico, spuprrp@gmail.com
“Music and the Cinematic Soviet Woman: The Arnshtam/Shostakovich Collaboration”, Joan Titus, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, j_titus@uncg.edu
Discussant:
Beach Party:
1:30 pm: Trip to Moundville. Meet in Hotel Lobby
7:00 pm: Film night in ten Hoor Hall, room 125 on the University of Alabama campus. Meet in the Hotel Lobby at 6:30 pm
