Upcoming Conference

 

59th Annual Meeting Draft Program

Funding for conference generously provided by …

To access Wi-Fi in the meeting rooms –  

 

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

59th Annual Meeting, March 30-April 1, 2023

Hosted by …

Thursday

4:00-6:00 pm   -     Registration - Conference Registration Desk

5:00–7:00 pm – Reception - Prefunction Area

 

Friday

8:00-4:00 pm  -  Registration - Conference Registration Desk

7:30 am – Continental Breakfast - Prefunction Area

Friday, 8:00-9:45 am

 

Session 1.1 (8:00-9:45 am) – Live Oak

 

Undergraduate research in Soviet and post-Soviet Culture & Politics

 

Chair - Krista Goff, University of Miami (kgoff@miami.edu)

 

Hunter Conley, University of Florida, "Narration and Fragmentation in Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1966)" (hunterconley@ufl.edu)

 

Hannah Bedard, University of Florida, "Dmitri Shostakovich: Perceptions, Debates, and Ambiguity" (hbedard@ufl.edu)

 

Madison Sepiol, Stetson University, “Crafting the Truth Through News: Novaya Gazeta's Coverage of the 2014 Annexation of Crimea” (msepiol@stetson.edu)

 

David Griffin, University of Florida, "Discourse on the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine and Effects of the War on Russian-language Telegram" (davidgriffin@ufl.edu)

 

Discussant - Mayhill Fowler, Stetson University (mfowler@stetson.edu)

Session 1.2 (8:00-9:45 am) - Hawthorne

 

Topics in Soviet History

 

Chair – Elaine MacKinnon, University of West Georgia (emcclam@westga.edu)

 

Nicholas Ganson, Hellenic College, “How Uncommon Was Fr. Aleksandr Men’ as a Russian Orthodox Thinker?” (nganson@hchc.edu)

 

Jason Wagner, Independent Scholar, “Yiddish Modernism on the Edge of Empire: Hofshteyn’s Dialogue with the Russian Romanticism in Along Roads” (jason.borden.wagner@gmail.com)

 

Madeline Styskal, University of Texas at Austin, “Prospector’s Waltz: Striking a Nerve in Soviet Popular Song” (styskal.composer@gmail.com)

 

Kelly J. Evans, Eastern Washington University, and Jeanie M. Welch, UNC Charlotte, “Goodbye, Uncle Joe: Official U.S. Reactions to the Death of Joseph Stalin” (kevans21@ewu.edu & jeaniemwelch@gmail.com)

 

Discussant – Elaine MacKinnon, University of West Georgia (emcclam@westga.edu)

Session 1.3 (8:00-9:45 am) - Magnolia

 

The War on Ukraine: Implications for the EU and Europe

 

Chair – Svitlana Jaroszynski, Florida State University (skalinskaya@fsu.edu)

 

Lidiya Zubytska, Ave Maria University, “Presidentialization of Politics: Development and Challenges in Pre- and Post-War Ukraine” (Lidiya.Zubytska@avemaria.edu)

Bryon Moraski, University of Florida, “Unpacking Russia's Relationships in Europe: Opponents, Fellow Travelers, and Swing Voters in the Council of Europe” (bmoraski@ufl.edu)

 

Thomas Rotnem, Kennesaw State University, “The Ukraine War and Russia's Arctic Endeavors: Implications and Future Directions” (trotnem@kennesaw.edu)

 

Discussant –– Svitlana Jaroszynski, Florida State University (skalinskaya@fsu.edu)

Session 1.4 (8:00-9:45 am) - Birch

 

Topics in Post-Communist Russia and Beyond

 

Chair – Mark Darius Juszczak, St. John's University (juszczam@stjohns.edu)

 

Marintha Miles, George Mason University, “Tajikistan’s Transnationalism, Cultural Sovereignty, and Traditional Values” (mmiles8@gmu.edu)

James Patrick Greene, University of South Florida, “Virtual Politics in Virtual Spaces:  Freemasonry, Social Media, and Russian Authoritarianism” (jgreene6@usf.edu)

 

Mark Darius Juszczak, St. John's University, “Bias in Global University Ranking Algorithms – The Case of Eastern Europe” (juszczam@stjohns.edu)

 

William D. Prigge, South Dakota State University, “Origins of Two Moldavian-Moldovan National Identities: The View From Tiraspol and Chișinău" (will.prigge@sdstate.edu)

 

Discussant - Paula Michaels, Monash University (paula.michaels@monash.edu)

Session 1.5 1 (8:00-9:45 am) - Cedar

 

Ideologies of Nineteenth-Century Russia

 

Chair - Andrew M. Drozd, University of Alabama (adrozd@ua.edu)

 

Judith E. Kalb, University of South Carolina, "Epic and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Russia" (jkalb@sc.edu)

 

Brendan Mooney, Miami University, "Linking Darwinism and Nihilism: Pisarev, Pogodin, and Man's Place in Nature" (mooneybg@miamioh.edu)

 

Alexander Ogden, University of South Carolina, "An Ecocritical Approach to Nekrasov" (ogden@sc.edu)

 

Anna Smelova, Georgetown University, “Reluctant Kulturträger: Exiled Ethnographers and the “Intellectual Conquest” of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia” (as4412@georgetown.edu)

 

Discussant - Andrew M. Drozd, University of Alabama (adrozd@ua.edu)

Friday, Session 2 ((10:00-11:45 am)

 

Session 2.1 (10:00-11:45 am) – Live Oak

 

Post-Communist Politics in Eastern Europe

 

Chair – Yvonne Howell, University of Richmond (yhowell@richmond.edu)

 

Autumn Mozeliak, Chestnut Hill College, “Deviance and Social Control within the Visegrád Countries” (mozeliak.a@gmail.com)

 

Murad Gafarov, University of Florida, “Orientation East: Understanding Hungary’s Alignment with Russia” (mgafarov@ufl.edu)

 

Muhammed Faruk Erdem, University of South Florida, “Caught Between Green and White: How Did Nation-Building Fail in Montenegro?” (merdem@usf.edu)

 

Conor O’Dwyer and Václav Orcígr, Univ. of Florida & Charles University (Czech Republic), “The Politics of Urban Planning in Post-Socialist Prague” (codwyer@ufl.edu, vaclav.orcigr@fsv.cuni.cz)

 

Discussant – Yvonne Howell, University of Richmond (yhowell@richmond.edu)

Session 2.2 (10:00-11:45 am) - Hawthorne

 

Religion and the Sacred

 

Chair – Mara Kozelsky University of South Alabama (mkozelsky@southalabama.edu)

 

Morgan Powell, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, "Russian Alaska: A Study on Religion"

(mp086@my.tamuct.edu)

 

Cadra Peterson McDaniel, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, "Mikhail Nesterov's Images of the Sacred" (cadra.mcdaniel@tamuct.edu)

 

Mara Kozelsky, University of South Alabama, "Religion and the Crimean War,"  (mkozelsky@southalabama.edu)

 

Discussant – Lee A. Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery (lfarrow@aum.edu)

Session 2.3 (10:00-11:45 am) - Magnolia

 

The Ukrainian War: Media, Memory, and Language

 

Chair – Betsy Jones Hemenway, Loyola University Chicago (ehemenway@luc.edu)

 

Ekaterina Romanova, University of Florida, “Digital over traditional media in capturing perceptions of the war in Ukraine among Russians” (e.romanova@ufl.edu)

 

Cynthia Nielsen, University of Dallas, “Serhiy Zhadan on Language, Bearing Witness, and Speaking in Times of War” (cnielsen@udallas.edu)

 

Svitlana Jaroszynski, Florida State University, “The worst enemy of Russia: What is the future of Russian language and culture in Ukraine?” (skalinskaya@fsu.edu)

 

Nadya Kozinets, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, “Collective Memory in Distress” (nadya.kozinets@louisiana.edu)

 

Discussant – Betsy Jones Hemenway, Loyola University Chicago (ehemenway@luc.edu)

Session 2.4 (10:00-11:45 am) - Birch

 

Russia's Great War & Revolution-- the Last Books

 

Chair - Christopher J. Read, Warwick University Emeritus (C.J.Read@warwick.ac.uk)

 

John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University, “New findings about the Military History of Russia’s Great War and Revolution (steinbergj@apsu.edu)

 

Melissa Stockdale, University of Oklahoma, "Changing the Story: New Efforts to Weave Women and Gender into Narratives of Russia's Great War and Revolution” (mstockdale@ou.edu)

 

Ron Bobroff, Bryant University, “Advances in Understanding Russia’s Foreign Relations: Russia’s Great War and Revolution and International History” (rbobroff@bryant.edu)

 

Scott Palmer, University of Texas Arlington, "Russian Technological and Scientific Culture from War to Revolution" (scottwpalmer@comcast.net)

 

Discussant – TBA

12:00-1:30pm Executive Council Lunch – Board Room

Executive Council Members and Invited Guests Only

Friday, Session 3 (1:15-3:00 pm)

 

Session 3.1 (1:15-3:00 pm) – Live Oak

 

Contemporary Female Voices in Literature

 

Chair – Virginia P. Zickafoose, Independent Scholar (vpzickafoose@gmail.com)

 

Elizabeth Skomp, Stetson University, “Ludmila Ulitskaya in Literary Context: The Formentor Prize” (eskomp@stetson.edu)

 

Daria Smirnova, University of South Carolina, “The Matryoshka of Memory: Maria Stepanova’s Feminine Family History” (smirnova@email.sc.edu)

 

Liubov Kartashova, University of South Carolina, “Svetlana Alexievich: Voice for the Silenced, Voices of the Silenced” (LIUBOV@email.sc.edu)

 

Discussant – Virginia P. Zickafoose, Independent Scholar (vpzickafoose@gmail.com)

Session 3.2 (1:15-3:00 pm) - Hawthorne

 

Critical Questions from the Russia-Ukraine War One Year Out

 

Chair – Andy Akin, Air University (Andrew.akin@au.af.edu)

 

James Bowron, Air Command and Staff College, "The Future of Russian Deterrence Strategy"

 

John Szczepanksi, Air War College, "Kaliningrad's Place between Russia and the EU"

 

Mark Turner, Air War College, "The China-Russia Alliance under Strain"

 

Discussant - Andy Akin, Air University, (Andrew.akin@au.af.edu)

Session 3.3 (1:15-3:00 pm) - Magnolia

 

Undergraduate research in Imperial Russian and Soviet History

 

Chair - Krista Goff, University of Miami (kgoff@miami.edu)

 

Raneil Smith, University of Miami, "Root and Shoot: The Failure of Iakov Stefanovich & Imperial Officials to Alter the Peasant Monarchist Framework" (rjs345@miami.edu)

 

De'Vonte Tinsley-Phung, Virginia Tech University, "Revolution on the Daugava: Dvinsk in Revolution & Civil War, 1917-1920" (datinsley1917@vt.edu)

 

Sonny Rusano, University of Florida, "The Change of American Opinion of Soviet Show Trials" (srussano@ufl.edu)

 

Mira Monroe, Stetson University, "Neutral to a Matter of National Security: The Role of Science in Forwarding Foreign Cold War Policy" (mmonroe2@stetson.edu)

 

Discussant - Golfo Alexopoulos, University of South Florida (galexopo@usf.edu)

Session 3.4 (1:15-3:00 pm) - Birch

 

Topics in Nineteenth-Century Russia

 

Chair – Ronald Bobroff, Bryant University (rbobroff@bryant.edu)

 

Luke Jeske, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, “Piety, Prostitution, and Pilgrims: Russian Female Religiosity in the Late Russian Empire” (ljeske@live.unc.edu)

 

Stephen Badalyn Riegg, Texas A&M University, “European Lives in Imperial Russia’s Caucasus” (sriegg@tamu.edu)

 

Alena Eskridge Kosmach, Francis Marion University, “The Foreign Policy of Bismarck from the Unification of Germany to the Congress of Berlin of 1878 through the Eyes of the Public opinion of Russia” (AEskridgeKosmach@fmarion.edu)

 

Alice Pate, Kennesaw State University, “The Russian Intelligentsia in 1917” (pate9@kennesaw.edu)

 

Discussant – Colleen Moore, James Madison University (moor23cm@jmu.edu)

Session 3.5 (1:15-3:00 pm) - Cedar

 

Poland and the Baltics, 1917-1922

 

Chair - John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University (steinbergj@apsu.edu)

 

Olavi Arens, Georgia Southern University, "Bolshevism in Estonia, 1917-20" (oarens@georgiasouthern.edu)

 

Matthew Adams, Savannah State University, "Herbert Hoover and the Rebuilding of Poland after WW I" (adamsm@savannahstte.edu)

 

Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern University, " Pilsudski's Eastern Policy, 1904-1922" (jlubecki@georgiasouthern.edu)

 

Discussant - Matthew Schwonek, Air Command and Staff College, (matthewschwonek@gmail.com)

Friday, Session 4 (3:15-5:00 pm)

 

Session 4.1 (3:15-5:00 pm) – Live Oak

 

Language, Power, and (Dis-)Information in the Russian Media

 

Chair - Michael Gorham, University of Florida (mgorham@ufl.edu)

 

Michael Gorham, University of Florida, "Prime-Time Solov'iev and the Language of Power" (mgorham@ufl.edu)

 

Olena Kolupayeva, Stetson University, "The role of Disinformation during Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (okolupayeva@stetson.edu)

 

Ekaterina Romanova, University of Florida, "Deadly Disinformation: Viral Conspiracy Theories as a Radicalization Mechanism" (e.romanova@ufl.edu)

 

Discussant - N/A or TBD

Session 4.2 (3:15-5:00 pm) - Hawthorne

 

Escaping Reality in Russian Literature and Film

 

Chair - Aaron M. Thompson, University of Virginia (amt3ad@virginia.edu)

 

Evangelina Demina, University of Virginia, "The Mystery of Addiction: Narcotics in Russian Literature" (ed5pa@virginia.edu)

 

Susanne Thompson, University of Arizona, “Retrieving, Enduring, Envisioning: Coping Mechanisms in Soviet Films of the Great Patriotic War” (seanes@arizona.edu)

 

Aaron M. Thompson, University of Virginia, "Factories of Worship: Rebuilding God after Bloody Sunday" (amt3ad@virginia.edu)

 

Discussant - Yvonne Howell, Professor, University of Richmond (yhowell@richmond.edu)

Session 4.3 (3:15-5:00 pm) - Magnolia

 

Russia’s Imperial Legacy and Questions of Identity: The War on Ukraine

 

Chair – Cathleen Lewis, Smithsonian Institute, National Air and Space Museum (lewiscs@si.edu)

 

Assylzat Karabayeva, Suleyman Demirel University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, “How Has Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Changed the Discourses of Regionalism in Central Asia?” (assylzat.karabayeva@sdu.edu.kz)

 

Galina Bogatova, Florida International University, “Post-Colonial Nature of the War in Ukraine: Familial Language of Russian Imperial Legacy” (gboga002@fiu.edu)

 

Oleksiy Fitel, Independent Scholar, “Russian Imperialist Bias in American Education: The Portrayal of Kyivan Rus’” (oleksiyfitel@gmail.com)

 

Discussant: Marintha Miles, George Mason University (mmiles8@gmu.edu)

Session 4.4 (3:15-5:00 pm) - Birch

 

Feting a Festschrift: Students of Don Raleigh Discuss His Impact on their Scholarship (Roundtable)

 

Chair - Christopher Ward, Clayton State University (ChristopherWard@clayton.edu)

 

Paula Michaels, Monash University (paula.michaels@monash.edu)

Nicholas Ganson, Hellenic College (nganson@hchc.edu)

Sharon Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu)

Jeffrey Jones, UNC Greensboro (jwjones@uncg.edu)

Session 4.5 (3:15-5:00 pm) - Cedar

 

The Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia Revisited

 

Chair – Boris Gorshkov, Kennesaw State University (boris.gorshkov@yahoo.com)

Ingrid Kleespies, University of Florida, “Revolutionary Sentiments: Chaadaev and the Politics of Scorn in 1820” (iakl@uf.edu)

 

John Randolph, University of Illinois, "Martin Malia and the Origins of Intellectual Biography" (jwr@illinois.edu)

 

Christopher Ely, Florida Atlantic University, "Russian Social Geography and the Formation of the Intelligentsia" (cely@fau.edu)

 

Discussant – Michael Melancon, Auburn University (melanms@yahoo.com)

5:00-6:00 pm - Business Meeting  - Live Oak

All SCSS Members Invited and Encouraged to Attend

 

6:00-7:00 pm – Reception - Prefunction Area

 

7:00 pm – Banquet - Century A Ballroom

Keynote Speaker: Mark Galeotti (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies), “Putin's Russia and the struggle between autocracy, adhocracy and technocracy”

 

Saturday, April 1, 2023

7:30 am – Continental Breakfast - Prefunction Area

Saturday, Session 5 (8:00-9:45 am)

 

Session 5.1 (8:00-9:45 am) – Live Oak

 

The Classics of Russian Literature (19th Century)

 

Chair – Kelly Evans, Eastern Washington University (kevans21@ewu.edu)

 

Carol Apollonio, Duke University, “How the Character Writes the Novel: Dostoevsky’s “The Gambler”” (carol.apollonio@duke.edu)

 

Michael Denner, Stetson University, “Мир во время войны: Teaching Tolstoy Today” (michaeladenner@gmail.com)

 

Victor Peppard, University of South Florida, “Makanin's concept of "pereklichka" and the Classics” (peppard@usf.edu)

 

Discussant – Matthew Payne, Emory University (mpayn01@emory.edu)

Session 5.2 (8:00-9:45 am) - Hawthorne

 

Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic (Roundtable)

 

Chair - Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University (emily.baran@mtsu.edu)

 

Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University (emily.baran@mtsu.edu)

Margaret Peacock, University of Alabama (mepeacock@ua.edu)

Colleen Moore, James Madison University (moor23cm@jmu.edu)

Martin Blackwell, Stetson University (mjblackwell@stetson.edu)

Ronan J. Hart, University of Florida (r.hart@ufl.edu)

Session 5.3 (8:00-9:45 am) - Magnolia

 

Environment and Energy in the Post-Soviet World

 

Chair – Kate Pride Brown, Georgia Tech (k.p.brown@gatech.edu)

 

Ioana Vancea, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, “The Effects of Government Instability on Black Sea Contracts: Evidence from Romania” (ioanaconstantina96@gmail.com) 

Brian Tomczek, Texas A&M Central Texas University, “Impact of Soviet Arctic Energy Policy on Russian Geopolitical Relations in the 21st Century” (bt024@my.tamuct.edu)

 

Liudmila Listrovaya, University of Oregon, “Framings of Forestland and Performative Blame Attribution in Russia: The Case of Forest and Logging Discourse in Federal Newspapers of the Past Twenty Years” (llistrov@uoregon.edu)

 

Discussant – Kate Pride Brown, Georgia Tech (k.p.brown@gatech.edu)

Session 5.4 (8:00-9:45 am) - Birch

 

The Films of Aleksandr Sokurov

 

Chair - Olga Seliazniova, Florida State University (vseliazniova@fsu.edu)

 

Dragan Kujundžić, University of Florida, "Sokurov’s Museum at War" (dragan@ufl.edu)

 

Sergey Toymentsev, Saint Louis University, "Slow Sokurov" (sergey.toymentsev@slu.edu)

 

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University, “Moloch (1999) and Moloch Tropical (2009): History and Fiction in Aleksandr Sokurov and Raoul Peck” (lwakamiya@fsu.edu)

 

Discussant – Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State University (kvladimi@kennesaw.edu)

Session 5.5 (8:00-9:45 am) - Cedar

 

Soviet Jewry and the Aftermath of the Holocaust

 

Chair - Natalia Aleksiun, University of Florida (natalia.aleksiun@ufl.edu)

 

Seth Bernstein, University of Florida, "Triple Agent: The Convoluted Anti-Antisemitic Plot of Aleksandr Borisovich, AKA American Spy BB" (sethbernstein@ufl.edu)

 

Mayhill Fowler, Stetson University, "Jewish Actresses in Postwar Soviet Ukraine: Bodies, Trauma, and Archival Absences" (mfowler@stetson.edu)

 

Paula Chan, Georgetown University, "Jewish Post-Survival in Soviet Riga" (pc771@georgetown.edu)

 

Irina Makhalova, University of Florida, "Inside the Interrogation Room: Appeals of Soviet Citizens Judged for War Crimes" (iamakhalova@gmail.com)

 

Discussant - Tracy McDonald, McMaster University (tmcdon@mcmaster.ca)

Saturday, Session 6 (10:00-11:45 am)

 

Session 6.1 (10:00-11:45 am) – Live Oak

 

Migration, Community, and Homeland(s) in (and from) Eastern Europe 

 

Chair – Donald Raleigh, University of North Carolina (draleigh@unc.edu)

 

Martin Nekola, Independent Scholar, “History of the Czech Communities in the Southern USA” (marnekola@gmail.com)

 

Zora Piskačová, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Safeguarding the “Benefits of an Undivided Homeland”: Local Municipal Administrators and the Making of the Polish- Polish-Czechoslovak Border in Cieszyn and Český Těšín, 1920-1938” (zora.piskacova@unc.edu)

 

Virginia P. Zickafoose, Independent Scholar, “Pińczów. Small Town to Big Picture. Mapping Our Way from the post-Medieval” (vpzickafoose@gmail.com)

 

Oskar Czendze, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “World War One and Transnational Jewish Relief Networks: Regionalism as a Force in Rebuilding Galicia” (oskar.czendze@unc.edu)

 

Discussant: Mara Kozelsky, University of South Alabama (mkozelsky@southalabama.edu)

Session 6.2 (10:00-11:45 am) - Hawthorne

 

Topics in Russian, Polish, and U.S. History

 

Chair - Matthew Schwonek, Air Command and Staff College (matthewschwonek@gmail.com)

 

Jacob Eugster, Austin Peay State University, “The Unquiet Dead: The Legacy of Decembrism”

(JEUGSTER@my.apsu.edu)

 

Elizabeth Wilcox, Austin Peay State University, “How Russian-American Relations Limited European Expansion in 19th century North America” (ewilcox@my.apsu.edu)

 

Nicholas Herrud, Austin Peay State University, “A Borderland of Ideologies: The Polish Army and Western Ukraine 1918-1921” (nherrud@my.apsu.edu)

 

Charles Engle, SCAD, “The Cossack and the Samurai: The Print Images of the Russo-Japanese War” (CEngle.Creativeworks@gmail.com)

 

Discussant – Lee A. Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery (lfarrow@aum.edu)

Session 6.3 (10:00-11:45 am) - Magnolia

 

Undercurrents in Soviet History: Crime, the 'Shadow Economy,' and Anti-War Sentiments, 1920s-1980s

 

Chair - Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University (emily.baran@mtsu.edu)

 

Sharon Kowalsky, Texas A & M University, “Gender and Hooliganism in NEP” (Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu)

 

James Heinzen, Rowan University, "How to Succeed in Soviet Business without Really Trying: Outlaw Entrepreneurs inside the Planned Economy under Late Socialism" (Heinzen@rowan.edu)

 

Jeff Jones, UNC-Greensboro, "'Our soldiers are dying in vain on foreign soil': Popular Opposition in the USSR to the Soviet-Afghan War, 1980-1987" (jwjones@uncg.edu)

 

Discussant - David Brandenberger, University of Richmond (dbranden@richmond.edu)

Session 6.4 (10:00-11:45 am) - Birch

 

How the War in Ukraine has changed Perceptions and Realities of Security in Eastern Europe  (Roundtable)

 

Olavi Arens, Georgia Southern University (oarens@georgiasouthern.edu)

Michael Baun, Valdosta State University (mbaun@valdosta.edu)

Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern University (jlubecki@georgiasouthern.edu)

Ivan Lubecki, Valdosta State University (inikolov@valdosta.edu)

Jim Peterson, Valdosta State University (jpetersn@valdosta.edu)

Session 6.5 (10:00-11:45 am) - Cedar

 

Material Culture in the Soviet Space

 

Chair – Cadra Peterson McDaniel, Texas A&M University-Central Texas (cadra.mcdaniel@tamuct.edu)

 

Cathleen Lewis, Smithsonian Institute, National Air and Space Museum, “The Rambling Path of Soviet and Russia Spacesuit Gloves” (lewiscs@si.edu)

 

Elise Schlecht, Emory University, “Outliving Obsolescence: Longevity, Ideology, and Style in Soviet Mass Housing” (elise.schlecht@emory.edu)

 

Martin J. Blackwell, Stetson University, “People’s Diplomacy and the Beginning of Gorbachev’s Economic Reforms” (mjblackwell@stetson.edu)

 

Discussant – Cadra Peterson McDaniel, Texas A&M University-Central Texas (cadra.mcdaniel@tamuct.edu)

Beach Party

5:30 pm - Closing Drinks/Dinner - Downtown Gainesville eating and drinking establishment TBD

 

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS
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.

 

 

 

---

 

REMINDER

Did you know that SCSS has its own Facebook page and it serves as a great resource for seeking panel partners for our next conference in Gainesville, Florida. If you are not a member, ask to join, and post your panel needs.