CAS2011 PROGRAM, FIRST DRAFT
SATURDAY MAY 28
9:00 AM – 10:45AM
Session 1 Round Table Bringing People to places: Information resources for Slavic scholarship
ORGANIZERS: Nadia Zavorotna/Lana Soglasnova
CHAIR: Ksenya Kiebuzinski
PARTICIPANTS Myron Momryk
Nadia Zavorotna
Lana Soglasnova
Session 2 Religion and/in the arts and society
ORGANIZER: Regan Treewater-Lipes
CHAIR tba
Laura Springate “The Function of Memory in the Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church”
Regan Treewater-Lipes “Religion or Ethnicity: An Exploration of Jewish Russian-ness and Russian Jewish-ness in the Prose of Ulitskaia and Rubina”
Darya Kucherova “Nicholas Roerich and Lawren Harris: Spirituality in Art”
Marija Petrovic “The Importance of Ritual and the Power of the State – Josephinist Reforms and the Orthodox Burial Customs in the Metropolitanate of Karlovci”
Session 3 The view from here: Perspectives on Soviet and post-Soviet reality in Canadian and western press and film
CHAIR tba
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J.-Guy Lalande “The Collapse of the Soviet Union as Commented in Canadian Newspapers”
Serge Cipko “The Canadian Press on Ukraine during World War II: A Prairie Case Study”
Ivan Katchanovski “Politics of Representation of Post- Communist Countries in American, British, and Canadian Films”
11:00 AM – 12:45PM
Session 4 The Great Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine: Contemporary and Current Canadian Perspectives
Organizer: Andrij Makuch
Chair: Zenon Kohut
Discussant: Serge Cipko
Andrij Makuch “Ukrainian Patriots, Communist Sympathizers and the Holodomor Issue in 1933 Canada”
Jars Balan “Perfect Storm: The Great Famine- Holodomor as Viewed Through the Prism of the 1932–1933 Toronto Star”
Bohdan Klid “Stalin, Nationalism and the 1932–1933 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine and the Kuban”
Session 5 Jewish writers and questions
Chair TBA
Natalia Kudinova “Manes Sperber and Isaac Babel: Views on Education of Jews in Two Empires”
Victoria Lyasota “The Jewish Question” in Vynnychenko’s Plays”
Allan Reid “Henryk Grynberg’s strategies in Drohobych, Drohobbych and pedagogical challenges in teaching the Holocaust”
1:00 PM – 2:00PM
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EXECUTIVE LUNCH
2:00 PM – 3:45PM
Session 6 Subverting and Defending Legal, Moral, and Religious Codes in Imperial Russia
ORGANIZER: Heather Coleman
CHAIR: Heather Coleman
DISCUSSANT: Nigel Raab
A. Joy Demoskoff “Prisoners and Penitents: Monastic Incarceration in Vladimir Diocese, 1825-1855”
George Lywood “Sex, Scandal, Satire and the Resort Ladies of the Russian Riviera, 1905-1914”
Johannes Remy “Before the Valuev Circular: Censorship of Ukrainian publications in the Russian Empire, 1855-1863”
Session 7 Imaginings and re-imaginings; Visions and re-visions
Mykola Polyuha “In Search of a Third Way: Phenomenon of ‘Other Literature’ in Ukraine”
Nandor (Fred) Dreisziger “The Ancestors of Hungarians: Asians or Europeans?”
Boris Bulatovic “Periodization of 20th Century Serbian Literature”
SUNDAY MAY 29
9:00 AM – 10:45AM
Session 8 ROUND TABLE Exploring the Cossack Myth and Culture in Early Modern and Modern Ukraine
ORGANIZER: Olga Andriewsky
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CHAIR: Jars Balan
Participants Zenon Kohut
Olga Andriewsky
Heather Coleman
Session 9 Explorations into the Experience of Real Socialism
ORGANIZER: Josephine Elana Baldassi
CHAIR: Bilal Hashmi
Discussant: Bilal Hashmi
Will McFadden “The Power and the Paradox: The early lives and writing of John Dos Passos, John Scott, and Vasily Grossman
Medeine Tribinevicius “A Little Bit Twisted – Selling the Communist Experience”
Josephine Elana Baldassi “Fail-Safe or Love the Bomb? Western Audiences Experience Real Socialism”
11:00 AM – 12:45PM
Session 10 Topics in 20th Century Polish Literature
CHAIR TBA
Jakub Kazecki “Landscapes of Revenge: Immigration, Nation, and Gender in the Works of Polish-German Author Dariusz Muszer”
Sergiy Yakovenko “Melancholy, Sublimation, and Blindness: Polish National Predicament in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Prince Roman’ and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Zarudzie”
Lukasz Sicinski “Reality as a Verb: Relationism in the Poetry of Miron Białoszewski”
2:00 PM – 3:45PM
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Session 11 New questions in the study of Central Asia
CHAIR TBA
Patryk Reid “Revolution and the Great Game: Historicizing Geography in Post-Tsarist Central Asia”
Nathan Jones “Sustaining Intimacy Between Kazakhstan and Kaiserslautern: Emigration to Germany, Long Distance Relations, and Local Societies in Central Asia”
Ben A. McVicker “Changing Perceptions of Tajikistan in the Post- Soviet Era”
Session 12 Topics in Ukrainian Studies
CHAIR TBA
Milana Nikolko “The Canadian Ukrainian Diaspora: Social Capital and Horizontal Legitimacy”
Andriy Zayarnyuk “Building the Main Train Station: Economy and Politics of Public Space in Lviv ca. 1900”
Maryna Romanets “In a Glass Darkly: Maria Matios’s Ghosts of History “
Svitlana Krys “A Comparative Analysis of the Folkloric Substratum in Oleksa Storozhenko’s and Jacques Cazotte’s Gothic Kunstmärchen”
4:00PM – 5:30PM
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
FOLLOWED BY PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION
7:00PM – 8:30PM
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BANQUET (LOBSTER BOIL)
FOLLOWED BY NB KITCHEN PARTY
[INFO TO FOLLOW ON MONDAY]
MONDAY MAY 30
9:00 AM – 10:45AM
SESSION 13 ROUND TABLE Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes in the 2010s"
ORGANIZER: Members of the CSP editorial team
PARTICIPANTS Heather Coleman Mark Conliffe Svitlana Krys Sarah Turner
SESSION 14 From Ostrovsky to Dostoevsky: The Kingdom of Darkness Revisited
ORGANIZER: Joseph Schlegel
CHAIR: Dr. Donna Orwin
DISCUSSANT: Dr. Donna Orwin
Joseph Schlegel “Temporal Encroachment as a Controlling Force in Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Storm”
Olha Tytarenko “Uses and Abuses of Historical Memory in Orchestrating the Time of Troubles in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed”
Amber Aulen “Uncertain Authority: The Legal Reforms and Dostoevsky’s Besy”
11:00 AM – 12:45PM
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Session 15 20th Century Reappraisals of Classic Russian Literature
ORGANIZER: T.R. Ormond
CHAIR: Joseph Schlegel
DISCUSSANT tba
Janick Roy “At the Limits of Madness: Fantasizing and Creativity in the Work of Anton Chekhov and Jacques Ferron”
Megan Swift “Transforming a Classic: Stalin-Era Illustrated editions of Alexander Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman”
T.R. Ormond “Dying Radical: The Portrayal of Nikolai Levin in Russian and Soviet Illustrated Editions of Anna Karenina (1914-1982)”
Mark Conliffe “The Poltava Diaries of V.G. Korolenko and A.A. Nesvitskii, 1917-1921”
Session 16 Topics in Slavic Linguistics
ORGANIZER: John Dingley
CHAIR: tba
DISCUSSANT tba
John Dingley “Pseudocoordinates in Slavic and Beyond”
Sarah Turner “Direct Object Placement and Discourse Type in Colloquial Russian”
Gary Toops “Expressing Causative Relations in Czech and Upper Sorbian. A Contrastive Analysis“
Paul Austin “Survival of a People: The Karelian Press Today”
Session 17 Romania and Moldova: Before and after
CHAIR TBA
Baidaus, Eduard “Constructing Identities in a “Frozen Conflict”: Moldova and Secessionist Transnistria”
Victor Taki “The Discovery of Romanians in the 19th Century Russia”
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Oana Petrica “Gendering Neoliberal Transitions and Educational Aspirations in Post-communist Romania”
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