This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ Thursday, November 19, 2015 ASEEES Board Meeting - 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.- Grand Ballroom Salon I East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Meeting Room 309 Midwest Slavic and Eurasian Library Consortium – 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Meeting Room 310 Registration Desk Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Registration Desk 1 and Grand Ballroom Prefunction Area - 5th Floor Cyber Café Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. – Franklin Hall Prefunction Area Exhibit Hall Hours: 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Franklin Hall B Session 1 – Thursday – 1:00-2:45 pm 1-01 Bolsheviks and Imperialism: Ideology, Policies, Problems and Contradictions, 1920-1928 - Franklin Hall A Room 1 Chair: Lars Thomas Lih, Independent Scholar Papers: Oleksa Drachewych, McMaster U (Canada) "Expanding the Fight: The Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions, 1920- 1928" Stephen Velychenko, U of Toronto (Canada) "Keeping the Skeleton in the Closet: Why the Ukrainian Communist Party was Absent from the Second Comintern Congress" Alastair Kocho-Williams, Aberystwyth U (UK) "Constraints and Opportunities: India as a Point of Leverage in Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1920- 1923" Disc.: Lars Thomas Lih, Independent Scholar 1-02 Regime Consolidation and Fragmentation in Russia and Georgia - Franklin Hall A Room 2 Chair: Evgeny Finkel, George Washington U Papers: Scott Radnitz, U of Washington, and Julie George, CUNY Queens College "Detecting Defections: The Causes of Party Breakdown in Georgia, 2003-2012" Daniel Jacob Epstein, Colgate U "Paperless Administrative Resources: Informal Gatekeeping and Control in Russian Subnational Executive Elections" Gavril Bilev, Merrimack College "89 Russias: Explaining Executive Contestation in Subnational Competitive-Authoritarian Regimes" Disc.: Samuel Aaron Greene, King's College London (UK) 1-03 Suffering and Loss in Russian Literature - Franklin Hall A Room 3 Chair: Ian Micah Helfant, Colgate U Papers: Natalya Khokholova, American U of Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic) "When Rubles Cause Troubles in Karamazin's 'Poor Liza' (1792)" Brian Oches, Indiana U Bloomington "Oblomov's Prolonged Suicide" Elizabeth Ann Blake, Saint Louis U "The Loss of Children in ‘Brat’ia Karamazovy’ and ‘Anna Karenina’: Suffering in Prosaic and Tragic Keys" Disc.: Vladimir B. Golstein, Brown U 1-04 Oral History, Ethnography, Narrative: Researching the Personal and the Political in Post-Socialist Societies - (Roundtable) - Franklin Hall A Room 4 Chair: Donald Joseph Raleigh, UNC at Chapel Hill Jane Tussey Costlow, Bates College Jill Marie Massino, UNC at Charlotte 1 | ASEEES 2015 Convention Preliminary Program This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ Sebastian Schulman, Indiana U Bloomington Anika Walke, Washington U in St. Louis 1-05 Contingency and Uncertainty in Labour and Business Practices in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine - Franklin Hall A Room 13 Chair: Jeremy Morris, U of Birmingham (UK) Papers: Jeremy Morris, U of Birmingham (UK) "Contingent Entrepreneurs: Informality, Blue-Collar Workers and Class Identity in Russia" John Kennedy, U of Birmingham (UK) "Should ‘Uncertainty’ Remain Such an Important Concept for Understanding Everyday Life in post-Soviet Russia?" Peter Rodgers, U of Sheffield (UK) "Negotiated Tactics and Strategies of Business-state Mediation: The Role of Informal Business Practices in Russia and Ukraine" Disc.: Jonathan Oldfield, U of Birmingham (UK) 1-06 ADSEEES Invitational Panel: Russian Programs at Minority-Serving Institutions - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon A Chair: Matthew Mangold, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey Nathan M. Brooks, New Mexico State U B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Howard U Rachel Stauffer, Ferrum College 1-07 The International Second Republic? Zionism, the Radical Right, and Colonialism across the Borders of Poland - Grand Ballroom Salon B Chair: Keely Stauter-Halsted, U of Illinois at Chicago Papers: Paul Brykczynski, U of Michigan "Political Assassination and the Radical Right in post-World War I Germany and Poland" Daniel Kupfert Heller, McGill U (Canada) "Terrorism between Poland and Palestine: How Transnationalism Shaped Right-Wing Zionist Attitudes and Approaches to Violence in the late 1930s" Kathryn Ciancia, U of Wisconsin-Madison "Colonial Dynamics at Home and Abroad? Blurring the Boundaries of Interwar Polish History" Disc.: Robert Edward Blobaum, West Virginia U 1-08 The Global and the Local: Russian-speaking Immigration in the Undergraduate Curriculum - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon C Chair: Mauricio Borrero, St John's U Phyllis Conn, St. John's U Suzanne Orr, Kansas State U Tatiana Osipovich, Lewis and Clark College Kristen Welsh, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1-09 Social and Environmental Legacies of Cartographic Invisibility - Grand Ballroom Salon D Chair: Robert Allen Kopack, U of Toronto (Canada) Papers: Rosibel Roman, Florida International U "What is the Half-Life of Risk? A Brief Analysis of Discourse about a Radioactive River" Robert Allen Kopack, U of Toronto (Canada) "From the Cold War to the Global Market: Baikonur and the Legacies of the Soviet Space Program" Isabel Lane, Yale U "Conspiracy Theory, Postmodernism and Nuclear Bomb: Viktor Pelevin and Thomas Pynchon" Disc.: Magdalena Edyta Stawkowski, Stanford U 1-10 Abuse of the INTERPOL Red Notices System by the Russian Federation and Other Former USSR States - Grand Ballroom Salon E Chair: Pavel Ivlev, Feldmans Consulting 2 | ASEEES 2015 Convention Preliminary Program This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ Papers: Ted Bromund, The Heritage Foundation "How Russia Abuses Interpol" Kamilla Mehtiyeva, Paris-Sorbonne U (France) "Interpol Red Notices: Abuse of International Police Cooperation. Demonstration through Extradition Proceedings" Alexander Smoljanski, Integrum World Wide "Interpol in the Russian Media and on Social Networks: Is it a Good Partner, a Useful Tool or an Insidious Adversary?" Disc.: Ilya Katsnelson, Committee for Russian Economic Freedom 1-11 Public Views of Leaders and Policies in Russia and Ukraine - Grand Ballroom Salon F Chair: Ted Gerber, U of Wisconsin-Madison Papers: Henry E. Hale, George Washington U, and Timothy James Colton, Harvard U "Electing Poroshenko: Conflict, Crisis, and Voting in Ukraine’s 2014 Presidential Election" Nadiya V Kravets, Harvard U "Popular Security Perceptions and Foreign Policy Orientations in Ukraine" John Patton Willerton, U of Arizona "Russian Public Assessments of the Putin Policy Program: Achievement and Challenge" Disc.: Ted Gerber, U of Wisconsin-Madison 1-12 Getting the Message Out: Language and Social Media in the Ukraine Crisis - Grand Ballroom Salon G Chair: Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton U Papers: Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia U "Weaponizing Language in Social Conflict and War." Cornelia Goels, U of Vienna (Austria) "'Fashisty' vs. 'Sovky' in Ukraine? Maidan and the Political Utilization of Stereotypes in (Social) Media" Dinissa Duvanova, Lehigh U "Make Friends, Not War: Social Network Communication and Conflict in Ukraine" Disc.: Dominique Arel, U of Ottawa (Canada) 1-13 Riflemen, Culture Wars, and Purges: Soviet Latvia in Conflict - Grand Ballroom Salon H Chair: Alan Daniel Roe, Georgetown U Papers: Konstantin Fuks, U of Toronto (Canada) "Forgotten Soldiers of the Motherland: Latvian Volunteers of the 201st Riflemen Division of the Red Army" William D. Prigge, South Dakota State U "The Latvian Cultural Wars, 1952-1957" Mike Loader, King's College London (UK) "A Stalinist Purge in the Khrushchev Era? The Latvian Party Purges 1959-1962" Disc.: James Ryan, Cardiff U (UK) 1-15 Theater of the Mind: Text and Performance in the Soviet Union - Grand Ballroom Salon J Chair: Maria Stadter Fox, Independent Scholar Papers: Dassia Nadezhda Posner, Northwestern U "Columbine's Garter: Eisenstein, the Grotesque, and the Attraction" Anna Aizman, Harvard U "The Afterlife of Alexander Vvedensky: A Production History of Some OBERIU Texts" Sarah Clovis Bishop, Willamette U "Propertius’s Muse on the Petersburg Stage" Disc.: Susanna Weygandt, Princeton U Robert Franklin Crane, U of Pittsburgh 1-16 Facts of Psyche: The Impact of Horror on Individual and Collective Memory - Grand Ballroom Salon K Chair: Joan Miller, Bloomsburg U 3 | ASEEES 2015 Convention Preliminary Program This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ Papers: Ferenc Erős, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary) "Torture or Therapy? Uses of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the First World War" Zsuzsanna Kiss, U of Pécs (Hungary) "A Historical Account of Shell Shock and Horror during the First World War in Central Europe" Virág Rab, U of Pécs (Hungary) "The Psychological Effects of the First World War on Individual Memory" Disc.: Zarko Lazarevic, Institute of Contemporary History (Slovenia) Jürgen Grimm, U of Vienna (Austria) 1-17 Exit, Voice & Loyalty in Post-Soviet Russia: Facts and Narratives about Protest and Participation - Grand Ballroom Salon L Chair: Rudra Sil, U of Pennsylvania Papers: Alan Holiman, William Jewell College "Terrorism, the State, and Organizations: The Human Face of Political Violence in Putin’s