Preliminary Program, 43rd Annual ASEEES Convention Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 43rd Annual Convention Washington, DC November 17–20 2011 Omni Shoreham The Preliminary Program, along with the latest convention information, and Pre-Registration Form, is also posted on the ASEEES web site: www.aseees.org. In the event that it becomes necessary to change the date/time of a panel or roundtable, the ASEEES office will notify the organizer, who in turn must notify all participants. If the time of a meeting is changed, ASEEES will notify the representative who requested the meeting. Please note that room assignments are subject to change. Please be sure to check the final program for room as- signments. THE FINAL VERSION OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AT THE CONVENTION. Questions about this program and the Annual Convention should be addressed to: Wendy Walker, Convention Coordinator Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 203C Bellefield Hall, 315 S. Bellefield St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Preliminary Program, 43rd Annual ASEEES Convention ASEEES Program Committee 2011 Robert Geraci, Chair, U of Virginia David Andrews, Georgetown U Harley Balzer, Georgetown U Steve Barnes, George Mason U Kate Brown, U Maryland Choi Chatterjee, California State U LA Julie Christensen, George Mason U Chris Chulos, Roosevelt U David Goldfrank, Georgetown U Michael Hickey, Bloomsburg U Harold Leich, Library of Congress Katya Makarova, U of Virginia Eric McGlinchey, George Mason U Mieke Meurs, American U Marcia Morris, Georgetown U Patrick Patterson, UC San Diego Elaine Rusinko, U Maryland - Baltimore Co. Rex Wade, George Mason U Ted Weeks, Southern Illinois U 2 Preliminary Program, 43rd Annual ASEEES Convention THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Registration Desk Hours: 9:00 AM-5:30 PM Pre-Registration is located in the Regency Ballroom Foyer On-Site Registration is located at the West Registration Desk ASEEES Board Meeting – 8:00 AM-12:00 PM – Governor’s Boardroom Exhibit Hall Hours: 4:00 PM-8:00 PM – Regency Ballroom Session 1 • THURSDAY • 1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m. Committee on Library and Information Resources - Subcommittee on Collection Development - (Meeting) - Blue Room Pre- Function East Coast Consortium of Slavic Librarians - (Meeting) - Embassy Room 1-04 Polish Popular Culture (Roundtable)—Cabinet Room Chair: Jozef Figa, Kaplan U Part.: Thomas Anessi, Columbia U Jolanta Wrobel Best, Houston Community College-Northwest Mikolaj Kunicki, U of Notre Dame Robert A. Rothstein, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 1-05 New Research on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union—Calvert Room Chair: Crispin Brooks, USC Shoah Foundation Inst Papers: Martin Dean, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “Researching Jewish Survivors of Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps using the USC Shoah Foundation Inst Visual History Archive and the International Tracing Service Digital Archive” Emil Kerenji, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “Burying and Exhuming Histories: Second World War Sites of Mass Murder in Yugoslavia from the 1940s to the 2000s” Eric Steinhart, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “Property and Persecution: Theft and the Local Dynamics of the Holocaust in the Occupied Soviet Union” Disc.: Holly Case, Cornell U 1-06 Music and Ideas in the Russian Silver Age—Capitol Room Chair: Edith W. Clowes, U of Kansas Papers: Brad Michael Damare, U of Southern California “Music and Musicality in Silver Age Poetry” Rebecca Anne Mitchell, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “The Unwilling Orpheus: Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Russian Narod” Elina Viljanen, Aleksanteri Inst/U of Helsinki (Finland) “Boris Asaf’ev: The Last Silver Age Philosopher” Disc.: Randall A. Poole, College of St Scholastica 3 Preliminary Program, 43rd Annual ASEEES Convention 1-07 Changing Environments: Ecological Awareness and Policy in the Former Soviet Union—Chairman’s Boardroom Chair: Jane Dawson, U of Oregon Papers: Jessica K. Graybill, Colgate U “Changing Ecological Homelands: Perceptions of Change in Salmon and Climate on Kamchatka, Russian Far East” Laura A. Henry, Bowdoin College “National Interests and Transnational Governance: Russia’s Changing Environmental Policy” Amanda E. Wooden, Bucknell U “Environmental Issue Media Framing, Public Opinion and Community Activism in Kyrgyzstan” 1-08 Unmaking and Remaking post-Soviet/post-socialist Authority—Committee Room Chair: Jonathan Harris, U of Pittsburgh Press Papers: Nikita Lomagin, St Petersburg State U (Russia) and Jeffrey Kenneth Hass, U of Richmond “Securing the State: ‘Security’ and the Trials of Rebuilding State Authority under Yeltsin and Putin” Andrew Buck, U of Southern Indiana “Evaluating Soviet and Post-Soviet Authority: Letters to the Editor and Public Claim Making” Andrew Scott Barnes, Kent State U “Twenty Years and No Conclusions? What We Know about Why the Soviet Union Fell: Theoretical and Empirical Dilemmas of Authority” Disc.: Paul T. Christensen, Boston College 1-09 Cultural Status and Artistic Representation of Cheating and Lying—Congressional A Chair: Hilde Hoogenboom, Arizona State U Papers: Eugenia Afinoguenova, Marquette U “The ‘Deception Effect’: Transnational Trickery and Authenticity in the 19th-21st Centuries” Milla Fedorova, Georgetown U “What Does Moscow Believe In?” Svetlana Grenier, Georgetown U “’It’s not the act that is base, it’s the deception’ (Podl ne fakt, podl obman): Adultery in the Writings of Alexander and Natalie Herzen” Disc.: Nancy Workman, Columbia U 1-10 Culture, Consumption, and Contested Authority in Fin-de-Siècle Hungary—Congressional B Papers: Robert Nemes, Colgate U “Up in Smoke and Down the Drain? The Reputation of Hungarian Tobacco and Wine in the Nineteenth Century” Alexander I. Vari, Marywood U “From Tool of National Mobilization to Instrument of Moral Degeneration: Debates on the Role of Horse Racing in Turn-of-the-Century Hungary” Dorothy Barenscott, Simon Fraser U “Life: Caught in the Act!: Mobilizing Budapest’s Cinematic Gaze” Disc.: Roshanna Sylvester, DePaul U 1-11 The Role of Media in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Look (Roundtable)—Council Room Chair: Klaus Segbers, Freie U Berlin (Germany) Part.: Nadezda Azhgikhina, Russian Union of Journalists (Russia) Andrey Kortunov, ISE Ctr (Russia) 4 Preliminary Program, 43rd Annual ASEEES Convention Alena Ledeneva, U College London (UK) Elena Vartanova, Moscow State U (Russia) 1-13 Property Rights and Inheritance in 16th- and 17th-Century Muscovy—Director’s Room Chair: David Goldfrank, Georgetown U Papers: Daniel H. Kaiser, Grinnell College “Unpacking the Testament of a 17th-Century Russian Peasant” Janet Martin, U of Miami “Pomest’e Property Rights and Inheritance Practices in 16th- and 17th-Century Muscovy” Don Ostrowski, Harvard U “Votchina Inheritance in 16th- and 17th-Century Muscovy” Disc.: Charles J. Halperin, Independent Scholar 1-16 Postcolonial Memory in Eastern Europe (Roundtable)—Executive Room Chair: Rory Emmett Finnin, U of Cambridge (UK) Part.: Alexander Etkind, U of Cambridge (UK) Alexei Lalo, U of Texas Austin Simon Lewis, U of Cambridge (UK) Ellen Rutten, U of Bergen (Norway) Dirk Uffelmann, U of Passau (Germany) 1-17 Digitization Projects Related to Russia—Forum Room Chair: Brad Schaffner, Harvard U Papers: Irina Lynden, National Library of Russia “Digitization efforts at the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg” Hope Spencer, Library of Congress “Russia-related Digital Projects at US institutions” Disc.: George Andrew Spencer, U of Wisconsin-Madison Ellen Scaruffi, Independent Scholar 1-18 Nabokov and Soviet Literature (Roundtable)—Governor’s Boardroom Chair: Steve Blackwell, U of Tennessee - Knoxville Part.: Marijeta Bozovic, Columbia U Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U Molly Peeney, Notre Dame Francisco Javier Picon, Columbia U Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College 1-19 Xenophobia, Nationalism and the Russian State—Hampton Ballroom Chair: Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U Papers: Ekaterina Romanova, American U “The Moscow Riots - a New Force of Nationalism in Russia” Anna Kirvas, Central European U (Hungary) 5 Preliminary Program, 43rd Annual ASEEES Convention “Xenophobia and Political Mobilization in Russia” Mischa Gabowitsch, Einstein Forum (Germany) “Movements or Gangs? Ethnic Violence and the Russian Street” Disc.: Oleh Protsyk, European Centre for Minority Issues (Germany) 1-21 Brezhnev: Womanizer, Virtuoso of Power, and Cold Warrior—Presidential Boardroom Chair: Catherine Gousseff, CNRS (France) Papers: Mark Andrew Sandle, The King’s U College (Canada) “Brezhnev in Kishinev: The Early Years and the Making of a General Secretary” Susanne Schattenberg, Research Centre for East European Studies at U of Bremen (Germany) “Dnepropetrovsk in power: Brezhnev’s Virtuosic Play with Cadres in the Inner Circle” Victor Doenninghaus, German Historical Inst (Russia) “The Brezhnev Era through the Eyes of Brezhnev: The Working Notes of the General Secretary (1964-1982)” Disc.: Amir Weiner, Stanford U 1-22 Perspective of Regional History beyond National Histories: Southeastern Europe and East Asia—Senate Room Chair: Carole Rogel, Ohio State U Papers: Christina Koulouri, Panteion U (Greece) “Regional History in South Eastern Europe” Nobuhiro Shiba, U of Tokyo (Japan) “Regional History in East Asia” Peter Vodopivec, Inst for Modern History (Slovenia) “Regional and National History” Disc.: John K. Cox, North Dakota State U Chinyun Lee, National Chi Nan U (Taiwan) 1-23 Linguo-semiotic Values as an Embodiment of