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/ Friday, November 20, 2015 Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration Desk 1 and Grand Ballroom Prefunction Area - 5th Floor Cyber Café Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 6:45 p.m. – Franklin Hall Prefunction Area Exhibit Hall Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Franklin Hall B Session 4 – Friday – 8:00-9:45 am Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession - Conference Suite 3 Bulgarian Studies Association - Meeting Room 309 Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Subcommittee on Collection Development - Conference Suite 2 International Association for the Humanities - Meeting Room 303 Soyuz-The Research Network for Post-Socialist Studies - Meeting Room 310 4-01 Vlast', Power, and Revolution: the Fundamental Political Conflicts of 1917 - Franklin Hall A Room 1 Chair: Rex A. Wade, George Mason U Papers: Semion Lyandres, U of Notre Dame "Opposition Politics on the Eve the February Uprising: Prerevolutionary Conspiracies and the Question of the First Provisional Government's Leadership" Lars Thomas Lih, Independent Scholar "Soglashatelstvo ('Agreementism'): The Fundamental Political Conflict of 1917" Ian Thatcher, U of Ulster (UK) "The First Provisional Government, March-May 1917" Disc.: Michael C. Hickey, Bloomsburg U 4-02 New Developments in Central and East European Politics - (Roundtable) - Franklin Hall A Room 2 Chair: Jane Leftwich Curry, Santa Clara U Federigo Argentieri, John Cabot U, Temple U - Rome (Italy) Taras Kuzio, U of Alberta (Canada) Paula M. Pickering, College of William & Mary Sharon L. Wolchik, George Washington U 4-03 Regional Politics and Electoral Authoritarian Control - (Roundtable) - Franklin Hall A Room 3 Chair: Elise Giuliano, Columbia U Gerald M. Easter, Boston College Tomila V Lankina, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) Ora John Edward Reuter, U of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King's College London (UK) Regina Smyth, Indiana U 4-04 History Wars and the Holocaust in Lithuania: Academe, Society, Politics and the Arts - Franklin Hall A Room 4 Chair: Vilius Ivanauskas, Lithuanian Institute of History (Lithuania) Papers: Saulius Augustinas Suziedelis, Millersville U of Pennsylvania "A Contentious Past: Occupation, Holocaust and Post-War Violence in the Narratives and Memories of Lithuania’s Nations" Šarūnas Liekis, Vytautas Magnus U (Lithuania) "Politics, the Holocaust and Obfuscation of Stalinist Crimes" Aurimas Svedas, Vilnius U (Lithuania) "The Darkness and the Artist: Three Novels about the Holocaust in Lithuania" Disc.: Victoria M. Khiterer, Millersville U of Pennsylvania Martins Kaprans, U of Tartu (Estonia) 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/ 4-05 Welfare, Social Rights and post-Socialism - Franklin Hall A Room 13 Chair: Vikki Turbine, U of Glasgow (UK) Papers: Eleanor Bindman, Queen Mary, U of London (UK) "Social Rights, Welfare Reform and Expectations of the State in Contemporary Russia" Meri Kulmala, U of Helsinki (Finland) "A Child's Right to a Family: Deinstitutionalization of Foster Care as an Ideology and Practice in Russia" Amy Watson, U of Glasgow (UK) "Gendering post-Socialism, Neoliberalism and (Un)employment in the Czech Republic: Single Mothers Claiming Welfare in Brno" Disc.: Valerie Jeanne Sperling, Clark U 4-06 Getting Published in Slavic and Eurasian Studies 1: Do's and Don'ts of Academic Journal Publishing - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon A Chair: Anna Paretskaya, U of Wisconsin–Madison Harriet Lisa Murav, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Robert W. Orttung, George Washington U Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U 4-07 The New Trends of Post Soviet Migration - Grand Ballroom Salon B Chair: Konstantin V. Kustanovich, Vanderbilt U Papers: Anna Rocheva, Russian Presidential Acad of Nat'l Economy & Public Admin (Russia), and Evgeni Varshaver, Russian Presidential Acad of Nat'l Economy & Public Admin (Russia) "Segmented Assimilation Theory Revised: Splitting Up the Ethnic Community: The Case of Kyrgyz Migrants in Moscow, Russia" Andrei Vladimir Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State U "BRICS and International Migration: In Search of a Common Ground" Vladimir Izyavitch Mukomel, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) "Migration during Economic Crises in Russia: Discourses and Realities of 2008-2009 and 2014-?" Disc.: Grigory Ioffe, Radford U 4-08 Travelling Fashion: Transnational Lifestyles and Professional Identities in Russia, Poland, and Finland - Grand Ballroom Salon C Chair: Tetiana Bulakh, Indiana U Bloomington Papers: Olga Gurova, U of Helsinki (Finland) "Professional Identities of Young Clothing Designers in Russia and in Finland" Mila Oiva, U of Turku (Finland) "Colorful Garments and Marketing Tricks. Selling Polish Fashion to the Soviet Union" Saara Maria Ratilainen, Tampere U (Finland) "Modern Nomads or Professional Travelers? Digital Travel Writers in Russia" Disc.: Irina Mukhina, Assumption College 4-09 Czechoslovak Foreign Intelligence during the Early Cold War - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon D Chair: Nadia G. Boyadjieva, Plovdiv U (Bulgaria) Dieter Bacher, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences (Austria) Michael Kraus, Middlebury College Sabine Nachbaur, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences (Austria) Oldrich Tuma, Institute of Contemporary History,ASCR (Czech Republic) 4-10 The Future of Western – Russian Academic Cooperation: Fading out or Re-Building? - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon E Chair: Klaus Segbers, Freie U Berlin (Germany) Irina Busygina, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia) Jouni Järvinen, U of Helsinki (Finland) Dmitri Mitin, North Carolina State U 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/ Norman M. Naimark, Stanford U Julie M. Newton, U of Oxford (UK) 4-11 The Putin System and Radical Right - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon F Chair: Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (Ukraine) Marlene Laruelle, George Washington U Nikolai Mitrokhin, U of Bremen (Germany) Alina Polyakova, Atlantic Council Anton Shekhovtsov, U of Northampton (UK) Timothy Snyder, Yale U 4-12 The Aftermath of the Euromaidan and War in the Donbas - Grand Ballroom Salon G Sponsored by: American Association for Ukrainian Studies Chair: Laada M. Bilaniuk, U of Washington Papers: Tetyana Shlikhar, U of Pittsburgh "Collective Memory and Identity in a Contested Space in Ukraine: Regional Singularities" Laada M. Bilaniuk, U of Washington "Discourses of Language in the Zones of Conflict" Mariya Nariychuk, Ghent U (Belgium), and Roman Horbyk, Södertörn U (Sweden) "Political Myths in Public Discourse of the Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, and the Discursive Dimension of the Donbas War" Disc.: Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood, SUNY Stony Brook 4-13 The Red Army in Europe in 1944-1945: Encounters and Representations - Grand Ballroom Salon H Chair: Oleg Budnitskii, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia) Papers: Kerstin Bischl, Humboldt-U Berlin (Germany) "Rape Culture in War? The Red Army in 1944/5 and Its Treatment of Women" Vojin Majstorovic, U of Toronto (Canada) "Gender, Nationalism and Identity in the Red Army" Andrea European Peto, Central European U (Hungary) "Processes of Silencing and Un-Silencing Sexual Violence during World War II" Disc.: David R. Stone, Kansas State U 4-14 Crafting Objectivity in Early Soviet Cinema - Grand Ballroom Salon I Chair: Joshua Malitsky, Indiana U Bloomington Papers: Peter Bagrov, Russian Institute of Art History (Russia) "Facts about the Nonexistent: Soviet Recollections of pre-Soviet Cinema (with Anna Kovalova)" Oksana Sarkisova, Central European U (Hungary) "Performing Asia on Screen: Nationalities in Early Soviet Cinema between Fact and Fiction" Barbara Wurm, Humboldt U, Berlin (Germany) "Facts - Acts - Fakes - Lies or: The Many Troubles of Early Soviet Cinema (Solovki Reenacted)" Disc.: Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary, U of London (UK) 4-15 The Moral Underpinnings of the Soviet Socialist Economy, 1964-1991 - Grand Ballroom Salon J Chair: Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State U Papers: Alexandra Oberlaender, U of Bremen (Germany) "'Even if they pay us more, we won’t pretend to work': The Pitfalls of Wage Incentives in Brezhnev's Soviet Union" Anna Ivanova, Institute of Russian History RAN (Russia) "Shopping in Beriozka Stores in Brezhnev's USSR: State Entitlement or a New Opportunity for the (Soviet) Rich?" Courtney Doucette, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey "Remaking the Self to Remake Society: The Moral Foundations of Reform under Gorbachev" Disc.: Susan E. Reid, U of Sheffield (UK) 4-16 The Eastern Question as Intellectual Arena - Grand Ballroom Salon K Chair: Victor Taki, King's U (Canada) 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: Holly Case, Cornell U "Toward an Intellectual History of the Eastern Question" Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola U Chicago "State-Building and the Eastern Question in Nineteenth-Century Balkans" Stephen M. Woodburn, Southwestern College "The Eastern Question and the Rise of Slavic Civilization