Sunday, November 23, 2014 Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 10 a.m. - Registration Desk 2 Cyber Café Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Atrium Lounge Exhibit Hall Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Grand Ballrooms E & F Session 12 – Sunday – 8:00-9:45 am Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Membership Meeting - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon B Working Group on Cinema and Television - (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon L 12-01 Identity Politics and the post-Soviet Transition to Democracy (II) - Conference Room 1 Chair: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King's College London (UK) Papers: Pål Kolstø, U of Oslo (Norway) "The Migration Issue and the Russian Nationalist Mobilization in Krasnodar and Stavropol" Henry E. Hale, George Washington U "The Political Impact of Ethnic Nationalism on Hybrid Regime Stability: Experimental Evidence from the Russian Case" Mikhail A. Alexseev, San Diego State U "Xenophobic Attitudes in Russia and their Correlates, 2005-13" Disc.: Yitzhak Brudny, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel) 12-02 Russian Health and Demography - (Roundtable) - Conference Room 2 Sponsored by: Association for the Study of Health and Demography in the Former Soviet Union Chair: Daniel Goldberg, US Dept of Defense Judyth Lynn Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth U Mark Lawrence Schrad, Villanova U Alexandra M. Vacroux, Harvard U 12-03 ’And the walls came tumbling down…’ Walls and Prison Walls in Croatian Political and Cultural History - Conference Room 3 Chair: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Independent Scholar Papers: Ivo Soljan, Grand Valley State U "The Berlin Wall and Other Walls in Croatian Poetry: 16th to 21 Century" John Peter Kraljic, Croatian Academy of America "The Prison Walls and the ‘Red Aid’ in the pre-Second World War Yugoslavia" Miki Bratanic, Independent Scholar "The Walls of Lies and the Walls of Truth: the Communist Walls in Croatia and the Berlin War" Disc.: Michael Kenny, UC San Diego 12-04 Religion, Power, and Construction of Space in High Medieval Europe: Across the 'East/West' Divide - Conference Room 4 Chair: M.A. Johnson, Ohio State U Papers: Nadezhda Ilynichna Milutenko, Saint Petersburg State U (Russia) "'Life' and Life: Interaction between Literary Topoi and Practice in the Sources on St. Bruno's Missions to the Pechenegs and Prussians" Jakub Jan Kabala, Harvard U "The Medieval Slavic Imagination of Space and Borders in Comparative Perspective" Yulia Mikhailova, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology "An Image of the Ruler-Martyr and the Language of Power Relations in Rus and Normandy: Dudo of St. Quentine and Rus'ian Chronicles" Disc.: David Kirk Prestel, Michigan State U 12-05 Postnational Slovakia - Conference Room 5 Sponsored by: Slovak Studies Association Chair: Susan M. Mikula Christie, Benedictine U Papers: Josette A Baer, U of Zurich (Switzerland) "Postnationalism: Contemporary Debates" Stanislav Jozef Kirschbaum, York U (Canada) "Slovak Nationalism in Slovenské Národné Noviny" Karen Henderson, Comenius U Bratislava (Slovakia) "Nationalism and Political Cleavages in the Slovak Republic" Disc.: Martin Votruba, U of Pittsburgh 12-06 Controversial Leskov: 150 Years of No Way Out - Conference Room 6 Chair: Thomas Lee Roberts, U of Illinois at Chicago Papers: Victoria Thorstensson, Yale U "'Fathers and Sons' and 'Mothers and Daughters': Turgenev, Leskov and the Generational Conflict in the 1860s" Kirill Zubkov, Saint-Petersburg State U (Russia) "Anti-Nihilism and Leskov's ‘Novel No Way Out’: Myths and Reality" Matthew A. Sutton, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Woman Question in Leskov's 'Peacock'" Disc.: Susan McReynolds Oddo, Northwestern U Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State U 12-07 Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: Lives, Works and Reevaluations - Conference Room 7 Chair: Jane Tussey Costlow, Bates College Papers: Michael R. Katz, Middlebury College "The Kreutzer Sonata: The Tolstoy Family Story Contest" Arkadi Klioutchanski, U of Ottawa (Canada) "Sofia Tolstaya's Life and Work with Leo Tolstoy" Hilde M. Hoogenboom, Arizona State U "The Tolstoy Family: Conflicts in the Literary Field at Home" Disc.: Donna Tussing Orwin, U of Toronto (Canada) 12-08 Belgrade Unlimited™: In and Out of the Past - Conference Room 8 Sponsored by: North American Society for Serbian Studies Chair: Adrijana Marcetic, U of Belgrade (Serbia) Papers: Owen Kohl, U of Chicago Nada Petkovic Djordjevic, U of Chicago "Belgrade Street Narratives: Rhyme, Renewal, Resignification" Milica Bakic-Hayden, U of Pittsburgh "Cross at the post-Communist Crossroads: Orthodoxy between Faith and Customs" Dijana Mitrovic, U of Wisconsin-Madison "Theatre of Disobedience: Protest as Performance in 1996-97 Belgrade" Disc.: Aleksandar Boskovic, Columbia U 12-09 Dostoevsky: Contemporary Contexts and New Concepts - Conference Room 9 Chair: Brian Arthur Armstrong, Georgia Regents U Papers: Kirsten Lodge, Midwestern State U. "The Structure and Context of Notes from the Underground" Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Montclair State U "A Child's Tears and Modern Evil: Rethinking the Sacred in Ivan Karamazov's 'Rebellion'" Brinton Tench Coxe, Independent Scholar "'Je voudrais autre chose': Text, Sound, and Image in Robert Bresson’s Une Femme Douce" Disc.: Vadim Shkolnikov, U of Illinois at Chicago 12-10 Postcolonial Slavic Literatures after Communism - (Roundtable) - Conference Room 10 Chair: Nina A. Wieda, Middlebury College Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas Klavdia Smola, U of Greifswald (Germany) Yury Sorochkin, MSSES (Russia) Dirk Uffelmann, U of Passau (Germany) 12-11 Symbolism Repurposed: Kosmos, Image, and the Bomb - Conference Room 11 Chair: Colleen McQuillen, U of Illinois at Chicago Papers: Isabel Lane, Yale U "Сардинница или взрыв: Two Sides of Andrei Bely's Bomb" Amanda Lerner, Yale U "Race of the Argonavty: Andrei Bely and the Space Race" Carlotta Chenoweth, Yale U "Balmont to Mayakovsky: The Birth of the Lyric Person" Disc.: Olga Matich, UC Berkeley 12-12 Civil Society in post-1989 Eastern Europe - Conference Room 12 Chair: Sidney Dement, Binghamton U Papers: Petia A. Kostadinova, U of Illinois at Chicago "Democracy beneath the Nation State: Exploring the Political Autonomy of Local Leaders" Peter Rozic, Santa Clara U "Have Our Dreams Come True? Twenty-Five Years of Slovenia’s Weak Civil Society" Paula M. Pickering, College of William & Mary "Aid for Civil Society in Serbia: a Comparative Study of Norms and Public Acceptance" Disc.: Marc P. Berenson, King's College London (UK) 12-13 Russian Literary Censorship in the 19th Century - Conference Room 13 Chair: Chester S. L. Dunning, Texas A&M U Papers: Joseph Peschio, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "Battling the St. Petersburg Censorship Committee: Viazemskii's and Olin's 1823 Disputes" Alexander Marlen Groce, Harvard U "The Afterlife of Aleksandr Krasovskii's Journal" Nina Lee Bond, Franklin & Marshall College "Chekhovian Ambivalence and Censorship" Disc.: Charles A. Ruud, Western U 12-14 Early Artistic Responses to the Holocaust by Non-Jewish Witnesses - Conference Room 14 Chair: Anna Shternshis, U of Toronto (Canada) Papers: Benjamin Paloff, U of Michigan "Genera of Text and Person: Tadeusz Borowski's Ethics of Reading" Teryl L Dobbs, U of Wisconsin-Madison "Response, Remembrance, Reception: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, 'Babi Yar'" Rachel F. Brenner, U of Wisconsin-Madison "Leopold Buczkowski's Requiem for the Perished Shtetl" Disc.: Lilla Balint, Stanford U 12-15 The March of Folly: The Balkans in 1989 - Conference Room 15 Chair: Dennis Deletant, Georgetown U Papers: Marius Stan, U of Bucharest (Romania) "The Kaleidoscopic Pattern of Evil: The Cases of Serbia and Romania" Bogdan Cristian Iacob, Center of Advanced Studies in Sofia (Bulgaria) "The Deadlock of Upheaval: Southeast European Cooperation and Ethnocentrism" Constantin Iordachi, Central European U (Hungary) "Charismatic Authority and Communist Leader Cults: Comparative Perspectives on the Balkans" Disc.: Vladimir Tismaneanu, U of Maryland 12-16 Tolstoy and Women - (Roundtable) - Conference Room 16 Chair: Ljubica D Popovich, Vanderbilt U Dusan Danilovic, Iowa State U Sonja Kotlica, US Dept of the Treasury Mirjana Nikola Mataric, Independent Scholar and Writer Lilien Filipovitch Robinson, George Washington U 12-17 World War II in the East: Legacies of Violence and Geography - Conference Room 17 Chair: Kathryn Ciancia, U of Wisconsin-Madison Papers: MayaLisa Holzman, U of Wisconsin-Madison "The Ideological War in the East: The Borderlands under Occupation, 1939-1944" Jason Tingler, Clark U "The Destruction of Chelm: 1939-1944, and Beyond" Joanna Sliwa, Clark U "Creating a Future in the Place of Persecution" Disc.: Michael David-Fox, Georgetown U 12-18 Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe Before and After the Wall II: East-Central Europe and Yugoslavia - Conference Room 18 Chair: Michelle Maydanchik, U of Chicago Papers: Ksenya Gurshtein, National Gallery of Art "Think Very Big: On Shared Tropes in post-War Eastern European Art" Amy Bryzgel, U of Aberdeen (UK) "Role Reversal: Performance art in Yugoslavia before and after the Breakup" Klara Kemp-Welch, Courtauld Institute of Art (UK) "When Archives Become Books… Conceptualism and Publishing in East-Central Europe – Then and Now" Disc.: Yelena Kalinsky, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey 12-19 Postsocialist Publics and Counterpublics III: The Everyday Life of Discourse - Conference Room 19 Chair: Alina Ryabovolova, U of Massachusetts, Amherst Papers: Olga Shevchenko, Williams College "Delai Sam: Self-help, Difference and Collective Imagination in a Dacha Community" Maria Sidorkina, Yale U "Discursive Performance