SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2016 "Imagined Sites of Imperial Science across Russia and America" Disc.: Colum Leckey, Piedmont Virginia Community College Registration Desk: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Lobby Level 8-03 Conceptualizing Holy Foolishness: Theology, Phenomenology, Fiction Cyber Café Hours: 9:00 AM – 6:45 PM – Exhibit Hall A - Delaware B Exhibit Hall: 9:00 AM – 6:45 PM – Exhibit Hall A Chair: Sergei Ivanovich Zhuk, Ball State U Papers: Mark W Flory, Metropolitan State U of Denver "Holy Foolishness Illumined: On the Role of the Holy Fool in the Context of the Phenomenology of Enlightened Consciousness" Polina Maksimovich, Northwestern U Session 8 – Saturday – 8:00-9:45 am "Genealogy of the Concept Iurodivy in Russian Cultural Tradition" ASEEES Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession - (Meeting) - Kevin Robert Fritts, Catholic U of America Cleveland 1 "Who’s This Guy? Is the Character of Zosimas Essential to the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt?” Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture - (Meeting) - Disc.: Svitlana Kobets, U of Toronto (Canada) Washington Room 5 Society for Slovene Studies - (Meeting) - Buchanan 8-04 The Presence of the Past: Preservation as Practiced and Contested in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia - (Roundtable) - Harding 8-01 Periodical Affect between Propaganda and Subversion: On the Chair: Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester U Emotional Life of Soviet Journals - Coolidge Part.: Julie A. Buckler, Harvard U Chair: Anna Krylova, Duke U William Craft Brumfield, Tulane U Papers: Neringa Klumbyte, Miami U Kathleen Marie Conti, U of Wisconsin–Madison / U of Texas at Austin "Secret Laughter: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Covert Sphere in the Steven Maddox, Canisius College Soviet Lithuanian Humor and Satire Journal Broom" Katherine Zubovich, UC Berkeley Philip Gleissner, Princeton U "Developing a Taste for Journals: Organizing the Affectionate 8-05 Popular Opinion, Violence, and Late Socialist "Normalcy": Responses Audiences of Late Socialist Periodicals" to the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989 - Hoover Erika Wolf, U of Otago (New Zealand) Chair: Donald Joseph Raleigh, UNC at Chapel Hill "The Periodical Warfare of the Front-Illustrierte für Deutsche Papers: Jeffrey W. Jones, UNC at Greensboro Soldaten" "’Our soldiers are dying in vain on foreign soil’: Popular Disc.: Serguei Alex Oushakine, Princeton U Opposition in the USSR to the Soviet-Afghan War, 1980-1987" Ben A. McVicker, U of Toronto (Canada) 8-02 Russian Americas before "Russian America": Imagined Geographies "From Disillusioned Dissidents to Opportunistic Organizations: in the mid-18th-century Russia. - Delaware A Initial Reactions to the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1980" Chair: Alexander M. Martin, U of Notre Dame Jan Claas Behrends, Center for Contemporary History (Germany) Papers: Andrei Kostin, Pushkin House, RAS "’Some call us heroes, others call us killers’: Experiencing Volent "Four Continents & One Empire: Presentations of America(s) in Spaces—Soviet Soldiers in the Afghan War" Russian Literature and Art, ca 1730-1750's" Disc.: Marie-Alice L'Heureux, U of Kansas Tatiana Smoliarova, U of Toronto (Canada) "’There sown with multitudes of islands / The Ocean like a River 8-06 Dostoevsky and the Icon - Jackson is…’ Geographic Imagination in Mikhail Lomonosov’s Odes of the Chair: Katya Jordan, Brigham Young U Late 1740s" Papers: Katya Jordan, Brigham Young U Alexander Iosad, U of Oxford (UK) "Nastasya Filippovna as a Skopcheskaia Bogoroditsa" 1 Amy Singleton Adams, College of the Holy Cross 8-10 WWII and its Aftermath - Madison B "Building Iconic Space in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot" Chair: Natalie Belsky, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia) Benjamin Jens, U of Arizona Papers: Julia Röttjer, The Leibniz Institute of European History (Germany) "Bezlikie ikony: Gorky's Polemic with Dostoevsky" "Challenging UNESCO's World Heritage? Auschwitz-Birkenau as Disc.: Sarah (Sally) Pratt, U of Southern California a World Heritage Site since 1979" Carter Johnson, Higher School of Economics (Moscow) 8-07 Russian Literature: Philosophy, Physiology, Intertextuality - Jefferson "The Absence of Insurgency: Moldova and the Soviet Borderlands Chair: Lindsay Marie Ceballos, Lafayette College at the end of World War II" Papers: Lindsay Marie Ceballos, Lafayette College Diana Dumitru, Ion Creanga State Pedagogical U (Moldova) "Dmitry’s Handkerchief: Othello and The Brothers Karamazov" "The Turning Point: The Soviet State and Its Jewry in the Constantine Muravnik, Yale U Aftermath of the Holocaust" "Nabokov’s Antihistoricism Reconsidered: History and Poetry in Disc.: Victoria M. Khiterer, Millersville U The Gift and Other Works" Amber Aulen, U of Toronto (Canada) 8-11 Language, Identity Politics and Regional Relations in the Post-Soviet "True or False?: The Type as a Means of Characterization in the Realm I - Marriott Balcony A Works of Anton Chekhov" Chair: Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Tallinn U & U of Tartu (Estonia) Disc.: Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon U Papers: Angela Kachuyevski, Arcadia U "Language, Politics and Identity: The Russian-Speaking Population 8-08 Modernism in Soviet Architecture of the 1920s-1930s: Experiments in the Post-Soviet Space" and Myth-Making - Johnson Martins Kaprans, U of Tartu (Estonia) Chair: Nicoletta Misler, U of Naples (Italy) "The Minority’s Minority: Expressing an Alternative Russian- Papers: Roann Barris, Radford U speakers’ Identity in Latvia" "Workers’ Clubs as a Myth-Making Enterprise" Volodymyr Kulyk, National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine) Djamilia Nazyrova, U of South Carolina "Fighting Putin in Russian? The Impact of the Russian Aggression "Houses that Become One with the Street: Ivan Leonidov’s on Ukraine’s Russian-speakers" Workers' Clubs" Disc.: Andrey Makarychev, U of Tartu (Estonia) Christina Elizabeth Crawford, Harvard U "Designing Steel City: All-Union Architectural/Competition for the 8-12 Assessing Imperial Russian Political and Economic Development: City of Magnitogorsk, 1929-30" Evidence from Newly Collected Historical Data - Marriott Balcony B Disc.: Regina P Khidekel, Russian American Cultural Center / Lazar Khidekel Chair: Steven Nafziger, Williams College Society Papers: Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College Ekaterina Kudryavtseva, Stetson U "Vertical and Horizontal Integration in Imperial Russian Cotton Textiles" 8-09 Anti-Genderism, Women's Organizing, and LGBTQI Rights - Martin Kragh, Uppsala U (Sweden) (Roundtable) - Madison A "Big Business in the Russian Empire: A European Perspective" Chair: Janet Elise Johnson, CUNY Brooklyn College Scott Gehlbach, U of Wisconsin–Madison Part.: Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva, NRU Higher School of Economics "Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence (Russia) from Russia’s Great Reforms" Mara Lazda, CUNY, Bronx Community College Disc.: Benjamin Warren Sawyer, Middle Tennessee State U Maria Bucur-Deckard, Indiana U Bloomington Gunes Gokmen, New Economic School (Russia) Katalin Fabian, Lafayette College Ann Snitow, The Network of East-West Women (Poland) / The New 8-15 Slavic Cataloging Manual: a Global Affair - (Roundtable) - Maryland A School Chair: Larisa V. Walsh, U of Chicago 2 Part.: Lana Soglasnova, U of Toronto and Voloshinov in (Re-)Translation" Thomas Mark Dousa, U of Chicago Elena Zemskova, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia) Helen Bach, U of Cambridge (UK) "From German into English in Moscow: Translation Practices of Christina K Peter, Frick Art Reference Library the Magazine International Literature" Muzhgan Israfil Nazarova, Duke U Disc.: Birgitte Beck Pristed, Aarhus U (Denmark) 8-16 Reimaging Womanhood in Nineteenth Century Poland and Russia - 8-19 Philosophical Anarchism, Textual Performance, Theological Paradox: Maryland B Re-examining Vasily V. Rozanov's Literary and Theoretical Chair: Boris B Gorshkov, U of Tennessee at Chattanooga Contributions - Park Tower Room 8205 Papers: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Harvard U Chair: Jesse Stavis, U of Wisconsin-Madison "Re-assessing Early Russian Feminist Activism in the Post-Soviet Papers: Diana M. Dukhanova, Brown U Frame" "Between Sacred Fecundity and the Sweet Lure of Nonexistence: Chelsea Gibson, Binghamton U Vasily V. Rozanov on the Paradox of Christian Sexuality" "Revolutionary Kin: Russian Revolutionary Women in the Irina M Erman, College of Charleston American Mind" "Footnotes Fetish: Textuality and Sexuality in Vasily Rozanov’s Natalie Nikkole Cornett, Brandeis U Typographical Performance Art" "The Construction of Female Identity and Purpose in Nineteenth Natalia Yu Kazakova, CUNY (Hunter College) Century Poland" "Scandal as a Strategy of Existence: The Philosophical Anarchism Disc.: Alexis Esther Pogorelskin, U of Minnesota-Duluth of Vasily Rozanov" Disc.: Michal Oklot, Brown U 8-17 DH 4: Computational Poetics: Digital Approaches to the Analysis of Rhyme, Meter, and Text Length - Maryland C 8-20 Reform and Coercion from Stagnation to Perestroika - Park Tower Chair: Olga Breininger-Umetayeva, Harvard U Room 8206 Papers: Petr Plechac, Institute of Czech Literature AVČR (Czech Republic) Chair: Sara G Brinegar, Yale U "Automatic Verse Processing for the Corpus of Czech Verse and Papers: Orysia Maria Kulick, Stanford U Beyond" "The KGB and Late Soviet Political Culture in Ukraine, 1964- Artjom Shelya, U of Tartu (Estonia) 1982" "The Shortest Species: Quantitative Observations on Length in Thomas Stewart Hooker, Harvard U Modern Russian Poetry" "Social Reform, Andropov Style: Labor Discipline and Individual Elise Thorsen, U of Pittsburgh Welfare under Late Socialism" David