2020 ASEEES Convention Program
Thursday, Nov 5th
4:00 to 5:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 5
Panel: Learn How to Relax!: Productive Leisure in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies
Paper: Benjamin Krupp, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Unpacking BoxMSK: Nike and Cultural Production in Gorky Park”
Friday, Nov 6th
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 15
Panel: Parliamentary Politics in Gorbachev’s USSR and Putin’s Russia
Chair and Paper: Dima Kortukov, Indiana U Bloomington
“Electoral Empowerment and Authoritarian Breakdown: USSR’s Congress of People’s Deputies”
4:00 to 5:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 17
Association for Women in Slavic Studies Board Meeting
Moderator: Alisha Kirchoff, Indiana U Bloomington
Saturday, Nov 7th
8:00 to 9:30am, Virtual Convention Platform Room 1
Panel: You Talking to Me?: Political Communication Between State and Society in Russia
Paper: Sean Norton, UNC at Chapel Hill [with Graeme Robertson, UNC at Chapel Hill and Silviya Nitsova, UNC at Chapel Hill] “Tweeting In Russia: How Does the IRA Seek to Influence Russophones and Do They Care?”
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 25
Roundtable: Book Discussion: "Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia," by Joshua Yaffa
Member: Alisha Kirchoff, Indiana U Bloomington
Sunday, Nov 8th
2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 5
Panel: A Soviet Sexual Revolution: Late Soviet Discourses on the Morality of Sex and Love
Paper: Brendan McElmeel, U of Washington
“Leningrad Social Science and the ‘Sexual Revolution’: Three Sociologists Confront the Swinging Sixties”
Paper: Svetlana Yuriyevna Ter-Grigoryan, Ohio State U
‘The Propaganda of Pornography’: Soviet Reforms and Discourses on Obscenity, Morality, and Personal
Freedom in the Era of Glasnost, 1986-1991
Saturday, Nov 14th
10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 19
Panel: Postwar Questions of Faith
Paper: Alexander James McConnell, U of Michigan
“Contest(ed) Moral Codes: Writing a Popular Book on Communist Morality, 1960-1962”