Below is a listing of the panels on which current RSW faculty, students, and advisory board members are participating at the 2020 Annual ASEEES convention, to be held virtually November 5 - 8 and 14 -15, 2020.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 2
Panel: Post-Soviet Energy
Paper: Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U Bloomington
“Who Profits from Oil Windfalls in Russian Regions?: Inequality, Decentralized Revenues, and Corruption"
2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 1
Panel: Foreigners in the Soviet Union
Paper: Sarah Drue Phillips, Indiana U Bloomington
“Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR”
Friday, November 6, 2020
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”
2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 4
Roundtable: Book Discussion: "Words Like Birds (Jenanne Ferguson) and Mixed Messages (Kathryn E. Graber): Language Anxieties in Russia’s East"
Chair and Member: Kathryn Graber, Indiana U Bloomington
2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 10
Panel: Comecon Revisited: Cooperation and (Dis)integration in the Soviet Bloc
Chair and Discussant: Michael Benjamin De Groot, Indiana U Bloomington
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, November 7, 2020
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 13
Panel: Experiencing Music in Poland: 1925-1968
Chair: Barbara J. Skinner, Indiana State U
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 21
Panel: Focus on Teaching and Testing of Language Skills: Challenges and Rewards
Paper: Mark M. Trotter, Indiana U, Russian and East European Institute
“Measuring Readability for Russian-as-a-foreign Language: Flesch-Kincaid and the c-test”
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
4:00 to 5:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 7
Panel: Socialization into Rebellion: Political Engagement of Youth in Interwar Central Europe
Chair and Discussant: Padraic J. Kenney, Indiana U Bloomington
4:00 to 5:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 14
Panel: Reimagining Landscape: Geographical Imaginaries in the Wake of WWII
Chair and Paper: Joshua Malitsky, Indiana U Bloomington
“Condensation, Limitlessness, and Ecstasy: Labor, Landscape, and the Yugoslav Postwar Newsreel”
Paper: Gardner Bovingdon, Indiana U Bloomington
“Seeing Like the State: The Transformation of the Postwar Landscape in Almaty”
Sunday, November 8, 2020
10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 1
Panel: Late Soviet Village I: Rural Youth of Northwestern Russia and Soviet Modernities, 1950s-1980s
Discussant: Ben Eklof, Indiana U Bloomington
10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 19
Panel: Beyond Anti-Corruption Campaigns: The Social and Cultural History of Corruption in Late Socialism
Discussant: Padraic J. Kenney, Indiana U Bloomington
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 14
Roundtable: Russian Family Networks in Times of Turmoil: From the Napoleonic Wars to the Time of Stalin #thelong19c
Member: Ben Eklof, Indiana U Bloomington
Member: Tatiana Saburova, Indiana U Bloomington
Member: Janet Rabinowitch, Indiana U Bloomington
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 17
Panel: Chekhov at 160: Body, Gender, Voice.
Paper: Greer Gerni, Indiana U Bloomington
“Challenging Gender Roles and Sexual Identity in Chekhov’s Three Sisters”
12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 21
Panel: Cold War Propaganda in Construction
Chair: Sergei Ivanovich Zhuk, Ball State U
2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 19
Roundtable: Chernobyl and its Storied Afterlives
Member: Sarah Drue Phillps, Indiana U Bloomington
Saturday, November 14, 2020
8:00 to 9:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 2
Panel: Russian Regional Political Dynamics
Paper: Aidan Francis Klein, Indiana U
“Federal Networks and Economic Management in Authoritarian Russia”
10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 10
Panel: Regulating Vernacular Religion in the Russian Empire
Paper: Barbara J. Skinner, Indiana State U
“Language and Rite in Ukraine and Belarus, 1835-1850"
2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 14
Roundtable: Engaging Audiences: Computation, Dynamic Visualization, and Archives for Research and Teaching in Slavic Digital Humanities
Member: Veronika Trotter, Indiana U
4:00 to 5:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 7
Roundtable: The KGB/FSB and Soviet/Russian Youth: Soviet/Russian Forms of Ideological Control and Foreign Enemies
Member and Session Manager: Sergei Ivanovich Zhuk, Ball State U
Sunday, November 15, 2020
8:00 to 9:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 12
Roundtable: Two Decades of Russia’s Economic Policies: 2000-2020
Member: Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U Bloomington
Complete RSW Affiliate Panel Listing
For a complete listing of all panels with professors, students, post-doctoral researchers, visitors, and/or conference participants who have either received funding from RSW or who have participated in RSW programming see ASEEES 2020 RSW Affiliate List.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies