Below is a listing of the sessions in which current RSW faculty, students, and advisory board members are participating at the 53rd Annual ASEEES convention, November 18 - 21, 2021, in New Orleans, LA.
Roundtable: Addressing Diverse Identities and Perspectives of the Russophone World: Report from Russian Language Classrooms at the Secondary and Post-secondary Levels
Chair: Mark M. Trotter, Indiana U Bloomington
Members: Devin Browne, Pittsburgh Brashear High School; Olga Klimova, U of Pittsburgh; Olga Mukhortova, Defense Language Institute; Elizabeth Lee Roby, Friends School of Baltimore; Izolda Savenkova, Dickinson College
2nd Floor, Marlborough A & B
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Roundtable: The Russian Economy and Economic Policies: What after COVID-19?
Chair: Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland (Finland)
Members: Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U Bloomington; Barry William Ickes, Pennsylvania State U; Laura Solanko, Bank of Finland (Finland)
3rd Floor, Jackson
Roundtable: The Past, Present, and Future of Russian Orthodox Studies
Chair: Patrick Lally Michelson, Indiana U Bloomington
Members: Heather Leigh Bailey, U of Illinois at Springfield; Ruth Coates, U of Bristol (UK); Aileen Friesen, U of Winnipeg (Canada); Martha M. F. Kelly, U of Missouri; Francesca Silano, Houghton College
1st Floor, Grand Salon A
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Individual Paper Panel: Opposition and Agreement: Issues of Politics and International Relations across Eurasia
Chair: Bruce Grant, New York U
Papers:
“Assessing the Strength of South Caucasian Strategic Triangles: The Russia-Armenia-Iran and Turkey-Georgia-Azerbaijan Triangles” - Kathleen Ann Gergely, Indiana U Bloomington
“De facto States and Their Patron: Converging Banners, Diverging Agendas?” - Emmanuel Bruno Dreyfus, IRSEM (France)
“The Perils of Russia’s Political Opposition” - Seraphine Mendez, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Raymond Casimer Taras, Tulane U
3rd Floor, Ascot-Newbury
Panel: Late Soviet Ruralism I: Rural Youth of Northwestern Russia and Soviet Modernities, 1950s-1980s
Chair: Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller, U of Zurich (Switzerland)
Papers:
“A Rural Teacher in a Soviet School: An Agent of Modernity” - Inna Veselova, St Petersburg State U (Russia)
“'Dvoechniki' and 'otlichniki' in Rural Schools during Late Socialism” - Tatiana Voronina, U of Zurich (Switzerland)
Discussants: Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, U of Cambridge (UK); Ben Eklof, Indiana U Bloomington
3rd Floor, Jackson
Roundtable: Searching for Siberia: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Transnational Perspectives
Chair: Tatiana Saburova, Indiana U Bloomington
Members: Nicholas Brenton Breyfogle, Ohio State U; Olga Povoroznyuk, U of Vienna (Austria); Peter Schweitzer, U of Vienna (Austria); Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana U Bloomington
2nd Floor, Churchill C1
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Roundtable: Book Discussion: "Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag," by Oksana Kis
Chair: Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, U of Alberta (Canada)
Members: Golfo Alexopoulos, U of South Florida; Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, U of Alberta (Canada); Oksana Kis, Institute of Ethnology, NANU (Ukraine); Sarah Drue Phillips, Indiana U Bloomington; Veronica Shapovalov, San Diego State U
2nd Floor, Churchill C1
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Panel: In Pursuit of a Modus Vivendi: National Mythmaking in the Soviet Bloc
Chair: Felix Michael Helbing, U of Pittsburgh
Papers:
“Ingvars Leitis’s Documentary Films on Ethnic Latvians in Siberia, 1975–89: Religion, Human Rights, and National Representation” - Inese Strupule, U College London (UK)
“Happily, on the Road: Memory and Self in Soviet Estonian Home Movies and Amateur Films about Travelling” - Liis Jõhvik, Tallinn U (Estonia)
“The Sacred, the Profane, the Symbolic Space and Time, and the Medieval Self in the Stop-motion Short Secha pri Kerzhentse (1971)” - Eve Barden, U of Pittsburgh
Discussants: Olga Kim, Williams College; Mark M. Trotter, Indiana U Bloomington
1st Floor, Grand Salon D
Panel: Is the Russian Economy Fragile?
Chair: Misha V. Belkindas, ODW Consulting
Papers:
“Economic Effects of Corona Pandemic in Large Emerging Markets” - Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland (Finland)
“The Fiscal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Regions” - Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U Bloomington; Andrey Yushkov, Indiana U Bloomington
Discssant: Richard E. Ericson, East Carolina U
2nd Floor, Churchill C1
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Panel: As Told by the Kremlin: Public Opinion, Media, and Authoritarian Narrative Control in Russia
Chair: Marina Rojavin, Bryn Mawr College
Papers:
“Alternative Professional Journalism in the Post-Crimean Russia: Resistance to the Kremlin Disinformation Efforts” - Olga Lazitski Torres, UC San Diego
“Overcoming the Dictator’s Dilemma: Participatory Technologies and Information Management in Putin’s Russia” - Hannah Chapman, Miami U of Ohio
“Notorious Notarius?: Media, Public Attitudes, and the Reputation of Russia's Notaries” - Alisha Kirchoff, Indiana U Bloomington
Discussant: Alexander Rojavin, Temple U
3rd Floor, Royal
Below is a listing of the sessions in which current RSW faculty, students, and advisory board members are participating virtually during the 53rd Annual ASEEES convention, December 1-3, 2021.
Panel: Solidarity Contested I: Religious, Ethnic, and National Solidarities and Indifference in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1830s-1930s
Chair: Susan Grunewald, U of Pittsburgh
Papers:
“Unia as the New Old Belief?” - Barbara J. Skinner, Indiana State U
“Making Uniates Orthodox: Strategies of Incorporating the Uniates of Kholm Into the Orthodox Church in the 1890s” - Scott M. Kenworthy, Miami U of Ohio
“The Russian Student Christian Movement in the Baltic: Ecumenical Aspects, Orthodoxy, and National Indifference in the 1920-1930s” - Irina K. Paert, U of Tartu (Estonia)
Discussant: Paul William Werth, U of Nevada, Las Vegas
Session Manager: Moira O'Shea, U of Chicago
Panel: Painting and Photographing Imperial Russia: Visual Histories of Time and Space
Chair: Ben Eklof, Indiana U Bloomington
Papers:
“Time Out from the Daily Grind: Ordinary Russians at Rest in the Art of Ilya Repin” - Sarah Badcock, U of Nottingham (UK)
“Images of Antiquity and Modernity: Photographing the Imperial Caucasus in the Early 20th Century” - Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur, U of Graz (Austria)
“Seeing Turkestan from Siberia: Semirech'e between Past and Future in Photographs of Vasilii Sapozhnikov” - Tatiana Saburova, Indiana U Bloomington
Discussant: Peter Waldron, U of East Anglia (UK)
Session Manager: Tatiana Saburova, Indiana U Bloomington
Panel: Solidarity Contested II: Religious, Ethnic, and National Solidarities and Indifference in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1830s-1930s
Chair: Mara Veronica Kozelsky, U of South Alabama
Papers:
“Confessional Indifference and the Nationalizing Church in 19th-Century Kyiv Province” - Heather J. Coleman, U of Alberta (Canada)
“Converts, Reconverts, and Half-Believers: Mapping Shades of Religious Belonging in the Baltic Provinces” - Catherine Gibson, U of Tartu (Estonia)
“Can the Tsar Protect a House of God?: The 'Kraziai Massacre' of 1893” - Darius Staliunas, Lithuanian Institute of History (Lithuania)
Discussant: Barbara J. Skinner, Indiana State U
Session Manager: Moira O'Shea, U of Chicago
Panel: A Highway without Any Exits: The Soviet World of Work Confronts the World Economy of the Mid-1980s
Chair: Karen Petrone, U of Kentucky
Papers:
“From Informals to Venture Capitalists: Leningrad’s Youth and the Privatization of Soviet Life, 1985-1988” - Martin J. Blackwell, Stetson U
“A Cold Blizzard of Insolvency: The Soviet Umbrella and the Debt Crisis of the Early 1980s” - Michael Benjamin De Groot, Indiana U Bloomington
“From 'Experiment' to 'Method': The Dispersal of the Shchekino Method throughout Soviet Industry” – James Allen Nealy, Duke U
Discussant: Diane P. Koenker, U College London (UK)
Session Manager: Zayra M Badillo Castro, SOAS U of London (UK)
Panel: Geopolitics and Strategy in Contemporary Russia and Eurasia
Chair: Adam N. Stulberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
Papers:
“Negative Shocks and Positive Actions: Regional Policies for Natural Resource Revenue Decline in Russia” - Delgerjargal Uvsh, New York U
“Russia’s Social, Political, and Economic Order and the Case of Ownership Changes in Russia’s Gas Sector, 2010-2020” - Kalina Kalinova Damianova, King's College London (UK)
“'Cheap Energy' for Russian Citizens: Exploring the Tenacity of Russia’s Social Contract” - Adnan Vatansever, King's College London (UK)
“Kazakhstan's Ambassadorial Corps: Toward an Independent Foreign Policy or Stuck in the Russian Track?” - John C Stanko, Indiana U Bloomington
Session Manager: Allison Schmidt, U of Pennsylvania
Panel: The Koryo-saram Diaspora: Experiencing "Korean-ness" in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet World
Chair: Zayra M Badillo Castro, SOAS U of London (UK)
Papers:
“Understanding Viktor Tsoi as Koryo-saram: Korean Identity in the Perestroika-era Soviet Union” - Caroline Laura Ridler, U of Nottingham (UK)
“On 'Diasporicity': Exploring Everyday Sociocultural Practices within the Kazakhstani Korean Community” - Elise S. Ahn, U of Wisconsin-Madison
“Where Do We Go?: In Understanding the Cultural Reception of the Koryo-saram Diaspora in Post-Democratisation Korea” - Henry Yeonsu Jeong, U of Toronto (Canada)
Discussants: Wookjin Cheun, Indiana U Bloomington; Ekaterina Kliuikova, Perm State U (Russia)
Session Manager: Zayra M Badillo Castro, SOAS U of London (UK)
Roundtable: Writing Communist History: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Inequality in the Academy
Chair: Muriel Blaive, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Czech Republic)
Members: Muriel Blaive, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Czech Republic); Padraic J. Kenney, Indiana U Bloomington; Libora Oates-Indruchova, U of Graz (Austria); Kieran David Williams, Drake U; Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U
Session Manager: Kieran David Williams, Drake U
Panel: Global Socialist Film Spectatorship in the Cold War
Chair: Lilya Kaganovsky, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Papers:
“Socialist Newsreel Beyond Limits” - Joshua Malitsky, Indiana U Bloomington
“Eisenstein in Tehran” - Anne Eakin Moss, U of Chicago; iloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins U
“Shared Cinematic Spaces of Global Socialism, 1950s-1970s” - Maria (Masha) Salazkina, Concordia U (Canada)
“The Socialist Bureaucrat Comedy Across Borders” - Laura-Zoe Humphreys, Tulane U
Discussant: Emma Widdis, U of Cambridge (UK)
Session Manager: Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley
Panel: Transnational Cinematic Collaborations: Konchalovsky, Szabó, and Grlić
Chair: Harlow Loomis Robinson, Northeastern U
Papers:
“Andrei Konchalovsky in Hollywood: On Board Runaway Train” - Harlow Loomis Robinson, Northeastern U
“István Szabó: Hungarian Director, International Films” - Catherine E. Portuges, U of Massachusetts Amherst
“Rajko Grlić: Cadences of Reality” - Aida Vidan, Harvard U
Discussant: Joshua Malitsky, Indiana U Bloomington
Session Manager: Aida Vidan, Harvard U
Roundtable: Great Collectors of Slavica and East Europeana at University Libraries in Canada, California, and the Midwest (USA)
Chair: Jon C. Giullian, U of Kansas
Members: Wookjin Cheun, Indiana U Bloomington; Ksenya I. Kiebuzinski, U of Toronto (Canada); Laurence Hanson Miller, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley; George Andrew Spencer, U of Wisconsin–Madison
Session Manager: Jon C. Giullian, U of Kansas
Panel: Transfers and Intermediaries Between East and West: Transnational Agriculture, Trade, and Linguistics in the 20th Century
Chair: Alex Tipei, U of Montréal (Canada)
Papers:
“M.L. Wilson and Soviet Agricultural Visits to Montana in the Early 1930s” - Maria Fedorova, Macalester College
“Transnational Genealogies: How Uralic and Altaic Studies Traveled from Hungary to the U.S., 1950s-70s” - Szabolcs Laszlo, Indiana U Bloomington
“Transnational Artifacts and Agricultural Technologies: Agricultural Transfer between the US and USSR, 1973-1980” - Samuel Fajerstein, Indiana U Bloomington
“Transnational Intermediaries and the Making of Poland's First Supermarket After 1989” - Leah Valtin-Erwin, Indiana U Bloomington
Discussant: Kristy Ironside, McGill U (Canada)
Session Manager: Samuel Fajerstein, Indiana U Bloomington
Panel: East Central Europe in the Sixties: Intersections of Culture and Mentalities
Chair: Padraic J. Kenney, Indiana U Bloomington
Papers:
“Globalizing Socialism in Polish Public Culture in the Sixties” - Malgorzata Fidelis, U of Illinois at Chicago
“The Other Lives of Stasi Spies: Decrypting Patriots, Heroes, and Traitors” - Andrew Thomas Demshuk, American U
“Children of Communism: Politicizing a Youth Revolt in 1960s Budapest” - Sandor Horvath, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
“Global Critiques of Systemic Violence and the Rise of Central European Solidarity in the Prague Spring Era” - James Krapfl, McGill U (Canada)
Discussant: Madigan Fichter, Holy Family U
Session Manager: Dylan Mohr, U of Minnesota
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies