Russian Studies Workshop

Thu, November 10, 1:00 to 2:45pm CST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)

Panel: Utopian and Dystopian Visions in Ukrainian Film

Chair: Oleh Kotsyuba, Harvard U

Papers:

"Atomohrad on the Film Screen," - Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Indiana U Bloomington

"Hauntology, Macabre, Ruins, and the Promise of a Brighter Future in Valentyn Vasianovych’s Atlantis (2019)," - Yuliya V. Ladygina, Pennsylvania State U

"Stop-Zemlia: A Utopian Coming-of-age Film in Dark Times," - Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas

Discussant: Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 12Abstract

Thu, November 10, 1:00 to 2:45pm CST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)

Roundtable: Book Discussion: "New Trends in Everyday Religiosity in Ukraine"

Chair: Jacob Lassin, Arizona State U

Members: Paul J. D'Anieri, UC Riverside; Sarah Drue Phillips, Indiana U Bloomington; Frank Edward Sysyn, U of Alberta (Canada); and Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, Clark 7

Thu, November 10, 1:00 to 2:45pm CST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)

Individual Paper Panel: New Approaches to Studying Influence in the Post-Soviet Space

Chair: Jaclyn Kerr, Center for Global Security Research / Stanford U

Papers:

"Buying a Friendship: Russia's Economic Statecraft Incentives Outside the post-Soviet Space: A Systemic Approach," - Karel Svoboda, Charles U in Prague (Czech Republic)

"Epistemic Communities versus 'Agents of Influence'," - Sanshiro Hosaka, U of Tartu (Estonia)

"Security, Prestige, and Power: Understanding the Determinants of Russian Strategic Nuclear Modernization under Vladimir Putin," - Spenser A Warren, Indiana U Bloomington

"Spreading Conspiracies Online versus Offline: How Different are These Strategies?," - Katherine Frances Cayton, Cornell U and Courtney Blackington, UNC at Chapel Hill

Discussant: Jeffrey Mankoff, National Defense U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Marshfield Room

Thu, November 10, 3:15 to 5:00pm CST (4:15 to 6:00pm EST)

Roundtable: Launching the Disability Studies ASEEES Interest Group: Projects, Networks, Alliances

Chair: Maria Bucur, Indiana U Bloomington

Members: Sarah Drue Phillips, Indiana U Bloomingt;on; Frances Lee Bernstein, Drew U; Maria Bucur, Indiana U Bloomington

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Crystal Room

Thu, November 10, 7:00 to 9:00pm CST (8:00 to 10:00pm EST)

Film: Розпад (Disintegration)

Introduction:  Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Indiana U Bloomington

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 2

Fri, November 11, 10:15am to 12:00pm CST (11:15am to 1:00pm EST)

Film: Vulnerable Archives: [Unarchiving] Collections of the Center for Urban History (Lviv)

Introduction: Maryana Mazurak, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Ukraine)

Q&A Moderators: Oleksandr Makhanets, Center for Urban History (Lviv, Ukraine) and Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Indiana U Bloomington

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 2

Fri, November 11, 2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)

Panel: Contours of Conflict and Regional Politics in Russia and Ukraine

Chair: Kyle Estes, Occidental College

Papers: "Identity in Conflict: Content and Contestation over Ukrainian National Identity since Early 2021," -- Scott Feinstein, Iowa State U and Kyle Estes, Occidental College

"The Dynamics of Building and Sustaining Political Narratives during Violent Conflict," - Megan Hauser, Kennesaw State U and Nataliia Kasianenko, California State U, Fresno

"Fiscal Incentives of Elected and Appointed Subnational Executives: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Russia," - Kathleen Ann Gergely, Indiana U Bloomington and Andrey Yushkov, Indiana U Bloomington

"'A Diaspora of Despair,' a 'Model Diaspora,' and Other: Eastern and Western Ukrainian Diasporas in Comparative Perspective," - Klavdia Tatar, University of Ottawa

Discussant: Colin Roy Johnson, Idaho State U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Madison Room

Fri, November 11, 4:15 to 6:00pm CST (5:15 to 7:00pm EST)

Panel: Book Discussion: "Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland," by Juliane Furst

Chair: Kristin Roth-Ey, U College London (UK)

Members: Eliot Borenstein, New York U; Juliane Fuerst, Center for Contemporary History (Germany); Padraic J. Kenney, Indiana U Bloomington; 
and Victoria Smolkin, Wesleyan U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 6

Fri, November 11, 4:15 to 6:00pm CST (5:15 to 7:00pm EST)

Panel: Moral Economies of Risk and Obligation after State Socialism

Chair: Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State U

Papers:

"The Marketization of Death:Carna Brkovic, U of Goettingen (Germany)
Subject Formation of Funeral Professionals in Urban China," - Huwy-min Lucia Liu, George Mason U

"On the Importance of Being Earnest: Moral Economy in the Building of a Sex Worker Community," - Dafna Rachok, Indiana U Bloomington

"Disappointment, Sarcasm, and Other Ugly Feelings: Humanitarian Affect in the Global East," - Carna Brkovic, U of Goettingen (Germany)

"Financial Elites as Mediators of Risk, Obligation, and Common Good across Eurasia," - Morgan Y. Liu, Ohio State U

Discussant: Larisa Kurtovic, U of Ottawa (Canada) and Jeremy Morris, Aarhus U (Denmark)

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, Burnham 1

Sat, November 12, 8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST)

Panel: Good Omens 1968: The Architectural Scene in Almaty

Chair: Emma Widdis, U of Cambridge (UK)

Papers: 

"The Virtual Yugoslav City in Post-WWII Nonfiction Film," - Joshua Malitsky, Indiana U Bloomington

"Approaching the City: Urban Space in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cinema," - Gardner Bovingdon, Indiana U Bloomington

"Moscow, Postmodern Metropolis: The Spatial Turn in Post-Soviet Cinema," - Daria V. Ezerova, Columbia U

Discussant: Josephine English Cook, New York U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 9

Sat, November 12, 10:15am to 12:00pm CST (11:15am to 1:00pm EST)

Panel: Russia and the World Economy: Integration and Decarbonization

Chair: Misha V. Belkindas, ODW Consulting

Papers:

"Russia’s Economic Integration with the Rest of the World: Trends and Prospects," - Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland (Finland)

"Russia’s Transition from Oil Dependent to Decarbonized Economy," - Masaaki Kuboniwa, Hitotsubashi U (Japan)

"The Influence of Global Decarbonization on the Russian Economy
In Event: Russia and the World Economy: Integration and Decarbonization," - Shinichiro Tabata, Hokkaido U (Japan)

Discussants: Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U Bloomington and Richard E. Ericson, East Carolina U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, Sandburg 7

Sat, November 12, 12:30 to 2:15pm CST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)

Roundtable: Commemorating Stephen F. Cohen, 1938–2020

Chair: Lars Thomas Lih, Independent Scholar

Members: Michael David-Fox, Georgetown U; Alexander Rabinowitch, Indiana U Bloomington; and Ronald Grigor Suny, U of Michigan

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 3

Sat, November 12, 12:30 to 2:15pm CST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)

Panel: Music at the Margins: On Music and Precarity: II

Chair: Karen Joan Evans-Romaine, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers:

"Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra," - David Anthony Goldfarb, Independent Scholar

"Music at the Margins of Prose?: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Fourth Symphony (1970)," - Jan Czarnecki, U of Cologne (Germany)

"The Magic in the Mix: Cultural Precarity and Celebration in the Music of Tamara Obrovac," - Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana U Bloomington

Discussant: Tony H Lin, Boston College

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, Sandburg 5

Sat, November 12, 2:45 to 4:30pm CST (3:45 to 5:30pm EST)

Panel: Historical Memory and Religion among the Soviet Nationalities after the Thaw

Chair: Susan Grunewald, Louisiana State U

Papers: 

"Religion in Tatar Village Literature, 1960s-2010," - Agnes Neylufer Kefeli, Arizona State U

"Locating the Roots of Altaian Heritage Activism," - Gertjan Plets, U of Utrecht (Netherlands)

"Dissidence and Historical Memory in the Tatar Republic under Brezhnev
In Event: Historical Memory and Religion among the Soviet Nationalities after the Thaw" - John Mulvey Romero, U of North Georgia

DIscussant: Marianne Ruth Kamp, Indiana U Bloomington

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, Burnham 2

Sat, November 12, 2:45 to 4:30pm CST (3:45 to 5:30pm EST)

Panel: Images of Empires: Photographs in Production of Knowledge and Identities

Chair: Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall U

Papers:

"Photographing the Carpathians for Empire, Science, and Industry," - Ksenya I. Kiebuzinski, U of Toronto (Canada)

"Survey Photography and the Shaping of National and Cultural Identities in the Polish and Western Provinces of the Russian Empire," - Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Art, PAS (Poland)

"The Production and Circulation of Sublime Summits: The Caucasus in Photographs by Vittorio Sella," - Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur, UCLA

"Under-Mapped Territories and Imperial Landscapes: V. Sapozhnikov's Expeditions to Altai in Photographs and Writings," - Tatiana Saburova, Indiana U Bloomington

Discussant: Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd, Salon 1

Sat, November 12, 2:45 to 4:30pm CST (3:45 to 5:30pm EST)

Panel: The Precarity of Russian Influence in Central Asia after the Invasion of Ukraine

Chair: Benjamin Tromly, U of Puget Sound

Papers:

"An Analysis of Kazakhstan's Silk Road Strategy Following the Invasion of Ukraine," - Nathan Mark Hutson, U of North Texas

"Russian Prestige: Second-Language Preference in Central Asia," - Marintha R Miles, George Mason U

"International Partnerships within Kazakhstan’s Higher Education System: Internationalization, but not Globalization," - John C Stanko, Indiana U Bloomington

Discussant: Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev U (Kazakhstan)

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Marshfield Room

Sat, November 12, 5:00 to 6:45pm CST (6:00 to 7:45pm EST),

Panel: From the Communist Period to the 1989 Transformation: New Perspectives on Circulation and Cleavages within CEE Elites

Chair: Padraic J. Kenney, Indiana U Bloomington

Papers:

"Poland’s Turning Point of 1989 Viewed through the Prism of the Bourdieu’s Frame of the Field of Power," - Tomasz Zarycki, U of Warsaw (Poland)

"Between Intelligentsia and Party Apparatus: How to Become the Leader of the Communist Party in Poland?: The Case of Mieczysław F. Rakowski," - Michal Przeperski, Polish History Museum (Poland)

"The Owners of the People’s Republic: Elite Wrongdoing and its Critique in Poland and East Germany," - Jakub Szumski, U of Jena (Germany)

"New Perspective on Elite's Change and (Re)production: Insights from a Study of Members of Governments in Poland after 1989," - Andrzej Turkowski, U of Warsaw (Poland)

Discussant: Mitchell A. Orenstein, U of Pennsylvania

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, Burnham 2

Sat, November 12, 5:00 to 6:45pm CST (6:00 to 7:45pm EST)

Panel: Encountering the Unexpected in Siberia

Chair: Tatiana Saburova, Indiana U Bloomington

Papers:

"Like a Fairy Tale: Crossing Over in the Endless Steppe," - Amy Singleton Adams, College of the Holy Cross

"Siberian Imagined Geography in the Great War and Russian Civil War: A Digital Humanities Approach," - Edith W. Clowes, U of Virginia

"'I Left Moscow Reluctantly': Images of Siberia in Maria Volkonskaia’s Memoirs," -
Ludmilla A. Trigos, Independent Scholar

Discussant: Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, U of Kentucky

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, LaSalle 2

Sun, November 13, 8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST)

Roundtable: Precarity of Translation III: Translation Theory

Chair: Susanna Witt, Stockholm U (Sweden)

Members: Maria Y. Khotimsky, MIT; Lada Kolomiyets, Taras Shevchenko National U of Kyiv (Ukraine); Julia Trubikhina, Hunter College; Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana U Bloomington; and Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton U

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 10

Sun, November 13, 8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST),

Panel: Public Opinion and Recent Crises

Chair: Amanda Leigh Zadorian, Oberlin College

Papers:

"Varieties of Patriotism: The Russian People and Foreign Policy," - Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U Bloomington and William Henszey Pyle, Middlebury College

"Sputnik-V and Russia’s Authoritarian Bargain: Evidence from Surveys and Media Coverage," - Sarah Wilson Sokhey, U of Colorado at Boulder and Amanda Leigh Zadorian, Oberlin College

"Crisis Experience and the Deep Roots of COVID-19 Vaccination Preferences," - Ekaterina Borisova, Ghent U (Belgium); Klaus Gründler, ifo Institute / Ludwig-Maximilians-U Munich (Germany); Armin Hackenberger, ifo Institute (Germany); Anina Harter, ifo Institute (Germany); and Koen Schoors, Ghent U (Belgium)

"The Limits of an Authoritarian Ethic of Care: Evidence from Kazakhstan," - Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev U (Kazakhstan)

Discussant: Noah Buckley, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) / NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia)

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Madison Room

Sun, November 13, 10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST)

Panel: The Politics of Homophobia/Transphobia in Russia

Chair: Kevin Moss, Middlebury College

Papers:

"Why Transphobia Fails in Russia: An Analysis of Transphobic Bills that Never Became Laws," - Yana Kirey-Sitnikova, U of Gothenburg (Sweden)

"Homophobia in the Russian Courtroom," - Alexander Kondakov, U College Dublin (Ireland)

"LGBT Will Thank You: Conservative Mobilization against the Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence," - Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva, U of Helsinki (Finland)

"Unpacking 'Traditional Values' in Russia’s Conservative Turn: Gender, Sexuality, and the Soviet Legacy," - Alexandra Novitskaya, Indiana U Bloomington; Valerie Sperling, Clark U; Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, U of British Columbia (Canada); and Janet Elise Johnson, CUNY Brooklyn College

Discussant: Laurie Essig, Middlebury College

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Marshfield Room

Sun, November 13, 12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)

Roundtable: Book Discussion: "Literary Biographies in the Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia," Edited by Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland

Chair: Carol R. Ueland, Drew U

Members: Polly Jones, U of Oxford (UK); Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall U; Thomas Newlin, Oberlin College; Sarah Drue Phillips, Indiana U Bloomington; and Ludmilla A. Trigos, Independent Scholar

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, LaSalle 3

Sun, November 13, 12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)

Roundtable: The Russian Economy: Now What?

Chair: Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland (Finland)

Members: Michael V. Alexeev, Indiana U Bloomington; Barry William Ickes, Pennsylvania State U; and Laura Solanko, Bank of Finland (Finland)

The Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th Floor, LaSalle