The Ohio State University

Pfahl 330

Romantic Motifs in Pushkin

Chair/Discussant: Polina Rikoun, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Katherine Bowers, Northwestern University: "George Gordon, Giaours and Gender: The Byronic Intertext in Pushkin ’s The Fountain of Bakhchisarai"
- Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern University: "Russian Imperialism and Ideals of Freedom in Pushkin's The Prisoner of the Caucasus"
- Ryan Walker, Ohio State University: "One Must Have a Mind of Winter: Winter Themes in Pushkin's Lyrical Works"
- Shlomit Gorin, Northwestern University: "The Manifold Self: Complexity and Identity in Pushkin’s Bakhchisaraisky Fontan"

Pfahl 240

Identities in the Balkans: An Undergraduate Perspective

Chair/Discussant: Tania Ivanova-Sullivan, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Russell Crooks, Ohio State University: "Collective Identities in The Bridge on the Drina"
- Ryan Brink, Ohio State University: "(Re)structuring of Identities in the Time of War: Notes on Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergovic"
- Ivelina Konstantinova, Ohio State University: "To Belong or to Belong Not: The Question of Identity in Slavenka Drakulic's Cafe Europa"

Friday, 13 April

10:45am-12:30pm            Session II

MTG Gerlach 315

Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition

Chair/Discussant: Tania Ivanova-Sullivan, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Jill Neuendorf, Bryn Mawr College: "Russian Heritage Speakers - Examining Their Identity"
- Xinran Dong, Ohio State University: "Word Order of Russian Questions and Answers"
- Ljiljana Djuraskovic, Ohio State University: "Preterits about a Legend or a Legend about Preterits? A Narrative Analysis of Verb Forms in the Legend of the Tolgskaja Icon"

Pfahl 230

Symbols, Rituals, and Gender in Slavic Film

Chair/Discussant: Frederick White, Memorial University

Presenters:
- Jason Merrill, Michigan State University: "The Role of Gender in Iurii Kuzin's Film Kovcheg"
- Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh: "Objects, Color and Sound: ‘Reading’ the Symptoms of the Real in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Blue"
- Matthew Curtis, Ohio State University: "Nature, Violence, and Sacrifice in Before the Rain: Milcho Manchevski’s 1995 Film"

Pfahl 240

Ethnicity and Politics in Eastern Europe
Chair/Discussant: Snjezana Buzov, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Richard Arnold, Ohio State University: "Why are There Different Forms of Ethnic Violence?"
- Phil Murphy, University of Pittsburgh: "The Politics of Identity and the Republic of Macedonia’s ‘Ethnic Divide’"
- Hamza Karcic, Georgetown University: "Transitional Justice: The Experiment in Bosnia"

Pfahl 330

Social Issues in Eastern Europe: An Undergraduate Perspective

Chair/Discussant: Daniel Gray, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Barbara Coons, University of Pennsylvania: "Magyar Hegemony and the Suppression of Romanians in Transylvania"
- Rebecca Holdorph, Kenyon College: "Religious “Revival” and Ethnonational Identity in Russia"
- Joshua Keating, Oberlin College: "NGOs and Democratization"

Pfahl 340

Russian Life in Art

Chair/Discussant: Clinton Buhler, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Laura Dobrynin, Ohio University: "The ‘Other’ Side of Repin’s Russia: Realism and Rhetoric"
- Kristen Harkness, University of Pittsburgh: "The Empire on Display: Mariia Iakunchikova and the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle"
- Lisa Maydwell, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Female Artists in Communist Russia 1917-1944"

1:30pm-2:30pm               Session III

MTG Gerlach 315

Issues in Slavic Syntax

Chair/Discussant: Daniel Collins, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Steven Franks, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Splitting (up) Splitting"
- Miriam Shrager, Indiana University - Bloomington: "The Domain of the Reflexive in Russian and Other Slavic Languages"
- Bostjan Dvorak, Zentrum zur allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin: "Between Conjunction and Adversativity: The Use of pa in Modern Slovenian"

Pfahl 230

Surveillance and Enlightenment in Early Soviet History

Chair/Discussant: Brian Bonhomme, Youngstown State University

Presenters:
- David Hoffmann, Ohio State University: "Soviet Surveillance and Propaganda in its International Context, 1914-1921"
- Robert Argenbright, University of North Carolina - Wilmington: "Red Star on the Volga: Agitation, Surveillance, and Governance in the Russian Civil War"
- Aaron Retish, Wayne State University: "Constructing the New Soviet Peasant: Bolshevik Enlightenment Campaigns in the Civil War"

Pfahl 240

Reforms and Policies in the New Russia

Chair/Discussant: William Kory, University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown

Presenters:
- Caress Schenk, Miami University: "Russia's Changing Migration Policies: Liberalization or Xenophobia?"
- Evgenia Ustinova, Georgetown University: "Checking In With the Kremlin Clock: Case Study of Russia's Regional Reform"
- Octavian Ticu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "The Transnistrian Conflict and the Emergence of the Near Abroad Policy of the Russian Federation"

Pfahl 330

New Approaches to Tolstoy's The Cossacks

Chair/Discussant: Alexander Burry, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Kathleen Althen, Ohio State University: "Repetition, Evolution and Finality: A Comparative Study of Tolstoy’s The Cossacks and Family Happiness"
- Thaddeus Fortney, Ohio State University: "Untamed and Pure: Maryanka as the Ideal of Nature in Tolstoy’s The Cossacks"
- Teresa Kuruc, Ohio State University: "The Men Behind the Myth: A Variation of the Cossack Legend in Tolstoy's The Cossacks"

Pfahl 340

Themes in Russian Literature: An Undergraduate Perspective

Chair/Discussant: Susmita Sundaram, Kenyon College
Discussant: Larissa Bondarchuk, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Rebecca Dash, Kenyon College: "Gallego's Life in Moscow"
- Jason Cieply, Kenyon College: "Understanding the Great Sinner and Tyrant in Dostoevskian Salvation"
- Jessica Bennett, Ohio State University: "Divided by Language: Analysis of Fathers and Sons": Christopher J. Wang, Ohio State University: "The Energizer Bunny Strolling Down the Yellow Brick Road: a New View of Bazarov's Character"

3:30-5:15pm          Session IV

MTG Gerlach 315

West Slavic Linguistics

    
Presenters:
- Zora Rush, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Nominative-Accusative Alternations with Verbs of Perception in Czech"
- Bora Kim, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Distribution of Vowel Quantity in Czech Dialects"
- Mark Nuckols, Ohio State University: "Animacy, Transitivity, and Markedness: Some Paradoxes in the Transitivity Hypothesis"

Pfahl 230

Soviet and Post-Soviet East Borderlands

Chair/Discussant:
Kamoludin Abdullaev, Dushanbe State University

Presenters:
- Terry Studer, Ohio State University: "Warlordism in Modern Central Asia and Afghanistan"
- Matt Luby, Ohio State University: "Nightmare on Navoiy Ko'chasi: The State of the Jadid Dream After Seven Decades of Soviet Rule"
- Daniel Gray, Ohio State University: "How Important Were the Jadids: An Alternative Approach"

Pfahl 240

Intellectual Responses to the Concept of Utopia

Chair/Discussant: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Presenters:
- Luke Mergner, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Lenin’s Choice: An Arendtian Perspective"
- Bora Chung, Indiana University - Bloomington: "The Image of Glass House in Zamiatin’s We and Żeromski’s Before The Spring"
- Taylor Loy (Virginia Tech University): "The Colonized Mind: A Postcolonial Analysis of Socialist Poland in Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind"

Knowlton

Slavic Literature: Issues of Style and Language

Chair/Discussant: Yana Hashamova, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Andrei Cretu, Ohio State University: "From Morphology to Ideology: The Structure of Russian Village Prose"
- Mirna Solic, University of Toronto: "Karel Čapek: Peripheral Forms as the Art of Story-Telling"
- Ellen Bunker, Ohio State University: "The Overuse of Proper Nouns in the Absurdist Work of Daniil Kharms"

Pfahl 330

Reading Tolstoy Through Other Authors

Chair/Discussant: Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University

Presenters:
- Olha Rudich, Ohio State University: "Marriage and Infidelity in Tolstoy’s Story and Shveitser’s Film Kreitserova Sonata"
- Michael Richardson, Miami University: "Russia's Little Oriental Problem"
- Matthew Kocsan, Ohio State University: "C.S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, and Christianity"

Pfahl 340

Performing a Post-Soviet Identity

Chair/Discussant: Marianna Klochko, Ohio State University - Marion

Presenters:
- Larysa Stepanova, Ohio State University: "Surzhyk and the Language Question in Present-Day Ukraine"
- Joseph Crescente, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine"
- Jessica Wienhold, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne: "Valeria Narbikova’s Uncanny Travels: The Impossibility of Losing One’s Way"

9:00pm - ?
Peasant Disco
East European and Central Asian Dance Party. Dance to the hits rocking the post-socialist world! Let DJ Peasant and DJ Disco bring you back, pick you up and bring you up to speed as to what sounds are emanating from Moscow, Budapest, Kyiv, Warsaw, Sofia, Bucharest, Prague, Baku, Tashkent, and the all the other hot regional capitals!



Bernie's Bagels & Deli
1896 N. High St.
Columbus, OH

Do you long for the days of the diskoteka? Are you sick of not hearing Tatu at the local gin mill? Well, now is your chance to get a piece of East European nightlife right here in Columbus. Take a break and get re-energized for day 2 of the Midwest Slavic Conference as the Peasant Disco comes to Columbus for the 1st time.

Door charge: $3 or 90 RUR
All ages welcome!

Saturday, 14 April

9:45-11:30am                  Session V

Pfahl 140

Round Table: Teaching Russia Through Culture and Literature:

Chair:
Yana Hashamova, The Ohio State University
Jennifer Spock, Eastern Kentucky University
Elizabeth Worral-Angerman, Ohio State University
Olha Rudich, Ohio State University

Pfahl 330

Myths, Beliefs, and Historical Reality in Poland

Chair/Discussant: Carole Fink, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein, University of Michigan: "For Fatherland and Equal Rights: Gender and Nationalism in Polish Military Forces During 1918-1920"
- Roman Nitze, Ohio State University: "'With Swords & Lances…’ A Study of Polish Cavalry and How They Fought German Tanks During the September Campaign 1939"
- Michael Luczewski, Columbia University: "Peasants into Poles, Jews, and Germans: Political Ethnography of Zmiaca Village: 1846-2006"

Pfahl 340

Eastern European Politics in a Changing World

Chair/Discussant: Richard Arnold, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Brian Chorley, Ohio State University: "Blame and Propaganda in the Yugoslav Wars"
- Janet Mason, University of Kansas: "Eastern Europe’s Media Watchdog"
- Darrell Kendall, University of Kansas: "Eastern Europe and the European Union: Bargaining with Sovereignty"

Pfahl 240

19th Century Russian Literature: Odoevsky, Belinsky, Turgenev

Chair/Discussant: Jerome Katsell

Presenters:
- Larisa Walsh, Tomsk State University: "Reading V.G. Belinskii : Book Collection as a Psychological Portrait of it's Owner"
- Olga Volkova, Indiana University - Bloomington: "The Russian Apocalypse: Odoevsky’s Reading of The Last Man"
- Yuliya Basina, University of Pittsburgh: "Meditation on Life as Art in Ivan Turgenev's Asya"

Pfahl 230

Constructing Socialism Through Art

Chair/Discussant: Marianna Klochko, Ohio State University - Marion

Presenters:
- Robert Calhoun, Ohio State University: "Gustav Klutsis: Constructing Socialism"
- Clinton Buhler, Ohio State University: "Written on a Memory, Soviet Russia's Monuments as Palimpsest"
- Matthew Baumann, Ohio State University: "The Classical Inheritance: Allusion and Symbol in Mukhina’s Worker and the Collective Farm Woman"

12:00-1:30             Luncheon

Blackwell Hotel, Ballroom C

Lunch with Professor Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh

“History and Metahistory in Soviet World War II Posters”

The lunch is $5 and includes a salad, vegetarian lasagna, and desert. Please sign up at the registration desk as space is limited.  Please pay in cash or have a check made out to "The Ohio State University." Credit cards are not accepted.

Saturday, 14 April

1:30-3:15               Session VI

Pfahl 140

Round Table: Teaching Russian Language

Chair: Susmita Sundaram, Kenyon College
Xenia Bonch-Bruevich, Wright State University
Karen Sobul, Ohio State University
Colleen McCallum-Bonar, Ohio State University
Ryan Walker, Ohio State University

• Using technology to enhance learning and teaching of Slavic languages
• Language proficiency in a classroom and beyond (OPI in Russian, certification process, connection between proficiency levels and instructional techniques)
• Increasing enrollments/language advertising
• Course design and instructional techniques at the advanced level
• Resources/training
• Teaching methods and materials for heritage learners across Slavic languages

Pfahl 330

Nationalism and Atheism in Czech Society

Chair/Discussant: Joe Brandesky, Ohio State University - Lima

Presenters:
- Matthew Slaboch, University of Kansas: "What Accounts for Czech Atheism?"
- Mark Hoolihan, Michigan State University: "Czech Nationalism and the Struggle for Control of Local Government, 1880-1914"
- Dáša Frančíková, University of Michigan: "Education, Women, and the Building of the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia"

Pfahl 340

Folklore and Modernity in Southeast Europe

Chair/Discussant: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Presenters:
- Jan Louis Perkowski, University of Virginia: "The Romanian Folkloric Vampire"
- Predrag Kovacevic, Miami University: "Punk, New Wave, and the Westernization of Yugoslav Culture"
- David Ratcliff, Ohio State University: "Rock, Turbo-Folk, and the Crisis in Yugoslavia"

Pfahl 240

Demons and Madmen in Early 20th Century Literature

Chair/Discussant:Laura Miller-Purrenhage, Kettering University

Presenters:
- Micah Austin, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Demons, Demon-weavers and Diagnosis in Sologub's The Petty Demon"
- Emil Niculescu, Yale University: "The Ambiguity of the Erotic in Fyodor Sologub’s Melkii Bes"
- Frederick White, Memorial University: "Institutional Spaces in the Works of Leonid Andreev"

Saturday, 14 April

1:30-3:15               Session VI

Pfahl 230

The Art and Architecture of the Soviet State

Chair/Discussant:

Halina Stephan, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Sarah Greene, University of Toronto: "Art and the Body Politic: Visual Representations of the Body and Gender Construction"
- Katerina Romanenko, City University of New York - CUNY: "Restoring a ‘Restored’: Solving the Puzzling Chronology of Maks Alpert’s Giant and the Builder series 1932"
- Daniel Gray, Ohio State University: "Memory and Social Reality: What's to be Done with VDNKh?"

3:30pm-5:15pm      Session VII

Pfahl 140

Midwest Slavic Association Meeting

• Discussion on the future of the organization
• Mission statement
• Institutional and individual membership

Pfahl 240

Russian Poetry of the Early 20th Century

Chair/Discussant: Andrei Cretu, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College: "The Lowest Heaven: Poetry, Gender, and Afterlife in Tsvetaeva"
- Laura Miller-Purrenhage, Kettering University: "The Fragmented Poetic Corpus: A Study in the Relationship Between Marina Tsvetaeva’s Theories of Identity and Her Poetic Composition"
- Bethany Braley, Indiana University - Bloomington: "Conceptual Functions of Rhetorical Figures: Aleksandr Blok and Bolesław Leśmian"

Pfahl 230

Artistic Representations of Stalinist Russia

Chair/Discussant: Maria Ignatieva, Ohio State University - Lima

Presenters:
- Peter Pozefsky, College of Wooster: "A Stalinist Childhood: Toward a Cinematic Historiography of Russia in the 1930s and 1940s"
- Jennifer Hanuschak, Youngstown State University: "The Iconography of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s USSR"
- Robert Crane, University of Pittsburgh: "Rewriting Late Stalinist Drama: American Newspaper Criticism and the Soviet Theatre"

Pfahl 330

Life and Gender in Post-Communist Societies

Chair/Discussant: Jill Bystydzienski, Ohio State University

Presenters:
- Natalia Smirnova, College of Mount Saint Vincent: "Labor Market Outcomes for Women in Russia"
- Pamela Galbraith, Michigan State University: "National Crisis or International Agenda?: Domestic Violence in Bulgaria"
- Amy Szabo, Ohio State University: "The Development of Human Trafficking in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia"

Pfahl 340

Reversible Translatability: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Modern English Texts

Chair/Discussant: Inna Caron, Ohio State University
Discussant: Polina Rikoun, Ohio State University