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Midwest Slavic Conference 26-28 February 2004
The Ohio State University Blackwell Hotel and Conference Center
Columbus, OH
Thursday, 26 February
S:30-7:30pm
Spm
Opening Reception (Blackwell Conference Center, Tiered 140)
5:30pm Welcome Remarks Dr. George Kalbouss, President Midwest Slavic Association
Roman Fedkiw, Director International and Multicultural Relations Office
of Ohio Governor Bob Taft
Dr. Halina Stephan, Director OSU Center for Slavic and East European Studies
5:45pm Keynote Speaker
Dr. Alexander N. Dornrin Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law (Moscow)
"The Russian Elections and Prospects for Russia's Development"
6:30pm Reception
OSU Department of Theatre Production of Pentecost (Drake Union, Thurber Theatre)
A hostage thriller surrounding the "whodunit" investigation of a work of art, Pentecost is about the discovery, investigation, capture and destruction of a priceless pre-renaissance fresco in an obscure comer of Southeastern Europe.
A shuttle bus will be available at 7:30 pm in the front of the Blackwell Hotel to transport conference attendees to the Thurber Theatre.
Friday, 27 February
8:30-10:15am Morning Session I
Meeting Room 230
Catching the Wind of Change: Political, Economic, and Social Adaptation in the Post-Soviet Era
Chair: Stephen Deets, Miami U
Presenters: Irina Aervitz, Miami U
"Economic Transformation of Russia - Who Gets What, When, and How?"
Michael P. Dennis, Miami U "Image and Self Image: The Construction of National and Individual Identity in Post-Soviet Russia"
Tony Frye, Miami U "The Ideal of Communism: Communist Parties in Post-Soviet Russia"
Meeting Room 240
Medieval Slavic Philology
Chair: Predrag Matejic, Ohio State U
Presenters: Irina Y. Barclay, Appalachian State U
''The Legacy of Manuscripts in the Tver' Region of Russia" Ljiljana Djuraskovic, Ohio State U
"Tradition and Innovation in late Slavonic: A linguistic description of OSU.HRL.SMS.13
Yulia Artamonova, Research Center of Traditional Culture (Moscow) ''Notated Hymns of St. IosifVolotsky from the Collection of Iosifo-Volokolamsk Monastery"
Daniel E. Collins, Ohio State U "'Just the Facts, Ma'am': Speech Reporting and Institutional Needs in Medieval Russian Criminal Trials"
Tanya Ivanova, Ohio State U "Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in two 14th-century translations: the concepts of Good, Beautiful and Love in the translations ofIsaj of Ser and Thekara"
Friday, 27 February
lO:30am-12:15pm Morning Session II
Tiered 202
Journalism in Contemporary Ukraine (rtble) Sponsored by the Int 'I Visitor's Council, Inc.
Chair: Chuck White, Executive Producer, WBNS 10-TV
Participants: Orest Holubec, Press Secretary, Office of Ohio Governor Bob Taft Galyna Arion, Editor, Yef (Ukraine) Iryna Shvayka, Correspondent, Proskuriv (Ukraine) Sergiy Sokalskiy, Editor, Kray Kamyanetskyy (Ukraine) Alina Urda, Editor, Nove zhyttya (Ukraine)
Meeting Room 230
Creating High Enrollment GEC Courses in Public Universities (rtble)
Chair: Susrnita Sundaram, Ohio State U
Participants : Dan Coilins, Ohio State U David Birnbaum, U of Pittsburgh Ilya Vinitsky, U of Pennsylvania
Meeting Room 240
Interconnections in Eastern Christianity: The Rewards (and Frustrations) or Researching Across Time and Place (rtble)
Sponsored by the Assoc. for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture
Chair: Jennifer Spock, Eastern Kentucky U
Participants: Lucien Frary, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities Predrag Matejic, Ohio State U David M. Goldfrank, Georgetown U Tanya Ivanova, Ohio State U
lO:30am-12:15pm Morning Session II (cont'd)
Meeting Room 330
Chekhov Centennial Panel
Chair: Halina Stephan, Ohio State U
Presenters: Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State U
"Comrnedia Dell' Arte and Balagan in Checkov' s Cherry Orchard"
Maria Ignatieva, Ohio State U, Lima "'Modem Women' in Checkhov"
Inna Caron, Ohio State U "The Doctors' Plot"
Meeting Room 340
Current Sociological Issues of Russia and Ukraine
Chair: Peter C. Ordeshook, California Institute of Technology
Presenters: Marianna Klochko, Ohio State U, Marion
"Endogenous Time Preferences among Ukrainian Students" Jenny L. Davis, Georgetown U
"Gender Issues and Fertility in Russia: Causality and Consequences"
Anita Petroski, Columbia U "Seeking a Ukrainian National and International Identity: European, Russian, or Chameleon?"
12:30-1:30pm Keynote Luncheon Lecture (rsvp req'd)
Georgi N. Derluguian, Deputy Director, Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern U
"What Really Was Communism, and Did It Make Eastern Europe Special?"
Friday, 27 February
2-3:4Spm Afternoon Session I
Tiered 202
Issues in the Development of Civil Society in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (rthle)
Sponsored by the Int'/ Visitor's Council, Inc.
Chair: Marilee Chinnici-Zuercher, President/CEO, Firstlink, Inc.
Participants: Kamol Ahdullaev, Independent Scholar (Tajikistan) Dirnitar Mircev, Fmr. Macedonian Ambassador to Slovenia Beth Eck, Vice President of Training, Firstlink, Inc. Chuck White, Executive Producer, WENS 10-TV
Meeting Room 230
Religious Influences on Society in Russia
Chair: Jennifer Spock, Eastern Kentucky U
Presenters: Tom Dykstra, U of Washington
"Giving with One Hand and Taking with the Other: Russian Monasteries in the Sixteenth Century as Charitable Institutions and Instruments of Enserfment"
Kristin Collins, Ohio State U "Geographical Effects on Marriage, Gender, and Family in Pomortsy Old Believer Communities"
Kevin Kain, Western Michigan U "Verbal and Artistic Images of Patriarch Nikon Created by Old Believers in the Nineteenth Century"
Susan Smith-Peter, College of Staten Island/CUNY "Church Literacy and Women's Education in 1840s Russia"
2-3:4Spm Afternoon Session I (cont'd)
Meeting Room 240
Contemporary Polish Film
Chair: Dodona Kiziria, Indiana U
Presenters: Lisa Di Bartolomeo, U of Pittsburgh
"Waiting for the Architect: Tomek Baginski's 'The Cathedral ",
Sheila Skaff, U of Michigan "Cinema Ownership and Exhibition Practices in Interwar Poland"
Irina Makoveeva, U of Pittsburgh "Revival of Storytelling Tradition in Krzysztof Kieslowski's'Decalogue'"
Meeting Room 330
Recent Research on Romania and the Balkans
Chair: Jason C. Vuic, Ohio State U
Presenters: Joseph Prestia, Indiana U
"Romanian Neutrality and the Legal Standard of Civilization, 1914-1916"
Jill St. John, Indiana U "Caution! Workers under Construction: Women's Identities as Workers in Communist Romania."
Oana Popescu-Sandu, U of Illinois '" Blessed be, Prison!' and the (Re )creation of Memory In Post-Communist Romania"
Cristina Bradatan, Penn State U "What We Eat and Who We Are: Cuisine and Cultural Identity in the Balkans"
Friday, 27 February
2-3:45pm Afternoon Session I (cont'd)
Meeting Room 340
4-5:45pm
Historical Aspects of Hungary's 1956 Revolution Sponsored by the Hungarian Cultural Association of Columbus
Chair: Arthur A. Bartfay, Ohio State U
Participants: C. Philip Skardon, Dayton Council on World Affairs
"The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and its Relationship to the Suez Crisis"
Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U "Bartok's Legacy and the Politics of Dissent in Communist Hungary: The Case of Andras Mihaly"
Discussants: Bela Bognar, Wright State U Charlotte Remenyik, Ohio State U
Afternoon Session II
Tiered 202
Pentecost: A Forum on Eastern Europe Sponsored by the OSU Theater Dept.
Chair: Joseph Brandesky, Ohio State U, Lima
Discussants: Jonathan Putnam, Director of Pentecost Melissa Smith, Youngstown State U Yana Hashamova, Ohio State U Halina Stephan, Ohio State U Design Team from Pentecost
4-S:4Spm Afternoon Session II (cont'd)
Meeting Room 230
Methods of Community Outreach in Slavic Studies (rthJe) Sponsored by the OSU Slavic Center
Chair: Susmita Sundaram, Ohio State U
Participants: Denise Gardiner, Indiana U Jodi Simek, U of Kansas Sylvia Meloche, U of Michigan Gina Peirce, U of Pittsburgh
Meeting Room 240
Aspects of Slavic Folklore
Chair: Olia Prokopenko, Ohio State U
Participants: Elizaveta Moussinova, Indiana U
"Sviatochnii rasskaz v literature i folklore XIX-ogo veka" Elizabeth Worrall, Ohio State U
"Enemy at the Gates: Baba Yaga in the Russian Wondertale"
Tamara Shamson, Ohio State U "Pagan Traditions in Slavic Folk Art"
Sunnie Rucker, Ohio State U "From Romantic Beginnings to Symbolist Ends: Ostrovsky's quest for narodnost' in Segurochka and Groza"
Friday, 27 February
4-5:45pm Afternoon Session II (cont'd)
Meeting Room 330
Minority-Majority Relations in Central Europe and the Balkans
Chair: Vasil Babamov, Macedonian-American Friendship
Association
Participants: Andrew Ludanyi, Ohio Northern U
"Property-Restitution and Minority Educational Prospects in Romania: A Case of the Restitution Struggles of the Reformed High School in ClujlKolozsvar"
Rossen Vassilev, Ohio State U "The Tragic Plight of Bulgarian Gypsies"
Dirnitar Mircev, Frnr. Macedonian Ambassador to Slovenia "Closing Pandora's Box: South-Eastern Europe and the Balkans in Search for Peace, Stability, and Prosperity"
Meeting Room 340
Doing Business with Russia (rtble)
Chair: Vicki Rulli, Dept. of Development, City of Columbus
Participants: Olga Manankova, Application Development Analyst, Bank One Mira Axelrud, Owner, Mira's Agency Valentine Zinmitsky, Sr. Analyst, International Benefits and
Compensation, Cardinal Health Inc. Jim Bowman, President, U.S. Medical Resources Corp. Jack Youngs, President, BSI Group
Saturday, 28 February
8:30-10:15am Morning Session I
Meeting Room 230
Examinations of Slavic Literature
Chair: Inna Caron, Ohio State U
Participants: Tatiana Kuzmic, U of Illinois
"The Mind, the Body, and the Love Triangle in Anna Karenina"
Katherine A. Bowers, U ofVirgioia "Tsvetaeva's Autobiographical Prose: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman"
Mark Purves, U ofVirgioia "Ni dnia bez strochki--Anticipating Russian Postrnodernism"
Meeting Room 240
Issues of Transition in Russia and Eastern Europe
Chair: William B. Kory, U of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
Participants : Ginta T. Palubinskas, George Mason U.
"Testing the Strength of Democracy: Lithuania's Presidential Crisis"
Rachel Facey, U of Illinois "Constitutional Design in Non-Democratic Transitions: The Case of Superpresidentialism in Belarus, 1991-96"
Andrew Asher, U of Illinois "Marketing Utopia: Selling the EU in Poland"
William B. Kory, U of Pittsburgh, Johnstown "Russia's Internal Republics in Transition: A Spatial Perspective"
8:30-10:15am Morning Session I (cont'd)
Meeting Room 330
Explorations in Slavic Performing Arts and Literature
Chair: Olia Prokopenko, Ohio State U
Presenters: John W. Hill, U of Michigan
"Ivan Fedorovich Gorbunov and the New Genre of Oral Interpretation"
Volodymyr Chumachenko, U of Illinois "Andrey Platonov and His 'Escape from Love'"
Tatiana Zunshine, Pumpkin House Publishing Co. "Repka's Adventures in Turnipland"
Oksana Tatsyak, U of Toronto "Russia and the West in Alexsander Sokurov's Fihn Russian
Ark"
Meeting Room 340
Topics in Contemporary Slavic Linguistics I
Chair: Natalie Mykysey, Ohio State U
Participants : Mark Nuckols, Ohio State U
"Transitivity, Telicity, and Individuation in Slavic Case Government"
Hakyung Jung, Harvard U "The Variation of the First Consonantal Portion of the Past
Gerund Suffix in Russian Dialects" Miriam Whiting, Ohio State U
"To Vy or Not to Vy: The Problem of Pronouns in Russian Translations of Hamlet"
Saturday, 28 February
lO:30am-12:15pm Morning Session II
Tiered 202
The US Military Experience in Slavic Lands (rthle)
Chair: George Kalbouss, Ohio State U
Participants: David Haynes, Ohio State U Lt. Col. Jack Gumbert, US Army Cpt. Matthew Donald, US Army
Meeting Room 230
Aspects of the Russian Silver Age
Chair: Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State U
Participants: Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio U
"Symbolism in Song: Settings of Symbolist Poets" Jason Merrill, Michigan State U
"Sologub's Unofficial Dramatic Trilogy: Preliminary Notes"
Andrei Cretu, Ohio State U "Bunin's Grammatika Liubvi and the Poetics of Myth"
Susmita Sundaram, Ohio State U "Russian Orientalism in the Silver Age: India in Konstantin Bal'mont's Cultural Philosophy"
lO:30am-12:15pm Morning Session II (cont'd)
Meeting Room 240
Selected Issues in Second Language Acquisition
Chair: Maria Alley, Ohio State U
Participants: Ludmila Isurin, Ohio State U
"'Zhila-byla devochka' or 'Devochka byla': Russian word order acquisition/change"
Malik Hodjaev, Samarkand State U (Uzbekistan) "Uzbek Language Instruction via Interactive Videoconferencing (lTV)"
Jennifer Bown, Ohio State U "Strategy Use by Self-Directed Language Learners"
Julia Mikhailova, Ohio State U "In Search of Description: When the Simulated Oral Proficiency Test Fails to Elicit Description"
Meeting Room 330
Russian/Soviet Relations with India and the Far East
Chair: Halina Stephan, Ohio State U
Participants: Alexander Pantsov, Capital U
"The Soviet Impact on Chinese Communism: Revisiting the History of the Sino-Soviet Relations"
Nameeta Mathur, Saginaw Valley State U "Friendly to All: Economic, Social, and Cultural Relations Between East-Central Europe and India since 1945"
Halina Stephan, Ohio State U "Early Soviet Diplomacy in Afghanistan in the Prose of Larisa Reisner"
Saturday, 28 February 2004
lO:30am-12:15pm Morning Session II (cont'd)
Meeting Room 340
2-3:45pm
Issues of Ethnic and National Identity in Interwar and Early Postwar Eastern Europe
Chair: Jason C. Vuic, Ohio State U
Meredith L. Roman, Michigan State U "American Racism on Trial in Stalingrad: the Attack on a Black Worker, and the Image of the Soviet Union as the Fatherland of All Workers"
Angela White, Indiana U "Assimilation and the 'Jewish Question' in the Interwar Polish-Language Jewish Press"
Ashley Fillmer, U of illinois "'Nad Odre, Po Ziernie Ojcow I Dobrobyt': Polish Nationalism and the Road to Communist Takeover
Afternoon Session I
Tiered 202
Ethnic and Heritage Organizations in the Midwest (rdtble)
Chair: George Kalbouss, Ohio State U
Participants: Vasil Babamov, Macedonian-American Friendship
Association (Columbus, OH) Andy Fedynsky, Director, Ukrainian Museum-Archives
(Cleveland, OH) Edward Keshock, Honorary Consul of the Slovak
Republic for the State of Ohio Bela Kovach, Hungarian Cultural Assoc. (Columbus,OH) Alex Huber, Hungarian Cultural Assoc. (Columbus, OH)
2-3:4Spm Afternoon Session I (cont'd)
Meeting Room 230
Translators' Panel
Chair: Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State U
Participants: Tim Sergay, Independent Scholar
"Aleksandr Chudakov's Little-Known Hit Novel: A Translator's Tale"
Brian Baer, Kent State U "Theory vs. Practice: Roman Jakobson and Vladimir Nabokov as Translators"
Bill J ohnstOD, Indiana U "Modernizing the timeless?: Translating Juliusz Slowacki's 'Balladyna ",
Meeting Room 240
Topics in Contemporary Slavic Linguistics II
Chair: Bojan Belie, Ohio State U
Participants: Miriam Shrager, Indiana U
"Do Syllabic Tones Exist in Russian?" Marcela Michalkova, Ohio State U
"Intraphraseological and Dephraseological Word Formation in Slovak"
Yevgeniya Tyurikova, Ohio State U "The use of the Instrumental and Prepositional Cases in variants of the type "exaTb Ha nOe3.l1.e - exaTb nOe3.l1.0M"
Bojan Belie, Ohio State U "On Some Aspects of Verbal Complementation in Serbian"
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Saturday, 28 February
2-3:4Spm Afternoon Session I (cont'd)
Meeting Room 330
Issues of History in Contemporary Central Asia
Participants: Kamol Abdullaev, Independent Scholar (Tajikistan)
"The Basmachi Dispute and Contemporary Central Asia" Victoria Clement, Ohio State U
"Literacy, Modernity, and 'New Method Education' among Turkmen, 1904-1926"
Daria Vaisman, Columbia U "White Gold: the Cotton Industry as the cause of Authoritarianism in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Today"
Meeting Room 340
4-S:4Spm
Russian Opera and Ballet
Chair: Margarita Mazo, Ohio State U
Participants: Greg Halbe, Ohio State U, Newark
"Folk Poetry, Ritual, and Music in a Scene from 'Snegurochka '"
Billee Bonse, Ohio State U "A Reconsideration of Dramatic Design in Musorgsky's Boris Godunov"
Deborah Wilson, Ohio State U, Marion "The Unknown History of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet"
Olga Haldey, U of Missouri, Columbia "Navigating the Market: Repertoire and Politics at Mamontov's Enterprise"
Afternoon Session II
Tiered 202
"Town Hall" Meeting of Ohio-area Siavicists
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