CAS2011 PROGRAM, FIRST DRAFT
SATURDAY MAY 28
9:00 AM – 10:45AM
Session 1Round TableBringing People to places: Information resources for Slavic scholarship
ORGANIZERS: Nadia Zavorotna/Lana Soglasnova
CHAIR: Ksenya Kiebuzinski
PARTICIPANTSMyron Momryk
Nadia Zavorotna
Lana Soglasnova
Session 2Religion and/in the arts and society
ORGANIZER: Regan Treewater-Lipes
CHAIRtba
Laura Springate“The Function of Memory in the Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church”
Regan Treewater-Lipes “Religion or Ethnicity: An Exploration of Jewish Russian-ness and Russian Jewish-ness in the Prose of Ulitskaia and Rubina”
Darya Kucherova “Nicholas Roerich and Lawren Harris: Spirituality in Art”
Marija Petrovic“The Importance of Ritual and the Power of the State – Josephinist Reforms and the Orthodox Burial Customs in the Metropolitanate of Karlovci”
Session 3The view from here: Perspectives on Soviet and post-Soviet reality in Canadian and western press and film
CHAIRtba
J.-Guy Lalande “The Collapse of the Soviet Union as Commented in Canadian Newspapers”
Serge Cipko “The Canadian Press on Ukraine during World War II: A Prairie Case Study”
Ivan Katchanovski“Politics of Representation of Post-Communist Countries in American, British, and Canadian Films”
11:00 AM – 12:45PM
Session 4The Great Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine: Contemporary and Current Canadian Perspectives
Organizer:Andrij Makuch
Chair: Zenon Kohut
Discussant:Serge Cipko
Andrij Makuch “Ukrainian Patriots, Communist Sympathizers and the Holodomor Issue in 1933 Canada”
Jars Balan“Perfect Storm: The Great Famine-Holodomor as Viewed Through the Prism of the 1932–1933 Toronto Star”
Bohdan Klid“Stalin, Nationalism and the 1932–1933 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine and the Kuban”
Session 5Jewish writers and questions
ChairTBA
Natalia Kudinova“Manes Sperber and Isaac Babel: Views on Education of Jews in Two Empires”
Victoria Lyasota“The Jewish Question” in Vynnychenko’s Plays”
Allan Reid“Henryk Grynberg’s strategies in Drohobych, Drohobbych and pedagogical challenges in teaching the Holocaust”
1:00 PM – 2:00PM
EXECUTIVE LUNCH
2:00 PM – 3:45PM
Session 6Subverting and Defending Legal, Moral, and Religious Codes in Imperial Russia
ORGANIZER: Heather Coleman
CHAIR: Heather Coleman
DISCUSSANT: Nigel Raab
A. Joy Demoskoff“Prisoners and Penitents: Monastic Incarceration in Vladimir Diocese, 1825-1855”
George Lywood“Sex, Scandal, Satire and the Resort Ladies of the Russian Riviera, 1905-1914”
Johannes Remy“Before the Valuev Circular: Censorship of Ukrainian publications in the Russian Empire, 1855-1863”
Session 7Imaginings and re-imaginings; Visions and re-visions
Mykola Polyuha“In Search of a Third Way: Phenomenon of ‘Other Literature’ in Ukraine”
Nandor (Fred) Dreisziger“The Ancestors of Hungarians: Asians or Europeans?”
Boris Bulatovic“Periodization of 20th Century Serbian Literature”
SUNDAY MAY 29
9:00 AM – 10:45AM
Session 8ROUND TABLEExploring the Cossack Myth and Culture in Early Modern and Modern Ukraine
ORGANIZER: Olga Andriewsky
CHAIR: Jars Balan
ParticipantsZenon Kohut
Olga Andriewsky
Heather Coleman
Session 9Explorations into the Experience of Real Socialism
ORGANIZER:Josephine Elana Baldassi
CHAIR: Bilal Hashmi
Discussant: Bilal Hashmi
Will McFadden“The Power and the Paradox: The early lives and writing of John Dos Passos, John Scott, and Vasily Grossman
Medeine Tribinevicius“A Little Bit Twisted – Selling the Communist Experience”
Josephine Elana Baldassi“Fail-Safe or Love the Bomb? Western Audiences Experience Real Socialism”
11:00 AM – 12:45PM
Session 10Topics in 20th Century Polish Literature
CHAIRTBA
Jakub Kazecki“Landscapes of Revenge: Immigration, Nation, and Gender in the Works of Polish-German Author Dariusz Muszer”
Sergiy Yakovenko“Melancholy, Sublimation, and Blindness: Polish National Predicament in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Prince Roman’ and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Zarudzie”
Lukasz Sicinski“Reality as a Verb: Relationism in the Poetry of Miron Białoszewski”
2:00 PM – 3:45PM
Session 11New questions in the study of Central Asia
CHAIRTBA
Patryk Reid“Revolution and the Great Game: Historicizing Geography in Post-Tsarist Central Asia”
Nathan Jones“Sustaining Intimacy Between Kazakhstan and Kaiserslautern: Emigration to Germany, Long Distance Relations, and Local Societies in Central Asia”
Ben A. McVicker“Changing Perceptions of Tajikistan in the Post-Soviet Era”
Session 12Topics in Ukrainian Studies
CHAIRTBA
Milana Nikolko“The Canadian Ukrainian Diaspora: Social Capital and Horizontal Legitimacy”
Andriy Zayarnyuk“Building the Main Train Station: Economy and Politics of Public Space in Lviv ca. 1900”
Maryna Romanets“In a Glass Darkly: Maria Matios’s Ghosts of History “
Svitlana Krys“A Comparative Analysis of the Folkloric Substratum in Oleksa Storozhenko’s and Jacques Cazotte’s Gothic Kunstmärchen”
4:00PM – 5:30PM
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
FOLLOWED BY PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION
7:00PM – 8:30PM
BANQUET (LOBSTER BOIL)
FOLLOWED BY NB KITCHEN PARTY
[INFO TO FOLLOW ON MONDAY]
MONDAY MAY 30
9:00 AM – 10:45AM
SESSION 13ROUND TABLECanadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes in the 2010s"
ORGANIZER:Members of the CSP editorial team
PARTICIPANTSHeather Coleman
Mark Conliffe
Svitlana Krys
Sarah Turner
SESSION 14From Ostrovsky to Dostoevsky: The Kingdom of Darkness Revisited
ORGANIZER:Joseph Schlegel
CHAIR: Dr. Donna Orwin
DISCUSSANT: Dr. Donna Orwin
Joseph Schlegel“Temporal Encroachment as a Controlling Force in Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Storm”
Olha Tytarenko“Uses and Abuses of Historical Memory in Orchestrating the Time of Troubles in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed”
Amber Aulen“Uncertain Authority: The Legal Reforms and Dostoevsky’s Besy”
11:00 AM – 12:45PM
Session 1520th Century Reappraisals of Classic Russian Literature
ORGANIZER:T.R. Ormond
CHAIR: Joseph Schlegel
DISCUSSANTtba
Janick Roy“At the Limits of Madness: Fantasizing and Creativity in the Work of Anton Chekhov and Jacques Ferron”
Megan Swift“Transforming a Classic: Stalin-Era Illustrated editions of Alexander Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman”
T.R. Ormond“Dying Radical: The Portrayal of Nikolai Levin in Russian and Soviet Illustrated Editions of Anna Karenina (1914-1982)”
Mark Conliffe“The Poltava Diaries of V.G. Korolenko and A.A. Nesvitskii, 1917-1921”
Session 16Topics in Slavic Linguistics
ORGANIZER:John Dingley
CHAIR: tba
DISCUSSANTtba
John Dingley“Pseudocoordinates in Slavic and Beyond”
Sarah Turner“Direct Object Placement and Discourse Type in Colloquial Russian”
Gary Toops“Expressing Causative Relations in Czech and Upper Sorbian. A Contrastive Analysis“
Paul Austin“Survival of a People: The Karelian Press Today”
Session 17Romania and Moldova: Before and after
CHAIRTBA
Baidaus, Eduard“Constructing Identities in a “Frozen Conflict”: Moldova and Secessionist Transnistria”
Victor Taki“The Discovery of Romanians in the 19th Century Russia”
Oana Petrica“Gendering Neoliberal Transitions and Educational Aspirations in Post-communist Romania”
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