2022 REECAS Northwest Program
Conference Program
Please scroll down below the schedule overview for details on individual panels and presentations.
April 7 – Keynote Speech
Eliot Borenstein : 6:00 – 7:45
April 8 – Conference Panels and Plenary
Registration: 9:00 – 4:00, HUB 340
Session 1: 9:45 – 11:30
Lunch Break: 11:30 -12:00
Plenary: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Its Repercussions: 12:00 – 1:15, HUB 340
Session 2: 1:30 – 3:00
Session 3: 3:30 – 5:00
Reception: 5:00 – 6:00, HUB 340
April 7 – Keynote Speech
Eliot Borenstein, NYU
“Everybody Hates Russia” – On the Uses of Conspiracy Theory Under Putin
6:00 pm in Kane Hall Room 225 (Walker Ames Room)
April 8 – Conference Panels and Plenary
Session 1: 9:45 – 11:30
Panel 1A – Russian and East European Literature, HUB 238
Chair and Discussant: Michael Biggins, University of Washington
Jose Alaniz, University of Washington
The Knight in Panther’s Skin and the Rise of Georgian Comics
August Brereton, University of Oregon
Pnin In Mistranslation: Decoding Pnin As Émigré
Susana Fuentes, Independent Scholar, UERJ
Silences, gestures and spaces in Chekhov’s short-stories and The Seagull: nature as part of the scene and the contemporary world
Chutong Liu, University of Oregon
From the Opposite Side of Human Folly: Children on Dostoevsky’s Dystopian Earth
Svetlana Ostroverkhova, University of Washington
Children in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Panel 1B – Late Socialism and Its Aftermaths, HUB 307
Chair and Discussant: Laada Bilaniuk, University of Washington
Christopher Jones, University of Washington
Moscow Decisions To Invade: Comparisons Of 1979 (Afghanistan), 1980-81 (Poland), 1989 (Eastern Europe), and 2022 (Ukraine)
Samuel Kay, University of Washington
Enlisting Nature: Tactical Greening and Developmental Afforestation in Beijing
Ekaterina V. Klimenko, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
The Church, the State and the Memory of the Great Patriotic War in “Russia – My History” Parks
Maria Taylor, University of Washington
Green Friend or Government Plant? Civic Engineering in the USSR
Benjamin Tromly, University of Puget Sound
From Exile to the Homeland: Russian Émigrés confront Perestroika and the New Russia
Lunch Break: 11:30 -12:00
Food is available in the HUB food court on the building’s lower level.
Plenary: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Its Repercussions: 12:00 – 1:15, HUB 340
Elena Bell, University of Washington
Laada Bilaniuk, University of Washington
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Mechnikov National University (Odesa, Ukraine)
Chris Jones, University of Washington
Scott Radnitz, University of Washington (moderator)
Session 2: 1:30 – 3:00
Panel 2A – New Approaches in Translation and Language Pedagogy, HUB 238
Chair and Discussant: Dominique Hoffman
Michael Biggins, Slavic Librarian and Affiliate Faculty in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington
East Central European Literature through the Sieve of U.S. Trade Publishing: Boris Pahor’s Necropolis
Ian Gwin, University of Washington
“No Trace:” Static Entropy between Finnish and Estonian Decadence
Alexey Kuznetsov, UW Language Learning Center and K-12 Educator
Resewing the Iron Curtain: Implications for Russians and Americans
Veronica Muskheli, University of Washington
Teaching Translation from Russian: Striking a Balance between Skills in Decoding and Encoding Phases
Panel 2B – The Geopolitics of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, HUB 307
Chair: Scott Montgomery
Discussants: Scott Montgomery and Chris Jones
Julie Emory, University of Washington
Tools and Tactics: The Use of Cybersecurity to Leverage Soft and Hard Power by Russia
Alisha Gajjar-Fleming, University of Victoria
“The Ukraine Crisis”: Reckoning With Hybrid Warfare in Western News Media and Geopolitics
Khrystyna Holynska, Pardee RAND Graduate School
“Enemies Accumulate”: A Thin Line between the Might and Inferiority in Russia’s Narrative on NATO
Scott Montgomery, University of Washington
Putin Off the Ritz: Global Energy Impacts and Implications of the Ukraine Crisis
Nathaniel Trumbull, University of Connecticut
A joint Russian and U.S. virtual 3-D photographic exhibit of our coastlines: An example of non-government environmental cooperation
Session 3: 3:30 – 5:00
Panel 3A – Legacies and Trauma, HUB 238
Chair and Discussant: Jose Alaniz, University of Washington
Danica Anderson, The Kolo: Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration
Balkan West Route Refugee & International Relations
Mary Childs, University of Washington
Women in Georgian Cinema: Resistance & Strength
Alexa Ryer, University of Washington
Bearing the Brunt: the Effect of COVID 19 on Estonia’s Russian Minority
Jonathan Tyshler, Independent Scholar
How a Soviet Past Influences the Present: Vaccine Hesitancy in the Russian-speaking Population Today
Panel 3B – Imperial and Early Bolshevik History, HUB 307
Chair and Discussant: Benjamin Tromly, University of Washington
Yasyn Abdullaev, UC Berkeley
Conspiracism in Alexandrine Russia: the Myth of Global Conspiracy and Political Rhetoric in the 1820s
Merim Baitimbetova, Pepperdine University
Soviet Industrialization, Economic Structure and Regional Integration in Central Asia: The Case of the Central Asian Union
Susan Baker, Independent Scholar
Pan-Slavism and the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878
Nelli Manucharyan, The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Peasants In Transition. Forms And Methods Of Peasant Resistance In Soviet Armenia In 1929- 1930s