Please scroll down below the schedule overview for details on individual panels and presentations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eliot Borenstein<\/strong> : 6:00 – 7:45<\/p>\n Registration:<\/strong> 9:00 – 4:00, HUB 340<\/p>\n Session 1: <\/strong>9:45 – 11:30<\/p>\n Lunch Break:<\/strong> 11:30 -12:00<\/p>\n Plenary:<\/strong> Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Its Repercussions: 12:00 – 1:15, HUB 340<\/p>\n Session 2:<\/strong> 1:30 – 3:00<\/p>\n Session 3:<\/strong> 3:30 – 5:00<\/p>\n Reception:<\/strong> 5:00 – 6:00, HUB 340<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cEverybody Hates Russia\u201d \u2013 On the Uses of Conspiracy Theory Under Putin<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:00 pm in Kane Hall Room 225 (Walker Ames Room)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair and Discussant: Michael Biggins<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Jose Alaniz<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n The Knight in Panther’s Skin and the Rise of Georgian Comics<\/strong><\/p>\n August Brereton<\/strong>, University of Oregon<\/p>\n Pnin In Mistranslation: Decoding Pnin As \u00c9migr\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n Susana Fuentes<\/strong>, Independent Scholar, UERJ<\/p>\n Silences, gestures and spaces in Chekhov\u2019s short-stories and The Seagull: nature as part of the scene and the contemporary world<\/strong><\/p>\n Chutong Liu<\/strong>, University of Oregon<\/p>\n From the Opposite Side of Human Folly: Children on Dostoevsky\u2019s Dystopian Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n Svetlana\u00a0Ostroverkhova<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Children in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair and Discussant: Laada Bilaniuk<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Christopher Jones<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Moscow Decisions To Invade: Comparisons Of 1979 (Afghanistan), 1980-81 (Poland), 1989 (Eastern Europe), and 2022 (Ukraine)<\/strong><\/p>\n Samuel Kay<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Enlisting Nature: Tactical Greening and Developmental Afforestation in Beijing<\/strong><\/p>\n Ekaterina V. Klimenko<\/strong>,\u00a0Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n The Church, the State and the Memory of the Great Patriotic War in \u201cRussia \u2013 My History\u201d Parks<\/strong><\/p>\n Maria Taylor<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Green Friend or Government Plant? Civic Engineering in the USSR<\/strong><\/p>\n Benjamin Tromly<\/strong>, University of Puget Sound<\/p>\n From Exile to the Homeland: Russian \u00c9migr\u00e9s confront Perestroika and the New Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Food is available in the HUB food court on the building’s lower level.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elena Bell, University of Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n Laada Bilaniuk<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Volodymyr Dubovyk<\/strong>, Mechnikov National University (Odesa, Ukraine)<\/p>\n Chris Jones<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Scott Radnitz<\/strong>, University of Washington (moderator)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair and Discussant: Dominique Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\n Michael Biggins<\/strong>, Slavic Librarian and Affiliate Faculty in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington<\/p>\n East Central European Literature through the Sieve of U.S. Trade Publishing: Boris Pahor’s Necropolis<\/strong><\/p>\n Ian Gwin<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n “No Trace:” Static Entropy between Finnish and Estonian Decadence<\/strong><\/p>\n Alexey Kuznetsov<\/strong>, UW Language Learning Center and K-12 Educator<\/p>\n Resewing the Iron Curtain: Implications for Russians and Americans<\/strong><\/p>\n Veronica Muskheli<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Teaching Translation from Russian: Striking a Balance between Skills in Decoding and Encoding Phases<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair: Scott Montgomery<\/strong><\/p>\n Discussants: Scott Montgomery and Chris Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n Julie Emory<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Tools and Tactics: The Use of Cybersecurity to Leverage Soft and Hard Power by Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n Alisha\u00a0Gajjar-Fleming<\/strong>, University of Victoria<\/p>\n “The Ukraine Crisis”: Reckoning With Hybrid Warfare in Western News Media and Geopolitics<\/strong><\/p>\n Khrystyna\u00a0Holynska<\/strong>,\u00a0Pardee RAND Graduate School<\/p>\n \u201cEnemies Accumulate\u201d: A Thin Line between the Might and Inferiority in Russia\u2019s Narrative on NATO<\/strong><\/p>\n Scott Montgomery<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Putin Off the Ritz: Global Energy Impacts and Implications of the Ukraine Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n Nathaniel Trumbull<\/strong>, University of Connecticut<\/p>\n A joint Russian and U.S. virtual 3-D photographic exhibit of our coastlines: An example of non-government environmental cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair and Discussant: Jose Alaniz<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Danica Anderson<\/strong>,\u00a0The Kolo: Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration<\/p>\n Balkan West Route Refugee & International Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n Mary Childs<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Women in Georgian Cinema: Resistance & Strength<\/strong><\/p>\n Alexa Ryer<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Bearing the Brunt: the Effect of COVID 19 on Estonia’s Russian Minority<\/strong><\/p>\n Jonathan Tyshler<\/strong>, Independent Scholar<\/p>\n How a Soviet Past Influences the Present: Vaccine Hesitancy in the Russian-speaking Population Today<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair and Discussant: Benjamin Tromly<\/strong>, University of Washington<\/p>\n Yasyn Abdullaev<\/strong>, UC Berkeley<\/p>\n Conspiracism in Alexandrine Russia: the Myth of Global Conspiracy and Political Rhetoric in the 1820s<\/strong><\/p>\n Merim\u00a0Baitimbetova<\/strong>, Pepperdine University<\/p>\n Soviet Industrialization, Economic Structure and Regional Integration in Central Asia: The Case of the Central Asian Union<\/b><\/p>\n Susan Baker<\/strong>, Independent Scholar<\/p>\n Pan-Slavism and the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878<\/strong><\/p>\n Nelli Manucharyan<\/strong>,\u00a0The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia<\/p>\n Peasants In Transition. Forms And Methods Of Peasant Resistance In Soviet Armenia In 1929- 1930s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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<\/p>\nApril 7 – Keynote Speech<\/h3>\n
April 8 – Conference Panels and Plenary<\/h3>\n
\nApril 7 – Keynote Speech<\/h1>\n
Eliot Borenstein, NYU<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nApril 8 – Conference Panels and Plenary<\/h1>\n
Session 1:<\/strong> 9:45 – 11:30<\/h2>\n
Panel 1A – Russian and East European Literature, HUB 238<\/h3>\n
Panel 1B – Late Socialism and Its Aftermaths, HUB 307<\/h3>\n
Lunch Break:<\/strong> 11:30 -12:00<\/h2>\n
Plenary:<\/strong> Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Its Repercussions: 12:00 – 1:15, HUB 340<\/h2>\n
Session 2:<\/strong> 1:30 – 3:00<\/h2>\n
Panel 2A –\u00a0New Approaches in Translation and Language Pedagogy<\/b>, HUB 238<\/h3>\n
Panel 2B – The Geopolitics of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, HUB 307<\/h3>\n
Session 3:<\/strong> 3:30 – 5:00<\/h2>\n
Panel 3A – Legacies and Trauma, HUB 238<\/h3>\n
Panel 3B –\u00a0Imperial and Early Bolshevik History, HUB 307<\/h3>\n