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Saturday, April 27, 2013<\/strong> Hosted by: The 19th Annual REECAS-NW Conference will be held on Saturday, April 27th, 2013, at the University of Washington \u2013 Seattle Campus. The conference is organized by the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n We welcome students, faculty and staff from institutions of higher learning from throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as K-12 educators and the general public. Admission to the conference is free. Advance registration is required by April 18th, if you would like to order a box lunch. On the morning of the conference, you will need to confirm your registration and pay $12 for your lunch at the registration table on the 1st floor of Thomson Hall between 9:30am-10:00am. Coffee, tea and pastries will be provided. The conference will be held in Thomson Hall on the UW-Seattle Campus. All conference participants are invited to attend a reception following the conference.<\/p>\n Below is some general information regarding the conference. If you have any questions, please contact us by email at\u00a0reecas@uw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n For further information or questions, please call The Ellison Center at (206) 543-4852\u00a0or email\u00a0reecas@uw.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n Chair: James West, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UW<\/p>\n Soviet-Turkish Relations in the Interwar Period: Historiographical Trends and Opportunities Unorthodox Icons: Icons and Iconography in Early Soviet Propaganda<\/i> Guerilla Art in Modern Russia’s Protest Movements<\/em><\/a> Chair: Scott Radnitz, Director, Ellison Center, UW<\/p>\n Public-Private Partnerships in Kazakhstan: An Evaluation of the Framework and Risks of Public-Private Partnerships<\/em><\/a> Russia’s Forest Sector and International Trade in Forest Products: Export Taxes on Roundwood, Priority Investment Projects, and WTO Accession<\/a><\/i> Building Stalinism: The Institutional Origins of Soviet State Arbitration<\/i> Searching for Security: the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Arctic Volodymyr Dubovyk, Visiting Scholar, Odessa Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine<\/p>\n Scott Montgomery, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies<\/p>\n Vince Gallucci, Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, UW<\/p>\n Chair: Galya Diment, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UW<\/p>\n Depicting the Trickster: Soviet Animation and Russian Folktales<\/em><\/a> Read all about it! The Origins of Muscovite Theater in Newspapers and Diplomatic Reports<\/i> A New Post-Soviet Village Prose Tale: How Natalya Klucharyova\u2019s A Year in Paradise Refers to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Matryona’s House<\/em><\/a> Chair: Maria Rewakowicz, Affiliate Faculty, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UW<\/p>\n Understanding Ukrainian Foreign Relations through the literary Works of Yuri Andrukhovych<\/em><\/a> History as a Co-author of Literature: Sofi Oksanen’s Purge<\/a> \u2018This Ugly Matter\u2019: The Curious History of the Committee to Protect the Youth from Harmful Literature, Latvia 1926-1937<\/a> Chair: Elena Campbell, Professor, History, UW<\/p>\n Exploring the Frontiers of Tradition and Translation: Early Findings from the Textual Analysis of Pugachev-Era Documents<\/a> The Tragedy of Colonialism \u2013 Tajik Phenomenon: the History of Tajiks at the Second Half of XIX \u2013 Beginning of XX Centuries<\/a> Towards an Historiography of the Millennium of Orthodoxy in Russia<\/a> 3:15pm-3:30pm\u00a0BREAK<\/b><\/p>\n 3:30pm-5:00pm\u00a0SESSION 3<\/b><\/p>\n Chair: Matthew Boyd, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UW<\/p>\n Brokers Beyond Borders: Moldova’s Countertraffickers<\/a> Building Gendered Human Security Inside and Out: A Case Study in Post-Conflict Kosovo<\/a> Modern Russian Reforms in Education: Challenges for the Future<\/a> Chair: Guntis Smidchens, Baltic Studies, UW<\/p>\n Citizenship in Latvia: Does it Pay<\/a> Judging the Book by its Cover: Latvian Integration Beyond the Headlines<\/a> Urban Multilingualism in Lithuania<\/i> Chair: Jose Alaniz, Slavic Department, UW<\/p>\n Conviction and Irony in Timur Kibirov’s Religious “Songs and Nursery Rhymes”<\/i>
\n10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
\nThomson Hall
\nUniversity of Washington \u2013 Seattle, Washington<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies
\nand the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n
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\n9:30am-10:00am\u00a0COFFEE<\/h2>\n
\n10:00am-11:30am\u00a0SESSION 1<\/h2>\n
\nPanel 1A \u2013 Image as Power: Iconography, Guerrilla Art and Secularism in Modernity<\/h3>\n
\n<\/i>Taylor Zajicek, REECAS, UW<\/p>\n
\nCyrus Rodgers, Slavic Department, UW<\/p>\n
\nSuzanne Skaar, REECAS, UW<\/p>\n
\nPanel 1B \u2013 Power, Money and the State: Examining Economic Policy through the Ages<\/h3>\n
\nRyan Dalrymple, REECAS, UW<\/p>\n
\nJohn Simeone, REECAS\/CINTRAFOR, UW<\/p>\n
\nWill Murg, Political Science Department, UW<\/p>\n
\n11:30am-12:00pm\u00a0BREAK\/LUNCH<\/h2>\n
\n12:00 pm-1:30 pm (BROWN BAG) PLENARY SESSION<\/h3>\n
\n<\/em>Chair: Scott Radnitz, Director, Ellison Center, UW<\/p>\n
\n1:30pm-1:45pm\u00a0BREAK<\/h2>\n
\n1:45pm-3:15pm\u00a0SESSION 2<\/h2>\n
\nPanel 2A \u2013 A Fool for Folklore: Irony Symbolism and Identity in Transition<\/h3>\n
\nAnatoliy Klots, Slavic Department, UW<\/p>\n
\nClaudia Jensen, Slavic Department, UW<\/p>\n
\nVeronica Muskheli, Slavic Department, UW<\/p>\nPanel 2B – Literature as Informer: History, Identity and the Story of Time<\/h3>\n
\nChristi Anne Hofland, REECAS, UW<\/p>\n
\nLiina-Ly Roos, UW<\/p>\n
\nAldis Purs, Scandinavian Studies, UW<\/p>\nPanel 2C \u2013 Cultural Circulation or Colonial Conquest: Russian Expansion into Central Asia in the 18th-20th Centuries<\/h3>\n
\nEric Johnson, History Department, UW<\/p>\n
\nInomjon Mamadaliev, History Department, UW<\/p>\n
\nDavid Wishard, REECAS, UW<\/p>\n
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\nPanel 3A \u2013Deconstructing Development: New Frameworks and Approaches to Development Theory and Practice<\/h3>\n
\nWalker Frahm, Sociology Department, UW<\/p>\n
\nElizabeth Zherka, REECAS \/ Evans, UW<\/p>\n
\nTatyana Tsyrlina-Spady, School of Education, Seattle Pacific University; ROSI<\/p>\nPanel 3B \u2013 Citizenship in the Baltics: Identity, Ethnicity, and Social Stratification<\/h3>\n
\nJustin Paulsen, Evans \/ REECAS, UW<\/p>\n
\nIndra Ekmanis, REECAS, UW<\/p>\n
\nMeiulte Ramoniene, Visiting Scholar, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\nPanel 3C \u2013 Poetry, Power, and Enlightenment<\/h3>\n
\nJamie Olson, English Department, Saint Martin’s University<\/p>\n