Saturday 1:30 – 3:15pm
Roundtable: Igor Stravinsky, the Ballets Russes, and Russian Influence on 20th Century Dance and Music
Mark Konecny, Institute for Modern Russian Culture, konecnymark@gmail.com
Petruta Lipan, Saint Louis University, lipanp@slu.edu
David Borgmeyer, Saint Louis University, dborgmey@slu.edu
Balkan Studies: Recent Assessments (CSC/ISA-Midwest joint panel)
Chair/Discussant: Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic, Saint Louis University
“Imposing Particular Identities: Balkans as a Meeting Place of Ethnicities and Religions”
Mirsad Krijestorac, Florida International University, mkrij001@fiu.edu
“A Critical Assessment of Human Rights in Pre- and Post-Independence Kosovo”
Dr. Branislav Radeljic, University of East London, B.Radeljic@uel.ac.uk
“International Justice vs. Local Post-Communist Manipulations in Croatia – Case Study: The Acquittals of Gotovina and Markac”
Srecko Mavrek, City University of New York, smavrek00@ccny.cuny.edu
Saturday 3:30 – 5:00pm
CSC Business Meeting
Saturday 6:00pm
Meet at hotel entrance for shuttle to Saint Louis University for Keynote Address and Reception
Saturday 7:00 – 8:30pm
CSC Keynote Address and Reception
“The Kingdom of Mystery: Nicholas Roerich and Le Sacre de Printemps”
John Bowlt, University of Southern California, bowlt@usc.edu
Viewing of exhibition, “Russian Dance, World Stage: Modernist Ballet and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring”
Saint Louis University Center for Global Citizenship and Pius XII Memorial Library
Return shuttle to hotel
Sunday 8:15 – 10:00pm
Slavic Linguistics
Chair/Discussant: TBA
“Culture-and Gender-Specific Use of Compliments by Russian and American Students”
Yelena Belyaeva-Standen, Saint Louis University, belyaeva@slu.edu
“Metanalysis of the Obstruent Primary-Stem Infinitives in Russian – a Thesis”
David Murphy, Saint Louis University, murphydt@slu.edu
Love and Death in Tolstoy
Chair/Discussant: TBA
“Love in Tolstoy’s ‘The Cossacks’
Zachary Smith, University of Missouri – Columbia, zpsfh7@mail.missouri.edu
“I, the Dying: Human Finitude, Primordial Perspectivity, and Narrativity in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
Alexandre Gontchar, Harvard University, gontchar@fas.harvard.edu
“Reading the Rite between the Lines: Nijinsky, Tolstoy’s Tree, and Climate Change”
Nicole Svobodny, Washington University in St. Louis, svobodny@wustl.edu
“Sewn Up in Sailcloth, Struggling in the Bag: Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Death”
Nicole Monnier, University of Missouri, Columbia, monniern@missouri.edu
Sunday 10:15 – 12:00pm
Chekhov: Readings and Explorations
Chair/Discussant: Nicole Monnier, University of Missouri-Columbia
“Chekhov’s Grotesque in the Text and on Screen: the Motif of Quarrel in a Modern Screen Adaptation”
Ekaterina Zamataeva, University of Missouri – Columbia, evzhkc@mail.missouri.edu
“‘To Sleep like the Dead’: Dreams and Hallucinations as Presagers of Death in Chekhov’s Early Stories”
Matthew Johnson, University of Missouri – Columbia, mljxv7@mail.missouri.edu
“The Half-Known Character: Desire and Motivation in Chekhov’s ‘The Darling’”
Lauren Fath, University of Missouri – Columbia, lfdz7@mail.missouri.edu
Confronting Modernity in Slavic Literatures
Chair/Discussant: Mark Konecny, Institute for Modern Russian Culture
“Negotiating Catastrophe: Czesław Miłosz’s Use of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Argument for Realism”
Dag Alexander Lindskog, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, dlinds4@uic.edu
“Many a Moon: Blok, Time, and Structure in Pelevin’s ‘Crystal World'”
Chris Sutton, University of Missouri – Columbia, cosq54@mail.missouri.edu
“The Wild Animal’s Metamorphosis in Leskov”
Matthew A. Sutton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sutton3@illinois.edu