16TH ANNUAL
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON SLAVIC AND EAST/CENTRAL EUROPEAN STUDIES
APRIL 27, 2013
UCLA
08:45am – 09:15am Coffee and Refreshments (Humanities 348)
09:20am – 09:30am Opening Remarks (Humanities 135)
Professor Ronald Vroon, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA
09:35am – 10:35am Session 1
Panel 1A: SOVIET IDEOLOGY IN ART AND MUSIC (Humanities 135)
Chair: Naomi Caffee
Valeria Betin (UCI) “Suprematism and Constructivism, Deciphering Between the Two”
Yelena Muratova (UCLA) “Beethoven the Soviet Revolutionary”
Hannah Strassburger (UCLA) “Art as a Mirror in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union”
Panel 1B: TOPICS IN SLAVIC SCIENCES (Humanities 169)
Chair: Kathy Pham
Daniela Bradvica (UCLA) “The Genetic Effects of Isolation on the Populations of Croatia’s Dalmatian Islands”
Kirsten Howe (Bryn Mawr College) “Between Stalin and Lysenko: The Legacy of Ideologically Correct Science in the USSR”
Isabelle Darby (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “The Art of Cabbage: Russian Traditional Cooking, Fermentation, and Healing Practices Through the Lens of Modern Nutritional Science Dietetics”
Maia G. Kustin (UCLA) “‘Thinking Through Social Sciences’ in Analysis of Dostoevsky’s System of Beliefs”
10:55am – 11:05am BREAK
11:05am – 12:25pm Session 2
Panel 2A: POWER, SUPPRESSION AND PROPAGANDA IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION (Humanities 135)
Chair: Sarah Tellier
Ryan Wauson (UCLA) “World War I and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power”
Pola A. Lem (Haverford College) “Jewish Tongues in an Era of Silence: The Preservation and Suppression of Hebrew and Yiddish in the USSR”
Phillip Mikell (UCLA) “In Search of Comrade Rambo: Soviet Cinematic Portrayal of the American ‘Other’ during the 1980’s”
Izabella Ferayan (UCSB) “Нехорошая Квартира: A Personal, Literary and Public History”
Panel 2B: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (Humanities 169)
Chair: Nataliya Pirumova
Gladys Rivas (UCLA) “The Inevitable Blur Between Author and Translator: Dostoevsky from Russian to English”
Molly Murry (Bryn Mawr College) “The Kyrgyz Republic: In Search of a Linguistic Identity”
Jocelyn Arias Guevara (UCLA) “Language in Russian Science Fiction”
Miriam Goldman (Portland State University) “The Impact of Oratorical Devices in Yuri Levitan’s Radio Address on June 22, 1941”
12:25pm – 01:40pm LUNCH (Humanities 348)
Roundtable on Study Abroad in Russia and East/Central Europe
01:40pm – 03:00pm Session 3
Panel 3A: CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POLITICS (Humanities 135)
Chair: Yelena Muratova
Nela Perez (UCI) “Russia’s Role in Furthering US Nonproliferation Policy under President Vladimir Putin’s Third Term”
Michael Zhang (UCSB) “An Application of Automated Content Analysis in International Relations: Explaining Actor Behavior in the Russian-Georgian War”
Nastacia Schmoll (UCSB) “Russia’s Gay ‘Propaganda’ Ban”
Ruta Heinman (UCSB) “Post Soviet Chocolate Factories: Is Privatization Really That Sweet?”
Panel 3B: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IN LITERATURE AND FILM (Humanities 169)
Chair: Jesse O’Dell
Lilit Arakelyan (UCLA) “Perception and the Construction of Dichotomies in Chekhov’s Short Stories”
Rebekah Livermore (UCLA) “‘Burning with a Mad Flame’: The Use of Light in Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘The Return of Chorb’ in Mocking Richard Wagner’s Parsifal”
Sho Tsubakiyama (UCSB) “Witnesses to Martyrdom: Mishima, Eisenstein, and the Eroticized Body of St. Sebastian”
Grace Watson (UCLA) “Religion and Spirituality in Chekhov’s Works”
03:00pm – 03:10pm BREAK
03:10pm – 04:10pm Session 4
Panel 4A: RUSSIA AND THE EAST (Humanities 135)
Chair: Susie Bauckus
Sonja Magnuson (UCSB) “From Orientalism to Passing: The Influx of Turkish Professionals to Modern Russia”
Greywynn Ann Smith (UCSB) “The Spirit Banner of Chinggis Khan”
Braunny Ramirez (UCLA) “Juche: The Influence of the Soviet Union Upon the Development of North Korea’s Political Ideology”
04:10 pm Closing Remarks & Presentation of Certificates (Humanities 135)
Larry McLellan, Department of Germanic, Slavic, & Semitic Studies, UCSB