May 02, 2015
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09:00am - 09:30am
Coffee and Refreshments
(Humanities 348)
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09:35am - 09:40am
Opening Remarks
(Humanities A51)
Ronald Vroon, Chair of the Department of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
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09:50am - 11:10am
Session 1A: TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE USE
(Humanities A51)
Chair: Peter Winsky
Gayane Ghandilyan (UCLA) “Pushkin and Lermontov Hidden under Nabokov’s Umbrella of Translation”
Amanda Marshall (UCLA) “Low Speech Style in Public Political Discourse in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine”
Dante Matero (UCLA) “What Dostoevsky Talks About When He Talks About Love: Gender and Sexuality”
Mary Clark (UCLA) “Turkish Women, Film, and Repetition”
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09:50am - 11:10am
Session 1B: RUSSIA’S DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POLICIES
(Humanities A56)
Chair: Alejandro Mosqueda
Alexi Fehlman (UC Irvine) “Dima Yakovlev Law: Understanding the Russian Perspective”
Hristiana Petkova (UCLA) “A Case in Counterproductive Foreign Policy: Russia’s Risky
Conduct in Ukraine and Crimea”
Anthony Castaneda (Portland State University) “The Post-Soviet Generational Cohort: Measuring Support for Political Rights”
Kathy Pham (UCLA) “The Underclass, Central Asian Migrant Workers in Moscow”
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10:50am - 11:00am
BREAK
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11:20am - 12:40pm
Session 2A: RUSSIA’S DOMESTIC POLICIES
(Humanities A51)
Chair: Michael Lavery
Yekaterina Belikov (UCLA) “The Impacts of Technology on the Russian Mail Order Bride Industry”
Clarissa Rodriguez (UCLA) “How Stigma Disables Russian Society”
Annie Sundelson (UCLA) “Putin’s Dirty Little Secret: HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation”
Jordan Beasley (UCLA) “Privatization as a Route for Corruption and Inefficiency in the Oil and Natural Gas Sphere of the Russian Federation: A Transition from the Soviet Union, a State-Controlled Oil and Natural Gas Superpower”
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11:20am - 12:40pm
Session 2B: TOPICS IN NATIONAL IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE USE
(Humanities A56)
Chair: Kathleen Robbins
Colton Hennick (Portland State University) “Georgian-Accented Russian”
Justin Williams (UC Irvine) “Ukraine on the Edge of Russkiy Mir: The Rise of Russian Nationalism and its Effect on Russian Foreign Policy”
Mariana Irby (Bryn Mawr) “Narratives of Language Use & Cultural Identity in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan”
Marisa Irwin (University of Wisconsin – Madison) “High School History Textbook Narratives as Political Tools in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia”
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12:40pm - 01:40pm
LUNCH
(Humanities 348)
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01:40pm - 02:40pm
Session 3A: SOVIET LEGACIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON POST-SOVIET STATES
(Humanities A51)
Chair: Jennifer Haidar
Karlen Nurijanyan (UCLA) “Saving Russian Science: How International Organizations Preserved Russian Science and Prevented Brain Drain”
Olivia Miller (UCLA) “The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction and the Outlook for Improvement and Implications for Public Health in Russia Today”
Ryan Wauson (UCLA) “Leon Trotsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Adaptive Ideology and the Struggle for Power”
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01:40pm - 02:40pm
Session 3B: FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
(Humanities A56)
Chair: Susie Bauckus
Rafaela Bradvica (UCLA) “Breaking Down the Verdict: the International Court of Justice’s 16-Year Decision on Croatia vs. Serbia”
Bianca Malkoc (UCLA) “The Abandoned Monuments of Former-Yugoslavia as an Image of a Fallen Communist Agenda”
Aleksija Vujicic (UCLA) “The Belgrade Waterfront Project: Facelift or Folly”
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02:40pm - 02:50pm
BREAK
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02:50pm - 03:50pm
Session 4A: FORMING AND EXPLORING NATIONAL IDENTITIES
(Humanities A51)
Chair: Sophia Kim
Melanie Dalby (UCLA) “Responsibility to Protect and Russian Foreign Policy: the Dichotomy”
Frankie Aguayo (UCLA) “Feeding the Masses: An Examination of Food and National Identity”
Daniela Bradvica (UCLA) “The Impact of National Identity on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Inevitable Fragmentation”
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02:50pm - 03:50pm
Session 4B: SOCIAL QUESTIONS AND POLITICS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA AND THE USSR
(Humanities A56)
Chair: Jessie O’Dell
William Holden (Portland State University) “Russia is a European State’: Gender and Publicity in Early Imperial Russia”
Peter Garcia (UC Irvine) “The Double-Headed Eagle: Alexander II as a Conservative and Liberal Reformer”
Ann Nielsen (UCSB) “The Nationalities Policy in the Early Days of the USSR”
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04:00pm
Closing Remarks & Presentation of Certificates
Larry McLellan, Department of Germanic, Slavic, & Semitic Studies, UCSB