19th Annual (2016)

April 30, 2016
  • 09:30am - 10:00am
    Coffee and Refreshments

    (Humanities 348)

  • 10:05am - 10:10am
    Opening Remarks

    (Humanities A51)

    Yelena Furman, Department of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

  • 10:15am - 11:15am
    Session 1A: RUSSIAN AND SOVIET CULTURE IN TRANSITION

    (Humanities A51)

    Chair: Susie Bauckus

    Dante Matero (UCLA), “West Hollywood’s ‘Little Russia’: An Inquiry into Cultural Heritage and the Jewish-Russian Immigrant Community”

    Braunny Ramirez (UCLA), “Successes and Failures in Nuclear Disarmament: The Cases of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine”

    Nicole Tom (UCLA), “The Colder War?: A Threat Comparison of Russia and the Soviet Union”

  • 10:15am - 11:15am
    Session 1B: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND STATE POLICY

    Chair: Jackie Schaeffer

    Alexandra Steiner (UW Madison), “Finnish Nonalignment in Response to Cold War Soviet Aggression: Historical Analysis and Contemporary Perspectives”

    Mihai Popescu (UCLA), “Corruption in Romania: The National Anti-corruption Directorate’s (in)ability to Bring Corruption to Its Heels”

    Grace Garrett (Bryn Mawr), “Two Rivers, One Sea, and the Crisis in Between”

  • 11:15am - 11:25am
    BREAK
  • 11:25am - 12:45pm
    Session 2A: RUSSIAN AND SOVIET ART AND CULTURE

    (Humanities A51)

    Chair: Elena Skudskaia

    Sophia Kim (UCLA), “The Silent Rebellion against Propaganda: Subversions in Socialist Realist Paintings during the Stalinist Era”

    Cory Klingsporn (UCLA), “Translating Dostoevsky’s Бесы: Shortcomings in Existing English-Language Translations”

    Robert Mkhitaryan (UC Santa Barbara), “Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Triangulations in The Master and Margarita”

    Karemy Valdez (UC San Diego), “Andrei Tarkovsky’s Zerkalo: Interpreting Aleksei’s Dreams”

  • 11:25am - 12:45pm
    Session 2B: MEDIEVAL STUDIES

    (Humanities A26)

    Chair: Yelena Severina

    Ravital Goldgof and Lily Shelton (Florida State), “The Erotic, Maternal, and Warlike Agency of Women in the Byzantine and Slavic Epic”

    Marie Mach (Bryn Mawr), “The Ostromir Gospels: A Monument to Art and Language”

    Henry Misa (UW Madison), “The Soviet Historiography on Central Asia: Khorasan, Transoxania and the Inner Asian steppe 800- 1000AD”

  • 12:45pm - 01:45pm
    BREAK
  • 01:45pm - 03:05pm
    Session 3A: SOVIET LEGACIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON POST-SOVIET STATES

    (Humanities A51)

    Chair: Kathleen Robbins

    Mila Meghan MacFarlane (UCLA), “Selling Svetlana: Human Trafficking of Women in Contemporary Russia”

    Brenda Tinoco-Bravo (UCLA), “Driven into Madness: The State of Psychiatry in the Russian Federation”

    Gulnur Tlegenova (UCLA), “Putin’s Popularity: Finding Answers Through Cultural Factors”

    Jennifer Reppenhager (UCLA), “Putin’s Internal Power Struggle: The Enemies of the People’”

  • 01:45pm - 03:05pm
    Session 3B: EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN STUDIES

    (Humanities A26)

    Chair: Braunny Ramirez

    Alexander Yelich (UCLA), “Myth and Folklore in Serbian Culture”

    Rafaela Bradvica (UCLA), “The Future of Polish Democracy”

    Bianca Malkoc (UCLA), “Women in Yugoslavia”

  • 03:05pm
    Closing Remarks & Presentation of Certificates

    (Humanities A51)

    View Abstracts