10TH ANNUAL
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON SLAVIC AND EAST/CENTRAL EUROPEAN STUDIES
MAY 1, 2007
UCLA
08:30am – 09:00am Coffee and Refreshments
09:00am – 09:10am Opening Remarks
Prof. Roman Koropeckyj, UCLA Slavic Dept.
09:15am – 10:30am Session 1
PANEL 1: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY (Humanities A46)
Natalya Berenshteyn, UCLA, “Émigré Russian in the U.S.: An Analysis of Modifications in the Spoken Language of the Diaspora”
Katya Balan, UCLA, “The Russian Community in Los Angeles”
Corinne A. Seals, UCSB, “Unusual Palatalization in English Songs by Native Russian Singers”
Molly E. McCann, UCSB, “Chinese Pidgin Russian in Dersu Uzala”
10:35am – 11:35am Session 2
PANEL 2A: DOSTOEVSKY (Humanities A46)
Yelizaveta Rapoport, UCSD, “Fyodor Dostoevsky: An Analysis of Existentialism within Notes From Underground”
Anna Kovalchuk, UCSD, “The Miracle of Belief in The Brothers Karamazov”
Erin Rectenwald, Berkeley, “Dostoevsky: Theater of Ideas”
PANEL 2B: TOLSTOY (Humanities A48)
Emilia Bogdanova Liberty, UCSD, “Nature and Prince Andrei’s Quest for Spiritual Truth and the Meaning of Life in Lev Tolstoy’s War and Peace”
Rhea Blasdel, UCSD, “The Catalyst of Death: Illusions of Life Dispelled”
Elizaveta Fouksman, UCLA, “Character and the Face: the Role of Physiognomy in Tolstoy’s War in Peace”
11:35am – 11:45am BREAK
11:45am – 01:00pm Session 3
PANEL 3: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES (Humanities A46)
Johana Fiserova, UCLA, “The Importance of Women in the Political Process of the Czech Republic”
Gabriela Mirejovsky, UCSB, “Russian Women Speaking on the Topic of Work”
Kristine Romanchuk, UCSB, “The Trafficking of Moldovan Women for Sexual Exploitation”
Justine Miller, UCSB, “Consumerism and the American Dream as a Way of Life at Home and Abroad During the Twentieth Century”
01:15pm – 01:45pm LUNCH
01:45pm – 03:00pm Session 4
PANEL 4: TOPICS IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE (Humanities A46)
Rebecca Calinsky, UCLA, “Poshlost and Nabokov’s Posh-lust”
Lily (Lilit) Tovmasyan, UCLA, “Marina Tsvetaeva: The Duality of Life”
Maryna Pecherska, UCSD, “Korney Chukovsky’s Writing for Children in Soviet Russia”
Xenia Tashlitsky, UCI, “Lost in Translation: Winnie the Pooh in Russian and English”
03:00pm – 04:30pm Session 5
PANEL 5: POLITICS AND SOCIETY (Humanities A46)
Ross Nolan, UCSB, “Narodnaya Volya: Terrorism in the Russian Revolutionary Movement”
Patrick Jeffery Osborne, UCSB, “The Changing Image of Stalin: Images of Stalin in Media from the 1930’s-1950’s”
Alex Wang, UCSB, “Cultural adaptation of Russian Orphans in the States”
Chris Records, UCR, “Fatherlessness in Modern Russian Film and its Political and Social Implications
Rostislav Klibaner, UCLA, “Rockin’ Russia”
04:30pm CLOSING REMARKS AND AWARDS