April 30, 2016
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09:30am - 10:00am
Coffee and Refreshments
(Humanities 348)
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10:05am - 10:10am
Opening Remarks
(Humanities A51)
Yelena Furman, Department of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
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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”
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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”
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11:15am - 11:25am
BREAK
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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”
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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”
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12:45pm - 01:45pm
BREAK
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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’”
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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”
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03:05pm