11TH ANNUAL
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON SLAVIC AND EAST/CENTRAL EUROPEAN STUDIES
MAY 3, 2008
UCLA
08:30am – 09:00am Coffee and Refreshments
09:00am – 09:10am Opening Remarks
Prof. Roman Koropeckyj, UCLA Slavic Dept.
09:15am – 10:00am Session 1
Panel 1A: DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA (Haines 118)
Chair: Sanja Lacan
Justine Miller, UCSB, “Frames of the 2008 Russian Presidential Election”
James Oglesby, UCSB, “A Glorious Democratic Tradition”
Panel 1B: MUSIC IN RUSSIA (Haines 220)
Chair: Sasha Razor
Masaya Tajika, UCI, “The Russian Piano School”
Ian Wong, Northwood High School, “Russian Classical Music: A Journey from Obscurity to Recognition”
10:00am – 10:10am BREAK
10:10am – 11:30am Session 2
Panel 2: ARTS AND POLITICS (Haines 118)
Chair: Rachel Deblinger
Olga T. Dubrovskaya and Elena Kokhanovski, UCSB, “The Politics of Russian Fashion”
Johana Fiserova, UCLA, “Pubs in the Czech Republic: Simply a Gentleman’s Business”
Kenneth Martinez, UCSB, “Solaris: Philosophy through Science Fiction”
Maia Lazar, UCSD, “Africans as Representatives of Social Anxiety in Perestroika Russia”
11:30am – 11:40am BREAK
11:40am – 12:40pm Session 3
Panel 3: LANGUAGE AND HISTORY (Haines 118)
Chair: Kristin Vitalich
Evan Cassidy, UCI, “A Comparison of the Russian and French Verb Systems”
Jonathan Poser, UCSB, “Class, Government, and Language in the Post-Revolutionary and Stalinist USSR”
Corinne A. Seals, UCSB, “From Russification to Ukrainization: A Survey of Language Politics in Ukraine”
12:40pm – 01:40pm LUNCH
01:40pm – 02:25pm Session 4
Panel 4: TOPICS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE (Haines 118)
Chair: Yelena Furman
Timea Antal, UCLA, “The Transformation of the Concept of Love in the Twentieth Century through the Work of Moricz Zsigmond”
Ilona Datkovskaya, UCI, “Ukrainian Nationalism and the Struggle for Independence in the Art of Taras Shevchenko”
02:25pm – 02:35pm BREAK
02:35pm – 03:35pm Session 5
Panel 5: TOPICS IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE (Haines 118)
Chair: Tonya Sergieff
Anna Godick, UCSD, “Karolina Karlovna Pavlova: How Personal Experiences Translate onto Paper”
Elen Kanayan, UCI, “The Cherry Stone and ‘Love’: Struggling to Accept the New World”
Emilia Bogdanova Liberty, UCSD, “Image and Themes of V. V. Mayakovsky in the Works of M. A. Bulgakov'”
03:35pm Closing Remarks & Presentation of Awards
Lecturer Katia McClain, UCSB Dept. of Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies