SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2017
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09:30am - 10:00am
Coffee and Refreshments
(Humanities 348)
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10:00am - 10:10am
Opening Remarks
(Humanities A51)
Professor Roman Koropeckyj, Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
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10:15am - 11:35am
Session 1A: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND STATE POLICY
(Humanities A51)
Chair: Conor McDonald
Persia Goudarzi (UCLA), “Alliances of the East: How the Interplay between NATO Enlargement and Russia’s Balance-of-Power Policy Has Undermined Western Interests”
Taylor Anthony Freitas (UCLA), “Mistaken Identity: Why Realism Fails and Constructivism Succeeds to Understand Russia”
Kathleen Robbins (UCLA), “The Eurasianist Appeal: How Neo-Eurasianism Justifies Putin’s Foreign Policy”
Ryan Donovan (Portland State University), “Transcending Paradigms: The Sino-Russian Relationship in Central Asia”
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10:15am - 11:35am
Session 1B: LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
(Humanities A56)
Chair: Morgan Hansen
Kathryn Hunt (UC Santa Barbara), “Mass Communication Amid Mass Destruction: How Language and Word Choice Aided Soviet Victory in World War II”
Cassidy Henry (UCLA), “Vowel Harmony in Kazan Tatar”
Ekaterina Walch (UC Santa Barbara), “Language Loss and Reacquisition in Adopted Russian Children”
Stanley Wu (UC Santa Barbara), “Inspector’s Introspection: Skovoroda’s Ontology in Gogol’s The Government Inspector”
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11:35am - 11:45am
BREAK
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11:45am - 01:05pm
Session 2A: CULTURE AND POLITICS: NATIONAL IDENTITY
(Humanities A51)
Chair: Louis Bethge
Kendall Werneiwski (UW Madison), “Towards Moscow or Brussels: The Future of EU-Ukraine Relations”
Yana Demeshko (UCLA), “A New Shadow Over the Kremlin: Reasons for Church and State Backing of the Muscovite Statue of St Vladimir”
Marie Mach (Bryn Mawr), “Princess of the Altai: The Siberian Ice Maiden, Her Origins and Impact on Russian Culture”
Kyle Sallee (Portland State University), “The Illusion of Parity: Determining U.S. Nuclear Policy in the Post Post-Soviet Period”
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11:45am - 01:05pm
Session 2B: TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN SOCIETY
(Humanities A56)
Chair: Jesse O’Dell
Alexandra Steiner (UW Madison), “‘Пятая колонна’: Implications for the Opposition in Putin’s Russia.”
Alejandro Sanchez Mosqueda (UCLA), “Russian Injectable Narcotic Users and The Never-ending Cycle with The Medical Industry”
Heleana Melendez (UCLA), “Under their Roof: The Normalization of the Russian Mafia and its Effect on Russian Society”
Daniel Dobrin (UCLA), “LGBT – A Story of Oppression”
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01:05pm - 02:00pm
LUNCH
(Humanities 348)
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02:00pm - 03:20pm
Session 3A: RUSSIAN ART AND CINEMA
(Humanities A51)
Chair: Djordjijana Konstantinovic
Alice He (UC Santa Barbara), “Tarkovsky and Time”
Mikhail Prokhorov (UC Santa Barbara), “The Aesthetics of Andrei Tarkovsky in Relation to Russian Culture and History”
Lola Mitsuk (UCLA), “Russian Science Fiction Space Cinema: From Unreality to Reality”
Sydney Millar (Bryn Mawr), “Art in Rebellion: Nonconformist Art in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union”
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02:00pm - 03:20pm
Session 3B: EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN STUDIES
(Humanities A56)
Chair: Susan Bauckus
Shaimaa Khanam and Simon Prado (Florida State University), “Change and Continuity of the Masculine Ideal in the Byzantine and Slavic Epic”
Lindsey Ann Marinello (Bryn Mawr), “Bolshevik vs. Bourgeois: Scientists and Technologists on Trial During the Cultural Revolution”
Mihai A. Popescu (UCLA), “Decriminalizing Corruption in 2017: The Romanian Government’s Efforts to Escape Justice through Emergency Ordinance 13”
Sophia Yaghmaee (UCLA), “Paul Erdős: The Story of a Man Who Loved Numbers”
Samantha Yaghmaee (UCLA), “Architectures of Budapest”
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03:30pm