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SUMMARY:25th Annual UC Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 30\, 2022\n(**All times are in Pacific Standard Time**)\n  \nConference organizers: Cooper Lynn\, Jeffrey Riggs\nFaculty advisor: Susan Kresin \nFor the Zoom links\, please contact Susan Kresin at kresin@ucla.edu \n9:00-9:10 am Opening Remarks: Ronald Vroon\, Chair of the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA \n____________________________________________________________ \n9:20-10:20 am Session 1 Panel A: The Contemporary Russian State & Character                          Chair: Yana Demeshko \n\nCamille Lanese (she/her\, UCLA)\, “The Role of the Soviet Union in the Atmosphere of Corruption in Putin’s Russia.”\nYueun Kang (she/her/hers\, UNC Chapel Hill)\, “Russian Stoicism: Toward a Critical Perspective.”\nOleksandra Stogniy (she/her\, University of Georgia)\, “Health and Health Seeking Behaviors in Modern Russian Reproductive Healthcare.”\n\n9:20-10:20 am Session 1 Panel B: Russian Literature of the Long 19th Century\nChair: Polina Varfolomeeva \n\nAkela Spears (she/her\, USC)\, “Hope Unrealizable\, Ideal Undesirable: An Intertextual Analysis of Alyosha Karamazov and Sonya Marmeladovna.”\nMollie Brown (she/her/hers\, UCLA)\, “Literary Responses to the Legal Reforms of Tsar Alexandr II: A Progressive Move for Russia\, But Was It Enough?”\nCharles Smith (Columbia University)\, “Zero Is a Bomb: Time and Historical Development in Lenin and Bely.”\n\n___________________________________________________________ \n10:20-10:40 BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n10:40-11:40 am Session 2 Panel A: 21st Century Activism & Politics\nChair: Cate Hwang \n\nAlexis Hill (she/her\, UCLA)\, “A Comparison of LGBT Activism and its Effects in Russia and the Czech Republic.”\nNina Vukcevic (she/ her\, UCLA)\, “The Struggle for Serbia: The Power of Grassroots Organizing for Environmental Justice in Serbia.”\nEdna Bella Salčin (she/her\, UCLA)\, “The Consequences of Genocide Denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”\n\n10:40-11:40 am Session 2 Panel B: Russian Music & Film\nChair: Lydia Roberts \n\nMaria Torpey (she/her\, UCSD)\, “‘Alexandra\, can you breathe in Moscow?’: Nostalgia and the Soundtrack of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979).”\nIsana Raja (she/her\, UCSD)\, “‘Your American Music is Shit’: How the Soundtracks of Brother (1997) and Brother 2 (2000) Play into Russian Nationalism and Anti-Foreigner Sentiment.”\nMark Berezov (he/him/his\, UCSD)\, “Andrei Tarkovsky\, Vadim Yusov\, and Georgy Rerberg: a Case Study in the Cinematography of Ivan’s Childhood (1962) and Mirror (1975).”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n11:40-12:30 LUNCH BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n12:30-1:30 pm Session 3 Panel A: Literature and Culture of the Soviet & Post-Soviet Periods\nChair: Catherine Pasternack \n\nJonah Lounds (they/them/theirs\, UC Berkeley)\, “Clothing for Crocodiles and the Creation of a Parentless World in Late-Soviet Children’s Animations.”\nAnastasia Izmailova (she/her/hers\, UCLA)\, “Resisting Identity Suppression through the Act of Writing in Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s 1984.”\n\n12:00-1:30 pm Session 3 Panel B: The Putin Era\nChair: Jeffrey Riggs \n\nJack Hohn (UCSD)\, “‘Wars have not diminished’: An Analysis of Putin’s 2007 Munich Speech in a Contemporary Context.\nKyle Tucker (he/him/his\, Indiana University)\, “The Evolving Nature of Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Doctrine.”\nKurtis Yan (he/him\, UCLA)\, “Dyad of Vladimirs: The Eastern Orthodox Church as a Political Actor from Kievan Rus’ to Contemporary Russia.”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n1:30-1:50 BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n\n1:50-2:50pm Session 4: Russia and its Influence: Diaspora\, Investment\, Meddling\nChair: Cooper Lynn \n\nMoriah Thomas (she/her\, University of Georgia)\, “Russia’s Influence on Immigration and Immigration Practices in Ukraine\, Kazakhstan\, and Their Neighbors.”\nJuliette Oliver (she/they\, UCLA)\, “Angola Then and Now: Investigating Soviet and Russian Intervention in the Country.”\nMax Hazerjian (he/him\, UNC Chapel Hill)\, “The World of ‘Russian’ Harbin: Armenians in China’s Russian Diaspora.”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n2:50 pm Closing Remarks & Presentation of Certificates: Larry McLellan\, Department of Germanic\, Slavic\,\n& Semitic Studies\, UCSB\n  \nFor the Zoom links\, please contact Susan Kresin at kresin@ucla.edu
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