2016

13th Undergraduate Research Conference of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

 

The ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk, Room 108, Saturday, April 23, 2016

 

Conference Program

 

 

 

10:00. Conference Opening, Coffee & Tea & Donuts 

 

10:15–11:15.  19Th-Century Russian Literature: From Pushkin’s Reflexive Narration to Tolstoy’s Moral Teaching

 

Katherine Senter, “Narrating Narration: Pushkin on the Purpose of Fiction”

 

Laura Christians, “Moral Teaching and Teaching Morality: Divergent Perspectives on the Role of Educators in Moral Reform in Late Imperial Russia”

 

11:15 – 11:30. Coffee Break 

 

11:30-12:30.  20th-Century Russian Literature: The Soviet Experience

 

Syra Ortiz-Blanes, “Identity and the Village Eccentrics in Vasily Shukshin’s Short Stories”

 

Jeremy Golant, “The Gulag: Solzhenitsyn and My Dedushka Isaak”

 

12:30–1:15. Lunch Break (Bazaar Style)

 

1:15–2:00. Keynote Lecture

 

Jessica Ferro (Graduate Fellow, University of St. Thomas, Penn alumna)

“O Cursed Night: Smerdyakov’s Nativity and Lizaveta’s Hortus Conclusus  Gone Awry”

 

2:00 – 2:10. Coffee Break 

 

2:10–3:40.  East Central European Politics and Economies

 

Richard Wess, “From Government Social Agency to Private Enterprise: How Restructuring and Privatizing Naftogaz Can Save the Ukrainian State”

 

Edgar Palomino, “Coming of Age-Polish Foreign Policy since 1990”

 

Hannah Kereszturi, “Democracy in Danger: Studying Hungary’s democratic reversal through the lens of EU accession”

 

3:40 – 4:00. Tea and Cake: End of the Year Celebration

 

Slavic_Bazaar_2016_abstracts.pdf

Photographs: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B-fhimT47KXvfYgpWDzALHS6VArkZ3Vu