2017

Saturday, April 29, 2017 - 10:00am to 4:00pm

Ben Franklin Room, 218 Houston Hall

14th Undergraduate Research Conference of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

 

Houston Hall 218 (Ben Franklin Room), Saturday, April 29, 2017

 

Conference Program

 

10:00. Conference Opening, Coffee & Tea & Donuts 10:10–11:00. Russian Society in History and Literature

Elizabeth Holmdahl, “The Abolitionist Audience: Comparing

Strategies of Literary Resistance in Russia and the U.S.”

Jonah Rosen, “Understanding the Russian Summer Home: The Portrayal of Dacha Life from Chekhov to Today”

11:00–11:10. Coffee Break

11:10-12:00. Soviet and Post-Soviet Heroes in Film

Natasha Kadlec, “Heroism with a Human Face: Tarkovskii’s ‘Ivan’s

Childhood’ (1962) and the Stalinist Discourse of ‘Usefulness’”

Christopher Tremoglie, “Aleksei Balabanov’s Vision of a Post- Soviet Bogatyr as Expressed in ‘Brother’ (1997)”

12:00–12:40. Lunch Break (Bazaar Style) 12:40–1:20. Keynote Lecture

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature

and Literary Theory, UPenn)

“Directions to Utopia: How What Is to Be Done? Was to Be Read”

 

1:20–1:30. Coffee Break

1:30–2:20. Post-Soviet Russia: Society, Politics, Economics

Andrew Parsons, “Friend or Foe: Pharmaceutical Companies and Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Russia (1991-2016)”

Miranda Lupion, “The Grey War of Our Time: Information Warfare and the Kremlin's Weaponization of Digital Russian-Language News”

2:20–2:30. Coffee Break

2:30–3:20. Central Europe: Society, Politics, Economics

Cora Neumann, “Transforming a Country: An Analysis of Soviet

Economic Policy in East Germany, 1945-1955”

Jeremy Golant, “In One's Own Right: Party Competition and

Ideological Control in Post-Communist Hungary and Poland" 3:20 – 4:00. Tea & Dessert: End of the Year Celebration