Russian and East European StudiesFriday, April 20, 2018 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, A Wing, room 329A, Philadelphia, PA 19104
THE SLAVIC BAZAAR
15th Undergraduate Research Conference of the Department of Russian and East European Studies
Friday, April 20 3401
Walnut Street, A Wing, Room 329A
9:50 Tea, Coffee & Pastries
10:00 Conference Opening.
10:10-11:00 (50 min)
Panel 1: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
Sydney Adams, “A Banner for All to See: Reading 1860s Russian Foreign Policy through
Literature” 15 min
Claudia Kassner, “The Two Faces of Raskolnikov: Rational Thought in Dostoevsky’s Crime and
Punishment” 15 min
11:00-11:10 (10 min)
Coffee Break
11:10-12:30 (80 min)
Panel 2: Modernist Trends in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Anton Relin, “Speaking in Tongues: Sectarian Glossolalia and Futurist Trans-Rational Language”
15 min
Natasha Kadlec, “It’s Hard to Say Something About Pushkin’: Reading Daniil Kharms’ Fiction as
Historiography” 20 min
Yehudith Dashevsky, “Heralding Change in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: A comparison of Blok’s
‘On Kulikovo Field’ and Mandelstam’s ‘St. Petersburg Stanzas’”
15 min
12:30-1:10 (40 min)
Lunch
1:10 – 1:50 (40 min)
Keynote Presentation: Iuliia Skubytska (PhD Candidate, Department of History), “Princess of
Luxembourg vs Soviet Pioneer: Personal Sources in Historical Research”
1:50-2:00 (10 min)
Coffee Break
2:00-3:20 (80 min)
Panel 3: Politics and Power in Eastern Europe
Cornell Overfield, “All Quiet on the West German Front: Changes in East German Political
Agitation in West Germany, 1945-1955” 15 min
Ben Parker, “Putin’s Chosen People: Theories of Russian Jewish Policy, 2000-2017” 15 min
Nicholas Emery, “The Influence of Press Freedom on Corruption Perception in Russia under
Putin" 15 min
3:20-3:40 (20 min)
Tea and Dessert
