Robert F. Byrnes
Russian and East European Institute

This year’s Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), will be held in San Francisco, CA on November 23 – 26, 2019 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis (780 Mission St). IU faculty, staff, and students will present papers and serve as chairs or discussants at over twenty-five panels and roundtables. REEI is a Platinum Sponsor of the event. 

IU will be featured in the Exhibition Hall with booths for Slavica Publishers (108) and REEI (110). REEI and the Russian Studies Workshop will co-host the annual ASEEES Indiana University Alumni Reception on Sunday, November 24, from 8pm to 10pm at the San Francisco Marquis, 4, Pacific B. Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Board, IU Press, the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Slavica Publishers, the Language Workshop, the event will feature refreshments in the form of cheese, desserts, wine, and coffee. Our guest of honor will be David Ransel, REEI Director from 1995 to 2009 and this year’s recipient of the ASEEES Distinguished Contributions Award. Please join us to congratulate David and celebrate with friends and colleagues, old and new!

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Faculty/Staff Papers

Michael V. Alexeev (Economics): The Impact of Institutional Quality of Manufacturing Sectors in Russia: Panel Data Analysis

Andras Becker (History): The Puzzle of British Strategy in Central Europe in 1938 – 1939

Elizabeth Frances Geballe (SLAV): Diagnosing Chekov

Kathryn Graber (Anthropology): Traces of Networked Unions Past: Locating One’s Once and Future Self through the Infrastructural Remains of Old Media

Ke-Chin Hsia (History):  Welfare and Nationalizing Politics in WWI Austria

Craig L. Johnson (SPEA): On the Determinants of Subnational Government in the Russian Federation

Leone Musgrave (American Historical Review): To Speak Bolshevik or to Hear Vernacular? Political Delivery, Receptivity, and Empire in the North Caucasus, 1917 – 1926

Alexander Rabinowitch (REEI, Emeritus): 1919: The Bolsheviks Survive

John Mulvey Romero (Russian Studies Workshop): The Thaw in Culture in the National Republics

Andrea Rusnock (Women’s and Gender Studies/IU South Bend): Visualizing the Nation in Late Imperial Era Needlework

Tatiana Saburova (History): “The Great Siberian Way”: The Sublime of Infrastructure, Trailblazing, and the Future in Photographs of the Late 1960s – Early 1980s

Miriam Shrager (SLAV): Applying Discourse Analysis to Propp’s Historical Roots of the Wonder Tale

Megan Alexa Todd (Russian Studies Workshop): Islamic Entrepreneurship and New Muslim Spaces in Moscow, Russia

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Student Papers

Ani Abrahamyan (SLAV): The Creative and the Transgressive in Pasternak’s Istoriia Odnoi Kontroktavy

Tetiana Bulakh (Anthropology): Hierarchies of Deservedness: Provision of Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine

Alisha Kirchoff (Sociology): Who are Russia’s Notaries and Whom Do They Serve?

Dima Kortukov (Political Science): 1990 Parliamentary Elections and USSR Dissolution: the Cases of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia

Mark Moll (Central Eurasian Studies): Õigus, Uus Ilm and the Estonian Press in Exile as Bellwethers of Independence, 1906-1917

Daniel Muck (Political Science): Renovation or Demolition? Perceptions of Property Rights Violations in Moscow’s Housing Megaproject

Gheorghe Gelu Pacurar (Religious Studies): Orthodox Belief and the Making of Law in Interwar Romania

Andrey Yushkov (SPEA): On the Determinants of Subnational Government in the Russian Federation

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Panel Discussants

Michael V. Alexeev (Economics): Is the Russian Economy Growing? (2)

Ben Eklof (History): The Promise of Infrastructure II: Mediating Late Socialist Modernity

Kathryn Graber (Anthropology): The Promises of Infrastructure I: Imagining Isolation and Integration

Andrea Rusnock (Women’s and Gender Studies/IU South Bend): Creative Legacies of Russian Artists in the early 20^th c. America (ca. 1920s -1950s)

Mark Trotter (REEI): Cultural and Political Reinventions in the 20^th Century Hungary: Micro-Historical Approaches; Teaching Language and Culture in Context

Meagan Todd (Russian Studies Workshop): The Politics of Protest in Armenia and Russia

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Panel/Roundtable Chairs

Elizabeth Frances Geballe (SLAV): Nabokov Beyond Belief (1)

Craig L. Johnson (SPEA): Subnational Economics and Public Finance in Russia

Tatiana Saburova (History): The Global Far North: Eurasia’s Arctic Literatures and Cultures

Russell Scott Valentino (Slavic): The Promises of Infrastructure I: Imagining Isolation and Integration; The Promises of Infrastructure II: Mediating Late Socialist Modernity

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Roundtable Participants

 Erin Dusza (Art History): Czech Forgeries and Mystifications: Imagining Communities and Inventing Traditions

Regina Smyth (Political Science): Book Discussion: “Putin v. The People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia”

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Participants from non-IU, Indiana-based public universities*

Francine Friedman (Ball State U): (Mis)Managing Ethnic Tensions in Bosnia-Herzogovina; Chair: External Actors and Contemporary Balkan Tensions: A Framework for New/Old Conflicts?

Amina Gabrielova (Purdue U): Chair: Cognitive Approaches to Russian Literature I; The Artistic World of ‘Lavr’ by Vodolazkin: The Possibilities of a Cognitive Approach

Olga Lyanda-Geller (Purdue U): Roundtable Member: Russian Philosophy of the Late Soviet Period Book Discussion Roundtable; ‘In the desert, thoughts can only be yours’: Polyphony of Languages in Sofia Gubaidulina’s Vocal Music

Amber N. Nickell (Purdue U): ‘After the Wolf, Comes the Bear’: Ethnic Germans and Jews in Southern Ukraine, 1922-1931

Rebekah Klein-Pejsova (Purdue U): ‘A Grotesquely Familiar Landscape’: Jewish Self-Defense Strategies and the Experience of Rupture; Discussant: Refugees and the Formation of Belief in Post-World War I Eastern Europe

Oana Popescu-Sandu (U of Southern Indiana): Roundtable Member: Migrants and Refugees to, from, and in the Balkans: Belief, Identity, Alterity, and Culture; Discussant: Translation and Belief I: The Suspension of Disbelief in Fictional Depictions of Translation, Multilingualism, and Oral Speech

Barbara J. Skinner (Indiana State): Subtle Differences: The Converted Versus ‘Ancient’ Orthodox in the Belarusian Provinces, 1830 – 1855; Chair: Trust and Betrayal: Poland-Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine in the Eighteenth Century

Meredith Tuttle (Purdue U): A Tragic Pantomime: The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and the Khodynka Tragedy in Russia and France

Sergei Zhuk (Ball State U): Chair and Roundtable Member: Soviet Ukraine and the Capitalist West: Beliefs and Identities in Cultural and Academic Exchanges; Discussant: A Clash of Beliefs: Diasporic National Faiths, Human Rights, and Soviet Transnational Counter-Activism during the Cold War

 

* Purdue, Indiana State, Ball State, Purdue Fort Wayne, Purdue Northwest, Vincennes, and the University of Southern Indiana, along with IU campuses, are part of IREEN (Indiana Russian and East European Network), an Indiana-based network that facilitates teaching and research collaboration in Russian and East European studies across Indiana’s public higher education institutions.