A Quick Guide to ASEEES 2023 Digital Conference NURPRT Panels:
Please find below a guide to panels in which members of our Initiative are participating for the Virtual Conference being held October 19 – 20, 2023. If any panels are missing please contact Peter Winsky (winskypg@gmail.com) and he will add them to the guide.
To those participating, have a great conference! Hopefully many of our members who are registered for the in-person conference will also tune in to our members’ virtual panels. An email was sent by ASEEES with instructions for joining the panels to those who are registered.
A subsequent guide will be sent soon for the in-person portion of the Conference to be held November 30 – December 3, 2023
All Times Eastern Time (Philadelphia local):
Thursday, Oct. 19:
8:30 AM V1:
Panel: Left or Right?: Polarization vs. Fluidity in Eastern European and Transcaucasian Radicalism, 1856-1939 – VR9
- Chair: Victor Taki, Concordia U (Canada)
- Papers: Aleksandar Zlatanov, Institute for Historical Studies, BAS (Bulgaria) “A Repentant Rebel or a Pragmatic Renegade?: Czajkowski’s Return to the Russian Empire (1872-1886)”
- Kayhan Aryan Nejad, U of Oxford (UK) “Revolutionary Mobilization from Transcaucasia to Iran, 1908-1909”
- Denis V. Vovchenko, Northeastern State U “Brigands, Ethnoseparatists, Anarchists, or Fascists?: Russian Views of the Balkan Paramilitaries (1903-1934)”
- Martin Beisswenger “Neither Right nor Left?: Russian Eurasianists in the Balkans between the World Wars”
- : Maria N. Todorova, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- : Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley
10:45 AM V2:
Panel: Interpretations of Ontologism in Semyon Frank’s Religious Philosophy – VR3
- Chair: Daniela Steila, U of Turin (Italy)
- Papers: Aleksandra Yurievna Berdnikova, U of Turin (Italy) “S. Frank’s Reflections on V. Gioberti’s Ontological Ideas”
- Teresa Obolevitch, Pontifical U of John Paul II (Poland) “Charles Hartshorne Reads Semen Frank”
- Harry James Moore, U of Oxford (UK) “Frank’s Ontological Argument: An Exposition and Analysis”
- : Randall Allen Poole, College of St. Scholastica
- : Maureen Waters O’Neill, Laval U (Canada)
Panel: Challenges of Contemporary Cinema – VR5
- Chair: Ellina Sattarova, U of Southern California
- Papers: Andrea Virginas, Sapientia Hungarian U of Transylvania (Romania) “First World War Historical Films and Generations of Communicative Memory: Decolonization in Time?”
- David Gomiero Molina, U of Chicago “Athletics, Phenomenology, and Aesthetic Experience: Elem Klimov’s Sport, Sport, Sport (1970)”
- Tanya Silverman, U of Michigan “Hollywood Films, Bohemian Prose: Literary Influences on Miloš Forman’s American Films”
- Daniel Witkin, U of Pittsburgh “Post-Soviet, Post-Cinematic: Artavazd Pelechian’s Nature (2020) in the Anthropocene”
- : Ellina Sattarova, U of Southern California
- : Evelin Tamm, Uppsala U (Sweden)
1:00 PM EDT V3:
Panel: Nationalism, Animals, and Sin in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky – VR10
- Chair: Donna Tussing Orwin, U of Toronto (Canada)
- Papers: Zora Kadyrbekova, McGill U (Canada) “‘Decolonization’ of the Animal in L. Tolstoy’s ‘Kholstomer and The First Step'”
- Julia Berest, Western U (Canada) “Dostoevskii’s Nationalism: History, Historiography, and Politics”
- Danielle Hix, Oxford U (UK) “Sin and Redemption in Skotoprigonievsk: Dante’s Inferno in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov”
- : Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon U
- : Katherina Boicheva Kokinova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
Friday Oct. 20
10:45 AM EST V6:
Panel: Schism or No Schism?: Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine since February 2022
- Chair: Alexandar Mihailovic, Bennington College
- Papers: Katherine Kelaidis, National Hellenic Museum “Moscow and Constantinople: The Culture War and the Battle for Kiev”
- Pavlo Smytsnyuk, Ukrainian Catholic U (Ukraine) “Under the Spell of Empire: The Ambiguous DeRussification of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church”
- Andriy Fert, National U of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine) “War, Patriotism, and Local Hostility: The Impact of the Russian Invasion on Ukrainian Orthodox Church Parish Life”
- : Jacob Lassin, Miami U of Ohio
- Regina Elsner, U of Münster (Germany)
- : Anastasia Felcher, Blinken Open Society Archives (Hungary)
3:15 PM EST V8:
Panel: Decolonization in Jewish Studies
- Chair: Barbara Henry, U of Washington
- Papers: Nadja Berkovich, U of Arkansas “Korolenko’s Russian Wealth: Censorship and Postcolonial Vision”
- Galya Diment, U of Washington “Frustrated Hopes of Decolonization: Yehuda Pen’s Vitebsk School for Drawing and Painting (1897-1916) Versus Vitebsk’s People Arts School (1918-22)”
- Yuliya Minkova, Virginia Tech “Between the Shtetl and the Fairy-Tale: Margarita Khemlin’s Symbolic Geography”
- : Olga Lyanda-Geller, Purdue U
- : Allison Schmidt, U of Pennsylvania