Davis Center Affiliates at ASEEES 2020

Divas and Virtuosos on the Stage: Russian, East European, and U.S. Music Institutions
Thu, November 5, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Roundtable Member: Tony H. Lin (Center Associate)
 
Cognitive Perspectives on Russian Literary History
Thu, November 5, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Paper: Tom Dolack (Center Associate)
 
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the Literary Modeling of the Unconscious
Thu, November 5, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Paper: Yuri Corrigan (Center Associate)

Central and Eastern Europe: Transformation, Geopolitics, and Security Issues
Fri, November 6, 8:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Discussant: George Soroka (Center Associate)
 
Russian Military: Key Trends in Capability Doctrine and Concepts
Fri, November 6, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Roundtable Member: Dmitry Primus Gorenburg (Center Associate)
 
Book Discussion: "Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power," by Eliot Borenstein
Fri, November 6, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Roundtable Member: Anya Bernstein (Faculty Associate)
 
Media Meddling and Power
Fri, November 6, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Paper: Elizaveta Kuznetsova (Fellow)
 
Exploring Print and Visual Culture in Russian History
Fri, November 6, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Paper: Elizabeth A. Wood (Center Associate)
 
Rebelling Against the Text: Word-Music Adaptation in the Russophone World
Fri, November 6, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Paper: Olga Zaslavsky (Center Associate)
Discussant: Tony H. Lin (Center Associate)

Displays of Power: Memory and Malleability in Russia’s Museums from the 19th Century to Present
Fri, November 6, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Discussant: Angela Wheeler (Graduate Student Associate)
 
Jews in Transnational Society: 1890s to Now
Fri, November 6, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Papers: Zulfiyya Abdurahimova (A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA), Aleksandra Kremer (Faculty Associate)
 
Digital Initiatives for Cultural Diplomacy
Fri, November 6, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Roundtable Member: Julie Buckler (Executive Committee/Faculty Associate)

Book Discussion: "Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People": In Memory of Professor Patricia Herlihy
Fri, November 6, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Conflicting Visions: Navigating the Anxieties of the Soviet-Cuban Relationship
Fri, November 6, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Session Manager: Isabelle DeSisto (2020 REECA graduate)
 
Paradigm Lost?: The Josephan v. Trans-Volga Elders Question in Flux
Fri, November 6, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Session Manager: Donald Ostrowski (Faculty Associate)

Post-Communist Historiographic Revisionism
Fri, November 6, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Roundtable Members: Mark Kramer (Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies), Aviezer Tucker (Center Associate)
 
Literary Tradition After WWII: Polish and Yiddish Writing in the 1940s and '50s
Fri, November 6, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Paper: Aleksandra Kremer (Faculty Associate)

Nationalism and Women’s Emancipation: A Comparative Perspective
Sat, November 7, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Chair: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild (Center Associate)
 
Economic Interests, "Oligarchs," and the Future of Ukraine’s Donbas and Conflict with Russia
Sat, November 7, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Roundtable Member: Margarita Mercedes Balmaceda (Center Associate)
 
Considering Vernacular and Imperial Sources: New Perspectives to Research the Muslims of Russia
Sat, November 7, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Chair: Kelly O’Neill (Director, Imperiia Project)

The Hierotopic Turn: Expanding the Sacred in Early Modern Muscovy
Sat, November 7, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Chair: Michael S. Flier (Faculty Associate)
 
Idioms of Power and Cooption in Rus', Litva, and Pre-Romanov Russia
Sat, November 7, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Roundtable Member: Donald Ostrowski (Faculty Associate)
 
Reading for the Funny in Nineteenth-Century Russian Periodicals
Sat, November 7, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Chair: William Mills Todd III (Executive Committee/Faculty Associate)

Idioms of Power and Cooption in Rus', Litva, and Pre-Romanov Russia
Sat, November 7, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Roundtable Member: Peter B. Brown (Center Associate)
 
Book Discussion: "Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmement: A History," by Yuri Kostenko
Sat, November 7, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Roundtable Member: Mariana Budjeryn (Associate, Negotiation Task Force)

Pictures of Villagers in Motion: Technologies of Rural Mobility and Self-Imagination after Stalin
Sun, November 8, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Chair: Xenia A. Cherkaev (Center Associate)
Discussant: Erin Hutchinson (Postdoctoral Fellow)
 
Collapse and Rebirth: A Living Archive on the End of the USSR and Afterward
Sun, November 8, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Roundtable Members: Nargis Kassenova (Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia), Svetlana Rukhelman (Librarian for the Davis Center Collection)
 
Great Power Influence in Central Asia
Sun, November 8, 2:00 to 3:30pm
Discussant: Nargis Kassenova (Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia)
 
Chernobyl and its Storied Afterlives
Sun, November 8, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Chair: Serhii Plokhii (Executive Committee/Faculty Associate)
 
Social Science Approaches to Russian Economic History: Serfdom, Religion, and Peasant Uprisings
Sun, November 8, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Session Manager: Amanda G. Gregg (Center Associate)
 
Beyond Theology: Textual and Social Engagement in Early Modern Ruthenia and Muscovy
Sun, November 8, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Chair: Michael S. Flier (Faculty Associate)

Decoding Chornobyl: How the Catastrophe is Perceived, Interpreted, and Remembered
Sat, November 14, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Chair: Oxana Shevel (Center Associate)
Roundtable Member: Serhii Plokhii (Executive Committee/Faculty Associate)
 
Ukraine after the 2019 Presidential Election: A New Beginning?
Sat, November 14, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Discussant: Margarita Mercedes Balmaceda (Center Associate)
 
Demise of the "Crimean Consensus": Shifting Public Opinion about Russian Military Intervention
Sun, November 15, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Roundtable Member: Timothy Colton (Executive Committee/Faculty Associate)

Book Discussion: "Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity"
Sun, November 15, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Chair: Dmitry Primus Gorenburg (Center Associate)

Crossing the Lines: Czech Samizdat, Exile, and Official Literature (1948-1989)
Sat, November 14, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Paper: Veronika Tuckerova (Faculty Associate)
 
Reading Dostoevsky
Sat, November 14, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Discussant: Yuri Corrigan (Center Associate)
 
Cultural Transfers: How Discourses, Forms, and Literature Moved within the Soviet Union and across Its Borders
Sat, November 14, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Paper: Erin Hutchinson (Postdoctoral Fellow)
 
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Three Readings of V. B. Shklovsky
Sat, November 14, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Discussant: Daria Khitrova (Faculty Associate)
 
The Politics and Culture of Historical Anniversaries in Contemporary Central Europe
Sat, November 14, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Paper: Frances Cayton (A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA)

“Normalizing” Czechoslovak Cultural Production: 1968-1989
Sun, November 15, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Discussant: Veronika Tuckerova (Faculty Associate)
 
Politics and Poetry in the Time of Three Russian Emperors (Catherine II, Alexander I, and Nicholas I): Rebellion, Counter-rebellion, and Fear
Sun, November 15, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Discussant: Daria Khitrova (Faculty Associate)