UC Slavic Undergraduate Conference, Sat, May 21

[Susan Bauckus]

Dear SEELANGers:
The following is a message from Larry McLellan at UC Santa Barbara:

I am pleased to announce the program for the annual UC Undergraduate
Conference on Slavic Studies which will take place at the UCLA Campus, Hershey Hall
1648, on Saturday, May 21, beginning with opening remarks at 10:00.  The
conference is free and open to the public.  The closest parking structure is Parking
Lot 2 (parking fee is $7.00.)

Program
9:30-10:00  COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS, Hershey Hall 1648

10:00-10:10 OPENING REMARKS: Professor Roman Koropeckyj, UCLA Slavic
Department

10:15-11:45 PANEL 1A: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Julia Dobrovolsky, UCLA Sacraments in Roman Catholicism and Orthodox
Christianity: Confession
Xenia Tashlitsky, UCI       The Legend of the Wild Woman and the Conflict
between Nature and Progress in Human Memory
Elizabeth Moore, UCI    A Comparison of Stylistic Conventions in Two Russian
Fairy-Tales
Asya Passinsky, UCB Translating Russian Poetry
Demelza Benton, UCLA    "What is THAT?!"  Aleksei Balabanov's film Pro urodov
i liudei

    PANEL 1B: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Ilya L. Klinger, UCI        Prince Oleg and Princess Olga: The Great Regents
of Rus'
Maia Baghashvili and Mikhail Mdinaradze, Pasadena City College
Pictorialization of the Sacred in Novgorod
Elizaveta Fouksman, UCLA    Religious Pluralism within Islam: Russian
Orthodox Christianity and the Golden Horde
Sasha Olshansky, UCSB   Effects of the Stalinist Regime on the Literature of
the Epoch
Sheryl Cunningham, UCR  Changes in the Lives of Pasternak and Russia

11:45-12:00 BREAK

12:00-1:30  PANEL 2A: CENTRAL EUROPEAN CULTURE

Heidi Sinavsky, UCSB    Dvorak's Personal Manifesto
Molly E. McCann, UCSB   Mountain Folk Song: A Comparison of Themes in
Appalachian and Podhalan Folk Song
Mateusz Pyter, UCLA Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Political Activist and Visionary
Marcin Zemsta, UCLA Bronislaw Malinowski: The Man Who Invented Functionalism
Mark Wyzgowski, UCLA    The Life and Work of Stefan Banach

    PANEL 2B: CLASSICAL RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Michelle Markey, UCSD   Chekhov: A Religious Man?
Jason Lobell, UCI   Stagnation in 19th-Century Russian Society as Viewed in
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Abigail L. Rotwein, UCSD    Mimi's Marriage: The Other Anna Karenina
Jen Marsh, UCSB Tolstoy's Victim
Dina Vainer, UCSB   When Clothes Make the Man a Woman: An Analysis of
Clothing and Sexuality in Olesha's Envy

1:30-2:00   LUNCH

2:00-3:45   PANEL 3:  SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN THE FORMER
SOVIET UNION

Janet Mokhnatkin, Pasadena City College, Cholera in Russia and Resulting
Medical, Societal, and Political Changes in the Nineteenth   and Twentieth
Centuries
Irina Kukuyeva, UCLA    Memories of the Living
Diana Gevorkian, UCLA   Domestic Violence in Present Day Russia
Jennifer Goykhman, UCSB     Agricultural Policies in Central Aisa
Dmitriy Bykov, UCSB Ukraine Splitting from Russia
Ray Amberg, Sheryl Cunningham and Eileen Hammond, UCR   US and Russia Today:
A Plan for Action

3:45-4:00   CLOSING REMARKS, Larry McLellan, Germanic, Slavic and Semitic
Studies, UCSB

    PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES TO PARTICIPANTS


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