{"id":153,"date":"2017-10-16T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-russian\/conferences\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:58:24","slug":"conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/russian-studies\/studentopportunities\/conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Studies Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macalester\/sets\/72157634220719988' title='Russian Conferences by Macalester College, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/46924632055_05e7ab541c.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='Marlee Yost-Wolfe &#039;19 answers questions about her project, &#039;Artists Breaking the Ice in the Balkans&#039;'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Macalester students and faculty have organized the annual Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies Conference conference each spring since 1992. Events include talks by nationally recognized speakers, community members engaged in human rights work, and alums sharing their experiences post-graduation, as well as an undergraduate research competition in which top participants receive cash prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Student Research Competition 2022: Virtual Edition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/russian-studies-student-research-competition-marks-30-years-with-record-participation\/\">we held a virtual version<\/a> of the Russian Studies Student Research Competition for the third year in a row. Mac students along with fellow scholars from other colleges and universities presented and discussed their work in real time on three panels. We are very grateful that we were able to host this celebration of knowledge, and we learned so much from our presenters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panel I (Power, Dissent, and Resistance): The first prize was awarded to&nbsp;Sophia Barkoff from<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>the University of Chicago (\u201cSocial Ties as Tools of Resistance: The Collective Action Problem and Nonviolent Civil Action in Eastern Europe\u201d)<em>;&nbsp;<\/em>the second prize&nbsp;&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to Kyle Tucker from Indiana University (\u201cThe Evolving Nature of Russia\u2019s Nuclear Weapons Doctrine\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panel II (Us vs. Them): The first prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to&nbsp;Katherine Mansourova from<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>the University of Notre Dame (\u201cRussia\u2019s Half Measure: Evaluating the Effectiveness and Outcomes of Russia\u2019s Digital Sovereignty Policy\u201d)<em>;&nbsp;<\/em>the second prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to Alyssa Wiley from the University of Oklahoma (\u201cPolitical and Ideological Biases in the Rankings and Country Descriptions of the Trafficking in Persons Report\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panel III (Understanding Across Difference): The first prize was shared by David Katz from Macalester College (\u201c\u0421\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0446\u0435\u043f\u044c\u044e: Contemporary and Historical Policies of Language and Identity in Ukraine and Georgia\u201d) and Maryam Moghaddami from the University of Oregon (\u201cCrimean Tatars: Through Conquest, Deportation, and Russian Reincorporation\u201d); the second prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to Marie-Michelle Ivantechenko from Carnegie Mellon University (\u201cThe Role of Cultural Values in Shaping Mental Health Related Attitudes: A Cross-Cultural Study\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Winning projects from 2021:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Interdisciplinary Studies I: The first prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to&nbsp;Emma Larson from<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Williams College (\u201cThe Making of Mothers in the Motherland:&nbsp;<em>Pravda<\/em>&nbsp;and The Soviet Family Code of 1936\u201d)<em>;&nbsp;<\/em>the second prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to Natalia San Antonio from Bryn Mawr College (\u201cThe Impact of Politics on the Progression of Natural Science in the Soviet Union\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interdisciplinary Studies II: The first prize&nbsp;&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to&nbsp;Ana Gvozdi\u0107&nbsp;from Macalester College (\u201cMemorialization of Children in War in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo\u201d); the second prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to&nbsp;Zoe Fruchter from Grinnell College<strong>&nbsp;(<\/strong>\u201cReturning the Gaze, but Not the Gift: Warsaw\u2019s Palace of Culture in Contemporary Polish Film\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literature: The first prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to&nbsp;Amelia Parkes from the University of South Carolina (\u201cRussian and Soviet Identities as Seen in Mikhail Zoshchenko and the&nbsp;<em>Billancourt Tales&nbsp;<\/em>by Nina Berberova\u201d);&nbsp;the second prize&nbsp;was awarded&nbsp;to&nbsp;Rachel Liebherr&nbsp;from Macalester (\u201cLesbian Muses as Avenues for Connection in Sophia Parnok\u2019s Poems to Marina Tsvetaeva\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For an archive of past winning projects, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/russian-studies\/studentopportunities\/conferences\/russian-studies-conference-projects-archive\/\">archive page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past speakers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Alexandra Sakurets and&nbsp;<span dir=\"auto\">Mariana Semeniuk<\/span>&nbsp;<span dir=\"auto\">led a conversation about the plight of Ukrainian refugees. Alexandra, a Twin Cities resident and registered nurse originally from Ukraine, provided humanitarian aid to refugees in Poland; and Mariana, herself a refugee, spent time in Poland caring for others who had fled the war before coming to Minneapolis, where she now lives.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Professor Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto) presented a talk titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=35212\">Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future: On Kabakov&#8217;s Characters and the Detritus of Soviet Life<\/a>&#8220;, in which she explored Kabakov\u2019s reaction against Malevich\u2019s avant-garde utopian vision and analyzed his re-imagination of the Gogolian \u201clittle person\u201d located amidst the rubbish of Soviet everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, our conference featured two sports-related talks in honor of the 2018 World Cup that took place for the first time in Russia! Mac alum Chris Pascone &#8217;01 presented on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=32734\">Using Russian to Make a Career in Professional Soccer<\/a>&#8220;; and Tim Harte, Professor of Russian literature at Bryn Mawr College, gave a talk titled&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=32848\">Higher and Faster: Athletics, Art, and Ideology in Russia and the Soviet Union<\/a>&#8221; about&nbsp;the significance of sports for the arts and literary culture in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, Brian Johnson, Professor of Russian literature at Swarthmore College and Mac alum, gave a talk titled <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=30488\">&#8220;What I did (and do) with my Russian Degree from Macalester&#8221;<\/a>, in which he discussed his research and how studying Russian at Macalester shaped his career. This year&#8217;s conference was concluded with <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=30463\">an outing to the Museum of Russian Art<\/a>, accompanied by Brian and other Russian faculty members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, Kevin Rothrock, editor @RuNetEcho and co-manager @RuNetMemes, gave a talk titled <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=28108\">\u201cTrolling to Success: How Provoking and Offending People Came to Define Russian Political Discourse, and Why That\u2019s Fine\u201d<\/a> and Emily Baran \u201903, Assistant Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University, spoke on <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=28100\">&#8220;Soviet Power and Christian Dissent.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at NYU, discussed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=25319\">The Talking Dead: Articulating the \u2018Zombified\u2019 Subject Under Putin<\/a>\u201d and Krista Goff \u201804, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami, gave a talk titled <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=25348\">\u201cThe \u2018Separatist\u2019 Among Us: Researching Soviet Minority Politics in the Post-Soviet Caucasus.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, artist Yevgenii Fiks gave a talk introducing his exhibit <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=22221\">\u201cImpossible Histories, Impossible Sites\u201d<\/a> at Macalester\u2019s Law Warschaw Gallery; and Cassandra Hartblay \u201906, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill, spoke about <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.macalester.edu\/calendar\/event.cfm?id=22379\">&#8220;#SochiProblems: Rehabilitating Russia from the Perpetual &#8216;FAIL Blog&#8217; Role.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, economist Rick Erickson presented on Russia&#8217;s transition to capitalism, and diplomat Tom Hansen discussed the relationship between Russia and the U. S. In 2012, Professor Marc Robinson of St. Olaf College introduced and led a post-screening discussion of the new documentary film, <em>Putin&#8217;s Kiss<\/em>, about the sinister side of the Nashi youth movement in contemporary Russia. In 2011, Rachel May, Coordinator of Sustainability Education at Syracuse University, spoke about what environmental scientists and literary scholars can learn from one another. In 2010, postmodernist performer Psoy Korolenko accompanied the 1927 silent film <em>Bed and Sofa<\/em> with a live soundtrack combining piano and rhymed scholarly discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paper contest guidelines<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>For information, please contact <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:chadaga@macalester.edu\">chadaga@macalester.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Journals that Publish Undergraduate Research<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/geohistory.today\/vestnik\">Vestnik, the journal supported by the organization SRAS<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/research.monm.edu\/mjur\/\">The Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/slavic.ucla.edu\/conference\/uc-undergraduate-conference\/undergraduate-journal\/\">UCLA Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East\/Central European Studies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macalester students and faculty have organized the annual Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies Conference conference each spring since 1992. 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