59th Annual Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS)

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

59th Annual Meeting | March 30-April 1, 2023 history.ufl.edu/scss | Gainesville, FL

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THURSDAY, MARCH 30 4 - 6 P.M...................Registration - Conference Registration Desk 5 – 7 P.M...................Reception - Prefunction Area

FRIDAY, MARCH 31 7:30 A.M...................Continental Breakfast - Conference Registration Desk 8 A.M........................Registration - Prefunction Area SESSION 1.1 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | LIVE OAK UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET CULTURE & POLITICS Chair & Discussant: MAYHILL FOWLER, Stetson University, (mfowler@stetson.edu) Narration and Fragmentation in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita (1966) HUNTER CONLEY, University of Florida, (hunterconley@ufl.edu) Dmitri Shostakovich: Perceptions, Debates, and Ambiguity HANNAH BEDARD, University of Florida, (hbedard@ufl.edu) Crafting the Truth Through News: Novaya Gazeta’s Coverage of the 2014 Annexation of Crimea MADISON SEPIOL, Stetson University, (msepiol@stetson.edu) Discourse on the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine and Effects of the War on Russianlanguage Telegram DAVID GRIFFIN, University of Florida, (davidgriffin@ufl.edu) SESSION 1.2 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | HAWTHORNE TOPICS IN SOVIET HISTORY Chair & Discussant – ELAINE MACKINNON, University of West Georgia, (emcclarn@westga.edu) How Uncommon was Fr. Aleksandr Men’ as a Russian Orthodox Thinker?

NICHOLAS GANSON, Hellenic College, (nganson@hchc.edu) Goodbye, Uncle Joe: Official U.S. Reactions to the Death of Joseph Stalin KELLY J. EVANS, Eastern Washington University, (kevans21@ewu.edu); JEANIE M. WELCH, UNC Charlotte, (jeaniemwelch@gmail.com) SESSION 1.3 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | MAGNOLIA THE WAR ON UKRAINE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EU AND EUROPE Chair: MARILYN J. YOUNG, Florida State University Presidentialization of Politics: Development and Challenges in Pre- and Post-War Ukraine LIDIYA ZUBYTSKA, Ave Maria University, (Lidiya.Zubytska@avemaria.edu) Unpacking Russia’s Relationships in Europe: Opponents, Fellow Travelers, and Swing Voters in the Council of Europe BRYON MORASKI, University of Florida, (bmoraski@ufl.edu)

SESSION 1.3 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | MAGNOLIA (continued) THE WAR ON UKRAINE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EU AND EUROPE The Ukraine War and Russia’s Arctic Endeavors: Implications and Future Directions THOMAS ROTNEM, Kennesaw State University, (trotnem@kennesaw.edu) Discussant: MICHAEL K. LAUNER, Florida State University SESSION 1.4 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | BIRCH TOPICS IN POST-COMMUNIST RUSSIA AND BEYOND Chair: MARK DARIUS JUSZCZAK, St. John’s University, (juszczam@stjohns.edu) Virtual Politics in Virtual Spaces: Freemasonry, Social Media, and Russian Authoritarianism JAMES PATRICK GREENE, University of South Florida, (jgreene6@usf.edu) Bias in Global University Ranking Algorithms – The Case of Eastern Europe MARK DARIUS JUSZCZAK, St. John’s University, (juszczam@stjohns.edu) Origins of Two Moldavian-Moldovan National Identities: The View from Tiraspol and Chișinău WILLIAM D. PRIGGE, South Dakota State University, (will.prigge@sdstate.edu) Discussant: PAULA MICHAELS, Monash University, (paula.michaels@monash.edu) SESSION 1.5 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | CEDAR IDEOLOGIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA Chair & Discussant: ANDREW M. DROZD, University of Alabama, (adrozd@ua.edu) Epic and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Russia JUDITH E. KALB, University of South Carolina, (jkalb@sc.edu) Linking Darwinism and Nihilism: Pisarev, Pogodin, and Man’s Place in Nature BRENDAN MOONEY, Miami University, (mooneybg@miamioh.edu) An Ecocritical Approach to Nekrasov ALEXANDER OGDEN, University of South Carolina, (ogden@sc.edu) Reluctant Kulturträger: Exiled Ethnographers and the “Intellectual Conquest” of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia ANNA SMELOVA, Georgetown University, (as4412@georgetown.edu) SESSION 2.1 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | LIVE OAK POST-COMMUNIST POLITICS IN EASTERN EUROPE Chair & Discussant: YVONNE HOWELL, University of Richmond, (yhowell@richmond.edu) Orientation East: Understanding Hungary’s Alignment with Russia MURAD GAFAROV, University of Florida, (mgafarov@ufl.edu) Caught Between Green and White: How Did Nation-Building Fail in Montenegro?

MUHAMMED FARUK ERDEM, University of South Florida, (merdem@usf.edu) SESSION 2.2 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | HAWTHORNE RELIGION AND THE SACRED Chair: MARA KOZELSKY, University of South Alabama, (mkozelsky@southalabama.edu)

Russian Alaska: A Study on Religion MORGAN POWELL, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, (mp086@my.tamuct.edu) Mikhail Nesterov’s Images of the Sacred CADRA PETERSON MCDANIEL, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, (cadra.mcdaniel@tamuct.edu) Religion and the Crimean War MARA KOZELSKY, University of South Alabama, (mkozelsky@southalabama.edu) Discussant: LEE A. FARROW, Auburn University at Montgomery, (lfarrow@aum.edu) SESSION 2.3 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | MAGNOLIA THE UKRAINIAN WAR: MEDIA, MEMORY, AND LANGUAGE Chair: BETSY JONES HEMENWAY, Loyola University Chicago, (ehemenway@luc.edu) Digital Over Traditional Media in Capturing Perceptions of the War in Ukraine Among Russians EKATERINA ROMANOVA, University of Florida, (e.romanova@ufl.edu) Serhiy Zhadan on Language, Bearing Witness, and Speaking in Times of War CYNTHIA NIELSEN, University of Dallas, (cnielsen@udallas.edu) The Worst Enemy of Russia: What is the Future of Russian Language and Culture in Ukraine?

SVITLANA JAROSZYNSKI, Florida State University, (skalinskaya@fsu.edu) SESSION 2.4 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | BIRCH RUSSIA’S GREAT WAR & REVOLUTION - THE LAST BOOKS Chair: CHRISTOPHER J. READ, Warwick University Emeritus, (c.j.read@warwick.ac.uk) New Findings About the Military History of Russia’s Great War and Revolution JOHN W. STEINBERG, Austin Peay State University, (steinbergj@apsu.edu) Advances in Understanding Russia’s Foreign Relations: Russia’s Great War and Revolution and International History RON BOBROFF, Bryant University, (rbobroff@bryant.edu) Russian Technological and Scientific Culture from War to Revolution SCOTT PALMER, University of Texas Arlington, (scottwpalmer@comcast.net)

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL LUNCH 12 - 1:30 P.M............Executive Council Members/Invited Guests Only - Board Room SESSION 3.1 | 1:15 - 3 P.M. | LIVE OAK CONTEMPORARY FEMALE VOICES IN LITERATURE Chair & Discussant: VIRGINIA P. ZICKAFOOSE, Independent Scholar, (vpzickafoose@gmail.com) Ludmila Ulitskaya in Literary Context: The Formentor Prize ELIZABETH SKOMP, Stetson University, (eskomp@stetson.edu) The Matryoshka of Memory: Maria Stepanova’s Feminine Family History DARIA SMIRNOVA, University of South Carolina, (smirnova@email.sc.edu) Svetlana Alexievich: Voice for the Silenced, Voices of the Silenced LIUBOV KARTASHOVA, University of South Carolina, (liubov@email.sc.edu)

SESSION 3.2 | 1:15 - 3 P.M. | HAWTHORNE CRITICAL QUESTIONS FROM THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR ONE YEAR OUT Chair & Discussant: ANDY AKIN, Air University, (andrew.akin@au.af.edu) The Future of Russian Deterrence Strategy JAMES BOWRON, Air Command and Staff College, (james.bowron.1@au.af.edu) Kaliningrad’s Place Between Russia and the EU JOHN SZCZEPANSKI, Air War College, (john.t.szczepanski.mil@au.af.edu) The China-Russia Alliance Under Strain MARK TURNER, Air War College, (turnerma2@au.af.edu) SESSION 3.3 | 1:15 - 3 P.M. | MAGNOLIA UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN IMPERIAL RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY Chair: KRISTA GOFF, University of Miami, (kgoff@miami.edu) Root and Shoot: The Failure of Iakov Stefanovich & Imperial Officials to Alter the Peasant Monarchist Framework RANEIL SMITH, University of Miami, (rjs345@miami.edu) Revolution on the Daugava: Dvinsk in Revolution & Civil War, 1917-1920 DE’VONTE TINSLEY-PHUNG, Virginia Tech University, (datinsley1917@vt.edu) The Change of American Opinion of Soviet Show Trials SONNY RUSSANO, University of Florida, (srussano@ufl.edu) Neutral to a Matter of National Security: The Role of Science in Forwarding Foreign Cold War Policy MIRA MONROE, Stetson University, (mmonroe2@stetson.edu) Discussant: GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS, University of South Florida, (galexopo@usf.edu) SESSION 3.4 | 1:15 - 3 P.M. | BIRCH TOPICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA Chair: RONALD BOBROFF, Bryant University, (rbobroff@bryant.edu) Piety, Prostitution, and Pilgrims: Russian Female Religiosity in the Late Russian Empire LUKE JESKE, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, (ljeske@live.unc.edu) European Lives in Imperial Russia’s Caucasus STEPHEN BADALYN RIEGG, Texas A&M University, (sriegg@tamu.edu) The Foreign Policy of Bismarck from the Unification of Germany to the Congress of Berlin of 1878 Through the Eyes of the Public Opinion of Russia ALENA ESKRIDGE KOSMACH, Francis Marion University, (aeskridgeKosmach@fmarion.edu) The Russian Intelligentsia in 1917 ALICE PATE, Kennesaw State University, (pate9@kennesaw.edu) Discussant: COLLEEN MOORE, James Madison University, (moor23cm@jmu.edu) SESSION 3.5 | 1:15 - 3 P.M. | CEDAR POLAND AND THE BALTICS, 1917-1922 Chair: JOHN W. STEINBERG, Austin Peay State University, (steinbergj@apsu.edu)

Bolshevism in Estonia, 1917-20 OLAVI ARENS, Georgia Southern University, (oarens@georgiasouthern.edu) Herbert Hoover and the Rebuilding of Poland after WWI MATTHEW ADAMS, Savannah State University, (adamsm@savannahstte.edu) Discussant: MATTHEW SCHWONEK, Air Command and Staff College, (matthewschwonek@gmail.com) SESSION 4.1 | 3:15 - 5 P.M. | LIVE OAK LANGUAGE, POWER, AND (DIS-)INFORMATION IN THE RUSSIAN MEDIA Chair: MICHAEL GORHAM, University of Florida, (mgorham@ufl.edu) Prime-time Solov’ev: Rhetorical Strategies of a Wartime Propagandist MICHAEL GORHAM, University of Florida, (mgorham@ufl.edu) The Role of Disinformation During Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine OLENA KOLUPAYEVA, Stetson University, (okolupayeva@stetson.edu) Deadly Disinformation: Viral Conspiracy Theories as a Radicalization Mechanism EKATERINA ROMANOVA, University of Florida, (e.romanova@ufl.edu) Discussant: DRAGAN KUJUNDŽIĆ, University of Florida, (dragan@ufl.edu) SESSION 4.2 | 3:15 - 5 P.M. | HAWTHORNE ESCAPING REALITY IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM Chair: AARON M. THOMPSON, University of Virginia, (amt3ad@virginia.edu) The Mystery of Addiction: Narcotics in Russian Literature EVANGELINA DEMINA, University of Virginia, (ed5pa@virginia.edu) Retrieving, Enduring, Envisioning: Coping Mechanisms in Soviet Films of the Great Patriotic War SUSANNE THOMPSON, University of Arizona, (seanes@arizona.edu) Factories of Worship: Rebuilding God after Bloody Sunday AARON M. THOMPSON, University of Virginia, (amt3ad@virginia.edu) Discussant: YVONNE HOWELL, University of Richmond, (yhowell@richmond.edu) SESSION 4.3 | 3:15 - 5 P.M. | MAGNOLIA RUSSIA’S IMPERIAL LEGACY AND QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY: THE WAR ON UKRAINE Chair: CATHLEEN LEWIS, Smithsonian Institute, National Air and Space Museum, (lewiscs@si.edu) How Has Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Changed the Discourses of Regionalism in Central Asia?

ASSYLZAT KARABAYEVA, Suleyman Demirel University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, (assylzat.karabayeva@sdu.edu.kz) Post-Colonial Nature of the War in Ukraine: Familial Language of Russian Imperial Legacy GALINA BOGATOVA, Florida International University, (gboga002@fiu.edu) Russian Imperialist Bias in American Education: The Portrayal of Kyivan Rus OLEKSIY FITEL, Independent Scholar, (oleksiyfitel@gmail.com)

SESSION 4.4 | 3:15 - 5 P.M. | BIRCH FETING A FESTSCHRIFT: STUDENTS OF DON RALEIGH DISCUSS HIS IMPACT ON THEIR SCHOLARSHIP (ROUNDTABLE) Chair: CHRISTOPHER WARD, Clayton State University, (christopherward@clayton.edu) PAULA MICHAELS, Monash University, (paula.michaels@monash.edu) NICHOLAS GANSON, Hellenic College, (nganson@hchc.edu) SHARON KOWALSKY, Texas A&M University-Commerce, (sharon.kowalsky@tamuc.edu) JEFFREY JONES, UNC Greensboro, (jwjones@uncg.edu) SESSION 4.5 | 3:15 - 5 P.M. | CEDAR THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA REVISITED Chair: BORIS GORSCHKOV, Kennesaw State University, (boris.gorshkov@yahoo.com) Revolutionary Sentiments: Chaadaev and the Politics of Scorn in 1820 INGRID KLEESPIES, University of Florida, (iakl@uf.edu) Martin Malia and the Origins of Intellectual Biography JOHN RANDOLPH, University of Illinois, (jwr@illinois.edu) Russian Social Geography and the Formation of the Intelligentsia CHRISTOPHER ELY, Florida Atlantic University, (cely@fau.edu) Discussant: MICHAEL MELANCON, Auburn University, (melanms@yahoo.com)

BUSINESS MEETING 5 - 6 P.M...................All SCSS Members Invited and Encouraged to Attend - Live Oak

RECEPTION 6 - 7 P.M....................Prefunction Area

BANQUET 7 P.M..........................Century A Ballroom Keynote Speaker: MARK GALEOTTI, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies Putin’s Russia and the Struggle Between Autocracy, Adhocracy and Technocracy

SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2023 7:30 A.M...................Continental Breakfast - Prefunction Area SESSION 5.1 | 8 - 9:45 AM | LIVE OAK THE CLASSICS OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE (19TH CENTURY) Chair: KELLY EVANS, Eastern Washington University, (kevans21@ewu.edu) How the Character Writes the Novel: Dostoevsky’s ‘The Gambler’ CAROL APOLLONIO, Duke University, (carol.apollonio@duke.edu) Мир во время войны: Teaching Tolstoy Today MICHAEL DENNER, Stetson University, (michaeladenner@gmail.com)

Makanin’s Concept of ‘Pereklichka’ and the Classics VICTOR PEPPARD, University of South Florida, (peppard@usf.edu) Discussant: MATTHEW PAYNE, Emory University, (mpayn01@emory.edu) SESSION 5.2 | 8 - 9:45 AM | HAWTHORNE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE PANDEMIC (ROUNDTABLE) MARGARET PEACOCK, University of Alabama, (mepeacock@ua.edu) COLLEEN MOORE, James Madison University, (moor23cm@jmu.edu) MARTIN BLACKWELL, Stetson University, (mjblackwell@stetson.edu) RONAN J. HART, University of Florida, (r.hart@ufl.edu) SESSION 5.3 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | MAGNOLIA ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY IN THE POST-SOVIET WORLD Chair & Discussant: KATE PRIDE BROWN, Georgia Tech, (k.p.brown@gatech.edu) The Effects of Government Instability on Black Sea Contracts: Evidence from Romania IOANA VANCEA, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, (ioanaconstantina96@gmail.com) Impact of Soviet Arctic Energy Policy on Russian Geopolitical Relations in the 21st Century BRIAN TOMCZEK, Texas A&M Central Texas University, (bt024@my.tamuct.edu) SESSION 5.4 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | BIRCH THE FILMS OF ALEKSANDR SOKUROV Sokurov’s Museum at War DRAGAN KUJUNDŽIĆ, University of Florida, (dragan@ufl.edu) Slow Sokurov SERGEY TOYMENTSEV, Saint Louis University, (sergey.toymentsev@slu.edu) Moloch (1999) and Moloch Tropical (2009): History and Fiction in Aleksandr Sokurov and Raoul Peck LISA RYOKO WAKAMIYA, Florida State University, (lwakamiya@fsu.edu) SESSION 5.5 | 8 - 9:45 A.M. | CEDAR SOVIET JEWRY AND THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST Triple Agent: The Convoluted Anti-Antisemitic Plot of Aleksandr Borisovich, AKA American Spy BB SETH BERNSTEIN, University of Florida, (sethbernstein@ufl.edu) Jewish Actresses in Postwar Soviet Ukraine: Bodies, Trauma, and Archival Absences MAYHILL FOWLER, Stetson University, (mfowler@stetson.edu) Jewish Post-Survival in Soviet Riga PAULA CHAN, Georgetown University, (pc771@georgetown.edu) Inside the Interrogation Room: Appeals of Soviet Citizens Judged for War Crimes IRINA MAKHALOVA, University of Florida, (iamakhalova@gmail.com) Discussant: TRACY MCDONALD, McMaster University, (tmcdon@mcmaster.ca)

SESSION 6.1 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | LIVE OAK MIGRATION, COMMUNITY, AND HOMELAND(S) IN (AND FROM) EASTERN EUROPE Chair: DONALD RALEIGH, University of North Carolina, (draleigh@unc.edu) History of the Czech Communities in the Southern USA MARTIN NEKOLA, Independent Scholar, (marnekola@gmail.com) Safeguarding the “Benefits of an Undivided Homeland”: Local Municipal Administrators and the Making of the Polish-Polish-Czechoslovak Border in Cieszyn and Český Těšín, 1920-1938 ZORA PISKAČOVÁ, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (zora.piskacova@unc.edu) Pińczów. Small Town to Big Picture. Mapping Our Way from the Post-Medieval VIRGINIA P. ZICKAFOOSE, Independent Scholar, (vpzickafoose@gmail.com) World War One and Transnational Jewish Relief Networks: Regionalism as a Force in Rebuilding Galicia OSKAR CZENDZE, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (oskar.czendze@unc.edu) Discussant: MARA KOZELSKY, University of South Alabama, (mkozelsky@southalabama.edu) SESSION 6.2 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | HAWTHORNE TOPICS IN RUSSIAN, POLISH, AND U.S. HISTORY Chair: MATTHEW SCHWONEK, Air Command and Staff College, (matthewschwonek@gmail.com) The Unquiet Dead: The Legacy of Decembrism JACOB EUGSTER, Austin Peay State University, (jeugster@my.apsu.edu) How Russian-American Relations Limited European Expansion in 19th century North America ELIZABETH WILCOX, Austin Peay State University, (ewilcox@my.apsu.edu) A Borderland of Ideologies: The Polish Army and Western Ukraine 1918-1921 NICHOLAS HERRUD, Austin Peay State University, (nherrud@my.apsu.edu) The Cossack and the Samurai: The Print Images of the Russo-Japanese War CHARLES ENGLE, SCAD, (cengle.creativeworks@gmail.com) Discussant: LEE A. FARROW, Auburn University at Montgomery, (lfarrow@aum.edu) SESSION 6.3 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | MAGNOLIA UNDERCURRENTS IN SOVIET HISTORY: CRIME, THE “SHADOW ECONOMY,” AND ANTI-WAR SENTIMENTS, 1920S-1980S Gender and Hooliganism in NEP SHARON KOWALSKY, Texas A & M University, (sharon.kowalsky@tamuc.edu) How to Succeed in Soviet Business without Really Trying: Outlaw Entrepreneurs inside the Planned Economy under Late Socialism JAMES HEINZEN, Rowan University, (heinzen@rowan.edu) ‘Our Soldiers are Dying in Vain on Foreign Soil’: Popular Opposition in the USSR to the Soviet-Afghan War, 1980-1987 JEFF JONES, UNC-Greensboro, (jwjones@uncg.edu)

Discussant: DAVID BRANDENBERGER, University of Richmond, (dbranden@richmond.edu) SESSION 6.4 | 10 - 11:45 A.M. | BIRCH HOW THE WAR IN UKRAINE HAS CHANGED PERCEPTIONS AND REALITIES OF SECURITY IN EASTERN EUROPE (ROUNDTABLE) OLAVI ARENS, Georgia Southern University, (oarens@georgiasouthern.edu) MICHAEL BAUN, Valdosta State University, (mbaun@valdosta.edu) IVAN NIKOLOV, Valdosta State University, (inikolov@valdosta.edu) JIM PETERSON, Valdosta State University, (jpetersn@valdosta.edu) SESSION 6.5 | 10 - 11:45 AM | CEDAR MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE SOVIET SPACE Chair & Discussant: CADRA PETERSON MCDANIEL, Texas A&M UniversityCentral Texas, (cadra.mcdaniel@tamuct.edu) The Rambling Path of Soviet and Russia Spacesuit Gloves CATHLEEN LEWIS, Smithsonian Institute, National Air and Space Museum, (lewiscs@si.edu) Outliving Obsolescence: Longevity, Ideology, and Style in Soviet Mass Housing ELISE SCHLECHT, Emory University, (elise.schlecht@emory.edu) People’s Diplomacy and the Beginning of Gorbachev’s Economic Reforms MARTIN J. BLACKWELL, Stetson University, (mjblackwell@stetson.edu)

CLOSING DRINKS AND DINNER 5:30 P.M...................Traditional Post-Conference Informal Gathering - Beach Party Bingo Deli & Pub, 619 S Main St Unit 1A, Gainesville, FL 32601 Transportation information TBD; participants pay for themselves onsite.

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The local organizers would like to express their heartfelt thanks to the following individuals, without whose help the organization process would have been far more complicated and far less enjoyable: Kathleen Martin, UF CLAS Communications; Ashley Monahan, Hilton – University of Florida; Amey Owen, UF CLAS Communications; Morgan Rich, UF Center for European Studies; Carla Ruffer, UF Center for European Studies; Erin Smith, UF Department of History; Richard Tate, UF Center for European Studies and Corinne Tomasi, UF Center for European Studies.

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