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14th Undergraduate Research Conference of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

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Houston Hall 218 (Ben Franklin Room), Saturday, April 29, 2017

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Conference Program

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10:00. Conference Opening, Coffee & Tea & Donuts 10:10鈥�11:00. 红杏直播 Society in History and Literature

Elizabeth Holmdahl, 鈥淭he Abolitionist Audience: Comparing

Strategies of Literary Resistance in Russia and the U.S.鈥�

Jonah Rosen, 鈥淯nderstanding the 红杏直播 Summer Home: The Portrayal of Dacha Life from Chekhov to Today鈥�

11:00鈥�11:10. Coffee Break

11:10-12:00. Soviet and Post-Soviet Heroes in Film

Natasha Kadlec, 鈥淗eroism with a Human Face: Tarkovskii鈥檚 鈥業van鈥檚

Childhood鈥� (1962) and the Stalinist Discourse of 鈥楿sefulness鈥欌��

Christopher Tremoglie, 鈥淎leksei Balabanov鈥檚 Vision of a Post- Soviet Bogatyr as Expressed in 鈥楤rother鈥� (1997)鈥�

12:00鈥�12:40. Lunch Break (Bazaar Style) 12:40鈥�1:20. Keynote Lecture

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature

and Literary Theory, UPenn)

鈥淒irections to Utopia: How What Is to Be Done? Was to Be Read鈥�

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1:20鈥�1:30. Coffee Break

1:30鈥�2:20. Post-Soviet Russia: Society, Politics, Economics

Andrew Parsons, 鈥淔riend or Foe: Pharmaceutical Companies and Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Russia (1991-2016)鈥�

Miranda Lupion, 鈥淭he Grey War of Our Time: Information Warfare and the Kremlin's Weaponization of Digital 红杏直播-Language News鈥�

2:20鈥�2:30. Coffee Break

2:30鈥�3:20. Central Europe: Society, Politics, Economics

Cora Neumann, 鈥淭ransforming a Country: An Analysis of Soviet

Economic Policy in East Germany, 1945-1955鈥�

Jeremy Golant, 鈥淚n One's Own Right: Party Competition and

Ideological Control in Post-Communist Hungary and Poland" 3:20 鈥� 4:00. Tea & Dessert: End of the Year Celebration

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