Schedule:

10:30 coffee/ breakfast

10:45-12:15 First Panel 

Chair: Anastasiya Osipova

Elizabeth Crim (Majors: REES and Spanish; Minor: Art History), “Representing Generations of Violence against Women: Ukrainian Ornamental Motifs and Collage in the War-Time Works of Maria Siniakova and Dana Kavelina”

Miriam Perelson (Majors: History and REES), “Jewish Representation in Ukrainian Nationalist Mythmaking: Taras Shevchenko’s Haidamaky and the Problem of Romantic Nationalism”

Derek Plott (Major: Business Management), “Russian Propaganda in Donbass: An Analysis of Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass”

12:15-12:30 Coffee break

12:30–2:00 Second Panel

Chair: Madelyn Scarlett

Clara Paternostro (Major: Linguistics), “Russian Language and Russophone Literature in Post-Maidan Ukraine” 

Darly Otero (Major: International Affairs), “Victor Yuschenko, Memory Politics, and Ukrainian Nation-Building”

Sam Fox Mate (Major: International Affairs), “Nationalism and the Annexation of Crimea: How the Russian Nation Induced a Territorial Acquisition”

Chase Dobbs (Major: Political Science), “Socialism in the Periphery: Chingiz Aitmatov’s Jamila and Andrey Platonov’s Soul”

2:00-2:45 Lunch

2:45-4:00 Third Panel

Chair: Daria Molchanova

Iulia Victoria Sava (Majors: History and German), “Consumer Culture in the Soviet Bloc”

Michael Tsaevsky (Major: REES), “Belarus versus the European Union: Belarus Under Sanctions”

Katlin Risen (Major: History), “Women and the Space Race in Soviet Propaganda”

Martha Geering (Majors: French, REES, and Strategic Communications), “Cold War and Sports –– The Proxy War on Ice”