Panel 1: Memory, Politics, Performance

11AM-12:45 PM

Chair: Alla Savelieva

Sophia Prakash (International Affairs; Minors: Sociology and REEES), "Contesting Historical Memory: Analyzing Monument Destruction after the Passing of the Decommunization Laws in Ukraine and BLM Protests in the US"

Annalisa Neal (Political Science and REEES), "Nationalism, Traditionalism, and Imperialism: The 2014 Sochi Olympics and the Spirit of Putin’s Russia"

Kate Stiles (REEES and International Affairs; Minor: Political Science), "Russian Actionism between the Second and the Third Waves: The Spectacle of Shared Reality"

Libby Clemence (History), “Cultural Depictions of Women in Russian Fairytales”
 

12:45-1:15 PM Lunch
 

Panel 2. Thinking About the Stalinist Terror

1:15-3:15 PM

Chair: Daria Makarova

 Hayley Thomas (International Affairs), "Recognizing the Ukrainian Famine: Politicization of the Term “Genocide” in the Case of Holodomor"

Casondra Heiss (International Affairs; Peace Conflict, and Security Program), "Stalinist Representations of Oprichnina and the Manipulation of History”

 Julian Hollis (International Affairs and REEES) "Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales and His Reflection on the Great Terror"

 Miriam Perelson (REEES and History), "Revolutionary Struggle as a Method of Reclaiming Agency During the Stalinist Repressions: Varlam Shalamov's Use of Revolutionary History in the Creation of a New Socialist Literature"