CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS
ANNUAL MEETING
UNIVERSITE D'OTTAWA / UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
MAY 30-1 JUNE 1998
Registration: Registration for the Canadian Association of Slavists will take place at the Congress Centre, Montpetit Hall, on Friday, May 29 (12:00-4:00) and Saturday, May 30 (9:00-1:00).
Rector's Reception: The Rector's Reception will take place on Saturday, May 30 (4:30-6:30), and will be held in the Hospitality Tent, University Centre Terrace (adjacent to Morisset Library).
Banquet: The Banquet will be held at the Polonus Restaurant at 87 George Street. The restaurant is located in Market Square and is within walking distance of the University.
Abbreviations:
SMD Pavillon Simard / Simard Hall
TBT Pavillon Tabaret / Tabaraet Hall
MNT Pavillon Montpetit / Monpetit Hall
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY, 29 MAY
Registration: On Friday from 12:00-4:00, personnel will be present at the CAS table to assist delegates and also to sell banquet tickets ($30).
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SATURDAY, 30 MAY
Registration: On Saturday from 9:00-12:00, personnel will be present at the CAS table to assist delegates and also to sell banquet tickets ($30).
SESSIONS
9:00-10:45, SMD 429
RUSSIAN HISTORY
Chair: TBA
Leonard Friesen (Wilfrid Laurier University)
The Case of the revolting newlyweds: Rethinking isolationist images of imperial Russia's peasants before 1900
Alison Rowley (Duke University)
Reminiscences of Lenin: An Overlooked source of resistance to Stalinism
Tristan Landry (Laval University)
Postmodern Russian history and postmodern Soviet historiography
9:00-10:45, SMD 402
ATTITUDES TOWARD LABOUR AND WOMEN'S WORK IN FORMER USSR
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Association of Slavists and the Canadian Historical Association
Chair: Corrine Gaudin (University of Ottawa)
Norman G. O. Pereira (Dalhousie University)
Soviet Work Attitudes, 1945-91: A Survey Appraoch
R. Connie Wawruck-Hemmett (Dalhousie University)
Soviet Attitudes toward Women's Work: A Visual presentation
10:45-12:30, SMD 428
FILM
Chair: TBA
Marek Haltof (University of Western Ontario)
The Holocaust and images of the Jew in Polish films after 1989
Lily Avrutin (University of Toronto)
From Russian literature to post-Soviet cinema: Between classical motifs and political controversy
Sarah Kaderabek (McGill)
Film adaptations of Gogol's short stories
10:45-12:30, SMD 430
SOCIAL ISSUES AND PUBLIC POLICY IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA
Chair: TBA
Piotr Dutkiewicz (Carleton University)
Employment issues and unemployment insurance
Greg Poelzer (U. of Northern British Columbia)
Peoples of the north
Andrea Chandler (Carleton University)
Pension reform and social assistance
1:30-3:15, SMD 428
ISSUES IN ECONOMIC TRANSITION
Chair: TBA
Carl McMillan (Carleton University)
Assessing comparative Progress in the Transition Economies
Konstantine Loukhine (University of Western Ontario)
Problems of Corporate Governance and Managerialism in Russia
Joan DeBardeleben (Institute for Central/East European and Russian Area Studies, Carleton )
Enterprise Restructuring and Labour Management Relations in Russia
1:30-3:15, SMD 402
THROUGH FOREIGN EYES
Chair: TBA
J. Guy Lalande (St. Francis Xavier University)
The Death of Leon Trotsky as commented in Canadian newspapers
Victor O. Buyniak (University of Saskatchewan)
Gabrielle Roy's depiction of Ruthenian settlers in The Well of Dunrea
Maria Debicz (Wroc¬aw, Teatr Polski)
Tadeusz Rózewicz - Réception à l'étranger
1:30-3:15, SMD 429
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Chair: TBA
Ireneusz Szarycz (University of Waterloo)
Ivan Bunin: Precursor of lyrical prose in Russian literature
Alexander F. Zweers (University of Waterloo)
Chekhov's and Bunin's approach to their craft
Zina Gimpelevich (University of Waterloo)
Aleksei Skaldin: His life and death
3:00 CAUS MEETING, SMD 430
4:30-6:3, Hospitality Tent, University Centre Terrace
RECTOR'S RECEPTION
7:00-9:00, SMD 229A
OUTGOING CAS EXECUTIVE MEETING
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SUNDAY, 31 MAY
8:30-10:15, TBT 309
CHAIRS IN SLAVIC
Chair: Frances A. Swyripa (University of Alberta)
Andriy Nahachewsky (University of Alberta)
Huculak chair of Ukrainian culture and ethnography
Mark Stolarik (University of Ottawa)
Chair in Slovak history and culture
Peter Galadza (St. Paul University)
Kule Family Chair in Eastern Christial Liturgy
Theofil I. Kis (University of Ottawa)
Chair of Ukrainian studies
8:30-10:15, TBT 311
THE COLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
Chair: TBA
Chris Burton (University of Chicago)
Soviet patriotism and Cold War medicine
Bill McGrath (Memorial University)
Stories and theories: The End of the Cold War reconsidered
Mikhail Molchanov (University of Alberta)
Bilateralism and security in Russian-Ukrainian relations
Peter Waisberg (Carleton University)
New demands for dual Russian-Tatar citizenship
10:30-12:15, TBT 0021
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Chair: TBA
Edward Mozejko (U. of Alberta)
Ilya Selvinsky's correspondence with Nikolai Bukharin
Olga E. Glagoleva (CREES, University of Toronto)
'Such is my ideal of human well-being': A.T. Bolotov and N.S. Artsybashev in their correspondence, 1808-1810
Nina Kolesnikoff (McMaster University)
Generic diversity of Russian Postmodern prose
10:3012:15, TBT 309
ARCHITECTURE
Volodymyr Mezentsev (Pontifical Institute, University of Toronto)
The Beginning of Byzantine Architecture in 10th Century Kiev
10:30-12:15, TBT 0019 (PANEL)
NATO EXPANSION EASTWARD: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS
Chair : J.L. Black, (Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian relations, Carleton; NATO fellow, 1997-99)
Piotr Dutkiewicz (Political Science, Carleton)
Jacques Lesvsque (Science politique, Carleton)
Dean Oliver (International Affairs, Carleton)
Alain Pellerin, Col. (Rtd)
CAS GRADUATE STUDENTS MEETING (OVER LUNCH), TBT 309
1:00-2:45 TBT 0019
MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKY-The development of Ukrainian historiography: The Centennial of the History of Ukraine-Rus'
Chair: TBA
Zenon Kohut (Canadian Inst. of Ukrainian Studies, U. of Alberta)
The Birth of Ukrainian National historiography
Frank Sysyn (Canadian Inst. of Ukrainian Studies, U. of Alberta)
Mykhailo Hrushevsky and his History of Ukraine-Rus'
Serhii Plokhy (Canadian Inst. of Ukrainian Studies, U. of Alberta)
Revisiting the Golden Age: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the History of Ukrainian Cossacks
1:00-2:45, TBT 0021 (PANEL)
SLAVIC RESEARCH CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
Chair : TBA
Andrew Donskov (University of Ottawa)
Richard Sokoloski (University of Ottawa)
Lidia Gromova-Opul'skaya (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow))
Galina Galagan (Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg)
4:00 CAS Annual General Meeting, TBT 070
7:00 SUNDAY EVENING - BANQUET - POLONUS RESTAURANT
87 George Street (Byward Market)
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Monday, June 1
9:00-10:45, TBT 309
MUSINGS ON THE AFTERMATH OF THE SOUTH SLAV CIVIL WAR
Chair: Nicholas Pasic (Serbian Heritage Academy)
Sava Bosnitch (University of New Brunswick)
The American Bull in the South Slav China shop
Damir Mirkovic (Brandon University)
The Historical link between the Ustasha Genocide and the Croato-Serb civil war in 1991
Nicholas Pasic
The Truth about the Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac
9:00-10:45, TBT 311
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Chair: TBA
Anna Matzov (Queen's University)
Teaching literature in the nineties: Bakhtin's philosophy in practice
Valentina Golondzowska-Brougher (Georgetown University)
Demythologizing Socialist Realism: Vladimir Sorokin's Marina's thirteenth love
10:45-12:30, TBT 0021
DOUKHOBORS IN CANADA-100 years and beyond
Chair: John Woodsworth (University of Ottawa)
Julie Rak (McMaster University)
Robert B. Klymasz (Canadian Museum of Civilization)
Koozma J. Tarasoff (Ethnographer and Author, Ottawa)
Peter Sekirin (University of Toronto)
10:45-12:30, TBT 0019
PARODY AND SATIRE IN POST-STALINIST SOVIET CULTURE AND LITERATURE
Chair: TBA
Eric Lozowy (McGill University)
Satire in the works of Saltykov-Shchedrin and Zinoviev: A Comparative study of two historical models
Laura Beraha (McGill University)
Recombinant roguery: The Picaresque symbiosis of victim and victimiser in Aksenov's Ozhog
Rolf Hellebust (University of Calgary)
On the possibility of post-totalitarian satire
1:30-2:45 TBT 309
NEW INITIATIVES IN UKRAINIAN-CANADIAN HISTORY
Chair: Connie Wawruck-Hemmett (Dalhousie University)
Gregory S. Kealey (Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University)
RCMP in the history of Ukrainian-Canadians
Myron Momryk (National Archives of Canada)
The Ukrainian left in Canada: archival sources
Nolan Reilly (University of Winnipeg)
The Winnipeg Ukrainian Labour Temple
1:30-2:45 TBT 0019
POLISH LITERATURE
Chair: Richard Sokoloski (University of Ottawa)
Maria Debicz (Wroclaw, Teatr Polski)
Polski teatr po przemianie
Barbara Sharratt (University of Toronto)
The motif of betrayal in the works of Adam Mickiewicz
1:30-2:45 TBT 309
SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS
Chair: Joseph Schallert (University of Toronto)
Aleksandra Mayeski (University of Toronto)
Observations of the Meaning of the OCS Perfect
Maria Stefanovic (University of Toronto)
Pragamatic Usage of the Genitive-Accusative in Serbian Relative Pronouns
Brian Cooke (University of Toronto)
Nouns of Common Gender in Macedonian and Russian
3:00-4:45, TBT 0021
RUSSIAN LITERATURE: PROSE
Chair: TBA
Megan Swift (University of Toronto)
Alternating voices: Mandelshtam's narrator in Egiptskaya marka
Paul Haddock (University of Toronto)
Appollon Grigor'ev, Boris Pasternak and Romantic aesthetics
Mark Conliffe (University of Toronto)
Aspects of isolation in Korolenko's Son Makara
3:00-4:45, TBT 0021
LANGUAGE
Chair: TBA
Robert Orr (U. of Ottawa)
Evolution in diachronic linguistics: some Slavic examples
George Mihaychuk (Georgetown University)
Word order and point of view
5:00-6:30, TBT 0019
Reception co-hosted by the Slavic Research Centre (University of Ottawa) and the Institute for Central/East European and Russian Area Studies (Carleton University), TBT 0019