"American Cultural Scene": International Conference
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian-American Academic Center
International Academic Conference
«American Cultural Scene»
February 25-26, 2010
Dear Colleagues!
Russian-American Academic Center at Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia, is pleased to invite you to the International Academic Conference «American Cultural Scene» to be held on February 25-26, 2010.
The working languages of the conference are English and Russian.
Program at a Glance
February 25, Thursday
9:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 1:00 Plenary Session (Academic Council Hall)
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 Concurrent Sessions
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Session 1 Art (Room 228)
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Session 2 Literature (Room 273)
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Session 3 Culture Studies. Intercultural Communication (Room 220)
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4:00 – 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 – 6:30 Concurrent Sessions
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Session 1 Art (Room 228)
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Session 2 Literature (Room 273)
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Session 3 Culture Studies. Intercultural Communication (Room 220)
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February 26, Friday
12:00 – 2:00 Concurrent Sessions
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Session 3 Culture Studies. Intercultural Communication (Room 220)
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Session 4 Theatre (Room 228)
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Session 5 History (Room 273)
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2:00 – 3:00 Lunch
3:00 – 5:00 Concurrent Sessions
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Session 3 Culture Studies. Intercultural Communication (Room 220)
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Session 6 Cinema (Room 228)
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Session 7 Music (Room 273)
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5:00 – 6:30 Concert; Cheese and Wine Reception (University Cafeteria)
Program
February 25, Thursday
PLENARY SESSION
Academic Council Hall
floor 6, building 6
10:00-11:00
OPENING CEREMONY
EFIM I. PIVOVAR
Academician, President of the Russian State University for the Humanities
VIKTOR SIDABRAS
Cultural Attache, Embassy of the USA, Moscow
VALERY V. MINAEV
Professor of Economics, First Vice-President of the Russian State University for the Humanities
DMITRY P. BAK
Professor of Philology, Vice President for Research of the Russian State University for the Humanities
IRWIN WEIL
Professor of Philology, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Professor HONORIS CAUSA of RSUH
MARINA R. KAUL
Professor of Philology, Director of the Russian-American Academic Center at RSUH
ANTHONY KOLIHA
Director of the Fulbright Program in Russia
IRINA V. BAKANOVA
Associate Professor of Philology, Dean of the School of Art History at RSUH
11:00 -13:00
PLENARY PANEL
LUDMILA L. BARANOVA
Professor of Philology, Moscow State University
The Diversity of American Culture
MARY JANE JACOB
Professor, Executive Director of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Trends in American Public Art
KRASIMIRA L. LUKICHEVA
Associate Professor of Art History, Head of the Department of World Art History at RSUH
New History of Art: American Version
RUSSELL LEWIS
Executive Vice President and Chief Historian, Chicago History Museum (Chicago, IL)
The World’s Columbian Exposition and the City Beautiful Movement in America
1:00-2:00 – Lunch
2:00-6:30
SESSION 1: ART
room 228, floor 2, building 7
Moderators:
KRASIMIRA L. LUKICHEVA
Associate Professor of Art History, Head of the Department of World Art History at RSUH
HARRY TOUNG
Architect (New York, NY)
2:00-4:00
ELENA Y. KHLOPINA
Senior Lecturer, Department of World Art History at RSUH
Archetype in Art: American and Russian Primitive Portraits in the 18th and 19th Centuries
LUDMILA Y. LIMANSKAYA
Professor of Art History, Department of World Art History at RSUH
Culture as a Living System: Evolutionary Aspects of Anglo-American Art History in the 20th Century
VYACHESLAV P. SHESTAKOV
Professor of Philosophy, Department of World Art History at RSUH
Paul Mellon: Art Patronage System in the U.S.
NINA V. GETASHVILI
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of World Art History at RSUH
Americans and the Heroic Avant-garde: Looking Back at the History of Art in the 20th Century
HARRY TOUNG
Architect (New York, NY)
Michael Graves: a leading voice in architecture during the post-modern era
DISCUSSION
4:00-4:30 – Coffee Break
4:30-6:30 – RESUMED SESSION 1: ART
VYACHESLAV P. SHESTAKOV
Professor of Philosophy, Department of World Art History at RSUH
Three Generations of the Wyeth Family in Russia
ILYA V. OSTROVSKIY
Graduate Student at the Department of Post-Soviet territory at RSUH
Artistic Life of Naum Gabo: Russia, England, USA
ELENA A. YAKIMOVICH
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of World Art History at RSUH
From Accident to Artistic Device: European and American Photography from the Mid-19th Century to Pictorialism and Avant-garde
MIA GROSJEAN
Community Liaison, Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor, NY)
Discovering History through Photographs
OKSANA V. GAVRISHINA
Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Art History and Theory at RSUH
The Theme of a “Modern Ruin” in the American Photography of the 2000s
DISCUSSION
2:00-6:30
SESSION 2: LITERATURE
room 273, floor 2, building 7
Moderators:
ELENA S. OSTROVSKAYA
Associate Professor of Philology, Department of English Philology at RSUH
NICK KUPENSKY
Graduate Student, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
2:00-4:00
CHARLES ST. GEORGE
Graduate Student and Research Assistant at Arizona State University (Phoenix, AZ))
Duality and (Im)Mortality: The Ghostly Dimensions of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas’ Sanctuaries of the Heart
NATALYA A. POLISCHUK
Deputy Director of the Division for University Projects and Programs at RSUH
Literary Jazz as a Strategy of American Literature
NICK KUPENSKY
Graduate Student, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Is Working-Class Literature at the Center or on the Periphery of the American Cultural Scene?
MARY BRUCE
Professor of English, Monmouth College (Monmouth, IL)
The Shattering of the American Dream
ELENA S. OSTROVSKAYA
Associate Professor, Department of English Philology at RSUH
Poetics and Politics of Translation: a Russian Auden
DISCUSSION
4:00-4:30 – Coffee Break
4:30-6:30
RESUMED SESSION 2: LITERATURE
YULIA L. SAPOZHNIKOVA
Associate Professor, Smolensk State University
Double Language of Frederick Douglass in his “Narrative”: Public Speaking of an Abolitionist and Signifying of a Slave
VLADIMIR N. ANDREYEV
Associate Professor, Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University
Metaphors in M. Cunningham’s Novel The Hours
KANG TCHOU
Graduate Student, University of Cambridge
Translating Russia, China and Anglo-America: Attempts at Finding Common Ground through Literature and Culture
GULIA SHAIKHUTDINOVA
College Teacher (Salavat, Bashkortostan)
The Way to Wealth in Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac"
DISCUSSION
2.00-6.30
SESSION 3. CULTURE STUDIES AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
room 220, floor 2, building 6
Moderators:
MARINA R. KAUL
Professor of Philology, Director of the Russian-American Academic Center at RSUH
TONY BROWN
Assistant Professor of Russian, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
2:00-4:00
ALINA M. RYABOVOLOVA
M.A., Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities
Teaching Culture through Mass Media: Cultural Poles in American Culture
TATYANA A. MARKELOVA
Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities
Non-verbal Culture of America
MARIA SHTEYNMAN
Associate Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
American Dream and Soviet Ideology: Cross-Cultural Communications in the Present-Day Russian Cinema
ANDREI VETER
Film Director, Writer
Red Power
NATALYA Y. SUCHUGOVA
Associate Professor of History, Russian State University for the Humanities
Teaching American Art
DISCUSSION
4:00-4:30 – Coffee Break
4:30-6:30
RESUMED SESSION 3: CULTURE STUDIES AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
TONY BROWN
Assistant Professor of Russian, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
American Myths, Legends, and Folktales and their Respective Connotations among University-Age Students
THOMAS GARZA
Associate Professor and Texas Language Center Director at University of Texas (Austin, TX)
Technology, Social Networking, and the Culture of the American University Student
VICTORIA SHUBENINA
PhD student, Saratov State Technical University
Getting to Know American Culture: International Student in the US
NADIA KOLESNIK
PhD Student and Instructor, Moscow State University
Exploring Russian Legacy and Culture Together with the Students from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
February 26, Friday
12:00-5:00
SESSION 3. CULTURE STUDIES AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
room 220, floor 2, building 6
Moderators:
MARINA R. KAUL
Professor of Philology, Director of the Russian-American Academic Center at RSUH
TONY BROWN
Assistant Professor of Russian, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
12:00 – 2:00
LUDMILA A. KHALILOVA
Professor of Philology, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Institute of History and Archives at RSUH
Public Speech: evolution of genre
IRINA B ANTONOVA
Associate Professor of English, Russian State University for the Humanities
Political Speechmaking: the Art of Persuasion
YEKATERINA V. TALALAKINA
Higher School of Economics
Web-Based Component of American Cultural Studies: International Project Case Study.
TATYANA V. BYCHKOVA
Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities
Application of Information Technologies for American Culture Studies
ELENA N. PONOMAREVA
Associate Professor, Norilsk Institute of Advanced Training
Applying Howard Gardner’s Methodology (USA) in Russian School
DISCUSSION
2.00-3.00 – Lunch
3.00-5.00
RESUMED SESSION 3: CULTURE STUDIES AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
MARIA E. SHASKOLSKAYA
Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities
The Tradition of Tall Tales in American Culture
YULIA B. KUZMENKOVA
Associate Professor of Culturology, Higher School of Economics
Cross-cultural Drama Activities in the ELT Theatre
TATYANA G. SOKOLSKAYA
Associate Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence through Stylistic Analysis of English Texts
NATALYA E. KULIKOVA
Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities
American Short Story: Linguocultural Analysis of Short Stories
NATALYA N. DOLOVOVA
Associate Professor, Ulyanovsk State Technical University
Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence: Socio-Cultural Aspect
DISCUSSION
5.00-6.30 – Concert; Cheese and Wine Reception
12:00-2:00
SESSION 4: THEATRE
room 228, floor 2, building 7
Moderators:
GALINA V. MAKAROVA
Professor of Art History, Head of the Department of Theatre and Film History at RSUH
IRWIN WEIL
Professor of Philology, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Professor HONORIS CAUSA of RSUH
12:00-2:00
GALINA V. MAKAROVA
Professor of Art History, Head of the Department of Theatre and Film History at RSUH
Russian and American actor act: similarities and differences
ELENA V. YUSHKOVA
Associate Professor of Art History, Metropolitan Academy for the Humanities and Finance, Vologda Branch
Philosophical Dance of Isadora Duncan
ОLGA KURAPOVA
Professor, State Institute of Art History
Russian Actor in the Space of Alien Culture: Mikhail Chekhov
IRWIN WEIL
Professor of Philology, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Professor HONORIS CAUSA of RSUH
New York Theatrical life under the Expressionist Director Erwin Piscator
LAUREN BROWN
Assistant Professor, High Point University (High Point, North Carolina)
Body Language: Nationalism, Dance, and the Politics of Physical Movement, 1950-1975
ANNA KONTSOVA
Graduate Student, RSUH
Living Theatre from the 1950s to 1980s
MARIA KUVSHINOVA
Lecturer, the Department of Theatre and Film History at RSUH
Robert Wilson and the World Theatre
VALENTINA RYAPOLOVA
Professor of Art History, State Institute for Arts
American Film Actors on the London Stage
DISCUSSION
12.00-2.00
SESSION 5. HISTORY
room 273, floor 2, building 7
Moderators:
PAVEL Y. RAKITIN
Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities
DAVID KIMBERLY
Adjunct Instructor, Malone Management Program, Malone University (Canton, OH)
12:00-2:00
PAVEL Y. RAKITIN
Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities
Covenant Theology from Puritans to Unitarians in the early 19th century
DAVID KIMBERLY
Adjunct Instructor, Malone Management Program, Malone University, Canton, OH
In God We Trust: Impact Points of Evangelical Faith on American National Life
LINNEA GOODWIN BURWOOD
Associate Professor of History, State University of New York (Delhi, NY); 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar, Moscow State University
Alexander Berkman: Russian Émigré on American Soil 1889-1920
ALEXEY E. FOMINYKH
Associate Professor, Mari State University (Yoshkar-Ola)
Soviet Visitors’ Comments in the Guestbook of the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959
NATALYA A. BATOVA
Associate Professor, Higher School of Economics
The history of family relations in Russia and the USA: Similar Processes?
LUDMILA A. ALYABIEVA
Associate Professor of Philology, Head of the English Philology Department at RSUH
Swaps and Other Consumption Practices in Modern Russia and the USA: Between the Past, the Present and the Future
DISCUSSION
2.00-3.00 – Lunch
3.00-5.00
SESSION 4: CINEMA
room 228, floor 2, building 7
Moderators:
GALINA V. MAKAROVA
Professor of Art History, Head of the Department of Theatre and Film History at RSUH
IRWIN WEIL
Professor of Philology, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Professor HONORIS CAUSA of RSUH
3.00-5.00
ALEXIS E. POGORELSKIN
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Minnesota (Duluth, MN)
Charles Lindbergh and the War on Hollywood
VYACHESLAV A. SACHKOV
Cinematographer, Russian State Film Institute
Vittorio Storaro’s Cinematography and Its Influence on Camera Work in the American Cinema
ELENA A. IVANOVA
Assistant Professor, Mass Communication Department, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
American Values or Hollywood Myths: Stereotypical Models of Influence
LARISA G. MIKHAILOVA
Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Moscow State University
Fate and Freedom of Choice on the American Television Screen: The TV Shows Heroes and FlashForward
DMITRY MANCHENKOV
Graduate Student, Moscow State University
The Ideal Formula of a Modern American Horror Movie (on the example of the “Masters of Horror” cycle)
GLEB VYTULEV
Student, RSUH
Ethical Problems in the Films of Milos Forman
INNA LIBURKINA
Student, RSUH
Film Noir. Worldview and Images of the World
DISCUSSION
5.00-6.30 – Concert; Cheese and Wine Reception
University Cafeteria
3.00-5.00
SESSION 7. MUSIC
room 273, floor 2, building 7
Moderators:
VICTOR YUZEFOVICH
Musicologist, Author and Performer (USA)
ELENA M. YEZERSKAYA
Theatre Critic, Musicologist and Author (Russia)
3.00-5.00
VICTOR YUZEFOVICH
Musicologist, Author and Performer
Sergei Kusevitsky, a Conductor, Cultural Bridge Builder and Idealist
ALEKSANDR B. ZHURBIN
Composer
American Musical Theatre
ELENA M. YEZERSKAYA
Theatre Critic, Musicologist and Author
American Musical on the Russian Stage
INNA NARODITSKAYA
Associate Professor of Musicology, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
American Scholarship on Russian Music and Culture
BORIS A. RIVCHUN
Composer, Associate Professor at the Maimonides State Classical Academy
Mutual Influence of Russian and American Music
SERGEI ILYIN
Graduate Student, Russian State University for the Humanities
Heavy Metal in Russia (1980-1990s): Adaptation of the Western Tradition
DISCUSSION
5.00-6.30 – Concert; Cheese and Wine Reception
University Cafeteria
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