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Panel Title: Agreement and Case.
Panel Organizer: Natalia Kondrashova
University of Michigan
Email: natakon@umich.edu
Panel Title: Anaphora in Slavic Languages
Panel Organizer: Professor Steven L. Franks
Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Ballantine Hall, Room 502
Indiana University
Bloomington IN 47405-7103
Phone: 812-855-2616
Email: franks@indiana.edu
Panel Title: Defining Productivity in Gradient Grammar
Panel Organizer: Andrea Sims
Linguistics Department, Northwestern University
2016 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 847-491-4860
Fax: 847- 491-3770
Email: andrea-sims@northwestern.edu
Panel Title: Indefinites in Slavic Languages
Panel Organizer: Hana Filip
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Florida
Email: hana.filip@gmail.com
Panel Title: Phonology
Panel Organizer: Keith Langston
Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages
University of Georgia
201 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: 706-542-2448
Fax: 706-583-0349
Email: langston@uga.edu
Panel Title: Quantification in Slavic
Panel Organizer: Lydia Grebenyova
Dept. of English
Baylor University
One Bear Place # 97404
Waco, TX 76798-7404
Phone: 254-710-6891
Email: Lydia_Grebenyova@baylor.edu
Panel Title: Restructuring “The Structure of Russian”
Panel Organizer: Elisabeth Elliott, Ph.D.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1860 Campus Drive
Crowe Hall, #4-125 (4th floor, new wing of Kresge Hall)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-2163
Phone: 847-491-8082
Fax: 847-467-2596
Email: eelliott@northwestern.edu
Description: Papers can consider pedagogical and also linguistic issues in
courses such as “The Structure of Russian”
Panel Title: Slavic Dialectology
Panel Organizer: Miriam Shrager
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ballantine Hall 502
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
Phone: 812-855-2608
Email: mshrage@indiana.edu
Panel Title: Syntax of South Slavic and Balkan Languages
Panel Organizer: Catherine Rudin
Department of Languages and Literature
Wayne State College
1111 Main St.
Wayne, NE 68787
Phone: 402-375-7026
Email: carudin1@wsc.edu
Panel Title: Grammatical Gender as a Source of Metaphorical Thinking
Panel Organizer: Marina Rojavin
Temple University
Department of French, German, Italian, and Slavic
Temple University
532 Anderson Hall
1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
Phone: 215-204-1760
Email: mrojavin@temple.edu
Panel Description: This panel will discuss the significance of grammatical gender
in the formation of aesthetic perceptions. As a formal category, grammatical
gender in Slavic languages can be a source of metaphor in poetry and folklore;
it can also be a starting point for lingua-cultural stereotypes, myths, and idols,
etc.
Panel Title: Literature of Exile:
Panel Organizer: Agnieszka
Gutthy
Southeastern Louisiana University
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, SLU Box 10719
Hammond, LA 70402-0719
Phone: 985-549-2880
Fax: 985-549-3088
Email: agutthy@selu.edu
Description: The session will examine texts by any exiled
writer from any country, dealing with the literary representation of exile.
Papers may focus on exile as a form of modern alienation, as a metaphor for
psychic difference, as an allegory of separation or on modern exilic politics
and emigre conditions.
Panel Title: Milan Kundera and the Art of Anti-Nostalgia
Panel Organizer: Lenka Pánková
University of Pittsburgh
1417 CL, U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone:412-624-5711
Email: pankova@pitt.edu
Description: The session will examine Kundera's reception
(or lack thereof) in post-Socialist Bohemia. Presentations might address
topics such as Kundera and the art of anti-nostalgia, Kundera in the context
of his "Central European Pleiades" (Gombrowicz, Kafka, Broch, Musil),
Kundera's cultural cartography, the concepts of memory, forgetting, nostalgia,
kitsch in Kundera's oeuvre, among others.
Panel Title: Course Design and Language Tasks in Advanced Level Instruction
Panel Organizer: Maria Alley
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ohio State University
Email: alley.27@osu.edu
Roundtable Title: Culture in Language Class: Incorporating Cultural and Linguistic
Aspects of Communication
Roundtable Chair: Marina Rojavin
Temple University
Department of French, German, Italian, and Slavic
Temple University
532 Anderson Hall
1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
Phone: 215-204-1760
Email: mrojavin@temple.edu
Roundtable Title: Retention of the Russian Language by Heritage Speakers in
the USA
Roundtable Organizer: Marina Rojavin
Temple University
Department of French, German, Italian, and Slavic
Temple University
532 Anderson Hall
1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
Phone: 215-204-1760
Email: mrojavin@temple.edu
Roundtable Title: Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Training in Slavic
Departments
Roundtable Organizer: Elisabeth Elliott, Ph.D.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1860 Campus Drive
Crowe Hall, #4-125 (4th floor, new wing of Kresge Hall)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-2163
Phone: 847-491-8082
Fax: 847-467-2596
Email: eelliott@northwestern.edu
Panel Title: The Verbs of Motion in Russian
Panel Organizer: Elisabeth Elliott, Ph.D.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1860 Campus Drive
Crowe Hall, #4-125 (4th floor, new wing of Kresge Hall)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-2163
Phone: 847-491-8082
Fax: 847-467-2596
Email: eelliott@northwestern.edu
Description: Papers can consider pedagogical and also linguistic issues in
teaching the Verbs of Motion in Russian.