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MIDWEST SLAVIC
CONFERENCE

Hosted by

The Center for Slavic and
East European Studies

The Ohio State University
Blackwell Inn, Columbus, Ohio

April 15-17, 2010

Midwest Slavic 2010 WELCOME

On behalf of the Midwest Slavic Association, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies
(CSEES), and The Ohio State University, we would like to welcome you to the 2010 Midwest Slavic
Conference. CSEES is proud to continue supporting exciting research and innovative endeavors of
national and international distinction. Charged with enhancing the interdisciplinary knowledge of
Central and South-Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, CSEES strives to foster
vibrant academic culture that adds to a better understanding of a global society.

Yana Hashamova, Director
CSEES

Conference Location:

The conference will take place at the Blackwell Inn (2110 Tuttle Park Place) on the OSU campus in
Columbus, Ohio. Parking is available at the Tuttle Park Garage (Tuttle Park Place and Ives Drives)
one block south of the hotel. All events will take place on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Pfahl Hall. For
information on the 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference, please see the opposite side of this
program.

Registration:

Thanks to Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of Education, registration for the Midwest
Slavic Conference is free to all participants and open to the general public. All attendees will be re-
quired to register at the start of the conference and wear their name badges at all times. Registration
at the Blackwell will be located in the main hall on the 3rd floor of Pfahl Hall. For more information,
please visit the registration table on the 3rd floor.

Program Committee:

Dr. Yana Hashamova, Ohio State U
Dr. George Hudson, Wittenberg U
Dr. Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State U
Dr. Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U
Carolyn Smith, Ohio State U

Sponsored by:

The Midwest Slavic Association
The OSU Center for Slavic and East European Studies*
The OSU Office of International Affairs
The OSU Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The OSU College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Humanities
The U.S. Department of Education and Title VI funding
Friends of the Slavic Center

Call for Support:

The Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU asks all former students, faculty, and
friends for help supporting our programs. CSEES would like to expand funding for students to intern

and study overseas, to attend conferences both domestically and internationally, and for general
programming expenses. It is through your generous support that the Slavic Center will maintain the
high standard of excellence you have come to expect. Checks should be made payable to “The Ohio

State University” with “Friends of Slavic” on the notes line.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER The Ohio State University

Professor Stephen M. Norris
Miami University

Dr. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He
received his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Virginia and arrived at Miami
later that year. His research interests are in Russian history and visual culture since
1800. He is the author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime
Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (Northern Illinois, 2006) and co-editor
of Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (Indiana, 2008) and
Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (Indiana, 2008). His forthcoming books
are Blockbuster History: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism in the Putin Era and a
co-edited volume, People of Empire: Lives of Culture and Power in Russian
Eurasia, 1500-Present. He is presently working on a biography of Boris Efimov,
the Soviet cartoonist.

Dr. Norris also holds positions as Director of the Film Studies Program at Miami, as well as Director of
Undergraduate Studies in History, and is a Faculty Associate with the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-
Soviet Studies.

MIDWEST SLAVIC ASSOCIATION

Dr. Yana Hashamova (OSU), President

Dr. Hashamova (Ph.D., U of Illinois) is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European
Languages and Literatures and an Associate Faculty member of the Departments of Comparative Studies,
Women’s Studies, the Interdisciplinary Program of Film Studies, Sexuality Studies and the Mershon Center for
International Security Studies. She has published Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-
Soviet Film (2007) and co-edited (with Helena Goscilo) the volume Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons in Soviet
and Post-Soviet Film (2010).

Dr. Brian Baer (Kent State), Vice-President

Dr. Baer, Associate Professor of Russian and Translation Studies, received his Ph.D. from Yale University in
1996. His research interests include the translation and study of 19th and 20th century Russian literature, the
use of discourse theory in translation studies, and the pedagogy of translation. He authored Other Russias:
Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity (2009) and is the translator of Stories by Mikhail
Zhvanetsky and Not Just Brodsky by Sergei Dovlatov. He is the author of articles on translation and translates
works in the field of literature, political science and business. His current project is a volume by Russian writers
on translation for the Kent State University Press series in Translation Studies. Dr. Baer is a member of the
American Translators Association.

K-12 TEACHER TRAINING WORKSHOP

CSEES is pleased to announce the first annual Midwest Slavic K-12 Teacher Training Workshop,
“Approaches to Teaching about Contemporary Russia, Central and Eastern Europe in the Classroom.”
The workshop is a half-day of presentations for K-12 teachers that introduces them to new ways of
teaching about Russia, Central and Eastern Europe in their classrooms. Topics of the workshop
include: OSU library resources available for K-12 teachers, the political scene in contemporary Russia,
Russian culture, Russian grammar teaching methods, and international opportunities for K-12
teachers. Beginning in 2011, the workshop will be co-sponsored by the Russian and East European
Institute at Indiana U. For more information, please contact [email protected].

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Midwest Slavic 2010 MIDWEST SLAVIC CONFERENCE PROGRAM AGENDA

We encourage you to attend as many panels as you would like, including panels at the 17th Balkan and South
Slavic Conference and the annual Naylor Lecture. For more information on Panels I and II, please see the
other side of the program.

4:30p.m.—6:00p.m. Thursday, April 15, 2010
6:00p.m.—7:00p.m.
7:00p.m.—9:00p.m. The Blackwell Inn and Conference Center

Registration
Keynote Address by Professor Stephen M. Norris
Opening Reception

Friday, April 16, 2010

The Blackwell Inn and Conference Center

8:00a.m.—5:00p.m. Registration
8:30a.m.—10:00a.m. Panel Session III
10:00a.m.—10:15a.m. Break
10:15a.m.—11:45a.m. Panel Session IV
11:45am—1:00p.m. Lunch Break
1:00p.m.—2:45p.m. Panel Session V
2:45p.m.—3:00p.m. Break
3:00p.m.—5:00p.m. Panel Session VI
5:00p.m.—6:00p.m. Midwest Slavic Association Meeting

8:00a.m.—1:00p.m. Saturday, April 17, 2010
8:30a.m.—10:00a.m.
10:00a.m.—10:15a.m. The Blackwell Inn and Conference Center
10:15a.m.—12:00p.m.
12:00p.m.—1:00p.m. Registration
1:00p.m.—3:00p.m. Panel Session VII
3:00p.m.—3:15p.m. Break
3:15p.m.—5:15p.m. Panel Session VIII
Lunch Break
Panel Session IX
Break
Panel Session X

THURSDAY, APRIL 15 FRIDAY, APRIL 16

Blackwell Inn and Conference Center Blackwell Inn and Conference Center

REGISTRATION: 4:30P.M.—6:00P.M. REGISTRATION: 8:00A.M.—5:00P.M.

Pfahl 3rd Floor

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 6:00P.M.—7:00 P.M.
SESSION III: 8:30A.M.—10:00A.M.

Stephen M. Norris, Miami U

“Communism’s Cartoonist: Boris Efimov and the III-A: Russia’s Relations with Its Western
Soviet Century” Neighbors

Pfahl 230

OPENING RECEPTION: 7:00P.M.-9:00P.M.

Chair: William Kory, U of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

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SESSION III: (CONT.) BREAK: 10:00A.M.—10:15A.M. The Ohio State University

Jeffrey Boucher, Wittenberg U Pfahl 3rd Floor
“The Crimean Peninsula: A Case Study in Russian-
SESSION IV: 10:15A.M.—11:45A.M.
Ukrainian Relations”
Hollie Hongosh, Wittenberg U IV-A: Russia’s Relations with Its Southern
Periphery
“Latvian-Russian Relations: Paving a Highway
Toward New Destinations in Post-Soviet Foreign Policy” Pfahl 230
Courtney Ross, Wittenberg U
Chair: George Lywood, Ohio State U
“Russia and Belarus: An Uneven Relationship”
Taylor Hafley, Wittenberg U
III-C: Transnational Issues in Eurasia “Russia and Azerbaijan: A Happy Marriage?”
Pfahl 330
Shannon McAfee, Ohio State U
Chair: Kamol Abdullaev, Ohio State U “Russia’s Policy Toward China”

Joseph Castleton, Ohio State U Nathan Peeters, Wittenberg U
“Migration in Central Asia” “Conflict in the Caucasus: Russian-Georgian

Timothy Dempsey, Ohio State U Relations in the Wake of the 2008 War in Georgia”
“Central Asia’s Cotton Monoculture and the World Jeffrey Wilbur, Wittenberg U

Systems Approach” “Russia, the United States, and the Uneven
Ludmila Isurin, Ohio State U Competition for Kazakhstan’s Energy”

“‘Prodigal Children’ of Mother Russia: Russian IV-C: Russia, Central Europe, and the
Emigration to the USA, Israel, and Germany in the Western Alliance
Last Two Decades ”
Caitlyn Lemons, Ohio State U Pfahl 330

“Organized Crime and Terrorism” Chair: Judith Kullberg, Eastern Michigan U

III-D: East European Music Andrea Atkins, Ohio State U
Pfahl 340 “Reasons for NATO’s Expansion”

Chair: Melissa Witcombe, Indiana U Jakub Kulhanek, Georgetown U
“The Fundamentals of Contemporary Russia’s
Chris Krampe, Kansas U
“Franjo Dugan’s Organ Ouevre” EU Policy”
Roman Nitze, Ohio State U
Sandra Mathias, Capitol U
“Hungarian Influence on the World of Music “’Polish Military Development”

Education” IV-D: The Cost of Radical Social Change:
Enduring Inequalities in Central and
III-E: Between Bosnia and Serbia: Eastern Europe
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Pfahl 340
Pfahl 324
Chair: Irina Tomescu-Dubrow,
Chair: Jessie Labov, Ohio State U Polish Academy of Science
Discussant: Maciek Slomczynski, Ohio State U
Boris Bulatovic, U of Novy Sad
“Novel and History in Serbian 20th and 21st Joshua Dubrow, Polish Academy of Science
“Women’s Enduring Political Inequality in Poland”
Century Literature”
Sara Garrett, Ohio State U Maciek Slomczynski, Ohio State U
“Enduring Inequalities in Poland: POLPAN
“Corruption in Contemporary Bosnia”
Linda Long Van-Brocklyn, Ohio State U 1988-2008”
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Polish Academy of
“Between Land and Lines: War and Intervention in
No Man’s Land and Behind Enemy Lines” Science
“The Continuing Exclusion of the Roma in Eastern
Europe”

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Midwest Slavic 2010 FRIDAY, APRIL 16 (CONT.) V-D: Approaches to Slavic Morpho-Syntax
Pfahl 340
SESSION IV: (CONT.)
Chair: Stephen S. Robinson, Ohio State U
IV-E: Pushkin and His Times
Pfahl 324 Rosemarie Connolly, Indiana U
“The Movement Theory of Control and
Chair: Katherine Bowers, Northwestern U
Reflexivization in Polish”
Anastasia Kostetskaya, Ohio State U Daniel Davidson, Ohio State U
“Narod Bezmolvstvuet: Avoidance of Metaphysical
“Paradigm Inconsistencies in Czech Motion Verbs”
Responsibility in Pushkin's Oprichnik” Ksenia Zanon, Indiana U
Emma Pratt, Ohio State U
“On the Structure of Russian Functional and
“Nadezhda Durova: Romantic Heroine’” Lexical Prepositions”
Justin Wilmes, Ohio State U
V-E: Madness in Russian Literature and Culture
“Alexander Griboedov’s Influence on the Works of Pfahl 324
Pushkin”
Chair: Natalya Khokholova, U of Illinois
LUNCH BREAK: 11:45A.M.-1:00P.M.

SESSION V: 1:00P.M.—2:45P.M. Eileen Kunkler, Ohio State U
“Medicine and Its Failings in The Master and
V-A: Human Rights in Russia & Central Eurasia
Pfahl 230 Margarita”
Lauren Welker, Ohio State U
Chair: Jennifer Suchland, Ohio State U
“Contemporary Madness: Portrayals of the Insane
Khurshida Abdurasulova, U of Michigan in Russian Film”
“Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan (1950-1980): Western Kate White, Ohio State U

Perspectives” “Madness and the Soviet Regime in Pelevin’s
Shannon Potter, Ohio State U Omon Ra”

“Inter-Country Adoption in Romania: An Analysis BREAK: 2:45P.M.—3:00P.M.
of Competing Perspectives of Children’s Rights”
Kristin Silver, Ohio State U Pfahl 3rd Floor

“Human Trafficking” SESSION VI: 3:00P.M.—5:00P.M.

V-C: Adventures in Digital Filigranology VI-A: Regional History of Russia and the
Pfahl 330 Soviet Union

David Birnbaum, U of Pittsburgh Pfahl 230
“Existing digital watermark albums for Slavists”
Chair: Carolyn Smith, Ohio State U
Quinn Dumbrowski, U of Chicago
“A new digital edition of N. P. Likhachev's Epp Annus, Ohio State U—Newark
“The Emergence of Soviet Postcolonialism”
watermark album”
Predrag Matejic, Ohio State U George Lywood, Ohio State U
“Satirizing the Season: Crimean Journalists and
“Filigranology and watermark albums for Slavists”
and “Automated image-matching in filigranology” the Mores of Travel, 1900-1914”
Roger Boyle, U of Leeds (contributing author) Mark Soderstrom, Ohio State U
Kia Ng, U of Leeds (contributing author)
“Writing Siberia into the Russian Story”
Mark Sokolsky, Ohio State U

“Valentin Rasputin and Siberian Eco-Nationalism”

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SESSION VI: (CONT.) SATURDAY, APRIL 17 The Ohio State University

VI-C: Civil Society and Nationalism in Russia Blackwell Inn and Conference Center
and Georgia
REGISTRATION: 8:00A.M.—1:00P.M.
Pfahl 330
Pfahl 3rd Floor
Chair: Jennifer Suchland, Ohio State U
SESSION VII: 8:30A.M.—10:00A.M.
Jennifer Cayias, Ohio State U
“External Influences on Democratic and Civil VII-A: Issues in 19th Century Russian
Literature
Development in Georgia”
Judith Kullberg, Eastern Michigan U Pfahl 230

“The Development of Russian Civil Society: Chair: Yuri Corrigan, College of Wooster
The Case of the Samara Region”
Eileen Kunkler, Ohio State U Savannah Guernsey, Kenyon
“Clothing and the Russo-European Identity in
“United Russia’s Political Clubs” Mid- to Late-19th Century Russian Literature”
Leslie Root, Georgetown U
Amanda Martin, Kenyon
“Pan-Circassianism and the Tenacity of Ethno- “A Kierkegaardian Analysis of Anna Karenina”
nationalism in the Russian Federation”
Holden Rasche, Kenyon
VI-D: Translation, Identity, and Ideology “Did Anna Deserve It?”
Pfahl 340

Chair: Natalia Olshanskaya, Kenyon

Brian Baer, Kent State U VII-B: Arts and Ideologies
“Women, Translation, and Russian National Identity: Pfahl 240

Re-visiting the Metaphorics of Translation” Chair: Vladimir Marchenkov, Ohio U
Tatyana Chulanova, Kent State U
Dragana Cvetanovic, U of Helsinki
“Advertising for Women in the Era of Globalization: “Defining ‘Yugosphere’ in Rap Lyrics in the
Translation Strategies and Their Influence on Potential
Consumers’ Response” Post-War Balkans”
Nataliya Dmitrieva, Kent State U Cammeron Girvin, U of California

“Translating Race: The Role of Ideology in Soviet “Socialist Imagery and Ideology in the Poetry of
Translations of American Literature” Dimitrovgrad”
Yuriy Napelenok, Indiana U
VI-E: Russian Literature: Cross-Literary
Themes and Tropes “‘Together We Are Many’: Effects of Popular
Music on Public Participation in Ukraine”
Pfahl 324 Mario Slugan, U of Chicago

Chair: Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State U “Balkanism as a Precondition of Emir Kusturica’s
Poetics of Excessiveness”
Amy Drake, Ohio Dominican
“Pelevin, Solzhenitsyn, and Bulgakov: Train Travel VII-C: Russian Avant-Garde Arts: Poetry,
Fashion, Staging, and Photography
and Mysticism in Russian Literature”
Carmen Finashina, Northwestern U Pfahl 330

“Depictions of Violence, Social Shaming, and Adult- Chair: Myroslava Mudrak, Ohio State U
hood Initiation Rites in Guro’s Baby Camels of the Sky”
Maria Lunk, Emory Robert Crane, U of Pittsburgh
“The Ghost of Tarelkin: Sukhovo-Kobylin and
“Natasha’s Dance: The Circle Myth in Tolstoy’s
War and Peace” Meyerhold’s Haunted Stage”
Lina Khawaldah, Indiana U
MIDWEST SLAVIC ASSOCIATION
MEETING: 5:00P.M.—6:00P.M. “Visualizing the Unseen: Rodchenko’s Perspectives
of Urban Architectural Space and the Human Face”
Pfahl 340

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Midwest Slavic 2010 SATURDAY, APRIL 17 (CONT.) Stuart Mackenzie, Indiana U
“Category Theory, Genre, and Dostoevsky”
SESSION VII: (CONT.)
Zoran Panjak, Ohio State U
Anastasia Kostetskaya, Ohio State U “Imagining Between the Lines: Dostoevsky’s
“Khlebnikov vs. Mayakovsky: A Budetlianen and
The Idiot as Iconostasis”
a Futurist”
Catherine Walworth, Ohio State U VIII-B: Topics in Slovenian Culture
Pfahl 240
“Russian Constructivist Nadezhda Lamanova”
Chair: Carole Rogel, Ohio State U
VII-D: Linguistic Ideology and Identity
Pfahl 340 Clint Buhler, Ohio State U
“Historicizing the Future—NSK”
Chair: George Fowler, Indiana U
Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U
Mark Nuckols, Independent Scholar “Rodil (a) se je… v Ljubljani: The Biographical
“Disentangling Slovak from Czech: Problems of
Complex of Contemporary Slovene Literary History”
Differentiation” Luka Zibelnik, Cleveland State U
Nicholas Starvaggi, Ohio State U
“Anti-Semitism in Slovenian Literature”
“Between a Kamien and a Tverdoe Mesto:
The Linguistic Environment in Belarus” VIII-C: Family and Femininity in Russian
Susan Vdovichenko, Ohio State U Novels

“Shifting Language Attitudes in Ukraine and Their Pfahl 330
Motivation”
Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore
VII-E: “Secret” Lives of Women
Pfahl 324 Anna Arkatova, U of Illinois
“Femininity in Solzhenitsyn”
Chair: Allison Potvin, Ohio State U
Thaddeus Fortney, Ohio State U
Andrea Fullerton, Kenyon “Progressive How? Women in the Works of Ibsen
“Home as Dystopia: Women’s Narratives”
and Chekhov”
Leah Missik, Kenyon Natalya Khokholova, U of Illinois
“Love for Sale in Russian Cinema”
“Zina’s Role as the Reader in Nabokov’s Dar”
BREAK: 10:00A.M.—10:15A.M. Mathhew Sutton, U of Illinois

Pfahl 3rd Floor “Family and Creativity in Cancer Ward”

SESSION VIII: 10:15A.M.—12:00P.M. VIII-D: Historical Linguistics and Philology
Pfahl 340
VIII-A: Re-Examining Russian Classics
Pfahl 230 Chair: Daniel Collins, Ohio State U

Chair: Alexander Burry, Ohio State U Patricia Gonzalez Almarcha, Ohio State U
“The Old Church Slavonic Translation of Greek
Katherine Bowers, Northwestern U
“Turgenev’s Gothic Turns” Adikia, Adikos, and Adikein”
Maksim Karanfilovski, Macedonia
Bethany Braley, Indiana U
“The Lure of Knowledge: Bulgakov’s Narratological “The Enidze Vardar Dialect”
Ljudmil Spasov, Macedonia
Technique in Master and Margarita”
“The Konikovo Gospel (KG) in Macedonian
Cultural History”
Melissa Witcombe, Indiana U

“Vowel Liquid Dipthongs: An Optimal Theoretical
Account”

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SESSION VIII: (CONT.) IX-C: Legends, Lore, and Myth Creation The Ohio State University
Pfahl 330
VIII-E: Politics of Translation
Pfahl 324 Chair: Helena Goscilo, Ohio State U

Chair: Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State U Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State U
“Pir dukha: Aksyonov’s Post-Soviet Visions of
Claire Garmirian, Kenyon
“Preserving a Culture in the Midst of Genocide: Chapaev and Chapaev”
Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore
Valerii Briusov’s Armenia”
Kendall Krawchuk, Kenyon “Folklore Sources and ‘Folk’ Creativity in Marina
Tsvetaeva’s Poema ‘Tsar’-Devitsa’”
“Thought-Image-Music: Mikolai Zablotskii as Poet Nadezhda Panchenko, Kenyon
and Translator”
Stephanie Ellie Norton, Kenyon “Viktor Pelevin’s ‘t’: Fairy Tales of Today”

“Ivan Turgenev—Translator of Gustav Flaubert” IX-D: Modern Russian Morphology and
Syntax
LUNCH BREAK: 12:00P.M.-1:00P.M. Pfahl 340

SESSION IX: 1:00P.M.—3:00P.M. Chair: Andrei Cretu, Ohio State U

IX-A: Pre-, Sub-, and Con-Texts Andrew Kier, Ohio State U
Pfahl 230 “Semantic Differences Between the Modern

Chair: Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U Russian Prepositions pro and o: A Corpus Analysis”
Jeffrey Parker, Ohio State U
Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State U
“Enacting Wagner in Academe: The German “Affix Ordering in Russian: A Complexity Based
Approach”
Department in Pnin ” Shelley Price, Ohio State U
Sandra Ristovska, Kansas U
“How the Other HAVE Lives: The Behavior of
“Movies as an Insult: Negotiation of Film Meaning imet’ in Contemporary Standard Russian”
in Macedonian Context” Lauren Ressue, Ohio State U
Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Ohio State U
“Russian Verbal Prefixes”
“The Petty Demon of Belgrade”
Mina Sohaj, U of Illinois IX-E: Pragmaphilology of the Novgorod
Birchbark Letters
“Serbian Contemporary Drama: The Representation Pfahl 324
of Reality in Post-Milosevic’s Serbia in Biljana Srbljano-
vic’s Barbelo, of Dogs and Children and Grasshoppers” Chair: James J. Pennington, Ohio State U

IX-B: East European History and Culture Justin Cade, Ohio State U
Pfahl 240 “Novgorodian Perceptions of Baltic Finnic ”

Chair: Tatyana Nestorova, Ohio State U Daniel Collins, Ohio State U
“Who Wrote the Book of Love (and Who Read
Paul Michelson, Huntington U
“Historical Study in Modern Romanian Society and It)? Novgorodian Birchbark 955”
Daniel Davidson, Ohio State U
Culture”
Zsolt Nagy, U of North Carolina “Practical Pragmatics: Communicative contexts
in Birchbarks No. 9 and No. 160 ”
“Sentinels at Foreign Outposts: Interwar Hungarian Elena Myers, Ohio State U
Cultural Diplomacy, 1920-1941”
Stefan Peychev, U of Illinois “Novgorod Birchbark 286: A Historical and
Linguistic Analysis”
“The Public Baths of Ottoman Sofia and the
Western Perception of the Hamam” BREAK: 3:00P.M.—3:15P.M.

Pfahl 3rd Floor

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Midwest Slavic 2010 SATURDAY, APRIL 17 (CONT.) X-D: Slavic Second Language Acquisition
Pfahl 340
SESSION X: 3:15P.M.—5:15P.M.
Chair: Ludmila Isurin, Ohio State U
X-A: Central-South European Avant-Garde
Pfahl 230 Magdalena Gruszczynska, Ohio State U
“Language Contact and Language Transfer: Pro-
Chair: Jessie Labov, Ohio State U
Drop vs. Non-Pro-Drop Feature in Bilinguals’ Speech”
Kathleen Manukyan, Ohio State U Michael McGuire, Indiana U
“Visitors from the Cosmos in Central European
“L2 Acquisition of the Unaccusative/Unergative
Literature: Schulz’s ‘The Comet’ and Capek’s The Distinction in Russian”
Meteor”” Heather Rice, Indiana U
Sara Celidah Orr, Ohio State U
“Perception of Russian Palatalization: Category
“Mutability, Totality, Fraternity, and The Book: Assimilation and Creation ”
Readership and Authenticity in the Autobiographical
Works of Witold Gombrowicz and Bruno Schulz” X-E: Linguistic Approaches to the Novgorod
Ryan Walker, Ohio State U Birchbark Letters
Pfahl 324
“Drinking, Writing, and Love: The Triumvirate of
Salvation or Death?” Chair: Jeffrey Parker, Ohio State U

X-B: Reform and Radicalism in Russia and Yuliia Aloshycheva, Ohio State U
Central Europe “Intersex Variation in Requests in the Novgorod

Pfahl 240 Birchbark Letters”
Shelley Price, Ohio State U
Chair: Marianna Klochko, OSU Marion
“Wedding planning in Novgorod: an investigation
Rebecca Dulemba, Ohio State U of Birchbark 731 ”
“The New Politicization of Women and Youth by Lauren Ressue, Ohio State U

the Central European Right (1999-2009)” “Dati, dajati, davati, vodati or udati? A Closer Look
Allison Riggs, Ohio State U at 'Giving' in the Novgorod Birchbark Letters ”
Robert Reynolds, Ohio State U
“The Failure of Reforms in the Post-War Soviet
Union Under Gorbachev” “Diachronic Trends in Verbs with the Root ‘give’ in
Carolyn Smith, Ohio State U Old Novgorodian: A Quantitative Investigation”

“Perceived Immigrant Threats Among MPs in K-12 Teacher Workshop
Poland and Europe” Pfahl 320

X-C: Folklore Across National Boundaries George Hudson, Wittenberg U
Pfahl 330 “Russia’s Recent Political and Economic Situations”

Chair: Helena Goscilo, Ohio State U Brian Baer, Kent State U and
Discussant: Thaddeus Fortney, Ohio State U Tatyana Bystrova-McIntyre, Kent State U

Curtis Drummond, Ohio State U “Technology and Best Practices: Creating a More
“Aleksandr Ptushko and ‘Moss Films’: Roger Learner-Centered Classroom”
Yana Hashamova, Ohio State U
Corman’s De-Russification of Soviet Films for
American Audiences” “Film, Language, and Culture”
Michael Furman, Ohio State U Fr. Miroljub Ruzic, Ohio State U

“The Female as the Other in Russian Fairy Tales ” “OSU Library Resources for K-12 Teachers”
Lisa Goddard, Ohio State U Maria Alley, Ohio State U

“Frogs and Folklore” “Input-Based Approach to Teaching Russian
Ann Wilson, Ohio State U Grammar”
Lance Erickson, Ohio State U
“‘Russian and Central Asian Fairy Tales:
Similarities and Differences” “K-12 International and Domestic Enrichment
Opportunities”
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Center for Slavic and East European Studies The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University

Founded in 1965 by Professor Leon Twarog as a U.S. Department of Education
funded (Title VI) Comprehensive National Resource Center based at The Ohio State
University (OSU), the Center for Slavic and East European Studies promotes the
study of Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. In autumn 2010, the Center will celebrate its
45th anniversary. Please visit the CSEES website for a schedule of upcoming events.

Website: http://slaviccenter.osu.edu.
Facebook: Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU

The Midwest Slavic Association

The Midwest Slavic Association supports Slavic, East European and Central
Asian Studies in the Midwest Region of the United States and beyond. The
MWSA is interested in building its organization and membership. For more
information, please attend the Friday meeting at 5:00p.m.

President: Yana Hashamova, Ohio State U
Vice-President: Brian Baer, Kent State U
Secretary/Treasurer: Lance Erickson, Ohio State U
Website: http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/mwsassoc.html
Facebook: Midwest Slavic Association

Midwest Slavic would like to thank...

Lauren Adams Naval War College
Dr. Brian Baer Office of International Affairs at OSU
The Blackwell Staff
Tatyana Bystrova-McIntyre Dr. Natalia Olshanskaya
Rebecca Dulemba Jordan Peters
Dr. George Fowler
Dr. Steven Franks Dr. Timothy Pogacar
Dr. Helena Goscilo Sunnie Rucker-Chang
Dr. Esther Gottlieb
Fr. Miroljub Ruzic
Katie Hall Dr. Andrea Sims
Dr. Yana Hashamova Kelley Sklavounos
Slavica Publishers
Rudy Hightower Slavic Department at OSU
Dr. George Hudson Carolyn Smith
Dr. Jennifer Suchland
Dr. Brian Joseph U.S. Department of Education and Title VI
Dr. Jessie Labov Victor van Buchem
Department of Linguistics at OSU Amy Van Stone
Dr. Irene Masing-Delic Maryann Walther-Keisel
Megan C. McCarthy
All conference presenters, discussants,
Julie McGory chairs and K-12 Workshop participants
Claudia Morettini

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2010 Midwest Slavic and Balkan & South Slavic Schedules

Blackwell Inn Balkan & South Slavic Midwest Slavic Midwest Slavic
2110 Tuttle Park Place Pfahl 302 Pfahl 230 Pfahl 240
X X
2:20-2:30 Opening Remarks
X X
Session I Linguistic Borrowing and
2:30-3:30 Influence, part I

Thursday 3:30-3:45 COFFEE BREAK
April 15
Session II
3:45-5:15 Syntax XX

6:00-7:00 Midwest Slavic Keynote Address by Stephen M. Norris
Midwest Slavic Opening Reception
7:00-9:00

Session III Semantics & Pragmatics in Russia's Relations with Its X
8:30-10:00 Language Contact Western Neighbors X
X
10:00-10:15 COFFEE BREAK X

Friday Session IV Linguistic Borrowing and Russia's Relations with Its
April 16 10:15-11:45 Influence, part II Southern Periphery

11:45-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

Session V Language Attitudes, Language Human Rights in Russia and
1:00-2:45 Policy (ends at 2:30pm) Central Eurasia

2:45-3:00 Tour of Library (2:45-3:15)* COFFEE BREAK

Session VI 13th Annual Naylor Lecture at Regional History of Russia and
3:00-5:00
Thompson Library at 3:30pm** the Soviet Union
5:00-6:00
Midwest Slavic Association Meeting (Pfahl 340)

Session VII Morphology (begins at 9:00) Issues in 19th Century Arts and Ideologies
8:30-10:00 Russian Literature
Topics in Slovenian
10:00-10:15 COFFEE BREAK Culture

Saturday Session VIII Tools and Resources in Linguistic Re-Examining Russian Classics
April 17 10:15-12:00 Analysis (ends at 11:45)

12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

Session IX Verbal Semantics Pre-, Sub-, and Con-Texts East European History and
1:00-3:00 COFFEE BREAK Culture

3:00-3:15

Session X Bai Ganyo in America Central-South European Reform and Radicalism in
3:15-5:15 Avant-Garde Russia & Central Europe

Sunday Session XI Albanian Linguistics *The Balkan and South
April 18 9:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK Slavic Conference will leave

11 10:30-10:45 Deixis from the Blackwell as a
Closing Remarks group at 2:30pm on Friday
Session XII
10:45-12:15 to walk to Thompson
Library for the tour.
12:15-12:20

2010 Midwest Slavic and Balkan & South Slavic Schedules

Midwest Slavic Midwest Slavic Midwest Slavic Blackwell Inn
Pfahl 330 Pfahl 340 Pfahl 324 2110 Tuttle Park Place
X X X 2:20-2:30

X X X Session I
2:30-3:30

3:30-3:45 Thursday
April 15
Session II
XX X 3:45-5:15

Midwest Slavic Keynote Address by Stephen M. Norris 6:00-7:00
Midwest Slavic Opening Reception
7:00-9:00

Transnational Issues in East European Music Between Bosnia and Serbia: Session III
Eurasia Interdisciplinary Perspectives 8:30-10:00

COFFEE BREAK 10:00-10:15

Russia, Central Europe and Cost of Radical Social Change: Pushkin and His Times Session IV Friday
the Western Alliance Enduring Inequalities in CEE 10:15-11:45 April 16

LUNCH BREAK 11:45-1:00

Adventures in Approaches to Slavic Madness in Russian Session V
Digital Filigranology Morpho-Syntax Literature and Culture 1:00-2:45

COFFEE BREAK 2:45-3:00

Civil Society & Nationalism Translation, Identity, and Russian Literature: Cross- Session VI
in Russia and Georgia Ideology Literary Themes and Tropes 3:00-5:00

Midwest Slavic Association Meeting (Pfahl 340) 5:00-6:00

Russian Avant-Garde Arts Linguistic Ideology and "Secret" Lives of Women Session VII Saturday
Identity Politics of Translation 8:30-10:00 April 17
Family and Femininity in
Russian Novels COFFEE BREAK 10:00-10:15

Historical Linguistics and Session VIII
Philology 10:15-12:00

LUNCH BREAK 12:00-1:00

Legends, Lore, and Myth Modern Russian Morphology Pragmaphilology of the Session IX
Creation 1:00-3:00
and Syntax Novgorod Birchbark Letters
3:00-3:15
COFFEE BREAK

Folklore Across National Slavic Second Language Linguistic Approaches to the Session X
Boundaries Acquisition Novgorod Birchbark Letters 3:15-5:15

**Dr. Eric Hamp (U of Chicago, Emeritus) will present "South Slavic and Its Neighbors - Distant Past and
Present" at 3:30pm in the West Reading Room of the Thompson Library. A reception will follow the lecture.

For more information, please visit the registration table.

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BSS 2010 Midwest Slavic 2010

NOTES

NOTES

BSS 2010 Panel X (cont.)
Victor Friedman, U of Chicago

“Shtii rumuneshti?: The language of Bai Ganyo”
Christina Kramer, U of Toronto

“The deployment of stereotypes in Bai Ganyo”
Grace Fielder, U of Arizona

“Ama-de-de!: Authenticity in Bai Ganyo”
Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College

“Bai Ganyo’s revenge: Turkisms in Bai Ganyo”

Cocktail Reception: 5:15p.m.—6:30p.m. (Cash bar, Snacks provided)

Conference Dinner: 7:00p.m. (catered by local restaurant)

SUNDAY, APRIL 18 Blackwell Inn and Conference Center Pfahl 302

Panel XI ~ Albanian Linguistics: 9:00a.m.—10:30a.m.
Chair: Brian Joseph, Ohio State U

Julie Kolgjini, American U in Kosova and Rochester Institute of Technology
“Alternative verb paradigms in Albanian”

Matthew Curtis, Ohio State U, American U in Kosova and U of Prishtina
“Perfect constructions in Northern Geg: Evidence of language contact influence?”

Rexhepi Ismajli, U of Kosova
“From Albanian to general linguistics: The difficult case of Selman Riza”

Coffee Break: 10:30a.m.—10:45a.m.

Panel XII ~ Deixis: 10:45a.m.—12:15p.m.
Chair: Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College

Bojan Belic, U of Washington
“When the South Slavs demonstrate: An investigation into South Slavic demonstratives”

James J. Pennington, Ohio State U
“Appropriating inappropriately: Potential motivators for the dialectal distribution of oblique adjectival

long forms (ALFs) in contemporary BCS”
Petya Assenova, Sofia U, St. Climent Ohridski and Zlatka Guentchéva, CNRS-LACITO

“The Balkan deictic systems from a typological perspective”

Closing Remarks: 12:15p.m.—12:20p.m.

The Balkan and South Slavic Conference Series

The Balkan and South Slavic series of conferences was initiated in 1978 by a small group of Balkan linguists at the U of
Chicago. A conference has been held every two years since then: U of Chicago (1978, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996),
Indiana U, Bloomington (1982, 1986, 1994), U of Toronto (1990), U of Arizona, Tucson (1998), U of Kansas (2000), U of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2002), U of Mississippi (2004), U of California, Berkeley (2006), and Banff, Canada (2008).

Although most papers are in linguistics, there has been consistent representation from other fields of interdisciplinary
humanities research, particularly in literary, film, folklore, and cultural studies. The conference showcases research in
Slavic (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Ukrainian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian), Romance (Dacoromanian, Aromanian,
Meglenoromanian, Judezmo), Greek, Albanian, Romani, and Turkic (Turkish and Gagauz) languages, literatures, and
cultures.

The BSS would like to thank...

Grant for Research and Creative Activity in the Arts and Humanities (OSU)
Center for Slavic and East European Studies (OSU)

Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship in South Slavic Linguistics (OSU)
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures (OSU)

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Lunch Break: 11:45a.m.—1:00p.m. The Ohio State University

Panel V ~ Language Attitudes, Language Policy: 1:00p.m.—2:30p.m.
Chair: Christina Kramer, U of Toronto

Keith Langston, U of Georgia and Anita Peti-Stantic, U of Zagreb
“Language policy and the construction of linguistic identity in the Croatian educational system”

Alexander Murzaku, College of Saint Elizabeth
“Vlachophobia in Albania”

Grant Lundberg, Brigham Young U
“Dialect usage and identity in Haloze, Slovenia”

Tour of Thompson Library: 2:45p.m.—3:15p.m. (depart Blackwell as a group at 2:30p.m.)

13th Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture and Reception: 3:30p.m.—5:00p.m.
Eric Hamp, U of Chicago (Emeritus) ~ “South Slavic and Its Neighbors—Distant Past and Present”

SATURDAY, APRIL 17 Blackwell Inn and Conference Center Pfahl 302

Panel VII ~ Morphology: 9:00a.m.—10:00a.m.
Chair: Andrea Sims, Ohio State U

Geri Popova, Goldsmiths, U of London and Andrew Spencer, U of Essex
“Relatedness in periphrases: A paradigm-based perspective”

Angelo Costanzo, Ohio State U
“On the evolution of Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian conjugational classes”

Coffee Break : 10:00a.m.—10:15a.m.

Panel VIII ~ Tools and Resources in Linguistic Analysis: 10:15a.m.—11:45a.m.
Chair: Dorin Uritescu, York U

Ronelle Alexander, U of California at Berkeley
“Speech from the past: Milman Parry and the Singers of Stolac”

Quinn Dombrowski, U of Chicago and Andrew Dombrowski, U of Chicago
“An XML-based approach to dialectological data: The development of syllabic liquids in Bulgarian”

Natalie Mauser-Carter, Ohio State U
“Text abbreviations in Albanian”

Lunch Break : 11:45a.m.—1:00p.m.

Panel IX ~ Verbal Semantics: 1:00p.m.—3:00p.m.
Chair: Grace Fielder, U of Arizona

Irina Sedakova, Russian Academy of Sciences
“On Balkan specifics of the Slavic Balkan verbs *hvatati: Structure, semantics, pragmatics”

Eleni Valma, LACITO UMR 7107 CNRS and Marina Van Den Handel, U of Paris-Sorbonne
“The verbal adjectives of Modern Greek ending in –tos (-τος) and -menos (-µενος): The semantic properties

and the aspectual value of state”
Ivelina Tchizmarova, British Columbia Institute of Technology

“A cognitive view of two Bulgarian verbal prefixes: pri- ‘at, to’ and s- (să-) ‘with’”
Anastasia Smirnova, Ohio State U

“In search of a frog in the Balkans: Linguistic encoding of motion events in Balkan languages”

Coffee Break: 3:00p.m.—3:15p.m.

Panel X ~ Bai Ganyo in America: A New Translation and New Perspective: 3:15p.m.—5:15p.m.
Chair: Ronelle Alexander, U of California at Berkeley

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BSS 2010 THURSDAY, APRIL 15 Blackwell Inn and Conference Center ~ Pfahl 302

Registration: 12:00p.m.—2:30p.m.

Opening Remarks: 2:20p.m.—2:30p.m.

Panel I ~ Linguistic Borrowing and Influence, part I: 2:30p.m.— 3:30p.m.
Chair: Daniel Collins, Ohio State U

Brian Joseph, Ohio State U
“Labelling loanword types in the Balkans”

Cynthia Vakareliyska, U of Oregon
“Two productive English morphosyntactic borrowings in Bulgarian”

Coffee Break : 3:30p.m.—3:45p.m.

Panel II ~ Syntax: 3:45p.m.—5:15p.m.
Chair: Donald Dyer, U of Mississippi

John Leafgren, U of Arizona
“The use of adverbial subordinate clauses in contemporary Bulgarian”

Motoki Nomachi, Hokkaido U
“Does Slovenian have 3 passive constructions? On the so-called recipient passive and its grammaticalization

in Slovenian”
Steven Franks, Indiana U and Anita Peti-Stantic, U of Zagreb

“Individuation, orphans, and case”

Midwest Slavic Keynote Address and Reception: 6:00p.m.—9:00p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 16 Blackwell Inn and Conference Center ~ Pfahl 302

Registration: 8:00a.m.—10:00a.m.

Panel III ~ Semantics and Pragmatics in Language Contact: 8:30a.m.—10:00a.m.
Chair: Victor Friedman, U of Chicago

Donald Dyer, U of Mississippi
“How words change meaning: Observations on the evolution of Modern Russian lexical semantics in

post-Soviet Moldova”
Eric Heath Pendegrast, U of California at Berkeley

“The pragmatic role of object reduplication in Albanian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian”
Helmet Schaller, U of Marburg

“Turkish influence in Southeast Europe: Linguistic and social aspects”

Coffee Break: 10:00a.m.—10:15a.m.

Panel IV ~ Linguistic Borrowing and Influence, part II: 10:15a.m.—11:45a.m.
Chair: Cynthia Vakareliyska, U of Oregon

Dorin Uritescu, York U
“Balkan Romanian dialects and the history of Romanian: On some false comparisons and deductions”

Andrew Dombrowski, U of Chicago
“An Albanian look at the jers”

Kelly Maynard, U of Chicago
“The Swadesh List in Samsun Albanian: A case study demonstrating the utility of the 200-word Swadesh

List as a standard for language documentation”

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NAYLOR LECTURE The Ohio State University

Eric Hamp, U of Chicago (Emeritus)

Eric P. Hamp, now Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service
professor emeritus, University of Chicago, is one of the world’s leading
Balkanists, Indo-Europeanists, and historical linguists now and ever.
Noted for his almost encyclopedic knowledge of the relevant languages,
but with special attention to Albanian, Celtic, Greek, and the languages
of the Balkans, Dr. Hamp has been engaged in the study of these languages for some 60 years. Now in
his 90th year, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1954 with a dissertation (published in 1993 by
UNICAL, Rende di Calabria) on the phonology of the Albanian dialect of Vaccarizzo, and proceeded to
publish over 1,200 articles on a wide range of topics pertaining to his languages of interest and general
historical linguistic issues.

His honors have been numerous and include honorary doctorates from the University of Wales (1987)
and the University of Calabria (2000), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1973-74), a Fulbright Senior
Research Fellowship at the University of Athens (1955-56), and grants from the American Council of
Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. He has
been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and the Linguistic Society of America, which he served as president in 1971.

His dedication to scholarship and to the people and languages of the Balkans has been an inspiration
to several academic generations and scores of linguists.

CO-ORGANIZERS OF THE CONFERENCE

Brian Joseph, Ohio State U

Brian Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The
Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State
University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978 and
began at Ohio State in 1979. A specialist in historical linguistics with a
particular focus on Greek and Albanian, he has written extensively on the
history of these languages and on their mutual influence on one another and
their interactions with their Slavic and Romance neighbors within the
Balkan "Sprachbund" of southeastern Europe. His 1983 book, The Syn-
chrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive (Cambridge University
Press), was recently re-issued in paperback.

Andrea Sims, Ohio State U

Andrea Sims is Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State
University. In 2006 she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at OSU, and she
returned to the university in 2008, joining the Department of Slavic and
East European Languages and Literatures. Her research focuses on
morphological structure, with particular emphasis on the South Slavic
languages. Her current book project looks at how the implicational structure
of the paradigm works to create and maintain inflectional defectiveness.

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BSS 2010 BSS CONFERENCE PROGRAM AGENDA

12:00p.m.—2:30p.m. Thursday, April 15, 2010
2:20p.m.—2:30p.m.
2:30p.m.—3:30p.m. Blackwell Inn and Conference Center
3:30p.m.—3:45p.m.
3:45p.m.—5:15p.m. Registration
6:00p.m.—7:00p.m. Opening Remarks
7:00p.m.—9:00p.m. Panel Session I ~ Linguistic Borrowing and Influence, part I
Coffee Break
8:00a.m.—10:00a.m. Panel Session II ~ Syntax
8:30a.m.—10:00a.m. Midwest Slavic Keynote Address by Professor Stephen M. Norris
10:00a.m.—10:15a.m. Midwest Slavic Opening Reception
10:15a.m.—11:45a.m.
11:45a.m.—1:00p.m. Friday, April 16, 2010
1:00p.m.—2:30p.m.
2:30p.m. Blackwell Inn and Conference Center
2:45pm.—3:15p.m.
3:30p.m.—5:00p.m. Registration
Panel Session III~ Semantics and Pragmatics in Language Contact
9:00a.m.—10:00a.m. Coffee Break
10:00a.m.—10:15a.m. Panel Session IV ~ Linguistic Borrowing and Influence, part II
10:15a.m.—11:45a.m. Lunch Break
11:45a.m.—1:00p.m. Panel Session V ~ Language Attitudes, Language Policy
1:00p.m.—3:00p.m. Walk to Thompson Library as Group
3:00p.m.—3:15p.m. Tour of Thompson Library
3:15p.m.—5:15p.m. 13th Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture and Reception
5:15p.m.—6:30p.m.
7:00p.m. Saturday, April 17, 2010

9:00a.m.—10:30a.m. Blackwell Inn and Conference Center
10:30a.m.—10:45a.m.
10:45a.m.—12:15p.m. Panel Session VII ~ Morphology
12:15p.m.—12:20p.m. Coffee Break
Panel Session VIII ~ Tools and Resources in Linguistic Analysis
Lunch Break
Panel Session IX ~ Verbal Semantics
Coffee Break
Panel Session X ~ Bai Ganyo in America
Cocktail Reception (Cash Bar, Snacks provided)
Conference Dinner

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Blackwell Inn and Conference Center

Panel Session XI ~ Albanian Linguistics
Coffee Break
Panel Session XII ~ Deixis
Closing Remarks

All panels will take place in Pfahl Hall 302. The Naylor Lecture will take place in
the West Reading Room at the Thompson Library.

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