Russian Studies Conference Projects Archive

This page serves as an archive for projects from past years of the Russian Studies Conference. For more information, visit the main page.

Projects from 2020:

Literature:
Bea Green, Macalester College: “An Evaluation of Historical Interpretations of Russian Byliny”
Anna Kasradze, Duke University: “Polyphonic Prozac? Aesthetics of Anti-Psychiatry in Chekhov’s ‘Black Monk’”
Faith Milon, Macalester College: “The Interplay of Poses in Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin”
Grace Riegel, Macalester College: “Divinity Prevails: Margarita as a Christ Figure”

Interdisciplinary Studies:
Aaron Backs, Macalester College: “A Science-Fiction Utopia: Russian Cosmism and Art of the Post-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde”
Charlie Bonham, Macalester College: “Soviet Architecture in the 1950s and 1960s”
Charles Connon, Indiana University: “The Political Economy of Recent Wildfires in Siberia: The Intersection of Human Economic Activity, the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), and the Rapidly Expanding Environmental Degradation in Russia’s Boreal Forests”
Mallie Kermiet, Macalester College: “The Perennial Question of Monumental Propaganda: Post-Socialist Remembering and Re-imagining”
Linda Parranto, University of Minnesota-Duluth: “Radiant Paths for Soviet Women in Films and the Tension between Femininity and Emancipation”
Jake Pflueghoeft, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “The Red Hubris and Art’s Eternal Power to Critique, Realized through Shakespeare”

History:
Wilson Battle, Carleton College: “Gorbachev’s Noose”
Ian Bell, Carleton College: “(Post)-Soviet Champagne in Russia and the Evolution of Nostalgia”
Eleanor Grinnell, Macalester College: “Alaska and California: Russia’s New Frontier in the 18th and 19th Centuries”
Muling He, Carnegie Mellon University: “Khrushchev’s USSR through the Eyes of the Chinese State”
Artur Kalandarov, Bowdoin College: “The Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan: A Clausewitzian Framework for Comparative Conflict Analysis”
Casey Smith, Wheaton College: “The Last Days of the Emir: Bukharan Reform Movements under Russian Influence”