2024 Conference Program

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

3:00pm-7:00pm: Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Registration Desk); Exhibit Hall Setup (Reno Room)

5:00pm-6:00pm: AATSEEL Program Committee Meeting (Copper Room); K-12 Teachers Reception (Studio 3)

7:00pm-9:00pm: AATSEEL Executive Council Meeting (Copper Room)

Friday, February 16, 2024

7:00am-5:00pm: Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration for Unregistered Attendees (Registration Desk)

7:00am-8:00am: Continental Breakfast (Tahoe Room)

9:00am-4:30pm: Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

8:00am-10:00am: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 1

10:00am-10:30am: Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

10:30am-12:30pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 2

12:30pm-2:00pm: Elena Kostyuchenko reading + Q&A (Tahoe Room)

North American Association of Teachers of Polish (Elko Room)

Pedagogy Workshop: Learning Tasks for Literature in Translation in the 21st Century: Realignment with Liberal Arts Goals

1:00-1:45pm: Slavic and East European Journal Editorial Board Meeting (Studio 3)

2:00pm-4:00pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 3

4:30pm-6:30pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 4

4:30-6:30pm: Open Seminar with Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University): "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About 'Decolonisation' of Russian Studies? Challenges and Opportunities for Slavists" (Tonopah Room)

4:30-6:30pm: Workshop: Language & Justice Hand in Hand: Enhancing Russian Instruction through Social Justice Standards & DEIA Frameworks — Iza Savenkova, Fordham University; Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh; Aselle Almuratova, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Elko Room)

7:00pm-9:00pm: President's Reception and Awards Ceremony (Tahoe Room) All attendees are warmly invited to mingle and also celebrate our award-winning colleagues. Cash bar, complimentary hors d'oeuvres.

8:30-11:00pm: Film screening of “Unclenching the Fists” and director Q&A with Kira Kovalenko (introduced by Tatiana Efremova) (Ely Room)

Saturday, February 17, 2024

7:00am-5:00pm: Badge and Program Pickup for Preregistered Attendees & Onsite Registration (Registration Desk)

7:00am-8:00am: Continental Breakfast (Tahoe Room)

8:00am-10:00am: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 5

8:00am-10:00am: International Association of Teachers of Ukrainian (IATU) Meeting (Elko Room)

9:00am-4:30pm: Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

10:00am-10:30am: Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Reno Room)

10:00am-10:50am: AATSEEL Members' Meeting (Tahoe Room)

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Address by Marcus Levitt (University of Southern California): "My Adventures in Slavic" (Tahoe Room)

12:00pm-1:15pm: Translation Workshop (Copper Room)

Bridgebuilding Forum: Building Connection between High School and College Slavic Programs (Tahoe Room)

Czech instructors meeting (Elko Room)

AATSEEL Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion (AWGDI) (Studio 3)

BCMS Instructors' Meeting (Parlor A)

Finding, Adapting, and Using Authentic Texts in the Novice Classroom: A Collaborative Workshop — Heather Rice, University of Texas at Austin (Ely Room)

American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) Social Justice-Oriented Language Teaching (SJOLT) Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting (Silver Room)

1:15pm-3:00pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 6

1:15pm-3:00pm: AATSEEL Presidential Roundtable: Representation in Slavic Studies: What are we teaching? Why? To whom? (Tahoe Room)

3:15pm-5:15pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 7

5:30pm-7:30pm: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 8

5:30-7:30pm: Open Seminar with Jose Alaniz (University of Washington): "Comics, Decolonization, Slavic Studies: Strategies for the Classroom" (Parlor C)

8:00pm-9:00pm: AATSEEL CDIPS reception (program alumni only) (Tahoe Room)

8:00pm-9:00pm: Poetry Reading (lineup TBD) (Ely Room)

Sunday, February 18, 2024

7:00am-8:00am: Continental Breakfast (Tahoe Room)

8:00am-10:00am: Conference Panels and Streams: Session 9

10:30am-12:30pm: Conference Panels: Session 10