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AAASS National Convention 2007

Library-Related Panels:

Copyright and the Changing Arena of Scholarly Communication in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Chair: Janet Irene Crayne, U of Michigan)

Michael Albert Newcity, Duke U — “Performing Copyright Due Diligence: How to Analyze Legal Compliance of Projects and Programs”
Janice T. Pilch, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign —  “Copyright in Slavic and East European Texts and Images in Traditional Systems of Publishing”
Kevin S. Hawkins, U of Michigan — “Copyright Issues in Open Access Publishing for Slavic Studies”
Michael Meyer Brewer, U of Arizona — Discussant

The Transfer of Media between East and West during the Cold War: Tamizdat and its Agents (Chair: Anna Chukur, U of London)

Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Germany) — “An ‘Other Europe’ through Tamizdat: Recreating a European literary ‘Kontinent’”
Ann Komaromi, U of Toronto (Canada) —  “Tamizdat Publishing: Motivation and Means”
Valentina Parisi, U of Bremen (Germany) — “The Tamizdat Journal ‘A-Ja’ and Russian Unofficial Arts in the 70s-80s”
Karolina Ziolo, U of Sheffield (UK) — Discussant

The Kyiv Caves Monastery Printing House and Its Readers during the Seventeenth-Century Orthodox Revival (Chair: Julia Verkholantsev, U of Pennsylvania)

Matthew Wilson Herrington, Harvard U —  “Probable Lives: ‘Filling in the Gaps’ in the Printed Slavonic Patericon”
 Michelle Ruth Viise, Harvard U —  “Western Borrowing or Eastern Re-invention? The Orthodox Printers’ Conception of Their Trade and Printing House in the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, 1615-1627”
 Liudmyla Sharipova, U of Nottingham (UK) —  “A Book that Never Was? Some Considerations about the Hypothetical Publication of Peter Mohyla’s Translation of the Imitation of Christ”
David Frick, UC Berkeley — Discussant

Collection Matters: Managing, Measuring, and Assessing Slavic Library Collections (Chair: Joanna Epstein, Harvard College Library)

Michael Edward Biggins,U of Washington — “Assessing Campus Impacts of Slavic Library Collections ”
Michael Meyer Brewer, U of Arizona —“Collection Management Practices, Policies and Responsibilities: A Survey of Slavic Bibliographers”
Wook-Jin Cheun, Indiana U — “The CIC Slavic Collections through the Eyes of OCLC Collection Analysis”

Modern Technology in Russian Studies: Quantitative Methods and Database Analysis — (Chair: Ilya Prizel, U of Pittsburgh)

Yitzhak Brudny, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel) — “Ideology of Sovereign Democracy: Insights from Integrum Database”
Alexander Smoljanski, Integrum World Wide —  “How Russian Politics affect Russian Mass-Media”
Galina Y. Nikiporets-Takigawa, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies (Japan) —  “Quantitative Methods and the Humanities”

New Approaches to Samizdat: The Circulation of Texts across Boundaries and Borders ( Chair: Elina Bloch , Yale U)

Karolina Ziolo, U of Sheffield (UK) —  “The Existence of Translated Literature in the Polish Underground”
Anna Chukur, U of Toronto (Canada) —  “Ukrainian Samvydav: Between Aesthetic and National Freedom”
 Karl E. Loewenstein, U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh —  “Discussions of Forbidden Texts inside the Writer’s Union during the Thaw: When Does Literary Criticism Become Political Opposition?”
Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Germany) — Discussant

Using Scholarly Digital Texts and Visual Materials in Teaching (Chair: Miranda Beaven Remnek, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

David J. Birnbaum, U of Pittsburgh —  “From Medieval Slavic Philology to Slavic Folklore”
 Kathleen Macfie Ahern, UNC at Greensboro —  “Fate of the Poet in the Soviet Era: Digital Texts and Visual Images for the Development of Electronic Portfolios”
Kevin Michael Kain, U of Wisconsin-Green Bay — “Nineteenth-century Russian History: Integrating Visual Culture into a Classroom”
Bradley Lewis Schaffner, Harvard U — Discussant

New Digital Projects for East European History (Chair: Jared S. Ingersoll, Columbia U)

Steven A. Barnes, George Mason U
Maria Bucur, Indiana U
T. Mills Kelly, George Mason U
Brian Allen Porter-Szucs, U of Michigan

eLearning: The Last Resort for Area Studies? (Chair: Klaus Segbers, Freie U Berlin (Germany)

Colleen Creighton, Executive Director, Alliance for Consumer Education
Markku Kangaspuro, U of Helsinki (Finland)
Katherine M. Kuhns, Stanford U
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U

Library Strategies for Preservation: What, Why, and How? (Chair: Bradley Lewis Schaffner, Harvard U)

Vadim Altskan, US Holocaust Memorial Museum —  “Rescue the Evidence: Archival Acquisitions of the Holocaust-related and Jewish Collections of Eastern Europe”
 Angela Cannon, Library of Congress —  “Bulgarian Newspapers, Polish Telephone Books, and Everything in Between: Slavic and Eastern European Preservation Activities at the Library of Congress”
Robert E. Lee, East View Information Services —  “Thank You, Comrade Librarian, for My Collection’s Bright Future: Models for Public/Private Partnership in Preservation”
Stephen David Corrsin, New York Public Library — Discussant