Midwest Slavic Conference
The Ohio State University
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus, OHIO 43210

Here is the final program of the Midwest Slavic Conference scheduled for March 30 through April 1, 2001 at the Wyndham Hotel, Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Ohio. We think it is a terrific program. Friday features presentations by businesses already in Central and Eastern Europe, Trade Assistance programs and organizations, and Ohio's own Trade Representations and Consulates, located in the Cleveland area. Saturday and Sunday provides challenging papers from all areas of Central and East European research. Your attention is also focused on panels and roundtables on the Central and East European heritage of the midwest.

We hope this conference will provide new insights into both business and academics as it relates to Central and East Europe.

Registration form: 

TO:      Mr. George Kalbouss,  Slavic and E. European Languages 
            The Ohio State University 
            1841 Millikin Rd. 
            Columbus, OHIO 43210 
FAX:   (614)688-3107 
Tel:      (614)292-2535 
            kalbouss.1@osu.edu 

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Friday, March 30. Focus on Business in Central and Eastern Europe

8:15am GREETINGS FROM GEORGE KALBOUSS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MIDWEST SLAVIC CONFERENCE

8:15-9:15am OPERATING IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Chair, Mr. Jack Nettis, Program Director, North Coast Trade Assistance Center
Panel:

• Mr. Thomas Heaphey, Manager, Ms. Vicki Rulli, Assistant Manager, Office of International Business, Office of the Mayor, Columbus
• Mr. Stephen Baker, Program Director, International Visitors Council, Columbus
• Mr. Girard Besanceney, VP Global Operations, Tech International, Johnstown
• Ms. Meg Michel, Mr. Matt Smith, Lviv Development Fund, Marysville

9:45-11:30am US TRADE ASSISTANCE AND RESOURCES.
Mr. Clemens J. von Koschembahr, Senior International Trade Specialist , U. S. Export Assistance Center

9:45-10:30am. The Newly Independent States. Dr. Trevor Gunn, Deputy Director, Business Information Service for the NIS. United States Department of Commerce

10:45-11:30am Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. Michael Rogers, International Trade Specialist, CEEBIC, US Department of Commerce.

11:30am-1pm Lunch. Speaker, Mr. Jerry J. Torma, Director, Compensation and International Human Resources, Nordson Corporation, Westlake, Ohio

1:30-3pm. BUSINESS IN CENTRAL EUROPE (in alphabetical order):

• HUNGARY. Ms. Gabriella Paar, Counselor, Regional Trade Representative, Hungarian Trade Commission
• LITHUANIA. Ms. Ingrida Bublys, Honorary Consul, Republic of Lithuania, Hon. Nijole Zambaite, Economic Attaché, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania
• ROMANIA. Mr. George Dobrea, Honorary Consul, Romania; Ms. Laura Mays, President, International Resource Institute.
• SLOVAKIA. Dr. Edward Keshock, Honorary Consul, Republic of Slovakia
• SLOVENIA . Hon. Tone Gogola, Consul, Republic of Slovenia, Ms. Renata Vitze, State Secretary of Ministry of Economic Relations and Development, Mr. Matej Kovae, Director of Trade and Investment Promotion .

9-11pm Hospitality suite. Cash bar.

Saturday, March 31

9-10:30am The New Central and Eastern Europe: A

Richard Lotspeich and Iryna Lyzogub, Indiana State University, "Personal Economics and Support for Economic and Political Transition: A Comparative Analysis of Belarus, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine."

P. Matthew Loveless, Indiana University, "Satisfaction with Democracy in Eastern Europe: Disparity Between Constituencies."

Russian Literature and Culture
Thomas J. Kitson, The Ohio State University, "St. Russia: Reading National Messianism through Vladimir Soloviev's Christian Irony."

Leslie O'Bell, University of Texas at Austin, "Turgenev and the Pastoral in 'Singers'."

Elizabeth Worrall, The Ohio State University, "Dialogism in Tolstoy: The Problem of Oblonsky in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

Mark T. Hooker, Indiana University, "Tolkien Through Russian Eyes."

10:45am-12:15pm

Roundtable: Central and East European Heritage in the US
August Pust, Director of Heritage and International Relations, Office of the Governor, State of Ohio.

The New Central and Eastern Europe: B
Irina Samarkina, Kuban State University, Indiana State University,
"Political Socialization in Changing Societies."
Meredith Roman, Michigan State University,
"A Re-Imagined Community: Moscow Since the Fall of Communism and the Racialization of Non-Russians."
Matthew Schmidt, Kansas University, "AIDS and the Cholera: What the Past Can Say About the Present"

Literature panel: Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva
Laura Miller-Purrenhage, University of Michigan, "Aphrodite's Broken Body: The Formation of Personal and Poetic Identity in Marina Tsvetaeva's Khavla Afrodite cycle."
Ona Renner-Fahey, The Ohio State University, "Tainstvennyi pesennyi dar: Poetic Creation in Early Akhmatova."
Tatiana Zilotina, Case Western Reserve University, "Tsvetaeva's 'Povest o Sonechke' and Heinz Kohut's Theory of Self-Psychology."

12:15-1:45pm
LUNCH

Midwest Slavic Conference Board Meeting

1:45-3:15pm
Tour of Cleveland Public Library, Slavic Collection

Economics
Artem Prokhorov, St. Petersburg State University/ Central Michigan University, "The Russian Underground Economy as a "Hidden" Variable: Sone New Evidence and Optimality Considerations."
Nienke Oomes, University of Wisconsin, "Network Externalities and Dollarization Hysteresis in Russia."
Maria Stoletova, Carnegie-Mellon University, "Integrating Russia into an Enlarging Europe."
Grigory Olekh, "Natural-Climatic factors and Russian Civilization: Vector of Development"

Slavic Cultures and Heritage
Malgorzata Krasowska, University of Michigan, "Translation and Translatability of Lyrics by Polish and Italian Contemporary Women Poets: Wislawa Szymborska's and Maria Luiza Spaziani's Lyric Voices and Poetic Forms."
Michael Kukral, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, "Jack-Ass Hill and other early Czech Settlements in Cleveland."
George Kalbouss, "Stories my Parents Never Told Me: Oral Histories of East European Ohio."

3:30-5pm

Linguistics panel:
Julia Mikhailova, "The Ohio State University, "Raising in Russian? How the Russian verb 'kazat'sya' seems like 'seem'."
Mark Nuckols, The Ohio State University, "Central Europe ---A Sprachbund overlooked?"
Andrea Sims, The Ohio State University, " Frequency effects in morphological change: The Caste of Serbo-Croatian hybrid nouns."

Literature panel:
Susmita Sundaram, The Ohio State University, "Cowards with a non-fatal amount of conscience: The Poet's moral collapse in Fazil Iskander's Kroliki i Udavy."
Melissa Allman, The Ohio State University, "Valentin Kataev: From hidden to open subversion."
Andrei Cretu, The Ohio State University, "Metropol': An aesthetic statement and a major act of ideological disobedience in the 'burnt generation'."
Natalie Myskey, The Ohio State University, "Rebellion and Acceptance in Chingiz Aitmanov's 'The Place of the Skull'."

Russian Security: Chechnya and Beyond:
Chair: James. M Young, USAR, "Chechnya: Lessons Learned."
Robert A. George, USAR; Robert K Mussen, CACI, "Chechnya: An Overview of the People, the Land and Their History."
Robert K. Mussen, CACI, "Lessons Learned? An Operational Comparison of the Two Post-Soviet Chechen Wars."
Doug Perkins, The Ohio State University, "Russian Civil-Military Relations: Chechnya and Beyond."
Stephen L. Krammes, USAR, "Russian Politics in the Hinterland: The View from Omutinsk"
Discussant: Doug Perkins, The Ohio State University

Sunday, April 1
9-10:30am 18th-19th Century Theater
Daniel Collins, The Ohio State University, "From Appellative to Emblem: The Particles in Woe from Wit"
George Kalbouss, The Ohio State University, "Woe From Wit and Eugene Onegin."
Anne Swartz, Baruch College, CUNY, "Giuseppe Sarti's Opera, 'Nacal'noe upravlenie Olega'."

10:30am-Noon
State of the Art: Slavic and East European Studies in the Midwest

This conference is co-sponsored by World Trade Center Cleveland, US Export Assistance Center--Cleveland (US Department of Commerce),The North Coast International Trade Assistance Center, The Ohio State University, Cleveland State University, Midwest Slavic Association.