Day | Time | Section |
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December 1 Wednesday | 6.00 PM-8.00 PM | Opening Plenary Session |
December 2 Thursday | 11.30 AM-2.30 PM | Section 1. Journalism |
2.30 PM- 3.00 MP | Lunch break | |
3.00 PM-7.00 PM | Section 3. Contemporary American Culture of the 20th-21st Centuries | |
December 3 Friday | 10.00 AM-12.30 PM | Section 2. American Culture of the 17th-19th Centuries |
1.00 PM-4.00 PM | Section 4. Ethnic Aspects of American Culture |
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4.00 PM-4.30 PM | Coffee break | |
4.30 PM-7.00 PM | Section 6. Fantastic in American Art and Culture |
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December 4 Saturday | 11.00 AM-1.00 PM | Section 5. Gender Aspects of American Culture |
1.00 PM-2.00 PM | Lunch break | |
2.00 PM-4.00 PM | Section 5. Gender Aspects of American Culture. Continued |
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4.00 PM-5.00 PM | Coffe break | |
5.00 PM-7.00 PM | Round Table in Memoriam of Professor Yassen Zassoursky «Imprints: Image of America and Image of Russia» |
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7.10 PM-8.00 PM | Closing Plenary Session |
Author Archives: Larisa
XLVII RSACS International Conference Program «Преодоление: выработка идеалов и их отображение в культуре США — Overcoming: Cultivating Ideals through Overcoming Barriers in American Culture»
Plenary Opening Session
December 1, Wednesday 6.00 PM
- Dr. Larisa Mikhaylova
RSACS Academic Secretary
Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State Universuty,Russia
Plenary Speakers Introduction
- Cynthia Lazaroff
Cynthia Lazaroff is the founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and NuclearWakeUpCall.Earth. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of Dawn of a New Armageddon, a personal account of the Hawaii missile scare amidst escalating nuclear dangers, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Hiroshima Day. Cynthia is engaged in Track II citizen diplomacy and mediation efforts with Russia and has founded groundbreaking U.S.-Russian exchange initiatives since the early 1980s. Cynthia is dedicated to catalyzing efforts in U.S.-Russia relations to reduce the nuclear risk and to working with people in Russia and all countries to move towards a world without nuclear weapons.
Cynthia Lazaroff Opening Words — American Studies Conference Moscow 12-1-21
- Professor Nikolai Popov
PhD in History, Leading Researcher
RAS Institute of the USA and Canada, Moscow, Russia
American and Russian High School Students –Direct Connection Against the War Threat
Section 1. Journalism
Coordinator Professor Yulia Balashova (St.-Petersburg State University, Russia)
December 2, Thursday 11.30 AM – 2.30 PM
- Yulia Balashova
St.Petersburg State University, Russia
Russian and American Almanacs Calendar Invariant
Comparative media researches are one of the most demanded areas, however, in fact, they have not actually been sufficiently developed in the historical aspect. The media comparative approach is based primarily on the socio-political, not the general cultural factor, which is not always adequate to the historical and journalistic realities. This type of publications as an almanac emphasizes the cultural code. Comparison of the Russian and American traditions of publishing almanacs is being undertaken for the first time. In these two diverging traditions, almanacs have historically functioned in the different cultural environments: elite – in the Russian culture, and popular, mass – in the American version. Nevertheless, almanacs comparative typological invariant reveals the unity associated with the mediatization of the calendar, the seasonal reading circle. As the main empirical material, the almanacs of the period of formation are considered, by the 18th – 19th centuries.
- Linna Liberchuk
Independent Scholar, Moscow, Russia
The Ideals and “Pitfalls” of the Founding Fathers’ Actions: Interviews with Accomplished American Historians at the Library of Congress
Interaction and mutual influence of American history and culture presented through interviews in а book “American History. Conversations with Master Historians” (2019) by D. Rubenstein, a philanthropist, investor, founder of “patriotic philanthropy”. Using the chapters which discuss the Founding Fathers, the presentation shows (1) key points of interviews with historians in regard of unusual historical, cultural and social events in the country’s past: the Founding Era of the nation. The “Congressional Dialogues” program at the Library of Congress was designed for members of Congress, (2) the book includes a part of these “Dialogues”, which was presented to the general readers in Washington, DC at the popular bookstore “Politics and Prose” (2019) and at the National Press Club (2020) for national and international journalists, (3) inspiring moments of biographies of “giants” – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin with focus on ideals which motivated them (e.g. independence, freedom, readiness to give up power, international relations, diplomacy), as well obstacles of the crisis we never knew: an unsupported military budget, hierarchy, dynasties and partisan biases, inconsistency of political processes and segregation, excessive trustfulness and personal mistakes. Conclusion: (1) The book is a powerful tool of studying interview techniques through international communication. A civilizational shift in 1776 affected the complicated, difficult and confusing world as our world does now. David Rubinstein’s exceptional professionalism in asking questions shows authors’ knowledge of history, enthusiasm and humor. (2) The collection of interviews presents different opinions about historical decisions which changed the course of the nation, the Founding Fathers’ destinies illuminating their values, respect for ordinary people, priority of revolutionary ideas in private lives. This book is an effective source for historians, political scientists, international journalists in a search for strategies for the international cooperation.
Registration for XLVII International RSACS “Overcoming: Cultivating Ideals through Overcoming Barriers in American culture” is open
The concept of Overcoming is suggested as a focus for interdisciplinary discussion of both contemporary period of American culture – such as implications of COVID-19 and its aftermath, crisis of trust in social life and overcoming Trumpism in politics, – as well as in history with the persistent necessity to overcome various barriers in building and maintaining ideals – be it religious divides or the barriers spawned by immigration status, gender, race or class.
Planned sections:
- Journalism,
- American Culture of the 17-19th Centuries,
- Contemporary Literature and Culture, with a Round Table Discussion on American Drama
- Ethnic Aspects,
- Gender Studies,
- Fantastic in the Arts,
- Canadian perspectives,
A traditional Round Table discussion: Imprints – Image of America and Image of Russia will also be held and dedicated to the memory of Professor Yassen Zassoursky.
The deadline for applications is November 10. Letters of acceptance will be sent by November 15.
Though the conference was planned to be held on-site, at MSU Journalism Department, 9 Mokhovaya ul., Moscow, Russia, still, due to anti-COVID-19 measures protraction, the conference will be held online during the same dates – December 1-4, 2021. Platform – Zoom.
Participants and registered listeners will be sent invitation links for conference sessions by November 29.
https://lomonosov-msu.ru/eng/event/7011/
EAAS Conference 2022: Deadline extention until tomorrow – you can still apply!
Wastelands
34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
UNED, Madrid 6-8 April 2022
WASTELANDS – CALL FOR PAPERS-Deadline extension
The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.
The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the
idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States. Hence, the overarching theme of
the conference is open to all kinds of reflections around the concept of “wasteland” and
waste. EAAS 2022 invites proposals that address the concept of waste in U.S. culture,
history, and politics.
Proposals may address (but are not restricted to) the following topics:
WASTELANDS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
• Environmental waste (water, land, e-waste, etc.).
• Anti-Waste: degrowth philosophy.
• “Zero waste” movement and consumerism.
• Food waste.
• Wastelands as devastation of spaces.
• Waste of resources (human, natural, economic, etc.).
THE ETHICS OF WASTE
• Moral waste: deterioration of democracies and other values. Empty discourses
(political, cultural, etc.).
• Wasted opportunities (land of opportunities, American dream).
• Waste as a “negative store”, as opposed to the archive; forgetting, destruction,
and latent cultural memory.
CORPOREAL WASTE
• Illnesses and pathologies.
• Age: The Growing Land.
• Emotional wastelands: real or metaphorical alexithymia.
• Pandemics and other physical threats.
LITERARY AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF WASTELANDS
• ‘Wasteland” as an image of decadence, crisis, and postwar.
• Barrenness vs. fertility, hopelessness vs. regeneration.
• T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and its literary / cultural influence.
• Literary representations of wastelands.
• (Audio)visual representations of wastelands.
• Ruins, trash, in painting, music, film, and other artistic representations
• Waste of information: useless and redundant data, technology, media, etc.
1 августа 2021 года ушел из жизни Ясен Николаевич Засурский, но с нами он навсегда
Сегодня в четыре часа утра умер Ясен Николаевич. Прощание состоится в среду, 4 августа, во дворе журфака, с 12.30 до 13.30. Затем состоится кремация. Урна с прахом будет захоронена на Троекуровском кладбище.
Множество учеников Ясена Николаевича размещают у себя на страницах в интернете воспоминания, приходят слова памяти и от американистов, которые просят разместить их на нашем сайте.
Мы разместим тут все присланные на адрес larmih@gmail.com слова памяти о Я.Н. Засурском.
Первыми прислали соболезнования коллеги из Беларуси:
Неоценим его вклад в становление и развитие отделений журналистики, формирование редких направлений и научных школ в Забайкалье и на Дальнем Востоке, в том числе в Забайкальском государственном университете. В лице Ясена Николаевича мы потеряли выдающегося учёного, организатора, авторитетного деятеля в области международных отношений. Созданное под его началом Общество по изучению культуры США (ОИКС) и ежегодные конференции американистов-филологов, проводимые на факультете журналистики МГУ с 1975 года, способствовали объединению и сближению российских и зарубежных исследователей, развитию мировой науки.
Уход Ясена Николаевича – невосполнимая утрата, но его дело будет продолжено многочисленными учениками и последователями.
Today Opens EAAS Conference 2021 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal. April 30-May 3. Warsaw, Poland
All EAAS members who have not yet registered can see the program and join the conference at the end of this week as non-presenting participants at http://eaas2020.eu/registration-payment/
It is only 4 dollars to have access to interesting discussions of this very well designed conference.
Themes of RSACS conferences in 1975-2020
- Conference I: 1975 Literature and Journalism of the USA
- Conference II: 1976: Periodization of American Literature
- Conference III: 1977: Great October Revolution Influence on American Literature and Journalism
- Conference IV: 1978: American Romanticism and Modernity
- Conference V: 1979: Realism in American Literature
- Conference VI: 1980: Tradition as a Problem in American Literature
- Conference VII: 1981: Ideological Confrontation Influence of Studying and Teaching Literature and Journalism of the USA
- Conference VIII 1982: American Novel and American Society
- Conference IX 1983: Literature, Journalism and American Political Life
- Conference X 1984: American Literature and Journalism: Worldviews, Methods, Genres
- Conference XI 1985: American Writers and American Society
- Conference XII 1986: Poetics of American Literature and American Way of Life
- Conference XIII 1987: Great October Revolution Influence on American Literature and Journalism-2
- Conference XIV 1988: Ways of Expressing Views in American Literature and Journalism
- Conference XV 1989: Tendencies of American Literature and Journalism of the 1980s
- Conference XVI 1990: Tradition and Experiment in American Literature and Journalism
- Conference XVII 1991: American History and Culture in Literature and Journalism of the USA: Commemorating 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of America
- Conference XVIII 1992: Reconstruction and Revision of American Literary History: Canon, Feminism, Ethnos
- Conference XIX 1993: Ethnic Problems in Literature and Journalism of the USA
- Conference XX1994: American Literature in the World Literary Context
- Conference XXI 1995: American Literature and Russia
- Conference XXII 1996: Changing Styles, Trends, and Epochs in American Literature and Culture
- Conference XXIII 1997: Literature and Culture of the USA: Poetics and Aesthetics
- Conference XXIV 1998: Literature in the Cultural Context
- Conference XV 1999: American Culture and Literature on the threshold of the Third Millennium
- Conference XXVI 2000: Christianity and American Culture
- Conference XXVII 2001: American Culture: Globalization and Regionalism
- Conference XXVIII 2002: Mass Culture: An American Experience
- Conference XXIX 2003: Literature and the Arts
- Conference XXX 2004: Freedom of Choice in the American Civilization
- Conference XXXI 2005: Word and/as Power: Author and Authority in American Cultural Tradition
- Conference XXXII 2006 America Real, Imaginary, Virtual
- Conference XXXIII 2007: Interdisciplinary Studies of American Culture as a Medium of Contacts
- Conference XXXIV 2008: Interpretation of History in American Culture.
- Conference XXXV 2009: Cultural Pluralism: History, Literature, Art.
- Conference XXXVI 2010: Nature and Sustainability of Culture
- Conference XXXVII 2011: City and Urbanism in American Culture
- Conference XXXVIII 2012: American Values: Devaluation, Reevaluation, Reconstruction.
- Conference XXXIX 2013: American Culture in Multipolar World
- Conference XL 2014: American Culture: From Making a Nation to Transnationalism
- Conference XLI 2015 Peace and Conflict Resolution in American Culture
- Conference XLII 2016:: Creative Communication: American Culture as Communication System
- Conference XLIII 2017: American Humor and Satire: Functions and Forms
- Conference XLIV 2018: American and Europe: Forms of Cultural Interaction
- Conference XLV 2019: Immigration and American Culture
- Conference XLVI 2020: “Screening” American History and Dreams: Documents and Interpretation in Cinema and TV

XLVI International RSACS Conference Program
Section 1. American Journalism and Culture
Coordinator Professor Yulia Balashova (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia)
December 3, Thursday, 10.00-13.00
- Alina Odoeva
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Institute of International Research MGIMO, Russia
The Dynamics of Television Entertainment Talk Shows in the US
- Svetlana Kanashina
Ministry of Foreign Affairs MGIMO, Russia
American Screen Culture In Modern Communicative Space (The Case Of Internet Memes)
- Nikolai Zykov
Journalism Department
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Historical themes in the Voice of America videos
- Yulia Balashova
Journalism Department
Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
American TV Shows Deontology
- Alina Kuchieva, Maryana Karmova
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Russia
American vs. Russian Political Journalism on the example of V.Pozner
- Ranjbar Daniyal
RUDN University, Moscow, Iran\Russia
The Evolution of American Political Journalism after 2016
Plenary Opening Session December 2, 2020
December 2, Wednesday, 5.50 pm
- Dr. Larisa Mikhaylova
RSACS Academic Secretary, Journalism Department,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Welcome speech
- Maniko Dillon-Barthelemy
Educator, Executive Producer/Director in Southern Belle Production
Louisiana, USA
Social Awareness and reporting (documentary filmmaking)
The speaker will talk about how teaching social responsibility and awareness leads to a better reporting, how her students seek and pitch ideas for social issues films and reporting, and how a single documentary can change the law.
3. Alberto Galina Mendoza
Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker, Canada
Social-issues documentaries: life in front of the camera and beyond
The speaker will explain why he started making social-issues docs, how his team built the relationship with their characters, how tough and how important to make social-issues films and what happens after the cameras are gone.
Maniko Dillon-Barthelemy
Educator, Executive Producer/Director in Southern Belle Production
Filmography:
Unlikely sex offenders, film’s description: https://newsheels.blogspot.com/2011/04/unlikely-sex-offenders-film-screening.html
PURPOSE: This session examines the steps taken throughout documentary production to produce a powerful, unnerving, provocative film like “The Unlikely Sex Offenders” that informs the target audience and impacts public policy.
METHODS: Two of the more than 800 Louisiana women who are registered sex offenders after being convicted of breaking the state’s 1805 Crime Against Nature law give gripping details of life as they live with the stares, stigma, and setbacks that define them because of the conviction. A state lawmaker who introduced legislation to change the law during production of the film goes through the history, hypocrisy, and hard road to amending Louisiana’s constitution. Louisiana State Police explain their role in maintaining the state’s sex offender registry. All perspectives for the film are on-camera in an unscripted, content relevant setting. Weeks of field legal research at Louisiana courthouses, on and off-camera interviews, meetings with potential participants, field research, filming, location scouting, writing, and editing over a six month period culminated with the film screening at the Obama Administration’s Human Rights Film Festival in Washington, DC.
CONCLUSION: The 2010 documentary added the human touch Louisiana lawmakers struggled to make in their efforts to draft and pass legislation that made breaking the 1805 Crime Against Nature law by solicitation, punishable by up to six months in jail, a maximum fine of $500 or both, for a person’s first offense. It changed the punishment from a felony to a misdemeanor, as it relates to adults soliciting adults. The offender must register with police as a sex offender if he or she has been convicted of soliciting a minor on a first offense or after a second conviction of soliciting a crime against nature of an adult. Previously, breaking the Louisiana 1805 Crime Against Nature law as a result of soliciting an adult, meant if convicted, the offender possibly faced hard time in a state prison, was required to register as a sex offender for a minimum of 15 years, and the words SEX OFFENDER were capitalized in red letters stamped on the convicted offender’s driver’s license or state ID, regardless of the offense.
Alberto Galina Mendoza
Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker
Filmography:
The Heart of the Children: Supporting Children with Refugee Experiences (https://vimeo.com/95486159)
This short doc was commissioned by the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia, as an educational video-documentary for teachers in the Vancouver region with a duration of 10 min approximately. The purpose was for the teachers to learn about immigrant children recent arrivals and integrated into the education system, to understand these kids were probably dealing with trauma and how this is usually identified and how art therapy can help them deal with their emotions better and at the same time allowing better integration into Canadian education system and culture. The author uses kids’ art and poetry and their experiences to drive the mini-doc.
Million Dollar Med$ (https://www.milliondollarmeds.com)
This is a long in-depth documentary about rare diseases in Canada. The film won the Jack Webster Awards for the best health sciences journalist work. This project also was awarded the Edward Murrow Awards in New York, the USA for the best international small news organization.
XLVI RSACS International Conference Schedule
Day | Section | Zoom Meeting link |
December 2, Wednesday
17.40-20.00 |
Opening Plenary Session |
Plenary session
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89319925526?pwd=dGV3bDd4bWx6Z2ZYb0ZlNTF1QUF2UT09 Идентификатор конференции: 893 1992 5526 Код доступа: 542597 |
December 3, Thursday
11.00 – 14.00 |
Section 1. Journalism | Тема: Zoom meeting invitation – Zoom Meeting Section 1 Journalism Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 3 дек 2020 10:00 AM Москва https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87486615293?pwd=V2h6SnZVcmF3NGtCUjZRY0pFSFBrUT09 Идентификатор конференции: 874 8661 5293 Код доступа: 810656 |
14.00 – 15.00 | Lunch break | |
15.00 – 18.00 | Section 3. Contemporary American Literature and Culture | Zoom Meeting Section 3 Contemporary American Culture Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 3 дек 2020 03:00 PM Москва Подключиться к конференции Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82567062902?pwd=UVo1SDBhSGg1L0lLL1BuOWFRbHc1QT09 Идентификатор конференции: 825 6706 2902 Код доступа: 042417 |
18.00-19.30 | Section 2. American Culture of the 17th-19th Centuries | Zoom Meeting Section 2 American Culture of the 17-19 centuries Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 3 дек 2020 06:00 PM Москва https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83114678024?pwd=VWlkdFRUL00rZWswYU1sbi9TMFBqdz09 Идентификатор конференции: 831 1467 8024 Код доступа: 392480 |
December 4, Friday | ||
13.00 – 15.00
15.20 – 18.00 |
Section 4.
Ethnic Aspects of American Culture |
Zoom Meeting Section 4 Ethnic Aspects Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 4 дек 2020 01:00 PM Москва https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87207089113?pwd=Sno2SFJMSHM4VU56TWxXaVB2VmV5QT09 Идентификатор конференции: 872 0708 9113 Код доступа: 331335 |
15.00 – 15.20 | Coffee-break | |
20.00-21.00 | Discussion with Alberto Galina Mendoza and Maniko Barthelme
here is the link to her film to be discussed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7xl9hppXY&feature=youtu.be
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Discussion with Alberto Galina Mendoza
Время: 4 дек 2020 08:00 PM Москва https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87391071230?pwd=ZU1RY0pkb2lzcENyMkZPQVIrT3ovZz09 Идентификатор конференции: 873 9107 1230 Код доступа: 807554 |
December 5, Saturday | ||
11.00 – 13.00 | Section 5. Gender Aspects of American Culture
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Zoom Meeting Section 5 Gender Aspects Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 5 дек 2020 11:00 AM Москва https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87468105386?pwd=Q2dLcUpiYmRtTWlHeGlkamNuQ2hXQT09 Идентификатор конференции: 874 6810 5386 Код доступа: 347829 |
13.00 –14.00 | Lunch break | |
14.00 – 16.00 | Section 6.
Fantastic in the Arts
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Zoom Meeting Section 6 Fantastic in the Arts Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 5 дек 2020 02:00 PM Москва https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88410027597?pwd=cHZJaVpDL3FSdHYyanphVC9ES2Q3QT09 Идентификатор конференции: 884 1002 7597 Код доступа: 910612 |
16.00 – 17.00 | Coffeе-break | |
17.00 – 19.30 | Round Table discussion
«Imprints: Image of Russia and Image of America» |
Zoom Meeting Round Table Imprints Images of the USA and Russia Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 5 дек 2020 05:00 PM Москва Подключиться к конференции Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86904815684?pwd=WlhUdkhZUUY3L0pxR1lTSU84cEhnUT09 Идентификатор конференции: 869 0481 5684 Код доступа: 356076 |
19.30 – 20.30 | Closing Plenary Session | Zoom Meeting Closing Session Larisa Mikhaylova
Время: 5 дек 2020 07:30 PM Москва https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89815557179 Идентификатор конференции: 898 1555 7179 |