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RSACS L International Conference Program

L International conference  

«Sculpting the Future to Build the Present: American Culture and Democracy»  

December 4-8, 2024    

  

Opening Plenary Session 

December 4, Wednesday  2024     6.30 pm MSK 

 

Organizers’ Greetings to the Conference participants. 

Sergey Kislitsyn 

Director  

Russian Academy of Sciences Georgy Arbatov Institute for the USA and Canada Studies 

Natalya Gladysheva 

GAUGN Deputy Dean 

 Culture as an integral component of the student’s personality

  

  1. RAS Correspondent Member Valery Garbuzov 

Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies,Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), Russia 

Democracy and Autocracy: Dichotomy of the Modern World 

 

2.Professor Olga Panova   

Philology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University 

Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, Moscow, Russia 

Bewteen West and East:  W.E.B. Du Bois on Democracy in Contemporary World 

 

3. RSACS Academic Secretary Larisa Mikhaylova 

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

The Fiftieth Conference of American Culture Researchers: 

 Memories and Perspectives  

 

 

Section 1. USA Journalism   

Coordinator Dr. Andrey Ruskin 

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

  December 5, Thursday  10.00 am – 1.00 pm MSK 

 1. Sofia Bukhantseva

The Moscow International University, Russia 

The Evolution of Political Commentary on the Example of Hunter Thompson’s works Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 and Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie 

 

2. Alexander Chernavsky

The Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPGU), Russia   

The Crisis of Self-Censorship and the Problem of Ideological Polarization in Contemporary American Journalism  

 

3. Dmitry Donskoy

The Moscow International University, Russia 

The Role of Sports Journalism Language in US Political Discourse  

 

4. Marina Fedorina

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Digital Transformation of the Local Media in the United States and Current Trends in the American Regional Journalism 

 

5. Vladislav Fedorov

The Financial University, Moscow, Russia    

Black Lives Matter as a Factor in the Political Polarization of American Society 

 

6. Violetta Gerasina

The State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN), Russia 

The Media Image of Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election 

 

7. Fedor Serdotetsky

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Tools for Promoting Channels of American Publications and Opinion Leaders on Telegram 

 

8. Nikolai Zykov

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia  

Reflection of Democratic Values in the Materials of the Voice of America 

 

  1. Alexander Ayton

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Research University), Russia 

Comparative frame analysis of Jewish and American news media articles reporting on 2024 US presidential candidates’ views on Israel 

 

 

 

Section 2. American Culture of the 17th-19th Centuries 

Coordinator Dr. Boris Maksimov 

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

 December 6, Friday 5.00 pm-8.00 pm MSK 

 

  1. Irene Khruleva

History Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Democratic interpretation of the covenant doctrine by representatives of the radical movement of New England Puritanism of the 17th century 

 

  1. Dimitry Shcherbakov

HSE University, Moscow, Russia 

 “The Angel of Death stands with a drawn Sword over my sinful Family…”: the Category of Age and the Perception of Death in 17th Century New England 

 

  1. Yuri Polyakov, Tatyana Pavlova

Komi RAS Research Center, Syktyvkar, Russia 

Discussing the influence of North American legal culture on French Revolutionary Constitutionalism at the end of the 18th century 

 

  1. Aishat Ostanbekova

St-Petersburg State University, Russia 

All Roads lead to Rome: the Prevalence of Roman Heritage in the Culture of the Early American Republic 

 

  1. Narine Shakhnazaryan

Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus 

The origins of the policy of double standards (T. More’s Utopia and Pantisocraty by R. Southey) 

 

  1. Boris Maximov

Journalism Department. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Slavery as a Mental Pathology in E. A. Poe’s ‘Gothic’ Tales 

 

7.Natalia Kuznetsova 

Journalism Department. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

The Methods of Team Management in H. Melville’s Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 

 

  1. Veronika Rodina

Financial Academy, Moscow Russia 

The Evolution of the concept of the “American Dream” as a Soft Power tool from the 17th century to the present 

 

9.Aisha Shakhjakhan 

RUDN University, Moscow, Russia 

Legal Culture of the USA:  History of Development  

 

Section 3. American Culture of the 20th and 21st Centuries 

Coordinator Prof. Dr. Elena Kornilova 

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

 December 8, Sunday, 10.00 – 17.00 (MSK) 

 1.Tatyana Kamarovska 

Belarusian Pedagogical University, Minsk, Belarus 

Democracy vs dictatorship: G. Vidal’s Novel Lincoln 

 

  1. Irina Kudryavtseva

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus 

Democratization of the genre system of American literature: flash fiction 

  

  1. Natalya Kopytko

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus 

From the USA to NAS-23:  

The Metamorphoses of American Democracy in J. C. Oates’s Novel Hazards of Time Travel 

 

  1. Irene Guseva

Philology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

A Big Country and So Different:  

a novel by Joyce Carol Oates Night, Sleep, Death. The Stars. 

 

  1. Danila Krasnov

HSE University, Moscow Russia 

The Impact of the Neoconservative Movement on American Culture 1960-1980 

 

  1. Tatyana Belova

Philology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia  

Pictorial Mode Delineating the Overcoming of the Race Conflict  

in W. Faulkner’s Novel Intruder in the Dust  

 

  7. Tatyana Alenkina

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Research University), Russia 

The Genre of American Political Thriller  

(on the example of the novel by Stephen King The Dead Zone ) 

 

8. Anastasia Koroleva

Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia 

Search for National Identity. Fight Scenes of George Wesley Bellows 

 

13.00 -14.00 Lunch Break 

 

  1. Alexandra Rogovtseva

RSHU, Moscow,Russia 

American Visionary Art: From Countercultural Roots to Technological Breakthroughs 

 

  1. Natalia Petrovskaya

ISKRAN ,Moscow, Russia 

Reflections of Social Inequality In American Cinema 

 

  1. Mikhail Zhuravlev

HSE University, Moscow, Russia 

Transformation of the hero’s image in the 2004 film Troy 

 

  1. Artem Rumyantsev

Presidential Academy, Moscow, Russia 

Hollywood and Democracy: The Political Influence of Cinema on Public Consciousness 

 

  1. Yegor Shapovalov

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

The Role of the Narrator in a Documentary Somewhere in Detroit: Underground Resistance, Submerge, Techno and the Detroit Way, 2024 

 

  1. Yelena Polyudova

Russian University of Transport, Moscow, Russia 

General Streams of Art Education in the USA in 20th-21st Centuries 

 

  1. Yelena Shabashova

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Research University), Russia 

Academic Culture of Students: examples from the USA Universities 

 

  1. Milena Daguyeva

Lomonosov Moscow State Universuty, Russia 

Teaching American History at School as a Way to Implement Cultural Policy 

 

Section 4. Ethnic Aspects of American Culture 

 Coordinator Dr. Oksana Danchevskaya 

(Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia) 

 December 6, Friday, 10.00 am – 4.30 pm (MSK) 

 1. Tatyana Burmetyeva

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

“Because I am a poor Indian”: the problems of the indigenous population of North America in the middle of the 18th century according to Samson Occom 

 

  1. Maria Chirich

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus 

The Nature of Ethnic Conflict in Louise Erdrich’s Novel “Tracks” 

 

  1. Oksana Danchevskaya

Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia 

American Indian Myths about the Creation of Man 

 

  1. Inna Shchepacheva

Kazan Federal University, Russia 

Slavery and Its Apprehension in Jesmyn Ward’s Creativity 

 

  1. Yulia Kleyman

Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, Russia 

African Americans at the Federal Theatre Project 

 

  1. Alexander Alkhimov

HSE University Saint-Petersburg, Russia 

The influence of McCarthyism on the civil rights struggle in the South 1946-1954 

 

  1. Kirill Ignatov

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Reflection as a stylistic dominant in the play “Topdog / Underdog” by Suzan-Lori Parks 

 

  1. Polina Shabrova

Center for North American Studies IMEMO RAS, Russia 

Removal of Confederate monuments in the United States: symbols of the past in contemporary battles for racial justice 

 

  1. Tatiana Ivanova

University of Science and Technology MISIS, Russia 

A Plague Saint and Doctor Death: The Spread and Transformation of the Santa Muerte Cult in the USA and Mexico 

 

  1. Marina Chernykh

Institute for US and Canadian Studies RAS, Russia 

The correlation between the “Melting Pot” concept and the culture resilience of Hispanics 

 

  1. Landysh Yuzmukhametova

Kazan Federal University, Russia 

Contemporary multicultural American literature: the novel Secret Son by L. Lalami 

 

  1. Dmitry Zubin

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

The position of Irish Americans on the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) 

 

  1. Nikita Senyushkin

State Academic University for the Humanities, Russia 

The French Spirit: How French immigrants have changed the cultural landscape of the United States 

 

  1. Shakhrom Samiev

The State University of Management, Russia 

Multiculturalism and Interethnic Interaction in U.S. Cities 

 

 

 

Section 5. Gender Aspects of American Culture 

Coordinators Dr. Nadezhda Shvedova (RAS Arbatov Institute of the USA and Canada, Russia) and Dr. Larisa Mikhaylova  (Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

 December 7, Saturday 10.00 am – 1.00 pm (MSK) 

 1. Shvedova N.A.

ISKRAN ,Moscow, Russia 

Aftertaste of the 2024 US Presidential Campaign 

 

  1. Anna Martynova

Sakhalin State University, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 

Neopatriarchy and Neo-capitalism:  

How Ecofeminism Masks Two Phenomena Using The Example of the USA 

 

  1. Alina Patric

St.-Petersburg State University, Russia 

Pop-culture Usage in Kamala Harris’ Election Campaign 

 

  1. Lyudmila Popkova

Korolev Samara National Research University, Russia 

“Riot girls” Culture: American Gender Protest of 1990s 

 

  1. Yulia Gerasimova

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Image of the First Female TV Journalist  Mary Richards in Mary Tyler Moore Show as a symbol of Feminism 

 

6. Tatjana Srceva-Pavlovska

American University of Europe – AUE, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia 

Using Humor as a Cover-Up: Misogyny and Sexism in Benjamin Franklin’s Old Mistresses’ Apologue and Donald Trump’s Public Statements 

 

7. Eva Makarova

ISKRAN \ GAUGN, Moscow, Russia 

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Ratification in the USA 

 

8. Maria Zolotukhina

RSUH, Moscow, Russia 

The Culture of Estate Sales: Old Habits and New Opportunities 

 

9. Natalia Serzhant

Belarusian State Pedagogical University,  Minsk

New concepts of a family novel genre in the works by J. Franzen 

 

 

Section 6. Fantastic in the Arts 

Coordinator Dr. Larisa Mikhaylova 

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

 December 7, Saturday, 2.15 pm – 5.30 pm (MSK) 

 1. Larisa Mikhaylova 

Journalism Department 

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here (1935) and Project-2025: Populism against Democracy 

 

2. Ksenia Vikhrova 

Stiglitz Academy  of Art, St.Petersburg, Russia 

Politics and metaphysics in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle 

 

3. Ekaterina Abramova 

HSE University, Moscow, Russia 

Techniques of Satirical Depiction of Fictional Countries in American Popular Culture (on the Example of Lower Slobbovia from the Comics Li`l Abner by Al Capp) 

 

4. Yulia Khoroshevskaya 

Rostov State Transport University, Russia 

Non-utopian Future in O. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy: Hybridity as a Condition for Survival 

 

5. Yuliya Viarbitskaya 

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus 

Time travel and the change of axiological paradigms in the works of Diana Gabaldon 

 

6. Artem Nikulin 

Journalism Department 

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Political Technology in the AI Version: Reflection of the Fake Information Role in The Video Game MGS2: Sons Of Liberty (2001) 

 

7. Elena Sidorova 

Turgenev Orel State University, Russia 

Functional Features of Cyberpunk and Post-cyberpunk in Neal Town Stephenson’s Novels 

 

8. Alexander Sluczkij  

Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia 

American Science Fiction and Cultural Crisis: Ways of Expression and Solutions  

(on the Example of William Gibson’s Novel Neuromancer) 

 

9. Olga Volodina 

RSHU, Moscow, Russia 

 With Liberty and Justice For All: Liberation of the Robot in the American SFCinema of the 21st century 

 

 

Section 7. Canadian Aspect of American Culture

Coordinator Dr. Konstantin Romanov 

(Department of Foreign Languages and Regional Studies,  Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

 December 5, Thursday, 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm (MSK) 

 

  1. Yury Akimov 

Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 

“Au Pays des Souverainistes”: Quebec politics in Songs 

 

2. Ivan Nokhrin 

Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia 

“True Northeners” in a “Peaceable Kingdom”: 20th-Century Canadian Historians and the Search for National Identity 

 

3. Kristina Minkova 

Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 

Soviet-Canadian Cultural Relations During the Second World War 

 

4. Konstantin Romanov 

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 

The 2022 Canadian Trucker Protests: Reinterpreting the Concepts of Freedom and Democracy 

 

  1. Gorbunova Olga 

Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia 

Canadian Arctic Policy: features and key priorities 

  

 

Round Table “50 Years of RSACS December Conferences” 

Coordinator Professor Olga Nesmelova (Kazan Federal University, Russia 

 December 7, Saturday, 6 pm – 8 pm  (MSK) 

 

Tatyana Kamarovska 

Belarusian State Pedagogical University, Minsk, Belarus 

The First  Americanist conference in 1975 and the Role of the Society of American Culture Studies in the development of American studies in the USSR and Post-Soviet states  

 

Olga Nesmelova 

Kazan Federal University, Russia 

Tamara Denisova and her role in the formation of the concept of postmodernism in Russian American studies 

 

Yury Stulov 

Independent Researcher, Minsk, Belarus 

Ethnic literatures through the December conference lens 

  

Larisa Mikhaylova 

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

Gender Studies Research and Fantastic in the Arts Section 1992-2024 

 

Also agreed to share their memories  Yelena Kornilova, Tatyana Belova, Luisa Bashmakova. 

 

 Round Table Discussion

Imprints: Image of Russia and Image of America 

In Memoriam of Professor Yassen Zassoursky 

 Coordinator RSACS Academic Secretary Dr. Larisa Mikhaylova 

 December 8, Sunday, 6 pm – 8 pm  (MSK) 

 

Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, Ph.D. 

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies 

Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies 

Indiana University, Bloomington, USA  

Beyond Us Versus Them: Using Repetition as a Tool for Understanding the Image of Russia in the American Mind 

 

Olga Litvinova 

Voronezh State Technical University, Russia 

American Culture as Seen by Bilingual Non-Americans and Americans 

 

Ekaterina Gudilina 

St.-Petersburg State University, Russia 

Presidential Discourse as the Basis for Constructing the Image of the Other (using the example of the Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly and the State of the Union Addresses) 

The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant No 24-28-01309), https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-01309/  

 

Irvin Weil 

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA 

Family Story 

 

Alena Vanova 

Independent researcher, Moscow, Russia 

How Do We Sculpt the Future: Stereotypes And Archetypes? 

 

Vladimir Pavlov 

MGIMO, Moscow, Russia 

Narratives and Trust: “Assembly Line” for the US Foreign-Policy Ideas 

 

Olga Zatsepina  

President, Russian American Cultural Heritage Center, New York, USA 

People’s diplomacy in practice: Saving and disseminating Russian language, history and Russian heritage in the US 

 

Alexandra Surkova 

Gorky RAS Institute of World Literature, Moscow, Russia 

The Story of the Non-Publication in the USSR of American Prose about the War: The Case of John Hersey 

 

Sherif Hassan Ged  

Secretary General of the Egyptian Russian Friendship Society  

Cairo, Egypt  

The Role of Cultural Interaction in Forming the Image of the State: Contemporary Russian Experience and Future Prospects  

 

Francesca de Bardin 

Writer, Lecturer, Russian Society “Znanie” 

Former board member, New York Board of Trade 

Co-founder, French American Friendship Foundation, USA 

Images of Russia by an American Living in Moscow 

 

 

 

Registration for RSACS L International Conference is open

The annual International Conference of American culture researchers will be held in 2024 from December 4 to December 8, onsite, in hybrid format with zoom sessions, with the support of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The theme of the Fiftieth Conference is “Sculpting the Future to Build the Present: American Culture and Democracy”. Socio-cultural conditions and models of success in America and their reflection in various areas of US culture will be considered from a historical and modern perspective.

The traditional sections planned are :

Journalism
Culture of America in the 17th-19th centuries
American Culture of the 20th-21st Centuries with the Roundtable on American Drama
Ethnic aspects of American culture
Gender Aspects of American Culture
Fantastic in the Arts and Culture of the United States
Canadian Dimension of American Culture
Round table “Imprints: The Image of America and the Image of Russia”

Until July 30, proposals for holding additional panel discussions, round tables and sections are accepted at the address larmih@gmail.com. To organize such a discussion and a round table, it is required to submit a list of questions in Russian and English, three participants and their take on the subject. For a section, introduce the concept of the section.

Registration is conducted on the portal for conferences Lomonosov at the link https://lomonosov-msu.ru/eng/event/request/8944/form 

Registration deadline for all presentations is October 31, 2024

The Organizing committee decides on inclusion in the program until November 15, 2024, the acceptance letter will be sent electronically on that date.

The abstracts of the reports included in the program will be published on the Society’s website in Russian and English.

After discussion in the sections, the reports are recommended for publication in the collection. The best papers are recommended for publication in the journal “USA AND CANADA: ECONOMY, POLITICS, CULTURE”. Full texts are accepted after the conference. Template requirements will be sent to participants personally.

In the case of difficulties registering on the portal Lomonosov – please immediately contact larmih@gmail.com to remedy the situation.

Abstracts of the The XLIX RSACS International Conference

Russian Academy of Sciences Arbatov Institute of the USA and Canada Studies

The Society of American Culture Studies

 

The XLIX International Conference Abstracts

 

«Ways to Success in American Culture»

 

Moscow, November 29 – December 3, 2023

 

Editorial team: Oksana Danchevskaya, Elena Kornilova, Alexey Matveyev, Boris Maximov, Andrey Ruskin, Nadezhda Shvedova, 

Editor: Larisa Mikhaylova

 

Keynote Lecture

Chris T. Cartwright, MPA, EdD

Portland State University, Oregon, USA

An Interculturalist’s Perspective on Ways to Success in American Culture

The United States is emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic a deeply fractious society. We seem to be recovering economically, but very unevenly. Politically we are often contentious and disappointed. Culturally and socially, we are often anxious and discontented, especially for those not in the majority racially, ethically, gender identity, ability, and socio-economically class in terms of order and fairness.

No one discipline or perspective can do justice to the complexity we are experiencing in the US at this time. As an interculturalist, a scholar and consultant most focused on the ebbs and flows of communication and engagement across difference, I can offer a perspective on how culture and intercultural competence is impacting this unique time.

***

Chris Cartwright, MPA, Ed.D.is an assessment consultant, trainer, and instructor supporting individuals and organizations in assessing and developing inclusion, intercultural, and global competencies. He has 40+ years of experience in multiple sectors. He assesses, consults, coaches, trains, teaches, and researches regionally, nationally, and internationally in areas of inclusive and global leadership development, intercultural competency, assessment and evaluation, and social justice.  He is an associate of the Connective Leadership Institute, the Kozai Group, icEdge, and Aperian Global.

He is an adjunct faculty for the Portland State University, Minerva, as well as Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and Pepperdine University. He recently served as Director of Intercultural Assessment and Associate Director of the Graduate Program for the Intercultural Communication Institute for 10 years. Prior to this work, he has served as the Dean of Academic Programs for the International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership.

Section 1. USA Journalism

Coordinator Dr. Andrey Ruskin

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)

December 2, 2023

10.00-12.00 (MSK)

  1. Darya Yeremina,  Dobrolyubov Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University, Russia

The Role of Journalists in the Struggle for Women’s Rights

The struggle for women’s rights has a long history in American culture. Women are an integral part of American culture. They occupy high positions in business, politics, science, art and other fields. There are many moments in American history when journalists covered issues related to gender inequality, violence and discrimination. From simple misogyny to opening up new opportunities for women in professional journalism.

This question is undoubtedly an important element of the path to success and development in American culture. How exactly does journalism bring about successful changes in American culture, revealing the concept of “woman” as an independent and self-sufficient person? In my report we will look at how journalists in different periods of history used their positions to fight for women’s rights. Specific examples of the work of journalists will be considered. Contemporary challenges related to gender inequality and the role of journalism in combating them will also be discussed. Continue reading →

Program of the RSACS XLIXth International Conference, November 29 – December 3, 2023

 

Plenary Opening Session

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 19.00 (MSK) 

  1. Organizers’ Greetings to the Conference participants.

Sergey Kislitsyn
Director of Arbatov.Institute of the USA and Canada.Studies
Natalya Gladysheva
GAUGN Vice Dean

2. Conference schedule

Larisa Mikhaylova, RSACS Academic Secretary

3. Keynote Lecture

Chris T. Cartwright, MPA, EdD

Portland State University, Oregon, USA

An Interculturalist’s Perspective on Ways to Success in American Culture

The United States is emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic a deeply fractious society. We seem to be recovering economically, but very unevenly. Politically we are often contentious and disappointed. Culturally and socially, we are often anxious and discontented, especially for those not in the majority racially, ethically, gender identity, ability, and socio-economically class in terms of order and fairness.

No one discipline or perspective can do justice to the complexity we are experiencing in the US at this time. As an interculturalist, a scholar and consultant most focused on the ebbs and flows of communication and engagement across difference, I can offer a perspective on how culture and intercultural competence is impacting this unique time.

***

Chris Cartwright, MPA, Ed.D.is an assessment consultant, trainer, and instructor supporting individuals and organizations in assessing and developing inclusion, intercultural, and global competencies. He has 40+ years of experience in multiple sectors. He assesses, consults, coaches, trains, teaches, and researches regionally, nationally, and internationally in areas of inclusive and global leadership development, intercultural competency, assessment and evaluation, and social justice.  He is an associate of the Connective Leadership Institute, the Kozai Group, icEdge, and Aperian Global.

He is an adjunct faculty for the Portland State University, Minerva, as well as Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and Pepperdine University. He recently served as Director of Intercultural Assessment and Associate Director of the Graduate Program for the Intercultural Communication Institute for 10 years. Prior to this work, he has served as the Dean of Academic Programs for the International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership.

 

Section 1. USA Journalism

Coordinator Dr. Andrey Ruskin

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

December 2, 2023, 10.00-12.00 (MSK)

  1. Nikolai Zykov

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Success stories in the materials of the Voice of America 

2. Irina Isakova

Freelance researcher, Moscow, Russia

Evolution of the theory of success and its role in foreign policy coverage: from Containment to Competitive Endurance 

3. Elena Lioznova

Department of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

The Monroe Doctrine success: social and political debates in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century 

4. Svetlana Orekhova-Tibbits

Tibbits Foundation, Washington, USA

Elon Musk as a Communicator

5. Andrey Ruskin

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Success Stories Covered by US Local Daily Newspapers in 2023

6. Fedor Serdotetsky

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

The Cult of Success in American Social Networks 

7. Yelena Sokurenko

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Cross-cultural analysis of American and Russian Advertising Narratives

(on the example of the Google brand) 

8. Egor Shapovalov

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Importance of Historical Elucidation as the Consistent Author’s Approach in Modern Documentary Cinema (Analysis of Downfall: the case against Boeing (2022), dir. Rory Kennedy)

  Continue reading →

Call for proposals Canada 2024 Biennial Conference: Migrations

Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada

2024 Biennial Conference: Migrations

 Call for Proposals

 19-22 June, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

 The 2024 Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) biennial conference takes migrations as its theme as it seeks new ways of comprehending and responding to the complexity of migration in the past, present, and future. Migrations, in its plural register, is understood expansively, recognizing its many forms and the modes of unevenly distributed power that shape migrant experiences, whether human or otherwise. We understand migration not only as a consistent theme in planetary human and more-than-human history, but also as a phenomenon that is historically interconnected and shaped.

Continue reading →

Registration to 2023 RSACS conference started August 15, 2023

The annual International Conference of American culture researchers will be held in 2023 from November 29 to December 2, online, with the support of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and  World Politics Department of GAUGN. The theme of the XLIX Conference is “Way to Success in American Culture”. Socio-cultural conditions and models of success in America and their reflection in various areas of US culture will be considered from a historical and modern perspective.

The traditional sections planned are :

Journalism

Culture of America in the 17th-19th centuries

American Culture of the 20th-21st Centuries with the Roundtable on American Drama

Ethnic aspects of American culture

Gender Aspects of American Culture

Fantastic in the Arts and Culture of the United States

Canadian Dimension of American Culture

Round table “Imprints: The Image of America and the Image of Russia”

Until October 20, proposals for holding additional panel discussions, round tables and sections are accepted at the address larmih@gmail.com. To organize such a discussion and a round table, it is required to submit a list of questions in Russian and English and names of three participants. For a section, introduce the concept of the section.

Registration starts on August 15, 2023 at https://lomonosov-msu.ru/eng/event/8293/
Registration deadline for all presentations is October 31, 2023.

The Organizing committee decides on inclusion to the program until November 15, 2023, the acceptance letter will be sent electronically on that date.

The abstracts of the reports included in the program will be published on the Society’s website in Russian and English.

After discussion in the sections, the reports are recommended for publication in the collection. The best papers are recommended for publication in the journal “USA AND CANADA: ECONOMY, POLITICS, CULTURE”. Full texts are accepted after the conference. Template requirements will be sent to participants personally.

See you at our conference!

Larisa Mikhaylova,  RSACS Academic Secretary

Plenary Opening Session 2022

November 30, 7.00 PM   room 103

Session will be in English

  1. Dr.Larisa Mikhaylova

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University

RSACS Academic Secretary

Introduction of the Plenary Speakers and the schedule of the conference

 

  1. Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas

Past President, World Communication Association

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S. A.

Carolyn Calloway-Thomas at IU Bloomington on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (Photo by Chris Meyer/Indiana University)

Dr. Carolyn  Calloway-Thomas is past president of the World Communication Association.  In November 2022, she was invited to serve as an intercultural communication competence expert advisor on the  World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence.   She received  her doctoral degree in  communication  from Indiana University Bloomington, where she is currently professor and director of Graduate studies in the Department of African  American and African Diaspora  Studies.  Her areas of specialization   are intercultural communication, empathy  and conflict,   transforming divided communities, pedagogy of empathy,  communication in black America,  and civic engagement. She is  author of Empathy in the Global  World: An Intercultural Perspective, coauthor of Intercultural Communication Roots and Routes and  Intercultural Communication: A Text with Readings, and coeditor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse.  Her coauthored book, Intercultural Communication between Chinese and North Americans,  is forthcoming in 2023.  She is also  a member of the Central States Communication Association’s Hall of Fame,  and has  given hundreds of talks on intercultural communication, empathy, diversity,   and intercultural   competence both nationally and internationally. Her many awards include a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, a  Fulbright Fellowship, a Carnegie Scholarship,  the W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service, the National Council for Black Studies’  Paul Robeson and Zora Neale Hurston Award for Outstanding Leadership and promotion of African Humanities, and the National Communication Association’s Samuel L. Becker  Distinguished Service Award.

 Portrayals of the American Family in Print  Media:  ‘Cells of Consciousness and Quilts of Reality’

“Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience, here, pieces of information there.”

—Toni Morrison

Once upon a time,  over fifty years ago, it was easy for Americans to define what is a family. Today, however, technology, educational attainment,  and shifting values and attitudes have profoundly  changed  the definition (s)  of  family,  leading to more diverse views of what constitutes an American family.  But what are some social  and cultural trends that intersect to promote changes in family life? Why do such trends matter?   And what are the implications  of such trendlines for the larger society and our place in it?  Although the reasons are complex and various, part of the answer lies in the way newspapers and magazines frame the nature, structure,  and idea  of the American family.

This presentation examines the way select newspapers and magazines frame trends and patterns of American family life through the specific lens of a thematic cluster analysis.  An analysis  of articles and editorials have much to recommend, because they can  reveal perceptions of  what  diverse  families share in common,  as well as suggest what is strategically significant in holding American society together and sustaining citizenship and  collective familial bonds. Newspaper articles and editorials  in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Post form the basis of the analysis,  augmented by literature from the Pew Research Center.  My major emphasis is on the words authors and editors  use to talk about the American family and how the words work. The end  goal is to see how editors and writers view the American family  in the twenty-first century.

 

  1. Dr. Maria Zolotukhina

Assistant Professor

Sociocultural Practices Chair,Department of Culture Studies

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

 

Maria V. Zolotukhina is an Assistant Professor at the Russian State University of Humanities and holds a PhD  in history. She has been teaching at several Russian universities. Her courses include Ethnosociology, Sociology of Family, Sociology of Culture, Intercultural communication, History and Culture of Everyday Life (in English). Her academic interests include: history and social anthropology of childhood and family, ethnic identity, history and social anthropology of childhood and family in the US and Russia, gender issues, memorial culture and collective memory, and oral history.

Золотухина _список публикаций_2022

 

The New American Dream: changing values of parenting and parenthood

To launch a child into adulthood right at the time of entering college (and via doing that) has been one of the fundamental values of American middle class – vague as this category may appear. It served as the criteria for successful parental efforts of upbringing and its tangible result – an independent person, already focused on his or her own future success, separated from the family of origin. What seems to have changed quite significantly over the past decades are both the time frame of growing up and the criteria for achieving adulthood thus calling into question the very philosophy of life for Americans. The good old formula – “leave your home, become independent, live the American dream” – that served so well as a universal cultural imperative, while remaining recognizable, has lost its immutable character. Therefore parenthood and parenting as a project changed their rather substantiative qualities: in what constitutes being child-centered now, how is independence and autonomy taught and – most of all – what is the new understanding of affection and its manifestations. Such profound changes can not but influence the core elements of American childhood – an ideal space for a child at home, means of learning financial independence and charity, the notion of privacy and self-esteem and achievement. New types of parenting having become media mems (helicopter parenting. Tiger moms, bulldozer parenting etc ) create both moral panics (boomerang children never leaving home once they are back) and bring about condescending smiles. Emerging adultdood – a term coined by Jeffrey Arnett as a phenomenon even made insurance companies extend their policies up to age 24-25. Covid pandemic of 2020 and 2021 seems only to have reinforced the already existing new patterns without fully doing away with the old ones creating a new version of the American dream.

The presentation is based on long time included observation, media sources and interviews.

XLVIII RSACS International Conference Schedule

DAYTIMESECTIONROOM
November 30,
Wednesday		10.00 -15.30
17.30 -18.50		Registration217
19.00 - 20.30Opening Plenary Session103
December 1, Thursday10.00 - 14.30Section 3.
Contemporary American Culture of the 20th and 21st Centuries
15.00 - 16.30Section 1. Journalism103
17.30 - 19.00Section 2.
American Culture of the 17th-19th Centuries		103
December 2, Friday10.00 - 13.30Section 4.
Ethnic Aspects of American Culture		103
December 3,
Saturday		10.30 - 15.30Section 5.
Gender Aspects of American Culture		103
15.30 - 16.00Coffee-Break
16.00 - 18.00Section 6.
Fantastic in the Arts		103
18.00 - 18.30Coffee-Break
18.30 - 20.30Prof. Zassoursky Round Table Discussion
Imprints: Image of Russia and Image of America		103
20.30 - 21.30Closing Plenary Session103

Abstracts of the XLVIII International RSACS Conference “American Family in Flux Reflected in Literature, Art and Media”, November 30-December 3, 2022

Plenary session

November 30, 7.00 PM   room 103

 

  1. Dr.Larisa Mikhaylova

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University

RSACS Academic Secretary

Introduction of the Plenary Speakers and the schedule of the conference

 

  1. Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas

Past President, World Communication Association

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S. A.

 Portrayals of the American Family in Print  Media:  ‘Cells of Consciousness and Quilts of Reality’

“Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience, here, pieces of information there.”

—Toni Morrison

Once upon a time,  over fifty years ago, it was easy for Americans to define what is a family. Today, however, technology, educational attainment,  and shifting values and attitudes have profoundly  changed  the definition (s)  of  family,  leading to more diverse views of what constitutes an American family.  But what are some social  and cultural trends that intersect to promote changes in family life? Why do such trends matter?   And what are the implications  of such trendlines for the larger society and our place in it?  Although the reasons are complex and various, part of the answer lies in the way newspapers and magazines frame the nature, structure,  and idea  of the American family.

This presentation examines the way select newspapers and magazines frame trends and patterns of American family life through the specific lens of a thematic cluster analysis.  An analysis  of articles and editorials have much to recommend, because they can  reveal perceptions of  what  diverse  families share in common,  as well as suggest what is strategically significant in holding American society together and sustaining citizenship and  collective familial bonds. Newspaper articles and editorials  in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Post form the basis of the analysis,  augmented by literature from the Pew Research Center.  My major emphasis is on the words authors and editors  use to talk about the American family and how the words work. The end  goal is to see how editors and writers view the American family  in the twenty-first century.

 

  1. Dr. Maria Zolotukhina

Associate Professor

Sociocultural Practices Chair,Department of Culture Studies

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

The New American Dream: changing values of parenting and parenthood

To launch a child into adulthood right at the time of entering college (and via doing that) has been one of the fundamental values of American middle class – vague as this category may appear. It served as the criteria for successful parental efforts of upbringing and its tangible result – an independent person, already focused on his or her own future success, separated from the family of origin. What seems to have changed quite significantly over the past decades are both the time frame of growing up and the criteria for achieving adulthood thus calling into question the very philosophy of life for Americans. The good old formula – “leave your home, become independent, live the American dream” – that served so well as a universal cultural imperative, while remaining recognizable, has lost its immutable character. Therefore parenthood and parenting as a project changed their rather substantiative qualities: in what constitutes being child-centered now, how is independence and autonomy taught and – most of all – what is the new understanding of affection and its manifestations. Such profound changes can not but influence the core elements of American childhood – an ideal space for a child at home, means of learning financial independence and charity, the notion of privacy and self-esteem and achievement. New types of parenting having become media mems (helicopter parenting. Tiger moms, bulldozer parenting etc ) create both moral panics (boomerang children never leaving home once they are back) and bring about condescending smiles. Emerging adultdood – a term coined by Jeffrey Arnett as a phenomenon even made insurance companies extend their policies up to age 24-25. Covid pandemic of 2020 and 2021 seems only to have reinforced the already existing new patterns without fully doing away with the old ones creating a new version of the American dream.

The presentation is based on long time included observation, media sources and interviews.

 

Section 1. Journalism

Coordinator Dr.Andrei Ruskin (Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)

December 1, Thursday  3 PM – 4.30 PM room 103

 

  1. Andrei Ruskin

Journalism Department

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

The Family Subject Coverage by the US Local Media: a comparative analysis based on the 2022 daily newspapers publications

Publications in regional newspaper-type dailies on family topics in the broad sense of this issue have been constantly presented. Even in local newspapers, which began to be published in the XIX century and even earlier, the topics of family culture and relations between spouses, approaches to raising children, principles of household management, family property and inheritance of fortunes have always been raised. Invariably, newspapers reflected all sorts of intra-family conflicts when they became public, and even more so if it affected famous people. Another topic that American journalists dealt with thoroughly was related to the study of family unions that arose at the junction of different races, religions, cultures, traditions, estates and social classes. In recent years, publications about single-parent families and their problems, marriages between representatives of both the same sex and without gender indication, social support for low-income and disadvantaged families, families of new immigrants and migrants, refugees have increasingly appeared in the materials of local publications. The aim of the study was to determine whether there are pointed differences in the coverage of the family topic in newspapers of different states and, if so, which ones and how it is presented, whether or not it is related to the geographical factor, or the economic situation of a certain region of the USA. To conduct the study, a sample of 50 local publications was selected (one for each state). As criteria for the sample, factors such as publication in traditional paper and electronic form, daily frequency (at least five issues per week), the universal nature of newspapers (non-specialized) were taken into account. Only those publications were searched where the topic of family (or its derivatives) was not just mentioned, but also considered in detail (thus, the predominant genres of the selected publications were articles, reviews, interviews, sometimes reports and editorial columns). As a result of the conducted research on the coverage of the family topic by local newspapers, it was not possible to identify significant differences on a geographical basis. Almost all newspapers paid equal attention to the most significant and topical aspects of this subject. One of the explanations for this conclusion can be considered as the «publisher factor». Many local newspapers are still controlled by large publishing and media holdings, which «recommend» the same approaches to all «their» publications.

 

 

  1. Fedor Serdotetsky

Journalism Department

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Genre and Thematic Features of the American Media Platform Twitch.Tv and Family Image On This Service

 

American platform Twitch.tv as a youth media platform  The topic of the report is the genre and thematic features of journalistic content on the American streaming platform Twitch.tv and the policy of this service regarding statements about new types of families in the United States.  The problem of the study is due to the difference between traditional media, which are used mainly by the older audience, and youth media, whose main consumers are young people under 35 years old, as well as the promotion of new ethical standards. The idea behind this study is to argue that streaming platforms and Twitch.tv in particular are extremely popular media sources among young people. For the report, foreign and Russian Twitch channels were selected, which are divided into the following categories: official media accounts, accounts of political journalists and accounts of video gaming magazines. The random sampling method was used for selection. On the example of these channels, genre diffuseness and hybridization of classical genres were revealed. Such genre specificity and format are unique to media content intended for a young audience. In addition, censorship of statements against the new type of families in the United States was revealed. Moreover, the study of Twitch channels revealed the existence of a complex hypermedia genre, which, thanks to new technological capabilities, combines the properties of all classical media at once, as well as the modified interactive property of new media, and promotes the speech culture inherent in youth into the digital space. The American platform Twitch.tv is a platform with great potential for journalism, as this service is an example of a fundamentally new type of content distribution, as well as interaction with the audience. However, at the same time, there is censorship on the platform aimed at the creators and consumers of content.

 

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Registration to XLVIII RSACS International Conference opens October 1, 2022

The theme of the conference is American Family in Flux as Reflected in Literature, Art and Media. 

Dates November 30- December 3, 2022

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 Yasssen Zassoursky.

Registration starts October 1, 2022 at the portal Lomonosov 

Applications for additional sections or panel discussions are accepted until October 20 together with the names of at least three participants and should be sent to the address larmih@gmail.com

The deadline for abstracts is October 31. Letters of acceptance will be sent by November 15.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format, with a possibility for participants to present their papers online. Platform – Zoom.
Participants and registered listeners will be sent invitation links for conference sessions by November 29.