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.

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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)

 

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

Coordinator Dr. Boris Maksimov

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

November 30, Thursday 15.00-16.30 (MSK)

  1. Irina Khruleva, Nadezhda Diyanova

History Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Success in promoting the ideas of the First “Great Awakening” as a result of the collaboration of Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield in the 1740s

  1. Boris Maksimov

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

The Flip Side of Progress in the “Gothic” Tales of A. Bierce

  1. Andrei Taigildin

Mari El State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

Popularizing American History knowledge through a Group ‘Manifest Destiny’ in the Russian Social Network VKontakte

  1. Natalya Kuznezova

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Rejection of Success as the Path to Success: the Formula for achieving the Goal in Melville’s short stories 

Section 3. Contemporary American Culture

Coordinator Prof. Dr. Elena Kornilova

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 

December 3, Sunday, 10.00 – 17.00 (MSK) 

  1. Irina Kudryavtseva

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus

Varina by Ch. Frazier: the ups and downs of the First Lady of the Confederacy

  1. Tatyana Alenkina

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

The Art World of America in the 1960s in the Novel by Arthur Hailey Hotel

  1. Alla Nikoulina

Akmulla Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Ufa, Russia

Recovering form “Sickness unto Death” as the Key to Life Success in Walker Percy’s Novel The Second Coming

  1. Tatyana Belova

Department of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Jason Compson’s Unrighteous Path to Success in W. Faulkner’s Novel The Sound and the Fury and his crushing failure

  1. Tatyana.Fedorova
    Department of Foreign.Languages and  Area Studies, Lomonosov
    Moscow State University, Russia
    The Concept of “Success” in Modern Autobiographical  Discourse in the USA
  2. Alexander Chernavsky

Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia

The Phenomenon of “Cancel Culture” in the 21st century:

heritage and prospects in the USA

7. Polina Vorobyova

Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia

Gangster Rap: Romanticizing the Image of Criminality as a Way to Popularize the Genre 

 13.00 -14.00 Lunch Break 

 

8. Tatyana Kamarovska
Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University, Minsk, Belarus
Woman’s search  for Identity in J . Smiley’s. Novels about Farmers: from Some Luck to A Thousand Acres

9. Galina Kovalenko

Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The Collapse of the Myth of Success in American drama

10. Vladimir Khalilov

Arbatov Institute of the USA and Canada, Moscow, Russia

Marxism & Martini: Communists in Hollywood of the 1930s

11. Yulia Danilina

RSUH, Moscow, Russia

Visualization of a way to American dream in “The Bear” (2022-2023)

12. Anna Sebryuk

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Rise and Grind: the Cult of Productivity and Toxic Positivity in Modern American Society

13. Ivan Panamaryov,     Tomsk State University, Russia

Charles Bukowski and Jon Webb: the dialog between writer and publisher in the American literature of the 1960s

14. Vladimir Gvozdev

Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia

Overcoming the Model of Criminal Success in American Films about Italian Mafia

15. Elena Kornilova

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Not a child’s path forward to success. Wednesday Adams at Nevermore Academy

 

Section 4. Ethnic Aspects of American Culture 

Coordinator Dr.Oksana Danchevskaya (Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia)

December 1, Friday, 10.00 – 13.00 (MSK)

  1. Inna Shchepacheva

Kazan Federal University, Russia

American Dream in Percival Everett’s Creativity

  1. Yuri Stulov

Independent researcher, Republic of Belarus

Ray Carney’s Drama On The Way To Success: Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Duology

  1. Almaz Zakirov

Research Center “Institute of World Politics and Economics”, Kazan, Russia

”Black Revolutionary Theatre” by Amiri Baraka (LeRoy Jones) in the period from 1965 to 1971

  1. Dmitry Vorobyov

Arbatov Institute of the USA and Canada Studies, Moscow, Russia

The Career of Booker Washington as the Basis for Accommodationist Approach in Resolving the Race Relations Problematic in the US South at the Turn of the 19th – 20th Centuries

  1. Anastasia Tsapaeva

Department of International Relations, St.Petersburg State University, Russia

Tensions between Jews and African Americans in the 1960s and 70s

  1. Irwin Weil

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

How Success Has Been Achieved In the USA in the 20th Century (on the example of one Jewish family)

  1. Yao Yuan

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus

The American Dream of Chinese Immigrants and the Realities of Life (based on the book Orphan Bachelors by Fae Myenne Ng)

  1. Oksana Danchevskaya

Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia

On Mediation among American Indians

  1. Julia S. Ovchinnikova

Department of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

“Everything has its song”: Man and Nature in the musical traditions of Native Americans on the Northwest coast of Canada

  1. Anna Gongadze

Departments of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Rudolfo Anaya’s Trilogy about the People of Aztlan as Successful Example of the Synthesis of Cultures. (The Question of Ethno Cultural Discourse)

  1. Konstantine Romanov

Department of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

The Role of the Modern Art Museum in the Transformation of Values (The Example Of the “Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal”) 

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 1, Friday 16.00 – 19.00 (MSK) 

  1. Nadezhda Shvedova

Arbatov Institute of the USA and Canada, Moscow, Russia

American Women and Reproductive Rights: the Price of Success

  1. Larisa Mikhaylova

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Invigorating Reminders of Success: Sigourney Weaver and Hilary Swank in Docudramas about the Fight for Reproductive Freedom and Equal Access to Education, Against Family Violence

  1. Maria Zolotukhina

RSUH, Mosocw, Russia

Independence at all costs? Changing Ideas about Old Age and Aging in the US

  1. Tatyana Kamarovska

Maxim Tank Belarussian State Pedagogical University, Minsk, Belarus

Woman’s Search for Identity in J. Smiley’s Novels about Farmers:

from Some Luck to A Thousand Acres.

  1. Tanja Srceva-Pavlovska

American university of Europe-FON University, Skopje, North Macedonia

Growth of Self as a way to Success in the novel The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

  1. Ulyana Tikhomirova

Hertzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Visual Interpretation of Woman’s Success in American Popular Culture of the 1950s

(I Love Lucy TV Show)

  1. Natalya Kopytko

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus

The Character of Marilyn Monroe in J.C. Oates’s The Blond: an Unsuccessfully Successful Woman

  1. Aisha Harisova

Department of Global politics GAUGN, Moscow, Russia

Integration of women into military politics: the path to success

  1. Chris T. Cartwright, Portland State University, OR, USA

Maura Harrington, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles USA

Sarah Smith Orr, College of Business, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Tessa Sutton, South Bend School Corporation, South Bend, IN, USA

Women’s Leadership and COVID-19 Pandemic: Navigating Crises through the Application of Connective Leadership 

Section 6. Fantastic in the Arts

Coordinator Dr. Larisa Mikhaylova

(Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 

December 2, Saturday, 13.00 – 15.00 (MSK) 

  1. Xenia Vikhrova

Stiglitz Academy  of Art, St.Petersburg, Russia

The end of the world and the “American Dream”: a post-apocalyptic plot in US cinema of the late 20th–21st centuries

  1. Elena Sidorova

Turgenev Orel State University, Russia

Apocalyptic motives and concepts of “life”, “death”, “time”, “space” in the works of American science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st centuries

  1. Olga Volodina

RSHU, Moscow, Russia

Bad Robot, Good Robot: Measuring AI’s success in American TV shows

  1. Larisa Mikhaylova

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Selling the Dream or Living It:

TV shows of 2023 Big Door Prize and  Hello. Tomorrow! as exploration of life potential

  1. Yuliya Khoroshevskaya

Rostov State Transport University, Russia

Native Americans` Science Fiction as an attempt to retell their own history

(on example of Gerald Vizenor and Celu Amberstone) 

 

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 2, Saturday, 16.00 – 19.00 (MSK)

  1. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas

Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

A Clash of Cultures: Exceptionalism and Competing Visions of America

  1. Marina Litavrina

History Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Nazimova: Way To The Top

  1. Dmitry Okrugin

European University in St.Petersburg, Russia

The Image of the American Market for Military Products in the Correspondence of Tsarist Officials: 1914–1917

  1. Tatyana Voronchenko, Ekaterina Fedorova

Transbaikal State University, Chita, Russia

Searching for Harmony of the Future: Literary Implementation of Philosophical Ideas of The Society in the Works of Soviet and Chicano Authors of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century

  1. Alexey Fominyh

Mari-El State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

American Exhibitions In The USSR In Analytics Of The United States Information Agency (1959-1979)

  1. Zaru Utekova

International Research Center Gradient, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Image of Russia and Image of America in Kazakhstan

  1. Dmitry Belchich

South Urals State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Images of Russia and the USA as Factors in International Relations

  1. Alena Vanova

Independent researcher, Moscow, Russia

A Concept of “Being Normal” in American and Russian Cultures: Stereotypes and Archetypes

  1. Ekaterina Alyoshina, Penza State University, Russia

Alexandre Ayton, St. Petersburg State Technological Institute, Russia-USA

Alexey Matveyev, Independent researcher, Moscow, Russia

Still Dreaming? Representations of the American Dream in State of the Union Speeches

  1. Maria Ignatova

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Modern Stereotypes of Foreigners about Russia in Foreign Cinema

  1. Marina Knyazeva

Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Success and Anti-success counter to Fate in Russian and American Culture: cinema

  1. Krishen Mehta

Senior Global Justice Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, USA

The Role of Media and Community Organizations in Reuniting a Divided America 

 

Closing Session

December 3, Sunday 18.00 (MSK)