“The Fulbright Program in Russia: Building a Community of Scholars”

Moscow, April 19-20, 2001
Hotel Belgrade Conference Hall

Thursday, April 19

10:00 - 11:00 Registration
11:00 - 14:30 Plenary Session
Chair Joseph McCormick

11:00 - 11:15 Opening Remarks
11:15 - 11:45 Caroline Matano Yang (Fulbright Scholarship Board). The Fulbright Program Today: Global Perspectives.
11:45 - 12:15 V. Kuptsov (Russian Academy of Education). Holistic Perception in Modern Education.

12:45 - 13:00 Coffee Break
Chair A. Yagola

13:00 - 13:30 Kathleen Woodward (Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes). The Humanities as a Communication Network: Developing Interdisciplinary and International Cooperation.
13:30 - 14:00 Ya. Zasurskii (MGU). American Studies: A Dialogue Between Two Cultures.
14:00 - 14:30 Joseph McCormick (Fulbright Program). The Fulbright Program in Russia.

14:30 - 15:30 Lunch

15:30 - 18:30 Section 1. The Humanities in Russia Today: Individual Initiatives, Collaborative Work, Challenges
Chair T. Venediktova

N. Pokrovskii (MGU). Academic Exchanges from a Sociological Point of View.
N. Braginskaya (RGGU). The Russian Humanities Scholar: Informer or Colleague?
V. Sogrin (MGIMO). Russian Social Scientists: Their Current Status and Academic Needs.
E. Trubina (Ural State University). Upon the Ruins of the University: Teachers vs. Managers.
A. Kubyshkin (Volgograd State University). The Classical University in the Postindustrial Epoch: Russian-American Parallels.
P. Romanov (Saratov State Technical University). The American Experience of Developing University-level Social Research: One Organization’s Experience and Perspectives in the Russian Context.
O. Kaznina (IMLI RAN). Archival Research and Source Reading in an Interdisciplinary Context.
E. Pivovar (MGU). New Tendencies in Historiography in Light of the Transformation in the Humanities.
M. Karaseva (Moscow State Conservatory). Modern Psychotechnologies: New Opportunities for Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Integration.
N. Greidina (Pyatigorsk Institute of Economics and Management). The Linguo-ethnocultural Approach to Recognizing and Cultivating Bearers of American and Russian Culture.

15:30 - 18:30 Section 2. Comparative Educational Systems: The United States and Russia.
Chair O. Vinogradova

A. Rodin        (Kaliningrad State University). The Fulbright Program in Russia and the Need for Reform in Russian Higher Education.
Z. Proshina (Far Eastern State University). Challenges for Integrating Russian Higher Education into the International Educational System.
Yu. Galishnikov (Southern Urals State University). Innovative Entrepreneurship: A Challenge to Russian Higher Education.
R. Goeckel (SUNY / MGU). The MGU - SUNY Experience: Perspectives and Challenges.
O. Antsyfrova (Ivanovo State University). Comparing the American and Russian Academic Communities.
G. Vasilieva (RAN). Strengths and Weaknesses of the U.S. Higher Education Compared to the Russian.
N. Dobrynin (Voronezh State Agricultural University). English as the Universal Language of Scholarship in the 21^st Century.
B. Leontiev (Togliatti Polytechnical Institute). Adapting American Educational Materials for Russian Students.
V. Pyankov (Ural State University). Global Problems, Local Solutions: Conflicts of Interest in Industrial Society and the University’s Role in Solving Them.

10:00 - 12:15 Section 3. American Culture as a Field and as a Way of Perception.
Chair Yu. Rogulev

A. Lashkevich (Udmurt State University). Intertextuality in American Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intercultural Communication.
I. Koryakova (Mordovian State University). American Studies in Russia at the Start of the 21^st Century.
V. Ten (Surgut State University). American Studies in Modern Russian Higher Education.
Yu. Rogulev (MGU). Understanding American Democracy.
T. Venediktova (MGU). American Studies: Between Russia and “Transatlantica”.
M. Koreneva (IMLI RAN). Creating a History of U.S. Literature in the Russian Context.
M. Sirotinskaya (RAN). The Historical Image of American Civilization as a Modern Research Topic in Russia.
Sandra Taylor (University of Utah / MGU). Teaching American History at a Russian University.
V. Zhuravleva (RGGU). U.S. History as a Russian University Subject: Perception of the Other and National Identification.

12:15 - 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 - 14:00 Section 4. Beyond Fulbright: a Panoply of Joint Projects.
Chair A. Kubyshkin

D. Kirnarskaya (Russian Academy of Music). American Academic Problems can be Solved in Russia.
V. Shvaiko (Bashkir-American Intercollege). The Fulbright Experience in Action.
T. Voronchenko (Trans-Baikal State University). Siberia - America: Cultural Bridges.
V. Podlesskaya (RGGU). The Winter School of Typology: An Example of Russian-American Cooperation.
S. Slobodin (RAN). The Bering Straits Region as an Area for International Cooperation.
S. Vasiliev (RAN). Let’s Dig Together: Challenges for Joint Russian-American Archeological Investigations.

15:00 - 18:30 Round Table. Building the Fulbright Program in Russia: Prospects and Challenges for the Community of Scholars.
Chair A. Yagola

Andrew Riess (Fulbright / CIES). Effective Fulbright Exchange Programs.
A. Barabashev (MGU).
A. Yagola (MGU).
V. Boiko (Barnaul State Pedagogical University).
I. Bystrova (RAN).
T. Gavrilova (St. Petersburg State Technical University).
Glenn Geiser-Getz (East Stroudsburg University / St. Pertersburg State University).
S. Gil’miyarova (Bashkir State Pedagogical University).
V. Gel’man (European University of St. Petersburg).
I. Alikperov (Ural State University).
W. Smirnov (RAN).
N. Ivanova (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University).
L. Kuchment (RAN).
V. Hizhnyak (State Maritime Academy).
A. Tuzikov (Kazan’ State University).
M. Suprun (Pomorskii State University).
R. Latypov (Birsk Pedagogical Institute).
N. Markelova (RAN).
P. Vaganov (St. Petersburg State University).
V. Prihod’ko (RAN).
L. Pravikova (Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University).

Conclusions: proposed activities for the Fulbright Alumni Association (web site, Summer Schools, conferences, seminars, etc.)