As in previous years, HURI will maintain an active presence at this years Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) convention, which takes place both in-person (New Orleans, November 18-20) and virtually (December 1-3). Numerous sessions showcase HURI's projects and the work of our faculty and staff. Book discussions feature five of our recent and forthcoming titles, for example, and TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice will present her research on Ukraine's social movements. Many of our associates are also presenting papers, serving as discussants, and participating in roundtables.
HURI also has a booth (#117) at the exhibition hall, where visitors can peruse our publications and purchase titles at 20% off.
We invite ASEEES attendees to join us at these events, as well as the many other sessions focused on Ukraine. It's great to see such a robust representation of Ukrainian studies at this important convention.
Here, we provide an overview of sessions involving HURI projects, faculty, staff, and associates, followed by a complete schedule of sessions focused on Ukraine. Please email Kristina Conroy at kconroy@fas.harvard.edu if there's something we should add.
Note: Dates, times, and locations may change! Please consult the ASEEES online program for the most up-to-date information.
HURI at ASEEES: New Orleans
Thursday, November 18
Diversity of Protest Cultures: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon 4&7
This interdisciplinary panel examines the protest cultures in the neighboring countries of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Taking a broad approach to culture as both cultural production and lived experience, the panel looks at the diversity of experiences, representations, and artistic expressions of political protest. The three countries have different political systems and cultures, with unstable democracy of Ukraine, gradual authoritarian turn of Russia , and the “last dictatorship” of Belarus. Despite these differences, the protest cultures in each country serve as a persistent reference point for its neighbors. While Belarus and Russia share the recent history of authorities’ suppression of protest activities, Ukraine represents an example of street protests leading to political change. Reflecting the recent global trends, the protests in Belarus provided an example of peaceful, leaderless, and creative protest movement.
In her paper, Olga Klimova focuses on three types of protest culture—street wall art, protest posters, and street performances to discuss the distinguishing characteristics of Belarusian protest culture of 2020-2021. Irina Anisimova’s paper discusses the discourses of doubt in the representation of Russian protests of 2012 and 2021. Emily Channell-Justice explores the development of “self-organization” (including its connections to leftist, Marxist roots) during Euromaidan.
Includes: Emily Channell-Justice, HURI TCUP Director, Paper: “Self-Organization as Ukraine’s New Culture of Protest: Euromaidan and Beyond”
Saturday, November 20
Careers beyond Academia: II
8:00am to 9:45am CST (11:30am to 1:15pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 2nd Floor, Churchill B1
This roundtable offers an opportunity for current and recent graduate students to learn about careers beyond academia for Russian, Eurasian and East European Affairs specialists. The speakers are drawn from a range of professions, including business, think tanks, and educational administration. The speakers will discuss their own paths from regional studies to their current positions and offer insights on how to navigate the non-academic job market.
Includes: Oleh Kotsyuba, HURI Manager of Publications
Book Discussion: "In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas," by Stanislav Aseyev
10:30am to 12:15pm CST (11:30am to 1:15pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon 4&7
In 'In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas' (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2021), writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiïvka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate environment and questions himself in an attempt to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the working-class residents of the industrial region of Donbas. Aseyev’s documentary prose focuses on the early period of the Russian-sponsored military aggression in Ukraine’s east, the period of 2015–2017. His testimony ends with his arrest for publishing his dispatches and his subsequent imprisonment and torture in a modern-day concentration camp on the outskirts of Donetsk run by lawless mercenaries and local militants with the tacit approval and support of Moscow. For the first time, an inside account is presented here of the toll on real human lives and civic freedoms that the citizens of Europe’s largest country continue to suffer in Russia's hybrid war on its territory.
HURI Publication: Read more about In Isolation; Advance copies available at Booth #117
Includes: Halyna Hryn, Editor of Harvard Ukrainian Studies
Book Discussion: "Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag," by Oksana Kis
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon C
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the GULAG in the 1940s and 1950s. Only about half of them survived. In 'Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag,' Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding Ukrainian experience. It details the women’s resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences. Following on from the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag
HURI Publication: Read more about Survival as Victory or watch our book launch with author Oksana Kis
HURI at ASEEES: Virtual Convention
Wednesday, December 1
Language, Textual Tradition, and Interpretation in Medieval Slavic Culture
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 3
The panel deals with issues of language, liturgy, as well as textual tradition and interpretation in medieval Slavic culture. The beginnings of textual tradition in connection with the creation of writing is sought in parallel narratives extant from prehistoric times (Thietmar, al-Mas‘ūdī ). Emphasis is placed on the interpretation of Latin and Byzantine liturgical traditions in the Vita Constantini, and the Miscoviet traditions of Digenis Akritis and Buovo d’Antona
Includes: Andriy Danylenko, HURI Associate, Paper: "Thietmar and al-Mas‘ūdī on Slavic Gods, Temples, and Writing"
Thursday, December 2
Book Discussion: "Writing a Documentary History – 'Jews in Old Rus,'" by Alexander Kulik and "History of Rus' Metropolitanate," by Andrei Pliguzov
8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST), Virtual Convention, VR27
Alexander Kulik's 'Jews in Old Rus': A Documentary History' (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute with the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, 2021) makes available for the first time a selection of documents on the history of Jews in Old Rus´ that provide a unique insight into Slavic-Jewish relations, offering both the original texts of the documents in Latin, Hebrew, Church Slavonic, and Arabic, and their English translations. Andrei Pliguzov's 'Documentary Sources on the History of Rus' Metropolitanate: The Fourteenth to the Early Sixteenth Century' (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2021) includes acts, edicts and decrees regarding the lands in the metropolitanate’s jurisdiction, reports prepared for the metropolitans by their secretariat, and the letters of the hierarchs themselves. The published documents pertain to all aspects of the metropolitanate’s activity and reflect the various concerns and debates that defined the life of the Church and its relations with other religious entities and the secular leaders. In this roundtable, we will discuss both books and the challenges and rewards that writing documentary history offers.
HURI Publication: Read more about Jews in Old Rus' and History of Rus' Metropolitanate
Includes: Michelle Viise, HURI Monograph Editor
Clashing Ideologies: Language, Identity and Politics in Ukraine and Kazakhstan
8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST), Virtual Convention, VR 1
The panel focuses on the diversity of discourses unfolding around languages and language-related symbolic resources in post-Soviet societies since the late 20th century to the present day. The concept of language ideology is employed to emphasize interconnections between language and social power and to explore how beliefs about language interact with group identity and political organization. The objective of the panel is to reveal how official discourses and policy decisions around languages in the two countries, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, intersect with their public appreciation, and how hegemonic ideologies are renegotiated in unofficial realms. The contexts under consideration include the new Ukrainian orthography legislated in 2019; the formal higher education and related language policies regarding titular languages (Ukrainian and Kazakh), Russian, and English; the informal educational context, as represented by a volunteer initiative for Ukrainian language courses that target speakers of Russian in Ukraine; and the Ukrainian national anthem and its various embodiments in mass popular culture together with ideologies ingrained in them. These diverse resources are analysed in view of the relation between language and national identity and the ideological processes through which these resources achieve their symbolic power. The panel draws upon a variety of sources ranging from TV and online media content to participant observations, educational materials, and interviews and engages in an interdisciplinary approach to the diverse facets of language and ideology.
Includes: Volodymyr Kulyk, HURI Associate, Discussant
Intra-Orthodox Conflict in Ukraine: Social, Political, Economic, and Media Aspects
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 10
The creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) in December 2018 and subsequent granting of the Tomos on the autocephaly to this church by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in January 2019 was an event of a major ecclesiastical as well as political and geopolitical significance. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) as well as the Russian government vehemently opposed this development. Within Ukraine, then-President Poroshenko strongly favored the OCU creation, seeing it as a key element cementing Ukraine’s turn away from Moscow following the 2014 Euromaidan revolution, while a number of domestic actors has actively opposed the OCU creation, including the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and some powerful political and economic actors. Within the Ukrainian society the attitudes have been divided, complex, and often contradictory. To date the process of OCU formation, relations between the competing Orthodox churches, and church-state relations in Ukraine remains complex and conflict-prone, and papers on this panel offer an in-depths look at various dimensions of this conflict. The papers will address questions such as why polarizing and, at times, conflicting discourses on interconfessional transfers in Ukraine do not lead to intergroup violence; how the struggle for control of Church property is affected by symbolic significance of possessing property as seen by the competing churches; how elite and popular narratives of what makes a church a “Ukrainian church” compare; and how competing Orthodox churches advance their views and debate issues in social media.
Includes: Oxana Shevel, HURI Associate, 'THIS is our Ukrainian Church!' Intra-Orthodox Conflict in Ukraine and Discursive Constructions of a 'Ukrainian Church'
See also: MAPA project on religion in Ukraine and article on creation of OCU
Book Discussion: "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union," by Margarita Balmaceda
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR37
Balmaceda's book Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (Columbia U. Press, 2021) starts from the provocative observation that we cannot understand the often-discussed threat of Russia’s energy power vis-à-vis its energy-poor neighbors without also understanding the temptation and opportunity Russian energy has meant for many within these states --from the temptation of corruption-related profits to transportation fee income to subsidized prices-- benefits acquired through participation in the value chains of Russian energy exports. To make sense of this tension between energy threat and temptation, the book follows the entire technological and value chain of Russia’s three largest fossil fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany, focusing on how the physical characteristics of different types of energy, by affecting how can it be transported, distributed, and even stolen, will also affect what various actors may be able to do with it -- including its possible use as a political weapon. Participants in this round-table will discuss the book from the perspective of their own research on the legacies of the Soviet energy industry (William M. Reisinger), Russia’s role in the global energy economy (Peter Rutland), Ukrainian-Russian relations (Paul D’Anieri), and Russia’s energy relationships in the entire post-Soviet region (Stacy Closson). The author will offer a brief rejoinder at the end of the session. Reviews of the book are available at https://cup.columbia.edu/book/russian-energy-chains/9780231197496.
Includes: Margarita Balmaceda, HURI associate
See also: TCUP Book Club discussion on Russian Energy Chains and Seminar in Ukrainian Studies
Scholarship on the Margins: Strategies for Surviving in East European Studies Outside the Tenure Track
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 3
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the fragility of jobs in academia, disparities in funding and access to resources, and the difficulty of carrying out research and producing scholarship in traditional ways. While the present moment has added to the sense of urgency, these issues are not new for a significant number of East Europeanists in the humanities and social sciences who were hit hard by the economic and cultural transformations in higher education already well under way. How do those of us who ended up, by choice or circumstance, in non tenure-track positions--with institutional roles at the margins or outside traditional structures of the academy--stay present in our fields, maintain active research agendas, and find support and mentorship for our work? This panel will address strategies for finding community, promoting labor visibility, and developing long-term career trajectories beyond the tenure-track.
Includes: Patrice Dabrowski, HURI Associate
New Approaches for Investigating Overlord and Servile Classes: Inheritance, Land Markets, and Agrarian Terminology across the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR27
Perceptions of peasant life and agrarian relations in Early Modern Eastern Europe and Russia traditionally have visualized overlord classes (landlords, nobility) and their servile peasant laborers caught up in a mutually-reinforcing framework of sheer dominance and abject submission. Such depiction is simplistic and strawman-like and has long been subject to investigations pointing out continuums of everyday-life and of actors’ interactions with one another. These studies qualify the conception of a stark, Manichean lord-peasant universe.
Newer research continues to refine our comprehension of the multiplicity of situations existing in the Early Modern Eastern European countryside and the permeability of noble groups and of peasant forced labor there. Our three presentations not only align with this scholarly trend, but propel it even further with their synchronic and diachronic approaches towards over-looked subjects and their scepticism towards historiographical tropes.
Our panel nests well within this year’s ASEEES theme of “Diversity, Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity” and its attendant description. The caste-like social structures of the societies and their impact upon individuals our studies treat automatically conform to standard definitions of intersectionality. The three papers explicitly- and implicitly will -raise issues of ethnicity, language, sexuality, and suppositional race (Polish Sarmatianism). Interdisciplinary- and diversity-methodological knowledge and techniques have long infused the scholarship of our three presenters and of our Chair and Discussant.
Includes: Peter Brown, HURI Associate, Paper: "Terminology, Status, and Condition: Looking at Early Modern Polish, Lithuanian, Belorussian, and Ukrainian Agricultural Niches"
The Politics of Memory and Social Trust across Post-Soviet Eastern Europe and Eurasia
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 8
This is an individual paper panel.
Includes: George Soroka, HURI Associate, Paper: “The Shape of Memory: A Vignette Experiment Conducted in Russia and Ukraine”
Friday, December 3
Protests and Politics: Mobilizing against Authorities in Contemporary Eastern Europe
8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST), Virtual Convention, VR27
This is an individual paper panel
Includes: Emily Channell-Justice, HURI TCUP Director, Discussant
Ethnicized Constructs of Otherness: Villains, Demons, and Heresiarchs of Ukrainian Literature
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 24
This panel explores the representation of ethnonational otherness in Ukrainian literature. In particular, we will disclose the association, inherent in the mythologization of Ukrainian ethnic history and nationalist aspirations, of ethnoreligious alienness with vice. The ethnic catalyst, we will argue, stands in the emergence of atavistic notions of purity and exclusion as a force that resists entropy, that forges the community and inculcates in it—in particular via literature—an aspiration for homogeneity. Each paper will show how the logic and sentiment of ethnonational differentiation of Jews, Roma, Tatars, and Poles, which proceeds via the exclusion of non-nationals, has been applied to the estrangement of ethnonational others, whom the nationalist imagination banishes from positive encoding in literature.
Includes: Tamara Hundorova, HURI Associate, Paper: "Roma as the Matrix of the Other in Olha Kobylians'ka’s Works: Gender and Race"
Book Discussion: "The Voices of Babyn Yar," by Marianna Kiyanovska
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 12
In her provocative and controversial book 'The Voices of Babyn Yar' (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2021; trans. Max Rosochinsky and Oksana Maksymchuk), Ukrainian poet Marianna Kiyanovska honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival in their own imagined voices. Artful and carefully intoned, the poems represent the experiences of ordinary civilians from a first-person perspective to an effect that is simultaneously immersive and estranging. While conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book also raises challenging questions about memory, responsibility, and honoring those who had witnessed an evil that, some may say, verges on the unspeakable.
HURI Publication: Read more about The Voices of Babyn Yar
The Carpathian Travel Narrative
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 16
Located in the geographical center of Europe, the Carpathian Mountains are often considered a “borderland of borderlands.” For this reason, visitors from near and far have long been interested in discovering the outskirts of their own nations or exploring what lies in the dark heart of Europe, and many of them left written or visual accounts of their encounter with the mountains and their peoples. This roundtable aims to collect and categorize the tropes that emerge in the genre of the Carpathian travel narrative, whether in the 19th century (Dabrowski), 20th century (Kasinec, Hee-Gwone Yoo, and Krafcik), or today (Kupensky). The participants will debate how the impressions of the travelers were shaped by geography (northern vs. southern slopes, highlands vs. lowlands), history and politics (Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Czechoslovakia, USSR), and theories of race, ethnicity, and gender.
Includes: Patrice Dabrowski, HURI Associate
See also: Dabrowski’s recent presentation on the Carpathians
Seeing the Unseen: Visual Narratives in Early Modern Muscovy and Poland-Lithuania
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR27
The panel explores the various ways of constructing visual narratives in early modern Muscovite and Ruthenian contexts. By analyzing the strategies for representing a historical city (Troy), a liberal art (grammar), and a religious authority (earthly head of the Orthodox church), we demonstrate their connection to the political and cultural climate in which they were created and examine the influence of these visual representations on shaping the social, religious, educational and philosophical narratives of the epoch.
Includes: Michael Flier, Harvard, Discussant
Sessions Focused on Ukraine: New Orleans
Thursday, November 18
Diversity of Protest Cultures: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon 4&7
Friday, November 19
Connecting Ukraine: New Agendas, Audiences, and Agents in Research on Eastern Europe
10:30am to 12:15pm CST (11:30am to 1:15pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon A
Crisis, Subjectivity, and Mythmaking in Recent Ukrainian Cinema
3:30 to 5:15pm CST (4:30 to 6:15pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 2nd Floor, Churchill A1
Saturday, November 20
Book Discussion: "In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas," by Stanislav Aseyev
10:30am to 12:15pm CST (11:30am to 1:15pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon 4&7
New Media and New Methods in Creating and Talking about the Ukrainian Art
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 3rd, Ascot-Newbury
Crimea in Ukrainian Narrative: Cultural Twists and Turns
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon 4&7
Book Discussion: "Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag," by Oksana Kis
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 1st Floor, Grand Salon C
Sunday, November 21
Intersecting Narratives: Contested Memory in Poland, Ukraine, and Russia
9:00 to 10:45am CST (10:00 to 11:45am EST), Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Floor: 2nd Floor, Marlborough A & B
Sessions Focused on Ukraine: Virtual Convention
Wednesday, December 1
Literature, Language(s), and the Nation: Neoromantic Cultural Myths in Contemporary Ukraine and Belarus
8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST), Virtual Convention, VR 10
Beyond Journalism: The Mediatization Theory Approach to Ukrainian Mediascape
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 14
Language, Textual Tradition, and Interpretation in Medieval Slavic Culture
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 3
Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Reading
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR32
Meeting: American Association for Ukrainian Studies
2:00 to 3:30pm CST (3:00 to 4:30pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 1
Thursday, December 2
Book Discussion: "Writing a Documentary History – 'Jews in Old Rus,'" by Alexander Kulik and "History of Rus' Metropolitanate," by Andrei Pliguzov
8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST), Virtual Convention, VR27
Clashing Ideologies: Language, Identity and Politics in Ukraine and Kazakhstan
8:00 to 9:45am CST (9:00 to 10:45am EST), Virtual Convention, VR 1
Intra-Orthodox Conflict in Ukraine: Social, Political, Economic, and Media Aspects
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 10
Book Discussion: "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union," by Margarita Balmaceda
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR37
Ukraine’s Public Sphere in Times of Crisis
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 5
H-Ukraine: Promoting the Diversity of Ukrainian Studies in Digital Humanities
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR27
New Approaches for Investigating Overlord and Servile Classes: Inheritance, Land Markets, and Agrarian Terminology across the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR27
The Politics of Memory and Social Trust across Post-Soviet Eastern Europe and Eurasia
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 8
The Soviet Famine of 1932-1933: Three Approaches to Ukraine's Holodomor
4:00 to 5:45pm CST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 14
Friday, December 3
Transformational Practices in Ukrainian Art: From Soviet to Postcolonial
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 4
Ethnicized Constructs of Otherness: Villains, Demons, and Heresiarchs of Ukrainian Literature
10:00 to 11:45am CST (11:00am to 12:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 24
Book Discussion: "The Voices of Babyn Yar," by Marianna Kiyanovska
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 12
Making War, Unmaking Peace: Repercussions of the Ukraine Crisis on Popular Culture, Public Discourse, and Media
12:00 to 1:45pm CST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR31
The Carpathian Travel Narrative
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR 16
Seeing the Unseen: Visual Narratives in Early Modern Muscovy and Poland-Lithuania
2:00 to 3:45pm CST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST), Virtual Convention, VR27