By Invitation

May 2010
“(Im)politeness and power in Russian blogosphere", Etiology and Ecology of the Post-Soviet Internet, Columbia University

February 2010
“Deictic Shifts in Early Slavic Translations from Hebrew”, Slavic Languages – Time and Contingency, University of California, Berkeley

September 2008
“Pronominal reference and deixis in the Judaizers’ translations from Hebrew”, Translation and Tradition in Slavia Orthodoxa, Columbia University

March 2007
“Narrative functions of jako with direct discourse in Povest’ Vremennykh Let” Povest’ Vremennykh Let preconference, Midatlantic Slavic conference Columbia University

February 2007
“Viewing without a viewpoint: Aspect and perception strategies in Modern Russian” Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, Ohio State University

March 2005
“Syntactic templates and the composition of the Slovo o Polku Igoreve”, Slovo o Polku Igoreve Symposium, Columbia University

Talks at National and Regional Conferences

December 2008
“Impersonal constructions in family conflict discourse” AATSEEL 2008, San Francisco

November 2007
“To move or not to move: Motion verbs under negation in Modern Russian” AAASS, New Orleans

December 2006
“Russian predicate adjectives in positive and negative contexts” AATSEEL 2006, Philadelphia, PA

November 2006
“Functional constraints on the use of impersonal constructions in Russian” Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language 8, San Diego (with O. Gurevich)

April 2006
“How the Old Russian Truth changed: a study in folk law” Western Folklore Society Meeting, U.C. Berkeley

October 2005
“Supernatural/animal marriage: Reversals and transformations” American Folklore Society, Atlanta, GA

December 2004
“The reference system and conjunction usage in early Russian legal texts” AATSEEL, Philadelphia, PA.

April 2002
“Reduplication and definiteness in Modern Literary Macedonian” 13th Balkan and South Slavic Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

April 2002
“Thoughts on nominative/genitive distribution in negated byt' sentences” California Slavic Colloquium, Stanford University