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Papa, a documentary film by Shane Eason  won awards for Best Story and Best Editing at the 2016 Madrid International Film Festival (July 2016). Papa received its world premiere at the Palm Beach International Film Festival (April 2016).

David Cratis Williams Professor and Director of the SCMS, attended the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) in Birmingham, Alabama, March 17-19, 2016. He served as a program respondent/discussant for the program, “Chernobyl Retrospective at the Thirtieth Anniversary." As a follow-up, Williams also attended the 2016 Summer Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEES) and The International Association for the Humanities (IAH, or MAG in the Ukrainian acronym). He served as respondent/discussant for the program, "Chernobyl Retrospective - 30 Years On." In addition, he stopped in Kiev with other panelists on the program and toured the Chernobyl Museum. In between these two discussions of public and rhetorical memories of Chernobyl, Williams co-directed the Biennial Wake Forest Argumentation Conference held in Venice, Italy, May 30-June 2. The conference featured twenty-two invited papers by argumentation scholars from twelve different nations.

Chris Robé  received a curriculum grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research for the university to purchase the Hollywood Motion Picture Production Code Archive for his course on Hollywood, Censorship, and Regulation.

Undergraduates will engage in archival research in order to explore how censorship and regulation historically structured classical Hollywood cinema. Students will ultimately produce an original research paper related to the censorship and regulation of a specific film. Furthermore, the grant will provide an undergraduate/graduate student with part-time work in mapping the overall contours of the archive (July 2016).

David Cratis Williams Professor and Director of the SCMS, attended the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) in Birmingham, Alabama, March 17-19, 2016. He served as a program respondent/discussant for the program, “Chernobyl Retrospective at the Thirtieth Anniversary." As a follow-up, Williams also attended the 2016 Summer Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEES) and The International Association for the Humanities (IAH, or MAG in the Ukrainian acronym). He served as respondent/discussant for the program, "Chernobyl Retrospective - 30 Years On." In addition, he stopped in Kiev with other panelists on the program and toured the Chernobyl Museum. In between these two discussions of public and rhetorical memories of Chernobyl, Williams co-directed the Biennial Wake Forest Argumentation Conference held in Venice, Italy, May 30-June 2. The conference featured twenty-two invited papers by argumentation scholars from twelve different nations.
Chris Robé received a curriculum grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research for the university to purchase the Hollywood Motion Picture Production Code Archive for his course on Hollywood, Censorship, and Regulation.

Undergraduates will engage in archival research in order to explore how censorship and regulation historically structured classical Hollywood cinema. Students will ultimately produce an original research paper related to the censorship and regulation of a specific film. Furthermore, the grant will provide an undergraduate/graduate student with part-time work in mapping the overall contours of the archive (July 2016).