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BRAMA, Feb. 25, 2000, 4:00pm EST

"Identity and the State: Nationalism and Sovereignty in a Changing World"

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE NATIONALITIES
ASN Fifth Annual World Convention
International Affairs Building
Columbia University
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
13-15 April 2000

Only Ukraine-related sessions are included in the program below. The partial program provided in this press release is for general information only and is subject to change. For updated listings and the full 3-day schedule which includes all topics, please refer to the http://picce.uno.edu/ASN/ASNannualProgram.htm official ASN program page.

THURSDAY, 13 APRIL
Location: 6th Floor, IAB
11.00 am Registration

1.00-3.00 pm Session I

Panel U03 (I) Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Orientation: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

    Chair
    Sergei Konoplyov (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard U., U.S.)
    Papers
  • Victor Chudowsky (Meridian International Center, U.S.)

    • Foreign Policy and the Nature of the Ukrainian State: Understanding the Role of Domestic Determinants
  • Jennifer Patterson Moroney (U. of Kent at Canterbury, U.K.)

    • Ukraine’s Foreign Policy on Europe’s Periphery: Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Frontier
  • Andrew Fesiak (York U., Canada)

    • Ukraine’s Strategic Choice: East, West, or Neutral?
  • Tor Bukkvoll (Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Norway)

    • Defining a Ukrainian Foreign Policy Identity: Business Interests and Geopolitics in the Formulation of Ukrainian Foreign Policy, 1994—1999
    Discussant
    Taras Kuzio (U. College, London, U.K.)
3.15-5.15 pm Session II

Panel U08 (II) State Building and the Politics of Inclusion in Ukraine

    Chair
    Vitaly Chernetsky (Columbia U., U.S.)
    Papers
  • Louise Jackson (U. of Wolverhampton, U.K.)

    • Ethnic Minorities and the Politics of Inclusion in Ukraine
  • Spyros Demetriou (The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Switzerland)

    • State-Building in the Former Soviet Union : The Cases of Ukraine and Tajikistan (1987—1995)
  • Gwendolyn Sasse (London School of Economics, U.K.)

    • Regionalism and Ethnopolitics During Post-Communist Transition: Ukraine in Comparative Perspective
  • Olga Filippova and Yuliya Zinova (Kharkov National University, Ukraine)

    • "I am a Citizen of Ukraine": Teenagers and Understandings of Citizenship
    Discussant
    Marta Dyczok (U. of Western Ontario, Canada)
Panel R07 (II) Conflict and Identity in Russian Foreign Policy
    Papers include:
  • Ustina Markus (Department of Defense, U.S.)

    • Russia’s Methods and Options for Dealing with Separatism
5.30-7.30 pm Session III

Panel U12 (III) Ukrainian Foreign Orientation: East or West?

    Chair
    Adrian Karatnycky (Freedom House, New York, U.S.)
    Papers
  • Yaroslav Bilinsky (U. of Delaware, U.S.)

    • Ukraine’s Rapprochement to the EU and NATO as an Auxiliary Indicator of Ukrainian National Identity
  • Marko Bojcun (Ukraine Center, U. of North London, U.K.)

    • Ethnos, Nation, and Now Civilization: The New Debate about Ukraine’s Identity.
  • Ria Laenen (Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium and Harriman Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

    • The Problem of Identity in Russia’s Relationship with Ukraine and Kazakhstan
  • Paul D'Anieri (U. of Kansas, U.S.)

    • The New Ukrainian Elite
    Discussant
    Paul D’Anieri (U. of Kansas, U.S.)
7.30 pm Opening Reception
 

FRIDAY, 14 APRIL

9.00-11.00 am Session IV

Panel CE09 (IV) German, Hungarian, and Slovak Minorities

    Papers include:
  • Sherrill Stroschein (Columbia U., U.S.)

    • Contested Symbols in Space and Time: Statues and Holidays in Multi-ethnic States: Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine
Panel U07 (IV) Identity Change in Ukraine Through the Prism of Literature and Linguistics
    Chair
    Myroslava Znayenko (Rutgers U., U.S.)
    Papers
  • Antonina Berezovenko (Kyiv Polytechnical U., Ukraine)

    • Between Nation and State: Ukrainian Identity in Today’s Language Reality
  • Tamara Hundorova (U. of Toronto, Canada)

    • Ukrainian Postmodernism in the Labyrinths of National Identity: Reversal and Revenge
  • Michael Naydan (Penn State U., U.S.)

    • Defining Ukrainian Identity in Contemporary Ukraine
    Discussant
    Alexander J. Motyl (Rutgers U., U.S.)
Panel N13 (IV) Factors Influencing the (Non-)Violent Nature of Ethnopolitical Conflicts
Papers include:
  • Susan Stewart (Mannheim Center for European Social Research, U. of Mannheim, Germany) Nationality Policy as a Means of Conflict Regulation: The Case of Ukraine
  • Jeffrey Stevenson Murer (Illinois Wesleyan U., U.S.) The Clash Within: Four Ethnic Relations Structures and Their Potential for Violent Conflict
    • 11.00 am-1.00 pm Session V
    ASN Convention Program Committee Meeting

    Panel U05 (V) Ukrainian National Codes in the Post-Soviet Era

    Chair
    Daria Nebesh (Independent Scholar, Columbia, Maryland, U.S.)
    Papers
  • Martha Kebalo (City U. of New York, Queensborough College, U.S.) Women in the Cultivation of National Culture: Preliminary Fieldwork in Central Ukraine
  • Anna Chumachenko (Ohio State U., U.S.) Collective Hysteria and a Nation in Transition: Ancient Archetypes and Behavioral Models in Contemporary Ukraine
  • Jaropolk Lassowsky (Clarion U., U.S.) Redoing Antiquity: The Manipulation and Revision of Ukrainian Folk Music in the Post-Soviet Era

    • Discussant
    Larissa Onyshkevych (Princeton Research Forum, U.S.)
    Panel N14 (V) Jewish Minorities in the Post-Communist States
    Papers include:
    Zvi Gitelman (U. of Michigan, U.S.)
    Jewish Identities in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine
    Panel U11 (V) Forging the Nation
      Chair
      Catherine Wanner (Penn State U., U.S.)
      Papers
    • Nancy Popson (Kennan Institute, U.S.)

      • History Textbooks in Ukraine: Introducing Children to the "Ukrainian Nation"
    • Wilfried Jilge (Humboldt U., Germany)

      • State Symbolism and National Identity in Ukraine since 1991
    • Natalie Kononenko (U. of Virginia, U.S.)

      • The Ukrainian Civil Wedding Today: Balancing Soviet Identity with National Identity
    • Olexander Hryb (British Broadcasting Co., U.K.)

      • Soviet Ethnography Heritage and the Revival of Ethnogeopolitics in Russia and Ukraine
      Discussant
      Germ Janmaat (U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    2.15-4.15 pm Session VI

    Panel N01 (VI) Why Do Conflicts Not Turn Violent?: The Cases of Tatarstan, Ajaria, and Crimea
    Sponsored by the Program on Global Security, Watson Institute, Brown U.

    Papers include:
    Dominique Arel (Watson Institute, Brown U., U.S.)
    Failed Secessionism and the Control of Security Forces in Crimea
    Panel U10 (VI) Institutions and Elites in Ukraine
      Chair
      Robert DeLossa (Ukrainian Research Center, Harvard U., U.S.)
      Papers
    • Sarah Drue Phillips (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.)

      • Reshaping Identity: The Construction of Self and Society among Women Leaders of Ukrainian NGOs
    • Paul D’Anieri (U. of Kansas, U.S.)

      • Institutional Factors in Party Fragmentation in Ukraine
    • Andrea Curti and Vlada Tkach (Tufts University, U.S.)

      • Land Reform and the Presidential Elections in Ukraine: New Opportunities or Old Frustrations?
    • Orest Subtelny (York U., Canada)

      • The New Ukrainian Elite
      Discussant
      David Marples (U. of Alberta, Canada)
    4.30-6.30 pm Session VII

    Panel V04 (VII) Video Presentations: Ukrainians of Yugoslavia in Peace and War

    Chair
    Jaropolk Lassowsky (Clarion U., U.S.)
    Video: And the Twain Shell Meet (1990)
    Bosnian Multicultural Communities after an Earthquake
    Presented by Director Mykola Kulish (Kinocraft, Philadelphia, U.S.)
    Video: Interviews with Ukrainian refugees from former Yugoslavia (U.S., 1999)
    Presented by Director Anna Chumachenko (Ohio State U., U.S.)
    Panel CE03 (VII) Borderland Identities and Ideologies
      Papers include:
    • Michael Szporer (U. of Maryland U. College, U.S.)

      • Local Identities and Ideologues on the Edge of Europe
    • Kate Brown (U. of Washington, U.S.)

      • Ukraine and the Making of Nation-Space: The Volhynian Borderland
      Discussant
      Timothy Snyder (Harvard U., U.S.)
    Panel U04 (VII) Three Viewpoints, Four Voices, on Ukraine: The Media, Women, and the Village
      Chair
      Joanna Paraszczuk (U. College London, U.K.)
      Papers
    • Marta Dyczok (U. of Western Ontario, Canada)

      • Is the Mass Media in Ukraine Independent?
    • Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, U.S.)

      • Women in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Opportunities and Threats
    • Kimberly Righter (American U., Washington College of Law, U.S.)

      • Politics and Gender in Ukraine: The Next Generation of Women Politicians?
    • Natalia Shostak (U. of Toronto, Canada)

      • In Search for the Future: Rural Uncertainties in Western Ukraine
      Discussant
      Catherine Wanner (Penn State U., U.S.)


    SATURDAY, 15 APRIL

    9.00-11.00 am Session VIII
    ASN Executive Committee Meeting

    Panel U06 (VIII) Issues of Identity during State Building: Ukraine in the 1990s
    A Roundtable Sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society

      Chair
      Jose Casanova (New School of Social Research, New York, U.S.)
      Participants
    • Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak (National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S.)

      • Gender
    • Martha Trofimenko (U. of Delaware, U.S.)

      • Law as Infrastructure
    • Wsevolod Isajiw (U. of Toronto, Canada)

      • Social Change
    • Larissa Onyshkevych (Princeton Research Forum, U.S.)

      • Gender, Historical, and Religious Issues as Reflected in Drama
    Panel V10 (VIII) Video Presentation:
    Herr Zwilling and Frau Zuckermann (Austria, 1999, 126 m., directed by Volker Koepp)
    Documentary on an elderly Jewish family in Chernivtsi (Chernowitz), Ukraine
    Presentor TBA (Free copies of a German-language book of interviews with Herr Zwilling, Frau Zuckermann, and other inhabitants of Chernivtsi (Chernowitz) will be distributed after the screening.)
    11.15 am-1.15 pm Session IX

    Panel N03 (IX) Language Laws: Nation-Building, Ethnic Containment, or Diversity Management?

    Panel U02 (IX) The New Ukrainian History: Restoring or Reinterpreting the Cossack Age?

      Chair -- TBA
      Papers
    • Frank Sysyn (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canada)

      • The Image of Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi in Independent Ukraine
    • Zenon Kohut (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canada)

      • In Search of Early-Modern Statehood: Historiography of the Hetmanate
    • Jana Buergers (U. of Konstanz, Germany)

      • Cossack-Myth and Nation-building in Late- and Post-Soviet Ukraine
    • Serhii Plokhy (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canada)

      • Cossack Heritage and Historical Identity in Contemporary Ukraine
      Discussant
      Olga Andriewsky (Trent U., Canada)
    1.15-2.15 pm
    Nationalities Papers Editorial Board Meeting
    American Association of Ukrainian Studies Meeting


    2.15-4.15 pm Session X

    Panel U01 (X) Hans Kohn Revisited: Civic and Ethnic States in Theory and Practice

      Chair
      James Clem (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard U., U.S.)
      Papers include:
    • Taras Kuzio (U, College, London, U.K.)

      • The Myth of the "Civic" State
      Discussant
      Alexander J. Motyl (Rutgers U., U.S.)
    Panel N04 (X) Building State and Nation in Post-Soviet Societies
    Papers include:
  • Tammy M. Lynch (Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy, Boston U., U.S.)

    • Ukraine’s Choice
    4.30-6.30 pm Session XI

    Panel U09 (XI) Ethnic Politics in Crimea

      Chair
      Jaroslaw Martyniuk (InterMedia Survey, U.S.)
      Papers
    • Andrei Malgin (Crimea, Ukraine)

      • Modern Elements in National Identity of Ethnic Groups of Crimea and Prospects of Crimean Regional Community
    • Oxana Shevel (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard U., U.S.)

      • Uneasy Alliance and Its Prospects: Crimean Tatars and the Ukrainian State
    • Greta Uehling (U. of Michigan, U.S.)

      • Big Reigns of Power, Little Peoples, and Civil Rights: Key Moments on the Path to Crimean Tatar Self-Determination
    • Kiril Sharapov (Central European U., Hungary)

      • The Crimean Ethnic Experiment: A Perspective from the Inside
      Discussant
      Gwendolyn Sasse (London School of Economics, U.K.)
    Panel N07 (XI) National Identity, Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups....: Same Words, Different Meaning in Eastern Europe, Western Europe and United States
    Chair
    Michael Rywkin (City College of New York, U.S.)
    Papers include:
  • Wanda Dressler (Nanterre U., France)

    • Naturalizing Ethnic Groups as a Means to Build a New Political Model of Nation in Contemporary Europe, a Comparative Perspective
  • Alex Tsiovkh (U. of Kansas, U.S.)

    • Ukraine’s Nationalizing Policy: Evolution or Erosion?
    6.30 pm Closing Reception

    The ASN Convention continues its impressive growth. The 5th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) will feature the unprecedented number of 105 panels, almost twice the size of the convention two years ago, spread over eleven sessions from Thursday April 13, 1 PM, to Saturday April 15, in the evening. Close to 500 people will be on panels.

    All post-Soviet areas will be covered in tremendous depth, with fourteen panels on the Balkans, thirteen on the Russian Federation, twelve each on Ukraine, Central Asia, and Central Europe, six on the Southern Caucasus, five on the Baltics, and almost two dozens on thematic and cross-regional themes. Special events will include a roundtable on the 2000 Russian Presidential Election, roundtables on the recent work of Jack Snyder and Valery Tishkov, the INCORE Tip O'Neill Annual Lecture, delivered by Fernand de Varennes on minority rights, and several panels devoted to the recent/ongoing wars in Kosovo and Chechnya.

    Thematic panels at the convention will include:

    • War and Gender
    • What Is European Identity?
    • Why Do Conflicts Not Turn Violent?: Cases of Tatarstan, Ajaria, and Crimea
    • Factors Influencing the (Non-)Violent Nature of Ethnopolitical Conflicts
    • Approaches to the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict
    • Systemic Change and the Transformation Process in Comparative Perspective
    • Jewish Minorities in the Post-Communist States
    • The European Union: Problems and Prospects of Enlargement
    • Self-Determination in the Age of Globalization
    • Self-Determination in the Twentieth Century: From Communism to Post-Communism
    • Language Laws: Nation-Building, Ethnic Containment, or Diversity Management?
    • Hans Kohn Revisited: Civic and Ethnic States in Theory and Practice

    The convention is unveiling a full section devoted to new documentaries and feature films exploring ethnonational and identity issues in the post-Communist world. No less than four films will be devoted to Chechnya: THE MAKING OF A NEW EMPIRE (Netherlands 1999), a documentary on a Chechen warlord; IMMORTAL FORTRESS (US, 1999), featuring interviews with Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev; along with CHECKPOINT (Russia 1999) and PURGATORY (Russia, 1998), two feature films set during the first Chechnya war. The Balkan wars will also be featured prominently with the documentaries A CRY FROM THE GRAVE (UK, 1999), on Srebrenica, and THE VALLEY (UK, 1999), on events in the Drenica Valley of Kosovo in Summer 1998, as well as a panel on The Yugoslav Wars on Film. Other films to be shown include TRADING STORIES (US, 1999), on Jewish property and restitution in the Czech Republic; BLACK WORD (Slovakia, 1999), on a Roma settlement in Eastern Slovakia; and HERR ZWILLING UND FRAU ZUCKERMANN (Austria, 1999), on an elderly couple from Chernivtsi (Chernorwitz), in Ukraine. All screenings will be followed by discussion with the audience.

    The convention is consolidating its status as the World Annual Event on Nationalities Studies. Over one hundred and fifty panelists will be travelling from overseas for the event (plus an additional three dozens from Canada). Almost 40 percent of paper-givers are international participants (and this does not include the large amount of non-US born participants currently residing in the United States).

    Location. The convention will be taking place in the International Affairs Building (IAB) of Columbia University, 420 W. 118th St. (metro station: 116th St., on the Red Line). Registration will be on the 6th Floor of IAB and the panels will be held on several floors.

    Registration. Registration fees are $30 for ASN members, $50 for non-members, and $15 for students. A registration form can be downloaded from the ASN web site or requested from our Convention Director Gordon Bardos (address below). People who plan to attend the convention are strongly encouraged to pre-register, since places are limited.

    Schedule. Registration will begin at 11 AM, Thursday April 13, on the 6th Floor of IAB. People who sent preregistered will need to pick up their name tag and the convention program. On the Thursday, the panels will run from 1 PM-7.30 PM. On Friday and Saturday, from 9 AM to 6.30 PM. The convention will end on the Saturday evening, April 15.

    Accommodations. The convention does not have arrangements with a particular hotel. A list of recommended hotels can be found on the ASN web site.

    ASN Membership. People can now directly join a fast growing ASN on the convention pre-registration form. In addition to getting a significant discount at the ASN convention, ASN members receive annually four issues of Nationalities Papers, the field's leading journal; six issues of the Analysis of Current Events, containing up-to-the-minute analyses of ongoing events; and two issues of ASNews, the association's newsletter. An annual membership costs a remarkably low $50 annually---$30 for students.

    Bonus for ASN Members. ASN members have also the option of subscribing to Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies), which publishes eight issues a year, for $55, almost a hundred dollars less than the regular subscription price. Convention panelists can take advantage of this offer directly on the convention registration form.

    Book Exhibit/Sale of Papers. Publishers will exhibit their wares in the exhibit room, located in the spacious Dag Hammarskjold Lounge on the 6th floor, near the registration desk. The convention innovated last year by selling convention papers for $1 apiece and the experiment proved hugely successful. At least 20 copies of each paper will go on sale in the book exhibit on Friday, April 14, at 11.15 AM.

    We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

    For information on panels:

      Dominique Arel
      ASN Convention Program Chair
      Watson Institute
      Brown University, Box 1831
      130 Hope St.
      Providence, RI 02912
      401 863 9296 tel
      401 863 2192 fax
      darel@brown.edu
    For information on registration, exhibits, and advertisements in the convention program:
      Gordon Bardos
      ASN Convention Director
      Harriman Institute
      Columbia University
      1216 IAB
      420 W. 118th St.
      New York, NY 10027
      212.854.8487 tel
      212.666.3481 fax
      gnb12@columbia.edu


     
    Association for the Study of the Nationalities Convention 2000
    "Identity and the State: Nationalism and Sovereignty in a Changing World"

    Convention Site:
    Harriman Institute
    Columbia University
    International Affairs Building (IAB)
    420 W. 118th St., 12th Floor
    New York, NY 10027
    ASN phone number: 212.854.6239
    ASN fax number: 212.666.3481
    asn@columbia.edu
    Conference registration:
    http://picce.uno.edu/ASN/ASNConfReg3.htm
    Accomodations:
    http://picce.uno.edu/ASN/ASNaccommodations.htm

    The complete program is posted to:
    http://picce.uno.edu/ASN/ASNannualProgram.htm
    Check for changes/updates to the program at the above URL prior to attending the conference.
     

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