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BRAMA, April 7, 2001, 9:00am EDT


Learn something about Ukraine - Go to Columbia University for a day
- Day 2 at the ASN conference

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New York, April 7 - The 3-day convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) opened at Columbia University on Thursday, April 5.

"The Construction of a Ukrainian Economy" was the topic tackled by the panel of researchers pictured above. Seated (l-r) are Ivan Katchanovski, Verena Fritz, Andrew Wilson, and John Tedstrom.

Chair: Lucan Way (Harvard U, USA)
Discussant:  John Tedstrom (RAND, Washington, DC, USA)
Papers presented:

    Verena Fritz (European U Institute, Italy)
    In an undefined state: fiscal and budgetary policies in Ukraine

    Ivan Katchanovski (George Mason U, USA)
    Social capital and privatization in regions of Ukraine

    Andrew Wilson (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK)
    Center politics in Ukraine and Russia: patronage, power, and virtuality


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Dominique Arel, Watson Institute, Brown U, USA, is the ASN Program Chair, as well as a panelist at the conference. He presented a paper covered nationality and language issues related to the upcoming 2001 census in Ukraine.

The shortfall of accurate census data during the Soviet period has attracted scholars from the West to assist in redesigning the methodologies and structures used in the past.

Chair: David Kertzer (Watson Institute, Brown U, USA)
Discussant:  Ward Kingkade (US Census Bureau, Washington, DC, USA)
Papers presented:

    Dominique Arel (Watson Institute, Brown U, USA)
    Nationality and Language Categories in Post-Soviet Censuses (with an emphasis on the Ukraine Census)

    Brian D Silver (Michigan State U, USA)
    The 2000-2001 Censuses in the Baltic States

    Peter J Sinnott (Columbia U, USA)
    The View From the Top:
    The Changing Hierarchy of Identities in Kazakhstan’s 1999 Census


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One of the more controversial panels of the day was devoted to "Nationalism and Ethnic Intolerance in Ukraine." A suggestion was made that the title of the panel was a misnomer, and should have been called "Nationalism and Ethnic Tolerance in Ukraine," since most of the findings of the scholars pointed to a highly tolerant Ukrainian society.

Taras Kuzio challenges the 'classical' notion of nationalism in his paper. He suggests that "we are all nationalists," and names three different classifications as alternatives: civic nationalism, ethnic nationalism, and 'soviet' nationalism. Mr. Kuzio's paper can be downloaded from his website at http://www.taraskuzio.net/lectures.html.

In the photo above, seated (l-r) are Volodymyr Paniotto, Taras Kuzio, Jaroslaw Martyniuk, Lowell Barrington, Andrew Wilson and Jim Clem.

Chair: Jaroslaw Martyniuk (InterMedia Survey, Washington, DC, USA)
Discussant:  Jim Clem (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, USA)
Papers presented:

    Lowell Barrington (Marquette, USA)
    Stereotypes of Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine: views of the ethnic «Other,» and their implications

    Volodymyr Paniotto (Kiev International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine)
    Dynamics of social distance between the basic ethnic and linguistic-ethnic groups in Ukraine, 1994-2000

    Taras Kuzio (York U, Canada)
    Nationalism in Ukraine: Towards a New Theoretical and Comparative Framework

    Andrew Wilson (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, U College London, UK)
    Elements of a Theory of Ukrainian National Identity


Saturday's sessions include the following topics:

  • Orthodoxy and the Origins of National Identity
  • Identity in Ukraine (Roundtable)
  • Nations in Transit: Rating Reform in Eastern Europe and the CIS (Roundtable)
  • Post-Communist Elections
  • National identity and foreign policy in Ukraine
  • Dilemmas of Minority Language Policies in East Central Europe (Roundtable)
  • The Gongadze Case, the Press, and the Political Crisis in Ukraine (Roundtable)
  • International Migration and Nation-Building
  • Language in Ukraine

    The schedule and more about the conference:
    6th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)


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